[Tolo News] Hundreds of protestors marched through 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.... city on Friday to press the government to act for safe release of Kunduz hostages.
Protestors warned to continue mass protests and unless government takes action and ensures the release of the passengers who were kidnapped on Baghlan highway recently.
"People have gathered to raise their voice against the recent fear and chaos created by the Taliban on the main highways, Taliban kidnap civilians and innocents," protestor Fawzia Kofi said.
"Government leaders must hear the voice of the people of Afghanistan," MP Ahmad Behzad said.
"We do not want to disrupt the system and the government. We have one demand and that is to secure our security," a protestor said.
"The protest became violent. The protestors were maimed and the police adopted harsh action against them," another protestor Mastoora Arzo said.
Two protestors were maimed during the demonstration.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has said Afghanistan has never accepted Durand Line as border between Afghanistan and Pakistain and will never accept it in the future.
In an interview with BBC Urdu, Karzai termed the formation of Durand Line a ’result of British imperialism’ in the region.
He said Afghanistan has never accepted this border since 1893, nor will they ever accept it in future.
"When Pakistain came into being in 1947, they received it this way, so we are not blaming them but Durand Line is a blow which no Afghan can ever forget. We do not accept this border but will not fight over this issue," Karzai added.
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Anybody got a map showing the Durand line and the Karzai line?
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the Karzai lines get snorted
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Somali lawmaker Mohamed Omar Dalha has accused the federal government of failing to stop Kenya from building a barrier along its border which has effected life of local residents.
"Smuggling takes too much effort. That lack of goods has had a deleterious effect on local quality of life," he said.
tl;dr: "My wife is mad I can't get her new nylons no more."
Dalka who is also the deputy chairman of Somalia’s parliamentary committee for foreign affairs has stressed that the parliament has done its best to deal with the issue, and paid an assessment visit to the border. He urged the federal government of Somalia to act quickly and halt Kenya’s plan to erect illegally a separating wall inside Somali territory that denies access citizens to travel freely.
Act how, exactly?
In 2015, Kenya has started construction of a 435-mile wall along its porous border with Somalia as part of efforts to shut out Al Shabaab militants who carried out deadly attacks in its soil.
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A top official with the U.N. Children’s Fund says there could be 5,000 child soldiers in Somalia as al-Shabab continues its recruiting campaigns. In an interview with VOA Somali, Susannah Price, UNICEF chief of communication, said the recruitment and use of young children as soldiers was documented, and at surprisingly high numbers.
“This is a very, very … disturbing situation,” Price said. “Indeed, there could be up to 5,000 child soldiers. We know that al-Shabab has a recruiting campaign for children sometimes involving persuasion. They may be giving money or food sometimes. The children in the [displaced persons] camps are an easy target.”
In the past, an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 children — sometimes as young as 9 — were enlisted in the Somali armed forces, according to UNICEF.
This came as the African continent on Thursday commemorated the Day of the African Child under the theme “Conflict and Crisis in Africa: Protecting All Children’s Rights.”
Somalia signed the UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), making Somalia the 195th state to ratify the convention. The ratification means that Somali children now have legally binding rights with the CRC, providing the framework for the government to promote and protect those rights.
Boy howdy, given that Somalia signed, why do they have child soldiers? Someone seems to have slipped up here...
Price called on Somali leaders to prioritize the protection of children’s rights and the creation of a safer environment for Somali children.
“It is very important to focus on peace building and to call on all leaders to look at the children, to protect the rights of children and allow them to get the rights every other child in the world is entitled to,” she said.
The Day of the African Child focuses the spotlight on children’s rights in an effort to remind the continent’s governments that the issue needs continued attention.
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Not lollies and dollies and collies,
But brawls of Mohammeds and Alis;
Not Raleighs and gollies,
Just follies and volleys --
It sucks to be little Somalis.
