[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 500kV mega TUTAP power project controversy is spreading across the country with the residents of southeastern parts of the country stepping in to support the government’s decision for the implementation of the project.
Thousands of people staged demonstrations in support of President Ghani in southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s of Afghanistan.
The protesters were shouting slogans against the Vice Presidents and Second Deputy Chief Executive Officer during the rally.
They also denounced the protest by an activist against President Ghani during his speech at RUSI in London last week, saying humiliation of the President is humiliation against the Afghan people.
This comes as a massive demonstration is due 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.... to protest against the government’s decision for the implementation of the project through Salang.
A number of the prominent Mujahideen leaders have warned of a possible violence as a mass demonstration is due for Kabul on Monday, expressing concerns regarding the protest and calling on the organizers of the demonstration to prevent from the rally.
They also called on the government not to take any step towards the implementation of the project until the issue is resolved.
President Ghani said last week that a commission will be given the task to review the power project, emphasizing that there are different views regarding the route through which the project should be implemented.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s official media says a Cairo court has convicted six men of manslaughter and sentenced them to seven years in prison for beating a French man to death while in police custody in 2013.
Egypt’s official MENA news agency says the verdict was issued on Sunday.
Egyptian officials at the time said Eric Lang was killed by cellmates while in detention at a central Cairo cop shoppe. They said the Frenchie was drunk when he was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on the streets of the upscale Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek.
Authorities said he was detained during a military-imposed nighttime curfew.
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Tunisia- ISIS terrorist groups have recently stepped up power channeled to target Tunisia from within its Libya centered headquarters, West sources warned. The sources confirmed that the last attack on Ben Gardane, a commune and coastal town in south eastern Tunisia near borders with Libya, proves evident drawback and permeability of the security status in Tunisia.
Sources also highlighted that ISIS fighters have achieved worry-raising operations which point to underlying intentions of the terrorist organization centralizing in Tunisia. Taking refuge and headquarters in Tunisia would replace the space-loss ISIS suffered in Raqqa, Syria, which they have fled after incessant pounding of the coalition’s air force.
The Ben Gardane attacks which took place last March are a retaliating campaign avenging U.S. airstrikes targeting ISIS locations in Sabratha city, Libya. The airstrike had reportedly taken down ISIS leader, who is of Tunisian origins, Nour Addeine Shoshan.
Attacking Ben Gardane, ISIS hopes to establish a new off-shoot outside Libya in light of the Washington campaign moving towards an intensified military intervention in Libya.
Alternatively, Prime Minister of the Libyan UN-backed government of national accord GNA Fayez Al-Sarraj, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, down-sized the ISIS threats imposed on the security and political affairs of both of Tunisia and Libya.
Al-Sarraj considered that the quest for Libyan sovereignty will be won in recognition to the support offered by Tunisia, Algeria and many other neighboring countries, and by the virtue of the U.N.-brokered agreement.
“Neighboring countries are supporting us until security is reestablished across the region, and until the new state’s sovereignty is completed,” said Al-Sarraj.
“Libya-Tunisian bordering zones are a bridge for partnership in which terrorists will not find victory in,” he added.
Furthermore, Libyan military sources revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that a series of secret meetings between representatives of US and British forces and local leaders loyal to Al-Sarraj’s government were held at the Maitiqa base. The sources asserted that they also had information about the presence of British special forces that are fighting alongside the Misrata brigades against ISIS.
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Police conducted a controlled kaboom and later said that the "incredibly lifelike bomb" had not been cleared by security contractors from a toilet inside Old Trafford, England’s second biggest soccer stadium, after a recent security exercise.
"Tolja we'd find that last one we hid, Sarge, if you only gave us a little time, and there 'tis -- or what's left of it after the boom squad got done with it!"
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Also would have accepted 'Clock' or 'Science Experiment'.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Former Argentine President Carlos Menem said Friday he believes his son was killed by the Leb-based Lion of Islam group Hezbollah, which prosecutors also suspect was behind two 1990s bombings in Buenos Aires.
In testimony to a judge overseeing the investigation of his son’s death 21 years ago, Menem said that then-Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella had told him he heard through foreign embassies of Hezbollah’s alleged involvement.
