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Afghanistan
Afghanistan Ranked 2nd Most Corrupt Country In The world
[Tolo News] A new annual study of Transparency International illustrates Afghanistan, Somalia and North Korea as the most corrupt countries among 176 in the world.

Afghanistan is the second most corrupt country in the list of 176 countries ranked in the report.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
Executive Director for Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) Mohammad Ikram Afzali is concerned over the Afghan government's anti-corruption campaign and recommended a number of changes to this drive.

"The fight against corruption should be the top priority of the National Unity Government [NUG]. There should be a political will for this purpose," he said.

"The NUG has not implemented its promises it has made for overcoming the endemic corruption in the country," said Nasir Temori, a researcher at the IWA.

The Chief Executive of the NUG, 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...
, in a session with UN and other humanitarian organizations said they are committed to fighting endemic corruption.

"There is no doubt in the NUG's mind it is serious about the fight against corruption in public offices," he said.

The NUG leaders in the first day in their office vowed to overcome corruption in government offices and bring transparency in government contracts and other processes that pave the way for this problem.

"Not only government but the people, the civil society and the private sector are responsible to join hands and fight corruption in the country," said the president's deputy front man Sayed Zafar Hashemi.

According to the annual report of Transparency International, Denmark, Finland and Sweden are the top three countries with no corruption.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well the top 3 non corrupt countries will start changing when they hand the govt. ovet to the migrants.
Posted by: chris || 01/28/2016 14:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Who's the first (it's better to be the first in Hell etc...)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 16:56 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Flavirong Munster9721 || 01/28/2016 20:07 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan orders borders with S. Sudan to be reopened
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
on Wednesday ordered the reopening of the country's contested borders with South Sudan, state media reported after a dispute that in 2012 led to armed conflict.

Relations between Juba and Khartoum had been tense since South Sudan's secession split in 2011 under a peace deal that ended a bloody 22-year civil war, with disputes over several areas along the border.

"Field Marshal Omar al-Bashir, president of the republic, issued a resolution today (Wednesday) opening the border with the state of South Sudan," the Sudanese state news agency SUNA's website said.

The brief statement also said Bashir had ordered the "competent authorities to take all measures for the implementation of this resolution on the ground," but gave no further details.

Juba and Khartoum had remained at odds since 2011 on several unresolved issues from the secession, including the frontier.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Hundreds of Groups Run Statelets with Cross-Border Targets
Tripoli- In a series of episodes, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper observes the complications of Libyan civil war and the chaos, which resulted in the emergence of hundreds of groups that lead “statelets” with cross-border targets.

Despite attempts by International Community and various Libyan parties to put an end to the security chaos the country is enduring, challenges seem to be more than just meetings, dialogues and political solutions. There are forces led by groups that could drag the country into civil war.

The danger lies in about five paramilitary groups that are spread in specific geographic areas and that enjoy good funding and armament as they have intelligence and security devices similar to those known in the countries. Nevertheless, what stirred this problem and resulted in its persistence were the warlords, thieves, militias, and battalions that emerged after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

In contrast, the national army, led by Gen. Khalifa Haftar suffers from a lack of back up for equipment and soldiers, especially when facing extremists who are holed up in the capital and several other cities.

The first episode tackles the areas close to the oil fields, especially Ajdabiya and Ras Lanuf that include warlords, ISIS militants and federalists. Some of the Libyans call these areas “Ajdabiyan Ghosts” after they caused panic in oil fields and oil export ports.
Posted by: badanov || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Saudi strikes on Yemen civilians may be crimes against humanity: U.N.
[REUTERS] A Saudi-led coalition fighting in neighboring 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...
has targeted civilians with air strikes and some of the attacks could be a crimes against humanity, United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
sanctions monitors said in an annual report to the Security Council.

The report by the U.N. panel that monitors the conflict in Yemen for the Security Council, seen by Rooters on Wednesday, sparked calls by rights groups for the United States and Britannia to halt sales of weapons to 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...
that could be used in such attacks.

The panel of experts documented 119 coalition sorties "relating to violations of international humanitarian law" and said that "many attacks involved multiple air strikes on multiple civilian objects."

