[HOSTED.AP.ORG] President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... 's advisers are finalizing a proposal that would expand background checks on gun sales without congressional approval.
White House adviser Valerie Jarrett ...reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... political hack, now senior advisor to President B.O.... says the president has asked his team to complete a proposal and submit it for his review "in short order." She says the recommendations will include measures to expand background checks.
Jarrett spoke Wednesday night at a vigil for the victims of the Newtown shooting, according to a summary provided by the White House.
After the mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, Obama said his team was looking for ways to tighten gun laws without a vote in Congress. White House officials have said they're exploring closing the so-called "gun show loophole" that allows people to buy weapons at gun shows and online without a background check.
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Most guns sold without background checks happen in the 'hood', not the gun shows.
We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately!
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perhaps ValJar would subject herself to a background check. You know Zero waived that for her with the Secret Service
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The article, and presumably Jarrett, mentioned the Roseburg and Oregon shootings. There is no mention of the frequent shootings in Chicago, or the Muslim-inspired shootings such as Chattanooga, Ft. Hood, Garland, TX, and more recently San Bernadino. There are others too. I'm sure it was just an oversight (sarc). No mention of the Muslim-inspired bombings and attempted bombings as well. Or the ax and knife attacks and the Moore, OK beheading. So GGF Val as well as whomever wrote this piece of dreck.
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Most gun show organizers prohibit or strongly discourage parking lot sales as the parking lot salesmen did not pay the vendor fee. The vendors and the organizers therefore loose money. A lot of states also prohibit parking lot sales at gun shows. There is no loophole.
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Since when do facts and reality get in the way of the people wanting to enslave us by taking away our firearms.
[Tolo News] President 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. .. appointed the deputy head of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), Massoud Andarabi, as acting chief of the spy agency following the surprise resignation of Rahmatullah Nabil on Thursday afternoon.
At an emergency meeting Thursday evening, which was attended by 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... among others, Ghani said Andarabi will take over.
In a statement issued by the Presidential Palace, Ghani said: "On the basis of consultations we agreed upon, Massoud Andarabi will take charge of the National Directorate of Security going forward."
Ghani did however pay homage to the authorities who serve in the NDS - for their efforts to provide security to the people, said the statement.
"The president, by accepting the resignation of Engineer Rahmatullah Nabil from the chairmanship of the National Directorate of Security, expressed his gratitude to him for maintaining security in the country," the statement read.
"The president announced the role of NDS at thwarting and detecting the security threats as important and expressed hope over more achievements by the NDS in the future," the statement added.
The meeting was also attended by deputies of the National Directorate Security (NDS).
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The ARG Presidential Palace confirmed President Ghani has accepted the resignation of National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) Chief Rahmatullah Nabil's resignation.
A statement by the Palace said "Mr. Nabil presented his resignation to the President of Afghanistan for approval today. Despite the President was not in favor of changes in this security department during the current situation, but he respected Mr. Nabil's demand and approved it."
President Ghani will call for a meeting this evening to appoint the acting chief from within the National Directorate of Security, the statement said.
Reports regarding the resignation of Nabil emerged this afternoon and followed an unusual statement posted on his official Facebook page late last night.
Nabil harshly criticized the Pak leadership's stance regarding the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and efforts to bring the Taliban group to negotiation table.
Nabil said the innocent Afghan civilians were martyred and beheaded in Kandahar airfield, Khanshin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Takhar and Badakhshan at the same Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... was delivering his speech, once calling the enemy of Afghanistan as Pakistain's enemy.
In an apparent gesture towards the Afghan leadership's approach towards Pakistain, Nabil said "At least 1,000 litres blood of our innocent people spilled which was similar to the red carpet where we did a cat walk. But the one who was present with us in the gathering and made an announcement from Quetta city of Pakistain under the name of Taliban, using the ISI computer to claim the glory. And we became so much apprehended and excited with 21 artillery gun salute that we agreed regarding the execution of 40 assaults/operations against the enemies of Pakistain and promised to soon launch a large operation against Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... in a bid to keep our 60-year-old friend glad."