But Menem, who was president from 1989-1999 and is currently a senator, did not give further details or any evidence for the claim.
Carlos Facundo Menem was 26 when the helicopter he was piloting crashed on March 15, 1995. Menem and his ex-wife have long said they believed their son was slain, but had not previously specified who they thought killed him.
Argentine prosecutors believe Hezbollah and Iran were responsible for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people in the worst terrorist attack on the nation.
Both bombings occurred while Menem was president of Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , which has the largest Jewish population of any country in Latin America.
Many Argentines believe the bombings were triggered by Menem’s decision to bolster the country’s relations with the United States while withdrawing support for Iran’s ambitions to develop nuclear technology.
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[Guardian] Tough-talking president-elect says he bring back capital punishment, which was banned in 2006.
Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to reintroduce capital punishment and give security forces the power to "shoot-to-kill" criminals.
In his first press conference since winning the 9 May elections in a landslide, Duterte, the tough-talking mayor of the southern of Davao, warned his campaign threats to kill were not rhetoric.
"What I will do is urge Congress to restore (the) death penalty by hanging," Duterte, 71, told a press conference in Davao on Sunday.
He also said he would give security forces "shoot-to-kill" orders against organised criminals or those who violently resisted arrest.
"If you resist, show violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to shoot to kill. Shoot to kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised crime," he said.
[AlAhram] There were six arson fires at centres for asylum seekers in 2014, 92 in 2015, 45 thus far this year. Holger Muench, head of the federal criminal police (BKA) said he did not have any knowledge of large-scale far-right groups being behind the fires, adding the majority were set by men from the areas near the torched shelters.
[AlAhram] Germany's federal government expects to spend 93.6 billion euros ($106.2 billion) to support refugees over the next five years, weekly Der Spiegel reported Saturday. The Hamburg-based magazine cited a finance ministry document that predicted the annual costs would rise from about 16.1 billion euros this year to 20.4 billion in 2020. Much of the money would go toward basic benefits, housing support and language lessons for asylum-seekers, but the overall amount also includes spending on efforts to fight the reasons why people flee their home countries and seek refuge in Germany.
No mention of increased spending to fight crime and hunt down terrorists for some reason...
The finance ministry document cited by Der Spiegel predicts that 600,000 refugees will come to Germany this year, falling to 400,000 in 2017 and 300,000 in the following years. It assumes that over half of those who are officially recognized as refugees will find work within five years.
[Daily Excelsior] In what could be a matter of concern for the security forces operating in Kashmire, the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) commander jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by security forces yesterday has revealed that the outfit is recruiting Fidayeen squads in the Valley.
Major General J S Nain, General Officer Commanding (GOC), Baramulla Division, told news hounds during a presser today that JeM is recruiting local youth as Fidayeen. He said that recruiting youth in Kashmire for suicide missions is something new and a matter of serious concern.
"This is a new thing which has come to the fore as it is for the first time that a group has come for recruitment to the Valley for its Fidayeen squad. This is a serious matter", said the GOC.
Major General Nain said that arrest of JeM commander, Abdul Rehman is a major success and security forces can launch intelligence based operations at his disclosures. "So, this is a huge success for security forces and whatever information we get from him. We can then launch operations based on that intelligence," he said.
The GOC said that the Rehman along with four other JeM faceless myrmidons infiltrated in January this year and the group spread and he was tasked to prepare a Fidayeen module to carry out a big Fidayeen attack in Kashmire. "They hid in forest areas for one or two months and then this group spread and Rehman was assigned the responsibility of Baramulla, Sopore and areas near them to recruit for JeM and prepare a module for it and the overall aim was to carry big ’fidayeen’ (suicide) attacks," he added.
Major General Nain said that arrest of Rehman is a big success. "A special joint operation was conducted with police, in which a Pak terrorist Abdul Rehman, who belongs to JeM cadre, has been arrested alive. It is a huge success because we are hopeful of getting important information from him when we interrogate him," he said.
The GOC said the operation spanned two months, with the security forces keeping a track of Rehman’s movement in the Valley before finally arresting him from a forest area near Old Town of Baramulla on Friday. "We tracked his movement. He came to Baramulla seven times. He tried recruiting people in Baramulla, Sopore and Kupwara," he said.
