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Yemen Government Forces Capture Capital of al-Jawf Province as Peace Talks Go on
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Afghanistan
Rasool Sayyaf slams Taliban for defaming Islam while inaugurating new political council
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent jihadi leader and former member of the Afghan parliament on Friday slammed Taliban and 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 for defaming Islam.

This is not the first Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf
...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home...
has taken a hard stance against the holy warrior groups, specifically the Taliban group.

In his speech during the inauguration of 'Afghanistan Protection and Stability Council', Sayyaf raised a question regarding the motive behind Taliban's dispute, saying the group has defamed Islam and the religion.

He said the ongoing insurgency in Afghanistan is not due to conflict between Muslims and Kufars but the war is waged by paid criminal and murderers.

He welcomed the ongoing peace efforts however he said the main side involved in the dispute has not been ascertained so far, insisting that the dispute should be clarified whether it is Pakistain, Taliban or al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Sayyaf also called on the government to use the former Mujahid commanders in fight against the emergent ISIS terrorist group.

In regards to the formation of the new council -- Afghanistan Protection and Stability Council, Sayyaf said the main aim of the council is to unite the Afghan people for the survival of Afghanistan and dignity of the Afghan people.

Sayyaf further added that the council members are not in favor of the collapse of the current political system and they have shared their concerns regarding the deteriorating situation of the country with President Ghani.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
he said the council's aim is to bring reforms in the system, insisting that the government should organize the constitutional Loya Jirga.

He said the Afghan nation will demand an alternative if the constitutional Loya Jirga is not organized, apparently pointing towards the formation of a transitional government or early elections.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Arabia
Washington Post: Saudi 'Islamic Military Alliance' Makes no Sense
[ALMANAR.LB] The new military alliance announced recently by the Saudi defense minister to fight terrorism motivated the think-tankers in the western media to write about the seriousness of the Saudi decision, pointing at "some perplexing aspects to this new alliance" and the real goals behind creating it.

"In many ways, this alliance seems designed to calm Western critics who have frequently complained that the Muslim world isn't doing enough to combat terrorism and extremism," said Adam Taylor in the Washington Post, indicating that "the details of the planned alliance are more than a little unclear and have left some scratching their heads, unsure who exactly is in the alliance and what it is actually designed to do."

Taylor wrote that the Soddy Arabia
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Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  A gesture for the genius in WH.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/19/2015 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  WAPO wrote that? It's got to be a sop to Obama; the guy who wants to appear to be doing something while doing nothing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/19/2015 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  ... wants to appear to be doing something while doing nothing; sums up the new Saudi alliance quite nicely. Well said.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 12/19/2015 16:57 Comments || Top||

#4  aw ffs theres a committee and everything - what more do you silly kaffirs want?
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 12/19/2015 23:59 Comments || Top||


ISIL Threatens Saudi & Bahrain, Calls on Killing Shiaa Muslims
[ALMANAR.LB] ISIL terrorist group threatened 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 Bahrain of carrying out terrorist attacks over their territories, calling on Lions of Islam to target the Shiaa Muslims and all who support them.

In four videos posted on the turbans group's websites, a terrorist urged all the rest of ISIL members to kill the Shiaa Muslims in Bahrain and Saudi, describing them as "disbelievers."

Saudi regime does not follow the religious teachings of Sheikh Mohammad Abdul Wahhab and it is loyal to the West, he added.

The terrorist also considered that the Saudi preachers are the phony vicars who misinterpret the religious concepts.

Addressing the Saudi soldiers, he asked them to quit the military service and fight the "religion's enemies."
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Yemen's Ansarullah Objects to UN's Failure to Condemn Regime Breaches
[ALMANAR.LB] Chairman of Ansarullah delegation to the Yemeni talks in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
, Mohammed Abdel Salam, confirmed that the movement to continue participation in the consultation sessions.

During a news conference after meeting with UN envoy Ismail Sheikh, he said that the delegation presented a protest paper to the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
for ignoring the cease-fire.

The protest paper dealt with the violations committed by the coalition aggression against many Yemeni areas which have 'turned into a military offensive,' through aerial bombardment that has also extended to Al-Jawf and Marib.

He said that the Yemeni national delegation protest came as the United Nations "hasn't been able till now to install the cease-fire that has been agreed upon before we came to Muscat."

Two days ago, the Yemeni army front man said that the situation in the Arab impoverished country witnesses escalation as the Saudi-led coalition states are violating the UN-sponsored ceasefire, warning that the Yemenis will not simply stand and watch.

"Dangerous escalation is taking place through land, sea and air by the aggressors," Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman told Sabaa news agency late on Tuesday.

The Yemeni army and the popular committees are completely committed to the ceasefire and the aggressors are taking advantage of this, the army front man said.

