[Dhaka Tribune] For 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.... ’s residents, springtime in Afghanistan brings three things: sunshine, rain showers and blood.
Over the past two decades, the end of winter has been marked by a renewed campaign of violence from the Taliban. The deadly tradition continued this year with latest suicide kaboom in the capital . At least 64 people died and hundreds more were maimed in a assassination in close proximity to the Ministry of Defense and other military compounds.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A former prominent Mujahideen leader Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf ...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home... has called on bully boy groups to end slavery for the outsiders, reiterating his hard stance against the bad boy groups in the country.
Sayyaf was speaking during a gathering to commemorate the 24th anniversary of Mujahideen’s victory against the former Soviet-backed regime.
The event was organized by Afghanistan Protection and Stability Council, comprising prominent ex-Jihadi leaders and senior former government officials.
Sayyaf said the bully boy and terrorist groups fighting in the country should not brand their insurgency as Jihad, insisting that killing of children, women, destroying houses and committing other horrific crimes are not a holy war.
He urged the Taliban and other bully boy groups not to further destroy their homeland and refrain from slavery for the outsiders.
In parts of his speech, Sayyaf said the freedom and comfort which the neighboring countries are enjoy from are as a result of the Jihad of the Afghan people.
Sayyaf noted the growing objections and criticisms against the Mujahideen in the media, specifically in social media, and said offence and defaming of Mujahideen is an offensive on Islam and its principles.
He also called on the government to include the former Mujahideen in fight against terror and defense of the country.
This is not the first time Sayyaf has taken a hard stance against the bully boy groups in the country, specifically the Taliban group.
Sayyaf has publicly denounced the insurgency activities of the Talibs on numerous occasions and in one stance declared Jihad against the group.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. will receive a list of individuals sentenced to death over gunnies activities, days after President Ghani vowed to implement the judiciary institutions’ verdicts regarding the terror suspects.
Deputy Presidential Palace front man Shah Hussain Murtazvi told news hounds that President Ghani has ordered the judiciary institutions to further review the cases involving sentences awarded to the individuals for gunnies activities.
Murtazvi further added that the list will be provided to President Ghani today, insisting that the gunnies would be hanged to death once the cases have been reviewed in a bid to ensure fairness in the verdicts.
The decision to review and implement the judiciary institutions’ verdicts regarding the terror suspects was taken days after 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.... was hit by a deadly attack.
At least 64 people were killed and 347 others were maimed after a group of Lions of Islam launched coordinated attack on VIP protection unit in Pul-e-Mahmood Khan area of the city on 19th April.
The Taliban group grabbed credit behind the attack but the officials said they doubt the Pakistain-based Haqqani terrorist network plotted and carried out the attack.
The attack sparked furor among the Afghan officials and citizens of country who called on the government to ensure justice is served by implementing the judiciary institutions’ verdicts against the terrorists, specifically Anas Haqqani who is kept in the custody of the Afghan forces.
Anas Haqqani is a close family member of Haqqani network founder and was tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! by the Afghan cops.
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[AA.TR] Initial 6 month deployment to troubled state turns into decade-old mission with no end in sight On the other hand the infestation's been contained, for the most part, rather than providing safe havens for turbans operating in Kenya and Uganda and Ethiopia, so that should count for something.
And no doubt Allah is pleased they put themselves in the hands of his devils in Hell; a busy devil is a happy devil, 'tis said.
It's also meant a steady paycheck for the Anisom boys, and it's kept a number of generals busy at war instead of plotting coups...
Should read 90,000 years of killing.
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“We only went in to aid the mission of the Europeans,” Kivumbi said. “The Americans were taught a bitter lesson in 1993, so they don’t want to risk their soldiers.”
'Ponder' on if you will, just don't call us. Afri oplossing (solutions) vir die Afri problemm ek se.
The liberation of the strategic city of Mukalla is a stern warning to all those who support terrorism in Yemen, the Arab Coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen affirmed today.
Staff Brigadier Musallam Al Rashidi, Commander of UAE Force in Hadhramout, who is commanding the liberation battle in Mukalla, said the support provided by the Arab Coalition had been very instrumental in driving Al Qaeda militants out of the city, affirming the coalition's determination to pursue them wherever they were.
''Stability of Yemen means stability for the whole region,'' the UAE commander joint told a press conference held by the coalition and the Yemeni national army, adding that Al Qaeda looted $100 million (Dh367 million) daily during its rule of Mukalla and after the liberation it lost its key funding sources.
