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Research carried out by a Pakistani researcher has found that Taliban and other terrorists are being trained at three large madrassas inside Pakistan, near military installations.
The issue was raised in a debate at Hudson Institute in the United States, where Afghan ambassador to the U.S Hamdullah Mohib and Pakistani researcher and journalist Dr. Mohammad Taqi participated.
The debate was hosted by Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani.
Taqi, who carried out the research, said the Haqqani and Panjpeer madrassas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Jamat-ul-Banuriya madrassa in Karachi city in Pakistan are the three main training centers of terrorists in that country.
"(Haqqani complex) is a sprawling complex all across the road with about 100,000 students there ," he said adding that right next to it was a military unit of the Pakistani army.
In this debate, the Afghan ambassador said that this is the time for the world to put pressure on supporters of terrorism.
"International community, Afghanistan is a reliable partner and the best way to control terrorism is to put more pressure on those who use terrorism for political gain," he said.
He added that the Taliban are now fearful however after the U.S extended the authorities of its troops in Afghanistan to target the insurgent group. Video report at the link, if you can stay awake for it
[An Nahar] The head of Libya's unity government on Tuesday urged Libyans to rally behind forces battling to retake the city of Sirte from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj said advances by pro-government fighters in the jihadist group's North African stronghold should be a model for "a national initiative to fight terrorism."
"We bless the victories of our sons on the front lines... in the fight to liberate Sirte and cleanse it" of IS, he said in a televised statement released on the Facebook page of the Government of National Accord (GNA).
Forces loyal to the U.N.-backed GNA have been fighting since mid-May to oust IS from Sirte, 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... A parallel force based in eastern Libya, including local militias and units of the national army loyal to a controversial general, Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , is not taking part in the operation.
Pro-government troops, a mix of militias and army units, have taken control of Sirte's port and airport.
But their advance slowed at the end of last week as they reached central and northern parts of the city where IS fighters are holed up in residential areas.
Pro-government forces announced on Monday that they had seized an IS arms depot, and released a photo showing a room full of ammunition.
They also said that the air force had launched six air strikes against IS positions the city.
The forces fighting IS in Sirte include gangs from western cities including Misrata, 190 kilometers (120 miles) to the northwest.
The Misratan forces are among the best-armed militias in the country and have several MiG fighter jets and attack helicopters.
These militias were set up during the 2011 uprising against former strongman Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... Following the downfall of the regime and Qadaffy's death they kept their weapons and became major military players in the country.
A militia set up to guard the country's main oil installations has also been advancing on IS from the east. Last week it took control of several villages and towns including Harawa, 70 kilometers (40 miles) east of Sirte.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UN's special envoy for Yemeno n Tuesday halted the submitting a roadmap to resolve the war-torn country's crisis. according to a source close to the Yemeni governmental delegation in the Kuwait talks.
The delay is due to "the [Houthi] rebels' intransigent stance which their last statement has revealed and which took negotiations back to square one," a source said.
The source added that the "rebels' statement, which was issued two days ago and which came following the return of their delegation head Mohammad Abdelsalam from Saada, reflects the true stance of the rebellious Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement as it shows it's not serious about the consultations despite the efforts exerted by the U.N. and the countries sponsoring the political settlement process."
Both rival delegations - on one side the Iranian-backed Houthi militias, and on the other the internationally recognized government of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi - had both received a copy of the roadmap and discussed it with their leaders.
On Monday, the UN's envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, met with members from the delegations attending the Kuwait peace talks to discuss security measures.
Ahmed was to present a three-point plan to the parties negotiating an end to the war, which began in late March last year and has led to the deaths of thousands. 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... UN envoy halts submitting peace roadmap
The first component of the proposal will reportedly involve preliminary procedures, most significant of which is the annulment of the "Constitutional Declaration" enacted by the Houthi militias in February 2015, and reverse every subsequent change in state institutions as a result.
The second component involves the setting up of an internationally-backed military council consisting of military leaders who have not been involved in the war. It will also include the withdrawal of forces from Area A, which includes the capital Sanaa and the security belt around it, and the return of the government to the capital within two months.
According to the terms of the deal, when the Houthi militias withdraw from Sanaa and handing over their weapons, a national unity government will be formed, and it will issue a general amnesty and start a process of reconciliation.
