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Africa Horn
Somali pirates jailed by French court for fatal hijacking
Seven Somali pirates were sentenced to between six and 15 years in prison by a French court on Wednesday for the hijacking of a French yacht and killing of its owner in the Gulf of Aden in 2011.

Christian and Evelyne Colombo were on a round-the-world trip when their “Tribal Kat” catamaran was hijacked by pirates in the Arabian Sea. Christian was killed and his body dumped in the water, while his wife was held hostage for 48 hours before being rescued by the Spanish military.

Two members of the gang identified as the “recruiters”, Farhan Abdisalamn Hassan and Ahmed Abdullahi Akid, were handed 15-year sentences. Farhan Mohamoud Abchir, a minor at the time of the hijacking who has developed schizophrenia while in prison, according to his lawyer, was given the lightest six-year jail term. The prosecutor had sought terms of up to 22 years for the seven.

“It’s hard to understand the range of the penalties, the motivations of the court. Fifteen years is a very heavy sentence,” said Augustin d’Ollone, lawyer for Akid Abdullah.
Not in Texas...
Posted by: Steve White || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria Cautious over 'Proof of Life' Chibok Girls Video
[AnNahar] Nigeria's government on Thursday said it was studying a "proof of life" video showing 15 of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by 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...
, as parents and their supporters marked the second anniversary of the kidnapping.

The footage, shown on CNN, is the first time any of the missing girls have been seen since a previous Boko Haram video in May 2014, when about 100 were seen in Islamic dress reciting the Koran.

A total of 276 girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, on April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven escaped in the immediate aftermath.

Three mothers and a classmate of the 219 schoolgirls still missing confirmed the identities of the girls in the images broadcast on Wednesday night.

A senior government source told AFP it had received the video, which shows the girls in black hijabs, stating their names, that they were kidnapped from Chibok and saying they were "all well".

The video was said to have been shot on December 25 last year.

But the source said they were keen to avoid the problems encountered by the previous administration, which prematurely announced talks with Boko Haram elements and even a ceasefire.

"Our intelligence and security authorities... received a similar video in July last year and when they followed the lead it led to a cul-de sac," he revealed.

Contact could not be made and it was impossible to determine the identities of the purported Boko Haram members who sent it or if the move had the blessing of the group's leadership, he added.

Boko Haram has long been known to be factionalism, comprising groups of ideologically sympathetic fighters who do not always act under the direct orders of senior commanders.

In an indication the latest video and the previous unpublicized message may have come from one of these factions, the source also said the government had received a ransom demand last July.

The group asked for one million euros ($1.1 million) for 10 of the girls, the source disclosed.

That lends weight to theories the Chibok girls were split up following the abduction and were being held separately in different locations, complicating any possible talks or rescue bid.

AFP has also seen photographs of five girls that were sent to the government in mid-January this year as part of the same bid for negotiations.

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has previously said the girls would be released in exchange for Islamist fighters held in Nigerian custody.

Boko Haram has used kidnapping as a weapon, seizing thousands of women and maidens of tender years, and forcibly conscripting men and boys, in a conflict that has killed an estimated 20,000 since 2009.

The men and boys have been forced to fight in Boko Haram's ranks, while the girls and women have been turned into sex slaves and even jacket wallahs.

Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
said this week some 952,000 of the 2.6 million people displaced by the violence were children, who had been "robbed" of their right to education by attacks on schools.

UNICEF said separately there had been a sharp rise in the use of kidnapped children as human bombs. Three-quarters of the child bombers in attacks from January 2014 to February 2016 were girls.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Kuwait academic charged with blasphemy over TV interview
[NATION.PK] A prominent female academic and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activist in Kuwait has been charged with blasphemy.

Sheikha al-Jassem was summoned to the public prosecutor's office after legal complaints were filed against her over a recent interview she gave on TV.

She asserted that the constitution of Kuwait should be above the Koran and Islamic law in governing the country.