''The liberation of Mukalla has proved how Al Qaeda was fragile,'' he said, noting that air strikes carried out by the coalition had facilitated the mission of the Yemeni army.
Brigadier Al Rashidi indicated that the UAE force was training Yemeni army personnel who had proven their merit in the battleground.
According to him, tonnes of relief assistance from the UAE were on their way to the city.
Brigadier Auni Al Qurni, Deputy Commander of Mukalla's Liberation Force, said the operation had been carried out at the request of the legitimate government.
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Meanwhile, the prime minister of Turkey and the politburo chef of Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood of Palestine) are meeting in a hotel in Doha, according to The Times of Israel. Next month Turkey will engage in a "final push" negotiation with Israel; ending the blockade of Hamas will no doubt be on Turkey's agenda.
[Dhaka Tribune] The assailants had made plans to kill LGBT magazine Roopbaan Editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy two months before the day of the incident.
The killers recced the Kalabagan area near Xulhaz’s residence to keep vigil on him and their last watch was on Monday morning before they killed the LGBT activist in the evening. They had also rented a house in Dhaka’s Adabar area in Mohammadpur.
The information was disclosed yesterday to the Dhaka Tribune by a high official of the Detective Branch of Police, requesting not to be named. The official said the DB gathered the intelligence after analysing clues and a mobile phone left behind by the killers.
The DB official, who is involved in the investigation of the double murder, also said that they have managed to identify a few suspects and are moving forward with the information.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US has shown keen interest in helping the DB with the murder investigation. The official said the FBI has offered to provide any form of assistance in solving the murder.
He also said that the FBI has been asking the DB if the murder took place because of Xulhaz’s work history with the US Embassy. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the DB has informed the FBI that Xulhaz might have been murdered because of his involvement with LGBT activism.
When asked if the FBI has sent any proposal in writing, the DB official said that they are just communicating with us.
Regarding the issue, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said he has not been informed about FBI’s interest in the murder investigation yet but "if they want to help, the government has no problem with that."
On Monday, Xulhaz was killed along with his friend Mahbub Tonoy at his Kalabagan residence. Xulhaz was also a cousin of former foreign minister Dipu Moni, an official of the USAID and a former protocol officer of the US Embassy. Tonoy was also an LGBT and theatre activist.
Another source in the DB said they have found clues that indicate Xulhaz was murdered for his involvement with LGBT activities. The source said the killers were university and college students.
Regarding the investigation, Asaduzzaman Miah, commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said they have gathered information which is a major lead in tracing the killers, but he refused to disclose the details.
Sources in the DB said they have received more CCTV footage from the escape route of the killers which shows the faces of three to four killers.
"We are now trying to refine the footage to get a clear picture of the assailants," said the official.
Monirul Islam, chief of counter-terrorism and trans-national crime unit, said no one has been placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! yet regarding the murder. "We are currently investigating and analysing the clues," he added.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The High Court has released the full text of its judgment that upheld a lower court’s verdict against five Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. B) Death Eaters for an liquidation attempt on former British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in 2004.
This furthers the way for the death sentence of HuJi leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, who criminal masterminded several bombings between 2001 and 2004. He will still able to challenge the verdict at the Appellate Division.
The High Court bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain pronounced the judgment on February 11 this year, over seven years after the trial court verdict that gave death sentence to three and life imprisonment to two bully boys.
The 167-page full text written by Justice Rahim was uploaded on the Supreme Court’s website yesterday.
Three Death Eaters of the banned outfit HuJi - Mufti Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, and Md Delwar Hossain alias Ripon ‐ were sentenced to death while two others ‐ Hannan’s brother Muhibullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi and Mufti Mainuddin Khaja alias Abu Jandal ‐ were given life terms by Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal on December 23, 2008.
A Sylhet court is currently hearing another case filed under the Explosives Act.
"After the release of the verdict there is no bar to carry out the death sentences as all the convicts are now in jail, unless they file an appeal with the Appellate Division," Deputy Attorney General Sheikh AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir told news hounds.
The High Court started the hearing on January 6 this year. Hearings were held for nine days. The convicts filed their appeals against the lower court sentence in 2009.
