[Tolo News] Police in northern Balkh province have started investigations to identify the identities of the Indian Consulate attackers, said security officials on Wednesday.
The officials said they believe the attackers were Urdu speakers.
Balkh Police Chief Gen. Abdul Razeq Qadiri said the attackers' cell phones were recovered and efforts are underway to find out their identities and nationalities.
"The investigation team has found the attackers' cell phones. We will make it clear if they were from Afghanistan or foreigners -- using the cell phones and other resources," said Qadiri.
He added that the police force members will also identify those who helped the attackers to reach the building close to the Indian Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif city.
"No doubt, there is someone involved in this incident that helped the attackers to reach the area. We will find them and will bring them to book," Qadiri added.
The attack, which started Sunday night, on the Indian Consulate in Mazar lasted 25 hours and raised many questions on how the attackers were able to get to the area and access the building they holed up in.
On Tuesday, Mohammad Ali, a guard at the building where the attackers took cover, said he managed to escape when the attackers stormed the building. He said: "I saw two people and they were talking in a language I did not understand.
I was in the basement when they went upstairs and then I ran to the yard and beat feet from the building."
The attackers were holed up on the 4th floor in the kitchen of the building and wrote messages in what appeared to be blood on the wall. The messages were in Urdu and warned of suicide kabooms and of Dire Revenge.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Amid concerns that 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 gaining foothold in Afghanistan, the Chief Executive Officer, Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... has said the presence of the loyalists of the terror is not a significant force.
Admitting that the terror group poses threats not only to Afghanistan but the entire region, CEO Abdullah said the Afghanistan is determined to deal with the terror group loyalists as the Afghan government continues to work with its international allies to deal with the security challenges.
CEO Abdullah is currently on a state visit to Iran to discuss issues of bilateral interest between Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Tehran.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... Abdullah said the loyalists of ISIS terror group in Afghanistan have good resources. "There is no doubt that they [Daesh [Islamic State] terrorists] have good resources," Abdullah told Press TV during an interview.
"It [Daesh [Islamic State]] is a threat. It is a threat for Afghanistan. It is a threat for region. It is a threat for global peace and Afghanistan is determined to deal with it and at the same time it is not as significant force in Afghanistan as Taliban," he added.
The remarks by Abdullah comes as the loyalists of the terror group have recently stepped up insurgency activities and anti-government propaganda as they continue to expand foothold in the country.
The terror group also launched an FM radio late last year in 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 and later issued a propaganda video which purportedly shows the cruel terrorist activities of the terror group in Afghanistan.
The US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter also warned regarding the emergent threat of the terror group during a surprise visit to Afghanistan late in December last year, however he said the threat posed by the terror group is being tracked very closely as they have started creating 'little nests' in Afghanistan.
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Turkey has started to build a military training base in Somalia as part of its pledge to build up the national army for the Somali government, a senior Turkish diplomat has said.
Emel Tekin, the head of the Foreign Ministry department responsible for Somalia, stated that Turkey is establishing a military base in Mogadishu, a first for Turkey, to train Somali soldiers. She said the initiative is part of a framework agreement between the two countries on military cooperation.
“This military training facility will also be an important base for [providing] military training for the entire [continent of] Africa,” she added.
Col. Murat Yaman said at the commission meeting that the agreement is a framework deal to boost defense cooperation between the two countries. He noted that it built on two earlier agreements signed with Somalia in 2010 on military financial cooperation and military training. Turkey has been providing defense assistance to Somalia since then to shore up Somalia’s security forces.
The Turkish military is also building a military school in Somalia to educate and train both officer corps and noncommissioned officers.
Tekin said that, when she visited Somalia, she noticed Somali soldiers were wearing different uniforms and shoes provided by various donor countries from the Gulf and the European Union.
“They [Somalis] are trying to overcome this,” she said, by establishing a military structure that is complete and under a single chain of command. Turkey is trying to support this as well,” she explained.
