[Tolo News] Rifts among the Taliban after the death of their former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar will not end in the near future, say analysts and sources close to the group, adding that the roots of the differences among the Taliban's divided groups are well entrenched and will remain so for a long time.
It is believed that cracks among the Taliban leadership ranks were apparent in the past but only came to light after the news broke of Mullah Omar's death.
Zabul, Herat and Farah have so far been witness to heavy clashes between the two factions – those who support Mullah Omar's successor Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour and those who support the breakaway faction's leader Mullah Mohammad Rassoul Noorzai.
The recent clashes have resulted in numerous deaths among Taliban fighters.
"You heard recently that the Taliban factions fought in Batikot district [in Nangarhar province]. They [Taliban's divided factions] often fight each other and sometimes Daesh fighters interfere in their infighting," said Ghalib Mujahid, Achin district chief.
Security sources and analysts believe that the infighting among the Taliban factions will occur mostly in southern and western parts of Afghanistan.
"Mullah Mohammad Rassoul has more influence in Herat and his supporters are from Herat, Farah, Nimroz and some of them are from Helmand province. Therefore he will have influence mostly in southern and south-western parts," said Mullah Abdul Bari Fayaz, the head of the High Peace Council Committee in Helmand.
"On the other hand, Mullah Mohammad Mansour has more influence in Helmand because of tribal and regional issues, and his supporters are mostly from Helmand. It is expected that he will have more power in Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces," he added.
However, it is believed that the rifts among the Taliban will extend beyond the borders and it is said that most Taliban fighters live on the other side of the border. One example of this is of recent reports that emerged stating Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was wounded during clashes recently – across the border.
In addition, Mullah Manan Niazi, a spokesman for one Taliban faction linked to Mullah Rassoul, said recently that Mullah Mansour had been responsible for keeping Mullah Omar's death a secret and said Mullah Omar was killed on the day of the opening of the insurgent group's Qatar office. However, this claim has been rejected by Mullah Mansour.
Analysts meanwhile believe that the rifts will deep if the region's spy agencies interfere in their operations.
"If Mullah Mohammad Rassoul is supported by the region's spy agency(ies) the conflicts (among Taliban) will increase gradually," said Nazar Mohammad Motmaen, analyst in political affairs.
This comes at a time when peace talks are once again on the cards after President Ashraf Ghani announced this week that negotiations will restart in the near future.
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LOCAL ISOLATIONISM, versus [ISIS-led? allied?]"GREAT POWER" INTERNATIONALISM.
[Tolo News] The Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG) on Tuesday called on the Afghan government to prepare the ground for the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) to work in Afghanistan.
Members of the group said at an event that the International Criminal Court has mentioned in one of its reports that at least 112 complaints have been lodged with them from Afghanistan since 2003. Most of the complaints are about crimes against humanity and war crimes.
According to the group, the complaints have lodged with the court by human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... organizations in Afghanistan.
One member of TJCG Wadud Pedram said: "Kangaroo courts and targeting civilians are examples of the crimes that have happened in Afghanistan."
"We hope that the Afghan government provides the needed facilities as soon as possible and enables the ICC to operate in Afghanistan," he said.
Going into details about the complaints lodged in the court, Pedram said: "The incidents that have happened after 2003 will be included in Rome's articles of association. They should come and follow the cases in order to send them to the court and address the requests of the people and the victims."
The presence of alleged war criminals within government has been criticized several times but the TJCG says the existence of such figures in the Afghan government can hamper the lodging of complaints.
"The National Unity Government should learn from the experiences of the previous government [under former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... ], and it should bear in mind that peace cannot be established, violations cannot be stopped and people's trust cannot be gained if the legal requests of victims are ignored or if there was compromise and if the law was violated," said Rahim Jami another member of the group.
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[Tolo News] The United Nation's Human Development Office has ranked Afghanistan as 171, out of 188 countries, in the human development index.
The report has measured countries' development based on gender inequality, maternal mortality ratio, adolescent birth rate, share of seats in parliament, population with at least some secondary education and the labor force participation rate.
In this report, Côte d'Ivoire, Malawi and Æthiopia are after Afghanistan while Norway, Australia and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... are the first, second and third place respectively.
This comes after the input of billions of US dollars into Afghanistan over the past 14 years but Afghanistan is still among the least developed countries.
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Iff a poten post-Jan 2017 POTUS TRUMP = 21st equivalent of POTUS Teddy Roosevelt, Afghanistan = The Donuuld's "Panama Canal" + Other.