The public prosecutor still has the discretion to decide whether or not Ms Jassem will be put on trial.

The interview was broadcast on Kuwaiti Al-Shahed TV on 8 March. Its theme was the rise of Islamic extremism.

During the interview, Ms Jassem was asked about radical Islamists who said that religion was more important than the Kuwaiti constitution.

She responded by saying that this was dangerous and that, in her opinion, politics and religion should be kept apart.

'They were terrifying me'
Ms Jassem made reference to the violence across the Middle East and divisions between Sunni and Shia Muslims. She said that if you just went back to holy books and relied on them, society could not move forward.

Her remarks provoked a storm of attacks against her, spearheaded by Islamist members of Kuwait's parliament.

"They were terrifying me - everywhere, not just from Kuwait, even from 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...
," she told the BBC. "They were talking against me, they were saying bad things, they were ridiculing me. But I'm used to it now.

Calls were made for Ms Jassem's dismissal from Kuwait University, where she is a professor of philosophy. and a legal complaint was issued against her.

The public prosecutor told her that the complainant said he had been psychologically damaged by her remarks.

Other legal complaints may also be filed.

Ms Jassem faces charges of blasphemy but it is up to the public prosecutor to decide whether to proceed to trial. If convicted, she could be jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for one year.

But she is undaunted, buoyed by the support she has received as well as abuse.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Kim' B'day Present Deviates from Path
To mark the 104th anniversary of the birthday of the country's "eternal president," Kim Il Sung, North Korea launched a missile from its East Coast at about 5:30 a.m. local time. But it deviated from a "normal" trajectory, an official from South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters in Seoul.

But South Korea's military is still on high alert. "We are preparing against the possibility that the North could carry out heavyweight provocations at any time, including the fifth nuclear test," a military official said.

North Korea has displayed the Musudan at its military parades and is believed to have supplied assembly kits for the missile to Iran, but it had never tested this model of missile before.
Bad news for the Mad Mullahs.
If we had any kind of CIA at all we'd be taking credit for wrecking the launch...
Posted by: Bobby || 04/15/2016 07:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "All deviates must be punished"

If I were a Flag Officer for the NORKS, and I saw AA guns coming out....
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  It's be a shame if one of those landed in Iran or Syria.
Posted by: gorb || 04/15/2016 10:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Shoulda been Kim's Birthday Present.

But y'all got the point.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/15/2016 12:37 Comments || Top||


N.Korea Plans Another Nuclear Test
North Korea is likely to conduct another nuclear test or test-fire a missile after South Korea's general elections on Wednesday, a pundit speculated Tuesday.

Victor Cha of the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies said the North will probably carry out further provocations between the general elections in South Korea and a massive Workers Party congress slated for early May.

"Historically, North Korea has responded with a missile or DMZ provocation within an average seven-day span before or after the legislative election event," Cha said. An exception was the "sunshine policy" of engagement with the North from 2000 to 2004.

Cha pointed out that commercial satellite imagery suggests the North has finished all preparations so it can conduct another nuclear test "without any forewarning."

"The domestic dynamic of establishing the North's recognized nuclear weapons status in time for the party congress is also a driving causal factor," he said.

The regime may feel a "need for an action" because April 15 is the 104th birthday of regime founder Kim Il-sung.

"The provocation could take the form of a fifth nuclear test... Or, it could take the form of a launch of one of North Korea as-yet untested mobile, medium and long-range ballistic," he added.

CNN on Wednesday quoted U.S. government officials as saying satellites have spotted signs "that North Korea may be preparing for an unprecedented launch of a mobile ballistic missile which could potentially hit portions of the U.S."
Posted by: Steve White || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Europe
Merkel Kowtows To Erdogan Authorizes Prosecution of Anti-Erdogan Comedian
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/15/2016 11:26 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's see if I have this straight:
1) She invites a bunch of terrorists into the country amongst a bunch of refugees because she wants to stand by 'European values'.