Frustrated with the growing interference of Pakistain in internal affairs of Afghanistan and President Ghani's approach, Nabil questioned regarding the 5000-year-old history of Afghanistan saying it has kneeled to a 60-year-old history.
Nabil also added that the Pak Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been residing in Pakistain and ISI guesthouses during the past several months and years, insisting that Mullah Fazlullah is part of ISI projects.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt on Thursday ordered nine coppers to stand trial for the beating to death of a man in jug, prosecutors said, after authorities vowed a crackdown on police abuses.
The nine, including three lieutenants and a captain, were jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! last week as part of a probe into the death of the 47-year-old at a cop shoppe in the southern city of Luxor in November.
Their arrests came amid at least two investigations into deaths in police custody, and after President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi last week warned that coppers found guilty of "committing mistakes" would be punished.
"The prosecutor general ordered the nine coppers to face a criminal trial," an official at Luxor prosecutor's office told AFP.
He said the start date had yet to be fixed.
The coppers are accused of either participating in the beating, approving it or not preventing it, a judicial official said.
If found guilty, they face a prison term of up to 15 years.
The man had been arrested on November 26 at a cafe in Luxor and taken to the cop shoppe where he died an hour later.
A forensic report revealed that he had been beaten on his neck and back, the official MENA news agency reported last week.
Another police officer has been detained in a separate case of a veterinarian who died in police custody last month in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.
Rights groups regularly accuse Egyptian police and members of the secret police of abusing and torturing detainees.
Police abuses under former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... were a key factor for the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster.
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[FOXNEWS] This year's Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... , collected their award in Norway on Thursday, appealing for international cooperation to make the global fight against terrorism a top priority.
Speaking at the awards ceremony in Oslo City Hall, Tunisian labor union leader Houcine Abassi expressed the group's sorrow and anger at recent "terrorist acts" that killed and injured hundreds. This year, two major assaults on tourists in Tunisia killed 22 people at the Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis, and 38 at a resort near Sousse.
He said the quartet's "feeling of euphoria and pride does not obscure the grief, sorrow and anger" they feel about recent violent events, including "Sousse, the Bardo Museum, Beirut, Gay Paree, Sharm el-Sheikh and Bamako (with) scenes of barbaric and heinous terrorist acts."
Abassi said the world was "most in need to make the fight against terrorism an absolute priority, which means perseverance on the coordination and cooperation between all nations."
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Checkpoints appeared in Sabratha today allegedly manned by supporters of the so-called Islamic State (IS) although there are competing claims that those involved are members of Ansar al-Sharia.
The checkpoints and the presence of some 30 vehicles with black flags followed an incident last night in which two men were arrested in neighbouring Sorman. It is claimed that one of them is related to a member of IS in Sabratha.
“The police in Sorman were suspicious about two strangers renting a small house in the town and after storming it, they have found weapons in the place, including explosives,” Mohamed Al-Balili a local Sorman journalist told the Libya Herald. “One of the two is Tunisian and the other a Libyan who just returned back from Syria recently.”
The two were handed over by the Sorman police to the Security Directorate this morning. However, fearing a revenge attack from IS supporters, the Sorman police station was given added protection of sand wall around it this morning.
However, Sabratha’s mayor, Hussein Dawadi, has a somewhat different version of events. According to him, only one person was arrested who was suspected of being a member of IS. He had, moreover, been arrested in Sabratha, not Sorman. His family and friends then set up the checkpoints. As a result the mayor had met the man’s brother whom he said might be a member of IS, there had been negotiations and the man had been released.
Dawadi, himself an Islamist whose arrest at Tunis airport in October resulted in at least a hundred Tunisians being seized in Libya, admitted there might be some IS supporters in the town, but claimed they were not like those in Sirte and Derna. They were Libyan and peaceful, he said. There were, however, no foreigner fighters at all in Sabratha, he insisted, and none would be allowed.
