Discovery should prove interesting. D'you suppose any nefarious parties have hacked Mr. Soros' organizations yet?
The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.
Dallas Police Department Sergeant Demetrick Pennie, President of the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation, filed an amended federal complaint September 16 against more than a dozen defendant institutions and individuals to build a class action case on behalf of "police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities including but not limited to Jews, Christians and Caucasians" for "inciting" race riots and related violence.
The suit hopes to produce damages and an injunction placed against alleged threats of racially-motived violence going forward.
The defendants represent a who’s who of public figures in both racial and general political matters. Apart from founding members and public faces related to Black Lives Matter, Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam; Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network; Malik Zulu Shabazz and the New Black Panthers; George Soros; President Barack Obama; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Democrat Nominee Hillary Clinton are all included in the suit.
The 66-page federal complaint alleges that each defendant individual and organization "repeatedly incited their supporters and others to engage in threats and attacks" against police officers around the nation, culminating in the July killings of five Dallas area officers with nine others wounded at a Black Lives Matter gathering. The complaint singles out George Soros as "the financier of the BLM Defendants and similar organizations with the goal of inciting a race war" and advocating violence against whites and Jews.
Defendants Obama and Clinton are blamed for repeatedly endorsing behaviors carried out and surrounding Black Lives Matter.
Sgt. Pennie is being represented by Larry Klayman of FreedomWatch. Klayman previously founded the conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch.
"Sergeant Pennie and I feel duty-bound to put ourselves forward to seek an end to the incitement of violence against law enforcement which has already resulted in the death of five police officers in Dallas and the wounding of seven more, just in Texas alone," Klayman said in a release.
Sgt. Pennie told Breitbart Texas that he felt he had a duty to stand for officers in Texas and across the nation.
"This action was brought to stop the violence and killings of law enforcement officers in Dallas and throughout the nation."
The plaintiffs hope to see an award in excess of $500 million, according to the complaint.
The federal lawsuit was originally filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Note that Black officers have been a target of the BLM (Baltimore, Baton Rouge) as much as white officers (Dallas). It's a shame black police officers have to do this to members of their own race who finally have been empowered, who then go against what Martin Luther King stood for only to embrace corruption and lawlessness. It is fitting what this black police officer is doing.
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Note that Black officers have been a target of the BLM (Baltimore, Baton Rouge) as much as white officers (Dallas).
Yeah, but they workin for the Man.
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Good, and long over-due!
There is another ground for serious suit, though I am not sure a civilian can bring it (IANAL): Conspiracy To Interfere With Civil Rights (42 U.S. Code § 1985): http://theological-geography.net/?p=24781
If a POTUS Trump does not turn that one loose for all the US Attorneys to use, we will know he is not serious.
[DAWN] The Foreign Office on Friday expressed disappointment over the "unhelpful statements" made by the Afghan leadership and termed it "complete disregard to the efforts that Pakistain has made for peace and stability in Afghanistan".
Foreign Office’s statement was in response to Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s earlier call to involve India in transit trade with Afghanistan.
"We have noted with disappointment the unhelpful statements made by Afghan leadership in complete disregard to the efforts that Pakistain has made and continues to make for peace and stability in Afghanistan," Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria told news hounds in the federal capital.
"We remain committed to lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan," he said, adding that Pakistain firmly believes that peace in Afghanistan was in its interest and necessary for stability and progress of the region.
"Our efforts for peace, stability and economic progress are a matter of our commitment to brotherly people of Afghanistan -- millions of whom have been hosted in Pakistain for past 37 years," he maintained.
Ghani, during a meeting with the UK’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistain Owen Jenkins 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.... last week, had threatened to block Pakistain’s trade access to Central Asian States (CAS) if it did not allow Afghanistan to trade with India through the Wagah border.
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Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, is prepared to swap Boko Haram prisoners for the Chibok schoolgirls, a minister has said.
Last year the government almost secured the release of the girls whose kidnapping triggered global outrage, but three times the negotiations collapsed. On the first occasion, in August, Buhari had agreed to the prisoner swap and the militants were taken to Maiduguri, the city Boko Haram regards as its spiritual home.