The Saudi warplanes did not stop to stage air raids since the ceasefire came into effect on Tuesday noon, Luqman said.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
he warned that the Yemeni army and the popular committees will not keep mum in face of such escalation and will strongly respond to the coalition violations.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Yemen Cease-Fire Violation Endangers U.N.-Mediated Peace Talks
[WSJ] Talks to end Yemen’s months-long war were in danger of collapse on Friday, as the country’s Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led military coalition fighting to unseat them accused each other of violating a week-long cease-fire.
Now why would a little shooting endanger a ceasefire agreement?
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Soddies not to change oil strategy despite Iran’s return
Saudi Arabia will not change its strategy of defending its oil market share, despite Iran’s return, Jason Tuvey, Middle East Economist at British economic research and consulting company Capital Economics believes.

“The return of Iranian oil to the market is unlikely to prompt Saudi Arabia to abandon its oil market strategy,” Tuvey said in a report, obtained by Trend.

Iran hopes to increase its oil production by 500,000 barrels per day immediately after the international sanctions’ removal. The country’s current oil production is estimated to be around 2.8 million barrels per day, of which about one million barrels are exported.

Tuvey, nevertheless, believes the return of Iranian oil will limit the scope for Saudi Arabia to raise output further, removing a prop to growth. Earlier Tuvey said that compared to other major oil producers, Saudi Arabia is in a strong position to weather low oil prices, and so it can afford to take a long-term view of the oil market.

However, Tuvey's forecast is that the country’s GDP will slow to around 1.0-1.5 percent in 2016-17.

Saudi Arabia, by producing 10.25 million barrels per day of oil in the third quarter of 2015, ranks first among OPEC member countries in terms of crude production.

OPEC's crude oil production increased to 31.5 million barrels per day during last two years, 1.5 million barrels per day more than the determined 30 million barrels per day. OPEC members failed to reach an agreement on production ceiling on Dec. 4.

Saudi Arabia is one of the OPEC members that have seized the moment to produce more than their quota as Iran's production has shrunken under sanctions. Saudi Oil Minister Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi rejected Iran's demand for cooperation by saying that the market can absorb Iran's surplus production and OPEC members do not need to reduce their output.
The Soddies prefer the money to be in their pockets.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
U.S. Military Repeatedly Shipped Live Anthrax to Korea
The U.S. Forces Korea conducted 16 tests using live anthrax samples that were delivered to USFK bases here since 2009, a joint investigation by the two countries has discovered. The investigation also found that the U.S. military brought plague bacteria samples into Korea.

In late May, when the U.S. admitted that the live anthrax samples were "accidentally" delivered to a U.S. airbase in Osan south of Seoul, exposing over 20 lab workers there to the deadly biological weapon, it claimed that only one test had been conducted. But there have apparently been many more.

Investigators claimed the samples were delivered, stored and handled according to international safety standards and that nobody was infected.

Asked why they had lied, U.S. military officials said it's what they do what they meant at the time was that it was the first time to conduct a test using anthrax samples at the Osan airbase. But other tests seem to have been conducted at USFK headquarters in Yongsan, right in the middle of Seoul.

The USFK initiated what is known as the "JUPITR" program last year amid what it perceived as an increasing threat of a biological weapons attack by North Korea. The Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition program, to give it its full name, aims to increase the USFK's capability of detecting chemical and biological weapons attacks. It claims the test and training for new JUPITR equipment were first conducted in Osan.
Not sure you need live anthrax to detect CBW attacks...
The revelation in May brought a storm of criticism from the Korean public, and the Korean military was completely oblivious to the tests until the Pentagon claimed an a army facility in Utah "inadvertently" sent the live strain to nine U.S. states as well as Korea. The lab workers at the airbase kept the lethal bacteria for days without taking precautions.
Your government at work. Top. people.
There is widespread skepticism about the joint investigation here since it was based only on materials provided by the U.S. military. Korean investigators were granted just one day’s access to the lab in Osan, 72 days after the test.

To address this problem, Seoul and Washington agreed Thursday to establish new set rules for U.S. shipments of biological samples to Korea. The USFK is now required to report the type, quantity and purpose of any samples as well as the identities of senders and recipients. Both sides will conduct a joint analysis on the samples if necessary in which the Korea Customs Service also takes part.

The new regulations are legally binding, according to military officials. But inactive samples do not have to be reported, making it doubtful what force it carries.
So the new regulations are every bit as effective as the old regulations...
The USFK claims it incinerated the entire anthrax sample that was brought into Korea in May but plans to bring in more samples for further testing. The Pentagon is also conducting chemical and biological weapons response drills in Germany, Japan, Australia and other allied nations with American troop presence.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
US missile site in Romania completed
The US and NATO have announced the completion of a new missile site in southern Romania to supposedly thwart potential threats from the Middle East, Press TV reported.

