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Afghanistan
ISIS fighters in Afghanistan mainly ex-Pakistani Taliban members: Gen. Nicholson
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The ISIS loyalists fighting in Afghanistan are mainly ex-Pak members and are receiving support from the main group leaders based in Syria, the top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has said.

General Nicholson who is also the commander of the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-led Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan has said there are up to 1,300 ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.

He said the loyalists of the terror group receive money, guidance, and communications support from the main group in Syria.

General Nicholson further added that the U.S. and Afghan military have killed many IS leaders and members in recent months and that they are in fewer Afghan areas than they previously were.

According to General Nicholson, the terror group loyaliss re currently holding only three to four districts compared to 10 one year ago.

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) launched a major operation in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
to suppress the activities of ISIS loyalists in mid-July this year.

Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Hekmatyar may nominate for the presidential elections
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami party Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
may nominate for the presidential elections scheduled to be organized in 2019 as a draft peace agreement was signed between the Afghan government and the party last week.

A top leader of the party Qazi Hakim has indicated that Hekmatyar could stand in the next presidential elections.

"Although it is premature to say anything now, I do not rule out the possibility of Hekmatyar becoming a presidential candidate," Hakim quoted in a report by The Express Tribune said.

He said Hezb-e-Islami would take active part n next parliamentary elections of Afghanistan.

The signing of the draft peace agreement between the Afghan government and Hezb-e-Islami was widely welcomed by the government officials and prominent political figures.

The draft peace agreement is expected to be signed by President Mohammad Ashraf 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. ..
and Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the near future.

The agreement was signed after almost six months of negotiations between the Afghan High Peace Council and delegation of Hezb-e-Islami.

Hekmatyar formally endorsed the elections in 2014 and called on his supporters to take active part in the elections.

"Convey to Hizb-e-Islami members to take part in the provincial councils’ elections and support those candidates who are either related to us or have a positive view about the party," Hekmatyar said in a letter.

He also added "Hizb-e-Islami is not directly taking part in the elections due to the presence of occupation forces but will exercise the right of vote to get those candidates elected who are close to our party and ideology."

Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar


Britain
Syrian activist barred from travel after UK seizes passport at Assad’s request
British authorities have confiscated the passport of a prominent Syrian critic of Bashar al-Assad at the request of the government in Damascus, effectively preventing her from travelling and blocking her work as an activist.

Zaina Erhaim, an award-winning journalist and campaigner based in Turkey, had her passport taken away by UK border officials when she landed at Heathrow airport. After more than an hour of questioning, they told her that the document had been reported stolen.

The complaint came from the government she has been campaigning against for years. “I expect to be harassed inside my country,’ Erhaim told the Observer. “I know that if I went home I would be killed, but now I find that Assad’s arm can even reach to the UK. This is a dictator pursuing a journalist.”

A receipt that Erhaim was given for the passport states: “Document reported as stolen.” Erhaim, who is travelling to the UK for an event with the BBC’s Kate Adie at the Kew literary festival, said it contained her name, photograph and fingerprint. Erhaim had previously used the passport without problems to travel to the UK in April, when she collected the Index on Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Journalism award for her work. She had also travelled on it without any problems across Europe.

The officials told her that they “did not get involved in politics” and that this was “our system, our rules”. The passport would be returned to Damascus, they said. Erhaim also has an older Syrian passport that she can use to return to Turkey, because it is still valid. But because it has no pages left for visas or immigration stamps – the reason she got the new document – she will effectively be unable to leave Turkey again.

“This is just the regime trying to handicap us,” she said. “They are collaborating with him. And they still wonder why Syrians are floating all over Europe seeking asylum.”

The decision is particularly painful because it was taken by a government that had given Erhaim a prestigious Chevening Award, which brings “future leaders, influencers and decision-makers” to study in the UK. “What really, really hurts me is I am a Chevening scholar, you funded my master’s degree and I work for a UK-based, UK-funded organisation,” she said. “And despite that you take the regime’s word against mine.”

