[Tolo News] Mullah Manan Niyazi, a front man for Mullah Akhtar Mansour's opposing Taliban faction, has said that former Taliban leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... was killed on the day the Taliban opened their office in 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... , which was about two and a half years ago.
He went on to say that the news of Mullah Omar's death was kept hidden by Mullah Mansour.
Mullah Niyazi also said the Taliban's former leader was opposed to talks, which were scheduled to start after the opening of the Qatar office.
"The day the Taliban office opened in Qatar was the same day Mulla Omar was killed but this news was kept hidden," Mullah Niyazi said.
"The recent incidents happening among Taliban are a game that Iranians, Paks and Americans started in Afghanistan," Niyazi added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... Mullah Rassoul, from the breakaway Taliban faction, addressed his supporters in Ghoryan district of 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... province recently and criticized Mullah Mansour.
He said: "All those who are along with Mullah Akhtar Mansour either they are officials or scholars who have been paid and we are aware of this issue. Those scholars who did not accept money and did not sell their conscience are being threatened with death."
This comes amid ongoing rumors of Mullah Mansour's death - at the hands of rival Taliban members. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... in a bid to quash the speculation, the Taliban released an audio tape last week purportedly made by their leader in a bid to prove he was alive.
The person who claimed to be Mullah Mansour on the tape did however mention that there were differences of opinion among Taliban capos.
"Among key members of the Emirate and those who are emirate officials the conflicts are not in that stage that they are killing each other," said the person on the tape.
He went on to say: "Be assured we are not fighting with anyone for the sake of power, we are moving in our rightful path which is the Sharia path."
But a political analyst Nazar Mohammad Mutamin said: "When military, governors and individuals associated with the Taliban stand beside one of the Taliban group it is natural that that side is more powerful."
But so far a number of festivities have broken out between the two factions and analysts believe that with each passing day disputes increase among the Taliban groups.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain's foreign affairs advisor Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said Tuesday that Islamabad wants peace in Afghanistan, insisting on his country will support all endeavours aimed at strengthening peace and security in the country.
In his remarks ahead of Ministerial Heart of Asia Conference, Azizi said instability in Afghanistan is not in the interest of Pakistain.
Renewing Pakistain's commitment to support all endeavours aimed at strengthening peace and security in Afghanistan, Aziz said the 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... of Asia summit is an effective platform for promoting regional economic cooperation and connectivity, with Afghanistan at its centre, according to Radio Pakistain.
Insisting on good progress of the summit since it was launched in 2011, Aziz said the summit provides an opportunity to member countries in result-oriented engagements for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan, and a secure and prosperous region as a whole.
He said political consultation involving Afghanistan and its neighbours and the regional countries with a view to promoting mutual trust in the areas of security and economic interaction was among the key achievements of the summit.
The two-day annual summit is expected to focus energy, infrastructure and investment deals to shore up commitment to Afghanistan as representatives from the neighboring countries of Afghanistan, including Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China, India and Iran as well as representatives from Russia, 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... , Azerbaijan, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the UAE participating in the summit.
Efforts to revive the stalled Afghan peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban group will also be discussed during the summit.
Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said Monday that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. will also attend the summit.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen's president told the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... that he has asked the Saudi-led coalition to begin a 7-day ceasefire on Dec. 15 to coincide with U.N.-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending months of fighting.
"I have notified the leadership of the Coalition of our intention to cease fire for a period of seven days, starting December 15 until December 21," President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said in a letter on Monday to U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon.
"This will coincide with the starting of consultations and will automatically be renewed upon commitment by the Houthis," he added.
Hadi's letter, which it said was also sent to the U.N. Security Council, confirmed remarks made earlier on Monday by U.N. special envoy to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who said Hadi's government and the Houthis were committed to the grinding of the peace processor laid down by the Security Council in April.
"I hope you would inform the U.N. envoy of the need to ensure that the Houthis would respect the ceasefire, and to take practical steps to ensure adherence to the permanent ceasefire, so that the Coalition forces would not deal with any breach of the ceasefire," Hadi said.
He added that the ceasefire came "out of our desire to create an atmosphere for the success of the U.N.-led consultations that the government intends to participate (in) in the coming days, and in order to help avoid further bloodshed and expand the medical and humanitarian relief efforts."
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[Dhaka Tribune] The lawyer for death-row convict war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... has admitted before the court that the prosecution successfully proved that his client was a collaborator of the Pak occupation forces in 1971.
The counsel, however, argued that since the government was not trying the Pak Army for committing war crimes, it should consider the merit of trying a collaborator for abetting the Pak Army in war crimes.
It was the first time that any war criminal or his lawyer admits collaboration with the Pak Army that killed around three million people during the country's liberation struggle.
