[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A former top leader of the Taliban group Agha Jan Mutasim has said the group is optimistic about grinding of the peace processor with the Afghan government.
Mutasim was serving as the minister of finance during the Taliban regime and political head of Taliban’s Quetta Council.
The remarks by Mutasim come as the group rejected the earlier calls by Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) consisting of Afghanistan, Pakistain, US and China to participate in peace talks.
"Taliban are optimistic about the grinding of the peace processor and they believe China could play a key role," former Taliban minister Agha Jan Mutasim told The Express Tribune.
The latest remark by Mutasim comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the group announced its spring offensive in mid-April this year.
The Afghan government was expecting to participate in direct peace talks with the Taliban group earlier in March this year but the group responded the Afghan government call with deadly attacks.
Afghanistan was forced to stop peace efforts following a series of deadly attacks in the country, including a major attack on VIP protection unit 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.... that left at least 64 dead and 347 others maimed.
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I am optimistic about regaining enough eyesight to hit a good sinker.
[Libya Herald] In a rare demonstration of similar thinking, arch enemies Sadek Al-Ghariani and Khalifa Hafter have both come out firmly against Monday’s US air attack on the so-called 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.... in Sirte.
Describing it as "illegal" at a presser yesterday, Ahmed Mismari, the front man for Hafter’s Libyan National Army’s, claimed that the air raid had been carried out for US electoral purposes to help Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... . It would be the LNA that liberated Sirte, he insisted.
For his part, Dar Al-Ifta head Sadek Al-Ghariani, who leads the hardline Islamist alliance against both Hafter in the east and the Presidency Council in the west, likewise called it illegitimate, coming his closest to endorsing the so-called Islamic State. Asked on his Tanasah TV station why international intervention was acceptable in 2011 but not in the fight against IS, he said that non-Moslem military help against Qadaffy in 2011was legitimate because he was not a true Moslem and not following the Sunna (the Way) of the Prophet. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... raids now were illegal because what was happing in Libya was a conflict between local people who were all Moslems.
This comes despite his previous backing for the Misratan-led Bunyan Marsous operation against IS and its welcoming of the American attacks.
In his TV statement yesterday, Ghariani also again attacked Abdul Raouf Kara, the leader of the RADA (Deterrence) forces in 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... Members of Kara’s RADA forces were carrying out crimes against revolutionaries from Benghazi, he alleged, seizing and arresting them. Kara, he said, had to clarify his position on this. If he did not, people in Tripoli would rise against him, he suggested.
Ghariani’s latest attack on Kara, whom a week ago he ordered to release jihadists held at Mitiga airbase, reflects the deepening division in Tripoli between the hardline Islamist grouping for which he acts as the symbolic figurehead and the alliance of forces around the Presidency Council which includes Misrata and the Bunyan Marsous Operations Room.
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[Libya Herald] Clearly angered by claims by Dar Al-Ifta head Sadek Al-Ghariani that it is involved in an arbitrary crackdown on revolutionaries from Benghazi, 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... ’s RADA (Deterrence) forces have issued video confession of one of their prisoners which they say both proves that they are fighting forces of Evil and indicates links between members of the Benghazi Defence Brigades and the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS).
In the video, a man named as Mohammed Barghathi from Benghazi, says he had been a fighter with militia leader Wissam Ben Hamid. Last year he was maimed and sent to Tripoli for treatment. After being released from hospital, he says he stayed in the capital and became involved in kidnapping. He mentions one wealthy Benghazi man who was seized and a ransom of €4 million demanded. He was then caught be RADA and imprisoned at Mitiga.
However he adds, Ben Hamid, who had himself fled Benghazi for Tripoli, used his influence to convince RADA to free him. After being released, he stayed in Tripoli but was then in contact with bigwigs in IS from Sirte. They asked for details about the layout of the Mitiga prison which he provided. This, he says, was used in the IS suicide kaboom on the prison last September.
He then tried to make his way to Sirte after the attack but was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Zliten. Since then he had been held again in Mitiga.
There is no independent evidence to verify the apparent confession, nor is it known if it were forced. It is likely, though, to convince many in Tripoli that RADA is dealing with real terrorists.
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UNITED NATIONS,: Yemen’s Houthi rebels used civilians as human shields, Daesh militants in the country received an influx of cash and Al-Qaeda has improved its roadside bombs, according to a confidential report by United Nations experts monitoring sanctions on Yemen.
