A top Afghan security official said Sunday that the terror groups waging war in Afghanistan are still having sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan.
The Minister of Interior Noor-ul-Haq Ulomi made the remarks during a ceremony for the introduction of 470 policewomen who recently completed during their trainings in Turkey.
He said the enemies of Afghanistan are looking to create differences among the Afghan people through ethnic divisions.
Ulomi further added that the enemies of Afghanistan will continue to support the terror groups under different brands, including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
According to Ulomi, the terror groups are still having sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan and are receiving financial support from the sources which were previously funding them.
This comes as National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar said last month that the Pakistan-based Haqqani Terrorist Network and Taliban’s Quetta Council (Shura) still operate against Afghanistan from their safe havens within the Pakistani soil.
Atmar shared the issue during a meeting with Ali Sait Akin, the Ambassador of Turkey to Afghanistan, slamming the Pakistani authorities for not taking important steps to prevent the activities of the two groups in their soil.
The Presidential Palace also slammed Pakistani officials for their remarks regarding the elimination of Haqqani Terrorist Network following military operations in tribal regions of Pakistan.
In a statement following Pakistani National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz’s remarks suggesting the elimination of the Haqqani network sanctuaries from Pakistan, the Palace said “The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan believes that one of the major differences between Afghanistan and Pakistan is regarding the presence of terrorist groups, specifically the Haqqani Network in Pakistani soil.”
“The recent remarks by Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, suggesting that the Haqqani Network has been decomposed following military operations, are repeated claims by Pakistani officials during the past one decade,” the statement added.
The statement further added that documents and evidences shows that the network’s leadership, commander and control, supportive infrastructure and sanctuaries are still operational in Pakistan.
"He was great in the clutch, but he couldn't go the distance." After official review the original ruling stands: Mansoor is dead, dead, dead...
Shortly after the Taliban militants group released an audio recording purportedly from the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, some senior Taliban leaders have said the audio has been faked and that he is no more alive.
According to the Taliban leaders, the audio recording containing a voice similar to Mullah Mansoor, has been released in a bid to buy more time to elect a new leader for the group.
A senior Taliban source told AFP on Sunday “I think it’s a faked audio. I believe he’s dead.”
Insisting on the need to provide more proof, the source further added that the group is buying time to select a new leader and bring their organisation out of “this sudden shock”.
Another senior Taliban source said “I am not satisfied after hearing the clip that it belongs to Mansour,” while a third said Mansour succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. "You're not foolin' anyone, you know!"
The audio message by Mullah Mansoor was released late on Saturday night and five days after reports circulated regarding his death.
A man purporting to Mullah Mansoor dismissed the reports as propaganda and an attempt to further to spread the propaganda regarding growing difference among the Taliban ranks which led to infighting.
He said “I want to assure that there had been no incident of gunfight. The audio message is aimed at giving you assurance that I am safe.” "I'm feeling better."
Mullah Mansoor has been struggling with the Taliban leadership since assuming charge of the group following a controversial decision by the group’s council in July this year.
Despite his appointment was called an unanimous decision by the group’s Quetta Council, Mullah Omar’s brother, Mullah Manan along with various other Taliban leaders had opposed with his election as the replacement supreme leader of Taliban.
Mullah Manan wanted Maulavi Yaqoob to succeed his father as the supreme leader of Taliban insisting that Mullah Mansoor was not elected by majority of Taliban’s central Shura ‘council’.
[Tolo News] Speaking before members of the Afghan Senate on Sunday, Afghanistan's army chief of staff Gen. Qadam Shah Shahim once again blasted Pakistain over its counter-terrorism policy and called on Islamabad to be honest over its dealings in the war on terror.
Referring to Taliban's intention of launching major attacks on Afghanistan, Shahim said that Afghan troops have foiled large plots by various Taliban circles in Pakistain -- including the 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... , Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... Shura and 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. Shura - plans which he said would further escalate uncertainty in the country.
Irked by Pakistain's role in Afghanistan's insecurity, Afghan officials have always blamed Islamabad of harboring the Afghan Taliban in a bid to use them in their proxy war. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Pakistain has always insisted that it is working hard to combat the forces of Evil and forge closer ties with 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.... While threats against Afghan civilians and security personnel remain, the Afghan army commander says that the security forces have achieved major victories against the forces of Evil in the battlefield this year.
"Wazoo's operation was a symbolic one and you will witness such operations in future as well. Why did they not launch such operations in Peshawar, Quetta and other areas instead of Waziristan? We have our measures for Waziristan operation and you should not worry about any bad impact of the operations as it was witnessed in the past," Shahim said.
He said that the Afghan cops effectively thwarted ominous plans of Pakistain to destabilize Afghanistan through the bad boy groups.
"The enemies of the Afghan people, the spy agency in the region, had decided to capture major parts of Afghanistan's soil and create a parallel government, talk from a powerful stance and implement their nefarious ends on the Afghan nation, but they were unaware of the courage of the Afghan people, and they failed," he added.
"Figures show that more than 30,000 enemies [militants] have been killed, at least 2,030 of them maimed, 344 Taliban fighters and 547 suspects have been nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! [in operations carried out by Afghan cops]," said Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi Deputy Minister of Interior for Security Affairs.
As Taliban's so-called summer offensive reaches an end, Shahim said that winter was the best time to eliminate the Taliban and other bad boy groups associated with Daesh [Islamic State], whose recent emergence in Afghanistan has sparked concerns.