A joint statement issued Friday by Romania and the US said the "major military components of the Aegis Ashore Missile" system in the southern town of Deveselu have been handed over to the US Navy and US European Command. The Aegis Ashore site includes a powerful radar, missile interceptors and communications equipment and is expected to be ready for initial combat use in early 2016. The missile site has been handed over to military commanders and will be integrated with NATO's broader ballistic missile system.

"Between now and the summer, military operators will train and conduct exercises and additional testing, readying for a NATO Initial Operational Capability," said Vice Admiral James D. Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency.

The United States has previously claimed that the system is designed to defend Europe against potential attacks from Iran.

Russia has objected to the deployment, but the US and NATO have said that it does not have the capacity to threaten Russia.
Correct statement unless the Rooshun ballistic missile threat is a lot, lot less than the Rooshuns say it is. That's never happened, of course...
Posted by: Steve White || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Don't tell Champ"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2015 13:36 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Israel, Turkey Poised to Renew Diplomatic Relations
[WSJ] Israel and Turkey are poised to re-establish diplomatic ties after years of tense relations, officials from both countries said Friday, a move that could renew close cooperation between two of the U.S.’s strongest allies in the region.
Make 'em, break 'em, make 'em, break 'em...
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Watch your wallet, Israel.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/19/2015 20:33 Comments || Top||


Obama urges Erdogan to withdraw troops from Iraq
President Barack Obama urged Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Friday to "deescalate tensions" with Iraq by continuing to withdraw Turkish forces from northern Iraq, the White House said in a statement, Reuters reported.
Champ thus will try to claim credit for something the Turks had already agreed to do...
The leaders also discussed the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria including efforts to support the moderate opposition in the war-torn nation, the White House said.
Must have been an interesting conversation, since we're fighting ISIS and Turkey is supporting ISIS...
Posted by: Steve White || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Champ Regime Belatedly Rules Chattanooga Shooting 'Terrorism'
[Investors Bus Daily] The administration has quietly reversed itself and ruled last summer's mass shooting by a Tennessee Muslim an act of foreign-inspired terrorism, just like in San Bernardino. What took it so long?

At the time of the deadly July attack on two U.S. military sites in Chattanooga, it was obvious to everyone but the Islamic apologists in the White House that shooter Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez was on a terrorist mission.

Armed with high-powered rifles, the Islamic insurgent opened fire, first on a Marine recruiting office and then a nearby Naval base, killing five U.S. soldiers.

Within days, it became clear that Chattanooga was a planned assault by a devout Muslim inspired by Islamic terror groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida. Abdulazeez had blogged about wanting to become a martyr fighting "jihad for the sake of Allah." He chose the Muslim holy month of Ramadan to fulfill his wish.

Abdulazeez was, like Fort Hood terrorist Maj. Nidal Hasan, inspired by the writings of late al-Qaida leader Anwar Awlaki.

Yet the administration went out of its way not to label Abdulazeez a terrorist or even call what he did an act of terrorism -- which meant that the five servicemen he gunned down wouldn't be eligible for the Purple Heart, and their families would be denied the financial benefits that go along with it.

The families of the Fort Hood victims endured the same injustice after President Obama refused to call the attack an act of terror, instead referring to it as "workplace violence." Under political pressure, federal investigators in Chattanooga described Abdulazeez, ridiculously, as a "homegrown violent extremist." After weeks of investigation, they still couldn't say if what he did was terrorism.

But now, five months later, the Navy has quietly posted a press release announcing that the Muslim who gunned down sailors was indeed a foreign-inspired terrorist, and that his victims will now qualify for Purple Hearts, something we argued for earlier this year.

The statement reversing the administration's earlier ruling that Abdulazeez was just another random mass shooter and not a terrorist was snuck out late Wednesday after news deadlines.

Will the White House press corps force Obama to publicly acknowledge in his own statement that this, too, was Islamic terrorism on his watch?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/19/2015 06:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Obama signs Hezbollah sanctions bill into law
[IsraelTimes] White House welcomes legislation, which some hope will limit group's cash windfall after Iran sanctions are lifted

President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
signed into law Friday afternoon legislation designed to tighten sanctions against the Iran-backed Leb-based Hezbollah terror organization.

The legislation, formally titled the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015, will impose tougher sanctions on banks that knowingly do business with the organization, which has launched attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets, and provides critical support for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
in the ongoing Syrian civil war.

The law reached the president's desk Friday after the House of Representatives voted unanimously in favor of the bipartisan legislation on Wednesday. The Senate's legislation also passed unanimously in late November.

Similar to previous sanctions legislation directed against Iran prior to the passage of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in summer of 2015, this law directs the president to enact regulations against banks or other financial institutions that do business with Hezbollah. The United States has long included Hezbollah on its list of terror organizations.

The new law also targets the organization's satellite television station, al-Manar, by identifying those telecommunications companies that air the Leb-based channel.