The 105-page report, seen by Reuters on Thursday, on the implementation of an arms embargo and targeted sanctions on ousted Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh and four Houthi leaders has been submitted to the 15-member UN Security Council sanctions committee.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UN special envoy to 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... said Thursday he plans to suspend peace talks between the country’s warring parties at the weekend but that negotiations will resume later.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been mediating the talks between President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government and the Iran-backed 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 ... rebels and their allies in Kuwait since April 21, without a major breakthrough.
"We plan to hold the final session (of the talks) on Saturday," the Mauritanian diplomat said in an interview on state-run Kuwait TV.
"We are working on issuing a communique that will emphasise on the main points we have achieved."
The talks would resume later, he said, without providing a specific date or the location but he added that they could return to Kuwait.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he offered delegates a peace plan a few days ago, and thanked the government for its positive response while adding that the rebels had some reservations.
The envoy said all difficult issues were discussed and some achievements were made during the negotiations.
"We wanted to have a sustainable and lasting peace agreement," said Ould Cheikh Ahmed who on Wednesday briefed the UN Security Council about the talks.
The peace plan calls for the rebels to withdraw from territories they occupied in September 2014 including the capital Sanaa and hand over heavy weapons, said Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
The government delegation which left Kuwait this week returned to the emirate late Thursday to attend the final session, its front man Mohammed al-Emrani told AFP.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi embassy in Dhaka has warned Saudis against setting up any welfare projects in Bangladesh without the permission of the Bangladeshi government.
The embassy said the warning was within its concern for the safety and security of the Saudi visitors to the country.
It said the rules and regulations in Bangladesh would not allow any charity project to be established without the government’s prior permission.
The embassy asked the Saudi philanthropists to liaise with it or with the charity organizations in the Kingdom before venturing into any welfare activities in Bangladesh.
Tourists’ complaints
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received a total of 720 complaints from Saudi tourists abroad between June 6 and July 31, the ministry’s front man Osama Al-Nuqali has said.
He said most of the complaints were about thefts and the Saudi diplomatic missions were currently following up the cases.
The front man said the ministry has also received on its website more than 280 requests for help.
He said all the complaints were redirected to the concerned Saudi diplomatic or consular mission for necessary action.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Somali-Norwegian teenager went on a knife rampage through London’s Russell Square, a hub for students and tourists, fatally stabbing an American woman from Florida and wounding five other people.
Police said Thursday that it wasn’t terrorism - but in a city on edge after a summer of attacks elsewhere in Europe, both authorities and London residents initially responded as if it were. Police flooded the streets with extra officers and mobilized counterterror detectives before saying the shocking burst of violence appeared to have been "triggered by mental-health issues."
Police officers used a stun gun to subdue the 19-year-old suspect at the scene of the stabbings late Wednesday, among busy streets lined with hotels close to the British Museum.
"Terror in London" ran the headline in the Mail Online, one of several media outlets to speculate that the attack was an act of terrorism. Police initially said terrorism was "one line of inquiry being explored."
But hours later Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said "we have found no evidence of radicalization or anything that would suggest the man in our custody was in any way motivated by terrorism."
He said detectives from the force’s murder and terrorism squads had interviewed the suspect, his family and witnesses and searched properties.
"We believe this was a spontaneous attack and the victims were selected at random," Rowley said.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said "there is no evidence at all that this man was motivated by ISIS" - another name for ISIS - or similar organizations.
Rowley said the suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, is a Norwegian of Somali ancestry - though police don’t consider that "relevant to the motivation for his actions." Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service said he had left the Scandinavian country in 2002, when he was a small child.
Florida State University said the dead woman was married to psychology professor Richard Wagner, who had been teaching summer classes in London. The university didn’t give her name, but Florida Gov. Rick Scott named her in a tweet as Darlene Horton.
"There are no words to express our heartache over this terrible tragedy," Florida State University president John Thrasher said in a statement. "We are shocked that such senseless violence has touched our own FSU family."
Two Australians, an Israeli, an American and a British citizen were maimed, none with life-threatening injuries.
Police said a British man with a stab wound to his stomach remains hospitalized. The four others were treated and released Thursday.