[Ynet] Following Pope Francis' lead, the Vatican has brought a second group of Syrian refugees to Rome. The Vatican said Friday nine refugees, including three children, were accompanied by Holy See security personnel on their trip from Athens Thursday. They had been living in Kara Tepe refugee camp after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos by sea from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Two of the arrivals are Christians.
[AlAhram] Austria on Friday offered to help Hungary secure its border with Serbia, which is already well-protected but where migrants colonists continue to cross in a bid to reach northern Europe.
Hungary has long been criticised by its European partners for its treatment of migrants colonists, having sealed its border with Serbia last year with razor wire and making illegal border crossing a criminal offence punishable by jail. Austria's government was one of those that criticised the measure by the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The Austrian daily Die Presse said this week that Austrian soldiers could be sent to patrol the border under the plans.
The Austrian defence ministry says around 150 migrants colonists arrive in Austria every day from Hungary -- where most of them are registered -- having travelled from Greece through Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia.
Currently Austria is not sending any back to Hungary following a court decision last September that prevented an Afghan family being returned because of "inhumane conditions" in Hungary.
[Breitbart] Moving to outflank the fences and walls of Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, people smugglers are now inserting their customers into Germany from the unguarded East.
The border between Germany and Poland, now totally open thanks to the Schengen borderless internal zone is becoming increasingly busy with illegal traffic as smugglers avoid Germany’s fortified southern borders. German newspaper Die Welt reports the smugglers and their charges are hard to miss in Polish border town Slubice, where the illegals are driven up to the border and then left to walk into Germany, unstopped and unchecked.
A leaked police paper has outlined the extent of the problem, which it claims is exacerbated by a "significantly reduced" number of police assigned to patrol the frontier, with many redeployed to man immigration stations along the southern border. The report claims there were 114 illegal crossings "detected" across the Eastern border in May, in addition to an unknown quantity of migrants colonists who slipped by unnoticed.
The report lamented "the border to the East is completely open!", and that the smugglers "laughed" at the few border guards left.
The problem of invisible migration brought by the migrant crisis is one the German government is presently trying to wrestle with, as they attempt to assess just how many people are actually in the country. The latest academic estimate of the figure puts totally undocumented illegals -- those with which the German government has no contact or control over whatsoever -- as around half a million.
The invisible illegals are a particular problem for Germany’s police because they cannot find legal employment or access state benefits, and therefore rely on crime for sustenance.
More Breitbart stories in the migrant situation can be found here, including the perhaps-not-shocking news that half of Germany's Turks regard Islamic law as supreme over German law. The Daily Mail's collection of migrant, immigrant, and what native Brits have to put up with is found here, including the usual migrant rapists and the fact that the French now hate the EU even more than the Brits do.
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Moving to outflank the fences and walls of Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, people smugglers are now inserting their customers into Germany from the unguarded East.
Hurrah -- free passage to Europe for Revolutionary Guardsmen, Hizb'allah's Lions of Islam, and anyone else willing to be used for joint objectives. Brilliant choice, guys.
[IsraelTimes] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... eases restrictions against Iran Air and is allowing most of its planes to resume flights to Europe.
EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc says Thursday that a successful "technical assessment" was carried out at Iran Air in May, weeks after she visited the country.
She says the EU can now "allow most aircraft from Iran Air back into European skies."
Iran’s air safety record has been spotty, with parts nearly impossible to get for the country amid world sanctions over its nuclear program.
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[IsraelTimes] School records show young Omar Mateen often spoke of violence and was repeatedly suspended in later years for hurting classmates
Acting out the culture of his Afghan heritage?
He received a five-day suspension on Sept. 13, 2001, two days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Classmates have said it was because he celebrated the attacks.
As early as third grade, the Florida nightclub shooter talked frequently about sex and violence and before finishing high school was suspended for a total of 48 days, including for fighting and hurting classmates, school records showed.
In the years since, other people reported having disturbing run-ins with Omar Mateen, including a bartender who said he stalked her nearly a decade ago and sent so many uncomfortable Facebook messages that she blocked him on the social network.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] 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... this week acknowledged twice that 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.... and the threat of terrorism around the world is a bigger threat than climate change, even though he has insisted in past years that climate is the bigger threat.