A third version of the events has the two arrested men being members of Ansar Al-Sharia rather than IS, and their arrest in Sorman the result of rivalry between the militia in there and Islamists in Sabratha.
Meanwhile, residents in Sabratha say tensions rose this afternoon between an IS group in the town and its security directorate, itself headed headed by Islamist Taher Al-Ghrabli, after IS fighters fired shots against a woman’s perfume shop owned by Al-Ghrabli’s brother. The IS fighters were in a a small military convoy protesting over the arrest of the two men in Sorman.
To try and resolve the situation, Sabratha municipal council and its military council plus representatives from some “revolutionary militias” held an urgent meeting this afternoon. Among measures agreed was a register of foreigners in the town and a ban on any large-scale gatherings.
Allegations that IS has a presence in Sabratha in the form of at last one training camp have been rife for some months. The municipal authorities and other local official have consistently denied this, at least until now.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Gulf Arab leaders condemned "hostile, racist" remarks against Muslims and Syrian refugees in a statement issued on Thursday, days after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States.
"The supreme council expressed its deep concern at the increase of hostile, racist and inhumane rhetoric against refugees in general and Muslims in particular," the Gulf Cooperation Council said, referring to a GCC heads of state meeting in Riyadh.
Gulf Arab states also called for an international reconstruction conference for 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... after any peace deal to end the country's civil war.
The call came in a statement by Gulf Cooperation Council leaders at the conclusion of their summit meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which was read out by GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.
"The council (GCC) members called for an international conference for Yemen reconstruction after the parties reach the aspired political solution," Zayani said in the statement broadcast on Saudi state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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He said such a programme would be done in accordance with a "practical programme to rehabilitate the Yemeni economy and to ease its merger into the Gulf economies".
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Read an interesting bit on Instapundit suggesting American opinions on Islam may be linked to how many American military folks have first hand experience with their culture. Something that wasn't so true in the days when they were all Noble Arabs helping Peter O'Toule defeat the Turk.
[Dhaka Tribune] The BNP has decided to let grassroots leaders of the BNP-Jamaat alliance sort out how they would share mayoral seats among themselves for the December 30 municipal polls.
If they fail to decide themselves, BNP sources said that party Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... -- as a backup -- has a list prepared with names of finalised candidates.
The decisions were made at a BNP Standing Committee meeting at Khaleda's Gulshan office last night.
Taking to news hounds following the meeting, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the government has been pressuring BNP candidates to withdraw from the municipality polls race. Leaders and activists of the BNP-led alliance were also being tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! indiscriminately, Fakhrul alleged.
The BNP will create divisional committees which will work alongside a central monitoring committee to observe the election, Fakhrul said.
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[FOXNEWS] The father of one of the three bully boyz who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Gay Paree last month says he would have killed his son had he found out what he was going to do.
The Le Gay Pareeien newspaper identified the third attacker Wednesday as 23-year-old Foued Mohammed-Aggad, a native of the eastern French city of Strasbourg. It emerged that his mother received a text message in English about 10 days ago announcing her son's death "as a martyr" on Nov. 13 -- a typical way that ISIS notifies families of casualties.
"What kind of human being could do what he did?" the man's father, Said, told the newspaper. "If I had known he would do something like this, I would have killed him."
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Mohammed-Aggad and a group of about a dozen young men left Strasbourg for Syria in late 2013. Some chose to return -- including Mohammed-Aggad's brother Karim -- telling Sherlocks they were disgusted by what they had seen. The Frenchie believed to have recruited them, Mourad Fares, is also under arrest. All are charged with terror-related offenses and face trial.
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"If I had known he would do something like this
Too busy watching Futball, Dad?
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to "fight to protect the rights" of Muslims on Facebook following a week of 'hate'.