The third component foresees a two-year transition period which will see the resumption of a political process.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman kicked off his visit to the United States on Monday by holding a meeting with US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... at the latter’s residence in Washington, and discussed boosting Saudi-US relations and regional issues.
Kerry hosted Prince Mohammed at his personal residence in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington.
According to the State Department, the two shared an iftar dinner ‐ a meal that marks the end of the day’s fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ‐ and "reviewed the strong and enduring relationship" between their countries.
Kerry and Prince Mohammed also "discussed a broad range of regional issues, including Yemen, Syria, Libya, and countering terrorism." Saudi’s plan to reform its economy, unveiled in April, was also discussed.
"Finally, the two discussed this weekend's shooting in Orlando and expressed their shared commitment to continue their cooperation in combatting the spread of violent extremism, both regionally and internationally," front man John Kirby said.
Upon his arrival to Washington, the deputy crown prince announced that the Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... scholarship program will include 2,628 male and female students, currently studying in the US.
The Deputy Crown Prince’s visit to the US will include other stops, during which he will meet with US officials to discuss political and economic issues.
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[Jpost] Born in La Belle France of Moroccan origin, Larossi Abballa, 25, had been under surveillance by French authorities since January, said Molins, as part of an investigation into a Syrian Jihadi cell. Molins emphasized that there was no indication from the wiretap that Abdalla was planning an attack.
Police also found three telephones, three knives, one of which was "bloodied, lying on the table," Molins said in a presser.
The knifeman who killed a French police commander and his partner at their home on Monday had recently pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... The attacker told police negotiators before he was killed in a raid on the house that he had answered a recent appeal by Islamic State chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... "to kill unbelievers in their homes, together with their families," Molins said.
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[An Nahar] Germany will not recognize polygamy or marriages involving minors, its justice minister said Tuesday, as concern rises over such cases amid a record influx of refugees, many from Moslem countries.
"No-one who comes here has the right to put his cultural values or religious beliefs above our law," said Justice Minister Heiko Maas in an interview with Bild daily. "Therefore no polygamous marriages will be recognized in Germany."
Did you clear that with Chancellor Merkel?
Under Islamic law, men are allowed to take up to four wives.
In Germany, however, polygamy is banned although the law provides latitude in some cases for migrants colonists who had wedded abroad.
For instance, if a man dies leaving two wives, a court could take into account their de-facto relationship, which is bigamous under common law, when distributing the inheritance.
But Maas wants to end the ambiguity, saying: "Everybody must abide by the law, no matter whether he has grown up here or has only just arrived. The law applies equally to all."
Likewise, the justice minister said cases of marriages involving a minor should also be outlawed, for fear that the underaged individual has been forced into marrying.
"We cannot tolerate forced marriages, above all, if they affect under-aged girls," Maas said.
According to Unicef, child marriages -- where at least one spouse is under 18 -- account for 40 percent of all marriages in Afghanistan, from where one of the biggest groups of recent refugees to Germany come.
Bild reported that the southern state of Bavaria has recorded 161 cases of asylum seekers with spouses who are under 16, and 550 cases of marriages involving under-18s.
In neighboring Baden-Wuerttemberg, 117 cases of child marriages were registered among newly arrived migrants colonists, while in the populous state of North-Rhine Westphalia, at least 188 such cases with under-aged girls had been recorded.
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But, but - it's their culture! Who are we to judge?
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When Germany bans, statutorily,
Men marrying kids prematurely,
The sons of the Prophet,
Who've been there and done that,
Just laugh and continue to, morally.
The FBI's near-miss investigation of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen reflects a US counterterror effort swamped by potential targets and struggling to separate lethal Islamic State recruits from hotheads venting their spleen.
After dropping its 2013 scrutiny of Mateen, the bureau is under fire for not doing more to prevent the worst mass shooting in modern US history. Yet on other occasions in recent months, the FBI has been criticised for its handling of domestic terror probes, including the use of controversial sting operations.
"They're in a very hard position right now," says David Gomez, who retired in 2011 after a 28-year FBI career and who once headed the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington State. "They're being criticised for doing what they're legally entitled to do."
