[Breitbart] The email was actually first released last May but was contained in Monday’s batch as well, serving as a reminder that numerous emails sent to Clinton’s private address betrayed Stevens’ location while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for an American diplomat.
The email in question was written Sunday, April 10, 2011 by State employee Timmy Davis and sent to the State email addresses of other employees, including Clinton’s then-foreign policy aide, Jacob Sullivan and Clinton’s senior aide.
Abedin forwarded the message to Clinton. At the time, Stevens was the U.S. envoy to the Libyan rebels.
The dispatch read:
The situation in Ajdabiyah has worsened to the point where Stevens is considering departure from Benghazi. The envoy’s delegation is currently doing a phased checkout (paying the hotel bills, moving some comms to the boat, etc). He will monitor the situation to see if it deteriorates further, but no decision has been made on departure. He will wait 2-3 more hours, then revisit the decision on departure.
The email is one of several giving away Stevens’ location and movements.
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Hostile Foreign Intelligence hackers might have found this Situation Report (SITREP) quite useful, if their goal was to use a local proxy or contract agents to cause mischief, embarrass the U.S., or upset a clandestine arms smuggling operation.
It would be interesting to know what other SITREPS [both pre and post Benghazi attack] might have sent over UNCLAS systems, and the extent of U.S. distribution. The need for a video faux cause and 'Sunday Talk Show' diversion campaign appears quite plausible.
Sadly, I suspect the entire Benghazi investigation will go absolutely nowhere. It may have long ago passed the 'too big to fail' mile marker. Sad, very, very sad.
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Sadly, I suspect the entire Benghazi investigation will go absolutely nowhere. It may have long ago passed the 'too big to fail' mile marker. Sad, very, very sad.
Afraid so Besoeker. It seems like the Benghazi hearings just became a time for Congressmen to get publicity for the folks back home--you know, look at me, I'm on the job and ya da ya da ya da.
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Iff the Bammer threw Hillary under the bus once, he can do it again and again as needed once new and more detrimental information about his personal decisions, or lack of it, is discovered.
Tunisia’s government backs Germany’s plan to send troops to the country to train troops from neighboring Libya for the fight against ISIS group, the Tunisian defense minister said on Tuesday.
Representatives of the defense and foreign ministries would hold talks in Tunis on Thursday and Friday about how the German military could lend support in a training mission, Bild am Sonntag Newspaper reported.
It said the engagement encompasses training Tunisian soldiers first and could eventually be extended to Libyan soldiers by setting up a training camp in Tunisia, as a contribution toward regional stability.
“The ISIS terror is threatening all of North Africa,” German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the newspaper.
She said it was therefore essential “to make every effort to support countries struggling with democracy such as Tunisia”.
“And if its direct neighbor Libya manages to put in place a unity government one day, its security forces could also benefit from established training facilities in Tunisia,” she added.
The ISIS militants have taken advantage of political disarray and a security vacuum in Libya to expand their presence there, taking control of the city of Sirte and staging a number of attacks.
Western officials are deliberating on ways to fight the group, including the use of air strikes and Special Forces operations, though plans for outside assistance have been hindered by the failure of a United Nations-backed unity government in Libya to win wide approval in the country.
Last week a German delegation visited Tunisia to discuss a training program for Libyan forces.
“We agree on the principle of the project,” Tunisian Defence Minister Farhat Harchani said in an interview with the TAP state news agency.
He offered no details on the nature or the timing of the training, but said Tunisian forces would also take part.
“We will participate in the formation of the nucleus of the Libyan army and security forces in Tunisia. This is our duty and we will help Libya to get it done,” he said.
Tunisia has been struggling to contain its own militant threat, and thousands of Tunisians have gone to fight in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Tunisia suffered two devastating attacks targeting its vital tourist sector last year, in the beach resort of Sousse and on the National Bardo Museum in Tunis that together left 60 people dead. Both were claimed by ISIS. Authorities say the attackers trained in Libya before returning home.
In order to stop militants from crossing the border, Tunisia recently completed a 200-km (125 mile) barrier consisting of an earth wall and trenches along its frontier with Libya. European and U.S. military trainers are to instruct Tunisian forces on improving electronic surveillance there.
Britain said on Monday it had sent a team of 20 military personnel to Tunisia to deliver mobile patrolling and surveillance training on the border. It said an analogous training mission had been conducted at the end of last year.
Washington- The fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi seemed to vindicate Hillary Clinton since after his fall, militias refused to disarm, neighbors fanned a civil war, and ISIS found refuge.
The US is considering another intervention in Libya, yet this time to fight ISIS; but the question remains whether a military solution is possible in this case.
The current chaos in Libya is certainly due to the military intervention in the country. Back then, Clinton found herself surrounded by British, French, and other doubters.
The military intervention marked a horrible start to the new era for Libya. The dictator was dragged from the sewer pipe where he was hiding, tossed around by furious rebel soldiers, beaten and stabbed.
A cellphone video showed the pocked face of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, “the Leader” who had terrified Libyans for four decades, looking frightened and bewildered, knowing he will soon be dead.
The first news reports of Colonel Qaddafi’s capture and killing in October 2011 reached the US Secretary of State in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she had just sat for a televised interview. “Wow!” she said, looking at an aide’s BlackBerry before cautiously noting that the report had not yet been confirmed. Nonetheless, Hillary Clinton seemed impatient for a conclusion to the multinational military intervention she had done so much to organize, and in a rare unguarded moment, she dropped her reserve and exclaimed: “We came, we saw, he died!”
Two days earlier, Mrs. Clinton had taken a triumphal tour in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and for weeks top aides had been circulating data describing her starring role in the events that had led to this moment.
