As thousands of Afghan troops are busy fighting Daesh insurgents in the southern parts of the country, a number of military analysts said they believe that Daesh numbers are being exaggerated and that the Taliban is still the biggest threat to the country.
They said figures revealed by government regarding Daesh casualties in military operations are incorrect.
According to security agencies' information, at least 230 Daesh fighters were killed and 155 wounded - including 70 foreigners, of Pakistan, Uzbek, Tajik and Chechen origins. These were all killed in air raids carried out in parts of Nangarhar over the past two months.
Roughly 14 of Daesh's key commanders have also been listed as among those killed.
According to military affairs analyst Jawed Kohistani: "The major threat to Afghanistan is imposed by the Taliban. They [Taliban] have the control of a further geography and they have the highest fighters [compared to Daesh]. Daesh poses a limited threat to two or three provinces in Afghanistan. It has likely between 1,000 and 1,500 fighters, but it is made bigger in the media and their activities are emboldened during operations by security forces and during speeches of foreign officials."
He added: "This is a matter of concern. Daesh might be considered a project for the future of Afghanistan."
When asked about the number of Daesh insurgents fighting Afghan troops, the defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said: "The major hubs of Daesh were eliminated in Achin last night and are under full control of the Afghan security forces. Therefore, they [Daesh] were hundreds but the hundreds were killed."
Meanwhile, senior U.S officials recently said there are between 1,000 and 3,000 Daesh fighters in Afghanistan. However, the U.S Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said they are committed to helping Afghan forces combat against terrorism.
"Afghan troops are successful in this fighting season and in recognition of the fact even though they have come a long way since when they started, they still benefit from the support of U.S forces," he said.
As per the reports, Daesh rebels are operating in Kot, Achin, Deh Bala, Nazian, Pachergam and Sherzad districts in Nangarhar as well as in Ghaziabad, Marawara, Sarkano and Nari districts in Kunar province. Kot, Achin, Deh Bala and Nazian are said to be the terrorist group's main hubs in Afghanistan. Video report at the link
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has threatened more attacks against the Hazara minority days after the terror group grabbed credit behind a deadly attack in 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.
A commander of the group has said the attacks would be carried out to retaliate against support by some in the mainly Shi’ite group for the Assad regime in Syria.
The commander of the group, Abu Omar Khosrasani, has told Rooters that the attack on a peaceful demonstration in Deh Mazang was in retaliation to the deployment of the community fighters to Syria.
"Unless they stop going to Syria and stop being slaves of Iran, we will definitely continue such attacks," the krazed killer commander told Rooters by telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
Khosrasani further added "We can and we will strike them again."
At least 80 people were killed and over 200 others sustained injuries in attack in Deh Mazang area of the city on Saturday afternoon.
The incident took place as hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in the area to set up camps and protest against the government for changing the route of a major power project from Bamyan to Salang.
According to reports, between 10,000 to 12,000 Afghans have been recruited to fight the Syrian rebels and majority of the Afghan fighters are illegal immigrants colonists.
A video emerged in mid-May this year online which shows the Iranian Supreme Leader meeting with the families of the Afghan fighters killed in Syria.
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Misratan-led Bunyan Marsous forces today overran the Sirte Clinic and the security HQ as the hard street-fighting continued. But in what may be a sign of the pressure for fresh fighters, the Misratan military council has withdrawn the greater part of its military presence in southern Libya.
The Third Force, which was sent to Sebha in April 2014 left its headquarters in the town’s Qadaffi-era People’s Hall over the weekend. It is understood that the majority of the militiamen stationed at the airbase and barracks outside the town also pulled out.
The BM operations room has not yet released the latest casualty figures but a journalist close to part the fighting said that in the course of today only two fighters had been seen being evacuated. The seizure of the white National Security Directorate complex and the Sirte clinic, further shrinks the territory controlled by IS.
The clinic is directly to the east of the Hay Dolar residential district finally overrun in Thursday’s bloody fighting. It was discovered today that the terrorists had removed some of the clinic’s surgical and radiography equipment, it was assumed to their main redoubt in the Ouagadougou Centre. Besides this, IS still controls the Ibn Sina hospital and most of Sirte university campus.