Three people, including a police assistant sub-inspector were killed while former high commissioner Anwar and 70 others were maimed in grenade attacks after the Jumma prayers at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet on May 21, 2004.
Born in Sunamganj and a naturalised British citizen, Anwar served as the British high commissioner to Bangladesh from 2004 to 2008. He is currently serving as the Ambassador to Peru.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A geopolitical intelligence and consulting firm has claimed that two global jihadist networks ‐ 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.... and al-Qaeda ‐ are in a race in Bangladesh to establish their dominance.
The two groups are already struggling in Iraq and Syria (IS and al-Nusra
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Bangladeshi government can round up the Islamist theocrat murderers and execute them in a week if they are so disposed.
They will not be inclined unless the EU cuts off the aid money.
Merkel should threaten the Banglas with no more aid money unless the killings stop
[AlAhram] A British court on Thursday tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! a security guard for five years for sending thousands of tweets glorifying 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.... (IS) group after failing in a bid to travel to Syria.
Mohammed Moshin Ameen, 23, admitted using 42 different Twitter profiles to send 8,000 messages between March and October last year, 250 of which were found to be extreme. One post included a link to an IS propaganda video targeting young British men.
"You had a not insignificant following on your accounts, and at the time this case is concerned, you were thoroughly radicalised," said judge Richard Marks as he handed down the sentence.
Ameen, from east London, had befriended well-known radical figures, some of whom were later convicted of terror offences.
Police first became aware of Ameen in December 2013 during a raid at an address in London, where they found him with a one-way ticket from Luton to Istanbul.
Prosecutor Christopher Amis said Ameen's Twitter activities "amount to a sustained effort indirectly to encourage others to engage in terrorism". Ameen posted a picture of masked IS assassin "Jihadi John" holding a knife and called jihadists "role models".
At a hearing at London's Old Bailey in March, Ameen pleaded guilty to five counts of encouraging the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism on Twitter. He admitted another charge of inviting support for Islamic State and of disseminating a terrorist publication.
Ameen's lawyer Tim Moloney said bully boyz had taken advantage of his client's "below average intelligence."
This is the second one whose lawyer claimed he was mentally retarded in two days. One more, and it will be a solid trend.
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[AA.TR] Britannia’s main opposition Labour Party has suspended a former mayor of London over a media interview in which he described Hitler as a Zionist.
Red Ken Livingstone, who served as the U.K. capital city’s first mayor and is a member of the party’s main decision-making body, was suspended amid claims Labour has become tolerant of anti-Semitism among its membership.
The former mayor made his remarks Thursday to support another Labour politician, Naz Shah, who herself was suspended the previous day over allegations of making anti-Semitic remarks on social media.
Livingstone told BBC radio Thursday that he had never heard anyone in the Labour Party say anything anti-Semitic.
He continued: "Let’s remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel.
"He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews."
A Labour front man said Livingstone had been suspended for "bringing the party into disrepute".
Shah was suspended from the party Wednesday for a 2014 Facebook post in which she shared a graphic of Israel's outline superimposed onto a map of the United States with the headline "Solution for Israel-Paleostine Conflict - Relocate Israel into United States". Shah commented underneath: "Problem solved".
The two are the most senior figures to be suspended in a growing controversy over Labour’s to the Jewish community. David Abrahams, a party donor, said the growth of anti-Semitism in the party was "a plague that has to be stamped out".
He told the U.K.-based Jewish News: "Jews and others with values and principles need to work together within the movement to stop the rot."
[DW] Austria is annoying Germany with its restrictive asylum policies. Whether they have made an EU-wide asylum system impossible is something DW asked migration researcher Heinz Fassmann.
[AlAhram] Italia is to introduce the fingerprinting of migrants colonists crossing the Mediterranean as soon as they are picked up by rescue boats, officials say.
The move could help to reduce mounting tensions between Italia and its EU partners over the large numbers of migrants colonists who arrive in Italia but are not registered here and then travel on to northern Europe.
If they are not registered in Italia, neighbouring countries like Austria and La Belle France and popular destination states like Germany and Sweden do not have the option of sending them back to Italia.
In theory they should be able to do this under the EU's Dublin convention rules governing asylum claims.
The Italian move follows talks on Wednesday between Interior Minister Angelo Alfano and EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in Sicily, where most migrants colonists arrive and are processed at "hotspot" reception centres.
"With this we will now have hotspots at sea," Alfano said.
