[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior police official has been suspended over a rocket attack by the Talibs on the newly-built parliament building in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Deputy front man for the Ministry of Interior Najib Danish said the commander of the 13th police district was suspended over the rocket attack.
He said four other officials were also suspended over the rocket attack as an investigation is underway regarding the incident.
Without elaborating further, Danish said the decision to suspended the top police official has been taken by the leadership of Interior Ministry following the rocket attack.
At least four rockets were fired on the parliament building in Dar-ul-Aman area of the city on Monday as security bigshots were summoned to brief the politicians regarding the security situation of the country.
A number of the rockets impacted the parliament building and left damages to the newly-built building but no casualties were reported.
The Taliban group grabbed credit behind the rocket attack.
The new parliament building has been built with the financial support of India and was inaugurated during a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kabul late in December last year.
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Somalia-based Islamists terror group al-Shabaab has found another lucrative means for funding its terror activities. Research by the Institute for Security Studies shows the militant group is smuggling gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The findings suggest the gold is channelled from eastern DR Congo and is then smuggled through cities including Kampala, Bujumbura, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The gold is then thought to be exported to Dubai and the Far East.
With Al-Shabaab’s linked to larger terror organizations like Al-Qaeda, the group’s expansion into the DRC poses a significant threat. It’s also thought Al-Shabaab and the Ugandan Islamist group, Allied Democratic Forces, could have joined gold smuggling networks. The finance from this will help ensure Al-Shabaab remains resourced despite efforts by the African Union Mission in Somalia and the United Nations to cut off its funding.
The group is known to make its money from taxes on businesses and NGOs as well as contributions from the Somali diaspora and extortion. It’s also been linked to Somali pirate groups operating in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
Militants once had control of the vital port city of Kismayo, where they profited from millions of dollars worth of charcoal and khat exports to the Gulf States. In 2012 however, Kenyan forces flushed them out, dealing a major blow to their finances.
Recently, there have been suggestions that the terror group benefited from contraband sugar imports into Kenya.
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[DAWN] A hijacker who seized an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Cyprus has been detained, Cypriot government front man Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. How in this day and age do you walk onto an aircraft wearing a boom belt?
"The hijacker has just been enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! ," Christodoulides said on Twitter, without providing further details.
An EgyptAir passenger plane flying from Cairo to Alexandria was hijacked on Tuesday and diverted to Cyprus, where it landed at Larnaca airport on the south coast, Cypriot police and Egyptian civil aviation authority officials said.
The suspected hijacker surrendered to authorities at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, Cypriot authorities said.
A man emerged from the aircraft and then walked across the tarmac with his hands up to two awaiting counter-terrorism coppers, an AFP correspondent reported.
They laid him on the ground and searched him for around two minutes before taking him away. "Its over," Cyprus's foreign ministry said in a tweet.l
LARNACA, Cyprus — The man accused of hijacking an EgyptAir plane with a fake explosives belt and forcing it to land in Cyprus was ordered to remain in police custody for eight days during his first court appearance on Wednesday.
Police told the court in Larnaca that 58-year-old Egyptian Seif al-Din Mohammed Mostafa faces possible charges of hijacking, kidnapping people with the aim of taking them to an unknown destination, reckless and threatening behavior and offenses that breach the anti-terror law.
Police prosecutor Andreas Lambrianou said that the suspect told police: "What’s someone supposed to do when he hasn’t seen his wife and children in 24 years and the Egyptian government won’t let him?"
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[BDLIVE.CO.ZA] A PAIR of young female would-be jacket wallahs set off an international investigation over the weekend, when they were tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! at a roadblock in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , one of them drugged and both insisting they were among the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from the town of Chibok, Nigerian officials said.
Friday’s arrest offered further testimony to how deeply involved maidens of tender years have become in West Africa’s conflict with the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamist insurgency.
On Sunday, Femi Adesina, a front man for Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said the government was dispatching two parents from Chibok to check whether the girls are their daughters. But there was also considerable doubt: A second front man for the president, Garba Shehu, said the girls may have been only 10 years old, too young to number among the missing high school-aged students.
Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of boys and girls from the northeast of Nigeria over years. The most high-profile incident occurred on April 14, 2014, when a group of Boko Haram fighters drove Toyota pickups through the gates of the Chibok Government Secondary School. Within hours, they drove off with 276 students, 57 of whom escaped in the days after.