In one of the memos, her top policy aide, Jake Sullivan, wrote, demonstrating Mrs. Clinton’s “leadership, US political orientation toward Libya from the beginning till the end.” The memo’s language put her at the center of everything: “HRC announces … HRC directs … HRC travels … HRC engages,” it read.
It was a brag sheet for a cabinet member with presidential goals and the Clinton team’s eagerness to claim credit for her prompted eye-rolling at the White House and the Pentagon. Some couldn’t prevent themselves from laughing after hearing her aides saying that she had practically called in the airstrikes in Libya herself.
However, there were plenty of signs that the triumph won’t last long and that the vacuum left by Colonel Qaddafi’s death will provoke violence acts and divisions.
In fact, on the same day that Mr. Sullivan compiled his laudatory memo in August, the US Under-Secretary General for Middle East Political Affairs, Jeffrey D. Feltman, had sent a lengthy email with an utterly different tone about what he had seen on his own visit to Libya.
The country’s interim leaders seemed shockingly disengaged, he wrote, indicating that Mahmoud Jibril, the acting Prime Minister, who had helped persuade Mrs. Clinton to back the opposition, was commuting from Qatar, making only “cameo” appearances in Libya.
In addition, a leading rebel general had been assassinated, underscoring the hazard of “revenge killings.” Islamists were moving aggressively to seize power and members of the anti-Qaddafi coalition were financing them.
Mr. Feltman reported an alarming lassitude regarding a task of utmost urgency, which was disarming the militia fighters who had dethroned the dictator but now threatened the nation’s unity. Mr. Jibril and his associates, he wrote, “tried to disregard the problem that militias could pose on Libya after Qaddafi’s era.”
In short, the well-intentioned men nominally running Libya were relying on “luck, tribal discipline and the ‘gentle character’ of the Libyan people” for a peaceful future. “We will continue to push on this,” he wrote.
In the ensuing months, Mr. Feltman’s memo proved hauntingly prescient. But Libya’s Western allies, preoccupied by domestic politics and the crisis in Syria, soon relegated the country to the back burner.
On the other hand, Mrs. Clinton would be mostly a bystander as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that destabilized the region, provoking
the refugee crisis in Europe and allowing ISIS to establish a Libyan haven that the United States is now desperately trying to contain.
“Nobody will say it’s too late. No one wants to say it,” said Mahmud Shammam, who served as chief spokesman for the interim government. “But I’m afraid there is very little time left for Libya,” he added.
Media reports referred to Mrs. Clinton’s one brief visit to Libya in October 2011 as a “victory lap,” but the declaration was definitely premature.
During her visit, security precautions were extraordinary, with ships positioned off the coast in case an emergency evacuation was needed. As it turned out, there was no violence, but the wild celebratory scenes in the Libyan capital that day actually highlighted the divisions in the new order.
“I am proud to stand here on the soil of a free Libya,” she declared, standing alongside Mr. Jibril. “It is a great privilege to see a new future for Libya being born. No doubt the work ahead is quite challenging, but the Libyan people have demonstrated the resolve and resilience necessary to achieve their goals.”
Yet everywhere Mrs. Clinton went; there was the other face of the rebellion. Crowds of Kalashnikov-toting fighters, or revolutionaries, as they called themselves, mobbed her motorcade and pushed to glimpse the American celebrity. Mostly they cheered, and Mrs. Clinton remained poised, but her security guards watched the uproar with much concern.
Mrs. Clinton certainly understood how hard the transition to a post-Qaddafi Libya would be. In February, before the allied bombing began, she noted that political change in Egypt had proved tumultuous despite strong institutions.
“So imagine how difficult it will be in a country like Libya,” she said. “Qaddafi ruled for 42 years by basically destroying all institutions and never even creating an army, so that it could not be used against him.”
Earlier, the President’s National Security Adviser, Tom Donilon, had created a planning group called “Post-Qaddafi.”
Mrs. Clinton helped organize the Libya Contact Group, a powerhouse collection of countries that had pledged to work for a stable and prosperous future. By early 2012, she had flown to a dozen international meetings on Libya, part of a grueling
schedule of official travel in which she kept competitive track of miles traveled and countries visited.
For his part, Dennis B. Ross, a veteran Middle East expert at the National Security Council, argued unsuccessfully for an outside peacekeeping force; but with oil beginning to flow again from Libyan wells, he was pleasantly surprised by how things seemed to be going.
“I had unease that there wasn’t more being done more quickly to create cohesive security forces,” Mr. Ross said. “But the last six months of 2011, carried a fair amount of optimism.
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Knowledge of Libyan history would have demonstrated that only a strong hand could unify Libya. First it was the Turks, then Italians, then King Idris I, and finally Qadaffi and the military that held the fissiparous nation of clans and sects together. With Qadaffi gone, and no strong leader to replace him, the competing powers in the Cyrenaica, Tripoli and Fezzan regions chose their own future and chaos was the result. The result was one of the greatest foreign policy blunders of this or any American administration.
North Korea says it will boycott the UN Human Rights Council and "never, ever be bound" by UN resolutions critical of its rights record.
Tough loss there. Who will Saudi Arabia, Iran, Zimbabwe and Venezuela point to now?
Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong told the council Tuesday in Geneva any resolutions against the reclusive Communist country will only be "proof of partiality and double standards."
Ri said North Korea will no longer take part in international sessions that single out its human rights record "for mere political attack." He said the council was plagued by "politicization, selectivity and double standards."
The UN's top rights body has repeatedly slammed the situation in North Korea, with a massive 2014 report charging the country and its leadership were guilty of a wide range of crimes against humanity.
But Ri insisted Tuesday the United States and others who have long yearned for the "elimination of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]" were using false allegations of human rights abuses to boost their cause. He charged they were driving a "human rights racket" against the country.