Orlando marks the third attack -- including the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and the shootings last year at a Garland, Texas, exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed -- involving an individual who had been interviewed by the FBI. Amid an avalanche of terror tips, James Comey, the bureau's director, says that tracking the "troubled souls" drawn to radical Islam represents a vexing challenge for his agents.
"The number of Isis cases in the US is unprecedented," said Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University's programme on extremism.
The US has charged 88 individuals with Isis-related crimes over the past two years, Mr Hughes said. In the past year alone, there have been 61 arrests, two or three times the typical figure, he added. And like 0bean's other programs, the numbers will continue to rise until the unsustainability of it all finally sinks in, even to the most willfully and studiously ignorant. Take care of the now when they're small and the casualties relatively few. Otherwise, the people will have to get involved, and that won't be so pretty, whether guns or glass bottles and ropes are involved.
Some of those caught in the anti-terror dragnet were deadly serious. In February, John Booker, 21, of Topeka, Kansas, pleaded guilty to charges of planning to detonate a car bomb on a nearby US Army base. Booker -- also known as Muhammad Abdullah Hassan -- planned to use half a tonne of ammonium nitrate in an explosion that would have killed US soldiers and himself, according to the justice department.
Others hardly seem like terrorist masterminds. Emanuel Lutchman, 25, was arrested on December 30 on charges of planning a machete attack on patrons at a Rochester, NY, diner. An ex-convict and convert to Islam, Lutchman had a history of mental illness and was so short of cash that an undercover agent covered the $40 cost of ski masks, knives, duct tape and other supplies for the planned attack, according to court documents.
In the Orlando case, Mateen was interviewed twice by the FBI in 2013 after his coworkers alerted authorities to his claims of terror links. After a 10-month probe, agents closed the investigation having found no indication Mateen had committed a crime or posed a threat. Mateen's name also surfaced in a separate investigation one year later of an American man who travelled to Syria to become a suicide bomber, but agents concluded the two men had no significant relationship.
The FBI introduced an undercover agent to Mateen, a tool used in 56 per cent of investigations over the past two years. The bureau says its operatives give suspects several opportunities to abandon their plans before arresting them. But Michael German, a former FBI undercover agent, says the increasing reliance on undercover agents is a mistake.
Sting operations are "less about identifying and mitigating real threats than intended to manufacture a case that the government can then point to as evidence of an effective counterterrorism posture", says Mr German, now a fellow at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice.
Still, courts so far have sided with the government whenever defendants have claimed they were entrapped by agents. In 2014, the Supreme Court let stand a lower-court ruling in the case of four men accused of plotting to shoot down military aircraft and blow up two New York synagogues. Known as the "Newburgh Four", the Muslim converts were convicted in 2010 of terror charges. They are now serving 25-year sentences in federal prison after failing to convince an appeals court that an undercover FBI agent had entrapped them with a promise of $250,000 to launch the attacks.
Since Islamic State leaders began calling on sympathisers to stage attacks in their home countries, the FBI has confronted a growing workload. The Mateen case demonstrates that agents face a daunting task. "We are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack, but we are also called up to figure out which pieces of hay might someday become needles," Mr Comey told reporters this week.
Agents are working on more than 900 active investigations in all 50 states, the FBI says. Under protocols established following the attacks on September 11 2001, every tip must be checked. The agents investigating Mateen were likely handling an additional 15 to 25 cases at the same time. "The bureau's stretched thin because the threat continues to grow," said retired FBI agent Jeffrey Ringel, now a director of the Soufan Group.
It also may take years for someone to move from spouting offensive, though constitutionally protected, views to embracing violence. The killings in the Pulse nightclub occurred more than three years after the FBI closed its investigation of Mateen, having concluded that his contradictory remarks about ties to terror groups were incoherent and not threatening. At the time, it seemed like the right call.
"Up until 2 o'clock Sunday," Ringel says, "he was a law-abiding citizen."
The following article may be in the Rantburg archvies. It is an older article which reports the survey results (2011) of 100 mosques in the U.S. The results belie Obama's angry response to Donald Trump. It seems that Sharia Law, violent jihad is embedded in the majority of American mosques. The question arises: "Is our problem with Islamic jihadists/Islamists or with the larger religion of Islam?" since those advocating violence against Americans seems to be so prevalent among the larger body of Islam adherents?" Why is Obama and the Democratic left sticking their collective heads in the sand? Why are they being such good little dhimmis?.