Turkey has provided $400 million in aid to Somalia in recent years, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Turkey will be hosting the High-Level Partnership Forum in Turkey in İstanbul on Feb. 23-24, which is a follow-up to the High-Level Meeting on Somalia held in New York on Sept. 28, 2015.
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Turkey has provided $400 million in aid to Somalia in recent years,
Awfully thoughtful ek se. With all of their current border challenges, I wonder where Turkey came up with $400 million to spend on such a distant and apparently unrelated security effort ?
[Al Ahram] Djibouti cut its diplomatic relations with Iran on Wednesday, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya news channel said, quoting an official source.
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... severed its own ties with Shia Iran on Sunday after protesters stormed its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh's execution of a Shia Muslim holy man.
Fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member Bahrain has also cut ties with Iran and Kuwait has recalled its envoy to Iran.
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A woman with a western Libya accent said that she regretted how she was ‘‘brainwashed’’ by IS/Daesh into converting her to their cause.
The alleged confession came in the latest video released by the Rada (Special Deterrence Force) in Tripoli last week.
The woman, who said she was a Tripoli resident and is referred to in her alias name of Umm Al Aina, said that she had been converted by a Libyan in the eastern city Derna through Facebook. She was converted and became a follower of his preaching on the basis that his interpretation of Islam was ”right”.
After her conversion she was called upon to leave Tripoli the land of heretics and travel to Sirte the land of Islam, she explained.
After she joined IS, she was married-off to a fellow IS member. Other Libyan women were married off to various other Arab nationalities, she revealed.
However, she said that IS ‘’used us’’ in the short term to ‘’satisfy their desires’’ and then ‘’discarded us’’. Her so-called husband divorced her after a month. She also discovered they ‘’fooled’’ other girls too.
She noted the shallowness of their theological foundations saying that they did not implement Islamic Sharia law properly. This had ‘’increased her suspicions’’ of them she added. They considered all of Tripoli a heretic city of non-believing Kafirs (apostasy).
They considered her practice of Islam as heretic as well as all her family as heretics. She found their theological reasoning unconvincing, she said.
When I queried them on Islam they proved they were not educated in theological understanding, she explained.
She warned others that she was a victim and that others should not allow IS to fool them too. She also warned youngsters to consult established ‘’Sunni theologians on (proper satellite TV) channels not ‘‘hidden’’ ones behind the internet’’.
A second woman revealed in the alleged confessional video with the alias Umm Leith Al-Trabulsia said she was only 18 years old. She said she had been arrested in her way to Sirte.
She too said that she had been converted through the internet. She also said that once converted she started to see her family as heretics.
She advised girls of her age to’’ look for the (theological) truth and ask learned people before they base their beliefs on falsehoods’’.
It must be noted that critics of Rada see these videos as a partial marketing tool for Rada brigade which is nominally under government control and part of the Ministry of Interior, but operates with much autonomy under its leader Abdel Rauf Kara.
Critics accuse Rada of angling to be given a role in the security role in Tripoli as part of the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement and the Faiez Serraj Government of National Accord.
It must also be recalled that Rada has been accused of using excessive force in its anti-criminal actions which have led to the death of accused criminals prior to them being sentenced by a court.
The Rada Special Deterrence Force (SDF) released further videoed confessions last week of suspects accused of being IS/Daesh terror operators in Tripoli.
The two videos follow on from an earlier video entitled: ‘‘Execution/implementation Orders’’. Many of those featured in the latest videos had been featured in the earlier video released on 15 December.
However, the latest video also contained confessions of two women with Libyan accents.
The confessions and videos provide some useful insights into the recruiting, thinking and operations of these alleged IS/Daesh members.
Further to the operations confessed to in the earlier December video, twelve operations were confessed to in these latest two video releases.
These were: South Korean embassy; the Moroccan embassy; Iranian ambassador’s residence; Spanish embassy; police station at Zawiet Al-Dahmany; Janzur (Ghiran) checkpoint; Police patrol car; Diplomatic police office; Al Najma factory; Central Security HQ and Mitiga prison.