Kerry revealed his subtle change of thinking during his trip to Europe, where he twice indicated that when it comes to global threats, terrorism is first, and climate change is a very close second.
"[L]et me just say that one of the greatest challenges of our times besides the fight against extremism is to deal with the enormous battle of climate change," he said in Denmark Thursday. The phrase "besides the fight against extremism" indicates he sees terrorism as the top threat.
He made a similar comment in Norway on Wednesday, when at first seemed prepared to say climate is the bigger issue, but then conceded that terrorism ranks at the top.
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Well, knock me over with a feather. A genius is born.
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When he was running for president he said he was gonna reduce terrorism to an "inconvenience". I never did learn how many dead Americans were < or = to "inconvenience".
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Mr. Rabbit, the inconvenience factor is actually a very complex algorithm which must include the proper values for the "awesomeness" variable and the "elite status" and the yacht size and the bike shorts coolness grade.
After that has been processed for each victim you will know if an attack was inconvenient, serious or catastrophic for JF'nK.
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"[L]et me just say that one of the greatest challenges of our times besides the fight against extremism is to deal with the enormous battle of climate change," he said in Denmark Thursday.
Looks like he's saying extremism instead of terrorism. You don't have to go around killing people to be labeled an extremist. Now, can we get a definition of extremism? What if, by extremist, he means anybody who doesn't agree with him?
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Is it just me, or Jawn is switching. And if he does---what does it mean?
The psychologist who administered the test that established Orlando killer Omar Mateen as mentally fit to carry concealed weapons as a private security guard did the same for another South Florida killer who worked for the same company.
Carol Nudelman, who had an office on Red Road in South Miami, administered the tests that determined Mateen was "mentally and emotionally stable," according to an application for a Class G firearms license released Wednesday by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. It’s unclear from the application whether the evaluation involved anything more than giving him a standard written test.
Nudelman years ago also had administered a psychological test to Paul David Ahern, another guard at security company G4S, then known as The Wackenhut Co. Ahern killed two people and maimed two others in 1998 at his condominium community in Kendall. He is serving a life sentence.
The week before the shootings, Ahern had been issued a temporary security officer’s license by the state. His psychological exam had been administered by Nudelman, according to a 1998 news article from the Miami Herald.
Mateen, who killed 49 people early Sunday at a gay club in Orlando, had also worked as a security guard for G4S. He held two licenses from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: a Class D security officer license and a Class G firearms license.
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Looks like the test is worth much for screening purposes. Moreover, no one was really listening to those who sounded the early warnings about Mateen. The politicos would rather ignore the warnings and not a crisis go to waste when it occurs and make a grab for guns--the usual lefty agenda.
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If you wanted to get paranoid about the government's involvement in these shootings you could get really, really paranoid. Just sayin'...
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saw an article on Lucianne this am - The shrink says she never interviewed him and wasn't even living in Florida at the time the the review was signed... if true, company cutting corners?
60% of young Muslims more loyal to Islam than to U.S.
That rather explains the problem, doesn't it. In the past, immigrant groups became loyal to America. Irish, Germans, Italians, Poles, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. Africans who were horribly mistreated by slavery and segregation were nevertheless loyal to America and fought in its wars. Now we have a new immigrant group, and their children, the young ones referenced in the subtitle, aren't loyal to America.
This will not end well. Most Americans are willing to give a downtrodden people a break, but in return they expect immigrants to become part of America.
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Assorted MSM-Net Perts have all argued or claimed that by 2030 OR 2050 Islam will be the highest growing religion or ideo in the US after Secularism. NOT GOOD FOR THE LEFTIES-COMMIES AS THEIR -ISM IN SOCILAIST AMERIKA WILL ALREADY BE UNDER HIGH THREAT/RISK OF FACING AGGRESSIVE COMPETITION, IFF NOT USURPATION, FROM THE MUSLIMS.