The U.N. experts said all parties to the conflict in Yemen were violating international humanitarian law. They said that in certain cases the violations by the coalition were conducted in a "widespread and systemic manner" and therefore could qualify as crimes against humanity.

The U.N. experts recommended the 15-member Security Council consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry to investigate violations of international law.

The Saudi U.N. mission was not immediately available for comment.
"I can say no more!"
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  The check bounced?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  The Iranians pledged more.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/28/2016 14:03 Comments || Top||


Europe
Sweden to expel 80,000 asylum-seekers, minister says
[IsraelTimes] After taking in over 160,000, Stockhold to deport tens of thousands of migrants whose applications were rejected

intends to expel up to 80,000 migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose application for asylum has been rejected, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said Wednesday.

"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," the minister was quoted as saying by Swedish media, adding that the government had asked the police and authorities in charge of migrants to organize their expulsion.
Organize carefully guys. Some of these people will be desperate, and some are evil. Such people do not accept passively the removal of their dream.
The proposed measure was announced as Europe struggles to deal with a crisis that has seen tens of thousands of migrants arrive on Greek beaches, with the passengers -- mostly fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan -- undeterred by cold wintry conditions.

The UN says more than 46,000 people have arrived in Greece so far this year, with more than 170 people killed making the dangerous crossing.

Ygeman said the expulsions, normally carried out using commercial flights, would have to be done using specially chartered aircraft, given the large numbers, staggered over several years.
How long until the first hijacking d'you suppose, dear Reader? And how many will wander off rather than wait for their flight?
Sweden, which is home to 9.8 million people, is one of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
countries that has taken in the largest number of refugees in relation to its population. Sweden accepted more than 160,000 asylum seekers last year.

But the number of migrant arrivals has dropped dramatically since Sweden enacted systematic photo ID checks on travelers on January 4.

Swedish officials on Tuesday called for greater security at overcrowded asylum centers a day after the fatal stabbing of an employee at a refugee center for unaccompanied youths.

The alleged attacker was a young male residing at a center for youngsters aged 14 to 17 in Molndal near Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast.

The employee was 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher, according to Swedish media reports, whose family was originally from Leb. A motive for the attack was not immediately clear.

Her death has led to questions about overcrowded conditions inside some centers, with too few adults and employees to take care of children, many traumatized by war.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  removals to be

staggered over several years

well, who is going to have the first anchor baby?
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Good luck with that...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2016 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Bright pebbles - exactly

it will never happen. it is just to pacify the population then distract them

while dismantling and outlawing the protest movements like pegida
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 10:48 Comments || Top||


EU complains about difficulties in deporting migrants to Pakistan
[DAWN] Can't get rid of the beturbanned little darlings.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  You mean Jean-Claude Juncker's not putting up any of these aspiring European citizens?
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2016 0:51 Comments || Top||


Refugees Critical Of Tough New Danish Immigration Laws
[Tolo News] Denmark's parliament passed measures on Tuesday aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum, including confiscating valuables to pay for their stay, despite protests from international human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
organizations.

The measures, which also include extending family reunification among refugees from one year to three years, are the latest sign that the Nordic welcome for refugees is waning as large numbers flee war in Africa and Middle East for a better life in Europe.

The "jewellery bill" is the latest attempt by Denmark's minority center-right government to curb immigration to a country that took in a record 20,000 refugees last year.

Under the bill, refugees could keep possessions amounting to 10,000 Danish crowns ($1,450 USD), raised from 3,000 crowns after criticism from human rights organizations. Valuables of special emotional value such as wedding rings will be exempt.

At the Trampoline House in central Copenhagen, which offers support to asylum seekers and refugees, people were critical of the new laws.

"I think it's a wrong law and we don't accept this. We condemn it and we protested today and we are going to keep going to protest against this new law because this doesn't work. We want the Danish parliament to think again about this new law because this is dehumanizing us," said 27-year-old Hiwa from Iraq.

"I'm so sorry about these new rules and it's really bad that the Danish parliament they come out with difficult and harder and harder rules. That's not a good decision," added Shagira, 29, from Afghanistan.