"He told us that he took training at Balakote training camp in Pakistain under ISI’s guidance for three-four months. Then in January he infiltrated into India along with his four companions," Major General Nain said.
The GOC said an Aadhaar card has been recovered from Rehman’s possession in the name of Shabir Ahmad Khan and if the card turns out to be genuine, it is a "matter of concern" for the security agencies. "In fact all the five gunnies were given an Aadhaar card each when they entered the Valley", he added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak Ambassador to United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has blamed the international community failure for the mess in Afghanistan.
In response to an Editorial by the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , the Pak envoy has said "Pakistain cannot be held responsible for the mess in Afghanistan which is the result of the collective failure of the international community."
Calling the editorial as biased, Jilani further added that "Allegations of duplicity and double game are extremely painful especially when Pakistain has suffered the most due to the war in Afghanistan. Hundreds of suicide kabooms and tens of thousands of civilian casualties are the direct result of the US led war in Afghanistan after 9/11."
The Pak envoy has also claimed that the country’s military has "fractured the back of Taliban" through indiscriminate counter-terrorism operations.
Pakistain "remains a duplicitous and dangerous partner for the United States and Afghanistan, despite $33 billion in American aid and repeated attempts to reset relations on a more constructive course," according to the Editorial.
It also added that the Senate foreign affairs committee chairman Bob Corker had "widely" put a hold on American funding for subsidizing the sale of eight new F-16 fighter jets to Pakistain -- it will have to pay the full amount of $700 million for them, instead of the $380 million it would have paid earlier.
Corker and several of his Senate colleagues cutting across party lines have also used the word "duplicitous" for Pakistain for its "double game" in dealing with terrorists.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... President Mohammad Ashraf in his speech at RUSI said the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups fighting the Afghan government are based in Pakistain from where they stage attacks in Afghanistan.
Earlier, President Ghani asked Pakistain to take actions against the Taliban and Haqqani network leadership councils based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta cities of Pakistain.
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Did he retain his lips?
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[Breitbart Jerusalem] TEL AVIV ‐ Hamas will "never forgive" the United Kingdom for enabling the creation of Israel, a spokesperson for the Gaza-based terror group said Saturday, Arutz 7 reported.
"Britain conquered the land of Palestine and was the first to support the ’Nakba,’ " Yasser Ali, an official representing Hamas’ Palestinian refugees, told Palestine Magazine.
"Nakba," the Arabic term for "catastrophe," refers to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
"[Britain] helped establish the entity of Israel on the ruins of the historic land of Palestine, which resulted in expulsion of the Palestinians after they are slaughtered and killed dozens of massacres [sic]."
"Any harm to the Palestinian people during the Nakba, including pain and suffering, were caused by Britain and its allies, and our people cannot forget that," Ali continued.
According to the report, the official also claimed that the ’Nakba’ validated a Palestinian Right of Return, fulfilling the prophesies of Muhammad, in which hundreds of thousands of descendants of those who fled their homes in 1948 ‐ including terrorists from the Gaza Strip and elsewhere ‐ will flood Israel.
This is't the first time Hamas has blamed the UK for Israel's existence.
Last year on Nakba Day, which coincides with Israel's Independence Day, Hamas official Essam Adwan stated that Britain "paved the way" for a "Zionist takeover," and called on the UK to pay reparations to "avenge the injustice."
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Britain conquered the land of Palestine and was the first to support the âNakba,â
Not even close. The Ottoman Turks acquired the Holy Land during their conquest of the Cairo-based Mameluk empire in the late 15th-early 16th centuries. In the 20th century the decayed Ottoman empire chose the losing side in World War I, and so the League of Nations formalized the Allied administration of the defeated country by giving the Holy Land, among other properties, to Britain with the mandate to prepare them for independence. In those days it was the Jews who were referred to as Palestinian, the local Arabs insisting they were part of the greater Arab nation rather than a particular people. The Brits didn't have to exert themselves to conquer "Palestine", it fell into their hands like one grape in a bunch.