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Kimmie and his henchmen's gonna miss the buffet...
[REUTERS] The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Security Council delayed until Wednesday a vote on a U.S.-Chinese drafted resolution that would dramatically expand U.N. sanctions on North Korea after Russia said it needed more time to review the text, diplomats said.
This is why China is okay with going ahead -- they know Russia has their back...
The vote, which had been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, is now planned for 10 a.m. (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
"Subsequent to the United States' request ... to schedule a council vote for this afternoon, Russia invoked a procedural 24-hour review of the resolution, so the vote will be on Wednesday," the U.S. mission to the United Nations said in a statement to news hounds.
The expanded sanctions, if adopted, would require inspections of all cargo going to and from North Korea and blacklisting North Koreans active in Syria, Iran and Vietnam.
After nearly two months of bilateral negotiations that at one point involved U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, China agreed to support the unusually tough measures intended to persuade its close ally North Korea to abandon its atomic weapons program.
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Besides Iran is now competing for the Kimmy Klan banking and import business too.
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An ambitious OWG Co-Superpower China denied both de facto sovereignrecovery of Taiwan + overseas Milbase rights for the PLA vee the mostly Pro-US, West "First Island Chain" + beyond is highly likely to seek alternate avenues or corridors wherever possible, + that is what worries Russia - Russia desires to return to NOKOR's good graces as an ally while also using NOKOR as a hedge or barrier agz NOKOR overlord-guarantor China.
RUSSIA'S PRIORITY OR FOCII REMAINS RUSSIA + RUSSIAN-SPECIFIC INTERESTS, + THAT MEANS KEEPING CHINA OUT OF SAKHALIN + RUSSIA'S FAR EAST, ETC.
E.G. BHARAT RAKSHAK > WHAT IS THE US REALLY DOING IN SYRIA? [SSSHHH ... CCCCCCC] TAG-TEAMING WID RUSSIA [complementary] AND DUMPING REGIONAL ALLIES AND NATO, WHITE HOUSE TELLS REST OF THE WORLD TO TAKE A HIKE.
OWG Co-SUperpwer Amerika is getting OWG Co-Superpower sibling Russia to do in Syria-Iraq all the bad or violent things what the US' waffling Unitarian establishment in Washington is too SUPER-PCORRECT = "CHICKEN LITTLE" TO DO AGZ THE ISIS + RELATED HARD BOYZ.
Over in East Asia or NE Asia, CHINA sees US THAAD coming to SOKOR, while also seeing Darth Putin deploy SAMS to the NOKOR Border + BMAAD S-400 to Siberia.
US + RUSSIAN MISSLES ARE SSSHHHH ... CCCCC POINTING TOWARDS CHINA, NOT AWAY FROM CHINA, BUT YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT FROM WASHINGTON OR MOSCOW.
D *** NG IT, THATS OBAMA'S + PUTIN'S STORY + THEY'RE STICKING TO IT!
[Guardian] Philip Breedlove says refugees are ‘masking the movement’ of terrorists, but human rights groups disagree: ‘We are talking about needles in haystacks.
Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are "masking the movement" of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape.
In testimony to the Senate armed services committee, US general Philip Breedlove said that the Islamic State terror group is "spreading like a cancer" among refugees. The group’s members are "taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations and our own", he added.
Breedlove also blamed Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria, in support of autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, for having "wildly exacerbated the problem".
The airstrikes, nominally against Isis but largely against the various rebel groups arrayed against Assad, have allegedly killed more than 1,000 civilians, including children. Breedlove said these indiscriminate attacks mean to terrorize Syrians and "get them on the road" toward neighboring countries and Europe.
The Kremlin and Assad intend, according to Breedlove, to use migration as a weapon to weaken European unity and infrastructure. The general said that European nationalist groups that oppose immigration also weaken the continent, and could themselves threaten violence.
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Refugees and migration as an asymmetrical weapon? Unless you read it on the Burg months ago, who could have known ?
Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries excluded or very strongly discouraged from accepting refugees of course.
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A religion that says the non-believer is just a kaffir and owes you 'free stuff' and servitude is rationalization enough to feed the spreading cancer.
[Mail] Sweden's Avpixlat news service reports that the 60 Minutes team was interviewing residents about the European migrant crisis in the suburb of Rinkeby when they were set upon twice by 'a group of young African masked men'.
'When a cameraman got out of the car, a car drove up next to him and the African driver of the vehicle began to fight,' the agency reported.
'After two minutes fuss about why they would shoot right in Rinkeby as the driver drove over the cameraman's foot. The man fell and lay still for a moment while the team continued to film the car quickly drove away.'
Police were called and took statements but once they left another group lay siege on the Australian crew.
'A photographer was attacked and received a blow on the mouth with a closed fist so that the bloodshed occurred,' wrote Jan Sjunnesson.
'A jar of lingenberry jam was then discarded into the camera. At the same time attacked another photographer who also was beaten right across the chin so that a tooth loose.'
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Think that footage will make it on a Sunday broadcast?
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No outrage, no candlelight marches in support, nothing. If these had been whites instead, this story would be front-page international news for weeks.
[REUTERS] The build-up of thousands of migrants colonists and refugees on Greece's northern borders is fast turning into a humanitarian disaster, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said on Tuesday as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... prepared to offer more financial aid.
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... said festivities at Greece's border with Macedonia on Monday - when migrants colonists battered down a gate and were tear-gassed - simply underlined the urgency with which the EU needed to act on the crisis.
But Austria - which last month limited the number of migrants colonists it lets through to 3,200 a day - stuck to its position that it did not want to become an overcrowded waiting room for thousands wanting to make it further north.
Croatia, which is also on what is now the well-trodden migrants colonists route northwards from Greece, said it might deploy its armed forces to help police control flows.