The development came two days after foreign secretary Boris Johnson said a change of government was the key to peace in Syria, and blamed Assad’s government for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians. “There can be no genuine ceasefire unless there is a genuine political agreement that we can have a transition away from the Assad government,” Johnson told the UN security council. “Because it is the Assad government that is responsible. That regime is responsible for the vast majority of the 400,000 deaths.”

The Home Office said Britain had to comply with the request because passports are the legal property of the government that issues them. “If a passport is reported as lost or stolen by a foreign government we have no choice but to confiscate it,” the spokesman said. He suggested that Erhaim seek consular assistance from the Syrian government, which has a well-documented history of imprisoning, torturing and killing opponents.
Nice buck-passing there, Home Office. The Syrian government wants the woman dead.
This was condemned by Index on Censorship, which invited Erhaim to speak at the event. “I am appalled and frankly ashamed at the treatment of Zaina Erhaim by the UK. This is a woman who has risked her life simply to do what every good journalist aspires to do – bring both sides of the story – in an area of conflict that is also her home,” chief executive Jodie Ginsberg said. “The message the UK sends when it takes such action is that it is not on the side of those struggling to defend human dignity amid the inhumanity of war.”
Posted by: Steve White || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Europe
Fences and walls along the Balkan route
[DeutscheWelle] It is the third such meeting in Vienna, and German 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...
has long established herself at the head of the movement: "We have come a long way," compared to the situation a year ago, she summarizes. Back then, she embodied Europe's "welcoming culture": No one talks much about that anymore. Now there are calls for doing "as much as possible to stop illegal immigration." Merkel's Austrian colleagues report that when she addressed the other 11 heads of government at the meeting, the chancellor complained that 50,000 refugees had come to Europe along the Balkan route since February. The border, it seems, has not been sealed well enough.

A rather European solution
The meeting failed to produce any new insights; only the tone of the leaders' statements seemed to become more unified as it went on. Whereas last year there were serious differences of opinion, this year all emphasized the importance of the 1,000 new EU border patrol agents that are to be deployed as part of the Frontex border management program. Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern added that if external borders could not be protected, states would have to act on their own; that would also apply to Austria. This, he said, would have consequences for businesses, tourists and commuters.

Angela Merkel repeatedly emphasized common goals and the success of the EU-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
agreement. She sees the agreement as a blueprint for further treaties, especially with countries like Egypt, which has now become the hub for the latest wave of migration to Europe. Pakistain and Afghanistan are also on her list, although talks are barely moving with the two countries. The goal, said the chancellor once again, was to deport all immigrants colonists that will not be allowed to remain in Europe for humanitarian reasons as soon as possible. But the EU is a long way from being able to do that.

Criticism of Greece
Greece can't do it! Once again, Alexis Tsipras had to listen to a lot of criticism - also from Angela Merkel. Currently, some 60,000 refugees are stuck in Greece, mostly because they cannot be returned to Turkey, emphasized the chancellor. Athens needs more help from the EU. The extremely slow asylum process is in fact compounding the refugee bottleneck on the Greek isles. "Can it remain the case that Greece does not send people back?" asked the Austrian chancellor rhetorically.

The Greek prime minister, on the other hand, pointed the finger at the broken promises of the EU member states: 5,000 refugees stand ready to be distributed among other EU states; to date only about 500 have been taken in. Angela Merkel stressed the fact that Germany was prepared to admit several hundred people per month from Italia and Greece. But other EU states must also do their part, she said. Yet there has been very little movement in some countries, Merkel quietly criticized, and none whatsoever in Hungary.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
thousands of refugees are also stuck in Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria. These countries are none too happy with what the EU has offered them in assistance, either. Several heads of government, especially Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, are calling for more EU support.

Hardline EU policy
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has been increasingly uncompromising in formulating his position: "The Western Balkan route must remain closed for good." Right now, the most important thing for the EU is to protect its exterior borders, said Tusk in Vienna. No more talk of admission and distribution.