A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma calling for violence against non-believers. Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19% had no violent texts at all. Mosques that presented as Sharia adherent were more likely to feature violence-positive texts on site than were their non-Sharia-adherent counterparts. In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts. The leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques. Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad. The leadership of mosques that featured violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.
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"Why is Obama and the Democratic left sticking their collective heads in the sand? Why are they being such good little dhimmis?"
Because the Pander Party (i.e., the Democrats) have decided to adopt Muslims as their latest "Officially Recognized Poor Helpless Victims of White Male Capitalist Oppression" to stand beside blacks, gays, and women. To bogus charges of racism, homophobia and sexism, we will henceforth have to endure bogus charges of "Islamophobia."
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Hey Dave D., haven't heard from you in a long time.
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"Hey Dave D., haven't heard from you in a long time."
Thanks, I'm still here. Haven't commented much lately, as it's been hard to think of anything to say that I haven't already said here a hundred times before.
But I keep trying.
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[Wash Times] Several Chick-fil-A restaurants in Orlando on Sunday delivered sandwiches and iced tea to blood drives supporting victims of the gay nightclub terrorist attack. Photo is of the late Truett Cathy and wife Jeannette.
The restaurant on University and Rouse Road delivered the food free of charge to the One Blood donation center, the DC Gazette reported.
A second location at Lee Vista posted pictures on Facebook Sunday of employees delivering free food to another blood drive. "Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else—our time, our love, our resources. I have always found more joy in giving when I did not expect anything in return."
~ S. Truett Cathy
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FWIW, this story is all over Facebook. My wife is a teacher and liberal and she told me about it. So the news is getting out.
(I myself don't do Facebook)
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Truett Cathy went to the same eye clinic in Atlanta as I do, and happened to be visiting at the same time I did. Every employee pointed out that it WAS him, in hushed tones.
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Our Urban Title 1 school is frequently surprised by Chik-Filet generosity. A couple of times for the entire school, several more for the staff. Total surprises every time, no pictures, no PR no TeeVee nothing!
As with other posts, mega-snip to the new stuff. The media is getting very repetitive, a sure sign that they're running out of things to say.
The family home of Noor Zahi Salman, the wife of Orlando killer Omar Mateen, 29, has been raided by the FBI.
Officers pulled up in a dark gray Dodge Challenger car at the address, in Rodeo, California, at approximately 3.15pm local time Tuesday.
"It was a dark and stormy night." Sheesh, but it's the Daily Mail...
The home is currently thought to be occupied by Zahi Salman, 50, and one of her daughters – both of whom were visible through the open door. Three FBI agents went inside the house. Two female agents were the first to approach the home, shout FBI, and enter to and speak to the occupants. They left after an hour and a half without comment.
As the probe into the Orlando nightclub shooting broadened Tuesday, with investigators ranging as far afield as Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, survivors recounted the gunman – whose parents are Afghan immigrants – telling them he had gone on a killing spree because he “wanted America to stop bombing his country.”
He was born in the U.S.A. This is his country...
Those developments emerged as investigators revealed that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people Sunday in the worst mass shooting in modern American history, had increasingly sought out Islamic State videos and other radical Islamist propaganda in the months leading up to his murderous rampage. And FBI officials said he had made repeated visits to Disney properties in Florida and may have had assistance from his wife in organizing the attack on the Pulse nightclub.
Investigators are trying to retrace as much of Mateen's final weeks and months as possible in an effort to understand his motivation. Part of that involves collecting data from at least two cellphones used by Mateen, as well as other electronic media and email accounts, a U.S. law enforcement official said.
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It's interesting how Disney knows so much about this guy...
Disney properties are techno marvels in distributed control system centralization. Some of their marketing (like Home Depot: "hey gimme yoyr zipcode") is about their range of retail impact, so they track buyers. Because of the close proximity of Adults and Children there is also a lot of security video that gets scanned like a 'watch list' for known and new faces and packages. The demise of paper tickets for the rides also gives them 'in park' tracking tools with every ride gate or doorway a sensor platform for your electronic ticket.