“All things were in place for the swap which was mutually agreed,” Lai Mohammed, the information minister, said in a statement. “Expectations were high. Unfortunately, after more than two weeks of negotiation and bargains, the group, just at the dying moments, issued a new set of demands never bargained for or discussed by the group before the movement to Maiduguri. All this while, the security agencies waited patiently. This development stalled what would have been the first release process of the Chibok girls.”
Sounds like terrorist negotiation 101...
The recent battle for the leadership of the group that has murdered, raped and kidnapped thousands of people and displaced millions has been a major setback in negotiations, he said. Islamic State, of which Boko Haram is an affiliate, announced last month that Abu Musab al-Barnawi was its new leader, replacing Abubakar Shekau – something analysts say may have been a reaction to the many Muslims murdered under his tenure.
However Shekau later claimed still to be in control of the group and a video released of the Chibok girls seemed to have come from his camp. “The current division among members of the terrorist group ... has seriously affected efforts to release the girls,” Mohammed said.
In an interview with the Guardian, Mohammed said that the government was now sure it was negotiating with the right people. The previous government under Goodluck Jonathan conducted high-level negotiations before realising that they were talking to charlatans.
“We are confident that we have a grasp of the divisions in the group, so when there have been setbacks in the negotiations we have known why,” he said. “We can’t put any sort of time on [their release]. The thing is we are dealing with a group that can change the goalposts at any time. It is and has been a really tricky situation,” Mohammed said.
He added that negotiations under Jonathan did not start until a year after the 276 girls were captured from a school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, making it more difficult for Buhari. “It’s been a very testy matter because these divisions in Boko Haram are constantly shifting. But we inherited this situation and we are concentrating on rescuing the girls.”
Buhari’s government was thought to be attempting to rescue the girls. The army had launched air strikes on Boko Haram strongholds and claimed to have wounded its leader.
The Chibok girls represent just a fraction of the thousands of abductees – of all ages and genders – that Boko Haram has taken since its rise in 2009. In areas of northern Nigeria that the army wrested back from the terrorist group, millions of victims of malnutrition, neglect and in some cases famine are surfacing, presenting a humanitarian crisis on a scale that humanitarian workers are warning has never been seen before.
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perhaps Mooch can kickstart another hashtag war
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I dunno if I could another 'pouty face' campaign.
[FOXNEWS] 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.... ’s decision to oust the leader of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... -- who had a penchant for using children as jacket wallahs ‐ is fracturing the Nigerian terror group as bloodthirsty holy warriors are divided amid a new push to attack Christian communities. And you thought it was impossible to make ISIS gag!
The self-proclaimed caliphate announced in August that Musab al-Barnawi will be the Nigerian group’s new "governor" after Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fire by the Caliph and refused to step down ... , its notorious former leader, apparently became too much for ISIS leadership in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Barnawi, rumored to be a son of the group’s founder, reportedly told ISIS’ newspaper that jihadists should shift their focus to Nigeria’s Christians, in a bid to win over public support after Shekau spent years attacking Moslem villages that didn’t join Boko Haram’s ranks.
The group, an ISIS affiliate, should be "booby-trapping and blowing up every church that we are able to reach, and killing all those we find from the citizens of the cross," Barnawi told the newspaper, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Such a move could exploit existing tensions in Nigerian communities with split Moslem and Christian populations, the newspaper added.
Under Shekau ‐ who took control of the group in 2009 ‐ Moslem civilians became the majority of the casualties in the violence, with holy warriors frequently enlisting children to carry out suicide kabooms.
"You can’t really be more barbaric and more savage than Shekau," Issoufou Yahaya, a political analyst and head of the history department at the Niamey University in Niger, told The Wall Street Journal. "He’s the pinnacle of barbarism."
But Shekau has not recognized Barnawi’s appointment, accusing him of apostasy and saying that ISIS’ leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , has been duped.
The two factions have been clashing as a result, accusing each other of abandoning their faith, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A new Boko Haram video released this week that declared allegiance to Shekau vowed to kill Nigeria’s president and army chief, according to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
[ABCNEWS.GO] A new video by Boko Haram threatens to kill Nigeria's president and army chief and warns of further destruction, though the Islamic Death Eaters have not mounted a major attack in Nigeria in months.