In addition to aspiring to limit satellite access for al-Manar, the legislation also requires regular reports to Congress on Hezbollah's ancillary operations, including drug trafficking, transnational crime, and involvement with other international organizations as far afield as South America and Asia. The administration will also be required to list countries that have proven hospitable to the Iranian-backed organization, whether through offering support or allowing them to maintain logistical bases.

Hezbullah has returned to the attention of Washington due to its close association with Iran, as well as its critical role in the Syrian civil war, where it has deployed thousands of fighters to support Assad's Ba'athist rule.

Congressional critics of the Iran nuclear deal have warned for months that when sanctions are lifted from Iran, a move that may come as early as next month, the Lebanese organization could receive a major financial windfall from Iran's newfound wealth.

But by forcing banks to choose whether they would rather do business with Hezbollah or with the United States, this new legislation could limit some of the impact of any financial gain.

"Under President B.O.'s nuclear deal, Iran will soon hit a jackpot worth tens of billions of dollars. Even the president admits this 'windfall' of cash will go to activities and groups, including its main terror proxy Hezbollah, that pose 'a threat to us, and a threat to our allies," warned Rep. Ed Royce, one of the law's original authors. "This bill cracks down on Hezbollah's fundraising efforts, its operations in Syria, and its efforts to carry out hostilities against the United States and our ally Israel."

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) welcomed the legislation, which was sponsored in the Senate by Senators Marco Rubio and Jeanne Shaheen, and in the House of Representatives by Congressmen Royce and Eliot Engel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2015 01:33 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  So this is supposed to help after we gave Iran 150 billion?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/19/2015 12:21 Comments || Top||


Immigrant Yemeni-American pleads guilty to ISIS recruitment
[DailyMail] o Mufid Elfgeeh, 31, helped arrange travel and funding for ISIS recruits

o Yemen-born U.S. citizen put one in touch with an Islamist terrorist in Iraq

o He used Twitter, WhatsApp and 23 Facebook accounts to declare jihad

o Elfgeeh bought two handguns and silencers that he planned to use to kill returning U.S. soldiers

o He purchased a laptop and camera for two FBI agents posing as recruits, as well as paying for a birth certificate and an expedited passport

o Pizza shop owner in Rochester, New York, admitted two terror offences

o Plea deal could see him jailed for more than 22 years when he is sentenced
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle adds local details.
And Rantburg carried the original reports on the gentleman here, here, and here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Virginia county closes schools as Islam assignment prompts backlash
[REUTERS] Schools in a Virginia county closed on Friday as a safety precaution after a class assignment asking students to practice Arabic calligraphy using a Muslim statement of faith sparked an angry outcry from parents and threats against school officials.

Augusta County Public Schools officials said no specific threat had been made against students, but some calls and emails received by the district posed a risk of harm to school officials.

The outcry appeared to reflect anxiety and distrust of Muslims among some Americans following a Dec. 2 shooting that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, by a married couple inspired by Lion of Islam Islamism and attacks in Gay Paree by 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....
gunnies on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people.

Some messages to the Virginia school district contained profane and graphic content, including a call to behead the teacher who gave the assignment, Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said.

Others threatened large protests on or near school property in the district, located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley about 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Washington, officials said.

The Arabic text, according to the News Leader newspaper, translated as "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammad is the messenger of Allah."
The catch is, once you say it, even by mistake or under coercion, you're a Moslem, and if you decide to become something else you have to be killed.
Some parents have accused the teacher, Cheryl LaPorte, of trying to indoctrinate students with Islam and are calling for her to be fired.

"I do not trust her to teach my son and regardless of the outcome he will not sit in her classroom," mother Kimberly Herndon said in a Facebook post that has been shared more than 300 times.

The district decided to begin the school system's winter break early and canceled extracurricular activities this weekend for the district's 10,000 students, Superintendent Eric Bond said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't that the exact same text that's on the IS flag?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/19/2015 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The only charming thing about their flag is that it was clearly drawn by a toddler in crayon.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/19/2015 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The only charming thing about their flag is that it was clearly drawn by a toddler in crayon

So, one of the teachers?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/19/2015 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  So, God is now back in the classroom?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/19/2015 12:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Deacon, no God is not back in the classroom. That would be illegal. Allah on the other hand ...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/19/2015 13:01 Comments || Top||

#6  "thing about their flag" from what I've read about IS/Daesh, the very crude calligraphy used on their flag was done deliberately and is part of their recruiting campaign to emphasize the Caliphate's down-to-earth approach to JIHAD.
Many other Islamic nations have the equivalent on their flags, but done with excellent calligraphy.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/19/2015 13:17 Comments || Top||

#7  "Vote for us, we're Morons!"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2015 13:27 Comments || Top||