These comments come amid a deteriorating security situation in the country - following a range of major Taliban offensives against Afghan troops particularly in the southern and northern regions.
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[FOXNEWS] Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has released a rare audio recording in which he denies claims by an Afghan official that he was maimed in a shootout during a meeting with other commanders in Pakistain last week.
In a 17-minute audio recording sent to media by the Taliban late Saturday, Mansoor dismissed what he called "baseless claims" that were "part of the agenda of the enemy." The Taliban had earlier sent The News Agency that Dare Not be Named a two-minute version of the recording.
The voice resembled that in previous recordings issued by Mansoor, who succeeded longtime Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar after his death was announced last summer. Mansoor has since faced internal challenges to his leadership, including by a breakaway faction that has battled fighters loyal to him.
"I haven't seen Kuchlak in years," he said, referring to an area near the Pak city of Quetta where the dispute was said to have taken place. He ordered his fighters to pay no heed to "baseless rumors" and to continue waging jihad, or holy war, against the Afghan government.
The audio message was released two days after Sultan Faizy, the front man for Afghanistan's First Vice President Abdul Rasheed Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , claimed that Mansoor was maimed in a firefight that broke out at a gathering of Taliban figures in Pakistain. He said the incident took place in the home of Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi, a former Taliban official, and that six Taliban figures, including Sarhadi, were killed.
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Somali security forces have launched a large-scale security operation in the Somali town of Bulo Burde, targeting suspected Al shabaab members hiding themselves in the city, reports said on Sunday.
Area Security officials said that nearly 100 people were rounded up in the sweep, and pending for investigations before trying them for indefinite accusations. The local officers foiled bomb attacks by Al shabaab as they removed three land-mines from the ground of the city’s main livestock market on Saturday.
The security agencies of Somali federal government are struggling deadly attacks by the Al-Qaeda linked Al shabaab for years, since the militants were driven out of the capital, Mogadishu in 2011.
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[AlAhram] Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing, which connects it to the Gazoo Strip on Saturday after two days of opening the crossing in both directions.
Countdown to the next massive Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/IS in the Sinai attack begins. Though perhaps flooding the tunnels prevented passage of men and materials.
Gazoo's Interior Ministry Spokesman Iyad Al-Bozom said in a short statement on Facebook that 1,526 people were able to leave Gazoo in an exceptional opening of the border crossing.
"There remain more than 23,000 humanitarian cases that urgently need to travel," he said.
The border crossing was scheduled to be opened on Thursday and Friday, according to an Egyptian announcement last week. Bozom said "we appreciate" the Egyptian role's continued opening of the crossing until this morning but called on Egyptian authorities to extend the opening, citing the "magnitude of suffering" in Gazoo.
According to Gazoo's interior ministry 1,148 people were able to leave Gazoo for Egypt, and 561 people who were stuck on the Egyptian side crossed over to the Strip on Friday alone.
Egyptian authorities turned away 87 travelers without providing a reason, the Gazoo interior ministry said, citing the Paleostinian authority for crossings.
Figures for Thursday were provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, which said that on that day 647 people crossed in and out of the besieged Gazoo Strip, whose main entry and exit point is the Rafah border crossing.
Eighteen truckloads of aid including school supplies, food supplies and blankets were delivered to Gazoo over the past two days, Gazoo's interior ministry said.
The Rafah border crossing, which is the main entry and exit point to Gazoo, has been mostly closed since October 2014 when a krazed killer attack in North Sinai left over 30 Egyptian security personnel dead. According to a report issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, before last week's two-day exceptional opening, the crossing was only opened partially for 37 days, and that its closure also shut out "humanitarian assistance".
Gazoo measures around 360 square kilometres and is home to 1.8 million people, making the enclave among the world's most densely populated areas.
Having been under seige for the past eight years, economic and living conditions inside the Strip are dire. In May 2015, the World Bank said, "blockades, war and poor governance have strangled Gazoo's economy and the unemployment rate is now the highest in the world," adding that the enclave's economy is on the "verge of collapse".
The difficult living conditions in the enclave were worsened after destruction caused by 50 days of Israeli military operations in the summer of 2014.
Consequences are so often no fun at all.
Last year, Egypt and Norway co-hosted a donors conference on the reconstruction of Gazoo, raising over $5 billion. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the international efforts to raise money for reconstruction have had little effect on the ground. According to the World Bank, which is monitoring the delivery and disbursement of pledges, by August 2015, only 35 percent of pledges had been disbursed.
In September 2015, the Egyptian army began flooding the underground smuggling tunnels that supplied essential goods to the besieged territory. Egypt has been fighting a growing militancy in the North Sinai region. Destroying the underground tunnels leading in and out of Gazoo was one of several counter-terrorism measures the Egyptian state has adopted. Egypt sees the tunnels as a pathway of arms and krazed killers, forming a direct threat to the country's security.
On the other hand, goods imported to Gazoo "through tunnels, especially foodstuffs, medicines, fuel, construction materials and cars, have spared the Gazoo Strip the breakdown of all vital sectors," the Paleostinian Centre for Human Rights said in 2013.
[LibyaHerald] The international community needs to use force to impose its will against the invading militias in Tripoli, HoR member Younis Fannush has said.
The Benghazi member was talking to the Libya 24 channel.
The HoR member was discussing the vexing problem of how a proposed Government of National Accord (GNA) proposed by the UN to unify the conflicting Libyan political and military factions could be secured in the capital Tripoli.