The details of the kidnapping -- the girls had been studying for their final exams -- helped personalize the plight of the tens of thousands of mostly anonymous people who become victims in the Boko Haram conflict. A storm of tweets and protests across Nigeria and abroad helped inspire increased US involvement in the war, which has cost 28,000 Nigerian lives over the past five years.
Since then, the US has sent drones, manned surveillance planes, and about 300 troops to the border area of Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad, to help monitor Boko Haram -- and free its hostages, including the schoolgirls.
Early on, US planes spotted two large groups of women or girls -- roughly 40 in one location, and 70 in another. But the apparent hostages have since been moved and there was no proof they were the Chibok students.
In a statement, the protest group #BringBackOurGirls said it had no confirmation as to whether the girls arrested in Cameroon were, as they claimed, from Chibok. But the group offered guarded hope, saying the arrest represented the first recent lead to the girls’ locations.
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This is the second terror suspect to fight extradition to France. Why?
[AnNahar] A French terror suspect tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in weekend raids in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam is fighting his extradition to La Belle France, Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday.
The 32-year-old, identified by Dutch media only as Anis B., will remain in jug in the Netherlands, where a court has to decide within 90 days whether to grant a request from Gay Paree to extradite him, the Amsterdam prosecutor said in a statement.
The man is wanted by La Belle France for "involvement in a criminal organization linked to a terrorist enterprise," the prosecutor said.
He was arrested on Sunday at Gay Paree's request suspected of receiving orders from 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.... group to attack targets in La Belle France.
He appeared before an Amsterdam court on Tuesday and was remanded in jug. The court also ruled he could only have contact with his lawyers and not with other people.
He must appear again this time in a public hearing within 60 days. But no date has been set for that.
La Belle France had sought Anis B.'s arrest after French police there said they had thwarted an attack by a man called Reda Kriket, 34, who was caught on Thursday.
French police discovered several assault rifles and explosives at Kriket's apartment in a Gay Paree suburb.
Heavily-armed Dutch police then raided a home in the west of Rotterdam late Sunday following the French investigation.
Police found ammunition, SIM cards, hard drives, cash and drugs in the raids, during which several houses in the area were evacuated.
Three other men were also detained in the operation, including two suspects of Algerian origin aged 43 and 47. No immediate details were available about the third man.
They are also being held on suspicion of involvement in terror attacks, Dutch media reported.
The Netherlands was already on heightened alert after the airport and metro attacks in Brussels a week ago, with security stepped up at airports and train stations and border controls tightened.
Dutch Justice Minister Ard van der Steur on Tuesday told parliament he expected Anis B. "to be extradited to La Belle France soon."
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Oh my goodness! Somebody just flipped over a flat rock.
[FRANCE24] The Netherlands notified Belgium about the criminal backgrounds and suspected terrorist links of jacket wallahs Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui just five days before the Brussels attacks, the Dutch justice minister said Tuesday.
Answering questions in the Dutch parliament, Justice Minister Ard van der Steur said Dutch police had received an FBI report on March 16 "in which there was notification of Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid's criminal backgrounds and Khalid's terrorist background".
The next day "the issue came up during bilateral contact between the Dutch and Belgian police", said Van der Steur. "The radical background of both the brothers was discussed."
He also confirmed US media reports that Ibrahim was on a US terror list, saying he "was placed on an American surveillance list on September 25, 2015, a list made by the FBI terrorist screening centre".
Ibrahim El Bakraoui was one of two bombers who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on March 22. His brother Khalid went kaboom! at Maalbeek metro station.
Belgium's federal police service, however, denied that it had received any information from the FBI about the Bakraoui brothers.
There was "no mention of the message that the FBI sent to the Dutch police" in the meeting with Dutch authorities, it said. Instead they discussed a police raid in Brussels on March 15, in which an Algerian Death Eater with links to Gay Paree attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was captured. Khalid El Bakraoui is believed to have rented the flat where the raid took place using a false name.
The Dutch minister's revelations come as Belgian authorities continued Tuesday to hunt for a bomb suspect who remains on the run, a week after the deadly blasts in the Belgian capital that killed 32.