Those confessing on video said they were from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine and Sudan. They admitted that they carried out kidnappings in order to finance their operations. Smuggling across the Libyan border was used for Tunisians to enter Libya illegally.
One Tunisian confessor claimed that his armed Tunisian IS/Daesh colleagues were driving in their cars freely in the city of Sabratha. They carried out kidnappings in order to finance operations in Tunisia, he claimed.
There was cooperation with Libyan accomplices in obtaining fake passports to facilitate travel to Turkey and on to Syria. One was returned by Turkish authorities who spotted his fake Libyan passport. One accused claimed that he had obtained a travel document from the Libyan embassy in Istanbul.
Numerous Libyans from various part of the country were named as accomplices. The internet was often cited as their means of conversion to the IS creed.
Explosive devices were often tied together in bags/rucksacks and set off remotely by mobile phones. Most operations were videoed by a second car in order to be posted on the internet for propaganda purposes.
At the South Korean embassy operation, the accused said they had used a Berretta gun fitted with a silencer. Two security officers were killed.
An accused said that two explosive devices were left at the Iranian ambassador’s residence. While the first device was set off remotely by mobile, the second was only set off once security personnel had surrounded the residence. They established the arrival of the security forces by listening in to their walkie-talkie communications.
The Spanish embassy bomb was 6 kgs of anti-armoured explosives held in a bag and placed next to the plant container outside the embassy.
These latest videos by the Media Office of Rada were, like the first one, of high quality and very slick in their production. However, it is not clear under what circumstances these videoed confessions had been obtained by Rada. None of the accused have been charged by the Public Prosecutor nor taken to court.
Critics of Rada also see these video releases as a partial marketing tool for Rada brigade which is nominally under government control and part of the Ministry of Interior, but operates with much autonomy under its leader Abdel Rauf Kara.
Critics accuse Rada of angling to be given a role in the security role in Tripoli as part of the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement and the Faiez Serraj Government of National Accord.
It will be recalled that Rada has been accused of using excessive force in its anti-criminal actions which have led to the death of accused criminals prior to them being sentenced by a court.
Tunisian authorities have extended the state of emergency until February 21 as the threat of terrorism in the country remains high in the North African country.
Following the beach terror attacks perpetrated last July in Sousse killing 38 foreign tourists, including 30 Britons, Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi declared a 30-day state of emergency. Five months later, another terrorist blast hit a bus packed with Tunisian presidential guards in the capital Tunis on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, pushing president Essebsi to impose again a one-month state of emergency.
The North African country, which has been targeted by the Islamic State group, is believed to be the biggest exporter of jihadists, with the authorities saying at least 3,000 of its nationals are fighting in Iraq and Syria. According to the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries, the number of Tunisian militants joining the Islamic State in Syria & Iraq is one of the highest among the foreign jihadists adhering to the radical terror group.
The factors pushing Tunisians to join the extremist group are as varied. Some are enticed by gunsex religious and political ideologies, while others are lured by financial gains, stressed the UN experts.
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That is one of your best, Zenobia! You drank deep of the well of creativity. I will never get your lyrics out of me head. They are seared, seared, I say, into my memory.
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[Ynet] Since Saturday's execution of four Shi'ite Muslims in Saudi Arabia, hundreds or thousands of the minority sect have marched nightly in protest, and their anger could herald wider unrest.
The execution of one of them, dissident cleric Nimr al-Nimr, caused an international crisis as Shi'ite Iran and its allies responded angrily, but it also caused upset in his home district of Qatif, where many saw his death as unjustified.
"People are angry. And they are surprised, because there were positive signals in the past months that the executions would not take place. People listen to his speeches and there's no direct proof he was being violent," a Qatif community leader said by phone. Wonders of the Muslim mind
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] 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.... threatened to destroy 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... n prisons holding jihadists after Riyadh's execution of 47 people including 43 convicted al Qaeda bully boys.