The remarks by Zuckerberg followed by sustained attacks from the US Presidential runner Donald Trump who called for a total ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
Through a short message on his page on Wednesday to support the Muslim community, Zuckerberg said "I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world."
He said it is important to support Muslims in the face of rising Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... because "attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone".
Zuckerberg further added "After the Gay Paree attacks and hate this week, I can only imagine the fear Muslims feel that they will be persecuted for the actions of others. As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. Even if an attack isn't against you today, in time attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone."
"If you're a Muslim in this community, as the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here and that we will fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you. Having a child has given us so much hope, but the hate of some can make it easy to succumb to cynicism. We must not lose hope. As long as we stand together and see the good in each other, we can build a better world for all people," the Facebook founder said.
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"I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world."
Unqualified support for "Muslims around the world" is support for brutal, murderous intolerance and totalitarian theocracy.
"stand up against attacks on all communities."
The Nazis, Soviet Communists, Khmer Rouge, People's Temple, Aum Shinrikyo, Heaven's Gate, etc all are or were 'communities.'
The world would be a better place and many, many lives would have been saved if these 'communities' had been attacked and stopped before they could claim human lives.
Zuckerberg is promoting morally indifferent rubbish.
Where were these words every time some Muslims mass murdered a bunch of people in my Christian community?
You were silent. I therefore conclude that you were OK with attacks on MY community, and that you had no fear that attacks on the Christian community will result in attacks on your community.
Why is that, I wonder?
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Mark Zuckerberg = #Christianlivesdontmatter
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How about protecting the rights of normal Human Beings?
Ohh, that would mean rejecting Moslem supremacy. Cant have that MR facewreck, can we?
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One thing I like about Facebook, its interface allows me to post Farsi characters for "Death to America" as a sarcastic response to mush like the source article. Very few get it, most don't even examine it using Google Translate.
[WASHINGTONPOST] After slipping away alone from his tiny base in Afghanistan under cover of darkness in 2009, Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl had a sinking thought: His plan to draw attention to himself by spawning a massive manhunt was going to lead to a "hurricane of wrath" from his commanders.
Bergdahl decided then to deviate from his plan to head straight from his platoon's base, Observation Post Mest, to the larger headquarters 20 miles away, Forward Operating Base Sharana, he said on an episode of the podcast "Serial" published Thursday. It marked his first media interview since he was released in May 2014 after being held in captivity for five years by a group affiliated with the Taliban.
Bergdahl, comparing himself to a fictional action hero, said he decided to collect intelligence and look for the Taliban before turning himself in as a way of limiting the amount of trouble he faced.
"Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don't know, Jason Bourne.... I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing," Bergdahl said. "You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that, but I wanted to prove that I was that."
The plan fell apart quickly, however. He got lost in some hills and was taken prisoner by bad boy on cycle of violences who found him in open desert, he said. Military officials have said previously that he was captured June 30, 2009, just hours after disappearing.
"I don't know what it was, but there I was in the open desert, and I'm not about to outrun a bunch of cycle of violences, so I couldn't do anything against, you know, six or seven guys with AK-47s," Bergdahl said. "And they pulled up and just.... That was it."
Bergdahl's comments aired in the first episode of a new season of "Serial," the hugely popular weekly podcast spun off from the public radio show "This American Life." The show's host and creator, Sarah Koenig, said in the episode (available here) that the new season of "Serial" will draw heavily from 25 hours of recorded phone calls between Bergdahl and Mark Boal, a filmmaker who began interviewing the soldier after he was released. His previous film credits include "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
The focus of "Serial" on the case promises to draw even more attention to Bergdahl, a controversial figure who faces military charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. It also will offer even more fodder in a case that already was heavily politicized, with many Republicans angry that the B.O. regime opted to recover the soldier in a swap in which five Taliban officials were released last year from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They remain under supervised release 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... .
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After the capture it was "Lawrence & the six Turks"?
