[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq has said the United States should force Pakistain to halt support to the anti-government armed forces of Evil in Afghanistan in a bid to help secure stability in the country.
Insisting on coordinated military operations amid ongoing efforts to revive peace talks, Gen. Raziq said "The United States has enough information regarding Pakistain. We want the United States to increase pressure on Pakistain so that they give up support to the murderous Moslem groups."
"The United States should step in and take actions to dismantle the terrorist safe havens in order to end the ongoing violence in Afghanistan," Gen. Raziq was quoted as saying in a report by Tolo News.
He said the Afghan leaders should continue to their efforts to maintain stability through peace talks but the military should maintain crackdown on hard boys.
The remarks by Gen. Raziq comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for supporting and sheltering the anti-government armed hard boy groups waging violence in Afghanistan.
Pakistain’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... admitted that Islamabad has influence on the Afghan Taliban leaders based Pakistain and for the first confirmed that the group’s leaders are based in Pakistain.
Aziz further added that the country could use certain leverages to bring the Taliban leaders to negotiations table with the Afghan government.
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Yeah and I want a Unicorn that farts glitter out its *ss.
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Pakistain would rather play the Great Game with Islamist terror tools than solve their internal problems. It keeps the military supreme in their power structure. Raziq, no doubt, knows this
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The signal to attack came from the mosque, sending dozens of fighters storming through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan to hit army and police posts in street battles that lit the dawn sky with tracer bullets.
Militants used a megaphone to chant "God is Great," and reassure residents they were Daesh, there to save the town near the Libyan border from the "tyrant" army. Most were Tunisians themselves, with local accents, and even some familiar faces, officials and witnesses to Monday's attack said.
Hours later, 36 militants were dead, along with 12 soldiers and seven civilians, in an assault authorities described as an attempt by Daesh to carve out terrain in Tunisia.
Whether Daesh aimed to hold territory as they have in Iraq, Syria and Libya, or intended only to dent Tunisia's already battered security, is unclear and the group has yet to officially claim the attack.
But as fuller details of the Ben Guerdan fighting emerge, the incident highlights the risk Tunisia faces from home-grown militants drawn to Iraq, Syria and Libya, and who have threatened to bring their war back home.
Despite Tunisian forces' preparations to confront returning fighters, and their defeat of militants in Ben Guerdan, Monday's assault shows how the country is vulnerable to violence spilling over from Libya as Daesh expands there.
Authorities are still investigating the Ben Guerdan attack. But most of the militants appear to have been already in the town, with a few brought in from Libya. Arms caches were deposited around the city before the assault.
"Most of them were from Ben Guerdan, we know their faces. They knew where to find the house of the counter-terrorist police chief," one witness, Sabri Ben Saleh, told. Troops have killed 14 more militants around Ben Guerdan since Monday. Others have been arrested and more weapons seized.
Officials say they are still determining if the militants had been in Libya before or had returned from fighting with Daesh overseas. But that such a large number of militants and arms were in Tunisia is no surprise. After its revolt in 2011 to topple Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has struggled with growing militancy.
More than 3,000 Tunisians have left to fight with Daesh in Iraq and Syria, according to government estimates. Tunisian security sources say many are with Daesh in Libya.
But the scale of Monday's attack was unprecedented. The militants were well-organised, handing out weapons to their fighters from a vehicle moving through the city, with knowledge of the town and its military barracks. "We came across a group of terrorists with their Kalashnikovs, and they told us: 'Don't worry we are not here to target you. We are the Daesh and we are here for the tyrants in the army,'" said Hassein Taba, a local resident.
The attack tests Tunisia at a difficult time. After Daesh violence last year, the tourism industry that represents seven per cent of the economy is struggling to tempt visitors to return. With its new constitution, free elections and secular history, Tunisia is a target for jihadists looking to upset a young democracy just five years after the overthrow of dictator Ben Ali.
"The battle of Ben Guerdane in Tunisia, 20 miles from the Libyan border ... is proof enough that the Daesh has cells far and wide," said Geoff Porter, at North Africa Risk Consulting. "But what these cells can reliably do ... and how they are directed by Daesh leadership in Sirte, let alone in Iraq and Syria, is not known."
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[AA.TR] A prominent Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... leader has hinted at "understandings" with 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... with a view to ending the raging conflict in Yemen.
Saleh al-Sammad said that a current "state of calm" along the Yemeni-Saudi border helps pave the way for halting the war in Yemen.