Trampoline House's manager Marten Goll, said there was a sense of "hopelessness" among the refugees.

"Many refugees they flee to Denmark and the West because they believe in human rights and democracy and they believe that they will find it here. It's kind of what the West is always telling, that the West is a beacon of democracy and human rights and respect for the singular individual and now with these laws it's obvious that our politicians do not respect this for people who do not have Danish passports," he said.

The Liberals Party government has just 34 out of 179 seats in parliament and depends on support of rightist parties, including the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DF), to pass laws.

The dissenting voices came from small left-wing parties, including from Red Green Alliance.

But the bill passed with an overwhelming majority, backed by the main center-left opposition party Social Democrats, highlighting a shift to the right in Denmark's political landscape thanks to DF's popularity and rising concern over refugee numbers.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trampoline House's manager Marten Goll, said there was a sense of "hopelessness" among the refugees.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this...
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2016 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  " the bill passed with an overwhelming majority," despite the wishes of oikophobic "journalists"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2016 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Wolves are critical of deer antlers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Critical? Let me know when they're screaming in agony.

I need the lulz.
Posted by: charger || 01/28/2016 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  They could always go back to were they came from.
Posted by: chris || 01/28/2016 14:56 Comments || Top||


Germany Toughens Expulsion Rules for Foreigners who Commit Crimes
[AnNahar] German 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...
's cabinet Wednesday agreed to make it easier to expel foreigners who have committed crimes, in the wake of a spate of sex assaults on New Year's Eve blamed on migrants.

Police investigating the crime spree in the western city of Cologne
...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there...
have said the suspects were mostly asylum seekers and illegal migrants from North Africa.

The rampage shocked Germany and jolted Merkel into backing changes to the law, which are expected to be passed by parliament given her coalition government's strong majority.

On Wednesday, her cabinet backed changing the law to expel asylum seekers who have been sentenced to one year's jail or more, including suspended sentences.

Previously, refugee status could only be withdrawn in cases where applicants had ben sentenced to at least three-year terms.

The Cologne assaults ignited a heated debate in Germany over the country's ability to socially integrate the 1.1 million asylum seekers it took in last year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  none of this will happen. what they are doing is promising people things will change but these changes will take years.

it is like saying to a toddler, yes you can have the lolly, but later

and then waiting for the kid to be distracted. kid never gets the lolly

nothing will change

nobody will be deported

they will all stay. same goes for sweden with their ridiculous claim 80,000 to be deported, staggered over several years...

no they wont

and meanwhile they will hack at the opposition, the pegida

until they disappear

yesterday 2 people were arrested in Germany for anti-Islam facebook page they were moderators of

they are the first of many
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  like e.e.cummings, without the reader-enjoyment value.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/28/2016 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  :)

it is odd that

the chap down

under let his lank

wedge skills go so

asunder
Posted by: JHH || 01/28/2016 16:09 Comments || Top||

#4  a tale of mohammedan lives

split this plum
with the other
three wives
Posted by: M.O. Hummings || 01/28/2016 16:32 Comments || Top||


French Justice Minister Quits over 'Terrorist' Nationality Row
[AnNahar] French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira quit Wednesday in protest over the government's efforts to strip convicted French-born gunnies of their citizenship if they have a second nationality.

Taubira, popular among the ruling Socialists of President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
but a target of criticism from right-wing politicians, tweeted: "Sometimes to resist means staying, sometimes resisting means leaving."
Continued on Page 49
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Danish People's Party: More asylum restrictions coming
Denmark will probably tighten its asylum policies further, the country's influential anti-immigration party said on Wednesday, a day after lawmakers passed a controversial bill allowing authorities to seize valuables from refugees.

The Danish People's Party (DF) has already reached agreement with Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen's minority government to retroactively lower social benefits for those granted asylum under the previous centre-left coalition, DF's spokesman on immigration issues Martin Henriksen told AFP. He also expected legislation to be passed making it easier to deport refugees who have committed crimes.

"We have influenced them in several different areas and we see that as our job," Henriksen said of the government.

"It wouldn't be the first time that the Danish People's Party has to work to get curbs [on immigration] through parliament," he added.