It was not clear if the policy will be applied systematically -- migrants colonists picked up at sea are often in a traumatised state and asylum seekers from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... notably generally refuse to have their prints taken because they want to make their applications elsewhere.
No prints, no asylum? That would cut numbers considerably.
More than 350,000 people from all over the world have reached Italia on boats from Libya since the start of 2014, as Europe battles its biggest migration crisis since World War II.
Alfano said that after problems in 2014, the process of identifying migrants colonists was now working "100 percent".
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[DW] Germany is moving closer to reforming its old sex crime laws, making it easier to prosecute rapists and sex attackers, though Green and Left party politicians as well as women's groups argue that the reforms need to put more emphasis on the perpetrator rather than the victim.
Thursday's Bundestag debate on the matter found Social Democrat Justice Minister Heiko Maas open to a further tightening of the law. He told the chamber that he was "certainly ready" to discuss further regulations, and called for the changes to be brought in quickly.
But he also defended the draft law as it stood, giving public broadcaster ARD the following example: "If a woman somewhere on an isolated car park can't reach help and prefers to get the ordeal over as quickly as possible," then from now on it will be easier to secure a conviction.
Making consent explicit
The reforms are meant to criminalize acts where the perpetrator uses surprise or intimidation to exploit the victim. Currently, section 177 of Germany's criminal code offers three definitions of rape, as sexual coercion carried out:
1. by force;
2. by threat of imminent danger to life or limb; or
3. by exploiting a situation in which the victim is unprotected and at the mercy of the offender.
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...or by being any male on any Americans college campus (according to DoE/DoJ).
A total of 15 suspects have been detained in four different Turkish provinces in relation to the suicide bomb attack that struck the Marmara province of Bursa on April 28. A female suicide bomber detonated herself at around 5:25 p.m. near Ulu Cami, a mosque at the center of the province, on April 27, leaving 13 people wounded.
“The investigation into the identity of the suicide bomber is ongoing. We are almost certain on the terror group that she has relations with, but I won’t reveal it until it’s certain,” Interior Minister Efkan Ala told journalists in Bursa on April 28, while adding that more detentions may follow in the coming days.
“We won’t share the details yet. Turkey is engaged in a serious struggle with terrorism and alliances of terrorists,” Ala said.
The five provinces where detentions were made by police include Bursa, Istanbul, the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, and the western province of Afyonkarahisar.
Meanwhile, officials were unable to identify the suicide bomber from her fingerprints and will conduct a DNA test, as the investigation into the attack was ongoing. The suicide bomber arrived in Bursa from Şanlıurfa via bus on April 24 with a ticket that she had bought under the fake name “Sultan” and stayed with the detained suspects, reported Anadolu Agency.
The suicide bomber was seen in video footage recorded by a security camera at the terminal. She traveled to the scene of the attack via taxi, while in a location close to Bursa she obtained the bomb, which was thought to have been made of ammonium nitrate, according to reports.
The woman may have panicked after seeing police officers and detonated the bomb, the officials told Anadolu Agency.
A female suicide bomber who blew herself up in the center of one of Turkey's most historic cities this week was linked to Kurdish militants and had also fought in Syria against jihadists, a report said Friday.
There was no fingerprint evidence available from the remains of the woman who blew herself up in front of a mosque in the former Ottoman capital of Bursa on Wednesday but she has now been identified after DNA testing, the Hurriyet daily said.
The woman has been identified as Suzan B., who the report said is a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has been fighting the Turkish security forces since a truce collapsed last summer.
It said she had also spent time in Syria fighting with the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) militia against Islamic State (IS) jihadists and had crossed back into Turkey in April.
This fits the narrative of the Turkish government that the YPG is the Syrian branch of the PKK, an assertion disputed by Washington which works with the Syrian Kurdish militia as allies in the fight against IS.
Hurriyet quoted its sources as saying the woman had fought against IS in the battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane which was won by the Kurdish militia last year.
The Turkish authorities have detained 15 people in the wake of the bombing, which created new jitters in the country after a wave of deadly attacks this year.
Thirteen people were wounded in the blast but no one else was killed, leading some commentators to conclude the bomber ignited her charge prematurely.
Those detained include two women whose identity cards the bomber had taken and one of her friends.
Hurriyet said the bomber's identity was confirmed after DNA samples were taken from her family in the Mardin region of southeast Turkey.