The bully boy group, which has grabbed credit for attacks in the kingdom and stepped up operations in neighboring Yemen, singled out the al-Ha'ir and Tarfiya prisons where many al Qaeda and Islamic State supporters have been detained.
"The Islamic State always seeks to free prisoners, but we calculate that the ending of the issues of prisoners will not happen except with the eradication of the rule of tyrants, and then destroying their prisons and razing them to the ground," it said in an article posted online on Tuesday.
An Islamic State supporter killed himself in a boom-mobile at a checkpoint outside Ha'ir prison near Riyadh in July.
While Islamic State and al Qaeda are rivals who have condemned each other on ideological grounds, they are both united in enmity towards Saudi Arabia, which has declared them terrorist groups and locked up thousands of their supporters.
Riyadh's mass execution on Saturday included four Shi'ite Muslims, among them prominent holy man Nimr al-Nimr, a move that heightened sectarian tensions with Shi'ite power Iran. But anamysts say it was mostly meant as a message to bully boy Sunnis.
Islamic State has grabbed credit for a series of bombings and shootings in Saudi Arabia since Nov. 2014 that have killed more than 50 people, most of them Shi'ites but also more than 15 members of the security forces.
Saudi security officials say the group's supporters inside Saudi Arabia mainly act independently, depending on Islamic State for only limited logistical help and advice, making them harder to detect, but also less capable of attacks on well protected targets.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) threatened in December to "shed the blood of the soldiers of Al Saud" if its members were executed.
AQAP is the Yemen-based wing of the global bully boy movement and was formed by local jihadists and veterans of al Qaeda's earlier uprising in Saudi Arabia from 2003-06, for participation in which most of those executed on Saturday were convicted.
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[Al Ahram] North Korea's surprise nuclear test "should have consequences" for the reclusive state, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his South Korean counterpart agreed in a phone call Wednesday.
"Secretary Carter reaffirmed the ironclad commitment of the United States to the defense of (South Korea,) and that this commitment includes all aspects of the United States' extended deterrence," the Pentagon said in a read-out of Carter's call with South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo.
The statement added: "Carter and Han agreed that North Korea's provocations should have consequences," without going into any detail.
Carter visited Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas in November, where he met with Han and reiterated the United States' longstanding support of South Korea.
About 28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea and the two forces have very close military ties.
In their call, the two defense chiefs "pledged both sides would coordinate appropriate alliance responses to these provocations."
"Secretary Carter and Minister Han agreed that any such test would be an unacceptable and irresponsible provocation and is both a flagrant violation of international law and a threat to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the entire Asia-Pacific region," the readout stated.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday.
The Interior Ministry said that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the biggest single group, accounting for 428,468 people.
They were followed by Afghans, 154,046 of whom were registered, and 121,662 Iraqis.
Germany has seen more refugees and other migrants arrive than any other European country. In the early part of 2015, that included large numbers of people from Balkan countries who have very little chance of winning asylum. The fourth- and fifth-biggest groups of asylum-seekers last year came from Albania and Kosovo.
The influx was slower in December than in previous months, with 127,320 people arriving -- down from 206,101 in November. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that was largely because of stormy weather in the Mediterranean Sea.
The total tally of registered asylum-seekers includes an as-yet undetermined number of people who were registered twice at different locations or continued to Scandinavia or elsewhere, de Maiziere said. He added that the number of people who actually sought asylum will only become clear as applications come in -- "it is under 1 million, but how far under 1 million can only be said in the course of 2016."
Actual asylum applications have lagged behind arrivals. The government said that 476,649 people formally applied last year -- the highest number on record and more than double the previous year's figure of 202,834.
"We think the level of refugees and asylum-seekers who have come to Germany is too high, and are working so that it isn't repeated on this scale in 2016," de Maiziere said.
There's widespread agreement on that in Germany, but disagreement on how to go about it.
Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... has emphasized the importance of diplomacy and getting other European countries to share the burden, but her conservative allies in Bavaria advocate setting a cap on the number of refugees Germany can take. Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer has suggested a figure of 200,000.
"International efforts haven't yet won through," Seehofer said Wednesday. "We must wait and see what happens in this field in January and February ... and then evaluate what we need in addition."
Seehofer said that if arrivals continue at the pace they did in December, "we would have this year ... more refugees than in the whole of 2015."
Merkel played down the differences as she arrived at an Alpine retreat of Seehofer's Christian Social Union, insisting that her party and his have much more in common than they have divisions.
She said it was very important both to "achieve an appreciable reduction of the refugees" -- by tackling the reasons people are fleeing and sending home rejected asylum-seekers -- and preserve freedom of movement within the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
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And every single one wants a nice Aryan Fraulein to molest?
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Angela Merkel said recently when she met Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook,‘What can you do to stop people writing anti-immigration comments on Facebook?’. That’s the German chancellor, the most important woman in Europe these days. That’s what your political class and our political class in Europe are worrying about - ‘How do we stop people noticing what’s going on in front of their eyes?’ -- Douglas Murray
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Constitutional standoff between the Bundesrepublik and Bavaria, probably.
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In the USA, states are, at least in theory, sovereign. The federal government is supposed to be there to conduct foreign affairs, provide for the common defense, and regulate (i.e., make regular) commerce between states. Of course, this has not been the case for nearly 100 years - possibly since the end of the Civil War in 1865.
EC, are the German states the same? I know that many of them used to be independent countries.
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Difficult to compare, but Bavaria is a Free State (Republic) and actually has its own democratic constitution (1946) predating the German Basic Law.
The position of the länder is quite strong and they can make life very difficult for the Federal Government.
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[CNN] Cologne's mayor has come under fire for advising women to stay "an arm's length" from male strangers after alleged sexual assaults and muggings during New Year's Eve festivities in the German city.
Germany has been shocked by the apparently coordinated crime wave, in which Cologne police received more than 100 criminal complaints from women who said they had been sexually assaulted or robbed by gangs of men of Arab or North African appearance in the city center during New Year's Eve festivities. Cologne police would not elaborate Wednesday on the total number of crimes reported, as the figure continued to rise.
Police have said that about a quarter of the complaints related to sexual assaults, including a rape, and that they believed the assaults were probably intended to distract the victims, allowing attackers to steal mobile phones and other devices.
Three suspects had been identified and were being questioned, a police representative told CNN. Police were working through a large amount of cellphone footage from the evening to identify further suspects.
Similar attacks were reported in Hamburg on New Year's Eve, with 39 reported sexual assaults and 14 robberies, according to police in the city, while police in Stuttgart said two women had reported their phones were missing after they were assaulted by a group of men of Arab appearance during New Year's festivities there.
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Arm's length? What kind of arms? Remington 700? M1911? I thought those were pretty much illegal in Germany.
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A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair while tying the girl to the bed. He gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom.
While he's in there, the husband tells his wife: "Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He's probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants to sleep with you, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he'll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you."
To which his wife responds: "He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!"
It's the Daily Mail so way too long to be quoted here. Lots of pictures as well.
Key points:
Police still have "no idea" who did all the groping.
We should never jump to conclusions.
There are protesters out there today decrying 'racism' and 'sexism' in the police response -- that the police were too quick to accuse men of North African descent. People of Germany should repent. Again. And again and again...
Parts of Cologne are now a 'no-go' zone; but to say that openly is racist.
Cologne mayor Henriette Rekeryor is doubling down on her comments that Gemran wimmin should abide by a 'code of conduct' to protect themselves from rape. No word yet from her office as to proper attire.
Police arrested a German man with a meat cleaver who was looking to avenge the attacks on the wimmin.
Public broadcaster ZDF has apologized for the "apparent censorship" in the reporting of the assaults.