THE US WILL DEV + MODERNIZE AFGHANISTAN BECAUSE THE US [+ Only-the-US] CAN.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The loyalists 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are attempting to establish a regional base in Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the commander of the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, said foreign murderous Moslems from Syria and Iraq had joined the loyalists of the terror group in eastern Nangarhar province.
Gen. Campbell further added that the loyalists of the terror group in Afghanistan are also trying to consolidate links with the leadership of the terror group based in Syria and Iraq.
He did not comment regarding the exact number of the imported muscle who have joined the loyalists of ISIS terror group in Afghanistan.
But his remarks comes as a report was reportedly released by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... late in the month of September this year, stating the terror group is making inroads in Afghanistan with the number of sympathizers and followers growing across the country.
The report further added that the group is recruiting followers in at least 25 provinces of Afghanistan with 10 percent of the sympathizers belonging to the Taliban group.
"The number of groups and individuals who are openly declaring either loyalty to or sympathy with ISIL continues to grow in a number of provinces in Afghanistan," the report said.
The report also added that around 70 murderous Moslems of the terror group are busy in forming the core of the group's branch in Afghanistan which was initially formed by Abdul Rauf Khadem after visiting Iraq in 2014.
Khadem was the former Taliban adviser to Mullah Mohammad Omar and reportedly formed his own group in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and western Farah provinces.
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The Joint Military Operations of the Libyan National Army (LNA) in Ajdabiya has said that it is going to launch fresh military operations in the town’s suburbs against the so-called Islamic State (IS) and other jihadist groups. However, the town’s mayor, Salem Jadhran, has sent a message to the LNA opposing the move, saying that local army forces to were able to deal with the matter.
In leaflets distributed in the town yesterday, the LNA called on locals to secure the town centre but also warned that any buildings thought to be used by militants as weapons stores or for any other purpose would be targeted in air strikes. In the leaflets, the LNA stressed it did not see Ajdabiya itself as an enemy nor was it intent on targeting any family or tribe. The raids, it stated, would be focused purely against those terrorists who had murdered army officers and soldiers as well as other individuals recently and who wanted Ajdabiya to follow Sirte and fall under the control of IS.
The LNA added it would not carry out revenge attacks against the families of suspected militants such as setting their homes on fire or forcing them to flee the town.
However, there was a warning to fighters with the Libya Shield forces in Ajdabiya, which are linked to the pro-Islamist Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shoura Council: they could support the LNA in the war against terrorism and be accepted as heroes or they could stand with the militants and be destroyed.
Responding to the threat, Mayor Jadhran said while terrorism and IS posed a threat to the town, the army had to keep out of the fight. Any attempt to turn Ajdabiya into a battlefield would be a violation of international law, he suggested. “We are able to eradicate terrorism and bring the perpetrators to justice,” he claimed. He suggested that the local units of the border control forces would do the job.
There was no mention of the Petroleum Facilities Guard, led by his brother Ibrahim Jadhran who has a bitter relationship with the LNA and its leader General Khalifa Hafter.
The town has seen a growing wave of killings in the town over the past year which no force has managed to prevent or bring the perpetrators to justice. In response to them, the LNA had already launched air strikes in November and earlier this month – similarly to little effect.
[ARABNEWS] Justice Minister Waleed Al-Samaani has welcomed the newly formed 34-nation anti-terrorism alliance and said it demonstrated the determination of Muslim countries to unite and fight terror in all its forms.
Speaking to the press, the minister said these terrorist groups have been allowed to grow and flourish because of support they received from various countries directly or indirectly.
These groups were targeting several Muslim countries, including 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... , and by doing so were tarnishing Islam, which teaches that believers should behave moderately and respect their neighbors, he said.
Islam's leading seat of learning, Al-Azhar, urged all Muslim countries to join the coalition to fight "terrorism" in the Islamic world.
The Cairo-based institution hailed the formation of the alliance as "historic", and said it hoped it would defeat the "evils of terrorism".
"This was an urgent demand of the people of Islamic countries who have suffered more than others from this black terrorism," Al-Ahzar said in a statement.
"Al-Azhar calls on all Islamic countries to join this coalition to counter terrorism... that has committed horrible crimes indiscriminately."
In Cairo, Egypt's Foreign Ministry front man, Ahmed Abu Zaid, said that his country has supported the alliance because it has been formed by Arab and Muslim countries and is aimed at fighting terrorist groups.
In Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said the unified stance taken by Muslim countries represents the strongest response to those who want to link terrorism with Islam, and that the country would provide whatever assistance is needed for the fight.
Military analyst, Ibrahim Al-Marai, told a local newspaper here that many countries have decided to join the alliance because of the success of the coalition forces in Yemen.
He said it was clear the alliance would operate on military and other fronts, be wary of violating the illusory sovereignty of other countries, or be seen as an aggressor. The aim was to achieve global security and stability in partnership with others, he said.
Daesh [Islamic State], which has launched attacks on several Western targets in recent months, has issued warnings to Gulf states and have mounted a series of attacks on mosques and security forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, a report in an online publication said Tuesday.
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Yemen's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah on Tuesday called on Shiite Houthi rebels to lay down their weapons, as a ceasefire in his war-wracked country came into force.
"We need to restore the country," Bahah said in the Qatari capital Doha.
"We need the Houthis to surrender their weapons and arms and leave the government institutions to restore legitimacy."
Bahah was delivering a speech at Qatar University coinciding with the start of a seven-day ceasefire as UN-brokered peace talks opened in Switzerland.
In October, Bahah escaped unharmed after a deadly rocket attack on a hotel in Yemen's main southern city of Aden.
Qatar forms part of a Saudi-led coalition which launched an air campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in March.
Saudi Arabia has formed a military coalition of 34 Islamic countries to combat terrorism, the Saudi government announced on early Tuesday morning.
The Saudi government said the multi-national coalition includes Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, and Jordan, but other details were not immediately disclosed. Saudi Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud said the alliance will not just confront the Islamic State (ISIS) group, but "any terrorist group in front of us."
The coalition will operate a joint operations center in the Saudi capital of Riyadh and coordinate with other international bodies to combat terrorism, a statement said. It emphasized human dignity and the rights to life and security, and said the coalition is committed to eliminate terrorism through the use of international legal instruments.
The full list of countries as announced is as follows: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, Palestine, Comoros, Qatar, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, the Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Yemen.
The Saudi government added that more than a dozen other Islamic countries have expressed support for the military alliance, including Indonesia. Saudi Arabia can fight terrorism by opening its own borders to multiculturalism and by turning off the oil money to export Islamist fascism... is that what they are doing? NO they are building a coalition of states in various stages of Islamist fascism, members of the OIC to fight us. And pretend they are fighting terrorism so Russia doesnt bomb them
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I repay those that worship false gods with utter destruction. The damage of this thing, and the time it cost me every hour is unacceptable.
The fucking saudis are on my shit list every time some wahabbist or salifi picks up a weapon and destroys people.
My dreams are deafening with the screams of those under torture from their offspring.
Islam is offensive in every way to me. It is an affront to the Lord who will give it no quarter neither here, nor the hereafter.
It is too late for the magik kingdome to solve this. The roots of SIN lies squarely with the land that converted a child rapist into a prophet.
GOD is at end with it, and I think these "princes" know they have sins of the Fathers and Grandfathers on their hands.
We do not put up with death cults for long. and with piece of shit languages like arabic, 16 different dialects and limited communication, illiteracy, broken government for like forever -qualifies them the piece of shit bad roots that created a tree that has no accountability.
This reads more like the beginning of a military alliance against the Mullahs, than anything else, with the exception of Lebanon.
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with the exception of Lebanon.
Hizb'allah is not happy that the government -- still lacking a president, mind you -- went ahead and made that committment without consulting them. On the other hand, they're going to be quite busy at home and in the near abroad for some time to come. On the other hand, "Palestine" is also listed. I can't imagine that means Hamas as well as the PA, even if Hamas could get many men out through the tunnels, nor can I imagine the PA can spare any when Hamas plots against the opportunity to steal the West Bank as well as Gaza from the heirs of Arafat.
In the end I imagine this will be useful for mustache-cursing in loud harmony, but nothing more effective.
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KSA rival Shia IRAN, + IRAN VASSAL STATE IRAQ, + independents INDONESIA + MALAYSIA are NOT on the list, while We're-supposed-to-the-World's First-Muslim-Superpower-NOT-Iran = Iran BFF + strategic partner PAKISTAN is proclaiming "que surprise"! at being on the KSA's list.
* See DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Dawn.PK] PAKISTAN SURPISED BY INCLUSION IN SAUDI [Anti-Terror]] MILITARY ALLIANCE.