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Exploding Bursas? Ewww.
(That Turkey has a province of Pustule seems appropriate.)
[AA.TR] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has warned young Muslims against "three significant dangers: sectarianism, racism, and terrorism".
"Muslims, if they want to get the respect that they deserve, have to first eliminate these dangers," Erdogan said Thursday.
His remarks came at a youth gathering organized by the ONDER Imam Hatip Schools Alumni Association at Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome.
The Turkish president criticized sectarianist tendencies within Islam, which he said had sometimes become more important than one's overall Muslim identity.
"That trouble has been seriously wounding the Islamic world," he said. "We have a religion above all those [denominations]: Islam."
He also complained that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which he called "the greatest collective voice of the Islamic world", could rarely reach an agreement, even on basic issues.
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[Ynet] A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about when he last contacted 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.
Twenty-three-year-old Abdul Raheem Habil Ali-Skelton pleaded guilty Wednesday in US District Court to one count of making a false statement to FBI agents. He faces up to eight years in prison.
Federal prosecutors say Ali-Skelton told the FBI last July that his last contact with Syrian-based members of the Islamic State group was in May or early June 2015. But prosecutors say Ali-Skelton knew he had communicated with members of the group as recently as last July 4.
Last month, Ali-Skelton was charged in state court after allegedly threatening to "shoot up" a Walgreens in a Minneapolis suburb. He pleaded guilty Monday to making terroristic threats in that incident.
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[DAWN] Afghan Taliban on Wednesday formally confirmed that a delegation from their political office in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... was visiting Pakistain and promised "fruitful results", but rejected the impression that the group was there to discuss participation in peace talks with 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.... Muhammad Naeem, a Qatar-based front man for the Taliban, told journalists that Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour had instructed the group to visit Pakistain.
He said the visit "would be in the interest of both countries and would have fruitful results".
The Taliban version of saying much that means nothing? He needs a great deal more practice.
This was first official confirmation by the Taliban of the visit of a three-member delegation from their Doha office, whose arrival was earlier reported by the media. The delegation includes Shahabuddin Dilawar, Jan Muhammad and Mullah Abbas.
The arrival of the group, which coincided with the visit of US Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistain Jonathan Carpenter, led to speculations that the Taliban leaders had come to talk about the start of the peace dialogue.
The Taliban front man, however, said that the delegation was in Pakistain for talks on wide-ranging issues, including refugees’ matters, problems in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Paktia provinces of Afghanistan, and seeking an end to restrictions on the movement of Taliban leader Mullah Baradar.
Talking to VoA about reconciliation being discussed during the trip, he said: "The delegation, which has gone [to Pakistain] from here [Qatar] is holding talks on the issues that I have stated already and has no other particular item on the agenda".
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[NBCNEWS] After experimenting with barbed wire, surveillance cameras and even cowbells and camels, India has now reportedly introduced "laser walls" at its border with archenemy Pakistan. "Knock knock!"
One of the world's most dangerous nuclear flashpoints, the India-Pakistan border is also among the most militarized. "Who's there?"
Both New Delhi and Islamabad deploy more than half of their 1 million and 600,000-strong armies, respectively, on the border. "Candygram!"
India is setting up the laser walls to "plug the porous riverine and treacherous terrain and keep an effective vigil against intruders and terrorists" in Punjab state, the state-run Press Trust of India reported. [Click! Click!] "Aaaaiiiieeee!" [SLURP!]
Earlier this year, peace talks were suspended when India accused Pakistan of allowing militants to cross over and attack an Indian air force base in Pathankot on Jan. 2. "What got him?"
According to the PTI report, around 45 laser walls will be installed in Punjab state. "Land shark! A big 'un!"
Lasers beamed over rivers and hills will set off an alarm and alert the Indian Border Security Force if someone attempts to pass by, it added. "What the hell was that on its head?"
Pakistan has not taken India's buildups on the border lightly in the past. "A friggin' laser!"
In 2014, India and Pakistan exchanged artillery and sniper fire for months, leading to dozens of casualties on both sides.
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[ARA News] QAMISHLO – Senior Kurdish leaders and activists on Thursday condemned the parading of 40 to 50 rebel bodies in the Kurdish city of Efrin (Afrin) Thursday afternoon who were killed in a failed attack on positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Tal Rifaat town in the Aleppo province.