#8  The outcry appeared to reflect anxiety and distrust of Muslims among some Americans An editorial comment by the news writer to emphasize that any American objecting to what happened is racis, Islamaphobic, mentally ill, backward, etc. I see the outcry as an explosive reaction from parents who, however dimly, see this as pushing the goodness / graciousness of Islam on their children in a crude attempt at brainwashing and as a attack on American traditions and culture. The only way the teacher/propagandist could have made that goal more obvious would be to have the students practice calligraphy for the Arabic and Farsi slogans of "Death to America".
By the way "almawt li'amrika" is on the Houthi flag in Yemen, in Arabic of course.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/19/2015 13:33 Comments || Top||

#9  For your amusement,
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/19/2015 13:41 Comments || Top||

#10  At least the teacher wasn't having them write something hateful like "Jesus is Lord"
Posted by: SteveS || 12/19/2015 15:05 Comments || Top||

#11  ...or having them memorize and then recite the Nicene Creed.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/19/2015 16:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Mohammedans' whole enchilada:
Delusional "Prophet's" your dada!
This Muslim megillah
Eschews tasty filler
For two-faced, misleading Shahadah.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/19/2015 18:58 Comments || Top||


Kuwaiti Airways cancels flight rather than allow Israeli passengers
Kuwait hates Jews so much that its national airline has ditched a popular and lucrative New York-to-London flight rather than allow Israelis on its planes, authorities said Thursday.

Kuwait Airways killed the flight to spite American officials, who threatened to pull the airline’s permit to fly to the United States if they continued discriminating against Israeli passengers. The airline says they cannot allow Israelis on the planes because the Middle Eastern kingdom prohibits it citizens from doing business with citizens of the Jewish state.

“On December 15th, Kuwait Airways informed the United States Department of Transportation that they will be eliminating service between JFK and London Heathrow,” said a department spokesperson.

The airline has at least twice refused to let customers with Israeli passports buy tickets on flights from New York to London because of the Islamic state’s ban on trade with Israel.

The airline will still run its New York-to-Kuwait flight from JFK, but since Israelis are not allowed in the country, the feds cannot require them to allow Israelis on that flight.

The lawyer for Eldad Gatt, the Israeli citizen who tried to buy a ticket on the New York to London flight in the fall of 2013 and was denied, said he does not plan to drop his suit against the airline and that he would like a formal ruling that the airline is discriminating against Israelis.

Kuwait Airways officials did not return calls for comment.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I seem to remember a time not so long ago when the delightful little sand kaffirs weren't nearly so picky about assistance. They must have mistakenly hit F9 and the Jewish Hate default.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/19/2015 10:40 Comments || Top||


Hagel: Obama ordered him to 'stand down' when Assad crossed red line
Behind a subscription wall at Foreign Policy. A few choice tidbits here, courtesy of Hot Air:
Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had just sat down with his wife for a quiet dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant in northern Virginia when his phone rang. It was the White House on the line. President Barack Obama wanted to speak with him.

It was Aug. 30, 2013, and the U.S. military was poised for war. Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a “red line” by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway, and Hagel had spent the day approving final plans for a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against Damascus. U.S. naval destroyers were in the Mediterranean, awaiting orders to fire.

Instead, Obama told a stunned Hagel to stand down. Assad’s Aug. 21 chemical attack in a Damascus suburb had killed hundreds of civilians, but the president said the United States wasn’t going to take any military action against the Syrian government. The president had decided to ignore his own red line — a decision, Hagel believes, that dealt a severe blow to the credibility of both Obama and the United States. …

In the days and months afterward, Hagel’s counterparts around the world told him their confidence in Washington had been shaken over Obama’s sudden about-face. And the former defense secretary said he still hears complaints to this day from foreign leaders.

“A president’s word is a big thing, and when the president says things, that’s a big deal,” he said.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Three Secretary of Defenses left this administration. That ought to say something.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/19/2015 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Hagel finally figured out he was a useful idiot?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2015 13:28 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Case against seven for roughing up polio team
[DAWN] OKARA: A family in Deepalpur's Bosan village beat up a 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...
vaccine team and damaged the boxes of vials it was carrying on Friday.

A district health department's team headed by Lady Health Worker Mumtaz Bibi came to a Bosan village area to administer polio drops to children when Muhammad Arif and his family put up resistance and browbeat the visitors. This led to an exchange of word between the officials and Arif's family, who flew into rage and beat up the team and also broke their boxes.

The Deepalpur Saddar police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against seven people -- Arif, Waris, Tariq, Sharafat Ali, Rubina, Shahnaz and Zahida Bibi -- on the complaint of Mumtaz Bibi.
... and as long as we're in Beautiful Downtown Okara...
LAWYERS: The Okara Saddar police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 13 lawyers who allegedly thrashed some DCO Office employees.

Amir Shahzad, in-charge Arms Licence Branch at the DCO Office, complained to police that Advocate Zaheer Abbas of the District Bar Association came to his office and asked him to accommodate him out of turn but he refused. After some time, the lawyer along with 10 or 12 colleagues stormed the branch and started beating him and security guards, he said.
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Interior minister wants to rid Islamabad of illegal seminaries
[DAWN] 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...
wants to rid the capital city of illegal madressahs and their students. But for that, he needs across-the-board political support which he sought on the floor of the National Assembly on Friday.