Earlier, two executed war criminals -- Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury -- sought presidential clemency, but were rejected. It means that they admitted the crimes for which they had been sentenced to death.
The defence counsel, Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, yesterday prayed to the court to commute Nizami's death sentence to life imprisonment if the apex court found him guilty of his wartime offence. He also urged the court to acquit his client of all the charges.
Nizami, now 75, was the chief of al-Badr force as the head of 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... 's then student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha in erstwhile East Pakistain. He later became the chief of All Pakistain Chhatra Sangha. The incumbent Jamaat chief was sentenced to death on four charges and life-term jail on four others.
In response to a question after the hearing, Mahbub said that seeking reduced punishment did not mean admitting the crimes.
"The prosecution has proved that Nizami was a collaborator. But they could not prove that Nizami was involved with any particular offence.
"The prosecution has brought witnesses to prove that Nizami was with the Pak Army. [So] they [Army] should be the main accused [in the case]. Here, the [Pakistain] Army is not being tried. So, the court should judge the justification of the trial of Nizami as an abettor [of war crimes]."
He questioned whether the collaborators, who accompanied the Pak Army personnel during operations, had the ability to assist them in committing the crimes.
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[AnNahar] The family of a man charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at London Underground train station in a suspected terror attack had earlier called the authorities to warn them of his erratic behavior, his brother said.
Mohammed Mire said that his brother Muhaydin, who appeared in court Monday, suffered from paranoia and hallucinations made worse by drug use, but that he was judged as no threat to the public.
So he was a nutter, which manifested in Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Unfortunately, the highly inbred "Asian" Muslims of Britain have a great many nutters.
"Drugs influenced him, just cannabis," he told Channel 4 News. "It gave him mental problem. He was diagnosed by doctors and treated in 2007 for paranoia. He was in hospital for three months in 2007."
After recovering from that bout, the suspect went on to work for taxi firm Uber but "then he got back into the same thing and went a bit crazy," said the brother.
"That started in August of this year. He started calling me up and saying odd things.
"Not radical, it's a bit like jumping around talking nonsense and sort of like talking saying he's seeing demons and stuff, people following him.
"We tried to call the local authority, they could not help him because they said he's no harm to people and he's no harm to himself.
"I talked to the police and they came and looked at him and that was 22 October."
Muhaydin Mire, 29, from east London, is accused of attempting to murder a 56-year-old man at Leytonstone station on Saturday night, shortly after he and his family had agreed for him to leave Britannia.
"I decided to book a ticket for him on this Sunday. He was okay as far as I know," said the brother. "He wanted to go."
During Monday's brief hearing, Mire spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address and was remanded in jug until Friday when he will again appear at the Old Bailey in London.
Prosecutors allege that Mire punched his victim to the ground and repeatedly kicked him before taking hold of the victim's head and cutting a 12-centimeter wound in his neck.
The victim, referred to in court as Male A, was in surgery for five hours after the attack, the prosecution said.
Prosecutors also allege that images and flags associated with 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 were subsequently found on Mire's mobile phone.
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Your's is little different than our own BP. The messenger will be ignored by the emperor for only so long, then he or she will decide to change the message.
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just cannabis," he told Channel 4 News. "It gave him mental problem
This gives all the "Drug Warriors" one big PR win. I've been hearing for 50 years that pot is totally safe and booze is so much worse. No support for narrative here.
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if you're already a head case it's not going to improve you and could definitely make you worse
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I've been hearing for 50 years that pot is totally safe and booze is so much worse. No support for narrative here.
I read recently that brain scans show that pot causes schizophrenia-like changes in the brain, AlanC. And that adolescents who use pot have permanent changes in their still-developing brains compared to their peers who don't use. It seems safe to assume that some are genetically more susceptible to damage than others, just as some are genetically more sensitive to various medications while others are less sensitive than average.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] One said he couldn't take afford the bullets to load his gun in Syria, while another compared carrying a Kalashnikov to wearing a superhero costume.
Most of the six men on trial in Gay Paree for their alleged roles in a recruiting network for European hard boy fighters portray themselves as amateur holy warriors grappling with a conflict way over their heads.
The central figure in the week-long trial that closes on Monday is 35-year-old Salim Benghalem, a suspected Islamic State
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One said he couldn't take afford the bullets to load his gun in Syria, while another compared carrying a Kalashnikov to wearing a superhero costume.
Most of the six men on trial in Gay Paree for their alleged roles in a recruiting network for European hard boy fighters portray themselves as amateur holy warriors grappling with a conflict way over their heads.
So both the Russians and the Turks were telling the truth. Will they choose to climb down from the very high horses they're sitting on? And what about the unnecessarily vicious Turkmen?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Donald Trump's call to block all Muslims from entering the United States is not only unconstitutional but also impossible to carry out, legal experts said Tuesday.