Under pressure at home and abroad over an apparent series of missed clues about criminals linked to jihadist networks, the Belgian government has admitted mistakes were made.
Adding to the recriminations, Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur said he regretted the release of the man identified by Belgian media as Faycal Cheffou, who claimed to be a freelance journalist. Hinting at suspicions that the man was a jihadist recruiter, he told French media: "There is a very thin line between an agitated radical and a radical recruiter, and in this case the judge probably didn't want to cross that line."
The man's lawyer Olivier Martins told RTBF television that his client was let go because he had an alibi.
"He gave an alibi based on telephone analysis which showed that he was at home at the time of the attacks," Martins was quoted as saying.
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[Ynet] The State Department and Pentagon ordered the families of U.S. diplomats and military personnel to leave posts in southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Tuesday due to "increased threats from terrorist groups" in the country.
The two agencies said dependents of American staffers at the U.S. consulate in Adana, the Incirlik air base and two other locations must leave. The so-called "ordered departure" notice means the relocation costs will be covered by the government.
The orders cover the Adana consulate, U.S. military dependents in Incirlik, Ismir and Mugla as well as family of U.S. government civilians at Ismir and Mugla. The State Department also restricted official travel to that which it considers "mission critical." Cook said that the order does not affect about 100 family members who are based in Istanbul and Ankara.
The decision comes a day after Israel issued a new travel advisory for Turkey, warning its citizens to leave the country as soon as possible and avoid any traveling there.
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That's taken how many years too long to figure out?
[IsraelTimes] Intelligence source cited by Sky News says concrete threat to Istanbul synagogue and community center, after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Israel both warn of increased danger for Jews and Israelis
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.... bandidossnuffies are planning an imminent attack on Jewish kindergartens, schools and youth centers in Turkey, according to a report by Britannia-based Sky News Monday.
The report came hours after Jerusalem issued an alert for all Israeli citizens to leave Turkey as soon as possible, citing an Islamic State threat, and nine days after three Israelis were killed in a bombing in Istanbul.
According to Sky News, citing an "intelligence source," bandidossnuffies are plotting to attack a synagogue which also doubles as a school and community center in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul.
The source said the threat was imminent and could happen at any moment.
"This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot," the source said. "We don’t know when it’s scheduled for. It could be in the next 24 hours or next few days."
The report was likely referring to the Neve Shalom synagogue, Istanbul’s largest, serving many of the country’s estimated 17,000 Jews.
The synagogue has been the site of two previous deadly attacks: a 1986 shooting and a 2003 bombing.
The source said the intelligence was related to the capture of a group of Islamic State operatives, including a jacket wallah, in Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, last week, and added that security was being beefed up along with increased anti-terror measures.
On Saturday, Turkish police warned of possible Islamic State attacks against Christians and Jews over the weekend.
The police issued a nationwide alert warning of possible attacks targeting churches during Easter on Sunday, as well as synagogues, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
Israeli officials followed up that warning Monday by raising the terror risk in Turkey from level 3 (basic concrete threat) to level 2 (high concrete threat).
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[AnNahar] A former Canadian engineering student detained over fears he might commit a terrorist act was formally charged on Tuesday with participating in the activities of a terrorist group.
Kevin Omar Mohammed, 23, appeared briefly in a Toronto area court to face the charge, which was in addition to two weapons offenses laid by federal police when he was tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... last week in possession of a knife.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said he had traveled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on or around April 24, 2014 to join the Qaeda-linked 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 .. ... Front.
He flew back to Canada a month later.
The RCMP had initially sought a court order against Mohammed requiring him to be on good behavior under a controversial law aimed at preventing attacks and stopping people from travelling abroad to join Lion of Islam groups.
"While there was no indication of any plans for a domestic attack, we must remain committed to preventing individuals from traveling abroad to gain training and expertise that could be used in the planning and implementation of future attacks on Canadian soil," RCMP Superintendent Lise Crouch was quoted as saying after the arrest.
About 60 Canadians who traveled abroad to join terror groups are now back in the country, and another 180 are estimated to be overseas engaged with Lion of Islams, Canada's spy chief Michel Coulombe told a newspaper last month.
The FBI on Tuesday continued to investigate an incident in which 17 men were detained for reportedly firing off hundreds of rounds in a remote part of Apple Valley.