On Tuesday, when Denmark's parliament adopted the reforms aimed at dissuading migrants from seeking asylum by delaying family reunifications and allowing authorities to confiscate migrants' valuables, Rasmussen's right-wing Venstre government said it had no immediate plans to tighten asylum rules further.

"At the moment, no, we do not. We've introduced several pieces of legislation to keep the amount of asylum at a manageable level," Marcus Knuth, Venstre's spokesman on immigration issues, told AFP.

In order to pass legislation the right-wing minority government needs parliamentary backing from DF, which became Denmark's biggest right-wing party in last year's general election.

"A lot of the curbs that were adopted yesterday have only been introduced because the Danish People's Party has pushed for them," Henriksen said.

"The government initially proposed a package of migration laws that was much smaller than what was passed yesterday," he added, noting that DF was the first party in parliament to raise the issue of whether migrants' valuables could be used to pay for their stay in asylum centres.

DF is also behind a resolution, passed by lawmakers last week, pushing the government to look into the construction of temporary housing complexes outside cities for refugees, like the country did during the Balkans war in the 1990s.

DF sees it as a first step towards building state-run camps where refugees would stay without integrating into Danish society. The government has opposed the idea.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since you cannot get to Denmark without travelling through safe countries. The umber of genuine asylum seekers in Denmark is zero.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2016 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess to a socialist this is no big deal, but I would imagine that impoverishing your new citizens is probably a bad idea.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/28/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||

#3  My guess is that given the choice, the bejeweled migrant will return to Germany.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/28/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
ISIS 'plans to kidnap Russian tourists' in Turkey
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia's federal tourism agency on Wednesday issued a warning that 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) were planning to abduct Russian citizens in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
"According to the competent agencies, leaders of the ISIS terrorist group plan to take hostages from among Russian citizens in Turkey," it said in a statement.

"Hostages can be transferred on to territories controlled by hard boyz to hold public executions and to be used as human shields in combat with Syrian government and coalition forces," it added.

"Therefore we draw the attention of all independent tourists departing for Turkey to the necessity of taking all possible measures to ensure personal security."

Turkey had been Russia's number one foreign tourism destination for years but this came to an abrupt end following the shooting down of a Russian military plane by Turkish jets on the Syria-Turkey border in November.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Just a guess, ISIS - that would not be a wise course of action.
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2016 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Geez, you'd think they would learn.

They blow up an airliner in Egypt and now the rocks dance in Syria and Iraq, what do you think the State Directorate on Security would do if ISIS took Russians as hostages?

Well, it would be FUN to watch even if ill advised on their part...the Russians are game for it, bring it on as Vlad would say.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/28/2016 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Lebanon 1985.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't Turkey and Russia just have a spat. Why would Russian Tourists be in Turkey at this point?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/28/2016 11:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Border with Afghanistan not safe: Khattak
[DAWN] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that border between Pakistain and Afghanistan is not safe and without securing it cities in the country can't be made safe for people.

He was talking to Joanna Reid, the head of DFID, who along with her delegation called on him at Chief Minister Secretariat here on Wednesday. In her introductory call, the DFID head lauded the commitment and engagement of the provincial government, said a statement.

Explaining security situation in the province, the chief minister said on the occasion that entry points at Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, Angor Adda and Torkham were open for any sort of movement and Lions of Islam involved in the recent Charsadda incident came from across the border.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Not safe? No kidding.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/28/2016 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  When has it ever been safe?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2016 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure after Timur went through, it was reasonably safe for quite some time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 9:42 Comments || Top||

#4  ...near total depopulation has that effect. Known to reduce recidivism.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2016 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Whaaaat? Maaaaaan.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2016 19:40 Comments || Top||


Terrorism controlled to great extent, says Qaim. Honest.
[DAWN] DADU: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that his government has succeeded in controlling terrorism to a great extent. Referring to a remarkable improvement in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
law and order, he said acts of terrorism, assassination'>assassination
and other heinous crime ravaged the city for 30 years but they had almost been curbed by the government.