Eric Posner, Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, says that it's expressly legal. His is not the final word, of course, but he's a smart guy. He also points out -- correctly -- that one can't block American citizens of Muslim beliefs from re-entering the country. Americans have rights in our country; foreign nationals do not. Journalists are simply trying to advance a narrative, and Posner points out that there are certain scholars who are assisting with that.
Trump's proposed ban, announced to cheers at a rally in South Carolina on Monday, would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting all adherents of a religion practiced by more than a billion people worldwide.
Beyond inciting condemnation from Republican presidential rivals and others, legal and immigration experts said Tuesday that Trump's proposal violated the Constitution's equal protection clause and freedom of religion granted under the First Amendment.
"It is blatantly unconstitutional, and it's an attack on the very foundation of the United States," said Marci Hamilton, a law professor specializing in the First Amendment at Yeshiva University in New York City. She called the idea "laughable."
"It's never possible to fully ascertain what someone believes internally," Hamilton added. "How does one recognize a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew? Do you look at where they were born, do you look at where they were raised? Do you look at the last religious service they attended?"
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All these so called leaders are in a big push to discredit Trump. The one thing they don't do is to identify the existential enemy and what to protect American citizens.
Trump may not have the answers, and he is a blow hard but he is the only one talking about Islam being the problem.
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He also points out -- correctly -- that one can't block American citizens of Muslim beliefs from re-entering the country. Americans have rights in our country; foreign nationals do not.
Comrade, that kind of thinking is racis, illegal, unconstitutional, or racis. Or something bad like that.
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This proposal is as old as our country. English, French, Germans, Italians, Japanese, Jewish have been blocked. It has been done many times and it has worked. I believe that option was provided for as a presidential action to protect the homeland. We know of Roosevelt being president and a Democrat who ordered the confinement of 10,000 Japanese as I recall.
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Overton Window moved. It's now acceptable to discuss this. You may have to punch the lying lib in the mouth to get them to shut up enough to listen, but as afar as non-US Citizens, it's NOT illegal. It's actually prudent. Next attack will make it so
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DOING everything Trump called for would be un-Constitutional, but SAYING it is NOT, and since that is all that has been done, it in no way disqualifies him from election (even though I would like to see him gone because I believe he is working with Hillary towards a common goal.)
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I don't remember any of these "experts" complaining about Obama's extra constitutional power grabs.
When they complain about Obama like they complain about Trump, I might listen to them. Might.
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I have had, for several months, nagging feelings the same way, Glenmore.
Like some folks are collaborating to poison the 'conservative' well by next year. Eliminate the competent competition by attrition and then do something to assure your own defeat.
Trump and the Clinton's play the 'long game' quite well.
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With a few well timed comments about pausing the influx of potential terrorists until the US gets its act together, Trump has changed the entire national dialogue from let's import Syrian terrorists and take away law abiding citizens guns, to the loons foaming at the mouth about Hitler.
At the end of the cycle the question will be who has a plan to deal with Muslim terrorists, and the answer will be only Trump!
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With a few well timed comments about pausing the influx of potential terrorists until the US gets its act together, Trump has changed the entire national dialogue from let's import Syrian terrorists
Precisely why the WH and regime jumped on the comment with both feet. They know his comments are impacting public opinion of their decision making and strategy.
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People like Trump because he doesn't read from a teleprompter. You get the impression that he says what he thinks, he not afraid to say it and most often it's what we're thinking. You'll never know what Obama, Bush or Clinton are really thinking because they recite the lines that somebody else has given them and they're afraid to go off the script. You can always tell the minute they start talking that they're reading from a script because nobody, but nobody, ever really speaks that way. I gotta believe that when his time comes Trump will have his own legal experts advising him as to whether an action is Constitutional or not. Judging by what he says, I gotta believe that he is putting America's best interest before those who would turn this country into a Third World hell hole like Pakistan, Syria, China or Mexico. I hope he means what he says but I sure as hell can't vote for PC Bush.
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Dale, the difference is those were all nationalities we were at war with and this is a religion that spans multiple countries.
Legally we could block immigrants from all of those countries but we'd have to exclude a large swath of Europe to do so.
So the idea is untrodden ground legally as far as I can tell. The question then becomes, is it wise policy. I have yet to hear any of those opposed to the idea put forth anything more than sputtering Hitler or saying that they believe it is unAmerican. None of them truly discuss the repurcussions.
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More than just a religion. I attempted to read the Koran and had to put it down. Too violent from what I had read. Call to action. Recently I learned a skin with the original writings of the Koran were found. 100 years before Mohamed was born. Like their interest in Mein Kampf “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Adolf Hitler - Religion and Political control are paramount.
[Clarion Project] A Canadian Islamic school that was linked to the California shooter as well as four students who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State closed for the day on Tuesday, citing "safety concerns."