2) She hands an anti-Erdogan comedian over to the wolves even though it's against European values.

Which suggests she regrets decision #1, is forced to stem the flow to mitigate the damage by working with Erdogan, and she has to violate 'European values' to do it.

All this could have been avoided by listening to a bunch of realists' racists' opinion that this was stupid to begin with.

Maybe next time.
Posted by: gorb || 04/15/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Merkel's actions make sense if one accepts the hypothesis that she's returned to her unorthodox and theocratic communist roots and now intends to inflict maximal damage on the West.

The Merkel-Erdogan deal btw does nothing to stem the flow. 'Refugees' selected by Erdogan will be airlifted from Turkey to Germany directly, rendering ineffective the closed borders of Macedonia et al.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/15/2016 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I think we need to start defining what European values are. I'd always thought they were more or less the same as Anglo-American values but clearly they are not.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/15/2016 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  no she kowtows to Xi..she salaams to the Caliph
Posted by: Snivling Pelosi1184 || 04/15/2016 14:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually she is quite perceptive and plans well for her future. By doing the aforementioned actions, she is planning to get eaten by the crocodile last.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/15/2016 19:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Well don't forget the entertainment value. The court will have to call some goats as witnesses.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/15/2016 21:29 Comments || Top||


Today's updates on the Paris and Brussels attacks
Brussels suspect: Israeli, American, Russian check-in areas targeted

[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Abrini, who has admitted he was the "man in the hat" captured on CCTV before the Brussels airport bombings, said the original targets in the deadly attacks were departure areas for flights to Tel Aviv, the US, and Russia.

The suspect -- who fled the airport -- sought to downplay his role in the attacks, telling a judge that he would "never hurt a fly" and had never traveled to Syria, La Belle France’s BFMTV reported Thursday.

He told a court that airport bomber Ibrahim el Bakraoui had selected the check-in areas for flights to the Jewish state, US and Russia as targets.

The two bombs went off at check-in rows 2 and 11 at the Zaventem Airport, some nine seconds apart on March 22.

Investigators have yet to announce which airlines were targeted in the attack. Initial reports said the bombers blew themselves up near an American Airlines desk, but the airline denied that was the case. Representative Devin Nunes of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, the top politician on the intelligence committee in the US House of Representatives, said on March 23 that US airlines may have been targeted.

France has received 9,000 tips on Islamic extremism

[Ynet] French President Francois Hollande says that authorities have received 9,000 tips related to Islamic extremism through a dedicated hotline and a website.

France officials believe some 600 Muslims have left the country for Syria and Iraq, but the thousands of tips offer a hint of the scale of the concern over religious radicalism in France.

Hollande was quick to note that not all the tips were linked to genuine problems.


Belgian Court Jails Top Jihadist Recruiter Zerkani for 15 Years

[AnNahar] Belgium appeals court on Thursday sentenced top jihadist recruiter Khalid Zerkani to 15 years in prison after convicting him of enlisting dozens of people, including key suspects in the Brussels and Gay Paree attacks.

Zerkani is "the biggest recruiter of jihadists Belgium has ever known," Federal Prosecutor Bernard Michel said during a court hearing in February.

Zerkani was originally tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in July 2015 to 12 years behind bars, even before 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....
attacks in Gay Paree and Brussels that killed 162 people.

Zerkani, 42, was jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
by police in 2014 after he defied authorities for years with his off-the-radar recruitment of jihadists for Syria in the gritty Molenbeek district in Brussels.

His recruits included jacket wallah Najim Laachraoui and Gay Paree attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abbaoud, court documents showed.

"He's the emir, the leader...", a suspect identified as Yacine E. told Sherlocks in a deposition leaked to Belgian daily La Derniere Heure.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Belgium Transport Minister quits
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/15/2016 9:17 Comments || Top||


Paris attacks suspect had German nuclear papers hidden in flat
[DNAINDIA] A prime suspect in the Gay Paree terror attacks had documents related to a German nuclear research center hidden in his Brussels flat, a media report said on Thursday.