As has become usual, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used the Vienna conference as an opportunity to flaunt his anti-refugee rhetoric: He wants to build an enormous refugee camp off the coast of Libya and send all refugees that land in Europe there.
An interesting proposal...
He says that total control of the EU's exterior borders must be attained, and that includes controlling the Mediterranean. He continued that anyone fished out of the waters there should simply be dropped off in the new Libyan camp.
Very interesting. What odds it will be adopted?
Orban has firmly established himself in the role of the EU's constant provocateur. Part of that role includes the referendum against the admission of refugees to be held in early October, and for which he is busily inciting his country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Polish MP Demands ‘Pest’ Soros Is Stripped Of Country’s Highest Honour
[BREITBART] The recent deterioration of George Soros’s public image has been astonishing. Following coverage of his subversive operations across the world ‐ including his efforts to destabilise Poland ‐ now even the establishment media have picked up on his destructive activities, with Bloomberg recently covering his plan to marginalise Israel.
...spending almost $10 million there since 2001, according to the Jerusalem Post. J Street was only one of the arrows in that quiver.
Similarly, the list of Soros’s safe havens has also been shrinking dramatically. Until recently, out of all the EU countries, only his native Hungary had the courage to suggest his carefully crafted image of ’global philanthropist’ may be a smoke screen. The country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban pointed out that Soros is acting to destabilise Europe by supporting illegal migrants colonists from the Middle East. Now his hold over Eastern Europe seems to be waning even further with Polish politicians also picking up on his suspicious activity.

Soros has really entrenched himself in Poland over the last three decades, having established the Stefan Batory Foundation (an off shoot of the Open Society Foundation) in Warsaw in 1988, which admittedly initially had some positive input in helping the Polish society out of the Communist sphere of influence.

Even though the more conservative element has always been suspicious of his real intentions, the ruling class has typically come out in his support, culminating in the former President awarding George Soros the highest Polish decoration available to foreigners.

No Polish politician dared publicly criticised Soros until last recently, when the eurosceptic MP Krystyna Pawłowicz levied a number of direct accusations at him.

Professor Pawłowicz is recognised as a close aide of Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party. Ms. Pawłowicz branded Soros a "supra-national lefty troublemaker" who is "openly and brazenly financing the anti-democratic and anti-Polish element with a view to fight Polish illusory sovereignty and indigenous Christian culture". She further described his activity as "anti-Polish and violating the principles of the Polish constitution".

Stressing the covert, revolutionary activities of the global speculator, Prof. Pawłowicz went on to accuse Mr. Soros of promoting "unconstitutional and immoral derailment of the society" and of "financing of any initiatives directed against the current democratically elected Polish authorities".

Having had a distinguished legal career prior to entering the Polish parliament, inclusive of being a former Constitutional Tribunal judge, Prof. Pawłowicz has been particularly focused on the compatibility of Mr. Soros’s operations with the Polish constitution, and questioned whether his activities are in fact altogether illegal in Poland.

Convinced of George Soros’s negative influence on her country, Krystyna Pawłowicz recently called for the relevant authorities to assess the legality of the Polish activities of, as she phrased it, "this pest". She has further demanded that he is stripped of the Commandery with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (one of highest Polish honours, awarded typically to foreigners who have rendered great service to Poland) which was awarded to him in 2012 by the former Polish President Komorowski.

This marks a 180-degree turn in the sentiment towards George Soros in one of the historically most sympathetic countries.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I second the motion.

I also move we strip him of his US citizenship and exile him to the surface of the sun.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/25/2016 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm in a nice mood today - send him to Antartica instead.
Posted by: Raj || 09/25/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice, sunny Polynesian atoll with a straw hat and a fishing pole. Note: chum the surrounding water so the shark population is very healthy. Note #2: no internet or anything better than a note in a bottle.
Posted by: magpie || 09/25/2016 16:40 Comments || Top||

#4  I say strip him of his skin, pack him in salt. But I'm like that.
Posted by: Black Bart Glutch4583 || 09/25/2016 18:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Zahid: One Malaysian detainee at Guantanamo Bay may be transferred home
[THEMALAYMAILONLINE] Mohamad Bashir Lap, one of the two Malaysians being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp may be transferred to Malaysia but he will have to continue to undergo the deradicalisation process in prison, said Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

He said this information was conveyed to him during the meeting he had on Wednesday with Lee Wolowsky, the United States Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.