It will be recalled that the capital was forcefully occupied by a coalition of GNC-backed and Misrata-led militias calling themselves Libya Dawn in the summer of 2014. The occupation forced the Libyan government to flee for its life to the eastern city of Al-Beida.
There has been much debate and speculation about the security arrangements for any GNA with the possibility of some of the Libyan militias providing security. At one stage Misrata was favourite to act as security provider.
However, it is believed that the recent clashes between militias within the capital has been a counter reaction by Tripoli-based militias to the idea of Misratan militias being put in control of security in the capital.
The clear evidence that no one or one set of militias can impose security in the capital Tripoli is thought to have jettisoned the idea of Misratan militias being put in charge. It has probably also shot down the idea of putting any Libyan militia in charge of security.
This has then led to the serious consideration of using foreign troops with the idea of using African, Arab or Muslim troops being initially favourite. Then there was consideration of using UN blue helmets to provide a secure ”Green Zone”, as was the case in Baghdad.
It was thought that the GNA could be housed alongside the UNSMIL mission at their Palm City base in western Tripoli. However, the possibility of Italian troops has more recently been discussed.
Whatever decision is taken regarding which troops will provide security in Tripoli for a GNA, most experts agree that unless security is provided for a GNA in Tripoli, the GNA would be as unsuccessful as previous Libyan governments since 2011.
Equally, it is also agreed that unless the problem of the widespread distribution of arms and the autonomous from central government militias in Libya is resolves, it will be very difficult to put in place an effective and successful Libyan government of whatever makeup.
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Invading militias in Tripoli? When I read the headline I thought they were talking about the invading militias in Europe. But then we wouldn't expect NATO to do anything about that, would we?
Just appeared at the France24 website but the events themselves are two weeks old.
French military aircraft have flown reconnaissance and intelligence missions over Libya, including areas controlled by Islamic State, and more are planned, a presidential document shows.
According to the press dossier provided on Friday ahead of President Francois Hollande’s visit to the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of Syria, two missions were flown on Nov. 20 and 21 around the towns of Sirte and Tobruk.
The French government had not previously acknowledged carrying out operations over IS zones in Libya. Sirte is controlled by the group.
That's the new bit of information.
“Other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights are also planned,” the document said.
Neither the defence ministry nor president’s office were immediately available for comment.
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Warring Libyan factions meeting in Tunisia said Sunday they had reached an agreement to be approved by rival parliaments on ending the political deadlock that has plagued the country since Moamer Kadhafi's overthrow.
"This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for, the Arabs were waiting for and the world was waiting for," said Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the first deputy head of the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC).
Most historic thing Libya has seen. This week...
GNC officials had been holding talks in the suburbs of Tunis for several days with delegates from the internationally recognised House of Representatives.
Abdul-Sadiq called on Libyans to support what he called "a historic opportunity".
"If this solution receives real Libyan support -- from the people and institutions -- we will surely arrive in no more than two weeks or a month to a solution to solve the political crisis," he told a press conference.
Amna Emtair from the GNC delegation told AFP the agreement would set up a new representative body that would choose a committee to nominate a prime minister within 15 days, while another committee would conduct a review of Libya's constitution.
"It is a major breakthrough," Emtair said.
The latest announcement comes as experts and sources in Libya said that the Islamic State jihadist group has strengthened its grip in its Libyan stronghold Sirte. IS first appeared in Libya in 2014 when a group of Libyan IS fighters returned from Syria and reorganised in the port city of Derna, declaring eastern Libya to be a province of the caliphate.
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Political parties loyal to President Sisi dominated in the parliamentary elections where For Love of Egypt party won all the 120 seats allocated to the list system while the majority of the remaining 448 seats filled on individual basis was also held by pro-Sisi parties. The elected MPs would be joined by 28 other members nominated by the president.
The Free Egyptians’ Party of Naguib Sawiris, a business and media tycoon, won the parliament majority with 65 seats followed by the Nation’s Future with 50 seats according to the state-run al-Ahram newspaper. Both parties are strong supporters of the president.
The former Egyptian parliament has been dissolved in 2012 by a court ruling and the legislative powers are temporarily exercised by the president. The new parliament will vote on all the laws that were issued by interim president Adly Mansour, after Morsi’s ousting in a coup d’état in 2013 and by President Sisi afterwards. Most parties elected to the parliament are funded by regime-linked businessmen and many of the candidates had been vetted by the country’s feared security apparatus according to U.K based The Telegraph.
Critics say the build-up to the elections was marred by a heavy security crackdown on Islamists and other opposition parties. Al Nour party is the only Islamist party that participated in the elections winning 12 seats. It supported the ousting of President Morsi and backs Sisi.
The turnout in the two rounds of the elections was rather low, standing at below 30%.
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A man will appear in court on Monday accused of the Leytonstone Tube stabbing.
Muhaydin Mire, 29, from Sansom Road, east London, will appear before Westminster magistrates charged with the attempted murder of a 56-year-old man.
It came as Britain's armed response to terror attacks was called in to question after uniformed [but unarmed] officers were left to deal with a suspected Islamist fanatic who tried to murder Tube passengers in revenge for Syria airstrikes.
A former Scotland Yard commander said it was "alarming" that armed officers were not on the scene to tackle the man who attacked two men, leaving one lying in a pool of blood.
Thank you for again making the case for arming all your officers -- and for concealed carry...
Amateur video of the attacker was available here & at other internet sites. Deputy Chief Constable Adrian Hanstock from the British Transport Police (BTP) issued an appeal to anyone else who may have videoed the incident to come forward.