Salah Abdeslam possessed documents about Juelich Nuclear Research Centre located near the Belgium-Germany border and being used for the storage of atomic waste, RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media group reported.

Citing its sources within the parliamentary control committee, whose meetings are confidential, RND said that head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) Hans-Georg Maassen told the nine-person committee at the end of March that Abdeslam had the documents.

Maassen told the committee, which monitors the work of German security agencies, that printouts of articles from the internet and photos of nuclear centre CEO Wolfgang Marquardt had been found in Abdeslam's apartment in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, the Belgian capital, it added.

RND said it was unclear whether Maassen had passed this information on to the chancellery or the interior ministry. Several members of the Bundestag and a terrorism expert at the BfV said they knew of this information and that Maassen had confidentially informed them, RND reported.

In a statement, the centre said that there was no indication of any danger and that it was in contact with security authorities and nuclear supervisors. Abdeslam, 28, born and raised in Belgium to Moroccan parents, was nabbed
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
on March 18 along with four other suspects in his flat where he lived while the Gay Paree attacks were being plotted. Four days later, jacket wallahs killed 32 people in Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro train.

Experts fear nuclear plants are potential targets for terrorists, either for sabotage or efforts to steal nuclear materials to build a "dirty" bomb. The Nuclear Security Summit, hosted by US President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
in Washington early this month, attended by more than 50 world leaders, termed threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism as "one of the greatest challenges to international security" in the communique, which said the threat is "constantly evolving".
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Turkey Calls for Muslim Anti-Terrorism Body at OIC Meeting
[ABCNEWS.GO] Muslim nations have agreed to establish a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
-based body to fight terrorism, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said Thursday as he urged the countries' leaders to examine the root causes of the migration crisis.

Addressing the 13th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Erdogan stressed his belief that terrorism is the largest problem confronting the Muslim world.

To effectively combat terrorism, he urged Muslim leaders to overcome their differences and tackle the problem from the security and financial tracks. He called for support for a Saudi-led initiative for an Islamic alliance against terrorism and to "turn it into an effective body."

"Instead of waiting for other forces to intervene against terror incidents and other crises that occur in Muslim countries, we must produce the solution ourselves through the Islamic alliance," he said.

Erdogan announced that a Turkish proposal to establish an Istanbul-based police cooperation and coordination center had been accepted by the 57-member Islamic bloc.

The Turkish president noted that the majority of the victims of terrorism are Muslims and called it a "source of shame" that most of those who risk their lives at sea to reach Europe are Muslims.

Turkey, he said, has saved 100,000 migrants colonists from drowning in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece

The country also hosts 2.7 million Syrian refugees and recently entered a controversial deal with the EU aiming to curb illegal migration.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Addressing the 13th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Erdogan stressed his belief that terrorism Kurdish Independence is the largest problem confronting the Muslim world.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2016 15:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Minnesota man pleads guilty in Islamic State case
[Ynet] One of five men due for trial next month for conspiring to provide material support to 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 has pleaded guilty.

Adnan Abdihamid Farah pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Three other counts were dropped.

Farah faces up to 15 years in prison but avoided a possible life sentence.

The 20-year-old Farah allegedly communicated with an Islamic State member in Syria.
The Star Tribune had the story of his arrest with five others in April, 2015 here, and the local CBS station reports on how one of the group changed his mind and turned informant here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I'd drop them in IS territory with "Spy" written on their forehead in arabic in Sharpie
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2016 15:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
ISIS threatens attack on India; vows to wipe out Hindus
[DNAINDIA] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) has made new threat to send its fighters from Pakistain and Bangladesh to carry out ’guerrilla attacks’ in India.

In a recent interview carried by Dabiq magazine, the ’amir’ of ISIS fighters in Bangladesh, Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif has vowed to wipe out Hindus and implement ’sharia’ law in India and Bangladesh. al-Hanif also revealed the terror group is currently training fighters in Bangladesh and Pakistain to launch attacks on India and is seeking the help of the local mujahideen in the country, according to a leading English daily.