But near Idomeni, on the Greek-Macedonian border itself, a tent city mushroomed, prompting some despair among those trapped there. "Macedonian police put us here, the Greeks don't want us back," Yase Qued, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan, told Rooters.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for better planning and accommodation for at least 24,000 it said were stuck in Greece, including 8,500 at Idomeni.
"Europe is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis," U.N. refugee agency front man Adrian Edwards told a news briefing.
"The crowded conditions are leading to shortages of food, shelter, water and sanitation. As we all saw yesterday, tensions have been building, fuelling violence and playing into the hands of people smugglers," he said.
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No one mentions O's successful foreign policies that ignited this?
Germany, of course, has failed them. What other conclusion could you reach?
With a one-way ticket home to Iraq in his hands and seven months' worth of frustration over intransigent German bureaucracy in his heart, Gazwan Abdulhasen Abdulla gave up on his dreams of a better life in Europe.
Homesick and eager to be back with his wife and four small children in Basra,
Basra? Basra's not so bad. Little fighting other than the usual gangs and political spats. Why did he leave Basra in the first place?
Abdulla was giving up his refugee status as he boarded a crowded Iraqi Airways flight from Berlin's Tegel Airport to Baghdad that would whisk him and 150 other disillusioned former refugees back home in five hours. He had scraped together his last $325 for the flight to Iraq — a small fraction of the money he had paid to smugglers last summer to get to Germany by foot, bus and boat through Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and Austria.
And let that be a lesson to you. Usually it's harder to go home...
But now, after more than 1.1 million refugees from troubled lands such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have trekked into Germany over the last 13 months, a small but growing number are heading home. The reasons are myriad, but include overcrowded refugee centers, exasperating bureaucracy, unfamiliar German food, a lack of jobs and a spreading sense of resentment from Germans who fear their country is being overrun by Muslims.
Germany and 'exasperating bureaucracy' have gone together since before the days of the Kaiser. Next time do your research before spending your life savings on a 5,000 mile trek to nowhere...
Many refugees say they are now happy to trade a cold, heartless and lonely life in one of Europe's richest countries for the violence, insecurity and poverty back home. And they say they have realized, rather belatedly, that smugglers had sold them a pack of lies about big houses, well-paying jobs and the life of luxury they would find in Germany.
NO! Smugglers lie?!?!? Just to take your money? Whoever heard of such a thing?
"I wanted to live in peace with my family as far away from war as possible," said Abdulla, a 37-year-old who had worked as a truck driver in Iraq. "But what I've seen in Europe is not what I dreamed about. It's not what [the smugglers] told me it would be.
I know it isn't your culture, sir, but perhaps you should have read Tolkien in your youth. He would have explained to you that you can never run from trouble -- no matter how far you go, it always finds you.
"The food was terrible, so disgusting that not even animals should be fed it.
Funny, our boys in Iraq and Afghanistan say the same thing about your food. I guess it depends on what you're used to...
They made us sleep in these cold, empty buildings and when someone said they were sick, they just ignored us. You could feel it everywhere that Germans looked down at us like we were bums.
Europeans feel smug and superior?
I miss my family and can't wait to get home."
Abdulla, like many of the refugees, had come to Germany on his own and figured his family could follow. But the German government, fearful that the number of refugees could increase fourfold if families were reunited, temporarily suspended the rules last year that allowed refugees to send for their family members.
It's temporary. They'll reinstate the rule. In about a hundred years...
Now it could take two to five years or more before their families might be allowed to move to Germany — an intolerable wait that is one of the main reasons that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of refugees are giving up on Germany every week, even as up to 3,000 arrive every day.
It's intolerable to wait? It's intolerable to play by the rules of your host? Golly gee, go back home and see what's "intolerable" there. But that's why you left, wasn't it...
The Iraqi Embassy in Berlin has issued more than 1,500 one-way travel documents for Iraqi refugees giving up on Germany in the last three months.
"There are a lot of Iraqis going home, but more and more Syrians are also coming in here to buy airplane tickets to fly back home," said Alaa Hadrous, 24, who came to Germany from Iraq as a child and now operates the Golf Reisen travel office next to a refugee center in the heart of Berlin.
"They see the Arabic writing on my storefront window and come in saying they want to go home," he said. "There are a lot of really sad stories."
Hadrous sees masses of exhausted refugees camped on the street in front of his shop at night — new arrivals who are sometimes forced to wait overnight for their asylum applications to be processed so that they can go to a shelter.
"It's really upsetting to me whenever I see little children outside freezing in the cold," he said, adding that he has often ended up sheltering such shivering families with small children in his small apartment nearby for the night. He said he noticed an increase late last year in the number of refugees coming to him for one-way tickets home.
"They started coming into my store," he said. "They've given up on Germany, even though some have only been here for a few weeks. They had the wrong idea and wrong expectations about Germany. People in Iraq told them they could live a carefree life in Germany."
A Syrian man, who gave only his first name, Abed, had just bought a one-way ticket to Lebanon after spending four weeks in Germany. He said life on his own in Germany was a lot harder than he expected and it was depressing when he found out his wife and daughter weren't allowed to join him.
What exactly did he 'expect'? A life on the dole? Two thousand Euros a month and a 3 bedroom flat? The quality of refugees has changed: at Bledsoe Island around 1890 you wouldn't have heard this nonsense...
"I miss my family a lot," he said. "I'd rather take a chance and risk dying with them in Syria than being in Germany without them."
The government's office for migration and refugees reported that 37,220 refugees obtained government financial aid to return to their home countries in 2015. Most of those were from countries in the Balkans and had little chance of being granted asylum. Only 724 of about 122,000 refugees from Iraq went home last year with German government assistance.