"This possibility is in tandem with our efforts to bring home the Malaysian detainees in Guantanamo Bay," Ahmad Zahid, who is also the home minister, told Malaysian journalists yesterday.

Ahmad Zahid had led the Malaysian delegation to the 71st session of the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
General Assembly here.

Mohamad Bashir and Mohd Farik Amin are the two Malaysians being held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2006 for their involvement with the Jemaah Islamiyah holy warrior group in early 2000.

They are also alleged to have been involved in the bombing at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003 and were detained in Bangkok that year.

Ahmad Zahid said the US Periodic Review Board, by consensus, determined that "continued law of war detention of the detainees remains necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States".

"However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the United States has informed of the possibility of one of them (Mohamad Bashir) being sent back to Malaysia, but he has to continue to undergo the deradicalisation process," he said.

As such, Ahmad Zahid said, a high-level committee under his chairmanship would be established immediately pertaining to the matter.

The committee would comprise representatives from the Home Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Defence Ministry, National Security Council, Attorney-General's Chambers, Royal Malaysia Police, Prisons Department and Immigration Department, he added.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/zahid-one-malaysian-detainee-at-guantanamo-bay-may-be-sent-home#sthash.aFUTK0lU.dpuf
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Ahmad Khan Rahami spent time at Pakistan seminary linked to Taliban
[NJ] More details have emerged in the case against Ahmad Khan Rahami, who, according to The Guardian, spent time in a religious seminary in Pakistain closely associated with the Afghan Taliban.
I continue to stand by my contention that if something evil happens, there's a Pak involved somewhere.
Rahami, who was born in Afghanistan but became a U.S. citizen, spent time at the Kaan Kuwa Naqshbandi madrassa on his two visits to Pakistain in 2011 and 2013, a security official working for the government of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province in Pakistain told the newspaper.

Rahami faces federal charges, including using weapons of mass destruction, in connection with explosives left at a military charity race in Seaside Park, Elizabeth and Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

According to The Guardian, Rahami spent three weeks in 2011 receiving "lectures and Islamic education" at the school in Kuchlak, a well-known hub for the Taliban. He also reportedly spent nearly a year in Pakistain in 2013 when he also made a car trip to Afghanistan.

Rahami's father told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named in a telephone interview Friday his son underwent a personality shift after visiting Afghanistan and Pakistain in 2013.

"I found a change in his personality," he said. "His mind was not the same. He had become bad and I don't know what caused it but I informed the FBI about it."

A source told NBC New York Sherlocks believe Rahami learned some of his bomb-making techniques while taking an electronics class at Union County College, where he could have learned how to make a "triggering-type device."

Rahami enrolled in several non-credit courses, which are open to the public, in the summer of 2008, according to college spokeswoman Ellen Dotto.

Thirty-one people were hurt in one of the pressure cooker bombings in Chelsea on Sept. 17.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas should be removed from terror lists, EU court recommends
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, should be removed from the EU's terrorism blacklist, a top European Court of Justice (ECJ) advisor has recommended.

In 2014, the court ruled that the Paleostinian Islamist movement should be taken off the list on technical grounds.

Judges of the General Court ruled that EU leaders relied too heavily on media reports rather than their own investigations when they imposed asset freezes and travel bans on Hamas members.

At the time, Israel recalled Europe's treatment of Jews in the Holocaust and denounced the bloc's "staggering hypocrisy".

Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  No.

Hell no.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/25/2016 13:50 Comments || Top||


Hamas leader confirms plans to step down in 2017
[TIMESOFISRAEL] Khaled Mashaal, who is set to be replaced by Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, says terror group has ’several times the weaponry’ it did during 2014 Gazoo war
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Lets send him a testimonial cell phone.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/25/2016 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  heh heh
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2016 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Heh indeed, a nice new golden 7. I will pitch in.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/25/2016 12:15 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Malaysia on high alert for fleeing Abu Sayyaf rebels
[Straits Times] Malaysia is on high alert for Abu Sayyaf militants fleeing among hundreds of Filipinos to Sabah, after the Philippine military's offensive in the country. Officials say an estimated 400 are waiting for the "right time" to breach the Eastern Sabah Security Command's security cordon.