Predator/Prey modeling has well established mobility patterns that are also used for stalker behavior identification in theme parks as well as grocery stores.
An Orlando nightclub owner received a Facebook friend request from Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people and injured 53 others at another nightclub. Shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, investigators from the Orlando Police Department and the FBI arrived at Club Revere to speak with owner Michael Bass.
Bass told News 6 investigator Michael Holfeld that he had received a Facebook request from Mateen either late Thursday and early Friday morning. Bass told Holfeld he made the connection when he saw reports on News 6 about the Pulse nightclub shooting.
"When I didn't accept (the Facebook friend request), I looked through his friends first and rejected it. In doing that, I looked -- a few of his friends were just Arabic writing and I didn't even know. It was just nothing that would relate to an LGBT club. It just didn't make sense," Bass told Mike Holfeld.
"But you are sure that's him," Holfeld asked Bass about the friend request from Omar Mateen.
"I am 99.99 percent," Bass said.
"When I saw that picture that morning of the incident, I swallowed my tongue. I work here. I help with security. I run, I operate, I fix. I watch what goes on." Bass said. "It was Omar Mateen."
Club Revere was closed Saturday night, and one of the the regular dancers at the club went to Pulse. News 6 learned the dancer was 35-year-old Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, who died in the mass shooting.
"I will remember him for the rest of my life. (He's) that kind of person," Bass said.
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As per DRUDGE, it appears ala Craiglist ad another gay club(s) in San Diego, CA is being allegedly targeted for an Orlando-style attack???
[HUFFPOO] WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully rebuked Republicans who have berated him for refusing to characterize lone wolf terror attacks by Muslim individuals as acts of "radical Islam."
Speaking from the Treasury Department two days after a Muslim man shot 49 people to death at a gay nightclub in Orlando after declaring allegiance to the self-described Islamic State group, the president challenged his detractors to identify a single tangible benefit of adjusting his choice of words to describe the attack.
"What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this?" Obama asked rhetorically, using another name for the Islamic State. That he asks that question demonstrates the depth to which he doesn't understand the question... Wik: "Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of crisis, personal or political but is more commonly found in the neurotic or psychotic in personalities functioning at a primitive level as in narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder." Using the label would be honest, calling a spade a spade. It might change the way a certain percentage of the population looks at the WoT and at Moslems in general, Islamists in particular. It wouldn't make ISIS less committed to killing Americans, but it might help a certain type of snowflake not to come down with the vapors when a terrorist eats a Hellfire. It might emphasize to some other governments that whatever our differences with them, we have a mutual interest in wiping the scourge of ISIS, al-Qaeda, and similar groups from the face of the earth. If you're going to do something, you should say what it is, which will get you more support for a policy if it makes sense, booed and hissed if it's stupid. Probably when the idea first came up Eisenhower and Churchill were going to invade via France. After awhile it was Normandy. Then it came down to dividing the beaches. Precision in terminology supported the tactics and strategy worked out at all levels.
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'...snowflake not to come down with the vapors when a terrorist eats a Hellfire..."
if THAT is the only side effect of a Hellfire-ectomy, then I am all for it.
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Besoeker - To be honest Radical Islam is not correct either and does a disservice to the Shia...the true descriptor is Radical ahl as Sunnah Islam (Sunni). This ISIS and al Qaeda crew is the radical ahl as Sunnah in its purest form. This is how many Muslims themselves refer to it...not magical it just is what it is.
The small, arrogant President imagines himself nuanced...far from it...he is poorly prepared and further gets his advice from a close friend of the Sunni Wahabbis...Mr. Brennan.
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Rather like sorting fly spoor from pepper, but I'll respectfully accept your learned definition. Bound to be a good one or two in the lot, but I've generally preferred to avoid the family entirely if possible. Lazy man's approach I suppose, my bad.
Since the earliest, I've believed Brennan was pulling the strings to this dodgy, indolent puppet. The Champ is tardy to nearly every performance. This might indicate he's either a late sleeper, or he's making a last minute call for updates and guidance prior to his senseless bloviations. Painfully predictable and almost on cue, he nearly always defaults to racial injustice and discrimination or climate change as the common denominators of any political or social challenge.