While knife crime is a regular occurrence in London - there have been two other blade killings this week - the scale and randomness of the rampage rattled nerves. It came just days after authorities warned the British public to be vigilant in light of attacks inspired by the ISIS group elsewhere in Europe.
The Daily Mail names the killer as Zakaria Bulhan, and after a great many words quotes a high school and college study partner who said:
A couple of months ago, he ran into Bulhan at the college in Morden where they were both studying a BTEC in IT.
‘He was just a regular guy doing the same course as me at college,’ he said. ‘I’d consider him an acquaintance – I’d stop him in the street to say hello and I’d be happy to go out with him socially.
‘We’d talk about the coursework. He came to me and said that he wanted help because he wanted to do well in his course and at the college. He was actively looking to improve, so it’s not like he was doing nothing with his life.
‘He came to ask me for help – he wasn’t a waster.’
His mental health issues must have appeared very suddenly...
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from the Daily Mail,
"...Online postings show a man named Zak Bulhan is interested in Islamic study, and in another he pledges support to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg..."
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Muslim mother - she wore a full ninja woman gear.
This coward brutally, intimately murders a defenseless, innocent elderly woman...and that Muslim PC mayor establishes the killers defense stating that he was clearly mentally ill... The incompetent police can't find apparent evidence of radicalization, but the Daily Mail can.
I'm glad you checked the article, lord garth. The Daily Mail updated since I posted the link last night. No doubt they will update again as more information comes in (and add even more photos of the pretty Israeli girl).
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Nope. Just riding the bus with a knife, needed to stab grandma and company. She must have taken his seat from her. Should have known her place. Her fault.
It is along the lines of what I was trying to get at yesterday with the d!ldo protest - to control and conquer a people two pillars must be knocked down: language and religion (identity).
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If a citizen places a "Strafanzeige" prosecution is bound by law to investigate it.
But he can drop the matter very quickly, if he thinks there is no ground for it.
Actually I've heard from police that balcony man probably derailed the shooter's plan to use the ammunition left in his backpack for another shooting spree by confusing him.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] A British-educated ISIS operative has revealed that ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group planned simultaneous attacks in England, La Belle France and Germany.
Harry Sarfo, who was born in Germany but grew up in the UK, told how he travelled to Syria to fight alongside ISISforces of Evil but was told to return to Europe in order to take part in terrorist attacks.Harry Sarfo
In an interview with The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Sarfo, who is serving a prison sentence in Germany, said that ISIS commanders want to organize "loads of attacks at the same time" in different European countries.
His disclosures about the operation of the terror group comes after a wave of attacks in La Belle France and Germany that have alarmed intelligence authorities across the continent.
Sarfo said that after his arrival in Syria, ISIS chiefs instructed him to return to Europe.
"They said, ’Would you mind to go back to Germany, because that’s what we need at the moment,’" he said.
"And they always said they wanted to have something that is occurring in the same time: They want to have loads of attacks at the same time in England and Germany and La Belle France."
He said that ISIS has had recruits in England and Germany but that many of them have "chickened out" before taking part in attacks.
He said: "They told me that there aren’t many people in Germany who are willing to do the job. They said they had some in the beginning. But one after another, you could say, they chickened out, because they got scared -- cold feet. Same in England."
Sarfo told the newspaper that he studied construction at Newham College in London.
He also revealed that ISIS like to recruit men who have previously been convicted of crimes in western Europe.
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[Ynet] Even before last month's coup attempt, Turkey's penal system was overstretched, with crowded prisons and backlogged courts. Now, it is struggling to cope with an influx of thousands who have been detained in the aftermath of the attempted putsch.
The government says the situation is under control, but pictures of some alleged coup plotters handcuffed, stripped to their underpants and detained in sweltering rooms have raised concern among rights groups. There are reports that some jails are so crowded that prisoners have to sleep in shifts.
There are now so many alleged putschists that the government says it doesn't have a courthouse big enough to try them all and will need to build new ones. Some 3,000 prosecutors and judges are among those who have been detained, making it even more difficult to find members of the judiciary to handle trials.
Because when your economy is more than a tad shaky, shutting down your most productive businesses is exactly the smart thing to do.
[Ynet] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Thursday to cut off the revenues of businesses linked to the US-based Turkish cleric he blames for masterminding a failed coup, describing his schools, businesses and charities as "nests of terrorism".