"We are really appealing for anyone who may still have any footage to get in touch with us," he told Radio 4's Today programme. One of the videos, uploaded to Twitter shows police confronting a man believed to be the attacker, while an onlooker can be heard shouting: "You ain't no Muslim bruv." A laser targeting light can be seen on the floor near the suspected attacker just before he collapsed to the floor.
Police were called at 7.06pm on to reports of a number of people stabbed at the station and unformed officers from Waltham Forest arrived five minutes later. The man was detained by 7.14pm. 8 minutes from being called to nabbing the perp is not bad. I had hoped to see a Londoner take on the knifer with his brolly.
[NBCNEWS] The hashtag started trending just hours after a stabbing in a London tube station that authorities have called a possible 'terrorist incident." #YouAintNoMuslimBruv
With a camera rolling, a bystander appears to have shouted the phrase at the alleged attacker, a 29-year-old man, while he was being subdued by police. The footage was posted on the internet, and it instantly spiraled across Twitter, capturing the mood of London and beyond.
"#YouAintNoMuslimBruv + Met Police arresting terrorist with tasers = London Pride," one tweet read.
"The hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv makes me proud to be a British Muslim," read another. "No real Muslim kills/harms innocent people,end of."
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When the guy yelled 'for Syria' can we really assume he attacked for religious and not political causes? Guy might have been aligned with Syrian rebels and now saw everyone going after ISIS and ignoring Assad and went nuts.
And on a different tact, if "No real Muslim kills/harms innocent people,end of." then folks won't mind if we grind down terrorist corpses and feed them to swine right? Because if they aren't Muslims it shouldn't matter (except to the poor swine).
[NYTIMES] Counter-terrorism police in Britannia on Sunday investigated a stabbing at a London Underground station in which a man brandishing a knife injured two people and reportedly said "This is for Syria."
Police jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a 29-year-old man late Saturday and said they are treating the "violent unprovoked knife attack" at east London's Leytonstone subway station as a "terrorist incident."
Richard Walton, chief of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, said the decision was made because of information received from witnesses and subsequent police investigations. The force said it was searching a residential address in east London, but declined to say whether they were looking for other suspects.
British media widely reported that the suspect linked his actions to Syria after the attack. The claim could not be independently verified, but the incident comes just days after Parliament approved British Arclight airstrikes on 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 targets in Syria.
Detectives from Britannia's Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) searched a home in east London in connection with Saturday's attack at Leytonstone station, which left a 56-year-old man with serious knife injuries.
Police said the stabbing victim was in a stable condition in an east London hospital and his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
The attacker may have arrived at the station by train, said a passenger who arrived at Leytonstone shortly before the attack and had seen a man fitting the suspect's description.
"I don't know if it was the same gentleman that they caught, but he was very aggressive, he was a bit angry, shouting, abusing... he was on the train," a woman who gave her name only as Christina told AFP.
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Muhaydin Mire, 29, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court in London charged with the attempted murder of a 56-year-old man at Leytonstone station in east London on Saturday.
Unbalanced nutter tipped over by the internet into running amok, or radical Muslim tipped over by the internet into Sudden Jihad Sydrome?
[AA.TR] Russia has activated its Cold War era propaganda system "Pravda news" against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as it did during the Ukrainian crisis in accordance with its political interests.
Moscow has been using "Pravda news" propaganda against Turkey since it shot down a Russian SU-24 bomber jet because of Turkish airspace violation despite repeated warnings on Nov. 24.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... several news items run by Russian outlets have been proven to be completely wrong. For example, the Russian Sputnik News Agency claimed recently that La Belle France's Permanent Representative to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , Jean-Baptiste Mattei, said that "Turkey axes operations against Daesh [Islamic State]"; however, Mattei himself clarified that this Sputnik story was a "lie".
Also, Russian media alleged that there was a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's son Bilal Erdogan with Daesh [Islamic State] members. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the picture which showed people with beards sitting alongside Bilal Erdogan were in fact the "Kamber brothers", who are only owners of a restaurant in Istanbul.
Moreover, many Russian commanders claimed that the terrorist organization Daesh [Islamic State] was selling oil via Turkey and also claimed to show routes taken for such oil shipments on maps; however, it was found that the claimed routes were in fact under the control of the Russian government-backed Bashir al-Assad regime and the PYD, the terrorist PKK organization's Syrian affiliate.
Also, former staff of Russian RIA Novosti agency and propagandist expert Vasily Gatov said: "Russian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
s are now applying the tricks for Syria as they do in Ukraine"
Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Andrew Wilson emphasized that "Pravda journalism" had only one message even though it changed at times.
"Pravda journalism's only message is to support Russia's attitude in Ukraine and Syria, and cause confusion abroad," Wilson says.
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Today there are two great evils in the World. Islam that is like flesh eating bacteria, and Transnational Progressivism that is like HIV for Western societies. I'm glad that Russia joined Israel on their extermination list.
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While there are many others (see photo at the right), may I add 'Eugenics' to your evils list? Government controlled reproduction must surely fit in there somewhere.
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If anything it's reverse-eugenics nowadays, Besoeker. From my personal observation, children of, midle-crust, artificial-insemination, single mothers are just as psychotic & anti-social as their Ghetto parallels. And any child that doesn't fit the (hog narrow) "norms" taught in teaching colleges and is not in a protected category is a candidate for lifelong doping.