Staff at the Al-Huda Institute said the media's focus on the school had put the staff and students at risk. Media focus on the school began this week when it emerged that Tashfeen Malik, one of the San Bernardino terrorists, had attended a branch of the school in Pakistan.
Last year, the school was in the headlines as four of its students, aged 15-18, had attempted to travel to Syria to join jihadi organizations. Travelling from Canada through Cairo to Istanbul, three of the girls were stopped by the Turks after the girls' parents alerted Canadian authorities. The oldest girl made it to Syria and has been living there since 2014.
The Al-Huda Institute in Mississauga, Ontario is one of a chain of 200 Al-Huda schools in the U.S., Canada and Pakistan. Founded in 1994 by an ultra-conservative female Islamic scholar, Farhat Hashmi, its ideology is said to have spread like a social movement in North America and around the world.
The self-declared "Islamic feminist," Hashmi wears a burka, advocates total obedience of a woman to her husband and promotes Saudi Wahhabist ideology. When she opened a new center in London -- in a former police station -- she was accused of teaching a "medieval view of human rights and women's place in society" as well as advocating jihad.
Her teachings were so controversial and offensive she was asked to leave Canada in 2006. Canadian reports say she has not been in the country for the last three years.
"Women gravitate towards her because they are either disillusioned with their life in the West, or they want their daughters to be protected from what they perceive to be the moral laxity of the West," Muslim human rights activist Farzana Hassan said, speaking to the International Business Times. "Her network is large and growing because her graduates then go out and spread the word to other recruits."
As for Malik, after she began studying at an Al-Huda Institute in Pakistan (before she married fellow San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook), a close friend said she noticed a big change in her former schoolmate. "We were like, 'What happened to Malik?'" said Abida Rani. "She became so religious, so serious, and so focused on Islamic teachings, and she lost her interest in her studies."
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Turn over some more rocks and who knows what we will find. I suspect, the spread of radical Islam in the U.S. is far more widespread than is being said in the media or from the government.
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Some of the 9/11 terrorists were known to federal law enforcement. Shoe Bomber Richard Reid was known to UK and U.S. federal law enforcement, as was MAJ Nadal Hasan, the Boston Bomber Tsarnaev bros. and now the Farook team.
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Law enforcement and intelligence are often at cross purposes. Intelligence wants to follow the ants back to the nest while law enforcement wants to stop that ant from stinging.
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[NpeeR] President Obama's request that Muslim Americans help "root out" and confront extremist ideology in their communities is getting mixed reactions. Muslim leaders say they want to help, but some are not happy that they are being singled out.
"We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups," said Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, who has worked extensively with the Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups. "The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept."
In his Sunday-night message, the president did say Muslims should not be treated differently, but administration officials say they are looking to the Muslim American community for some particular assistance. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson took that request personally Monday to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling, Va.
"I will continue to speak out against the discrimination, vilification and isolation that American Muslims face in these challenging times," Johnson said.
We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups
Lying SOB. Just that is demanded every time the press thinks they have a case of violence against abortionists. But unlike Muslims, Christians of all denominations condemn murder.
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"We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups," said Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, who has worked extensively with the Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups. "The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept."
Willy Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks said because that's where the money is at. Likewise with radical Islamics, that's where the terrorism is at. While we are at it, we should outlaw the practice of Sharia Law.
We should start using a 4-Pinocchio like system for these Muslims who publicly decry so loudly efforts to root out the radicals who are trying to kill us: Something like a "4-fuck yous" system.
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The Muslim communities is happy to sit and wait to determine who is the strong horse. They should not be treated as allies when they have chosen to complain about every method used to fight the enemy and hide the enemies in their populations.
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It's one of your last warnings. Clean your own house out, or have it clean for you. You can do surgery. The alternative is far more blunt in others hands.
[IsraelTimes] FBI also indicates that couple were radicalized 'for quite some time,' took target practice at area gun ranges
The couple who carried out the San Bernardino massacre that killed 14 had been in contact with "people holding myrmidon views in Los Angeles," MSNBC reported Wednesday based on correspondence with local police officials.
On Monday, the FBI said the two killers had been radicalized "for quite some time" and had taken target practice at area gun ranges. Authorities further disclosed that a year before the rampage, Syed Farook's co-workers at the county health department underwent "active-shooter" training in the very conference room where he and his wife opened fire on them last Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear whether Farook attended the autumn 2014 training session on how to react to a workplace gunman, county spokeswoman Felisa Cardona said. It was held for members of the department's environmental health division, where Farook was a restaurant inspector.
On Monday, one employee who had been in the room when Farook and Tashfeen Malik launched their attack on a holiday luncheon said colleagues tried to do just as they had been trained -- find protection and stay quiet.