A preacher in the video says Boko Haram is "even stronger now" and "will destroy what we never destroyed before," according to a translation from the Hausa by Premium Times newspaper.
The video posted on YouTube on Wednesday says it was shot Monday in Nigeria's northeastern Sambisa Forest at prayers marking Eid al-Adha festival. It shows scores of worshipping men, many armed, in a mosque and at an outdoor ceremony.
[NEWS24.NG] The Nigerian Army claim to have uncovered a conspiracy in the latest Boko Haram video, saying that the images in the video showing thousands of Lions of Islam observing prayers during Eid celebrations as being photo-shopped, Naij reports.
The Army said in a statement that it sought to ease Nigerians who were apprehensive over the video, describing the act as a last resort to the few remaining Boko haram members to remain relevant.
"This has cast aspersion to the credibility of the clip and therefore should be disregarded. The Nigerian military is highly committed to making lives unbearable to the enemies of this nation wherever they are and would do all that is required within its rules of engagement to ensure that no part of Nigerian territory is conducive and habitable for forces of Evil and any other criminals to stay and operate," the statement read.
It also urged Nigerians not to bother over the antics of the sect as their end was imminent.
News24 reported that the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, addressed top US defence officials and policy leaders on the efforts made by the military in the fight against insurgency in the North-East.
Buratai emphasised the fact that the fight against terrorism was one that concerned the entire global community and not only the countries.
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More than one-third of all Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, such as school buildings, hospitals, markets, mosques and economic infrastructure, according to the most comprehensive survey of the conflict. The findings, revealed by the Guardian on Friday, contrast with claims by the Saudi government, backed by its US and British allies, that Riyadh is seeking to minimise civilian casualties.
The Guardian, of course, doesn't understand that in an Islamic war there are no "civilian casualties"...
The survey, conducted by the Yemen Data Project, a group of academics, human rights organisers and activists, will add to mounting pressure in the UK and the US on the Saudi-led coalition, which is facing accusations of breaching international humanitarian law.
I doubt seriously it will add pressure of any kind. The Saudis see what is happening in Yemen as a substantial threat to their own security, and they'll fight with the gloves off. And notice that, of course, the pressure can only go one way -- how about a little pressure on the Yemeni rebels, Guardian?
It will refocus attention on UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, worth more than £3.3bn since the air campaign began, and the role of British military personnel attached to the Saudi command and control centre, from which air operations are being mounted. Two British parliamentary committees have called for the suspension of such sales until a credible and independent inquiry has been conducted.
Call out Carla del Ponte!
Saudi Arabia disputed the Yemen Data Project figures, describing them as “vastly exaggerated”, and challenged the accuracy of the methodology, saying somewhere such as a school building might have been a school a year ago, but was now being used by rebel fighters.
Fair point. How was the school counted by the 'independent' counters?
The independent and non-partisan survey, based on open-source data, including research on the ground, records more than 8,600 air attacks between March 2015, when the Saudi-led campaign began, and the end of August this year. Of these, 3,577 were listed as having hit military sites and 3,158 struck non-military sites.
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The tragic tragic fact is that Moslems are killing other Moslems. We are providing them with intel and bombs and breakfast.
What a shame we get to watch and eat popcorn too.
Its just not fair. But we must agree with Allah that they all have it coming. Allah insh'alla and all that. Lay it on. Islam needs the exercise.
yay, Allah.
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The Houthis have a homeland area. I'm surprised the airstrikes and bombings haven't been taken to their strongholds - for morale-breaking if nothing else
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[RUDAW.NET] A British judge investigating UK troops’ involvement in civilian deaths during the war in Iraq has condemned four soldiers who forced an Iraqi boy into a canal and let him drown. The British Ministry of Defence has issued an apology.
Ahmad Jabbar Kareem Ali was 15 years old when he was detained by British troops on suspicion of looting in Basra in May 2003.
He was "aggressively manhandled and assaulted" on his arrest, former high court judge Sir George Newman found.
After his arrest, Ahmad was taken by the British soldiers to a canal and forced to enter the water "at gunpoint" along with three other suspected looters, according to testimony from Ayad Salim Hanoon, one of the others detained.
Ahmad drowned in the canal while the soldiers watched without coming to his aid after he became distressed.