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No worries g(r)om. The end of traditional family meals and the default to genetically altered 'fast foods' will continue to sustain childhood obesity, shorten lives and reduce long-term societal impacts. And yes, big pharma will obviously play a key role.
There are simply too many of these people. Government controlled diet [free food], medicine, and selective reproduction [Choice], should go a long way in assisting the much needed reductions.
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"Government controlled reproduction "
Managment Summary:
The effect of "welfare" states (child benefit and state schools) is fertility redistribution from the most productive to the least.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel urged 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... on Sunday to stop supporting religious radicals, amid growing concern among some politicians in Berlin about the funding of Lion of Islam mosques by the world's biggest oil exporter.
The unusual criticism of the Gulf state follows a report by Germany's foreign intelligence agency which suggested that Saudi foreign policy was becoming more "impulsive".
The German government rebuked the BND agency for making such suggestions about Saudi Arabia, an important business partner that is involved in international talks to find a political solution to the Syria crisis..
"We need Saudi Arabia to solve the regional conflicts," Sigmar Gabriel, the head of the Social Democrats (SPD) who share power with conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , told the mass-circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
"But we must at the same time make clear that the time to look away is past. Wahhabi mosques are financed all over the world by Saudi Arabia. In Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities," he said.
Saudi Arabia follows the ultra-conservative Wahhabi form of Islam, and some outsiders see it as a cause of the international jihadist threat.
In a statement, the Saudi Arabia embassy in Berlin said the Kingdom was interested in countering the radicalization of young people and referred to a previous statement in which it denied wanting to build 200 mosques in Germany.
"Like Germany, we are part of the anti-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.... coalition and fighting side by side against terror," it said.
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The greatly reduced oil prices we are seeing, in part because KSA is trying to break the US frack production, is substantially reducing the money KSA has available to fund Islamic terrorism. They may be funding ISIS etc. in order to deflect the attention of their own internal enemies, both Shia and Sunni. I don't think this will end well for the royal family.
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Gabriel is singling out the totalitarian Muslim faction that is arguably, at present, the least evil among the main players (Sunni/Saudi, Sunni/Qatar/MB, Iran).
He's criticizing the Saudis in order to support the Russia/Iran/Hezbollah axis.
[IsraelTimes] Associated with Salafist branch of Islam, prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne is third in country to be shut down since Gay Paree terror attacks
Kalashnikov ammunition and 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.... propaganda videos were seized in raids following the closure of a mosque in the Gay Paree suburbs, French authorities said Sunday.
The prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of the capital, was shut down last Wednesday following a large-scale police operation.
Associated with the traditionalist Salafist branch of Islam, it is the third mosque in La Belle France to be closed after the coordinated jihadist attacks on Gay Paree on November 13.
The prefect -- the highest representative of the state -- in the Seine-and-Marne department said Sunday "7.62mm ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle and propaganda videos" for the Islamic State group had been found in raids linked to the closure of the prayer hall.
The locations of the raids were not given.
A revolver and jihadist documents were also found during searches at the homes of the mosque leaders, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said previously.
A total of 22 travel bans and nine house arrests for "radicalized individuals" have been issued as a result of the operation.
Police also found recordings of religious chants "glorifying the deaders of jihad linked to the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ", the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the prefecture added.
The recordings were found among a wealth of teaching material for youngsters in an undeclared madrassa, or religious school.
"No request was made to open a private school," the prefecture said in its statement.
Mohammed Ramdane, president of the local Muslim association in Lagny, had criticized the closure of the prayer hall on Wednesday, saying: "Nothing has been found. Nothing is hidden, we don't hide anything."
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The prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of the capital, was shut down last Wednesday following a large-scale police operation.
Paris bar La Bonne Bière, where five people were killed by jihadist gunmen in the November 13 attacks, reopens to the public on Friday in an emotional step in the city's struggle to regain normality.
Three weeks after France’s worst terrorist attacks since World War II, hearts drawn in red crayon decorate the street outside the Casa Nostra and remnants of the sand used to absorb the victims' blood can still be seen. Rose stems poke through bullet holes left in the restaurant's windows – the image becoming one of the ubiquitous symbols of post-attack mourning.
A few steps away from the Casa Nostra, the façade of La Bonne Bière has been hastily repaired and tarpaulin covers the ground as the owners prepare to return to business as usual – or almost.
The owners of the Carillon and the Petit Cambodge say they also plan to reopen, but at a later date.
For now, the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed in the deadliest of the series of shootings and suicide bombings, remains the focus of the mourning. Hundreds of people flock there every day – it is just a short walk from La Bonne Bière – and fresh flowers line the pavements outside.
The owners of the concert hall said this week they are determined to re-open the venue, although they are unlikely to be able to do so until the end of next year.
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France’s far-right National Front (FN) party rode a wave of fear over immigration and terrorism to storm to a commanding position in the first round of voting in the country’s high-stakes regional elections on Sunday.
The anti-immigration party led by Marine Le Pen scored 30.6 percent of the vote nationally, an exit poll by Ifop-Fiducial showed, and now looks on course to take control of at least one French region for the first time in its history once the second round of voting takes place a week from now.
The party came ahead of both former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s Les Républicains (formerly the UMP), which earned 27 percent, and President François Hollande’s Socialists, with 22.7 percent, according to the exit poll. In the first national vote since Islamic State group terrorists killed 130 people in a wave of attacks across Paris on November 13, the FN looked set to come first in at least six out of 13 regions, according to exit polls.