You are dead right about Herr Brennan. Any likeness Brennan bears to Kahless the spiritual leader of the Klingon may not be coincidental. Brennan's latest reality altering spin appears to be the exoneration of the Magic Kingdom from anything 9/11 (missing 28 pages, etc).
BTW, my in-line rants are crimson on dark grey. Butternut was not available. Enuf of my blathering. Thx for your cmnts.
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I would just like the guy to shut up!. Today I just saw this; "Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Friday signed into law a bill that directs the state to seek federal permission to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase health coverage from the state's exchange. The law would allow undocumented immigrants to purchase coverage from the exchange, called Covered California, if such a waiver is granted. However, undocumented immigrants would not be eligible for subsidies to help pay for exchange plan premiums. California would become the first state to extend exchange coverage to undocumented immigrants if the federal government grants such permission (White, "Capitol Alert," Sacramento Bee, 6/10; Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times, 6/10)."
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C'mon Obean, you are familiar with Alinsky's Rules for Radicals; particulary Rule 12: * RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.) Even Alinsky said you had to identify your enemy. You are being very dishonest and disingenuous.
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O always comes out with the same thing after every terrorist attack. However individual attacks are perpetrated by suseptable people that are taken in by Islamic propaganda. Death by a thousand cuts. O's platitudes don't cut it any more. People do not feel safe. So what do they do about it? A record number are purchasing firearms. Attitudes are changing toward taking responsibility for their own safety. It's a race between survival and serfdom.
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He and his ink have no problem using 'radical' in referring to those of the Tea Party. His enemy is American.
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*Islam* is the problem. The terrorists are not "radicals", instead they are "literals"--they are acting upon the commands they read in the Islamic texts.
"The radical Muslims want to kill you because you're an infidel. The moderate Muslims want the radical Muslims to kill you because you're an infidel."
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Crusader, yes exactly. It is an operational handbook. I suggest anyone who wishes to understand the teachings and current actions must read the work. Written 100 years before the illiterate Mohamed was born on skins. The Arab had no written language so that was developed for this work. Oral history was primary way to pass along the words. Written 600 years as I recall it said after the Torah - Law of Moses.
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In addition to being a wife-beating, half-ghey, radical Islamist, ISIS supporter, he was also a registered Democrat (look it up). So he's Oblahblah's kinda of guy.
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Radical in the phrase Radical Islam is a qualifier to Islam. It should be just plain Islam, but the mainstream public is not ready for that yet. So use Radical Islam for now until the public is attacked enough by terrorists ready.
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I do wish that Obean would expend as much effort stopping the Islamic jihadists as he does trying to stop Trump.
[DAWN] Pakistain is considering a Jordanian offer to buy sixteen used F-16 jets in lieu of the eight advanced fighters it could not buy from the United States because of a financing row, but officials fear Washington could still throw a spanner in the works.
The case for the purchase of F-16s from the US is closed, "we are now going for a third party transfer of F-16s and have an offer from Jordan", Defence Secretary retired Lt Gen Alam Khattak told a joint sitting of the Senate committees on defence and foreign affairs, which had been asked by Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani to review the current state of Pak-US ties and suggest the way forward.
Jordan bought used jets from Israel, so they can now sell their old ones to Pakistan... and so Jordan will have more money to buy used equipment from Israel, who can use the funds to buy more new stuff from America. A new triangle trade, but no rum or slaves involved.
Just what I want to fly, used jets with Jordanese "inshallah" maintenance...
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Does ITAR still apply to Honest Khattak's Used Aeroplane shoppe?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... has said the Haqqani Network was not a simple issue and could have caused a blowback.
Sartaj was speaking a joint sitting of the Senate committees on defence and foreign affairs which mainly focused on the issue of the cancellation of F-16s sale by US to Pakistain.
The US congress refused to to approve funding for the deal days after the US politicians had accused Pakistain of not doing enough to fight Lion of Islam.
The decision by the US congress meant that Pakistain will have to pay more than $700m (£480m) ‐ two-and-a-half times the original cost of the fighter jets.