The migration agency points out, however, that it doesn't have a complete overview because many refugees pay for their own trips home.
There's one point in their favor...
"The numbers of refugees wanting to go home is growing every week — once they discover they can't bring their families here, they give up on Germany," said Ardalan Hassan, the head of the Dania Travel Agency in the Wedding district of Berlin.
"They thought they'd be warmly welcomed in Germany," he said. "Some thought they'd get a lot of money, that the state would give them big houses to live in.... It's only after they get here that they see how poor their prospects to earn a living are."
Guess they were all snookered by the smugglers, huh...
Hassan said that he tries to tell Iraqis to stay home in the first place, that life in Germany isn't as easy as they think. "But no one believes me," he said. "They have to see it themselves to believe how difficult it is here."
The increase in the number of refugees returning home could offer some unexpected relief to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has come under attack for her open-door policies. Merkel has also subtly changed her message to the refugees from one of welcome in September 2015 — her immortal words of "We can do it" — to a more standoffish view in February.
She, like most other pols, can count to 50% plus 1...
"We expect that you'll go back to Syria once there's peace there and Islamic State has been defeated," Merkel said. "We expect you'll go back to your homes."
That might not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Germany allowed in 350,000 refugees from the Balkan wars in the early 1990s. By 1998, after the wars had ended, about 70% had returned, voluntarily or otherwise, to Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Albania and Slovenia.
Ahmed, a 24-year-old from Irbil, Iraq, came to Germany hoping to study engineering. But after eight months waiting in vain for his asylum request to be processed, he gave up and flew home in mid-February.
"We came here to Germany to live free but we're not free here," he said before he left. "We've got more freedom at home in Iraq than here.... I'm tired of being treated like an animal, of living in a giant room with hundreds of others and getting horrible food and having to take cold showers. I can't wait to get home."
The best place for Iraqi refugees is .. Iraq. Syrian refugees belong in Syria. And so on. Europe should work to create safe-zones in those countries. Europe is going to pay one way or the other.
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In a different story about Iraqi migrants in Sweden, the guy said he was disappointed when he found out there was no government provided apartment, stipend and job for him, as he'd been led to believe.
Of course, that's exactly what Hill and Bernie are promising gullible dem voters here...
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The Germans should just give them cut-rate tickets, it's probably cheaper.
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There is a reason the cold countries are very industrious. Work hard or freeze to death. You might take them for soft but that's not accurate.
Islam might also think their easy willingness to go violent is some kind of advantage but compared to the German slow to build but then industrious genocide should get these fools thinking. They may already have started things in motion they'll later regret.
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I'd like to think they won't do it again, but the far right is gaining in power and I don't know much about them except that they are super-scarey and make Merkel wet her bed.
The head of the FBI admitted today his agents made a “mistake” after finding an iPhone left behind by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters -- a misstep he acknowledged “made it hard” for investigators to access the information that federal authorities are now seeking in a growing dispute with Apple.
However, speaking to a House panel, FBI Director James Comey said the Justice Department and Apple would still be caught in a tense legal battle because -- even if the FBI hadn’t erred -- there is “no way we would have gotten everything” from the iPhone. Comey insisted the FBI has an obligation to conduct a complete and “competent” investigation into the attack on Dec. 2, 2015, when Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 of Farook’s coworkers and injured 22 others at a work holiday party.
“If I didn’t do that, I ought to be fired, honestly,” Comey added.
The device at issue was provided to Farook by his employer, the San Bernardino County government. And in the wake of the assault, the FBI asked county officials to remotely reset the password for the Apple iCloud account associated with the device.
"Since the iPhone 5C was locked when investigators seized it during the lawful search on December 3rd, a logical next step was to obtain access to iCloud backups for the phone in order to obtain evidence related to the investigation in the days following the attack," the FBI said in a previous statement. But resetting the password “had the effect of eliminating the possibility of an auto-backup," according to the FBI.
"Even if the password had not been changed and Apple could have turned on the auto-backup and loaded it to the cloud, there might be information on the phone that would not be accessible without Apple's assistance as required by the All Writs Act order, since the iCloud backup does not contain everything on an iPhone," the FBI said in its statement. "As the government's pleadings [in current litigation] state, the government's objective was, and still is, to extract as much evidence as possible from the phone."
A federal judge in California ordered Apple to help the FBI hack into Farook’s phone, but the company is fighting the order. On Monday, a federal judge presiding over a separate criminal case in Brooklyn, New York, sided with Apple, saying federal authorities had no legal authority to compel such assistance from Apple.
Disagreeing judges? That's all it takes to get to the Supreme Court. Someday...
In his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee today, Comey took issue with claims that the FBI wants Apple to create a “backdoor” into iPhones. There already is a door into iPhones, Comey declared, and the FBI now wants Apple to take the “vicious guard dog away” and “let us pick the lock.”
Specifically, the FBI and Justice Department want Apple to turn off the feature that erases an iPhone's data after 10 failed attempts to unlock the device, so that investigators can run all possible combinations to break the four-digit passcode on Farook's phone.
In his own testimony before the same House panel today, a top Apple executive said the matter was something for Congress -- not a court -- to resolve. And he warned that if Apple is forced to break into Farook’s phone, the code they create could endanger the privacy of people across the world.
“Hackers and cyber criminals could use this to wreak havoc on our privacy and personal safety,” Apple’s top lawyer, general counsel Bruce Sewell, told the House panel in prepared remarks. “Should the FBI be allowed to stop Apple, or any company, from offering the American people the safest and most secure product it can make?”
Not to mention, the Rooshuns and Chinese will want the code, and they're more persuasive than the FBI...
During his testimony today, Comey dismissed the notion that Apple’s assistance in the San Bernardino case would impact other phones, reiterating his belief that any code Apple created to help in this case would only work on Farook’s phone.