Sharing the concerns of some of his fellow politicians about madressahs which have been unlawfully constructed on government land, the minister said, "The problem is not as simple as it looks from outside because there are 25,000 madressah students in the city." He said it wasn't the present government which allowed the extensive use of greenbelts for the construction of seminaries.

Chaudhry Nisar said it was not possible for the government to confront all the illegal madressahs through the police. "We have already seen the result of the use of force in the case of Lal Masjid
...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
where 100 students bit the dust in a military operation in 2007. Yes, there is a problem which needs to be tackled in a peaceful manner."

The minister said there were certain issues regarding these seminaries which he could not talk about publicly and would suggest an in-camera discussion. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
he added, "Whatever this house will suggest, the government will follow that course of action."
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61 banned outfits named by Senate, JuD under observation
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control on Friday presented the names of 61 proscribed organisations that have been banned from carrying out activities in the country.
An absolutely mind-numbing infestation of turbans. Guess it's the Islamic equivalent of Elks and Odd Fellows and Lions and Kiwanis.....
It must be because they're banned that they're so often active in the stories that show up on Rantburg's pages.
The following are names of the banned outfits along with dates of their proscription, as submitted by the ministry in the Senate.
  1. Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LeJ) – August 14, 2001

  2. Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) – August 14, 2001
    Continued on Page 49
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India building top-secret nuclear city?
India is building a top-secret nuclear city to produce thermonuclear weapons, and when completed in 2017, the facility would be the subcontinent's "largest military-run" complex of nuclear centrifuges, a leading American foreign policy journal has claimed.
H-bombs? That will tighten sphincters in Islamabad and Beijing...
The secret city in Challakere, in Karnataka, could "upgrade" the country as a nuclear power and unsettle its two major neighbours - Pakistan and China, Foreign Policy journal said in an investigative report.

"But another, more controversial, ambition, according to retired Indian government officials and independent experts in London and Washington, is to give India an extra stockpile of enriched uranium fuel that could be used in new hydrogen bombs, also known as thermonuclear weapons, substantially increasing the explosive force of those in its existing nuclear arsenal," the report said.

The city when completed in 2017 would be "the subcontinent's largest military-run complex of nuclear centrifuges, atomic-research laboratories, and weapons- and aircraft-testing facilities", the report said.

The independent Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) estimates that India already possesses between 90 and 110 nuclear weapons, as compared to Pakistan's estimated stockpile of up to 120. China has approximately 260 warheads.

The report does not contain any official response from either the Indian or the US government, but has quoted several unnamed officials and retired government officials for the story.

"Mysore is being constantly monitored, and we are constantly monitoring progress in Challakere," a former White House official has been quoted as saying in the report.

Challakere is nearly 260km from Mysore.
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Iraq
Abadi Says Excluding Iraq form "Islamic Alliance" Major Mistake
[ALMANAR.LB] The Iraqi PM Haidar Abadi said that forming the "Islamic Alliance" which was announced by Saudi without consulting Iraq is a major mistake.

Baghdad was surprised by the fact the alliance excluded Iraq as well as Syria, and most of the member states lack the necessary capabilities to fight terrorism, Abadi added.

On Tuesday, the Saudi Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman announced the formation of the alliance and claimed that it aims at "fighting terrorism" without giving further details about the nature of the targeted terror.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
A Hizbullah Recruiting Push Covers Its Deeper Role in Syria
[AnNahar] At tightly guarded facilities in south Leb, men as young as 17 undergo training by Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
on weapons and anti-insurgent tactics before being sent to Syria to fight alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's forces, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named report published on Friday.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Hassan Hussein al-Hajj, a top Hizbullah commander, was killed in October while fighting in Idlib province. His replacement, Mahdi Hassan Obeid, was killed there hours after al-Hajj was buried in his south Leb hometown.

"Hold off on printing that new Org Chart. There's been another update"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2015 13:36 Comments || Top||


Israel: Iran has withdrawn most of its Revolutionary Guards from Syria
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of Iranian fighters said killed; Hezbollah, which has lost up to 1,500 men, reportedly fears anti-Assad rebels could now prevail

Iran has withdrawn most of the Revolutionary Guards fighters it deployed to Syria three months ago, Israeli security officials told The Times of Israel. The decision to withdraw the forces was likely made due to the rising number of casualties among Iranian soldiers fighting in Syria and the subsequent growing public outcry back home.

The officials confirmed the withdrawal to The Times of Israel days after a report in Bloomberg quoted American sources saying such a withdrawal was in its early stages, and after Iran issued a denial. The Israeli sources stressed, however, that most of the troops have actually now been withdrawn.

Iran sent some 2,000 Revolutionary Guards fighters to Syria in September. There are just 700-800 remaining, the Israeli sources said.
Iran sent some 2,000 Revolutionary Guards fighters to Syria in September. There are just 700-800 remaining, the Israeli sources said.