"His death ensued because he was forced by the soldiers to enter the canal, where, in the presence of the soldiers, he was seen to be in difficulty, and to go under water," reads Newman’s report who said that forcing the teenager into the water was unlawful and he should have been rescued when it became clear he was drowning.
The four soldiers were tried and acquitted on manslaughter charges in 2006. They were not named in Justice Newman’s report.
"This was a grave incident for which we are extremely sorry," said a Ministry of Defence spokesperson. "We are committed to investigating allegations of wrongdoing by UK forces and will use Sir George’s findings to learn lessons to help ensure nothing like this happens again."
Justice Newman’s report is part of the Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI) looking into accusations of British troop involvement in Iraqi deaths during the war.
Witnesses testifying before the IFI are able to give evidence anonymously and cannot be prosecuted or sued as a result of the evidence they give.
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I guess I'm a bad person. Cause I'm hoping somebody really dear to sir George meets with a Muzi gang on a prowl.
[AA.TR] European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders revealed a new plan on Friday to regain the trust of European citizens worried about migration, security and the economy.
Speaking to news hounds in the Slovak capital Bratislava after an informal EU summit, European Council President Donald Tusk said millions of Europeans felt insecure.
"People are concerned about what they see as a lack of control, and express fears of migration, terrorism... and, last but not least, about the economic and social future," he said.
Tusk argued that a new roadmap drafted by his office and backed by EU leaders Friday would guide discussions over the next six months.
"[We would] never to allow a return to uncontrolled refugee flows of last year and to ensure full control of our external borders to get back to Schengen," he stressed.
"We are determined to continue ... cooperation with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the Western Balkans, but also to establish migration compacts with African countries," he added.
The four-page Bratislava Declaration and Roadmap identified key priorities and laid down various measures to improve internal and external security, as well as economic and social development in the EU.
EU members pledged "immediate assistance" for Bulgaria to strengthen border patrols along the Turkish frontier to stop irregular refugee flows.
The document proposed the creation of a Travel Information and Authorization System to allow advance checks on travelers coming to Europe, and suggested denying entry to suspect persons when deemed necessary.
It also called for systematic efforts in EU states against radicalization and proposed a more thorough approach to expelling turbans from European countries.
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Step 1: Get new citizens.
Oh, wait. That's what they're already doing with the migrants.
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The Solution
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another
Speaking to news hounds in the Slovak capital Bratislava after an informal EU summit, European Council President Donald Tusk said millions of Europeans felt insecure.
They also forgot that fear is not a synonym for anger.
The people are poor little children fearful of boogeymen under their beds.
They are right royally pissed at the betrayal. They have been sold down the river by elites that are bringing in millions of barbarians to fuel their own dreams of avarice and power.
[RUDAW.NET] Living for months in these tents and warehouses has made the lives of Kurdish refugees so difficult they say there is little difference between the camps on the Greece-Macedonia border and the war-torn places they fled.
What's the word for 'ingrate' in Arabic?
Skin and physical diseases are easy to detect, but it is the psychological impact that makes the life increasingly unbearable for the refugees.
Perhaps you should go back home...
An older Kurdish old man who fled Syria thinks death itself in his country of origin would have been a better choice for him and his family than this refugee camp in Greece.
As I was just saying...
"I wished we had died in the sea. I prefer to have died from Assad’s bombardment instead of ending up in this life here. It has been six or seven months that we and our children lived in this camp. We need at least seven years in Europe to recover from the suffering we endured during these past seven months," he said.
Seven years with expenses, a housing allowance, a car, and death to infidels...
A young man, again from Syrian Kurdistan, said camp life is causing mental health issues. "Some have almost lost their mind. Nobody is offering a helping hand. If you try to talk to these people, they go crazy."
Young man, why aren't you back home fighting for your people?
Others complain that they receive only very basic healthcare, insufficient even to treat skin diseases in the camp, let alone more serious health conditions.
One two-year child has fluid on the brain. His father is in Germany. He is in the camp with his mother and sister ‐ all waiting to reunite in Europe.
"There are many cases like this in here," his mother said. "They are helping no one. Some have kidney failure. Some need treatment for heart problems. The people face many challenges and nobody seems to care about it."