The intention behind the attacks, al-Hanif says is to rid India of disbelievers as Muslims are facing trouble because of Hindus. In Dabiq, he has warned Hindus will be their main target in India.

To establish a caliphate, al-Hanif promises to topple Shiekh Hasina government in Bangladesh. "Bengal is located on the eastern side of India, whereas Wilayat Khurasan is located on its western side. Thus, having a strong jihad base in Bengal will facilitate performing guerrilla attacks inside India simultaneously from both sides and facilitate creating a condition of tawahhush (fear and chaos) in India along with the help of the existing local mujahidin there...," he is quoted as saying in the magazine.

"This would allow IS fighters to enter with a conventional army and completely liberate the region from the mushrikin (disbelievers), after first getting rid of the ’Pak’ and ’Afghani’ regimes", he added.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  vowed to wipe out Hindus

Intresting
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2016 4:31 Comments || Top||

#2  So ISIS is going to "wipe out" nearly a billion? Ambitious little shits aren't they?
Posted by: Threatch Elmoger4238 || 04/15/2016 6:07 Comments || Top||

#3  They mean it too.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2016 6:25 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the proper response is "Oh? You and what army?"

Somehow I doubt that the Paki-wakis would appreciate the consequences of such an attack.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/15/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Somehow I think the Hindus are better fighters than the waste that makes up ISIS.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/15/2016 12:10 Comments || Top||

#6  "To establish a caliphate, al-Hanif promises to topple Shiekh Hasina government in Bangladesh." Bagnladesh is still one of the world's poorest nations. ISIS would spend most of their time feeding their new found client rather than using it as a base for attacks the Indians could easily repulse.

Also, India has nukes and I think they'd probably use them before simply allowing themselves to be slaughtered to the last Hindu.

So how pro-ISIS are the Muslim ghettos in India?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/15/2016 14:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Inlike the Iraqi army - I don't think the Indian army will run away leaving behind all their equipment.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/15/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Death to Hinjoooooooz!
Posted by: Shipman || 04/15/2016 20:31 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Muslim countries have agreed to work together to fight terrorism: Turkey President Erdogan
[DNAINDIA] Muslim countries have agreed to work together more closely to fight terrorism and other crimes and will establish an Istanbul-based centre for greater police cooperation, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.

Leaders from the Muslim world are attending a summit in Istanbul this week of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss issues facing the grouping's 57 member states, including the humanitarian fall-out from Syria's civil war.

"It would be appropriate to create a structure among OIC countries which would strengthen and institutionalise cooperation against terror and other crimes," Erdogan said in his opening address at the summit.

"With this in mind, our proposal for the establishment of an OIC police cooperation and coordination centre based in Istanbul found acceptance."

Erdogan, whose country is set to take over the three-year rotating presidency of the OIC, gave no details about the new police centre or say when it might start work.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has long pressed for closer regional cooperation in tackling terrorism as its army and security forces battle Kurdish forces of Evil that Ankara and its Western allies classify as terrorists.

Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against 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....
in neighbouring Syria and is also a vocal opponent of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
, a stance that has put it at odds with Assad's ally, Iran.

On Thursday Erdogan called for greater unity among Muslim countries.

"The more that we as Muslims, as Muslim countries, fall out with each other, the more the innocents who have put their hopes in us will be exposed to strife," he said.

Also speaking at the summit, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke out against divisions among Muslims. Shi'ite Iran is at loggerheads with Sunni Muslim powers including Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
in 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...
as well as in Syria.

"No message which would fuel division in the Islamic community should come out of the conference," Rouhani told the conference, according to Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Terrorism being defines as?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2016 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Collective mass suicide?
Posted by: John Frum || 04/15/2016 18:11 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan Shuts down more Muslim Brotherhood Offices
[AnNahar] Jordanian security services on Thursday pressed ahead with closures of offices of the Moslem Brüderbund, the kingdom's main opposition force, which vowed to fight the measure in the courts.