Business was the arena in which the network of Fethullah Gulen was still the strongest, Erdogan said in a speech at the presidential palace broadcast live on television, vowing to show no mercy in a crackdown on the cleric's
[IsraelTimes] Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has issued a formal warrant for the arrest of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Anadolu Agency says the Istanbul-based court issued the warrant Thursday, accusing Gulen of “ordering the July 15 coup attempt.”
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Erdy is certainly getting a lot of mileage out of his coup/purge. A suspicious person might be suspicious of the whole thing.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is planning to split its spy service into separate units for foreign and domestic intelligence after the organization was vehemently criticized for shortcomings over the failed coup, a report said Tuesday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has been scathing about the failure of the National Intelligence Service (MIT) to warn him in a timely manner about the coup, complaining he found out when his brother-in-law called up.
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Monday said a restructuring of Turkey's intelligence operations was "on the agenda" after the coup, just as with the military.
According to the Hurriyet daily, the move will involve splitting the MIT so that foreign espionage and domestic counter-intelligence work are in the future handled by different entities.
This would bring Turkey in line with the system in Britannia, where foreign intelligence is handled by MI6 and domestic intelligence by MI5.
It said domestic intelligence would largely be handled by the police and the gendarmerie, which --- under separate reforms agreed after the coup -- will in future report to the interior ministry and not the military.
In a major shake-up of the security services, the authorities have sought to reassert civilian influence and also emphasize the presidency's control so a coup never happens again.
The foreign intelligence entity will report directly to the Turkish presidency, which will also have a unit in charge of coordination between the two sections, it added.
But this unit will not just conduct coordination but will also do its own intelligence analysis, the report said.
There has been huge pressure on the MIT's powerful chief Hakan Fidan in the wake of the coup, particularly following reports he found out about the planned putsch hours before the government was informed.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... so far he has kept his job.
"We are all mortal," Kurtulmus said on Monday.
"Let's create such a system that no-one can make a coup again. Let's create such an intelligence system that gives Turkey the highest level of intelligence," he said.
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[DAWN] The Pentagon will not pay Pakistain $300 million in military reimbursements after US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter decided not to tell Congress that Pakistain was taking adequate action against the Haqqani network, a US official said.
Relations between the two countries have been frayed over the past decade, with US officials frustrated by what they term Islamabad's unwillingness to act against Islamist groups such as the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network.
"The funds could not be released to the Government of Pakistain at this time because the Secretary has not yet certified that Pakistain has taken sufficient action against the Haqqani network," Pentagon front man Adam Stump said on Wednesday.
The $300 million comes under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a US Defense Department program to reimburse allies that have incurred costs in supporting counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations. Pakistain is the largest recipient.
"This decision does not reduce the significance of the sacrifices that the Pak military has undertaken over the last two years," Stump added.
According to Pentagon data, about $14 billion has already been paid to Pakistain under the CSF since 2002.
The decision by the Pentagon is a sign that while it sees some progress by Pakistain in its military operations in North Wazoo, much work remains.
Pakistain rejects harbouring gunnies but says there are limits to how much it can do as it is already fighting multiple Lion of Islam groups and is wary of a "blowback" in the form of more terror attacks on its soil.
"(The) Coalition Support Fund is one of the many cooperative arrangements between Pakistain and the United States to pursue common objectives," said Nadeem Hotiana, a front man for the Pak embassy in Washington.
Relations between the United States and Pakistain were tested in May by a US drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour on Pak soil.
There has been growing resistance in the US Congress to sending money to Pakistain. Many politicians have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about its nuclear program, commitment to fighting terrorist organizations and cooperation in the Afghanistan grinding of the peace processor.
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"According to Pentagon data, about $14 billion has already been paid to Pakistain under the CSF since 2002." This equals a billion a year in payola to the corrupt Pak military which already makes a billion a year as middlemen in movement of Afghan opium.
[DAWN] Pakistain has welcomed a United States decision to place Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), splinter group of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), on a list of specially designated global terrorists.
"Pakistain has long pleaded concrete action against the TTP and their like who operate in Afghanistan, and they have planned and launched a number of attacks in Pakistain while operating from there," Foreign Office front man Nafees Zakaria said at a weekly briefing on Thursday.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) is an offshoot of the TTP based in the Pak-Afghan border region. The group, founded by a former TTP leader in August 2014, has staged multiple attacks in the region targeting civilians, religious minorities, military personnel and law enforcement agencies.