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies and an FBI agent responded to the scene Sunday morning and detained the men -- reportedly all of Middle Eastern descent -- who were camping out in the Deep Creek Hot Springs area Sunday morning, authorities said.
A 911 caller reported hearing over 100 shots fired and seeing five to seven men wearing turbans and shooting "assault rifles, handguns, and shotguns," according to a Sheriff’s Department statement.
A county sheriff’s helicopter located the men walking near a creek with backpacks "and other items", The Los Angeles Times reported.
Officials say the men were cooperative as they were detained and searched.
Several handguns, a rifle, and a shotgun were found at the scene, but a records check found all the weapons were registered with the exception of the rifle, which reportedly didn’t have a serial number because it was purchased in parts, an FBI spokesperson told The Times.
Police scanner traffic posted online by the Victor Valley News Group described "a large group of subjects wearing turbans and chanting" at the scene.
"They were up all night chanting ‘Allah akbar’-type stuff," an unidentified officer is heard saying on the audio recording.
None of the hikers interviewed by Sheriff’s investigators say they witnessed any shots being fired, according to Sheriff’s officials.
A photo of the arrests showing several men handcuffed at the scene was posted by the Victor Valley News Group but was not immediately confirmed by authorities.
All 17 men were eventually released because Sheriff’s investigators say they had no outstanding warrants or criminal histories.
"There was no evidence found that a crime had been committed by any of the subjects who were detained and they were released," a Sheriff’s spokesperson said.
The FBI will conduct further interviews with the men to determine if any crimes were committed.
Nearby residents said they were concerned by the activity.
"If there’s something going on wouldn’t you want your local police or law enforcement to take care of it so that citizens like you or myself don’t have to ate it into their own hands?" said a resident, Eliseo Rodriguez.
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"There was no evidence found that a crime had been committed by any of the subjects who were detained and they were released," a Sheriff’s spokesperson said.
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"If there’s something going on wouldn’t you want your local police or law enforcement to take care of it so that citizens like you or myself don’t have to take it into their own hands?" said a resident
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Listen to the Champ? Listen to Cruz, Trump, Clinton, Sanders, Rubio, Ron Paul, or any of the other beltway freak show varmits? No, sorry, no can do.
[DAWN] LAHORE: In the wake of the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park suicide kaboom, the government has decided to arrest all individuals included in the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The decision was taken at a meeting on law and order presided over by 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... here on Monday.
The prime minister expressed anger at Punjab’s security officials for ignoring an alert issued by an intelligence agency about presence in the province of four to five jacket wallahs looking for a soft target.
He also expressed dismay over the leniency shown towards miscreants in Islamabad and asked 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... , who was present in the meeting, to personally look into the matter.
A participant of the meeting told Dawn that the prime minister had ordered an immediate action against the history-sheeters included in the Fourth Schedule and said the action must not wait for a Rangers-police combined operation strategy and all law-enforcement agencies could act on their own to avert chances of criminals slipping away.
The Fourth Schedule comprises the elements found to be or suspected to be involved in anti-state activities, delivering hate speeches and/or activists of religious outfits not yet banned but related with militancy in any way.
At least 2,000 criminals are at present included in the list, the official said, adding that the action had been started across Punjab, particularly in Lahore, Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... and Multan.
The prime minister got infuriated at the 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.... home secretary when a joint director general of the Intelligence Bureau told him that the agency had issued a terror alert well in time.
Secretary Azam Sultan claimed in the meeting that his department had issued a circular containing the alert, but law-enforcement agencies overlooked it.
The meeting was told that the wife of a terrorist killed in an encounter months ago was now apparently operating the deadly network of a banned outfit. It was also informed that the suspected bomber, whose skull was found at the scene of the crime, had been working for a banned outfit and also recruited some youths for it.
The prime minister expressed displeasure over the entry of the miscreants into Islamabad’s Red Zone without any hindrance.
He was informed that organisers of the chehlum of Mumtaz Qadri had given an assurance that they would not cross a certain limit and that’s why Punjab police were ill-prepared to tackle the protesters.
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[DAWN] As Pakistain’s five-member team investigating the Pathankot terror attack received DNA samples of the gunnies from Indian Sherlocks, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar seemed to pour scorn on the visit on Monday.