Folks, Greece is a poor country. Whatever you get is going to be thin soup.
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[RUDAW.NET] European Parliament Speaker Martin Shultz says the war against world terrorism is fought by all faiths and should not be regarded as a clash between different civilizations. After fifteen years they're still trying to separate brutish Islamic behavior from Islam. It's still a clash between Arabian "civilization" and Western civilization. Whether you call it fish or fowl, vegetable or mineral, it's still not a rose.
Speaking to Rudaw on the sidelines of EU top meeting in the Slovakian capital, Shultz said Moslem communities around the world are the "greatest victims" of terror and have "actively" taken part in the global war against Islamic Sate insurgency.
"We need to prevent this issue from becoming a clash of civilizations and faiths as we see more and more people try to label it as such," Shultz said, referring to the international coalition efforts against the ISIS.
"This is a war against radicalism even within the Western civilization. ISIS strategy is firstly to target moderate Moslems," he added.
Some 20 nations across the world have joined the US-led coalition against ISIS snuffies in Syria and Iraq that include among others Morocco, Jordan, Australia, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and La Belle France.
Shultz said the EU has special programs to help radicalized young people in Europe to abandon terror groups and reintegrate with their communities.
"The EU will work to prevent the flow of money and arms to 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.... and also to confront radicalization of the young in Europe," he said.
Some 10,000 imported muscle are believed to have joined the ISIS ranks in Syria and Iraq since 2014 although many have died in the war or returned to their home countries.
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You may not be interesting in a clash of civilizations, Marty, but a clash of civilizations seems interested in you.
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All the narrative that fits the objective: our crowd (Anti-Christians) is in, you lot (Christians) are out. Now who historically besides Moslems has been Anti-Christian, even while exploiting Christian largesse?
[RUDAW.NET] The construction of eight large and middle size dams on two rivers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will likely to have long-term impact on the environment in the neighbouring Kurdistan Region, according to Kurdish officials.
The mayor in the Kurdish city of Zakho says some 44 villages near the Turkish border will suffer from the shortage of water if Ankara builds these dams. He also warned that construction will have "immediate consequences" for the local agriculture in that region.
"Obviously there are international agreements on rivers that are shared by countries and Turkey should respect them too," said Mayor Botan Mohsin, who fears the dams would also have a negative environmental impact on the region.
Mohsin says the drinking water supply in the neighbouring city could also be affected in the long run if the dams prevent the flow of the river into the Kurdistan Region.
Although the rivers of Khabar and Hizili originate in Turkey the largest parts of the two rivers, 88 percent, flow in the Kurdistan Region.
Turkey says it will need the dams for irrigation purposes in heavily drought-affected regions along its borders with Syria and Kurdistan Region.
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[DAWN] Three US news media groups filed a lawsuit Friday to get the FBI to release details of how it hacked the iPhone of the man who with his wife shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino last year.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it wanted to access Syed Rizwan Farook's locked iPhone 5c to look into possible links to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, but phonemaker Apple refused to help, citing privacy concerns.
Gannett -- USA Today's parent company -- the News Agency that Dare Not be Named and Vice Media are suing to obtain details of the mysterious hack that rekindled a national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... on communications encryption and privacy protection.
Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people at a holiday gathering in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, in December. They were also killed by police after a chase.
The federal law enforcement agency took Apple to court in February to compel them to help, but dropped the suit weeks later after hacking the phone with third-party help.
The FBI has yet to name the outside party or the cost involved.
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Perhaps a lawyer in the crowd can enlighten us, but I don't see how the media jackals have any standing to sue.
Yes, I know that doesn't rule out a virtue signalling/grandstanding lawsuit. But that would get tossed on Day One. Unless you get a sympathetic judge...
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have detained a prominent activist hours after he was blocked from boarding a flight to Geneva to attend a UN human rights council summit.
Associates of Khurram Parvez said his arrest on Friday morning was unprecedented and underscored the desperation of Indian authorities over Kashmir, after more than two months of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters.
Parvez, 39, was taken into custody from his home in Srinagar about 12.30am on Friday. Zahir-ud-Din, a fellow activist and journalist, said a magistrate ordered administrative detention for at least five days over allegations of breaching the peace.