It is understood that considerable attention is being given to the IS bomb-making plant overrun on Saturday. Unlike the previous two captured stores of shells, detonators and timers, this facility was notable for the range of measuring, testing and machining equipment it contained. BM fighters discovered detailed bomb-making instructions and other technical literature, along with atomic scales and highly sensitive voltmeters. The property is now being guarded. The speculation is that specialists are examining the contents, not only to better understand the bomb-makers’ techniques but also perhaps to seek to actually identify them from finger prints and DNA samples.
Understanding the construction of IEDs is of huge value to BM de-miners. It is said that in the last week they have had to tackle the trade-mark of retreating IS terrorists, in the shape of more than a hundred mines and booby traps. Frontline fighters with minimal military experience have quickly learned extreme caution when entering abandoned properties or moving over ground that may have been recently disturbed. The hard-worked bomb disposal teams have a list of suspect devices that they have yet to find time to check.
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[Libya Observer] The revolutionaries of the western region threatened the countries that are supporting 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... of losing the gas supplies from Libya if they continue to support him.
In a statement delivered from the vicinity of Mellitah Complex for Oil and Gas, in which a gas pipeline from Libya to Europe is located, the revolutionaries denounced the silence of the international community and the UN Security Council about the flagrant French intervention and said those countries bear the responsibility for all the war crimes that are being committed against civilians in Derna and Benghazi.
They also called on the UN to end the appointment of Martin Kobler as the UNSMIL Head and UN envoy to Libya.
"We reject the statement made by Mihdi Al-Barghathi, the defense minister-designate of the UN-proposed government, which attacked Defend Benghazi Brigades, who are Benghazi displaced residents and have the right to return, so they are innocent of what they are accused of." The revolutionaries’ statement reads.
It added that the revolutionaries decry the Presidential Council’s passive stance that shows its role in the conspiracy against February 17 revolution, saying, "Go back to where you came from as you were the reason behind the suffering of the people."
"We hail the victories made by Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos forces in Sirte against IS bandidosmurderous Moslems and we call on all Libyans to renounce the conflicts and unite to help build their country anew." The statement concluded.
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[Libya Herald] The House of Representatives’ (HoR) Libyan National Army Chief of Staff, Abdelrazak Nazhuri, warned that any foreign oil tankers approaching the Libyan coast will be targeted by the air force.
Nazhuri, who has also been appointed military ruler in the east, said that only oil tankers that had been sanctioned by the eastern-based National Oil Corporation (NOC) recognized by the HoR would be allowed to enter Libyan waters.
Nazhuri’s statement seems to have put an end to the reunification of the 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... and Benghazi NOC reached in July this year. His threat has come on the back of the meeting by UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler with regional strongman and Petroleum Facilities Guard head Ibrahim Jadhran in the eastern port of Ras Lanuf last week. Kobler was hoping to persuade Jadhran to reopen the eastern oil ports of Ras Lanuf, Sidra and Zuetina.
Jadhran has been blockading the export of oil from the local coastal oil port terminals under his control since the time of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan ... served as a diplomat for Libya during the 1970s, serving in India under Ambassador Mohammed Magariaf. Both men defected in 1980 and went on to form the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. Zeidan spent nearly three decades in exile in Geneva after the defection. During the revolution Zeidan served as the National Transitional Council's Europe envoy, and is credited as having played a key role in persuading French President Nicolas Sarkozy to support the anti-Qadaffy forces... back in August 2013. As a result, Libyan oil production has plummeted from a post Qadaffy high of 1.5 million in 2013 to anything ranging from 200,000 to 400,000 bpd in the intervening years.
The Kobler-Jadhran meeting has, however, invoked a negative reaction from the tribes controlling the actual inland oilfields and regions which the pipelines pass through on their way to the coastal ports and oil terminals.