The US State Department announced that the designation automatically imposed on the group and its leaders all sanctions that applied to foreign persons and groups determined to have committed, or posing a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism.
As a result of these designations, all property subject to US jurisdiction in which Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has any interest is blocked and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with the group.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was responsible for the killing of two Pak employees of the US Consulate in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in March. Later in that month, it carried out a suicide assault at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal amusement park in Lahore that killed more than 70 people -- nearly half of them women and kiddies -- and injured hundreds more. The Easter Sunday attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistain since December 2014.
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[DAWN] An 'objective assessment' of Pakistain's foreign relations since the PML-N government came to power "does not support the view projected in sections of the media that Pakistain is being isolated and its foreign policy lacks direction", Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs 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... said at the concluding session of the envoys' conference held at the Foreign Office on Wednesday.
Flanked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , who also addressed conference participants during the session, Aziz said Pakistain's "monumental achievements" over the past three years are illustrated by the undertaking of the China Pakistain Economic Corridor and a strategic partnership with China.
Pakistain's second greatest foreign policy achievement since the PML-N came to power is enhanced cooperation with Central Asian republics in the form of the Casa-1000 power project and the Tapi gas pipeline ─ construction on which began in May 2016 and December 2015 respectively ─ and restoration of air links with C. Asian countries, Aziz said.
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[DAWN] The interior ministers of both Pakistain and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries run high in the aftermath of weeks-long violence in India-held Kashmire.
In his address to the Saarc interior ministers’ conference, India’s home minister made a direct jibe aimed at the Pak government for its strong condemnation of the killing of Kashmiri separatist leader Burhan Wani by Indian forces.
"There are no good snuffies or bad terrorists," said Rajnath Singh in his address, referring to earlier criticism the Indian state has levelled against Pakistain. "There should be no glorification or eulogising of snuffies as deaders."
Singh called for "strongest action not only against snuffies or organizations but also against those individuals, organizations and nations which support terror."
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... , in response, lambasted the "use of excessive force" to suppress protests in held Kashmire, without naming the Indian government.
"Using torture against innocent children and violence against civilians qualifies as terrorism," said the minister, adding that there was a need to end an "extremist" mindset and instead try to solve regional issues with dialogue.
Nisar said like the attacks in Pathankot, 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.... , Mumbai and Dhaka, Pakistain too has lost many innocent lives due to terrorism. "The use of blame game has not benefited anyone for the past six decades."
No bilateral meeting between the Indian home minister and his Pak counterpart took place on the sidelines of the ministerial conference that ended Thursday.
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Frank were you a speaker at that conference? If not, why not and did you see Tu?
[RUDAW.NET] There have been five attacks in Kirkuk’s western area of Dubz in the last six months.
Three of them were suicide kaboomers and two were boom-mobiles.Dubz’s police are confident that the attackers are coming from nearby Arab villages.
"Honestly those villages behind Peshmerga [outposts] are secured. But they make trouble for us sometimes," Major Ahmad Ali Qader, head of Dubz’s police told Rudaw. "Those who have been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! have relatives in Hawija. And some others are sleeper cells."
According to security forces, those who have been arrested were either from the Arab villages or received support from the villages.
The authorities of the city are now concerned about the friendships they have made with tribal leaders in the region.All the Arab villages are located behind Peshmerga outposts.
"Cooperation between the Arab villages and ISIS [ISIS] gunnies is a serious threat," Kamal Kirkuki, Peshmerga commander of Kirkuk front said.
"It is crucial that officials find a way to resolve the situation without violating human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ," he added.
The latest ISIS attacks on the Bai Hassan and AB2 oil fields are proof that ISIS sleeper cells get support from some Arab villagers, according to security officials.
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Hard to believe, I know. HT to AOSHQ sidebar link
The Gaza head of the U.S.-based humanitarian aid organization World Vision funneled as much as $7 million a year over the past 10 years to the Widows Ammunition Fund Hamas's terror activities, Israel's domestic security agency said Thursday.
The Shin Bet said the aid group's Gaza director, Mohammed el-Halabi, is an active figure in Hamas's military wing. He was indicted by Israeli authorities Thursday, accused of diverting some 60 percent of World Vision's annual budget for Gaza to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that rules the coastal enclave. He was charged with transferring money and working with a terror group.