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So he was going to the go to another base to report 'leadership problems' and cause a massive manhunt but decidled to single handily defeat the Taliban along the way. He just got lost along the way, not his fault.
Not delusional - he's Lying.
And since he purposely caused the manhunt he should be held responsible for the deaths that were a result
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In courts martial he has the option to issue a statement on his own behalf and not testify, which would make him subject to cross examination (not just from the prosecutor but also members of the board).
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I noted with some interest the tricksy lawyer technique of having MG Dahl testify about this ridiculous story so there could be no cross exam and Bergdahl never took the stand at the Article 32 hearing. I also just read that Dahl is now LTG Dahl. What a coincidence!
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... on Thursday said that he would seek compensation for victims of a controversial US drone strike programme, vowing to take their cases to the parliament and the courts.
Imran, whose party opposes US drone attacks, was speaking at the launch of a report demanding compensation for drone victims, organised by the independent foundation for fundamental rights and international legal aid charity Reprieve.
He was speaking at the closing plenary of 8th Sustainable Development Conference, which concluded under the auspices of Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Thursday.
Drone attacks are meant to target Death Eaters but are controversial among rights groups because of the high reported numbers of civilian casualties and lack of transparency over targets.
Islamabad officially opposes US strikes in its territory, calling them a violation of its illusory sovereignty, though leaked documents in the past have shown the two countries worked together on the campaign.
"PTI will raise this issue in parliament and also go to court to get compensation for the drone victims," Imran said.
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SAHIWAL: Nineteen losing candidates of the second phase of local elections and their 300 supporters on Wednesday dared police to arrest them after marching on the city police station to protest registration of a case.
Having lost elections for the slots of chairman, vice chairman and councillor, they had arranged a gathering at Jogi Chowk on Sunday last to protest what they said rigging. Police registered a case against 22 losing candidates of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the Jamaat-i-Islami and some independents and their supporters under 16 MPO.
As the protesters besieged the police station, officials arrested the 19 candidates and detained them in lock-up. They refused to arrest 300 supporters on the plea that such an arrest could be made only after identification through videos.
City police station SHO Masood Ahmed is the complainant in the FIR and interestingly he was not present at the time of arrests.
These candidates blamed the PML-N district leadership, Punjab Minster for Ushr and Zakat Malik Nadeem Kamran, MPA Malik Arshad and MNA Pir Imran Shah for political victimisation through police action.
Sheikh Ijaz, president of Tahaffuz-i-Sahiwal Forum, told the media that “we have been politically victimised for questioning rigging in urban union councils of Sahiwal city.”
DSP Ziaul Haq, along with a heavy contingent of police and Elite Force, remained alert at the police station and had to resort to baton-charge of the crowd to disperse it. Police registered case against nine of the protesters and the DSP said more cases would be instituted if they refused to disperse.
It merits mention that the returning officer of Union Council 6 has already written to the DRO that two bags of rejected votes had been misplaced at polling stations 64 and 69. Shafqat and Sheikh Ijaz contested election in the UC as independent candidates and they both challenged incomplete consolidation of final results by RO Khalid Khan on Nov 23.
The Lahore High Court’s Multan Bench has already asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to stop the gazette notification of UC 6 chairman result which was won by Haji Latif of the PML-N with one vote.
Sarmad Shafqat alleged that the RO consolidated results without counting 85 votes misplaced in two polling stations.
Meanwhile, the opposition parties condemned police action and the Bar Council and different wings of the Anjuman-i-Tajran announced protest.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said it was “out of the question for the moment” that Turkish troops would withdraw from Iraq, after Baghdad accused Ankara of sending them in without permission.
The row has badly soured relations and saw the Turkish ambassador to Iraq summoned on Saturday to demand that Turkey immediately withdraw hundreds of troops deployed in recent days in northern Iraq, near the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul.
Iraq’s foreign ministry said Turkish forces had entered Iraqi territory without the knowledge of Baghdad, which viewed their presence as a “hostile act”.