Brotherhood front man Badi al-Rafaia said its offices were sealed off with red wax in the towns of Mafraq, 70 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Amman, and Madaba, 30 kilometers (30 miles) to the south of the capital.

The moves came one day after the movement's Amman headquarters were closed along with an office in Jerash to the north.

Previously tolerated for decades in Jordan, the Brotherhood has had tense relations with the authorities since the Arab Spring uprisings that shook the region in 2011.

The movement, in a statement published Thursday, said the closures "take us back to the days of martial law when order and justice are not respected", and pledged "to take judicial and political measures against these illegal pressures".
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Obama Admin Open to U.N. Measures Focused on Israel
[FREEBEACON] The B.O. regime says it "will carefully consider" what are expected to be a series of United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Security Council Resolutions aimed at Israel in the coming months, generating accusations in Congress that Washington is preparing to abandon Israel at the U.N., according to State Department officials and congressional sources apprised of the measure.

U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon that no decisions have been made yet about several draft resolutions being informally circulated in Turtle Bay, but that the administration is open to considering future drafts.

"We will carefully consider our future engagement and determine how to most effectively advance the objective we all share in achieving a negotiated two-state solution," a State Department official not authorized to speak on record told the Free Beacon.

The administration has struggled this week to publicly articulate a consistent position on the issue.

State Department deputy front man Mark Toner told news hounds on Monday that the administration is open to U.N. action on Israeli settlements, but on Tuesday declared that the administration is flatly "opposed" to such action and would likely veto an Israel-focused measure.

Anne Patterson, an assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, testified to Congress on Wednesday that the administration has not yet committed to opposing future resolutions.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NO
Posted by: newc || 04/15/2016 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Tame to make this call to Moscow, Bibi?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2016 4:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Not just NO, HELL NO!!
Posted by: AlanC || 04/15/2016 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump or Lying Ted need to pick this up and RUN with it, and run with it hard !
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/15/2016 8:02 Comments || Top||

#5  The administration has struggled this week to publicly articulate a consistent position on the issue.

This administration has struggled for the entire time it has been in office to articulate positions.

Well, other than give us all your money and freedoms and shut up.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/15/2016 9:35 Comments || Top||


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Kurds call on US spec ops for help
[ARA News]. DUHOK – Yezidi Peshmerga fighters have called on the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) to free their women and children from the ISIS detention in Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq.
President Kennedy and General William P. Yarborough, Fort Bragg, 12 October 1961.
The frontlines in Sinjar –known in Kurdish as Shingal– are quiet and restless and are protected by around 5,000 Yezidi Peshmergas and fighters of the Shingal Resistance Units (YBŞ). On Wednesday, ISIS mortars injured several civilians inside the city of Sinjar.

“There are not any more ISIS forces in Tal Afar. My family is all in Tal Afar. There are 700 Yezidi families in the hands of ISIS in Tal Afar. I need my family to be free,” said Hassan, a Peshmerga fighter. “Now people need apaches here, there are no more ISIS forces in Tal Afar, I am sure,” he told ARA News.
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UN official says Syria needs improved humanitarian access
"A decent 5 star restaurant would be a good place to start..."
GENEVA (UN) – The day after a new round of intra-Syrian talks began in Geneva, the United Nations envoy mediating a solution to the crisis reported Thursday on the latest humanitarian assessment, stressing the need for improvement amidst a picture that is frustrating but not “completely negative.”

“I cannot deny that everyone in the meeting was disappointed,” UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told the press, referring to a meeting of the Humanitarian Access Task Force, set up to ensure access and the delivery of aid.

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Posted by: badanov || 04/15/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because Syrian refugees are so good at communicating shared humanity to the citizens of their host countries?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2016 4:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep, better humanitarian access. Also, that war thing.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/15/2016 18:18 Comments || Top||



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