Muslim leaders in Germany think that attacking wimmin is wrong, that of course a large group of refugees would appear to be organized even if they weren't, that more police were needed, that the new refugees should be recruited into the police force, that blaming migrants is wrong, and that (of course) Islam condemns sex attacks and violence.
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Police still have "no idea" who did all the groping.
According to this article 15 men were temporarily arrested. All of them were 'refugees' who had entered Germany days, or at most weeks before. 1 was an Afghan 14 were Syrians.
According to a police report leaked to the press one Syrian who was arrested told the police, "I'm Syrian. You have to treat me well! I was invited by Mrs Merkel!"
[Al Ahram] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Wednesday refused to condemn 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... for its execution of 47 convicts including a prominent Shia holy man, saying it was an "internal legal matter" of the kingdom.
"The executions in Saudi Arabia are an internal legal matter. Whether you approve or not of the decision is a separate issue," Erdogan, who last month visited Riyadh in a new sign of Ankara's warm ties with the kingdom, said in a televised speech in his first reaction to the controversy
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The group of 17 detainees expected to be transferred out of Guantanamo Bay as early as this week includes “multiple bad guys” and “Al Qaeda followers,” a source who has reviewed the list told Fox News. Little is known publicly about which prisoners are being prepared for transfer, but the Obama administration has notified Congress it plans to ship out 17 detainees – some of whom could be transferred within days.
While the identities of the men are closely held, the source who spoke with Fox News said it includes “multiple bad guys … not taxi drivers and cooks.”
This is a reference to the administration’s transfer of Ibrahim al Qosi to Sudan in 2012. Despite entering a “re-integration program,” the one-time cook for Usama bin Laden has now fled to Yemen, where he is among the leadership of Al Qaeda in Yemen. That transfer is now said to be a source of considerable heartburn for the Obama administration.
But it doesn't stop them, does it...
As for those on the docket for immediate transfer, the source told Fox News the administration will not identify the detainees until they are relocated in their new home countries -- because knowing who they are in advance would create further roadblocks and increase the controversy.
Which makes clear that the administration knows that it's doing something wrong, but it's doing it anyways...
Multiple countries have agreed to take the men,
Saudi Arabia. Yemen. Somalia. Sudan. Eritrea. Qatar...
in small groups, and the source said some of the countries were so-called first timers -- a reference to the fact those countries had not taken Guantanamo detainees in the past.
The move to clear out 17 detainees is seen as part of the administration’s long-term plan to ultimately shutter the detention camp. The transfer of 17 prisoners would bring the number of detainees left down to 90 – the bulk of whom cannot be transferred to another country.
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the bulk of whom cannot be transferred to another country.
I guess they'll need to be transferred to a non-country. Antarctica comes to mind. Or Atlantis.
[Al Ahram] Jordan summoned Iran's ambassador in Amman on Wednesday to condemn an attack on the embassy of 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... in Tehran and "Iranian interference" in Arab affairs, Jordanian state news agency Petra reported.
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have spiralled since the execution of a Shia holy man in Saudi Arabia.
Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran early on Sunday and Shia Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, predicted "divine vengeance" for the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken opponent of the ruling Al Saud family.
The Jordanian government stressed its condemnation "of the Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Arab states", the Petra news agency said. It also rejected Iranian statements it said represented "interference in internal Saudi affairs".
The Iranian ambassador was told to relay the Jordanian position to his government immediately.
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran on Sunday. Arab states Bahrain and Sudan have also cut ties with Iran, while the United Arab Emirates partially downgraded its relations with Iran.
Iran has accused the Sunni Muslim monarchy of Saudi Arabia of using the attack on the embassy as an "excuse" to sever ties and further increase sectarian tensions.
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Sources in London revealed the identity of the “murderer” who appeared in the latest ISIS video which showed him killing 5 people accused by the organisation of spying for Britain. He spoke with a British accent and threatened the United Kingdom with terrorist attacks. Sources say that the British man named Siddhartha Dhar (Abu Rumaysah) was formerly a Hindu and then converted to Islam several years ago. The sources added that Abu Rumaysah was a leader of the Al-Muhajiroun organisation which was founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian who is currently being held at Rumiyyah prison in south Lebanon.