Speaking at a news conference, Erdogan said the troops were there to train Kurdish peshmerga fighters and not for combat purposes. He reiterated an earlier statement that they had been deployed following an invitation by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi last year.
“The number of our soldiers (in northern Iraq) might increase or decrease depending on the number of peshmerga being trained,” Erdogan stated.
“Withdrawing our soldiers is out of the question for the moment.”
[Daily Caller] The Food and Drug Administration has approved an incredibly innovative syringe that can seal a deadly gunshot wound in seconds for civilian use.
The military has already benefited greatly from the use of the syringe, called XStat, which works to stop bleeding in situations where tourniquets don't, reported Tech Insider.
The device works by injecting about 92 tiny sponges into the target area that immediately expand and quickly stops the bleeding. The sponges are made from wood pulp, ensuing they don't dissolve inside the body, and are coated in antimicrobial material. If they get stuck inside, X-rays can easily identify them.
This lifesaving invention, manufactured by a company in Oregon called RevMedx, was quickly approved for use by the military in 2014. Bleeding or hemorrhaging is the single most prominent cause of death among troops in the battlefield.
[Dhaka Tribune] Thailand's former chief police investigator into human trafficking said on Thursday he is seeking political asylum in Australia, saying he fears for his life if he go home.
Former Major General Paween Pongsirin arrived in Melbourne a few days ago on a tourist visa and said he planned to seek political refuge, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"There must be some place, some safe place for me," he said in an interview with the broadcaster. "I came here because Australia is a safe place."
Paween quit the police in November saying an order to transfer him to Thailand's south would expose him to Dire Revenge by members of trafficking syndicates still on the lam.
National police chief Jakthip Chaijinda said at the time Paween could have asked for protection but chose to resign instead.
"We issued 153 warrants across all areas and that included government officials ... I had to do just my duty, not to think of danger or trouble, but now I realise how dangerous it was," Paween said.
Thailand has indicted 88 people suspected of involvement in human trafficking since launching a nationwide investigation into gangs following the discovery in May of 30 bodies in graves buried near the Thailand-Malaysian border, which prompted an international outcry.
They were the sites of trafficking camps where victims -- mainly from Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority and Bangladeshi economic migrants -- were held in appalling conditions, many awaiting ransom payments from relatives for their release.
The kingdom's pivotal role in the trade emerged in May as people-smugglers abandoned thousands of migrants at sea or in jungle camps after a Thai crackdown.
Thai officials are accused of orchestrating smuggling routes through the south of their country to neighbouring Malaysia, raking in huge sums of money over several years.
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seeking political asylum in Australia, saying he fears for his life if he go home
Somewhere, sometime, somebody must standup and be badder than the banditos or we are lost.
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[IsraelTimes] 25-year-old Muslim man crossed Turkish border to join ranks of jihadist group, Arab intelligence sources say
Muslim Israeli citizen who formerly served in the IDF has joined the ranks of 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.... in Syria, Arab intelligence sources told The Times of Israel on Thursday.
Identified only by the initials H.B., the man is 25 years old and a resident of a village in northern Israel, the sources said. He traveled from Israel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and then crossed the border into Syria.
According to his military identification card, which was seen by a Times of Israel news hound, he was slated to complete his military service in January 2014 and brought his IDF dog tags with him to Syria.
Darwin always wins, but sometimes idiots feel the need to assist.
It wasn't immediately clear when the man traveled to Syria, where he crossed the border, or his current whereabouts.
I'm betting Syria...
Last month, Israel security services tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! five men from the northern city of Jaljuliya, charging them with attempting to join IS in Syria. A relative of one of the men made headlines in October when he flew a paraglider into southern Syria from the Golan heights to join jihadis fighting there.
Arab intelligence sources told The Times of Israel that between 100 and 150 Israeli Arabs are either serving in or detained by the Islamic State, but this is the first case involving an IDF veteran.