The tribes said that Kobler must speak directly to them and reach a separate agreement with them if he wished to have oil production resumed at the source. They also insisted that they only recognize the HoR and its Abduallah Thinni government in Beida. Jadhran, on the other hand, now claims to recognize the only internationally recognized government of Faiez Serraj and his PC/GNA in Tripoli.
To further complicate matters, Mustafa Sanalla, the chairman of the Tripoli-based and PC/GNA recognized NOC, has slammed Kobler for meeting Jadhran.
In a leaked letter to Kobler, a copy of which was seen by Libya Herald, Sanalla criticized the UNSMIL chief for giving implicit recognition to Jadhran who Sanalla labelled a ’’criminal’’. Sanalla objected to Jadhran being rewarded having cost the Libyan state ’’over $ 100 billion in lost (oil) revenues’’ in nearly three years.
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Jeddah – Intense disputes had ignited between Houthis’ leadership and presidential guards in several locations. Insurgents’ leadership in Sanaa has not been able to deal with these disagreements that are spreading widely.
High ranking Yemeni source stressed that conflicts intensified due to several reasons including lack of cash liquidity, change in exchange rate, and cut-off weaponry reinforcements.
According to a military source, investigations revealed that disagreements are over prize war distributions.
The source added that deep altercations between the leadership have reflected on their loyalists in the field. A number of Houthi and former Yemeni President Ali Abdulallah Saleh armed factions surrendered and left their front lines mentioning that the number of surrendered soldiers could add up to a fully-equipped brigade.
He said that other militia fighters chose to flee Nahim and Bayhan frontlines to nearby villages leaving their weapons behind.
Particular authorities at the legitimate government began sorting out the soldiers and leadership and isolated them in safe areas. Afterwards, they will be investigated in order to reveal the military strategies used by militias.
Military experts believe that arguments between military leaderships, high ranking militants fleeing the battlefield, and surrender of militants is an indication that these militias are weakening.
Experts also revealed that since these militias depend on mercenaries, the moment the battles intensify, the mercenaries will escape the battlefield or they would prefer to surrender themselves than be killed.
Yemen’s Deputy Chief of Staff General Nasir al-Tahiri said that during recent battles, it became evident that militias lack military strength. He explained that this was made clear with dozens of military platoons fleeing the combat zone despite having military reinforcements.
General Tahiri explained that a large number of members surrendering means there is a gap between the militants and their leadership. He added that this led to their death or captivity.
According to Tahiri, the army directly investigates the captives to reveal their ranks and how involved they are in such acts.
Recently, a large number of direct arguments occurred between Houthis and their ally Ali Abdullah Saleh. Tahiri confirmed that, after identifying the leaders, the army investigates them to uncover information that will help the army.
Asharq Al-Awsat has been informed that the rebel delegation in Kuwait has agreed to withdraw from cities, hand over their arms and release detainees on condition that that this is within the framework of a comprehensive agreement that also includes political, economic and humanitarian aspects.
The head of the Houthi delegation to the consultations Mohamed Abdel Salam claimed that the coming days will be decisive, and hinted that his delegation will take part in a comprehensive discussion to resolve political, security, military and economic issues in order to stop the war, lift the siege and give Yemenis the freedom of movement.
He added that the rebel delegation has informed the UN special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed that the delegation has agreed to a comprehensive agreement concerning political, military, security, economic and humanitarian issues, and that it does not have a problem with starting to work on the military and security aspects of the agreement. The rebels took this step at a time when the positions of the government delegation adhere to Kuwait 2.
In addition to this, the President of Yemen Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi reiterated that a solution to what is happening in Yemen will only be achieved if the rebels commit to the points of reference which include the Gulf initiative and ways of implementing it, the outcomes of the comprehensive national dialogue conference and UN Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2216. He also emphasised his full support for the efforts of the UN special envoy for Yemen and the huge and sincere efforts that he is making to ensure that the consultations are a success.