Al-Muhajiroun sources told Asharq Al-Awsat yesterday that Abu Rumaysah is considered one of the converts to Islam in the group, and that their number exceeds 20. The most prominent of these converts is Abu Izz Al-Din who is of Jamaican origin.
Scotland Yard police had arrested Abu Rumaysah on charges of incitement but after his release on bail in 2014, he fled to Syria. He joined ISIS in the city of Al-Raqqah and appeared in a video carrying his newborn baby, his fourth son, with one hand and a rifle with the other.
The sister of Abu Rumaysah Konika Dhar acknowledged that the voice of the “murderer” in the latest video resembles her brother’s voice but said that she could not say for sure. She vowed to kill him herself if it is proven that he is the perpetrator and the British authorities have not yet made an official comment with regards to this.
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DAMASCUS – A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said on Wednesday that the airstrikes against the oil facilities of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) have cut the group’s oil revenues by about 30 percent since October.
United States and allies have recently intensified airstrikes on the oil infrastructure held by the terror group.
Since October, the coalition’s air forces have bombed ISIS’s oil facilities with 65 airstrikes, according to the Baghdad-based spokesman of the U.S.-led coalition Colonel Steve Warren.
“Those strikes have cut ISIS oil revenues by about 30 percent, and cut their production from 45,000 barrels of oil per day to 34,000 bpd,” Warren said.
“In addition to chipping away at their so-called caliphate, killing their leaders, we’re also hitting them in the pocketbook,” he added.
The radical group’s revenue from oil production used to reach more than $45 million per month. However, the amount has recently decreased due to the intensified airstrikes.
Over the last few months, the coalition’s airstrikes have also killed dozens of prominent members of the radical group across Syria and Iraq, beside hitting tactical units and weapons storage centers held by ISIS.
[REUTERS] President Hassan Rouhani asked Iran's judiciary on Wednesday to urgently prosecute the people who attacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran in protest at the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shi'ite holy man.
Rouhani's comments appear to show his determination to reduce tension with Iran's Sunni Gulf neighbors and continue his attempts to normalize ties with world powers by speaking out on a practice that has become a challenge for the Islamic Theocratic Republic's foreign policy.
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... , Bahrain, Sudan and Djibouti broke all ties with Iran this week, the United Arab Emirates downgraded its relations and Kuwait recalled its ambassador after the embassy was stormed. Jordan summoned Iran's ambassador.
After reaching a landmark nuclear deal with world powers in July, Rouhani is seeking to end Iran's long isolation with the West. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the repercussions of the attack could jeopardize that, posing the biggest diplomatic crisis of his government.
Members of the U.N. Security Council released a statement on Monday condemning the attack, and another on a consulate in the city of Mashhad, "in the strongest terms".
"By punishing the attackers and those who orchestrated this obvious offense, we should put an end once and forever to such damage and insults to Iran's dignity and national security," Rouhani was quoted as saying in a letter published on the state news agency IRNA.
While embassies are often a focus of protests worldwide, Iran still celebrates the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran every year and refers to it as the Second Revolution.
Since then, Iranians have attacked several embassies in Tehran, including those of Kuwait in 1987, Saudi Arabia in 1988, Denmark in 2006 and Britannia in 2011, most of which have led to a breach in diplomatic relations.
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President Hassan Rouhani asked Iran's judiciary on Wednesday to urgently prosecute the people who attacked the Saudi embassy at the direction of Rouhani's Government and IRGC in Tehran in protest at the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shi'ite holy man.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
North Korea
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday.
[CNN] Cologne's mayor has come under fire for advising women to stay "an arm's length" from male strangers after alleged sexual assaults and muggings during New Year's Eve festivities in the German city.
It's the Daily Mail so way too long to be quoted here. Lots of pictures as well. 