In March, East Jerusalemite Muhammad Musallam, who had gone to Syria join IS, was executed after the group claimed he was a Mossad agent. A video of the execution released by the jihadi group showed Musallam shot repeatedly by a teenage boy, after which a second jihadi vowed that IS would "liberate Jerusalem from you filth, by Allah's permission."
Any bets on how soon our latest fashion victim Israeli soldier of Islam will find himself in exactly the same position?
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He's Jewish by citizenship but not by religion. When I first saw this, I thought this guy isn't too bright if he's Jewish by religion and joined ISIS--in fact, I thought it unlikely. I still think he's not too bright.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A joint team of Syria's political and armed opposition will meet the government next month for talks seeking a political solution to nearly five years of conflict, the chairman of a Saudi-hosted opposition conference said on Friday.
More than 100 members of Syria's opposition parties and rebel fighting groups agreed at the end of two days of talks in Riyadh to work together to prepare for peace talks with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's government.
But the final hours of the meeting, which excluded 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.... and Nusra Front fighters as well as the main Kurdish force controlling large parts of northern Syria, were overshadowed by protest from the powerful Death Eater group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... .
In a statement, it said it had withdrawn from the Riyadh meeting, objecting to what it said was a prominent role given to the mainly Damascus-based political opposition group, the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, which it said was closer to Assad than to the opposition.
It also said rebel fighters had been under-represented at the talks and their voices largely ignored. However a copy of the final statement, seen by Rooters, had been signed by the Ahrar al-Sham delegate.
Nevertheless, its withdrawal - however brief - highlighted enduring rifts among Assad's enemies which have bedevilled Western and Gulf Arab efforts to rally enough political and military pressure on the president to force him to step down.
Abdulaziz al-Sager, a Saudi academic who chaired the Riyadh talks, said the opposition would meet government officials in the first 10 days of January, the first such talks in two years
aimed at ending a bloody civil war which has drawn in forces from the United States, Russia, Europe and the Arab world.
"There will be a meeting decided by (United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... envoy Staffan) de Mistura in January. A meeting between the opposition and the Syrian regime to go to a transitional period," he said, in comments translated at a news conference.
"This will take place in the first 10 days of January."
A statement at the end of the two-day conference said Assad should leave power at the start of a transitional period, and called for an all-inclusive, democratic civic state. It also committed to preserving state institutions.
The opposition was willing to enter talks with Syrian government representatives and to accept a U.N.-supervised ceasefire, the statement said.
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Superb and eye-opening Powerpoint presentation at Scribd. I just spent an hour going through it -- it's long. Worth every minute. Go through this and you'll know more about ISIS than 97% of your fellow citizens.
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Two courts have made separate rulings to prevent a far-right group from holding a rally in Sydney to mark 10 years since the Cronulla riots.
The New South Wales Supreme Court has banned Party for Freedom chairman Nicholas Folkes from holding the "memorial" event at Cronulla on Saturday on the grounds it would stir up racial hatred.
Separately, the Federal Court has ruled in favour of an application to prevent any other groups or individuals from commemorating the anniversary.
This weekend marks a decade since the racially-motivated violence that erupted in the Sydney suburb in 2005.
In the Supreme Court today, the judge ruled the holding of the public assembly was prohibited.
Sydney GP and Muslim community leader Jamal Rifi and the Sutherland Shire Council together applied for the Federal Court ruling. Dr Rifi said the group's right to freedom of speech "should not impinge on our rights as citizens".
"They have every right to express their view but their right is not absolute," he said. "We also have a right as a citizen of this country not to be insulted, not to be humiliated and not to be intimidated." Australia has NO constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. We are becoming less free by the day. Hizb ut=Tahrir is able to hold rallies celebrating the murder of charlie hebdo cartoonists but these people cannot have their hate rally. I do not approve of either group -- but freedom of speech is important especially for views you do not like. And selectively applying it will only result in a terrible society
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