According to the Jaysh Thuwaar, a member of the SDF, a coalition of rebel groups including Sultan Murad Brigade, the Grandsons of Saladin brigade, and Nusra, stopped their attack on the SDF and withdrew after at least 53 of them were killed, and hundreds of injured were sent to the hospitals in the city of Azaz.
“Rebels launched an attack on Tal Rifaat yesterday. The attack failed because of the explosion of an ammunition truck. Over 40 fighters died,” Abdurahman Hark, a former spokesperson for the Islamic Army said on Twitter, who called the SDF fighters ‘pigs’.
In the meantime, Kurdish leader and the co-chair of the Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) Aldar Xelil said: “The show of bodies of the enemies in such a way in front of the civilians in the streets, as what happened in Efrin today, is disgusting and contrary to our values of humanity.”
“We are not those who terrorize their enemies in such a shameful way. These ways are closer to the traditions of Daash [ISIS], the al-Baath-regime, or a military dictatorship. We feel very ashamed of it,” Xelil said.
Also senior officials of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) condemned the incident.
“What happened in Efrin cannot represent our principles and morals and we cannot slip into such a behavior, we have grown up with values,” Sharvan Darwish, a spokesperson of the Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement, emphasizing that the SDF is following ethics of international laws and values of humanity.
Syrian Kurdish activists and journalists were shocked and condemned the event.
Speaking to ARA News, Kurdish activist Nidal Hassan said: “At 14.00pm in the afternoon, Efrin saw the arrival of a truck with the bodies of opposition fighters that attacked SDF forces the last two days. The dead bodies were displayed in the streets of the city in a humiliating way to humanity.”
“I think this is a big mistake, and what happened is not a reflection of Efrin and the culture of Kurds,” he added.
The parade of killed Syrian rebel fighters comes after more than 85 civilians were killed by rebel attacks on the Kurdish neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in the city of Aleppo since 16 February. Meanwhile, attacks by rebel groups on the neighbourhood continue.
[WAPO] A top Defense Department official is criticizing the House Benghazi committee's investigation as wasteful and inefficient, while questioning whether the panel's final report will be based in fact.
In a letter to the committee Thursday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Stephen Hedger charged Republican investigators with employing a variety of "unproductive" tactics, including "continuous threats" to subpoena Pentagon employees, "multiple and changing requests" to DoD and interviews that prompt speculation by witnesses.
"While I understand your stated intent is to conduct the most comprehensive review of the attack and response, Congress has as much an obligation as the Executive Branch to use federal resources and taxpayer dollars effectively and efficiently," Hedger wrote.
"The Department is working diligently to accommodate your staff’s multiple and changing requests; however, we are concerned by the continuous threats from your staff to subpoena witnesses because we are not able to move quickly enough to accommodate these new requests. Subpoenaing our service members, when the Department is working diligently to accommodate your requests and when no service member has refused to appear voluntarily, is unfair to our uniformed men and women."
The letter underscores the challenges facing the two-year-old House Select Committee on Benghazi, which has been dogged by criticism from its right and left. Panel chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has promised to release the final investigative report "before summer," but critics are skeptical it will happen.
In recent months, Gowdy has touted "immense" progress in the investigation, citing the receipt of new documents from the Obama administration and more than 90 witness interviews in total. He has not provided further detail. Man up and soldier on you sniveling puke !
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration is dodging a congressional inquiry into its refusal to designate recent Iranian ballistic missile tests as a violation of an international statute barring such tests, prompting frustration on Capitol Hill from lawmakers who accuse the administration of breaking past promises to enforce the missile ban, according to recent communications sent by the State Department and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Lawmakers launched an investigation earlier this month into what they describe as Obama administration efforts to mislead Congress about the nature of last summer's comprehensive nuclear agreement.
The administration's refusal to say that Iran's missile tests violated the nuclear agreement has emerged as a key diplomatic sticking point in recent months and prompted congressional leaders to launch an investigation into claims that the administration misled lawmakers about the terms of the deal.
Administration officials initially promised Congress that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which formally governs the nuclear deal, would prohibit Iran's ballistic missile program. However, the resolution only "calls upon" Iran to refrain from these tests, sparking accusations from lawmakers that the administration is rewriting the terms of the nuclear agreement.
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.
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Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home...
[AlAhram] A British court on Thursday 
[Ynet] A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about when he last contacted the 