He continued by saying that all Yemeni people “face the risk that rebel Houthi militias backed by Iran will carry out a coup against the elected legitimate political authority and take control of the capital, institutions and government departments, loot stores of heavy and medium weapons, tamper with state resources and funds, besiege cities in various regions of Yemen, especially the city of Taiz, kill innocent civilians, women and children and obstruct the delivery of any humanitarian aid to them”.
[VOA] He calls himself Abdulla the Caucasian. With fair skin, red hair, a long beard and gold-toothed smile, Abdulla speaks Azerbaijani during the half-hour long Daesh propaganda video. His monologue has been translated into Russian, with subtitles running across the screen. He promises hell on Earth to Azerbaijan's government and its Muslim leaders who oppose Daesh.
The video is different from those usually produced by Daesh's Russian-language propaganda unit. Instead of being a long speech by a well-known figure, or presentations by a group of notable jihadis, this one gives an individual narrative with an accompanying visual presentation.
In scene after scene, the camera follows him as he shoots at enemy positions using various automatic weapons; he rides a motorcycle through battle-ravaged neighborhoods, passing the unburied bodies of Daesh victims; he checks the ID's of the freshly-killed infidels brought to him by his subordinates; he pays a courtesy visit to an elderly local woman; he steps on the petrified skull of a defeated enemy, while promising a place in paradise to those who join Daesh. The video delivers a simple message: Back home I was a nobody; here I am a warlord.
It has become one of the most popular propaganda videos ever produced by Daesh's Russian-language unit. It is worth noting that Vadim Osmanov, one of the bombers at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, was a Lezgin – the same Sunni ethnic group to which Abdulla the Caucasian belongs.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany and politicians must address the public's concerns about security and immigration, Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday.
"Each attack, each act of terrorism, is one too many. Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany," Seehofer told a news conference.
A spate of attacks in Germany since July 18 have left 11 people dead and dozens injured, fuelling public unease about Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's open-door refugee policy. More than a million migrants colonists entered Germany last year, many fleeing conflict in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
This month, four brutal attacks have taken place in the south of the country.
A Syrian asylum seeker went kaboom! outside a music festival and maimed 15 other people in Ansbach on Sunday, six days after four passengers on a train and a passer-by were maimed in an axe attack by an Afghan refugee in Wuerzburg.
ISIS claimed both attacks.
On Friday, nine people were killed in a shopping center shooting spree in Munich by a German-Iranian teenager with a history of psychological problems.
Although authorities initially claimed the 18-year-old gunman had no links to myrmidons, Bavarian officials said on Monday that the 18-year-old gunman had been in touch with the Afghan ax attacker over WhatsApp.
And a Syrian refugee killed a 45-year-old Polish woman with a large kebab knife Sunday at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen.
Police concluded that the incident, in which three others were maimed, was likely a "crime of passion".
[IsraelTimes] Top security officials in Germany called Tuesday for tougher security screening of asylum-seekers and also announced that more police officers would be hired following four attacks in the country in the span of a week — two of them claimed by the extremist Islamic State group.
Horst Seehofer, the governor of Bavaria told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung Tuesday: “We must know who is in our country.”
Thomas Strobl, the interior minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg also demanded a tougher stance toward asylum-seekers.
“Those who abuse the right to hospitality must go back to their home countries — make no mistake about it,” Strobl told Funke media group.
Seehofer also announced that the state of Bavaria would hire more police officers.
“The increase will be significant,” he said.
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[BREITBART] The more details that emerge surrounding the gruesome lethal attack on a priest in northern La Belle France Tuesday, the more it appears that the attack could have been foreseen and perhaps prevented.
On Tuesday morning, two jihadists associated with 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.... entered the parish church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy while 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel was celebrating Mass in the company of several members of the parish. The assailants seized Father Hamel and slit his throat before taking the other members of the congregation as hostages.
It turns out that the parish Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, the site of the assault, was on an Islamic State hit list recovered from suspected jihadist Sid Ahmed Ghlam, in April 2015. The 24-year-old Ghlam was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by French police, who believe he was a terrorist planning imminent attacks in La Belle France under the direction of Islamic State leaders.