It will be a proof of concept -- the FBI will demand the same code, modified for every phone they want to crack. And, others will see how it was done and find ways to do it themselves. And, every terrorist with an ounce of brains will start to use 3rd party encryption on top of whatever the phone does -- they're likely doing that anyway.
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Me thinks someone in this terrorist activity food chain was an FBI "informant" who played the FBI like a bongo drum before pulling the trigger.
The FBI is trying to cover their tracks and finger prints on this one.
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If I wanted information off that phone, I would know where to look for such support. The FBI does not know how to get information off a phone they don't need with a Company that is willing to take this to Congress.
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To get a new update on my iPhone or iPad I have to go in and approve the upgrade to be downloaded and installed. Is apple going to *force* the phone to take the update somehow without requiring user approval? Will this be done on all iPhones?
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Most likely, the interesting bits are not the cat pix and selfies on the phone, but rather the call detail records of who called who when. The phone carrier already has this info.
LARKANA: Home Minister Suhail Anwer Siyal presided over a meeting here on Tuesday to discuss overall law and order and progress in the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) in the province as well as the on-going operation against dacoits in Shikarpur and the issues relating to the welfare of police personnel.
Provincial police chief Ghulam Haidar Jamali, the additional home secretary, additional inspector-general, and DIGs and SSPs of Larkana and Sukkur division attended the meeting.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, the home minister said that the border police force had been revived after it was established that militants had moved into Sindh from the Mastung area of Balochistan to carry out attacks. The force, he added, effectively checked such infiltration from the identified points.
The minister said that personnel of the border force would also be deployed at the entry/exit points along the borders of Qambar-Shahdadkot, Kandhkot-Kashmore and Jacobabad districts.
Mr Siyal lauded the role of the army chief, Sindh Rangers and police in restoring peace to Karachi and said that the operation would continue till the elimination of the last terrorist.
Recalling that all stakeholders were taken on board before the launch of the Rangers-led operation in Karachi, he rejected the impression that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) or the Sindh government was now opposing it.
The PPP, he argued, wanted elimination of terrorism more than any other party as it lost its leader Benazir Bhutto to terrorists.
Rejecting the allegation that the PPP was trying to save certain elements involved in criminal activities, the home minister said that Lyari, which had always been PPP’s stronghold, underwent many operations but his party never approached the police or Rangers for the release of anyone arrested for his alleged involvement in criminal activities.
“I hope that the Karachi operation will reach its logical conclusion,” he said.
Mr Siyal appreciated the performance of Sindh police saying that they succeeded in locating and arresting all suspects of the Jacobabad and Shikarpur bomb blasts.
Expressing his satisfaction over the law and order in Sindh, he observed that people were now travelling from one place to the other without any fear [of being kidnapped, looted or killed]. The system of providing police escort to passenger buses had been done away with due to the improved situation, he said.
In reply to a question, the home minister said that the Sindh government was not interfering in the investigations being conducted by the National Accountability Bureau including those concerning [former petroleum minister] Dr Asim Hussain.
Replying to another question, he said Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah effectively pleaded Sindh’s case with regard to census at the recent meeting of the Council of Common Interests in Islamabad.
Regarding the security situation in Shikarpur, Mr Siyal said the operation against criminals there would continue and “many no-go areas within the district’s katcha belt have already been cleared of criminals”.
[DAWN] The government has decided to tighten the noose around members of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations, under-observation suspects and human traffickers by cancelling their passports and blocking their national identity cards.
The decision was taken at a meeting on Monday. It was chaired by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... Those falling under the net would be denied facilities such as permission to open and operate bank accounts and obtain mobile phone SIMs and driving licences.
"While every effort would continue towards safeguarding the rights of the citizens, we will not falter in fulfilling our commitment towards ensuring security of the motherland and to check the elements bringing bad name to the country in one way or the other," the interior minister said.
He said that contrary to the propaganda of "detractors and panic peddlers", the law and order situation had significantly improved as a result of tireless efforts of law enforcement agencies. "We, however, need to consolidate and build on these gains and to redouble our efforts for further improving the law and order situation," he added.
During the meeting, a host of issues were discussed, including various measures being taken against the members of proscribed organizations, human traffickers and proclaimed offenders, the progress made so far by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in mega corruption cases, various measures being taken to purge FIA from corrupt elements, institutionalisation of system of rewards in various departments of the interior ministry, capacity building of FIA and police and efforts being made by the Islamabad administration and police towards improving law and order and making the federal capital a crime-free zone.
Security of media houses, schools, commercial centres and steps taken for community policing also came under discussion.
The meeting decided to cancel licences of all those security companies which will not provide their particulars to the administration.
FIA officials informed the meeting that in the ongoing campaign against human traffickers, 1,011 people have been taken into custody -- 290 proclaimed offenders, 17 most wanted traffickers, 84 court absconders and 620 general arrests.
The meeting was told that the Economic Crime Wing of FIA recovered Rs2.4 billion during 2014-15. The recoveries during 2011-12 were Rs706 million. The Anti-Corruption Wing recovered Rs14.8 billion during 2014-15 and Rs7.1 billion during 2011-12.
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[Daily Excelsior] The terror attack on Pathankot Airbase in January was carried out by Pakistain’s "non-state actors" who operate with support of the Pak establishment, Government suggested in the Rajya Sabha today.
"The complete details will come out in the NIA investigation. But in this, non-state actors from Pakistain are surely involved. This is for sure. Any non-state actors there, they cannot function smoothly without full state support," Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Tens of thousands of Pak supporters on Tuesday cheered and threw flowers at the casket of a bodyguard executed this week for killing the governor of Pakistain’s most populous province over his call to reform a strict blasphemy law, Rooters reports.