"We will not turn our back to any understandings or initiatives aimed at halting the war," Sammad wrote on his Facebook page.
Last week, a Saudi-led coalition that has been pounding Houthi positions in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since 2015 announced a prisoner swap deal with the Shia group.
In a statement, the coalition said Yemeni tribal figures have sought to create a state of calm along the Saudi-Yemeni border to allow medical and aid material into Yemeni villages.
Sammad, who is a top leader in the Houthi group, claimed that the prisoner swap was initiated by the Houthis.
"We don’t mind using these initiatives to create a channel of communication with the other side to listen to their viewpoints and create mechanisms that lead to dialogue," he said.
Yemen has remained in turmoil since September 2014, when the Houthis and allied forces of former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... overran capital Sanaa and other parts of the country, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government to flee to Saudi Arabia.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Australia is set to forcibly deport an Afghan man after his last-minute plea to the Australian authorities was rejected to grant him asylum.
The man whose identity has not been disclosed belongs to the minority Hazara ethnic group and reportedly fled Afghanistan in 2012 amid fears of persecution from the anti-government armed bully boys.
The Australian authorities rejected to grant protection to the man in 2013 and his latest plea was refused as the authorities insist they did not believe he would be persecuted on return to Afghanistan.
Officials in the Refugee Review Tribunal of Australia have said "did not believe Hazaras would be persecuted for seeking asylum in the west."
This comes as the large number of the Afghans are fleeing the country amid deteriorating security situation during the recent years.
The Afghan migrants colonists are often risking their lives by travelling through dangerous routes to reach to the European countries who are facing numerous issues, including risk of deportation.
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I think we're too quick to always assume that Twain was always a good/nice person because he sometimes did good things and also wrote well. (Yah, he helped Grant get his memoirs published. He also dodged the draft when Grant was fighting the war).
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(back from wackypedia) I remember reading someplace that he was actually drafted by the Union at one point to work as a pilot for Eades. (?) I didn't know about the confederate enlistment, but I had actually read the story at one point.
Regarding _yesterday's_ thread re; "you're joking, right?" I tell ya what: In the remote event Benjamin Netanyahu has been trolling us under the nym 'gromgoru,' my formal recommendation is that you move production of the new naval vessels to Israel, and don't decommission anything yet. Do that, and you can call me a Crazy Paranoid Retard Nazi all you want.
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Also: I don't have time to comment today on the whole hispanic and black anti-semitism link. There's some experiences I've had with both groups over the last four years (although not having to do with anti-semitism per se) that have driven home to me the whole the-past (or in this case the future of 2016) is a different country thing. We're all trapped in Biff's version of Spring Valley.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian engineers hired to help prevent a catastrophic collapse of Iraq’s largest hydro-electric dam will need at least two months to assess the structure before starting major maintenance work, a Water Resources Ministry front man told Rooters.
Mahdi Rasheed Mahdi said it might be six months before work began on the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... dam as Italia’s Trevi Group needed to bring in specialist equipment to plug gaps caused by erosion.
The dam, near the northern city of Mosul, was built in the 1980s on a friable gypsum layer on the Tigris and needs constant repairs to avoid disaster.
Maintenance work was disrupted for two weeks in August 2014 when the dam was captured by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies seeking to carve a caliphate in captured territory in Iraq and Syria.
The dam’s seizure prompted concerns that irreparable damage to the structure’s foundations may have been caused. Collapse would devastate Mosul and other cities along the river, including the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
"They need two to six months and this was a request by the company," Mahdi said by telephone. "The company needs time to import their equipment and this definitely takes time. We have already anticipated this."
Mahdi said there was no imminent threat of collapse as some maintenance work was being carried out but more was needed to stabilize the structure. The Trevi contract would not provide a permanent solution, he added.
The dam was retaken by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters with the help of US-led coalition air strikes, and Iraq signed a 273 million euro (around $300 million), 18-month deal with Trevi to reinforce and maintain the 3.6 km-long (2.2 miles) structure.
Italia has said it planned to send 450 troops to protect the dam, which is close to territory held by ISIS fighters.
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I would wash all that icky WMD stuff down to the Gulf...
if the documents discovered are before 632 and are in Egypt and Iran then they can't have been of Moslem origin since Islamic conquests of those areas was well after that date
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Yes, as long as they were Dhimmis who pay the tax in humiliation, did not show their religious symbols or worship in public. They has zero legal rights or recourse. Otherwise it's convert, or die.
Just a few trivial items they forgot to include in their report...