At the time, an arsenal of weapons was discovered in Ghlam’s car as well as at his student residence, which included Kalashnikov rifles, a police-issue pistol, and a number of bullet-proof vests. Ghlam is currently in a high-security prison awaiting trial for numerous crimes including murder, attempted murder, association with criminals with a view to commit crimes and other infractions connected to a terrorist organization.
After the arrest, police discovered a list of Catholic sites to be targeted by Islamic State terrorists, which included the location of Tuesday’s attack.
The beautiful sixteenth-century church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray is a French heritage monument, to which a tower was added in the 17th century.
More importantly, the church also "happened" to be right next door to the Yahiya mosque of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, whose best-known worshiper was the notorious French jihadist executioner Maxime Hauchard. A connection that would be labeled 'entirely coincidental' in the States.
Hauchard, who appeared in a video of the beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig and 18 Syrian military captives in 2014, converted to Islam at the age of 17 and frequented the mosque of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a stone’s throw from the parish church.
Several years ago, Islamic State recruiters contacted and enlisted Hauchard, who became involved in the 2014 takeover of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . "My personal goal is martyrdom, obviously," Hauchard said in a television interview.
Once in Syria, Hauchard changed his name to Abu Abdallah el Faransi and announced that he wanted to help gunnies found an Islamic caliphate.
On leaving the church Tuesday morning, the two turbans shouted "Allahu Akhbar" before being shot by police, according to an eyewitness identified only as "Sylvie."
The Islamic State has grabbed credit for the attack, saying it was their soldiers who carried out the barbaric assault.
Courtesy of Bov Flimbers, The Daily Mail adds that the Lions of Islam were known wolves:
One of a pair of ISIS knifemen who stormed a church in Normandy before slitting the throat of an elderly priest has been named as known terror threat Adel Kermiche. The 19-year-old 'ISIS soldier' was being monitored with an electronic ankle tag after he was arrested for twice attempting to flee France to join the terror group in Syria. Despite having been released early from prison, Kermiche's bail conditions allowed him to roam unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm. But the tag was deactivated for a few hours during the morning, leaving him free to slaughter the elderly priest. He was living with his parents in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
French authorities admitted that both Kermiche and his partner were subject to security 'S' files, meaning they were known terror suspects who should have been under surveillance.
Parisian prosecutor Francois Molins revealed that the pair were carrying a fake bomb with a timer, a backpack full of fake guns and 'a kitchen knife' during the attack, and said they used nuns as human shields. In a press conference, he said police are still seeking to identify the second attacker and raids were underway.
A third man, a 16-year-old known as HB and believed to be the younger brother of someone wanted by police for trying to go to Syria or Iraq in 2015, was arrested at his home in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray following the attack. Will the search for the killer's motivation continue ? Mosque in French town where priest killed was inaugurated on land gifted by church
Not important, but speaks to the difference between the generation that immigrated years ago and their children.
[IsraelTimes] Muslim house of worship held 2012 funeral for Muslim paratrooper killed by Mohamed Merah, who also murdered 3 Jewish children and a rabbi in Toulouse.
"It is a total shock, it brings back the pain,” said Ibn Ziaten’s mother Latifa, who launched an association to fight Islamic radicalization after her son’s death. Like other towns around the city of Rouen, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray has a growing problem with radicalization, she added.
“There are a lot of families that come and see me because their children are radicalizing,” she said.
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Just like President Obama tried to do, but a President Trump is more likely to succeed.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if elected US president he would weigh an alliance with Russia against ISIS bully boyz but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... might be trying to help him win.
Speaking at a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Trump dismissed any suggestion that Putin’s intelligence services might have had a hand in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s email system.
Emails leaked last week disclosed that some party officials had been in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Philander C. Knox ... winning the Democratic presidential nomination over US Senator Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... and sought ways to thwart Sanders.
The uproar over the WikiLeaks revelations prompted Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... to resign as DNC chairwoman, and Trump eagerly injected himself into the controversy.
Trump dismissed a charge from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that Russian hackers might have stolen the emails and leaked them to embarrass Democrats and help Trump defeat Clinton in the Nov. 8 election.