Security was tight at the funeral for Mumtaz Qadri, whom supporters consider a hero for killing popular 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.... governor Salman Taseer in 2011 for criticizing the law that mandates the death penalty for insulting Islam or the Prophet Mohammad.
Police blocked off roads to Liaquat Bagh park in the city of Rawalpindi but thousands arrived on foot.
"He lives! Qadri lives!" chanted supporters who surrounded the coffin and threw flowers. "From your blood, the revolution will come!"
Hard-line religious groups in Pakistain say Taseer deserved to die because he himself committed blasphemy by criticizing the law and supporting a Christian woman he said was unjustly charged with the crime.
Pro-Qadri demonstrations first broke out on Monday after word spread that he had been executed.
"Mumtaz Qadri is a hero of Islam. He sent to hell a person who showed disrespect for the holy Prophet," Tahir Iqbal Chistie of the hard-line Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... movement said at one of Monday’s protests.
Stick-wielding Sunni Tehrik activists were maintaining security at Tuesday’s funeral.
The influential leader of the conservative Council of Islamic Ideology declined to endorse Qadri’s action.
"No one is above the law," Mohammad Sherani told journalists, according to the Express Tribune newspaper.
"I respect Qadri’s religious sentiments but I respect Pakistain’s constitution more."
Controversy over the blasphemy law has exposed the growing gap between hard-line religious conservatives and liberals in Pakistain.
More than 100 people are charged with blasphemy and tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... each year each year in predominantly Muslim Pakistain, many of them Christians and other minorities. Critics say the law is often invoked in cases of personal disputes.
No one has yet been executed over a blasphemy charge, but at least 65 people have been murdered in connection with blasphemy allegations since 1990, according to data from the Center for Research and Security Studies and a Rooters tally.
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Pakistan is a very sick society, and it does not need the prop of USA aid which is just funding down a rathole.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said Tuesday that the Pak leadership wanted recognition of Durand Line during his tenure in a bid to improve ties between the two nations.
In his inaugural address at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the former President recalled his visits to Pakistain while serving the nation as the Afghanistan's Caped President, saying "During my presidency, I visited Pakistain more than twenty times, with utmost enthusiasm and sincerity, to address our mutual concerns and to take concrete steps towards improving our political and economic ties."
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he said "From the Pak perspective, peaceful and friendly relations with Afghanistan were conditioned on the recognition of the Durand line, one of the very negative legacies of the Colonial rule, and the right to influence the nature of our relations with one of our closest and oldest friends."
He stressed "In the past fifteen years, I have constantly underlined the impossibility of the recognition of the Durand Line by Afghanistan; while expressing Afghan desire for friendly and cooperative relations with Pakistain."
Karzai recalled the ups and downs with Pakistain during his tenure while noting the great economic rise of Asia led by global giants China and India, as well as the continuing rise of myrmidon extremism with deadly and painful consequences in the region.
He also recalled the historic position of the region which remained as the commercial, intellectual and spiritual hub of the world and noted the existing plethora of initiatives in the form of strategies to revive those routes and networks.
"As the Silk Route once cut across geographical barriers from Europe, India and China, we want Afghanistan to once again become a land-bridge connecting South Asia to Central Asia and the Middle East," Karzai said.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud stressed on Monday that "Leb did not abandon the Arab consensus, but Arabs abandoned it as they are working to reach consensus on Israel," attributing the reason of Saudi escalating policies towards Leb to the losses of Kingdom in the Syrian battlefield.
During an interview with Al-Manar TV channel, President Lahoud pointed out that Saudis wanted to deliver a message to the Lebanese people that the existence of their country depends on its sponsorship, stating that whenever there is an attack on Leb, the Lebanese people must defend themselves and not distance themselves.
Lahoud expressed beliefs that the root problem of the region is 'Israel', which is plotting conspiracies sponsored by the United States within the Persian Gulf states, and implemented by the so-called '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 the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group.
"The outline is made by Israel and the executioners are some regional states with the help of Washington, whose foreign policy is influenced by the Zionist lobby," the ex-President said, adding that the United States wanted to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... as a punishment for his stand with the resistance against Israel.
"His [Assad's] stance rescued Leb, especially Christians who are being exterminated in the region at the hands of ISIL and other terrorist groups," he said.
He noted that the first loser in Syria will be 'Israel', which is trying to compensate for its defeat by provoking sedition in Leb.
"If the Saudi claims about fighting ISIL were true, so why they would have stopped the aid to the army that is fighting terrorist groups?" Lahoud asked in reference to halting the Saudi 'grant' promised for Leb, stressing that those terrorist groups are being supported by the countries that halted aid to the Lebanese army.
"Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is confused today, therefore it is behaving this illogic in Leb, while the Lebanese politicians who are walking the Saudi path receive monthly salaries from the Kingdom, while the Saudi aid for Leb is being allocated for the leaders and not for the impoverished people in the North, Akkar and other poor regions.
[ALMANAR.LB] As he stressed that the Syrian government is committed to the current ceasefire in Syria, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... said that the other side in the conflict is violating the agreement sponsored by the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... .
In an interview with German television ARD, President Assad said the Lions of Islam breached the cessation of hostilities agreement from the very first hour, while the Syrian Army has refrained from retaliating, in order to give the chance for the agreement to survive.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Assad warned: "That’s what we can do, but at the end everything has a limit. It depends on the other side."
Describing the truce as a "glimmer of hope", the president also offered an amnesty to opposition holy warriors if they agree to disarm.
"Just ... give up your armament, whether you want to join the political process or (are) not interested about the political process, you don't have any political agenda, it doesn't matter."
"The most important thing for me, legally and constitutionally, ... (is) that you're not allowed, as a citizen, to hold machine guns and hurt people or properties."