"Unfortunately the room just didn't provide a whole lot of protection," said Corwin Porter, assistant county health director.
Farook, a 28-year-old born in the US to a Pak family, and Malik, a 29-year-old immigrant from Pakistain, were killed in a gunbattle with police hours after the bloodbath.
"We have learned and believe that both subjects were radicalized and have been for quite some time," said David Bowdich, chief of the FBI's Los Angeles office.
He added: "The question we're trying to get at is how did that happen and by whom and where did that happen? And I will tell you right now we don't know those answers."
He also said the Muslim couple had taken target practice at ranges in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, with one session held within days of the rampage.
In addition, authorities found 19 pipes in the couple's home in Redlands, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, that could be turned into bombs, Bowdich said. The FBI previously said it had found 12 pipe bombs.
Newly released emergency radio transmissions from the fast-moving tragedy show that police identified Farook as a suspect almost immediately. Witnesses said he had left the luncheon about 20 minutes before the shooting began.
It was was unclear how he was identified so quickly, given that witnesses said the attackers wore black ski masks. Bowdich would not address that question.
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Syed Farook's co-workers at the county health department underwent "active-shooter" training in the very conference room where he and his wife opened fire on them last Wednesday. This makes me wonder if Farook himself underwent the same "active-shooter" training since he worked there himself at the time. Or maybe he was off work that day.
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In addition, authorities found 19 pipes in the couple's home in Redlands, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, that could be turned into bombs, Bowdich said. The FBI previously said it had found 12 pipe bombs.
So now we have "19 pipes".... NOT 12 pipe bombs. No mention here of the model car electronic firing devices.
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Long-term objective: Sustain the crisis [war on poverty, drugs, crime, terrorism] for as long as possible. It's good for business and it demands continued budget increases and larger government. Big government isn't about solutions, it's about control and big government.
But you knew that already. I just felt like an early morning rant.
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So now we have "19 pipes".... NOT 12 pipe bombs.
The original reports spoke of pipe bombs and some extra pipes, as I recall. I interpret the above as twelve completed pipe bombs plus the makings for an additional nineteen to be completed by the pharmacist wife later.
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Jan Morgan has been running a 'No Muslims Allowed' gun range for a number of years where she has been teaching gun safety - particularly to women.
Of course CAIR and company got all upset about it but there wasn't anything they could do. This kind of vindicates her. I expect a lot more gun ranges to go 'no muslim'.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] One brother liked to party and chase girls. After high school, moved by what he saw as his patriotic duty, he enlisted in the Navy and received two medals recognizing his contributions to "the global war on terror."
The other was deeply religious and became increasingly intolerant, ultimately nursing a growing hatred that led him, along with his wife, to open fire on a San Bernardino holiday party last week, in what law enforcement officials have termed a terrorist attack.
Syed Raheel Farook and his younger brother Syed Rizwan Farook grew up in the same house, attended the same high school two years apart and, as teenagers, often socialized in the same groups. But as they grew older their paths diverged.
Rizwan is now dead, bumped off by police in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, after joining with his wife in killing 14 people and injuring 21. Raheel is alive and left to wonder what went wrong.
The contrasting lives of the Farook brothers, described by friends, neighbors and former classmates who knew them both, is a disturbing tale, in part because there are so few clues to why they turned out so differently.
The family, including Raheel, declined repeated requests through their lawyers for comment for this story. But those who knew the brothers say that by high school, their differences were apparent and growing.
"Most people here go to mosque to please their parents," said Shakib Ahmed, who attended mosque with the Farooks.
Raheel, the older brother, was that kind of kid, he said. He went to Friday prayers, but he also liked to drink and had a girlfriend in high school who wasn't Muslim.
Rizwan was quieter and more serious - and far more religious. Only with his older brother, friends said, did they see Rizwan lose his temper.
"He was nice to everyone else, but he was kind of the dominating type. He would yell at his brother," Ahmed said.
Physical Distance
Soon after graduating from high school in 2003, with the U.S. invasion of Iraq just months old, Raheel joined up and went off to boot camp in Illinois, according to naval records. In 2004, he was assigned to serve on the USS Enterprise as an information system technician.
Back home, Rizwan, a bright boy, finished high school a year early according to school records. In the years that followed, friends and neighbors say, he quit wearing jeans and polo shirts and donned robes.
"I noticed a change with the clothes and the beard," said Ahmed.
At home, there was increasing turmoil. In 2006, the boys mother, Rafia Farook, filed for divorce from her husband Syed after more than 24 years of marriage, according to court documents.
In court filings, Rafia cited multiple instances of domestic abuse, asserting that her husband was "mentally ill" and threatened "to kill himself on a daily basis." During one violent incident, she said, her son came between them "to save me."