Speaking at a public meeting in Khanpur Junejo town of Dadu district on Wednesday, the chief minister termed terrorism the biggest challenge being faced by the country. "Right from Karachi to Jacobabad, the menace had spread across Sindh but the provincial government took effective measures and succeeded in controlling it to a great extent," he said, and held out the assurance that it [terrorism] would be eliminated very soon.

Mr Shah criticised the Pakistain Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for registering fresh cases against Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, and recalled that similar false cases had been registered against him by it (PML-N) in the past as well.

"We support the PML-N in pursuance of the PPP chief's policy and in the greater interest of democracy and the country," Mr Shah said.

Speaking about various other issues, the chief minister said that murders, kidnapping for ransom and other crimes in Sindh had registered a decline due to effective police operations against dacoits. Most of the criminals had either been killed or tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Chief's 'refusal' seen as PML-N's failure
[DAWN] ONE would think that Army Chief General Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
's unequivocal statement, saying he is not interested in an extension, would have calmed frayed nerves in the PML-N camp, but not so.

In background discussions with Dawn, several ruling party insiders have expressed shock over what they see as the government allowing the military to tip the already-delicate balance of power in their favour, without putting up much of a fight.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
's term in office has been punctuated with tensions between the civilian and military leadership over issues such as membership of the military coalition against 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 implementation of the much-touted National Action Plan.

Commenting on the status of civil-military relations, Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Dawn, "I don't buy the argument that the civilian and military leadership are on one page."

Senior PML-N leaders told Dawn that the chief's statement was a reaction to media reports attributed to federal ministers, claiming that the government wanted to offer Gen Sharif more time in office. The justification presented for these claims was that the government wanted the general to see the NAP through to its conclusion, since the two institutions had gelled well in the ongoing fight against terrorism.

A news story, attributed to close aides of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had claimed that three senior members of the ruling party were in contact with GHQ in a bid to persuade the COAS to accept the extension in his term because the government wanted to ensure continuity of the anti-terrorism policy spearheaded by Gen Sharif.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Some schools to close, some to remain open amid confusion
[DAWN] Even though Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

is the only province that has officially closed schools until Jan 31, there was widespread confusion across the country as several institutions -- private and public -- announced closure citing various reasons.

All Army Public and Bahria schools and colleges across the country were asked by the relevant authority not to reopen until Monday.

"We don't really know the reason for this. Maybe it is because of the sudden drop in temperatures, but we were issued these orders and we must comply," retired Commander Shafqat Rasool Janjua of the Army Public Intermediate College for Boys and Girls in Malir Cantt, Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, told Dawn on Wednesday.

All Bahria schools and colleges that happen to be combined educational institutions will also remain closed on Thurs­day and Friday, though Bahria University, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore would be open. A source in Pakistain Navy said that this was a one-time only precautionary measure which wouldn't be repeated every week.

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) did not confirm the order, but a military official told Dawn that certain institutions had been asked to close.

A spokesperson for the interior ministry said no such orders had been issued at the federal level.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Syria’s Kurds not invited to Geneva peace talks
[Rudaw] Syria's Kurds -- one of the forces fighting 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....
(ISIS) forces in that country -- will not be represented at peace talks scheduled for this Friday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed on Wednesday.

He said that UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, had not invited the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to the Geneva peace talks.

"The PYD group was causing the most problems, and Mr. de Mistura told me he had not sent them an invitation letter," Fabius said according to Rooters.The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
opposes the PYD having a presence at the talks since it perceives the group to be little more than the Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Russia has insisted that the PYD be represented in the talks.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov went as far as arguing on Tuesday that it would be impossible to reach a peace agreement in Syria without including the Kurds in talks.

While the PYD hasn't fought the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
, it has fiercely combated the ISIS group.The opposition at Geneva is to be represented primarily by groups backed by 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...
which, last December, gathered representatives in Riyadh for a summit.