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The old Mongol approach was to destroy everything they couldn't use or move. After burning his why in to China, the Great Khan was advised by a captive Chinese official that maybe its of more value to the Khan to have people around the make the silk, dig the gold, and basically pay him off with goodies rather than just outright kill them. The Khan decided that there was something to this, I guess you could call it, tolerance. Far more based on greed rather than any real mercy. "What's in it for me" isn't supporting anything other than a 'return on investment'.
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IIRC while the old guy believed (or convinced his incorporated fellow tribes) he had 'divine' authority (didn't they all play that game), they didn't carry out their destructive and conquering ways beyond that and had no book to rationalize their behavior or justify their imposition of servitude on their victims.
Video report at the link
ERBIL – Since 2012, the KRG’s Peshmerga forces have been training thousands of Syrian Kurds –known as ‘Peshmerga of Rojava’– to send them to Syria. “They don’t want to fight Kurds, they only want to fight ISIS,” Major General Bahjat Taymas from the Kurdish Zerevani Peshmerga forces told ARA News.
The Kurdish Zerevani forces that belong to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraqi Kurdistan took the responsibility of training Syrian Kurds. “It started with one battalion. The goal was to send them to Rojava [Kurdish areas of Syria], but until now they couldn’t get there,” Taymas said.
Last Friday, a ceremony was held in Duhok to celebrate the four-year anniversary of the establishment of the Syrian Kurdish Sun Brigades that are part of the Peshmerga forces and fight ISIS in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests are not in violation of its nuclear deal and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... is not considering sanctions at this stage, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday (Mar 14).
Mogherini however warned that last week’s missile tests, which Tehran insists are not aimed at developing nuclear weapons capability, could raise tensions in an already volatile region.
La Belle France had warned on Sunday that it risked new sanctions as a result of the tests, but Mogherini said that was a matter for the UN Security Council, which met to discuss the issue on Monday.
"This is indeed also in our view not a violation of the (nuclear deal) as such," Mogherini said after meeting the foreign ministers of the 28 EU nations in Brussels.
"If there is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions, this should be discussed in the appropriate UN bodies and not necessarily in the European Union Foreign Affairs Council."
Russia had earlier Monday said that it opposed any sanctions on Iran over the ballistic missile tests.
Mogherini said however that "we expect Iran to fulfil all its international obligations".
She added: "The point is we all see this as a major problematic element when it comes to regional relations... this would increase tensions in the Middle East at a moment when tensions are definitely not needed."
Mogherini announced earlier that she would go to Iran next month to build on the nuclear deal, which she played a key role in securing.
Mogherini last visited Iran in July shortly after world powers -- Britannia, China, La Belle France, the United States, Russia plus Germany -- agreed to lift sanctions in return for Tehran accepting strict curbs on its nuclear programme.
"My next visit will take place on the 16th of April," she said as she went into the foreign ministers’ meeting.
"We will discuss with the ministers on which grounds, on which issues and sectors to re-engage so as to reopen full relations" with Iran, she said.
Under the July accord, the lifting of the nuclear sanctions takes place progressively in line with Tehran meeting its commitments.
A key provision allows the sanctions to be restored or "snap-back" immediately if Iran is found in breach of the agreement.
Mogherini has been anxious to return to Iran to build on July accord momentum, both for the sake of bilateral ties but also in the hope of getting Tehran’s help in resolving the Syrian and other regional conflicts.
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An Iranian nuke detonating anywhere in EU territory would be, at most, a "technical violation," earning a stern diplomatic rebuke at most...
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"They have promised us, on the beard of the Prophet, that it's solely for solving the Jewish problem defense against Zionist aggression."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... said on Monday "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, and instructed his diplomats to step up the push for peace as UN-mediated talks resumed in Geneva on ending the five-year war.
Syria announced Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... had agreed on the "reduction" of Russian forces in a telephone call with Putin. Western diplomats urged caution and the anti-Assad opposition expressed bafflement, with a front man saying "nobody knows what is in Putin’s mind."
The Kremlin also said Putin and Syria leader Bashir al-Assad agreed on the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria in a phone call.
Russia’s military intervention in Syria in September helped to turn the tide of war in Assad’s favor after months of gains in western Syria by rebel fighters, who were aided by foreign military supplies including U.S.-made anti-tank missiles.
Putin’s announcement - made without any advance warning to the United States - dropped out of the blue.