Gasser Shehata, a friend of Rizwan's from a San Bernardino mosque, said that Rizwan talked to him in recent years about his religious issues with his dad while growing up, and how he came to side with his mother in their disputes.
Shehata said that Rizwan told him that his father refused to pray regularly, which was a source of tension.
When Rizwan joined the dating site bestmuslim.com in 2013, his profile described how he spent much of his free time "memorizing the Qur'an and learning more about the religion."
He was looking, he wrote, for a woman "who takes her religion very seriously and is always trying to improve her religion and encouraging others to do the same."
Even as the distance between the brothers grew, they remained bonded.
Attendees at Rizwan's wedding reception last year at the Islamic Center of Riverside said Rizwan seemed to enjoy his brother's easy and relaxed manner with the guests, even though he said little and seemed withdrawn. At one point, Raheel even teased his younger brother, calling him "Rizi," which Rizwan took in good humour.
Some of those who knew the Farooks have thought deeply about the brothers and their differences in recent days. But many of the things they come up with could apply to any siblings.
"Raheel was just a normal ... guy," said Usmaan Arshad, who attended La Sierra High School with the brothers. "No one talked to Rizwan," he said.
Rose Aguirre, a neighbor of the family for years, said the difference between the Farook sons had seemed to her to boil down to the fact that Raheel was "more personable, more Americanised" than his brother.
But those characterizations worked only before last week, when it became apparent that the differences went far deeper.
Attorney David Chesley told CNN on Monday that Raheel "is very upset with his brother."
"He's totally depressed and broken with grief."
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[DAWN] Religious teaching cemtre Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation has distanced itself from Tashfeen Malik, one of the attackers who shot 14 people dead in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, last week, a day after the news broke that the shooter was a student of the organization's Multan centre.
A statement on the foundation's website says , "Tashfeen Malik had studied at Al-Huda International's Multan branch for a brief period between 2013 and 2014. She left without completing the Diploma course. No organization can be held responsible for personal acts of any of its students."
The statement also says that, "The organization does not have links to any Death Eater regime and stands to promote peaceful message of Islam and denounces extremism, violence and terrorism of all kinds."
The website says that the organization firmly believes that any aware Muslim would never involve himself/herself in violent acts.
"In order to maintain full transparency about what we teach and what we believe in, we have kept our courses open and available online," the statement concluded.
Founded by Farhat Hashmi in 1994, Al-Huda has no known Death Eater links. It functions as a religious teaching centre and is also involved in welfare activities.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request by former army chief Mirza Aslam Beg ...the occasionally incoherent retired four-star general who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army, succeeding the creepy General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after the latter was rubbed out died in an air crash in 1988. The general was involved up to his hairy ears in the Mehran bank scandal, shuffling millions in public money to buy or lease politicians, and is believed one of the prime movers in the sale of Pak nuclear technology to Iran. He ranks second only to Hamid Gul in the volume and flavor of his anti-Western vitriol.. to be defended by a different counsel against charges that he played a role in 'polluting' the 1990 general elections.
Gen Beg had filed a petition on Nov 22, 2012, seeking a review to the October 19, 2012, apex court verdict in the Asghar Khan case ordering the federal government to initiate necessary action against him and former director general Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) retired Lt-Gen Asad Durrani for their role in dishing out Rs140 million to a particular group of politicians.
On Monday, a three-judge bench, headed by Justice Saqib Nisar, disallowed senior counsel Ali Zafar to represent Gen Beg in place of Mohammad Akram Sheikh on the ground that he did not entertain a request similar to the one made by Asma Jahangir in the Sumaira Malik case.
The court, however, accepted Mr Zafar's request to help his client in case the court needed assistance on purely legal or technical questions.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The copy of the Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) of Tashfeen Malik, which surfaced in international publications and local social media, has been found to be authentic, according to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) verification service.
The 27-year-old woman and her US-born husband Syed Rizwan Farook are the main suspects in the shooting of 14 people in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, last week. Both were killed.
Speculation arose on social media, questioning the authenticity of Tashfeen Malik's CNIC copy and claiming the details were part of a larger conspiracy.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Sunday referring to the recent shooting in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, said that the act of an individual does not represent a country or religion and added that every Pak who has a heart and has some understanding will condemn the incident.
Nisar termed the shooting as an attempt to malign Islam and Muslims and said that 'such incidents are making life difficult for Pakistain and Muslim diaspora'. Perhaps so. Seems like they say the same thing, though, every time Moslems singularly or plurally decide to murder a few infidels, or even a few fellow Moslems. Since Paks seem to be involved in ninety percent of such incidents that could have something to do with why life's so "difficult."
"The wrongdoing of an individual Muslim or Pak does not mean the entire country or religion is at fault." But what's the significance of wrongdoing after wrongdoing specifically done in the name of that particular religion? Is there still no fault to accrue to the religion?