Riyadh did not invite the PYD back then, likely due to the fact that the PYD has not fought Assad to date.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  are we going to betray the kurds AGAIN

after we let them suffer saddam

used them to fight our battles and left them to hang, again and again


are we going to deny the Kurds their own state to please some barbaric disgustic Islamist sunni theocrats in Ankara and Riyadh?????
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  are we going to betray the kurds AGAIN

Yes, of course. But, maybe, Ivan will pick the slack this time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm hoping the kurds will learn not to trust the US. Even though I'm American, I'm tired of seeing the get screwed by our govt. ,besides the Israelis, they are the only group I would consider trustworthy in the whole region.
Posted by: chris || 01/28/2016 14:49 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Video: Peshmerga teams dig out ISIS bombs long after the group withdraws
[Rudaw] The Kurdish Peshmerga have defused 7,000 bombs in Kirkuk and other frontlines. Most of the bombs are defused in areas the Peshmerga reclaimed from ISIS. These bombs and IEDs are a major problem for the Peshmerga.

The ISIS Death Eaters plant them inside homes, public places and roads.

Bomb disposal teams are sent to each area after liberation. Families not allowed to return until all explosives are removed first. Jalawla in northern Diyala is one example. It was reclaimed in November 2014, but only recently families were able to go home. The Yezidi town of Shingal was taken back in November 2015, but it still has many explosives. Bomb disposal teams have cleared much of it. Still doing more.

The Peshmerga say the bombs are advanced and laid everywhere. It takes time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Southeast Asia
Hundreds show up to support convicted Indonesian terrorist
[AFP] Hundreds of supporters of a jailed Indonesian extremist chanted "Allahu akbar!" outside court Tuesday, as the radical cleric tried to overturn his conviction for funding a terrorist group.

Just 12 days after a deadly gun and suicide bomb attack in Jakarta, security was tight as Abu Bakar Bashir returned to the Central Java court to challenge his 15-year sentence for helping fund a militant group in western Indonesia. Around 1,500 security personnel were deployed to secure the streets around the courthouse, far more than at Bashir's last hearing which took place just two days before the terrorist attack.

Wearing a flowing white robe and a turban, Bashir spoke little during the hearing but his supporters were vocal, shouting at the judge and prosecutors. One of them cried, "Free Bashir, he is not a terrorist!"

Bashir's lawyers argue that money he collected was intended to help people in Palestine, but was sent to a militant group in Aceh without his knowledge.

Though Bashir's influence has waned, hundreds of his followers – along with supporters of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) – packed the court and spilled out onto the forecourt, where police kept watch with a mobile water cannon.

"I have been here since yesterday to support Bashir and Habib Rizieq," said one outside the courtroom, the latter a reference to the FPI founder who gave evidence Tuesday.
Posted by: ryuge || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good to have them clustering like that.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2016 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't he the 'mastermind' behind the Bali bombing? His sentence was reduced for every Islamic holiday until it was pretty much all 'reduced away'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/28/2016 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  What do you expect? For years SBY promoted Islamism and suppressed secularism. He promoted the spread of Olde Tyme Religion

And Saudi money poured into Indonesia to support the spread of Islamism. This is what you get.

Hizb ut-Tahrir, political party promoting Islamist goal of Caliphate through Sharia, rallied in may, in Jakarta - more than 100,000 flag waving screaming fanatics filled a stadium and marched in formation like an Islamist Nuremburg rally
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 17:46 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran training volunteer 'advisers' to serve in Syria
[Ynet] A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday that it is training volunteer "advisers" to serve alongside President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria.

General Mohsen Kazemeini said Iran feels an "obligation" to send "military advisers" to Syria to protect Shiite shrines at the request of the Assad government. His comments were posted Wednesday on a website for the Basij, a paramilitary division of the Guard.

"The Basij division of Tehran carries out registration of volunteers for advisory activities in Syria," Kazemeini said. "Only a few of those trained are dispatched to Syria."
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "The Basij division of Tehran carries out registration of volunteers for advisory activities in Syria,"

So, paid Thugs.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/28/2016 14:32 Comments || Top||


Rowhani: Iran didn't ask for nude statue cover-up
So Rome pre-emptively surrendered? How thoughtful of them.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian President Hassan Rowhani says Iran didn't make any specific requests for Rome museum officials to cover up naked statues but says he nevertheless appreciated the welcome he received.