"I don’t think it’s coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here, and I think that’s disturbing," Mook told CNN’s "State of the Union."
Trump dismissed what he called "one of the weirdest conspiracy theories" he said he had heard.
He said he had never met Putin. But over the course of his year-long campaign, Trump has praised the Russian leader and one of his top foreign policy advisers, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, had dinner with Putin last December.
"When you think about it, wouldn’t it be nice if we got along with Russia?" Trump said. "Wouldn’t it be nice if we got together with Russia and knocked the hell out of ISIS?" he added, using another name for ISIS.
As it happens, skeptics in the US government, European allies in the anti-ISIS coalition and the main Syrian opposition, distrustful of Russia’s intentions, are questioning 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... ’s own latest proposal for closer US-Russian cooperation against turban groups in Syria.
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Trump has praised the Russian leader and one of his top foreign policy advisers, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, had dinner with Putin last December.
Smart move, getting to know your adversary. Flynn is my pick for incoming Director, CIA.
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Russia will never be a friend. Our spheres of interest butt up against one another too much.
But, they can be a useful associate on some issues. I just don't see how we can agree on ISIS as Russia wants Assad propped up and they are using Iran to push the US influence out of the Middle East. Not much common ground there.
[CBS12] A hometown, homegrown mass murderer now graces the cover of a terrorist publication which calls for more carnage in American and across the globe. Anyone seeing a pattern yet? Bueller?
CBS12 obtained a guide published by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), and it reveals in great detail the threat faced by every American--especially white Americans.
AQAP’s "Inspire Guide" --an online propaganda publication--praises Pulse nightclub shooter and Fort Pierce resident Omar Mateen for what the terror group describes in its publication as one of "the most successful Lone Jihad operations" in history.
Al Qaeda is also calling for more attacks.
"We... call upon the Moslems in America to take up arms in defense of their religion," the publication reads. "We call upon every single Moslem... to follow upon the footsteps of our hero Umar Mateen.. to rise, and strike America."
The terror group praised Mateen as a martyr, but it also "Monday morning-quarterbacked" him in recommending that jihadists target "areas where the Anglo-Saxon community is generally concentrated".
Their concern: that targeting minorities will distract in the media from the terrorists' ultimate message. Former FBI Special Agent Chad Jenkins told CBS12 that both Al Qaeda and 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.... are taking credit for Mateen's agenda. "Those types of incidents... they use that to spread their propaganda."
"Their objective... is to get people here in the U.S. and in the West to conduct these terrorist attacks that are low level in nature and create great harm for people."
In a similar publication, al-Qaeda also called for copycat attacks after .
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Target Whitey? Yeah..a little late to the party there, Abu - take a number.
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[DAWN] Nuclear weapons are not an aggressive option and you cannot use them, says former president and Pakistain People’s Party (PPP) co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
In an interview to Russia Today (RT), Zardari said: "You can develop it, you can have it, you can display a photograph of it but nuclear weapons are no joke."
The former president doesn’t think there is any possibility of a nuclear clash between India and Pakistain over Kashmire issue.
Explaining the current tension in bilateral ties, Zardari said that it all revolves around the situation in Kashmire.
"Look at it from the fact that how many Kashmiris are residing in Pakistain. In fact, our current prime minister is also a Kashmiri."
The former president urged that "it’s about time for the world to stop pointing fingers at each other and sit and think to see how we can get rid of this menace".
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[Mindanao Examiner] Malaysia on Tuesday confirmed that the Abu Sayyaf was behind the kidnappings of five Malaysian tugboat crewmen who disappeared in Sabah. No further details were made available by the Malaysian police and Philippine authorities were also silent on the reports.
The Borneo Post reported last week that Abu Sayyaf militants demanded P200 million in exchange for the safe release of the hostages. It said that one of the hostages phoned his employer to say that they are being held in Basilan province.
Anjut said the kidnappers were demanding the ransoms for their freedom, but Philippine military and police authorities could not immediately confirm nor deny the reports.