"The Western world in particular and world in general is getting the impression that whatever these holy warriors are doing is actually Islam," said Nisar. Since the holy warriors are defining the world as a struggle between Islam and everything else doesn't that kinda drag Islam into the equation someplace?
He said Islam's teachings start with peace and end with peace. "It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up!"
"Whatever these gunnies are doing has nothing to do with Islam or Muslims," said the Interior Minister. "Even though they start out by memorizing the Koran!"
About the facts of case, he said that they are the same as you have got through media, that the shooter Tashfeen Malik, shifted to Saudi Arabi nearly 25 years ago and that she was a resident of Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab. Her true love was also a Pak, though considered an "American" since he had been born here, even though raised in Pak culture.
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#1
the act of an individual does not represent a country or religion
But there seems to be many, many, many individuals, Nisar. Care to explain?
#3
You know here if someone gets food poisoning and/or dies from a product, they recall the whole batch. Just to be 'safe'. I don't recall food product advertizing that involves street demonstrations calling for 'Death to America'.
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Nisar termed the shooting as an attempt to malign Islam and Muslims and said that 'such incidents are making life difficult for Pakistan and Muslim diaspora'.
"The wrongdoing of an individual Muslim or Pakistani does not mean the entire country or religion is at fault."
Maybe we should wait a few more centuries to observe and gather data before a rash decision is made to open our doors and aid the Muslim diaspora.
A leaked internal Islamic State manual shows how the terrorist group has set about building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic programme for self-sufficiency, the Guardian can reveal.
The 24-page document, obtained by the Guardian, sets out a blueprint for establishing foreign relations, a fully fledged propaganda operation, and centralised control over oil, gas and the other vital parts of the economy.
Gen Stanley McChrystal (retired), who led the military units that helped destroy Isis's predecessor organisation (ISI) in Iraq from 2006 to 2008, said: "If it is indeed genuine, it is fascinating and should be read by everyone â particularly policymakers in the west.
"If the west sees Isis as an almost stereotypical band of psychopathic killers, we risk dramatically underestimating them.
"In the Principles in the administration of the Islamic State, you see a focus on education (really indoctrination) beginning with children but progressing through their ranks, a recognition that effective governance is essential, thoughts on their use of technology to master information (propaganda), and a willingness to learn from the mistakes of earlier movements.
"It's not a big departure from the works of Mao, the practices of the Viet Minh in Indochina, or other movements for whom high-profile actions were really just the tip of a far more nuanced iceberg of organising activity."
The article links to a scribd of the document, for those who can read Arabic.
Update at 1:50 p.m. ET: The researcher who gave The Guardian the documents blogs about it here, and provides an English translation here.
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ISIS calls itself a nation-state to be compared with other nation-states, acts like one, controls territory, collects taxes, and has declared war on much of the rest of the world. Some misunderestimating is going on here.
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They need a Dept. of Agriculture, Energy, Education and Inferior. Also a. IRS, Islamic Revenue Submit. A well developed Dept of Agriculture should be enough to bring them down in dawg's own time. Date subsidies, that's all Ima saying.
[IsraelTimes] The Strip's ruling body releases Islamic State operatives from its prisons -- only to arrest them again later
In a never-ending cycle, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is catching and releasing 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.... operatives in the Gazoo Strip who fire rockets at Israel, Paleostinian sources say.
Just two weeks after being let out of prison, some IS bandidosforces of Evil were already back to their old habits, shooting Kassams at Israel's southern communities. Mahmoud Talb, Muhammad Baras and Ahmad Musallam, all known supporters of the Islamic State and global jihad movement in the Gazoo Strip, were among those released by Hamas only to later take part in attacks.
Talb has been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by Hamas, the ruling party in the Gazoo Strip, more than ten times for his actions, according to Paleostinian sources.
This only continues Hamas's unspoken and contradictory policy towards the Islamic State and the global jihadi movement. On one hand, Hamas must work against these operatives and prevent their actions, while on the other hand, they often work side-by-side and even assist one another.
For instance, high-ranking members of Hamas's military wing make a point of bringing injured IS fighters from Sinai into the Gazoo Strip for medical treatment. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... the Islamic State in Egypt helps Hamas smuggle weaponry and vast sums of money into the Strip.
How on earth do they get back and forth, given the border fence Israel built and the flooded tunnels into Egypt?
The commander of IS forces in the Sinai met with Hamas leaders in Gazoo during what was intended to be a secret trip last week, in order to widen their cooperation and coordinate attacks on Egyptian and Israeli targets, Israeli television reported Thursday.
Shadi al-Menei has also been responsible for occasional incidences of rocket fire from the Sinai on the Israeli southern resort town of Eilat, the TV report said.