Pakistain would pay close to $270m, with the US foreign military financing budget paying for the rest, according to the original arrangement.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Sartaj said the government was right in not accepting the US conditions. "If the conditions affect national interest, it is better not to accept them. It was an issue of choices," he contended while deliberating on the reasons that led to the cancellation of the F-16 deal with the US, according to the local Dawn newspaper.
Haqqani network, he said, was not a simple issue and could have caused a blowback.
Sataj further added that the matter was linked to the border management, which the Afghan government had been resisting.
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One doesn't have to try very hard to "read between the lines" with this guy,
[An Nahar] The U.N.'s human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... chief on Tuesday called on the United States to bring in "robust gun regulation" in order to prevent the kind of mass killing seen in Orlando, Florida over the weekend.
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein urged Washington to live up to its obligations to protect its citizens from the "horrifyingly commonplace but preventable violent attacks that are the direct result of insufficient gun control."
Gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and maimed another 53 before he was killed when police stormed the Pulse, one of Orlando's most prominent gay venues, early Sunday.
"It is hard to find a rational justification that explains the ease with which people can buy firearms, including assault rifles, in spite of prior criminal backgrounds, drug use, histories of domestic violence and mental illness, or direct contact with murderous Moslems ‐ both domestic and foreign," Zeid said in a statement.
"How many more mass killings of school-children, of co-workers, of African-American churchgoers... will it take before the United States adopts robust gun regulation?" he asked.
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The UN should just STFU, just STFU.
Every push and prod in this direction, IMHO, just brings the day closer that the militia will finally demand a restructuring.
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"In September 2002, Zeid was elected the first President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. At that time, the Court was only a plan on paper, and over the next three years he oversaw the election of the first 18 judges, mediated selection of the Court’s first president, and led efforts to name the Court’s first prosecutor – laying out a functioning institution, despite considerable budgetary pressures and criticism of the Court from several leading nations."
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Israel, the most terrorist entity in the world, was elected to head the counter-terrorism committee at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly, despite intense efforts by Arab and Muslim states to stop the nomination.
In a secret ballot Monday in New York, the Zionist ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was elected chairman of the General Assembly’s Sixth (Legal) Committee.
The nomination had been slammed by various Arab organizations and parties as shameful and disrespectful to UN rules and bylaws.
This nomination encourages the occupation to continue its terrorist policies against the Arab people, they considered.
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the reason for the secret ballot may be that some arab countries wanted to vote for Israel but didn't want to be seen doing so
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Second, somebody may actually be paying attention to what a certain presidential candidate has been saying.
[Iraq Sun] GENEVA, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... - The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Human Rights Council has launched an unprecedented attack on the body, arguing it has "an obsessive, compulsive disorder regarding Israel."
The attack on the council by Eviatar Manor, who has been Israel's ambassador to the UNHRC since August 2008, is the second in five days.
"You have an obsessive, compulsive disorder regarding Israel," Mr Manor told the UNHRC when he addressed it in Geneva on Tuesday on the second day of its 32nd session.
"Politicized debates, biased resolutions, preposterous reports, discriminatory conduct and unfounded accusations characterize the attitude of this Council and of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights towards Israel."
"This Council’s priorities are wide off the mark,"the Israeli ambassador added.
"How is it, that it has an agenda item specifically dedicated to my country when the tragedies of Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, to name but a few, are unfolding and producing a tsunami of refugees about to engulf Europe?" Manor asked.
"And you expect us to take you seriously?"
The Israeli envoy was taking exception to a statement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein which was issued after the shootings in Tel Aviv last week which resulted in the deaths of five Israelis (4 killed at the scene, another, a woman, who died of a heart attack who was officially recognised on Tuesday by Israel's defense ministry as a victim of the attacks).
Zeid in condemning the attack also cautioned Israel on its response which included the cancellations of 83,000 travel permits, which the commissioner said could be described as "collective punishment."
Manor told the council all sovereign states have the right to regulate the entry of non-citizens into their country. "Furthermore, the terms of existing bilateral Israeli-Paleostinian agreements specifically affirm Israel's right to prevent or limit entry of persons into Israel from the West Bank and Gazoo for security and safety considerations," he said.
The ambassador said the council "has never cared for the human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... of Israelis."
He added the UNHRC "needs a moral compass."
"Think about it, and call me if you change your minds. You can find me at +972 -77-430-4703," Manor added.