A senior member of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), Parvez said he was turned away from Delhi airport on Wednesday evening after trying to board a flight to Switzerland, where he planned to submit a “civil society stakeholder’s report” to the UN human rights council. He said he was given no official reason for the travel ban but was told it was at the instruction of India’s intelligence bureau.
Two colleagues, including the lawyer Parvez Imroz, were permitted to board the flight to Geneva. Imroz said in a statement that Parvez’s arrest represented “a real and imminent security threat” and was an attempt to intimidate the activist. Senior police officials in Kashmir could not be reached for comment.
Parvez, who has not previously been arrested for his work, is a prominent critic of alleged abuses by Indian security forces in Kashmir, but was regularly invited to lead workshops on the conflict at public institutions, said Gul Mohammad, a professor of political science at Kashmir University.
“He was never stopped [at the airport] before, nor stopped in doing his human rights work in Kashmir,” he said. “It is quite surprising [but] part of a larger clampdown on human rights activists.”
The JKCCS was the first to draw attention to thousands of mass graves in remote parts of Kashmir and to demand that the government investigate them to make clear who the dead were and how they died. The group has also written scathing reports about brutality involving some of the hundreds of thousands of Indian troops in the region and highlighted widespread powers granted to troops that it alleges have led to a culture of impunity and widespread rights abuses.
Internet and mobile phone use have been heavily restricted across Kashmir this week as the summer’s protests continued throughout Eid al-Adha, one of the two holiest events in the Islamic calendar. Two civilians were killed on the first day of the festival, and mosques across the region were shut.
The latest wave of unrest was triggered by the death of Burhan Wani, a separatist militant who was cornered by Indian security officials in the remote area of Kokernang and shot in early July. Wani, thought to be have been aged 21, had garnered a strong following on social media, but analysts say the 68 days of protests that followed his funeral also reflect deeper frustration with stalled efforts to extend the region’s autonomy from Delhi.
JKCCS estimates more than 1,000 protesters have been detained over the past nine weeks. A Kashmiri engineer working in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh was charged with sedition in August for allegedly sharing or liking a Facebook post calling for the Indian government to withdraw from the former princely state.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Office on Friday said India has expressed its readiness to share material evidence regarding the Mumbai attacks with Pakistain.
"In reply to the Foreign Secretary of Pakistain’s letter, dated September 8, 2015, the Indian Foreign Secretary, in his letter of September 6, 2016, has expressed India’s readiness to share the material evidence, which Pakistain had been seeking for quite some time for the Mumbai trial," said Nafees Zakaria, spokesperson for the Foreign Office.
The spokesperson added that the material evidence and cross examination of prosecution witnesses is needed to proceed further with the trial in Pakistain as per the law of the land.
"Legal aspects and modalities of the proposal contained in the Indian Foreign Secretary’s letter are current being examined by our legal experts," elaborated Zakaria.
Earlier in August, the arrest of an alleged financier of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks has been termed a breakthrough in the otherwise stalled case, but it may delay the conclusion of the trial pending in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) since 2009.
In January, Islamabad asked the Indian government to send the 24 witnesses to Pakistain to testify against the seven suspects, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi ...an asset of the Pak govt and a big turban in Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is actually a redundant statement. Zak was the criminal mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai attack. Despite what India's provided there is not enough evidence in this world for a Pak court to convict him or even to keep him in the calaboose for very long... , the alleged criminal mastermind of the attacks.
Lakhvi and the other suspects -- Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younus Anjum -- are being tried by the ATC in Islamabad.
The prosecution completed the testimony of the 68 Pak witnesses earlier this year.
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[DAWN] SSP Malir Rao Anwar, talking to media persons after the arrest of MQM's Khawaja Izharul Hassan, referred to the tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! MQM leader as the "chief of hit men".
"We had intelligence reports of his involvement in unrest. There was a spike in murders in New Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , and he is also called the chief of hit mans," alleged Anwar.
The SSP also clarified that permission from the Speaker of the Sindh Assembly is not needed, and the speaker only needs to be informed if law enforcement agencies arrest a politician.
"We need to inform in writing the speaker of the national or provincial assemblies after the arrest is made. Arrests are made according to law."
The senior police official reiterated that arresting an individual is part of the procedure, and the individual can only be released through a court order.