Rowhani laughed Wednesday when asked at the end of a three-day visit to Italia about the statue cover-up, which made headlines in Italia and around the world. Some Italian politicians decried the "cultural submission" implied in Italia's gesture.

The Iranian president said Iran made no specific request for the cover-up, saying there were "no contacts about this" from his side.

But he added: "I know that Italians are a very hospitable people, a people who try to do the most to put their guests at ease and I thank you for this."

Ahead of a joint news conference Monday with Premier Matteo Renzi, wooden panels were erected around some Roman-era statues in Rome's Capitoline Museums.

The Iranian president also told news hounds on Wednesday that freedom of expression doesn't extend to insulting other people's faith.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  but it would be interesting to know what Rouhani thought of the wine
Posted by: lord garth || 01/28/2016 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "That's our story and we're sticking to it."

Care to wager there wasn't some back-channel communication about this?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/28/2016 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Was he disappointed?
Posted by: james || 01/28/2016 22:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Only the statues of goats needed to be covered.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/28/2016 23:59 Comments || Top||


U.S. presses Syrian opposition to attend talks
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian opposition groups should seize the historic opportunity to attend peace talks in Geneva planned for Friday and go without preconditions, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

"Factions of the opposition have an historic opportunity to go to Geneva and propose serious, practical ways to implement a ceasefire, humanitarian access and other confidence-building measures, and they should do so without preconditions," State Department front man Mark Toner said.

"We believe it should seize this opportunity to test the regime's willingness and intentions, and expose before the entire world which parties are serious about a potential peaceful political transfer in Syria, and which are not," he told a briefing.

Opposition groups adjourned a meeting in 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...
on Wednesday saying they were waiting for a U.N. response to their demands.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Terror Networks
Jabhat al-Nusra greater threat than ISIS, warns report
[Rudaw] A new policy report by Fred and Kim Kagan (developers of the so-called "surge" strategy in Iraq around a decade ago) charges that the al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
, poses a greater threat to the United States in the long-term than 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....
(ISIS) does.

"Any strategy that leaves Jabhat al-Nusra in place will fail to secure the American homeland," the report warns.

Published by American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War the report posits that Nusra is "much more dangerous to the U.S. than the ISIS model in the long run."

"While ISIS is flashier ... both represent an existential threat, both wish to attack the homeland, both seek the mobilization of Muslim communities against the West," Kim Kagan told CNN.

However Nusra is more dangerous in their view since, unlike ISIS, it "is quietly intertwining itself with the Syrian population and Syrian opposition ... they are waiting in the wings to pick up the mantle of global jihad once ISIS falls."

"Right now," she continued, "al-Nusra has decided not to overtly host attack cells because the al-Qaeda leadership's priority is preserving success in Syria and avoiding being targeted by the U.S."

"We define a threat as having the capability and the intent. ... The capability is already there, and in time the intent will be as well," they warned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  WRONG AGAIN everyone

"Any strategy that leaves Jabhat al-Nusra any theocratic Islamist organisation in place will fail to secure the American homeland," the report warns.

Only truly secular muslims pose no threat to the USA or anywhere else

all theocratic fascists are a threat to democracy and freedom. Even the shia in Iran. Yes.
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Only truly secular muslims pose no threat to the USA or anywhere else

The Assads were secular Muslims, anon1, as was Saddam Hussein. Both sponsored and trained terror groups that attacked Israel and elsewhere.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The Assads were secular Muslims, anon1, as was Saddam Hussein. Both sponsored and trained terror groups that attacked Israel and elsewhere.

And Gamel Nasser

And Muammar Gaddafi

And Yassir Arafat

And the rest of Fatah

And the PLO

And.. .I could go on. Unfortunately.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/28/2016 14:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Christopher Hitchens demonstrated that Saddam Hussein was not secular

Saddam enjoyed a long relationship with Islam's holy men, inscribed the worlds "Allahu Akhbar" on the Iraqi flag, and sponsored holy jihadis, built mosques, and murdered thousands of people in his "Operation Anfal" borrowing a term from the Koran.

the Baath party modelled itself on European fascism, which was not modelled on secularism and proposes the worship of the state, the party and the leader. In Iraq in the last 15 years under Saddam morphed completely into an Islamist regime and changed all its rhetoric to Jihadism, complete with a koran written entirely in Saddams blood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2YEQK8oWc

Saddam pretended to be secular as he was a minority sect (Sunni) in control of a majority Shia country.