Federal police special branch director Datuk Seri Mohamad Fuzi Harun said, "The threat is imminent...There is only one direction that they are heading, and it is towards our shores. We will not allow them to enter. Our security forces will arrest them the minute they pass the country's maritime border."

Malaysia has deployed more manpower and assets to protect the vast maritime border it shares with the Philippines.

General Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin said reports that hundreds of Filipinos seeking refuge on islands close to the Malaysian border were credible. He said, ""They are waiting to cross into Sabah and assimilate with their relatives and friends, who stand ready to harbor them."

It is thought that as many as 400 of them, including insurgents, are on the islands of Taganak and Bakkungan, hoping to make their way to Sandakan, the second largest town in Sabah. Police picked up 37 Filipinos from the waters off Sandakan last week. 18 of them were from Basilan, while the rest were from Abu Sayyaf stronghold Jolo.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Terror Networks
War crimes tribunal for Islamic State detainees lacks support
[Chicago Tribune] War crimes Sherlocks collecting evidence of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal.

Two years after the IS onslaught in northern Iraq, the Sherlocks, as well as U.S. diplomats, say the B.O. regime has done little to pursue prosecution of the crimes that 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...
has called genocide. Current and former State Department officials say that an attempt in late 2014 to have a legal finding of genocide was blocked by the Defense Department, setting back efforts to prosecute IS members suspected of committing war crimes.

"The West looks to the United States for leadership in the Middle East, and the focus of this administration has been elsewhere -- in every respect," Bill Wiley, the head of the independent investigative group, the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Officials in Washington say that the Defense Department and ultimately the administration were concerned that court trials would distract from the military campaign. But the diplomats say that justice is essential in a region whose religious minorities have been terrorized. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue.

The U.S. has no legal obligation to take on the genocide of the Yazidis, but President Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person...
has said that "preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America."

Stephen Rapp, who stepped down as the administration's ambassador on the lam for war crimes last year, says the administration should have moved early to help secure evidence of IS atrocities and push for the creation of special Iraqi courts to try war crimes.

"The priority for the U.S. government is to win the war against the Islamic State and destroy them," Rapp said. "It's been profoundly disappointing, because the idea of accountability has been such a low priority."

Rapp is now the chairman of the advisory board of the commission, whose Sherlocks in Iraq work with the Kurdish regional government to formally document the IS group's crimes, including those against the Yazidi minority group. They have built a case implicating the entire IS command structure in a plot to kidnap Yazidi women and girls and establish a sex-slave market.

The plan was executed by an organized bureaucracy at every step along the way, from the temporary sorting facilities -- including a prison, schools and a curtained ballroom where the Yazidis were divided by age and willingness to convert to Islam -- to the waiting buses that would haul them by the dozens across the border to Raqqa. The Islamic State group's Shariah courts soon stepped in, to settle contract disputes and ensure that its finance hierarchy got its cut of the sex slaves proceeds.

"You have members of IS who were engaged in ensuring that this system continued and that it functioned well," said Chris Engels, the American lawyer who is leading the commission's legal investigation. Without a legal documentation of their identities from the top down, many could "slide into refugee streams" and disappear.

Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Sorry kids, but the Yazidis just aren't 'attractive' to the Left. They just aren't enough of an issue. No political value.

It's just business. You understand, don't you?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/25/2016 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I vote for expedited process.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/25/2016 10:16 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2016-09-16
  Pakistani Taliban Target Shia Mosque On Eid Day
Thu 2016-09-15
  Russia kills 250 ISIS terrorists near Palmyra
Wed 2016-09-14
  Three French Women Charged over Terror Plots
Tue 2016-09-13
  Mosque attended by Orlando gunman Omar Mateen destroyed in suspected arson attack
Mon 2016-09-12
  Syria Cease-Fire Is Violated After Less Than an Hour
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