I see no evidence that the Marxists-Commies can or will hold power in post-Socialist/Globalist Amerika.
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The U.S. and other Western nations would do well to outlaw the practice of Sharia Law in their countries. If Hillary, The Grifter, becomes President and she is beholden to Sharia-practicing mid-Eastern countries to the tune of millions of dollars, she isn't going to change anything.
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A riff on "Der Fuehrer's Face" from 1943: Is Sharia law so good?
Would you leave if if you could?
Ja, Sharia law is good
We would leave it if we could
[Ynet] Yedioth Ahronoth reveals Israel's plan to build a concrete wall tens of meters deep underground and aboveground to counter the threat of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, attack tunnels. Senior defense official: 'a confrontation with Hamas is inevitable, it must be the last one.'
Israel's defense establishment's plan to build a concrete wall tens of meters underground as well as aboveground along the Gazoo Strip border was revealed by Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday morning.
It has previously been estimated that such a project would cost tens of billions of shekels. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... under the new plan the construction costs are estimated to reach NIS 2.2 billion.
The wall will stretch along the 60 miles of the southern border around the Gazoo Strip, and will in fact be the third defense system of its kind Israel has built along the border.
The first 60-kilometer barrier was constructed in 1994 following the Oslo accords while the second system was built following the decision to disengage from Gazoo in 2005. Neither of the efforts, however, provided comprehensive solutions to the threat of attack tunnels.
A senior Defense Ministry official on Thursday announced at a press briefing that the next confrontation with Hamas would be the last one. The question of how this announcement is consistent with a plan to build a wall, which is essentially a defensive program, is open to interpretation.
"We have no desire to rule over Gazoo, and as long as there is no alternative government there, we have no business being there," said the bigwig. "But on the other hand we cannot conduct a constant war of attrition. Therefore the next conflict has to be the last conflict in terms of Hamas ruling the Strip. We are not looking for an adventure, but a confrontation with Hamas is inevitable. It is an ongoing and growing threat and we need to be prepared for it. "
In a parallel effort, the IDF is currently erecting a wall around sections of the border with Leb, adjecent to which a number of Israeli towns are located. Construction of the wall was decided following public proclamations by Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, to attack civilian towns and hold on to them for a day or two.
At present, there a fence already exists along the border, but the wall is intended to make an infiltration of enemy forces even more difficult.
Hat tip to the Dallas Morning News. Several sites found in a search, but I selected the Slimes for its' well-known even-handed fairness in the support of the administration.
More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration's policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country's five-year-old civil war.
The memo, a draft of which was provided to The New York Times by a State Department official, says American policy has been "overwhelmed" by the unrelenting violence in Syria. It calls for "a judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process." Sort of like bombing North Viet Nam in the 60s.
The names on the memo are almost all midlevel officials ‐ many of them career diplomats ‐ who have been involved in the administration's Syria policy over the last five years, at home or abroad.
While there are no Champ appointees widely recognized names, higher-level State Department officials are known to share their concerns. Mr. Kerry himself has pushed for more red lines stronger American action against Syria, in part to force a diplomatic solution on Mr. Assad. The president has resisted such pressure, and has been backed up by his military commanders, who have raised questions about what would happen in the event that Mr. Assad was forced from power ‐ a scenario that the draft memo does not address. Scenario - Libya or Iraq? Maybe Somalia? Maybe Yugoslavia.
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I'm confused about what these people want. Do they want a war with Russia? Do they want ISIS to take over all of Syria? Do they want more Syrian refugeescolonists in Europe and America? Do they want a full on fucking ground war involving US troops in Syria?
Because those are the options. If they think they're going to get a Western style democracy in Syria they are hallucinating very badly.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 
Somali lawmaker Mohamed Omar Dalha has accused the federal government of failing to stop Kenya from building a barrier along its border which has effected life of local residents.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Secretary of State 
The psychologist who administered the test that established Orlando killer Omar Mateen as mentally fit to carry concealed weapons as a private security guard did the same for another South Florida killer who worked for the same company.
While there are no 