According to Israel, Halabi handed over roughly $1.5 million a year in cash to Hamas's combat units and used an $800,000 donation from the United Kingdom to help build a Hamas military base. The money was designated for civilian projects in the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities said. Hospital? Hamas Military Base? same thing in Gaza
World Vision is among the largest Christian sucker charities in the world and receives considerable funding from the United Nations and Western governments. Operating in more than 100 countries, it has a budget of $2.6 billion.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s foreign ministry sharply criticized US behavior in Syria on Thursday, accusing Washington of backing rebels who use poison gas against civilians and of killing hundreds in air strikes.
The ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, referred to rebels supported by Washington as "animals" and said Washington and its allies were recklessly carrying out air attacks leading to numerous civilian deaths.
Zakharova’s strong comments, in a statement posted to social media, underscored the serious divisions between Moscow and Washington over Syria where they are united in their opposition to ISIS but so far little else.
Moscow backs Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... and his forces, while Washington supports rebel groups fighting both his government and ISIS bully boys. While the two countries argue over a possible peace plan, a battle for eastern Aleppo has erupted.
Zakharova spoke out as the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said the United States and Russia were in intensive discussions to shore up Syria’s collapsed nationwide truce with their military experts trying to agree a cooperation plan "that would unlock the entire solution."
Zakharova criticized the United States over an incident the Russian military said occurred on Aug. 2 in eastern Aleppo when rebels used poison gas, killing at least seven people.
She blamed the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s Nour al Din al-Zinki group for what she said was a crime. The same group, which has received US military backing, said last month it was investigating the beheading of a young child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man whom activists identified as a member of the group.
"The United States is supporting these animals who used poison gas against the civilian population," Zakharova wrote.
"Unfortunately it’s not the only tragedy which the ’moderates’ backed by Washington stand behind."
She accused the US air force of carelessly bombing inhabited parts of Manbij in northern Syria where US-backed forces - the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) - are taking on ISIS bully boys.
"The United States and the SDF are not taking any steps to warn people to avoid deaths," she said, saying that US and coalition aircraft had killed hundreds and maimed thousands of civilians according to "conservative estimates."
She also referenced an incident on July 28 in which she said US-led coalition air strikes had killed 28, including seven children, in attacks on the village of al Ghandour in the countryside north of Manbij city.
The US military said last month it was investigating that episode.
"If our Western colleagues and above all Washington do everything again not to notice these facts then any of their talk about an end to bloodshed in Syria will simply become preposterous," wrote Zakharova.
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NYT Memory Hole - August, 2006. But that was a bad war:
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... said Thursday that ISIS appears to be shifting its tactics to "high profile" attacks on tourists in cities around the world as it loses ground in its homeland of Iraq and Syria.
"None of ISIS’s leaders are safe," Obama said, adding: "We're going to keep going after them."
Speaking after a meeting with US security chiefs at the Pentagon, he expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about Russia's military action in support of the Syrian regime, and urged Moscow to cooperate with Washington to find a way out of the crisis.
He added: "The US remains prepared to work with Russia to try to reduce the violence and strengthen our efforts against ISIS (ISIS), Al-Qaeda and Syria. But Russia has failed to take the necessary steps. Given the deteriorating situation, it is time for Russia to show it is serious about pursuing these objectives."
But Obama also blamed the Assad regime in Syria for its civilian crisis. "It is deplorable," he said.
On Libya he said the strikes had been requested by the Government of National Accord, which is attempting to expel ISIS and consolidate control of the war-torn country. ISIS bandidosmurderous Moslems are under assault in Sirte, their seafront stronghold. Earlier this week, US warplanes destroyed tanks, military vehicles and earth-moving equipment he said.
And he said ISIS had ’not had a successful operation in Iraq or Syria in a year’, Obama said.
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They seem pretty safe to me.
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ISIS had ’not had a successful operation in Iraq or Syria in a year’, Obama said.
However, the ISIS JV team has had successful ops in:
- Orlando
- France
- Germany
- Turkey
- Caliphate still stands
This president lives in fantasyland. The blowhards security detail better be on their toes...with this kind of talk, ISIS will return the favor and eventually take a shot at our leadership like AQ did Massoud in Afghanistan.
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