The deepening cooperation between Hamas and al-Menei's Islamic State hierarchy is infuriating to Egypt and "worrying for Israel," the report added. It said that al-Menei was behind a 2011 terrorist attack in southern Israel in which four groups of bandidosforces of Evil targeted a bus and several Israeli army vehicles, killing six Israeli civilians, two members of the Israeli security forces and several Egyptian soldiers. Ten bad boyz were potted.
[Gulf Today] Malaysia has asked the Philippines to extradite two Abu Sayyaf militants linked to the abduction of two Malaysians, one of whom was recently beheaded in Mindanao.
Tan Shri Khalid Abubakar, chief of the Malaysian federal police, said that Kuala Lumpur sought the extradition of the two militants identified as Kadaffy Muktadil alias Khadaffy Kamsa and Saddam Jailani who were recently arrested in the Philippines, so they could be tried before the Malaysian courts.
Abubakar said, "Police have informed the Philippine authorities that we want to have the two suspects extradited here. This was communicated verbally soon after we were informed of their arrest."
A senior Philippine official said his government would honor the Malaysian request.
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[ARABNEWS] Iran tested a new medium-range ballistic missile last month in a breach of two UN Security Council resolutions, two US officials said on Monday.
The officials, both speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the test was held on Nov. 21. One of them said the missile traveled within Iranian territory.
A Western diplomatic source said last week on condition of anonymity that the test was held near Chabahar, a port city near Iran's border with Pakistain. He said it was a liquid-fueled missile with a 1,900 km (1,180 mile) range and was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
All ballistic missile tests by Iran are banned under a 2010 Security Council resolution that remains valid until a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is implemented.
Under that deal, reached on July 14, most sanctions on Iran will be lifted in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. According to a July 20 resolution endorsing that deal, Iran is still "called upon" to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to eight years.
In October, the United States, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany called for the Security Council's Iran sanctions committee to take action over a missile test by Tehran that month that they said violated UN sanctions. So far, no action has been taken by the committee.
Several Security Council diplomats said on Monday they had received no official notification of a new alleged violation of the UN missile sanctions against Iran since the October notification. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity.
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proving Lt. Col Ralph Peters absolutely correct
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[PJ Media] A new email released today by Judicial Watch shows that the Department of Defense was ready to mobilize forces to Benghazi three and a half hours after the attack began.
An email was sent by then-Department of Defense Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash to State Department leadership that offered "forces that could move to Benghazi" during the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.
In an email sent to top Department of State officials, at 7:19 p.m. ET, only hours after the attack had begun, Bash says, "we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak." The Obama administration redacted the details of the military forces available, oddly citing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption that allows the withholding of "deliberative process" information.
Bash's email seems to directly contradict testimony given by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta before the Senate Armed Services Committee in February 2013. Defending the Obama administration's lack of military response to the nearly six-hour-long attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Panetta claimed that "time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response."
Panetta said the 130 gunships or fixed wing fighters -- which would have required refueling abilities, armaments, targeting and support facilities -- "were not in the vicinity of Benghazi."
"During NEOs (Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations), the US Ambassador is the senior authority for the evacuation and is ultimately responsible for the successful completion of the NEO and the safety of the evacuees. The Ambassador speaks with the authority of the President and serves as direct representative on site." LINK
In the absence of the chargé d'affaires, NEO and/or 'In-Extremis Force' decision making recommendations rest with the Country Team, Foggy Bottom, with POTUS as final decision maker. We were lied to at the time and we continue to be lied to about Benghazi.
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Not sending forces when they were available is as much as aiding and abetting the enemy. Lying about it is obstructing justice. About time that this seamy bunch responsible for the debacle be prosecuted (although that will never happen). Treason seems like a reasonable charge.
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As much as you dislike the man, Trump would be the only candidate running ads exploiting this against a Hillary campaign after the nomination. The rest are too PC, too get-along, too stupid to understand its war by other means.
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We may never know the entire truth about Benghazi. What we do know is, the truth has not yet been revealed.
Clinton has a number of these beltway insiders in her Philipp Reines 'Beacon Global Strategies' holding pen. It's a brotherhood, a fraternity. They seldom turn on one another.
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Recollect the rumors at the time regarding general officers being instantly relieved for pressing an intervention. Put Gen Carter Ham under oath. There was also an admiral involved, as I remember.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Dhaka Tribune] The lawyer for death-row convict war criminal 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Donald Trump's call to block all Muslims from entering the United States is not only unconstitutional but also impossible to carry out, legal experts said Tuesday.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The copy of the Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) of Tashfeen Malik, which surfaced in international publications and local social media, has been found to be authentic, according to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) verification service.
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[ARABNEWS] Iran tested a new medium-range ballistic missile last month in a breach of two UN Security Council resolutions, two US officials said on Monday.