Similarly Bashar al Assad ran a completely religious regime - a minority Alawite religious clan. A variant of shia. It sponsors clerical terrorism around the world and its main ally is Iran, a shia theocracy, and co-sponsors hezbollah.

That is NOT secular.

Finally, you can be a bad leader and secular or a good leader and secular. It is not enough on its own.

but it is an absolutely necessary precurser to any ally being long-term safe for the West.

That means we should have long ago dumped the Saudis and have kicked Turkey out of Nato when Erdogan began sponsoring IS and supporting Islamism
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 17:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Sad-be-dam was an admirer of Stalin. Hard to square that with being a nazi.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/28/2016 17:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Former Islamic extremist says the Far Left are helping Islamic State spread ideas in West
Maajid Nawaz,
absolute hero, for those who do not know he used to be full Islamist, locked up in Egypt for it. He started the Quilliam Foundation and spends his life stamping out Islamist theocratic fascism. Islamists regularly threaten to get rid of him.
who was formally a member of radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, is now seeking to challenge the narrative of Islamic extremists and form a more moderate Islam.

"We need a rational conversation about reforming Islam," Nawaz told Yahoo7.

Nawaz said even non-Muslims have a role to play in this reform.

"You don't need to be black to challenge racism, you don't need to be gay to challenge homophobia, and you don't need to be a Muslim to challenge Islam.


"You don't even need to know anything about Islam to know that it is wrong to enslave and rape women like ISIS are doing with the Yazidi women.

Nawaz has coined the phrase the 'Regressive Left', which he describes as a section of the Left wing of politics who "are abusing terms such as racism, bigotry and Islamophobia to shutdown debate".

"Islam is not a race and it is certainly not racist to scrutinise Islam just as it is not anti-Christian to scrutinise, critique and satirise Christianity.

"No idea should be above scrutiny, just as no people should be below dignity."


Nawaz said it is "absurd" to state that the likes of ISIS are not inspired by Islam, as some liberal thinkers on the Left attempt to claim.

Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 08:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  liberal thinkers on the Left attempt to claim

A contradiction and a tautology in one sentence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2016 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Maajid Nawaz may be a heroic guy but I think he underestimates (actually he sort of denies) the problem that Islamic terrorism is a logical outcome of the Koran, Hadith and Sunna.

Posted by: lord garth || 01/28/2016 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  It's nice that the Left has found a bunch of gun-toting religious fanatics with whom it can relate.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/28/2016 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Lord Garth - read the whole thing at the link, you will see maajid specifically says that terrorism is to do with Islam and that terrorists are quoting scripture when they throw gays from rooves etc.

he does not deny it at all
Posted by: anon1 || 01/28/2016 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  that's why I said, "...sort of denies..." because he wants to retain Islam but lose the terrorism, intimidation and so on

yes, this can be done by various theological means and several sects of Islam - alevi, ismaeli, amahdi have done this to some degree -- but that doesn't really solve the problem because as long as the Koran (and haditha and sunna) are out there and considered divine, they are a source for terrorism --
Posted by: lord garth || 01/28/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, what is being sold is "math class" - without the math. Not believable...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2016 12:41 Comments || Top||

#7  His claim as highlighted in the article's title is essentially correct. The loss of the USSR was a severe blow to the homegrown leftist, which was their main bulwark against the West. 9/11 provided them with a suitable replacement and they immediately set about appropriating Islam for their own goals, which has always been to destroy the notion of Western Culture. And, they do this without any instruction. It's ingrained in their indoctrination and they seek to spread it. That's why see in US, Canada, and now Austria, school children singing songs in praise of Allah. Allah's lieb ist so wunderbar!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/28/2016 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  liberals are all bomb throwing anarchists. They HATE Civilization. Of course they are helping them.
Posted by: newc || 01/28/2016 15:44 Comments || Top||



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