Press Trust of India said Mr Parrikar had got his hands off the controversy over the Joint Investigation Team’s visit to the Pathankot airbase on Tuesday.
Mr Parrikar said the "scene of the crime" was under the control of Home Ministry’s National Investigating Agency and it was up to the agency to decide who to allow there or not.
Noting that no permission has been given by the Defence Ministry for entry into the airbase, he said that the "scene of the crime", a "non-sensitive" area, has been completely barricaded, including visually, on his orders and no defence asset would be used to facilitate the visit of the Pak team.
"However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... an area where the actual crime had taken place had been handed over to NIA long back which is conducting the entire investigation. Who will be taken there, who will probe, depends on the decision of NIA," Mr Parrikar said replying to questions here on the sidelines of Defexpo.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... announced that the government will clear the D-Chowk of protesters on Wednesday "at any cost", if they don’t disperse by themselves in the night.
While addressing a presser on Tuesday night, Nisar said "if the protest doesn’t end in the next one hour, then we will clear the Red Zone in the morning".
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[CBSNEWS] The recapture of Palmyra in central Syria from 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 holy warriors puts government forces at the heart of the fight against the jihadist group - and not just geographically speaking.
For Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , recapturing the historic town represents a strategic political coup through which he hopes to convince the West that the Syrian army is a credible partner in combating terrorism as it ramps up the fight against Islamic State.
It is an awkward argument that the U.S. has repeatedly rebuffed. Officials in Washington are quick to point out that it was Assad's brutal crackdown on his own people that created the kind of vacuum that allowed hard boyz like ISIS to flourish in the first place.
An alliance between the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS - similar to the assistance and training provided to the Iraqi military on the other front in the war - seems out of the question.
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[Reuters] Harsh rhetoric about Muslims by Republican candidates in the U.S. presidential election campaign is undermining national security efforts, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Tuesday.
Asked about comments by Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Johnson told MSNBC in an interview that singling out a specific community hampers government efforts to build the connections needed to thwart possible attacks.
"Inflammatory comments about patrolling and securing Muslim neighbors or barring Muslims from entering this country, having an immigration policy based on religion, is counterproductive to our homeland security and national security interests," he said.
Johnson's remarks come in the wake of attacks last week in Belgium claimed by Islamic State militants that have stoked security fears across Europe and the West.
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"Inflammatory comments about patrolling and securing Muslim neighbors or barring Muslims from entering this country, having an immigration policy based on religion, is counterproductive to our homeland security and national security interests," he said.
It would seem that strict measures like these, once implemented and enforced would give grouped segments a chance to push their natonal identied.
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And another 20,000 voters decide to vote for Trump.
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It neeeds to be stressed again. Cruz called for "increased surveillance". Sec. Johnson knows very well currently his department as well as intell and some LE are have targeted surveillance in muslim communities. Once again, Johnson confirms his critics charges that his leading credentials for employment was political suck-up.
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The guy doesn't seem to understand the Muslim mind. Osama Bin Laden I think understood the Muslim mind when he said people follow the strong horse. We were the strong horse for nearly 7 years after Sept 11 and Al Queda was wiped out and Iraq was peaceful. Then we changed course and acted like the weak horse for 8 years and the Islamic Jihadists have had trouble keeping up with the number of volunteers, they've flooded Europe and almost carved out a state in Iraq.
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Spot on Skidmark. When such tactics are employed in non muslim communities we call it Proactive Policing and is regarded as a good thing. ..but nooo not for our muslim neighbors, on no. Once again it's special treatment for them and the rest of us can go to hell... or the morgue. Jeh really doesn't care which.
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"Also, that song 'Der Fuhrer's Face' extended WWII by three years."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior police official has been suspended over a rocket attack by the Talibs on the newly-built parliament building in capital 
Somalia-based Islamists terror group al-Shabaab has found another lucrative means for funding its terror activities. Research by the Institute for Security Studies shows the militant group is smuggling gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
[BDLIVE.CO.ZA] A PAIR of young female would-be 
[AnNahar] A French terror suspect 
"There was no evidence found that a crime had been committed by any of the subjects who were detained and they were released," a Sheriff’s spokesperson said. 
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 