However, it was in the regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, where Le Pen herself is running, and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, where her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen topped the polls, that the FN had its best night. Exit polls showed the FN gaining more than 40 percent in the two regions, in the north and south of the country respectively, well ahead of rival parties.
"This is a great result that we welcome with humility, seriousness and a deep sense of responsibility", said Marine Le Pen as she addressed supporters in the town of Hénin-Beaumont in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
“We are without question the first party of France," she added. "We have the vocation to achieve the national unity that the country requires.”
Le Pen called on all “patriots” to back her party in the second round and “turn their backs on this political class that deceives them”.
Though Le Pen has attempted to steer her party away from some of its more extreme rhetoric of the past, she has been typically uncompromising on the immigration issue.
"Feed them, warm them up, and send them back where they came from,” she told reporters earlier this year.
Le Pen was quick to associate the attacks with immigration and with refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe.
“The Islamic State group keep their promises," Le Pen said in a speech last month. "They vowed to attack, and there were attacks in France. They said there'd be killers among migrants and indeed there were. Politicians here need to open their eyes. There is a link between massive immigration, failure to integrate, and radical Islamism.”
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58% from just the two largest right-of-center parties - sounds like a rather firm rejection of the Socialists policies.
Butchered bodies by the dozen by a threat clear as day to anyone with common sense isn't a 'wave of fear', it's recognition that the state has failed to provide the fundamental of its justification to exits - ie Security in one's person, one's family, one's property.
[REUTERS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said on Sunday it would halt further transfers of troops to an area near 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.... -controlled Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... after Baghdad threatened to appeal to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to force Turkey to withdraw its soldiers.
Turkey deployed hundreds of forces to a camp in the Bashiqa region of northern Iraq on Thursday, calling it a routine rotation to train Iraqis to retake Mosul from Islamic State, which captured Iraq's second-largest city in 2014.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said his country might turn to the U.N. security council if Turkish troops sent to northern Iraq were not withdrawn within 48 hours.
He said the deployment of hundreds of Turkish forces happened without the approval or knowledge of the Iraqi government and constituted a violation of national illusory sovereignty.
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Scores of police officers descended on a mall in Riverside, Calif., after terrified shoppers and workers reported gunfire in the building, but the noise turned out to be breaking glass, a sign of the anxiety in Southern California in the days after a deadly terrorist attack in nearby San Bernardino.
Reports of a shooting in the Galleria at Tyler mall began to emerge shortly after 6:30 p.m., when three men entered a jewelry store and smashed glass display cases to grab the jewels kept inside, the Riverside Police Department said.
The sound of pounding sledge hammers and shattering glass sent a wave of panic through the mall as shoppers and mall employees, on edge after a terrorist attack linked to the Islamic State killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week, assumed the noises were gun shots.
"The first thing that went through my mind was, 'Oh, God, we're under terrorist attack,'" Erica Muschara, 28, who was in a cosmetics store at the mall, told The Los Angeles Times. "Everyone was screaming and running."
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A lockdown at Kirtland Air Force Base turned out to be triggered by the sound of bubble wrap popping that was mistaken for gunfire.
The military base went into lockdown Wednesday afternoon for about 45 minutes along with some neighboring public schools following reports of gunshots near a building on the west side of the base.
Base Director of Public Affairs Eric Elliott says the popper confessed to creating the commotion when bursting sandwich bag-sized air pockets.
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You know the only thing that rymes with orange is door hinge.
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My daughter was 6 years old when we went to Ireland in 1983. We were in a post office in Derry mailing some cards while she was trying to open a bag of Sam Spudz potato crisps (potato chips) when she accidentally popped it with a loud POP! People freaked out until they saw the raining crisps around the little girl.
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#1 given what goes on just north of the base, its improbable but not impossible to be literally within earshot of a drive by.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Doctors in United States are expecting to perform a rare penis transplant surgery on a young soldier who sustained horrific genital injury in Afghanistan in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) kaboom, it has been reported.
The surgery which is considered as unprecedented in United States is expected to be performed in the next couple of months by surgeons in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, according to a report published in New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... With only two transplants reported globally so far, including a successful and failed surgery, the doctors are expecting to develop urinary function, sensation and, eventually, the ability to have sex by attaching the organ which will come from a deceased donor.
The decision to perform the surgery comes as nearly 1,367 US military service members have sustained genital wounds while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001 to 2013.
According to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry, the wounds include partial and total dismemberment of the penises or testicles and the victims were all reported to be under 35 years old who sustained injuries mainly by homemade bombs, commonly called improvised bombs, or IEDs.
At least 60 transplants are expected to be performed after doctors were given permission by Johns Hopkins with the results to be monitored by the university as the surgery is considered as experimental and the decision to make the surgery standard will be taken afterwards.
Bleeding, infection and the possibility that the medicine needed to prevent transplant rejection will increase the odds of cancer are said to be among the risks of the surgery.
According to the doctors, only the penis will be transplanted, not the testes, where sperm are produced, which mean that the recipient will have his own genetic child and not the offspring of the donor if he becomes a father.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the case will be vice versa with the recipients who will receive both the penis and testicle.
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According to the doctors, only the penis will be transplanted, not the testes, where sperm are produced, which mean that the recipient will have his own genetic child and not the offspring of the donor if he becomes a father.
I read this five times and still cannot understand it. What am I missing ?