As for the Nakba, despite the Balfour Declaration of 1917 promising a Jewish homeland, the Foreign Service and post-Churchill British governments were strongly inclined toward Arab desires in the matter, it being much about oil. Britain did as much as it could to prevent the establishment of Israel, then much that should have caused the new country to fail in the face of five invading Arab armies.
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Britain did as much as it could to prevent the establishment of Israel, then much that should have caused the new country to fail in the face of five invading Arab armies.
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I don't think the ones that migrated in at that point weren't as jihad happy and I suspect their descendants are the Israeli Arabs that have been part of the Israeli government for most of its history.
It really isn't until the Arab wars that started the day after Israeli independence that found Israel in control of areas with a population of hostile Arabs that the Arab nations wouldn't take back.
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First of all, if Hamas will never forgive... then why mess with them? The Brits have enough on their plate without the Pal problem.
Second of all, the Brits really didn't care who ran Palestine until after WWII. Then they fought the Jews for independence, and lost.
As for Darth, you sound like Newc.
I like the I's. I wouldn't mind it at all if they let us good Christians resettle the occupied lands. Of course there is nothing more dangerous than a Christian Evangelist!
[IsraelTimes] Clashes reported along Israel-Gazoo border; PA security prevents lads rushing Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank; right-wing Israeli protesters crash Tel Aviv event ’to emphasize the lie’ of Paleostinian dispossession
[MindaNews] Elections are over and life should return to normal but not in Talitay, a town of about 14,000 Moro inhabitants, many of whom have fled after a long standing rido (clan feud) was rekindled due to politics. At least four persons have been reported killed.
Involved in the rido are the Sabal and Buisan families, both of whom have relatives and supporters in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Moro National Liberation Front. The town center has become like a ghost town after residents fled due to clashes between armed followers of the two families on Saturday afternoon.
Talitay police chief Freddie Solar said, "Killings started a day before election and vengeance counter attacks followed. The residents knew it was going to be big hostilities since both have armed followers affiliated with Moro fronts," adding that both sides have been massing its forces around the town center.
"The situation is deteriorating, tension is high so we urged the people, especially the children to move to safer grounds," he said.
Solar said the Muslim Council of Elders and representatives from the MILF have been mediating for the declaration of a ceasefire.
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And, of course, the 0bean administration classified everything because we can't handle the truth. Or they don't want us to know about it until after the election . . . .
The classified details behind Iran's treatment of several U.S. sailors who were captured by the Islamic Republic during a tense standoff earlier this year are likely to shock the nation, according to one member of the House Armed Services Committee, who disclosed to the Washington Free Beacon that these details are currently being withheld by the Obama administration.
Rep. Randy Forbes (R., Va.) told the Free Beacon in an interview that the Obama administration is still keeping details of the maritime incident under wraps. It could be a year or longer before the American public receives a full accounting of the incident, in which several U.S. sailors were abducted at gunpoint by the Iranian military.
"I've had a full classified briefing" from military officials, Forbes told the Free Beacon. "It could be as long as a year before we actually get that released."
Details of the abduction are likely to start an uproar in the nation and call into question the Obama administration's handling of the incident, which many experts say violated international and maritime law.
"I think that when the details actually come out, most Americans are going to be kind of taken aback by the entire incident, both how Iran handled it and how we handled it," Forbes disclosed. "I think that's going to be huge cause for concern for most Americans. That's why I've encouraged members of Congress to get that briefing so they do know exactly what did take place."
Forbes suggested that Iran's treatment of the U.S. sailors--which included filming them crying and forcing them to apologize at gunpoint--may have been much worse than what has been publicly reported.
"I think clearly there were violations of international and maritime law that took place here," Forbes said. "We [the United States] did almost nothing in response, in fact, to have Secretary [of State John] Kerry actually thank them for releasing our sailors after they way they captured them, I think was a slap in the sailors' face."
Forbes is pushing a new measure that would increase sanctions on Tehran for its treatment of the U.S. sailors in order to hold Iran accountable for its aggressive behavior.
Forbes' measure outlines a range of Iranian aggressions against U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region.