"The leaders of the political party were picked up by Rangers some weeks back, and no one said a word," lamented the SSP.
He added that Hassan has pending FIRs against him, and there should be no finger pointing if a police official acts in line with his duty.
"I have adopted a legal procedure for his arrest," said the officer.
Anwar also termed his suspension from duty as a wrongful act.
"I was placed under suspension in haste and it was wrong to do so," said Rao Anwar.
Anwar warned that there would be "side effects" of his suspension.
When asked by the media if he was under orders from security agencies, Anwar denied the allegation and said he was not instructed to make the arrest by any security agency.
The SSP said MQM leaders had raised slogans against Pakistain and had used abusive language against the armed forces.
He believed that it was a wrong to say that the MQM leaders in Pakistain had "disconnected" with their founder, the increasingly enormousAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... in London.
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[RUDAW.NET] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ’ (UN) special representative on sexual violence in conflict, under Secretary-General Zainab Bangura, considers Nadia Murad’s appointment as new UN Goodwill Ambassador a critical voice against sexual violence during wars and conflicts.
In an interview with Rudaw Bangura said that Nadia Murad, a former 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.... (ISIS) captive, in her new role as UN Goodwill ambassador will become a voice and representative of victims around the world
"She will speak on behalf of those are not allowed to speak, this is important for the Yazidis and Iraqi people as well," Bangua said. "She will speak on behalf of survivors of ISIS atrocities and other victims of sexual violence elsewhere in the world."
"She will become a face and representative of victims, US congressmen, and UN security council officials," she added. "She will become a critical voice against sexual violence during conflicts [and] I am pleased, proud and it is an honor for me she got that position as a Yezidi victim."
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[RUDAW.NET] Christian refugees from Nineveh Plains say the establishment of a Christian region or province in Iraq after the anticipated djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... offensive can further protect their community. They say a Christian-administrated province will support the long-term stability in the volatile plains where mixed ethnic groups share common territorial claims.
"Almost all Christian refugees who come to my Church to pray would favor to live in a Christian region or province under international protection," says Father Jamil Gorgis, a local priest in Dohuk, where some 75,000 Christians from Mosul have taken shelter.
Mari says a Christian province where the administrative bodies are elected by the Christians will be able to promote and preserve their fragile community from future uncertainties.
The Nineveh plains, located mainly in Nineveh province south of Dohuk, has been one of the most volatile regions in Iraq with a rich mixture of ethnic and religious groups.
Christian localities in the area have often been vulnerable amid the ongoing sectarian tensions that forced many of the families to leave their homes for the safety of the Kurdish-controlled territories or simply migrating to Europe.
The area is part of the disputed territories according to Iraqi constitution which says its fate, along with a number of other places, should be determined by a referendum.
Iraq was home to over 1.5 million Christians before the country plunged into bloody sectarian conflict in 2003. But many left the country after systematic attacks on their neighborhoods in Baghdad and elsewhere.
Government officials say more than hundred churches and monasteries in Mosul have been demolished by the ISIS forces of Evil since 2014.
Large parts of the Nineveh Plains have been patrolled by Peshmarga forces since 2014 when Iraqi army withdrew from the area following the ISIS offensive.
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[RUDAW.NET] An Iraqi MP has asked Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to "call on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... officially yet once again to withdraw its forces from Iraq before the start of the operation to liberate djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," warning that the Shiite militia Hashd al-Shaabi has the right to expel Turkish forces from Iraq "by force." Right. That'll work.
"Turkish forces will not be safe from attacks by resistance groups and Hashd al-Shaabi who have all the rights to expel them by force," Firdous al-Awadi, a member of the State of Law coalition led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said in a statement on Friday.
The Turkish government will be considered responsible for any attacks on its forces present in Iraq "outside of the will of the Iraqi government," she added.
Awadi said Turkey’s agenda in Nineveh province serves the interests of just one party that is calling for the division of the province into several parts and then linking some of those parts to the Kurdistan Region. She did not however make a clear reference to a specific party.
She also accused "al Nujaifis" of serving the interests of Turkey in northern Iraq, in reference to former Iraqi parliament speaker Osama Nujaifi and former Ninevah governor Athel al-Nujaifi.