The UNHRC commissioner in his opening address to the session on Monday, in noting the Israeli occupation had entered its 50th year last week, said tensions remain high across the Paleostinian territories and in Israel, and the risk of a further sudden escalation in violence remains very real.
"Violence is among the many consequences of this prolonged oppression, including and inexcusably against civilians on both sides. Both sides have seen civilians attacked recently, and I deplore those actions," Zeid said." The reactions of the Israeli authorities, in particular, instances of excessive use of force, have also been a cause for concern. I have reminded the Israeli Government of its obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law on a number of occasions. The increase in detention of Paleostinians this year, particularly in administrative detention without trial, is another serious concern. At the end of April there were almost 700 Paleostinian administrative detainees, more than double the figure at the end of September 2015 and the highest number since June 2008."
And then, having turned very blue in the face, he stopped to breath heavily for a few minutes before continuing interminably in the same vein.
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This is in the Iraq Sun
really
a country suffering about 500 to 1000 civilian deaths per month from Islamic terrorism
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[An Nahar] A preacher who posted an online video criticizing Jordan's participation in the coalition battling 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 in Iraq and Syria was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Tuesday, a judicial source said.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the state security court placed Amjad Qursha in preventative detention for 15 days after the video was posted on YouTube.
In it, Qursha "criticized Jordan's participation in the international coalition against the terrorist ISIS (IS) organization in Iraq and Syria," the source said.
The 49-year-old preacher is accused of "having committed unauthorised acts... that could affect the kingdom's relations with a friendly country", a reference to the United States which heads the anti-IS coalition.
In the video, Qursha says Washington "compelled" Amman to join the coalition.
"Unfortunately, our feeble and fragile government has led us into a war that has nothing to do with us," he says.
The married father of five lectures at the University of Jordan's sharia (Islamic law) faculty.
He is known as a moderate who appears frequently in discussions on official radio and television channels.
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(CNSNews.com) The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) "has a very, very clear strategy" for what they want to achieve, but "we do not," says Lt. Col. Scott Mann (Ret.), a 23-year Army veteran and former Green Beret who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ISIS has clearly stated that it intends to use horrific violence to draw the U.S. into an apocalyptic holy war to establish a caliphate, Mann told CNSNews.com.
He pointed to a propaganda video released by ISIS last year entitled No Respite that taunts Western Europe and the U.S., calling it "the shot across the bow before Paris and San Bernardino."
"They tell us that this is a campaign of violence against Western Europe and the U.S., that they want to draw us into a manufactured holy war so that they can usher in the end of days. You’ll see it in the video. And so they have a strategy ‐ a very, very clear strategy. They have will and capacity to pursue that strategy.
"We do not. If you look at how we have evolved in Iraq since we abandoned that place in 2011, it has been very piecemeal, it has been reactionary. Even the guys that are in there right now don’t have many authorities to get out from behind the concertina wire and actually engage those marginalized Sunni tribes."
The U.S. not only fails to acknowledge the "real vulnerabilities of ISIS," but actually makes things worse by "deepening the rift" between the Shia-dominated Iraqi government, Iran-sponsored Shia militias, and the marginalized Sunni populations in which ISIS is embedded even though "ISIS is most vulnerable when they are operating in those Sunni areas," Mann said.
"They [ISIS] literally have their foot on the necks of many Sunnis," explained Mann, who is now CEO of Mission America. "However, if you are a Sunni in a place like Fallujah, you know that the mostly Shia Iraqi government has been pretty rough on you since we left in 2011, and you also know that there are Shia brigades that are going to be coming for you. So you’re still gonna likely [make] your camp with ISIS because they are Sunni."
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The FBI's near-miss investigation of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen reflects a US counterterror effort swamped by potential targets and struggling to separate lethal Islamic State recruits from hotheads venting their spleen.
An Orlando nightclub owner received a Facebook friend request from Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people and injured 53 others at another nightclub. Shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, investigators from the Orlando Police Department and the FBI arrived at Club Revere to speak with owner Michael Bass.
[HUFFPOO] WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully rebuked Republicans who have berated him for refusing to characterize lone wolf terror attacks by Muslim individuals as acts of "radical Islam."
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