The pullout has sparked concern for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite terror group that is also fighting alongside ally Bashir al-Assad, the embattled Syrian president.

The high number of Revolutionary Guards casualties in Syria came as a shock to Iranian commanders, notably including IRGC Al-Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, who has been closely following developments in the war-torn country.

While Israel does not know the precise number of Iranian fatalities, the figure is thought to have reached several dozen since September, with hundreds more maimed.

The Iranian press now publishes obituaries of IRGC fighters killed in Syria on an almost daily basis. Earlier this month, senior IRGC officer Abdul Rashid Rashwand and 14 other fighters of lower rank were buried in a single day.

Rashwand was the fifth senior IRGC officer to be killed in Syria since September, but not the last. This week also saw the death of General Hossein Faradi, a Revolutionary Guards officer who had previously commanded Afghan forces in Syria.

The reports of fatalities are creating widespread dismay in Iranian public opinion, and especially among the families of the dead and maimed. There is anguished debate over how necessary it is for Iran to deploy its fighters to Syria. This at a time when the country is preparing for parliamentary (Majlis) elections. It is also holding elections for the council to select the Islamic Theocratic Republic's next supreme leader.

Many of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's allies apparently have a good chance of being elected to the council, but the military intervention in Syria and the ensuing casualties may harm their prospects, analysts say.

Iranian forces have over the last few weeks focused their activities in the north-western area of Syria, trying to repel the advance of the "Fateh Army" -- a conglomeration of several opposition groups. The Iranians are coordinating their activities there closely with what is left of Assad's Syrian army as well as with fighters from Hezbollah.

The extraction of Iranian troops from Syria is a source of discomfort and genuine concern for Hezbollah. The Shi'ite terror group's men are worried about their prospects as the war in Syria continues, since the support they are receiving from Russian warplanes has so far failed to effect a significant change in the country's years-long civil war.

Hezbollah has seen between 1,300 and 1,500 of its fighters killed, and 5,000 injured, in battles in the Syrian civil war -- which means it has lost as much as a third of its fighting force, according to Israeli estimates cited by The Times of Israel earlier this week.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  There were reports Soleimani has been killed. Does this article imply that he is alive?
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/19/2015 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  ...to Iranian commanders, notably including IRGC Al-Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, who has been closely following developments...

So it appears, jvalentour.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/19/2015 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  well, being killed could also constitute "closely following developments"


Let us pray
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2015 13:40 Comments || Top||


Hezbollah Rejects Engaging Lebanon in "Suspicious" Saudi Coalition
[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah emphasized the absolute rejection to engage Leb in the "anti-terror" Saudi coalition, describing it as suspicious.

In a statement, the party maintained that Leb has been a pioneer in the face of all forms of terrorism-whether the chronic Israeli or the emerging takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
Hezbollah pointed out that the preliminary approval which was announced by the Lebanese PM Tammam Salam is a mere personal opinion which does not commit anyone, stressing that approving joining military alliances requires a legal and constitutional process in the government and the parliament.

"Hezbollah was surprised by the Saudi announcement which violated the Lebanese constitution and the competent norms followed."

Suspicious Alliance

Hezbollah expressed deep suspicions regarding the intentions and objectives behind the announcement of the "anti-terror" Saudi coalition, considering that it reflects that KSA and other members decided that action in response to the impositions of the US administration that is seeking an Islamic army with a specific sectarian identity to face ISIL instead of sending its infantry troops to the region.

The statement added that the coalition was hastily and suspiciously formed, what raises the questions about the worthiness of KSA to lead an anti-terror alliance while it bears responsibility for the terrorist, radical thought and provides the terrorist groups across the world with the financial and military support.

"It is no secret that 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...
is involved in state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
in 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...
and supports the terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen."

Other states that are members in the coalition supports the Saudi terrorist path, the statement noted.

"What is the nature of the terror that the coalition will fight? Who are convicted of this terror? Will the coalition fight the ongoing Israeli terrorism against the Paleostinians and the regional peoples or it will face the resistance movements?" Hezbollah asked.
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#1  Hezbollah emphasized the absolute rejection to engage Leb in the "anti-terror" Saudi coalition, describing it as Sunni suspicious
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2015 13:44 Comments || Top||


Assad: West Approach on Syria Politicized, only Syrians Decide Their President
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
said on Thursday that selecting the country's head is an issue related solely to the Syrian people and not the Western countries, indicating that the majority of international reports about Syria are politicized and controlled by the United States.

During an interview given to DUTCH NPO2 TV channel, Assad said that the Syria is a sovereign stats who people do not accept that a foreign party comes and tells them who should govern them, stressing that he will remain in office as long as the Syrians are demanding it.

"That's why we don't respond. We don't care about it," he said.