* RELATED SAME = ...
> MALAYSIA NOT INCLUDED IN ANTI-TERRORISM MILITARY COALITION, SAYS DEFENCE MINISTER - THE RAKYAT POST.
> [Alleged] "MEMBERS" [Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia] SURPRISED BY SAUDI ANTI-TERROR COALITION.
VERSUS
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Hindustan Times] INDIA READY FOR OPERATIONS AGZ ISIS [only?] IFF UN ADOPTS RESOLUTION.
India ready to send its MilFors + SPECOPS agz the ISIS/ISIL only under TOTAL UNO AUSPICES, I.E. UN-CONTROLLED OR UN-DEFINED MISSION AS UNDER A UN-ONLY FLAG AS UNDER A UN-APPROVED RESOLUTION.
The Swedish government's foreign policy made headlines again on Monday, after Foreign Minister Margot WallstrĂśm took a stance against an EU court's annulment of a trade agreement with Morocco, over the latter's occupation and annexation of mineral-rich Western Sahara.
It appears that within the EU, Sweden stands alone against the annulment, which would seek to prevent exports from the territory being sold in the EU, as has been occurring under the agreement since it was signed in 2012.
Swedish domestic opposition parties have heavily criticized the government for its stance, reminiscent to the growing unease inside the country at the government's strong support for the labeling of Israeli settlement products, which has been likened to tacit encouragement of a boycott.
The government's position on the Morocco trade agreement appears to radically depart from its line on West Bank labeling. In the case of Israel, WallstrĂśm has regularly been seen as a major driving force inside the EU for harsher measures against the Jewish state.
[ARABNEWS] Marine Le Pen, the leader of La Belle France's far-right National Front (FN), was acquitted Tuesday of inciting hatred after likening Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation.
Magistrates in the southeast city of Lyon found the 47-year-old not guilty of "inciting discrimination, violence or hatred toward a group of people based on their religious beliefs" over her comments on the campaign trail in December 2010.
Le Pen, who was not in court, faced one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros ($49,000) if convicted.
The ruling came after the FN scored a record number of votes in regional elections on Sunday.
Although the anti-immigration party did not win control of any regions, its strong showing in the first round of voting panicked mainstream parties, forcing them to band together to strip votes from the FN in the second round.
The party recorded its best-ever electoral score with 6.8 million votes, prompting Le Pen to crow: "Nothing can stop us now."
Le Pen had accused the government of being behind the five-year-old charges that saw her brought to trial just weeks before the regional poll. She took over the party from her rabble-rousing father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011 and has worked hard to improve its image, but it remains staunchly nationalistic, and Marine Le Pen has said migration into Europe recalls the "barbarian invasions" of the fourth century.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] The State Department today said that "obviously things went wrong" in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters -- comments that came in the wake of an ABC News report that said officials by policy generally do not check social media postings of applicants due to civil liberties concerns and therefore would not have seen purported evidence of Tashfeen Malik's radicalization online.
"It's difficult to say exactly what [went wrong] and how, but for an individual to be able to come into this country -- one who the FBI has maintained had terrorist tendencies or affiliations or sympathies at least for a couple years, and then to propagate an attack like that on our own soil, obviously, I think it's safe to say there's going to be lessons learned here," State Department spokesperson John Kirby told news hounds.
Fearing a civil liberties backlash and "bad public relations" for the B.O. regime, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.
"During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process," John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.
One current and one former senior counter-terrorism official confirmed Cohen's account about the refusal of DHS to change its policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.
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Sometimes the things this administration does makes blood run out of my ears...
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How long before wrongful death lawsuit against Jeh? Seriously, impeach this fool for the stupidity that contributed to the deaths in San Bernardino. fourteen people are dead because this a$$hole worried about "optics"?
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif said on Tuesday the army will consolidate operation Zarb-e-Azb gains.