The former Nineveh governor has called for Turkey to play a role in the military operation to liberate Mosul, citing Turkey’s recent success in Jarablus. "The people of Mosul want to see the same thing in their city," al-Nujaifi told Turkey’s Anadolu Agency on September 9.
"If there is no Turkish military role, Turkey should at least play an active political role in resolving the region’s current dilemmas," he said, adding that he believed Turkey’s role would serve to counterbalance Iran’s influence in Iraq.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said that his country is ready to participate in the Mosul offensive after the army’s success in its Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria.
"The solution to the Mosul problem passes through lending an ear to Turkey’s rational perspective and suggestions," Erdogan said, speaking after a bombing in Van earlier this week. "Our hope is that the central government in Iraq will see this."
In his interview with Anadolu Agency, al-Nujaifi also called for the creation of a "federal region" in Nineveh province, breaking it into several provinces.
Turkish armed forces are in Bashiqa, northern Iraq providing training for Peshmerga and Iraqi Sunni forces. Last December, Turkey boosted its troop numbers at the camp sparking a diplomatic confrontation with Baghdad who asserted that the Turkish troops were in the country without Baghdad’s permission or knowledge. Turkey maintained that the troops were necessary to protect their training mission at the camp.
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[AFP] An inquest has ruled that security forces gunned down four unarmed Muslim men in southern Thailand, a rare finding that could pave the way for landmark prosecutions of government officials.
No one from Thai security forces has ever been jailed for extrajudicial killings or torture in the far south, despite frequent allegations of abuse.
Two villagers and two students were gunned down on March 25 last year during a raid in Pattani province when security forces opened fire on a group of suspected insurgents. Initially, the authorities said the men were armed militants, but an investigating panel set up after the killings revealed the four to be unarmed civilians.
Weeks after the killings, Thai police said seven security officers would be charged with murder over the incident. More than a year later, however, no charges have been brought. Activists hope the ruling will finally see criminal charges brought against the culprits
Ms Pornpen Khongkachonkiet of Amnesty International Thailand said, "Sadly, this is not an extraordinary case... we have handled similar cases before. But in the end, you never see any punishment for the officials."
Muslims in the region feel "nothing has changed since Tak Bai", she added, referring to the deaths in 2004 of dozenss of Muslim demonstrators detained by the authorities, a clarion call for the insurgency to this day.
Military spokesman Colonel Pramote Prom-In said,"When there has been a mistake, we cannot deny responsibility... but a court will decide whether the authorities are guilty of rights violations."
US Special Operation forces are accompanying Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army fighters along the Turkish border near Jarabulus and Cobanbey in Syria, the Pentagon told Anadolu Agency on Friday.
The move came “at the request of the government of Turkey”, according to agency spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis.
“U.S. personnel operating with Turkish forces and Syrian opposition forces will provide the same train, advise and assist support they have been providing to other local partners in Syria fighting ISIL,” Davis wrote in an email using an alternative name for Daesh.
The new development comes as the Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkish artillery earlier in the day, began to move toward Daesh’s stronghold al-Bab, nearly 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Cobanbey as a part of Operation Euphrates Shield.
Operation Euphrates Shield was launched Aug. 24 by Turkey and aims at improving security, supporting coalition forces and eliminating the terror threat along Turkey’s border using Free Syrian Army fighters backed by Turkish armor, artillery and jets.
The Syrian town of Cobanbey and Jarabulus city were recently cleared of Daesh terrorists as part of the operation.
Davis said the U.S. would continue to support the counter-Daesh fight in northern Syria because “access to the Syria Turkey border region is strategically important to ISIL's operations in Syria and Iraq as well as the group's attempts to export terror to Turkey, the wider region, Europe and the United States.”
“Denying ISIL access to this critical border cuts off critical supply routes in and out of Iraq and Syria and further isolates ISIL's so-called 'capital' in Raqqa,” he added.
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Given traditional ROEs, one US Brigade Combat Team could have cleared ISIS out of Iraq and Syria within a month or less in 2014 and within three months now. Two would half those times.
Now look at this! Talk about dicking around! Buck starts and stops at the Oval Office.
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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers. 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
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[RUDAW.NET] An Iraqi MP has asked Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to "call on 