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It may be easy to be generous with someone else's money, but it's likely to be difficult to father your own child using someone else's testicles, unless they're from a homozygotic brother.
If his fry all inherit his barbels,
A catfish has kept his own yarbles,
But fry that look Greek
Like some guy up the creek
Have been drawn from another cat's marbles.
[FREEBEACON] At least 72 employees at the Department of Homeland Security are listed on the U.S. terrorist watch list, according to a Democratic politician.
That's not good...
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D., Mass.) disclosed that a congressional investigation recently found that at least 72 people working at DHS also "were on the terrorist watch list."
"Back in August, we did an investigation--the inspector general did--of the Department of Homeland Security, and they had 72 individuals that were on the terrorist watch list that were actually working at the Department of Homeland Security," Lynch told Boston Public Radio.
One hopes they are now employed elsewhere.
Where, the IRS?
"The [former DHS] director had to resign because of that," he said.
DHS continues to fail inspections aimed at determining the efficiency of its internal safety mechanisms, as well as its efforts to protect the nation.
Lynch referred to a recent report that found the Transportation Security Administration, which is overseen by DHS, failed to stop 95 percent of those who attempted to bring restricted items past airport security.
"We had staffers go into eight different airports to test the department of homeland security screening process at major airports. They had a 95 percent failure rate," Lynch said. "We had folks--this was a testing exercise, so we had folks going in there with guns on their ankles, and other weapons on their persons, and there was a 95 percent failure rate."
Lynch said he has "very low confidence" in DHS based on its many failures over the years. For this reason, he voted in favor of recent legislation that will tighten the vetting process for any Syrian refugees applying for asylum in the United States.
"I have very low confidence based on empirical data that we've got on the Department of Homeland Security. I think we desperately need another set of eyeballs looking at the vetting process," he said. "That's vetting that's being done at major airports where we have a stationary person coming through a facility, and we're failing 95 percent of the time."
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Lynch said he has "very low confidence" in DHS
"Low confidence" levels are an offshoot of inefficiency and poor quality control, which are hallmarks of unionized, big government.
Efficient organizations on the other hand, maximize individual pride in workmanship and production. Efficient organizations reward accomplishment and excellence while weeding out unproductive elements and poor practices.
When was the last time you heard about big government weeding out unproductive employees? It simply does not happen. Big government budgets are based, not on production numbers, big government budgets are based upon numbers of employees, and more and bigger government.
Big government is about inclusion and control, not efficient, cost saving production.
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This is not news. See this PDF issued June 2015.
A quote from the PDF: "our testing showed that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes. According to TSA data, these individuals were employed by major airlines, airport vendors, and other employers. TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to received all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watchlisting policy. Excluded categories [REDACTED] TSA acknowledged that these individuals were cleared for access to secure airport areas despite representing a potential transportation security threat."
I have a vague recollection this OIG report has already been mentioned on the Burg back around June 2015. MSM and the usual pundits seem to have ignored the findings.
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I think we desperately need another set of eyeballs looking at the vetting process
That'd be another government agency, of course - The Department of Overseas Persons Selected for Entry (DOPSE) to the US. Pronounced just like dopes.
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So, is the problem that Homeland Security employs people whom it should not, who should be on the No Fly list? Or that the No Fly list includes people it should not? (Or both?)
The objection I have to Obama's call to prevent people on the No Fly list from obtaining guns is not with the guns part, but with the No Fly list part - there is no oversight on who gets put onto the list, and no appeal process if one is on it; in fact often one is not even permitted to find out one IS on the list - just that your NICS check fails.
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"Low confidence" levels are an offshoot of inefficiency and poor quality control, which are hallmarks of unionized, big government.
If one reads the original article on the WGBH site, the esteemed Member of Congress blames it all (besides on GWBush) on the TSA employees not being unionized.
He also said a bunch of things that were wrong, or embarrassing, or both. And he's pushing gun control for the people on the no-fly list, the listing of which isn't disclosed to the public and can't be debated. Discuss.
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Cautions Americans from confusing Islam with terrorism?
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Let's make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional.
Gee, Mr. President, would you mind telling us what you think make America exceptional? Besides the fact that it elected a mixed-race Marxist to the highest office in the land. Which made your wife proud of her country for the first time in her life.
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Did I miss the "Islamic" terrorist act declaration?
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer had a number of experts on to rspond to the president's little speech. Here is Michael Weiss from the Daily Caller in three devastating minutes: CNN: ISIS will laugh at Obama's oval office speech
You know who wasnât on the no-fly list? The San Bernardino shooters. Nor was the Fort Hood shooter. Nor the Boston bombers. Nor the Chattanooga shooter. In other words, no perpetrator of any major attack on American soil was on the no-fly list.
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"Plan mayhem and murder deceitful.
Then gleefully do what is needful.
Last part of our plan:
Wipe the Holy Koran
So these dumbasses still think we're peaceful."
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Finally, if Congress believes, as I do, that we are at war with ISIL, it should go ahead and vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists.
This one is a "gotcha" and something the Left has been pushing for a while. Basically it's to score political points by tying and eventually dumping the currently failed strategy onto Congress.
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"Let's make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional" Must of been a typo, it was supposed to read "Let's make sure we never forget what makes ME exceptional."
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O is a tired broken record, that even some of the dems are finding embaraskin'. And I think that ISIS will make a few more hits, which in a terrible way, will slowly destroy his remaining credibility among the brainless faithful.
Damn tides around here are really slow, if you get my drift.......