"Iranian military and paramilitary vessels have repeatedly behaved in a dangerous and unprofessional manner in close proximity to naval vessels and commercial shipping operating in internationally recognized maritime traffic lanes," according to a copy of the measure viewed by the Free Beacon.
The list of provocations includes a December 2015 incident in which Iran conducted a "live firing exercise within 1,500 yards of the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman."
Iranian military aircraft buzzed the Truman and a French aircraft carrier in the region in January.
"The administration will not stand up and say this is just wrong," Forbes said. "Instead of thanking them the administration should be standing up and saying its wrong."
Congress must take action to hold Iran accountable for its aggressive military behavior, Forbes said.
"These kind of actions undermine stability in the Gulf," he said. "And they raise the danger of inadvertent escalation."
"I think it goes without saying that if that's the case and they won't stop that activity, all of that should at least be considered and debated as part of any Iran sanctions bill that may come up in the future."
[IsraelTimes] After the mysterious death of top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badredinne, Israeli papers try to figure out with who did it and what it means -- and come up with a big fat shrug
A top Hezbollah commander was killed and for once it doesn’t look like Israel did it. But that doesn’t stop Israeli papers from playing up the death of Mustafa Badreddine and analyzing who he was, what his killing means for the Lebanese Shiite terror group he helped lead, and the wider ramifications in the rough-and-tumble Middle East.
Herewith the more useful ones:
In Haaretz, Zvi Bar’el gives the back story to the claims that Badreddine was killed in an internal power struggle, writing that he had a lot of enemies within the terror group.
"Badreddine was clashing with Hezbollah leaders about tactics against Israel as well as the fielding of Hezbollah forces in Syria. Two years ago, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Badreddine had been taken to task over his management of operations of units outside Leb. He was accused of being distracted by women, which, it was said, led to the failure of operations including an attempted terror attack in Thailand," he writes. "Mohammed Ataya, the head of Hezbollah’s Unit 113, which is responsible for operations in the West Bank, has been clashing with Badreddine. According to the Kuwaiti paper, Badreddine would go over Ataya’s head to Beirut."
The idea that Badreddine was a hopeless romantic in camo jumps from rumor to fact in Yedioth Ahronoth, which tops its report with the headline "Terrorist by day, playboy by night."
The paper’s Ronen Bergman reports a number of juicy details about the famously secretive Hezbollah commander, working off information he previously uncovered as part of an investigation together with The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... "He has 13 different phones, some for operational purposes and some for his love life. Even the fateful night when [Lebanese prime minister Rafik] Hariri was assassinated [in 2005] he didn’t forget his loves. At around 2 a.m. he sent a text message to one of them after she complained that he doesn’t give her enough of his time and wondering if he is spending it with someone," the well-sourced Bergman reports.
It wasn’t just the ladies who were weary of Badreddine, but the Hezbollah baddie had a whole host of enemies, according to Yedioth’s Alex Fishman, who ticks them off: the Syrian rebels, the Saudis, the Americans, the Israelis. Whoever did it, though, they were professionals, he writes.
"He wasn’t killed by chance by rebel fire in Syria, as a Hezbollah inquiry found. Sources in Beirut reported that when he was killed he was alone in a secret Hezbollah facility near the Damascus airport, and in the room there was a blast that killed him. Nobody else was hurt. The conclusion: somebody followed him and knew exactly when he would arrive and when he would be in the room."
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The sectarian discourse was never absent from regime media outlets. The regime media in its discourse hid a provocative sectarian discourse and it appears on the surface whenever a civilian Alwaite is killed or when the regime orders so.
When the Zara village in southern countryside of Hama province, mostly Alwaite residents, was lost to rebels and rebel photos beside killed residents from the village were circulated, the sectarian discourse escalated on social media websites and it was mainly enhanced by regime media.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] MANCHESTER UNITED'S match with Bournemouth was abandoned due to a hoax explosive device, the police have now confirmed.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak Ambassador to United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has blamed the international community failure for the mess in Afghanistan.
[MindaNews] Elections are over and life should return to normal but not in Talitay, a town of about 14,000 Moro inhabitants, many of whom have fled after a long standing rido (clan feud) was rekindled due to politics. At least four persons have been reported killed.