The Syrian President pointed out that fighting terrorism should be sustainable principle rather than being a reaction caused by fear, reiterating that his policy has for long been based upon two main pillars: dialogue and fighting terrorism.

Commenting on a question about statements from La Belle France that it accepts he may be part of a solution, President Assad replied sarcastically:

"Thank them for saying that; I was packing my luggage, I had to leave, now I can stay. We never care about whatever they say. They've been saying the same for four years now. Did anything change regarding that issue? Nothing."

"This is a Syrian issue, whether it's Obama or the United States or Europe or any country, we don't care about it. As long as the Syrians want this president or any other president to be in power, he will be there. So, to say that that he's leaving now or leaving in six months or in six years, it's not their business, very simply," he added.

Regarding the Syrian refugees, Assad stated that they left because of the direct terrorist attacks, because the murderous Moslems attacked the infrastructure, and because of the Western embargo that led to the same result intended by the terrorists, whether directly or indirectly.

"I think most of those are ready to go back to their country. They still love their country, but living in Syria could be unbearable for them for different circumstances."

"You are in Syria now, you can go to the areas under our control. You can see that some of the families of the murderous Moslems or the hard boyz or the bully boys, whatever you want to call them, live under the supervision of the government and the support of the government. So, why didn't those families leave Syria?" President Assad told the Dutch journalist.

Regarding stories in the West of Syrians talking about torture and things done by the national armed forces, Assad said, "If you are torturing your people, attacking, killing, and so on, and you have the enmity of Western governments, the strongest countries in the world, the richest countries like in the Gulf, like The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, our neighbors, are against me as president or against the government, how could you withstand for nearly five years in such circumstances if you don't have public support? And how can you have public support if you are torturing your people? I mean, if you have mistakes in reality, that could happen, that would happen anywhere."

Moreover, the Syrian President noted that the European officials allowed the Saudi Wahhabi school to bring its myrmidon ideology to Europe, and that murderous Moslems are coming out from European countries, stating that if the Western powers are serious in solving the problem in Syria, they have to go and work to stop the flood and the flowing of murderous Moslems and the money and logistic support through Turkey.
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U.N. council endorses Syria peace plan; no agreement on Assad's fate
[REUTERS] The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed a resolution endorsing an international roadmap for a Syria grinding of the peace processor, a rare show of unity among major powers on a conflict that has claimed more than a quarter million lives.

"This council is sending a clear message to all concerned that the time is now to stop the killing in Syria and lay the groundwork for a government that the long-suffering people of that battered land can support," U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
told the 15-nation council after the vote.

The resolution came after Russia and the United States clinched a deal on a text. The two powers have had very different views on what should happen in Syria, where 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....
murderous Moslems control considerable territory that Western governments suspect has been a launch pad for attacks on Western nations and Russia.

Kerry made clear that there were still differences on the future of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
, a close ally of Russia and Iran who Western countries want ousted.

"We are under no illusions about the obstacles that exist. There obviously remain sharp differences within the international community, especially about the future of President Assad," Kerry added.
So actually there's no agreement, but there are fresh flowers on the table and they're having broiled trout this evening.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Government
Obama ICE Queen: Forget Immigration! Let's Focus on Our "Cute Dogs"
[Debbie Schlussel] ICE Agents from all over the country have been bombarding my inbox in justifiable anger. They're mad about an e-mail they've received from Sarah R. Saldana, Barack Obama's incompetent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief, announcing the agency's new goal. Apparently, the illegal alien problem of 20 million-plus illegals in our country has been immediately solved and the new goal is . . .

a Cute Dog Contest.

Ms. Saldana--who is a WNBA/Dinah Shore Classic candidate if I ever saw one--wants everyone in ICE to know that her dogs Mitzi and Daisy are soooooo cute, and she wants her agents (most of whom are paid over $100,000 per year and many around $140K) to show her if their dogs are cuter. Yup, this is the important Homeland Security Mission of the day. Forget illegal aliens, which include Islamic terrorists. Forget Muslims smuggling weapons to ISIS. The important bidniz of da day is cute doggies. BTW, this is the same ICE chief who gave $113 million back to the federal government, saying she didn't need it, even as her agency deported fewer than .0002% of illegal aliens in America in the last fiscal year, a record low. She sounds like one of those crazy cat-lady hoarders who considers her dogs her "kids."

Really, you're deporting only .0002% of the tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country . . . and you're asking your agents to send in photos of cute dogs for you to judge? Seriously?

Ms. Saldana achieves the maximum of 4 Barking Moonbats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/19/2015 13:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ms. Saldana--who is a WNBA/Dinah Shore Classic candidate if I ever saw one--

Oh, I am SO stealing that.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/19/2015 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  How filling was heavenly manna?
How empty was Hannah Montana?
How rum is Obama?
How dumb was his mama?
As useless as Sarah Saldana?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/19/2015 19:37 Comments || Top||



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