The sailors, all crew members of the tugboat Seruduna 3, disappeared at sea off Lahad Datu town on July 18. Their tugboat was recovered by authorities with its engine still running. The boat was set to return to Semporna after its barge delivered its cargo to Sandakan City.
The Abu Sayyaf also seized 7 other Indonesian tugboat crewmen on June 22 in the Sulu Sea Those hostages were last reported being sighted in Luuk town. The boat was heading to Samarinda in East Kalimantan when gunmen on speedboats intercepted it. Indonesian media reported that the tugboat skipper phoned his wife and told her that they were intercepted at sea by Abu Sayyaf gunmen who were also demanding over P200 million for their safe release.
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[REUTERS] Iran on Tuesday said it was not aware of the presence of three al Qaeda operatives who the U.S. Treasury alleged last week to be living in the country.
Last Wednesday the U.S. Treasury said it was blacklisting a Saudi, an Egyptian and an Algerian who it said were members of al Qaeda living in Iran.
Their activities included liaising between the Pak Taliban and al Qaeda, and sending funds to al Qaeda gunnies in Syria, the Treasury said.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran has no information about the presence of these people on its own soil," foreign ministry front man Bahram Qassemi was cited as saying by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).
Iran has held several al Qaeda members, both high-ranking and lower-level, since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, although U.S. officials say the precise conditions of their confinement are unclear.
Iran, a Shi'ite Moslem theocracy, considers al Qaeda a terrorist group and Iranian security forces periodically report the arrest of al Qaeda members.
Senior U.S. officials have previously accused Iran of cooperating with the group, but Tehran denies this. The hardline Sunni Islamist group considers Shi'ites to be heretics and has targeted them in the past.
The U.S. blacklisting freezes any property of the three men in the United States, and bars U.S. citizens from dealing with them.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An audio message released recently by the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... ’s son Hamza has signaled the "continuation of Iranian sponsorship" of terrorism within al-Qaeda, a report by a US-based think tank has found.
In the message released on May 9 and titled "Jerusalem is but a bride, and her dowry is blood," Hamza called on all Syrian krazed killer groups to unite and "liberate Paleostine."
According to a report released this week by SAPRAC, the Saudi American Public Relations Affairs Committee, "Al-Qaeda observers believe the new message released by Hamza Bin Laden signals the continuation of Iranian sponsorship of Bin Laden’s son, which started after the tragic events of 9 / 11.
"Blatantly defying world powers, Tehran hosted Hamza Bin Laden and provided him with necessary security, according to many intelligence agencies across the world."
Believed to be 24 or 25 years old, Hamza is expected by experts to potentially become the next al-Qaeda leader
The SAPRAC report added that on March 16, before the release of the audio message," American intelligence declassified 113 hand written messages by Osama bin Laden. These included instructions on how Al-Qaeda should deal with Iran."
The messages also revealed that Bin Laden said Iran is ’the chief pathway for our money, men, communiqué, and hostages".
Bin Laden also urged his men "not to start a front against Iran."
According to SAPRAC, "this confirms the strong and warming ties between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran."
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I am going to restrain myself before Pappy arrives with happy kit.
Can you imagine an Al-Qaeda revival?
Hot summer nights handling live grenades.
Mass screeching, gun sex.
The goats nervous.
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[VOA] He calls himself Abdulla the Caucasian. With fair skin, red hair, a long beard and gold-toothed smile, Abdulla speaks Azerbaijani during the half-hour long Daesh propaganda video. His monologue has been translated into Russian, with subtitles running across the screen. He promises hell on Earth to Azerbaijan's government and its Muslim leaders who oppose Daesh.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Malaysia on Tuesday confirmed that the Abu Sayyaf was behind the kidnappings of five Malaysian tugboat crewmen who disappeared in Sabah. No further details were made available by the Malaysian police and Philippine authorities were also silent on the reports. 
[REUTERS] Iran on Tuesday said it was not aware of the presence of three al Qaeda operatives who the U.S. Treasury alleged last week to be living in the country.