He said that those killed and injured in the Army Public School (APS) attack have rendered great sacrifices for the country, which will be remembered forever. Speaking at the Corps Commanders Conference at the General Head Quarters (GHQ), the army chief said security forces will continue to consolidate their gains to make them sustainable, which he said will be a befitting tribute to all those killed and wounded in the APS attack. The participants of the meeting comprehensively reviewed the internal and external security situation of the country along with discussing matters pertaining to professional interest. The review also focused on the most effective manner of implementing the National Action Plan (NAP) – which was drafted in the wake of the Peshawar school attack to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism – in order to eliminate terrorism, extremism and sectarianism without any discrimination. The military elite expressed satisfaction over the progress achieved in the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb operation in North Waziristan and said the operation would continue till the complete elimination of terrorism from the country. The forum was given comprehensive briefings on internal and external security situation of the country. Participants also took holistic view of the emerging geostrategic environment and its relevance to security of Pakistan. While recounting successes of operation Zarb-e-Azb, the participants of the conference also expressed their solidarity with the bereaved families and paid tributes to the sacrifices of APS Peshawar martyrs who laid down their lives in a terrorist attack on 16 December, 2014. Remembering all the martyrs and those wounded in terrorism for their great sacrifices for the motherland, COAS said, “We will continue to pursue efforts to consolidate our gains to make them sustainable.”
The meeting was held at army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi and attended by all Corps Commanders and principal staff officers. It was held on the eve of the first anniversary of the Peshawar school attack. Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday signed the death warrants of four “hardcore terrorists” nearly one week after four men were hanged through a military court order for involvement in the Peshawar Army Public School attack. General Raheel Sharif had last week signed the death warrants of four “hardcore terrorists” nearly one week after four men were hanged through a military court order for involvement in the Peshawar Army Public School attack.
[DAWN] THATTA: ... as in "They went THATTA way!"
A two-member anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination team was attacked by unruly men and women in Haji Siddique Chana village within Mirpur Sakro union council on Monday.
Nazeer Ahmed Channa and his wife Yasmeen Channa were tasked with vaccinating children in the union council as part of a polio eradication campaign launched in Thatta, like other parts of the province, on Sunday.
Continuing their job on Monday, the couple vaccinated a large number of children but as soon as they left the village at the close of the day's work, a group of men and women started manhandling them. The couple somehow managed to escape though the attackers chased the cycle of violence they were riding.
Thatta district focal person of the campaign Dr Hanif Umerani and taluka supervisor Dr Ghafoor Kaloi condemned the attack and said that under a directive of Thatta Deputy Commissioner Nadeemur Reman Memon, an FIR was registered at the Mirpur Sakro cop shoppe against Mohammed Omar, his son, Mohammed Irshad and brother, Lal Mohammed for attacking and abusing the polio workers and stopping them from discharging their official duties.
Later, Mohammed Omar and Lal Mohammed were locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... Dr Umerani said that around 2,100 of the targeted 6,000 children in Mirpur Sakro union council were vaccinated during the last two days of the campaign.
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[DAWN] The Chief of Army Staff, President and Prime Minister of Pakistain along with the chief ministers of Sindh, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , Gilgit Baltistan and premier of Azad Jammu and Kashmire are expected to attend a ceremony at the Army Public School tomorrow, December 16, to mark the one-year anniversary of the horrific massacre that killed 144 children and school staff.
Ambassadors of several countries along with services chiefs and provincial and federal ministers will also attend.
Pakistain People's Party chairperson Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... is also invited, and the audience is likely to include several politicians, including 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 ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... and Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... Central President Asfandyar Wali Khan.
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[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday said that those killed and injured in the Army Public School (APS) Peshawar attack have rendered great sacrifices for the country, which will be remembered forever.
Speaking at the Corps Commanders Conference at the General Head Quarters (GHQ), the army chief said security forces will continue to consolidate their gains to make them sustainable, which he said will be a befitting tribute to all those killed and wounded in the APS attack.
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[Jpost] Less than 24 hours after a Paleostinian man rammed his car into 11 pedestrians in Jerusalem, seriously wounding an infant boy, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, announced Tuesday that the assailant was a member of the terrorist organization and resided in the West Bank.
Although police initially identified the terrorist, Abed el-Muhsen Hassuna, 21, as living in east Jerusalem's upscale Arab Beit Hanina neighborhood, Hamas claimed that Hassuna, who held an Israeli identity card, had resided in Hebron for the past two years.
A subsequent police investigation determined that Hassuna drove his car from Hebron to the western entrance of Jerusalem on Monday and at 3 p.m. he plowed the vehicle into a group of civilians waiting at a bus stop near the Central Bus Station, across from the Bridge of Strings.
During the collision, which knocked over a fire hydrant, an 18-month-old boy sustained a serious leg wound, resulting in reported amputation, while 10 others were taken to area hospitals in satisfactory- to-good condition.
Amid the chaotic, flooded scene of the crime, a security guard, police officer and armed civilian shot Hassuna dead as he attempted to exit the vehicle.