At a meeting with his defence and foreign ministers, Putin said Russian forces had largely fulfilled their objectives in Syria. But he gave no deadline for the completion of the withdrawal and said forces would remain at a seaport and airbase in Syria’s Latakia province.
"The task that was set before our defence ministry and armed forces has as a whole been completed and so I order the defence ministry to from tomorrow start the withdrawal of the main part of our military contingents from the Syrian Arab Republic," Putin told Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in televised comments.
Putin also asked his foreign ministry to intensify Russia’s role in brokering a peace deal in Syria.
The Russian leader said Moscow’s work in the country had created the necessary conditions for the grinding of the peace processor.
The Russian ambassador to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Monday that Russia’s decision to begin withdrawing from Syria will help Moscow’s push to reach a political settlement.
"Our diplomacy has received marching orders to intensify our efforts to achieve a political settlement in Syria," Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told news hounds ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on Syria.
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Darth Vlad = Russia is still keeping significant or "sufficient" forces + two MilBases in Syria.
What "Nation-building"!? One of the major reasons the US-Allies is in this predicament is that the Lefties demand that the US disdain or not "nation-build" or engage in "national reconstruction", aka NOT "Winning Hearts-N-Minds" WHICH BASICALLY ALL BUT GUARANTEES FUTURE NEW PROBLEMS [worser?] OR FAILURE(S) , + THE LEFTIES KNOW IT.
'TIS WHY ORDINARY MUSLIMS IN IRAQ, SYRIA, LIBYA, + AFGHANISTAN ARE BEFUDDLED + ANGRY AS TO WHY DID THE US ATTACK ANDOR INVADE THEIR COUNTRIES ONLY TO LEAVE IT INSECURE + IN DESPERATE DESOLATION???
WHY DID THE US DO THE ABOVE + REMOVE THEIR OWN PRO-US STRONGMAN/DICTATOR-IN-CHARGE ONLY TO LEAVE THE COUNTRIES IN MUCH WORSE CONDITION THAN UNDER THE STRONGMAN/DICTATOR???
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS is relying more heavily on child soldiers as growing numbers of fighters desert the Death Eater group, the United States said Monday.
That may indicate the group’s leaders are "struggling with their ability to recruit and retain manpower," State Department front man John Kirby told news hounds during a daily briefing.
He would not confirm reports that Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq had captured a US citizen who defected from ISIS.
"We are working closely with the Iraqi and Kurdish authorities to try to get more information to confirm the veracity of these reports," Kirby said.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... "more and more" defectors are leaving ISIS’s ranks, prompting the group to rely more heavily on child soldiers, the front man added.
"Originally, they would rely on children for intelligence streams, getting information... and then using them to conduct suicide kabooms, which they still do," Kirby said.
"Now we get more reports about them using children in actual engagements side by side with adult fighters," he added.
"All those are good indications they are struggling with their ability to recruit and retain manpower."
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the United States still considers the threat from ISIS "very seriously," Kirby said. "They are still very lethal."
US forces have led a military coalition of 60 countries fighting ISIS for nearly two years.
The Death Eater groups controls vast areas of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Russia has announced it would begin withdrawing its forces from Syria, saying its bombing campaign had helped "radically change the situation in the fight against terrorism."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Death Eaters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are forcing their sex slaves to take birth control so they can repeatedly rape them, it has been reported.
The distressing move by ISIS fighters followed by a ruling by the terror group which prevents them to rape their slaves after they become pregnant.
The ruling by the terror group also prevents its fighters to take a woman or girl as a slave if they are carrying another man’s child.
According to reports, the birth control methods the sex slaves are forced to take includes birth control pills and injections.
"Every day, I had to swallow one in front of him. He gave me one box per month," one of the 37 former sex slaves told the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... during an interview.
She added "When I ran out, he replaced it. When I was sold from one man to another, the box of pills came with me."
The report further added that the owners of the sex slaves provided the box of birth control as proof the women are not pregnant when they were selling their slaves to other fighters.
Reports have also emerged that one pregnant woman was forced to take abortion pills, while another pregnant slave was repeatedly punched in the stomach after refusing to have an abortion.
Most Isis sex slaves are from the thousands of Yazidi women captured when Isis overran Mount Sinjar in Iraq in 2014, according to The Independent.
Yazidi women who beat feet from Isis have said as many as 3,400 Yazidi women and kiddies are still being held hostage by the group.
Isis leaders previously issued a fatwa detailing how and when its fighters could rape female sex slaves, which described the practise as "one of the inevitable consequences of jihad".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests are not in violation of its nuclear deal and the 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