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Some will always worship him as the lightbringer. Him and his 'beautiful' wife and children. And also Hillary. And if you try to discuss it with them then you are a racist and H8ter and....
Totally divorced from reality.
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I think that ISIS will make a few more hits ISIS will make as many hits as it can until they are rendered no longer capable of such, or, if that doesn't happen, until the supply of victims is exhausted.
[AlArabiya] Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on Saturday called the deployment of several hundred Turkish troops inside Iraq near the northern city of Mosul “a violation of international norms and law.”
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad on Saturday to protest at the deployment of Turkish forces near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and demand their immediate withdrawal.
The ministry said in a statement that the Turkish forces had entered Iraqi territory without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad, and that Iraq considered such presence “a hostile act.”
But Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the troop rotation was routine and the camp had originally been set up in coordination with Iraqi authorities.
A Turkish security source said on Friday the forces would provide training for Iraqi troops near Mosul, which is controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Iraq’s prime minister and foreign ministry have called for Turkey to withdraw its forces.
In an online statement, Massoum also called on Turkey to withdraw the troops and asked Iraq’s Foreign Ministry to take the necessary measures “to preserve the country's sovereignty and independence.”
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Fascinating bit from the second article -- after the obligatory real world cold shower -- given that Turkey keeps talking about its troops have been there for two years to train the Peshmerga:
In practical terms, Iraqâs options are primarily diplomatic, as its forces are tied down battling ISIS and Ankara has a far more powerful military.
Turkey has troops at a base in the Bashiqa area in Nineveh province to train Iraqi Sunni volunteers hoping to retake the nearby city of Mosul from ISIS, which seized it and swathes of other territory in June 2014.
The camp is used by a force called Hashid Watani (national mobilisation), which is made up of mainly Sunni Arab former Iraqi police and volunteers from Mosul.
It was formed by former Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, who had close relations with Turkey. There was already a small number of Turkish trainers there before this latest deployment.
So, genuine grievance about the arrival of Turkish tanks or Baghdad trying to take control over isolated governors acting independently, Shiites insisting that only the official army and Shiite auxiliaries may be seen to overthrow ISIS?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British air strikes on 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will fail to defeat the krazed killer group, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking 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 ... 's strategy in the region.
British politicians approved the bombing of ISIS targets in Syria on Thursday. Hours after that approval, the Royal Air Force struck the oilfields that Cameron's government says are being used to fund attacks on the West.
Speaking in an interview conducted before the vote in parliament, the result of which had been widely anticipated, Assad said Cameron's strategy would make the situation worse, not better.
"They are going to fail again," he said. "You cannot cut out part of the cancer. You have to extract it. This kind of operation is like cutting out part of the cancer. That will make it spread in the body faster."
Police in London said they were treating a stabbing on Saturday as a terrorist incident after a man wielding a knife slashed another, screaming according to British media "this is for Syria."
Assad ridiculed Cameron's assertioe n that therare as many as 70,000 Western-backed opposition fighters in Syria who would open a political solution to the civil war and could retake territory from jihadists weakened by the air strikes.
"This is a new episode in a long series of David Cameron's classical farce ... where are they? Where are the 70,000 moderates he is talking about? There is no 70,000. There is no 7,000."
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[ARA News] DAMASCUS – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad considered Britain’s bombing campaign against the extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria “illegal” adding the campaign will further fuel terrorism.
“It will be harmful and illegal and it will support terrorism as happened after the coalition started its operation a year or so (ago),” Assad told The Sunday Times in Damascus on Sunday.
This comes as the UK started its airstrikes in Syria after the British parliament approved joining military operations by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.
Assad added that terror “was like a cancer which needed to be tackled with a comprehensive strategy which would involve working with troops on the ground”.
“You cannot cut out part of the cancer. You have to extract it. This kind of operation is like cutting out part of the cancer. That will make it spread in the body faster.”
“You cannot defeat ISIS through airstrikes alone. You cannot defeat them without cooperation with forces on the ground,” he stressed.
“You cannot defeat them if you do not have buy-in from the general public and the government,” Assad said.
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Probably not, given our unwillingness to accept the collateral damage that a full nuclear assault would generate. However, that might just happen if the Islamists mount a nuclear attack on the West.
Washington is ready to re-impose sanctions on Iran in response to any provocation from Tehran, US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said, Sputnik reported.
She's lying, and everyone knows it.
In her speech on Sunday, Clinton listed Iran’s “increasingly aggressive regional ambitions,” as a reason for the United States to strengthen ties with Israel.
"Tehran's fingerprints are on nearly every conflict across the Middle East,” the politician said.
According to Clinton, Iran supports “bad actors from Syria to Lebanon, to Yemen and beyond.”
“There will be consequences, for even small violations [of Iran’s nuclear deal], and we are ready to snap back sanctions into place,” Clinton said.
Nonsense. Champ and Jahwn have no intention of enforcing the deal. The whole point was to get rid of sanctions, not reimpose them. Champ doesn't care if Iran gets the bomb.
Iran's relief from multinational sanctions by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union is subject to the results of an inspection by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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It's hard to be provoked further once you've assumed the full hedgehog-fetal position and pulled your hole in after you.
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I recall the Christian sect that left Jerusalem leaving behind a separate sect that was determined to stay in the holy place. The stay-behinds didn't make it along with a lot of Jews when the Roman finished their siege a little later in history. Some people get a hint and survive, they get to write the new book. Maybe someone is sensing the 'writing on the wall'.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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