A green, metal hand ax that was found by police near his corpse was seized as evidence.
Hadassah officials and the infant's family, religious immigrants from La Belle France, refused to confirm multiple media reports on Tuesday that the boy's leg was amputated below the knee following two emergency surgeries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... police said on Tuesday a female Border Police officer prevented a terrorist attack in downtown Jerusalem after detaining and searching a suspicious-looking Paleostinian woman.
The suspect was placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! after confessing that she intended to use a screwdriver that was found in her purse to carry out an attack on a heavily traveled nearby street.
Police and security personnel remain on the highest level of alert across the city, with special emphasis on the Old City, flashpoint Arab neighborhoods and all public venues.
[ARA News] ERBIL – A group of Arab tribes in Syria’s northeastern province of Raqqa issued a joint statement on Tuesday, warning the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) of entering Raqqa.
Raqqa is considered the de facto capital of the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
“We will fight any Kurdish force entering our Arab areas in Raqqa province,” a spokesman for the Arab tribal groups in Raqqa said in a recorded statement.
Shouldn't they be teaming up with the Kurds to fight ISIS?
The statement also accused the Kurdish fighters of conducting what they called “an ethnic cleansing” against Arab residents of the towns of Suluk and Tel Abyad in the northern countryside of Raqqa, which were regained by the YPG and allied Syrian rebels after fierce battles against ISIS militants.
The Arab tribal leaders also called on the international community to support them against the Kurdish forces, stressing that the YPG and its allies attempt to eliminate Arabs in their villages and towns in Raqqa province.
This comes amid intensifying battles between the Kurdish forces and ISIS militants in northern Raqqa.
Backed by the U.S.-led coalition, the YPG and allied rebels have regained dozens of towns and villages in the countryside of Raqqa over the last few months.
The Kurdish leadership had denied in an earlier statement the rumors of carrying out any “ethnic cleansing” against Arabs in the liberated areas, saying it has been working together with Arabs and Christians to establish a civil administration in every area liberated from ISIS.
Speaking to ARA News, civil rights activist Ahmed Salame said that the tribal figures who issued the anti-YPG statement have earlier facilitated ISIS’s entry to Raqqa and helped the group establish its alleged Caliphate.
Oh? That would explain why they were so keen to fight the Kurds.
“Those tribes have earlier provided a social incubator to ISIS, and they are now seeking an excuse to prevent the anti-ISIS Kurdish forces and rebels from liberating Raqqa from this barbaric group. There could be some pressure behind issuing such a statement in this particular moment,” he said.
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[REUTERS] Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for more sanctions on Tehran.
The White House warned that it would not rule out additional steps against Iran over the test of the medium-range Emad rocket.
The Security Council's Panel of Experts on Iran said in a confidential new report, first reported by Rooters, that the launch showed the rocket met its requirements for considering that a missile could deliver a nuclear weapon.
"On the basis of its analysis and findings the Panel concludes that Emad launch is a violation by Iran of paragraph 9 of Security Council resolution 1929," the panel said.
Diplomats say the rocket test on Oct. 10 was not technically a violation of the July nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers but the U.N. report could put President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... 's administration in an awkward position.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] In a secret project tied to the overall U.S. campaign against 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.... , intelligence officials have spent months mapping out known physical locations of media safe houses where the turban group's operatives are compiling, editing and curating raw video and print materials into finished digital propaganda products for dissemination across the Internet.
Most of the locations are embedded in heavily residential areas in Syria, Iraq and Libya and are not being targeted by U.S. Arclight airstrikes because of B.O. regime concerns about civilian casualties, according to sources who spoke to The Washington Times only on the condition of anonymity.
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#1
Civilian deaths in San Bernardino, Paris, etc. need not apply.
#3
Easy enough.
Surround the place, announce its destruction, catch the rats scurrying out then bring the bulldozers. IDF has it pretty well worked out.
The problem is, hate mongering with offensive digital propaganda products really doesn't meet the guidelines of capital punishment.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] Rifts among the Taliban after the death of their former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar will not end in the near future, say analysts and sources close to the group, adding that the roots of the differences among the Taliban's divided groups are well entrenched and will remain so for a long time.
International Criminal Court
Jirga, jirga, jirga. Regime change, who needs it when you're losing? Hey, we're all on the same team again, wat were we dinking ? 
[REUTERS] Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for more sanctions on Tehran.