"This is the only thing that we ask. We don't ask for anything. As I said, we give them full amnesty," he said.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a televised speech on Tuesday in which he tackled the latest developments specifically after the Saudi escalation and threats against Leb.
His eminence pointed out that "since Saudi announced about halting the supposed donation to the Army, a wide political and media campaign in Leb and the region took off, and there was clear escalation in stances by Saudi, some Gulf states, and Lebanese sides. This escalation - which we barely commented on - resulted in a tense atmosphere in Leb on the political, media, and public levels which spread fear among the Lebanese inside and outside Leb."
"Many rumors came out and some Saudi TV stations broadcast offensive programs which led to developments on the streets. Since 19-2-2016 - the day when Saudi announced halting its donations - we entered a new stage in the political and media conflict with Saudi," Sayyed Nasrallah explained.
As a result to that, he added: "The other political party took action and had public movements and delegations as well as escalations and incitements, and statements from unknown sources were distributed claiming that Hezbollah intended to break into some regions and that Tareek Al-Jdeede was a target... In addition, Saudi and some Gulf countries prohibited their citizens from traveling to Leb and demanded those in Leb to leave for security reasons."
Sayyed Nasrallah explained that the action that was taken by some people in response to the program on MBC helped in raising fear and concern among the Lebanese, however, he assured: "In Hezbollah, we are strong and content and we are in our best status since five years. We are not pressured, and we are concerned about stability, security, and civil peace."
His eminence considered that "when media outlets refer to such a low level, this would be an indication to their weakness. Anyone can wage a media campaign against us, but this level is too low and it indicates weakness," adding that "this level is not worth commenting on or responding to."
As for the reactions on the streets, Sayyed Nasrallah considered that "what happened was a normal and spontaneous response by some citizens who are loving and truthful. There could have been some violations, but the background of this action was out of love, yet this is not the right nor the appropriate way to respond."
He asserted that Hezbollah did not want to go into a clash with anyone and that it had no intention to resign from the government, considering that "holding on to it is a national responsibility as we are partners".
Addressing the youth who erupted into the streets in response to the video broadcast on MBC, Hezbollah secretary general stressed that "You don't need to go to the streets and I ask you not to do so no matter what the programs or statements against me or against Hezbollah were. We must seek effective and studied responses that would serve our goals rather than the enemy's goals... Israel, Saudi, and some other sides want a Sunni Shiite incitement in Leb. Are we supposed to serve them? Any action needs arrangement... and when Hezbollah wants people to go to the streets, I will personally come out and ask you to do so, but as long as we didn't ask this means there is no benefit in that."
His eminence further called on Hezbollah regional officials to "gather the young men who erupted into the streets and inform them that such action would not be effective," he further asked them to directly control such actions and to arrange with "Amal Movement" officials.
Regarding some inappropriate slogans that were raised, Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that "in some places offensive slogans were raised against big Muslim figures, and this a major fault that the Supreme Leader Imam Ali Khamenei clearly prohibited, as he prohibited insulting, and anyone who is concerned about his religion should be aware of that."
[NBCNEWS] Al Qaeda's leaders were increasingly worried about spies in their midst, drones in the air and secret tracking devices reporting their movements, documents seized in the 2011 raid on the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... 's Pak hideout reveal.
Translated and declassified by U.S. intelligence agencies, the cache of 113 documents are mostly dated between 2009 and 2011, according to intelligence officials.
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Lucky it wasn't up her nose inside her skull, like ex-CA Governator + "RED PLANET"S DA ARNUULD.
As for my late former Anti-Soviet Afghan War cohort Osama ...
* NDTV > OSAMA MICRO-MANAGED AL-QAEDA WHILE HIDING IN PAKISTAN: NEW DOCUMENTS.
OBL behaving like a "Fortune 500" CEO, only for AQ + Radical Islam.
* RELATED SAME > NEW OSAMA BIN LADEN DOCUMENTS SHOWS A SUSPICIOUS, PRESSURED AL-QAEDA, highly fearful of internal compromise + betrayal.
**** cough **** cough **** cough *****...
TO PARAPH A TOM CRUISE'S SCENE AS LT. "MAVERICK" IN "TOP GUN" > "I COULD SAY SOMETHING, BUT THEN I'LL HAVE TO KILL EVERYBODY".
NOTHING PERSONAL - ITS JUST US NAVY + USDOD + FED REGULATIONS.
[Ynet] US cyberattacks to disrupt 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.... 's communications and overload their networks could force the holy warrior group to use older technologies that are easier for the US to intercept, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday.
Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided details about how the Pentagon is using its new, aggressive cyber campaign as part of military operations against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
"As we disrupt the ISIL communications via cyber or other methods, sometimes we do drive them to other means," Carter told Pentagon news hounds.
"Sometimes, those other means are easier for us to listen to."
US officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named last week that the military had increased cyber operations against the group. The operations include efforts by US Cyber Command to prevent the group from using the Internet and social media to communicate and distribute propaganda aimed at attracting and inspiring recruits. The efforts could also force IS back to technologies like cell phones to communicate.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The head of the FBI admitted today his agents made a “mistake” after finding an iPhone left behind by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters -- a misstep he acknowledged “made it hard” for investigators to access the information that federal authorities are now seeking in a growing dispute with Apple.
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a televised speech on Tuesday in which he tackled the latest developments specifically after the Saudi escalation and threats against 
As a result to that, he added: "The other political party took action and had public movements and delegations as well as escalations and incitements, and statements from unknown sources were distributed claiming that Hezbollah intended to break into some regions and that Tareek Al-Jdeede was a target... In addition, Saudi and some Gulf countries prohibited their citizens from traveling to 
