[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Secretary State of 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 said the Talibs group in Afghanistan can not and will not be able to win the conflict on the battlefield.
And Jahwn knows his battlefields...
Kerry delivered the message during his speech at an international conference on Afghanistan and the following the conclusion of a peace deal between Hezb-e-Islami led by 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... and the Afghan government.
He said the peace deal with Hekmatyar could be a model for reconciliation with the Taliban, insisting that the commanders of Hekmatyar must cease violence, cut ties with terrorist groups and accept the Afghan constitutions’s rights for women and minorities.
"The message from every person here today to the Taliban would be: Take note," Kerry said, adding that the Taliban is still "trying to test the Afghan government’s resolve."
Kerry further added that "There is a path toward an honorable end to the conflict that the Taliban have waged." However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he insisted that "It is a conflict they cannot and will not be won on the battlefield. A political settlement negotiated with the Afghan government is the only way to end the fighting, ensure lasting stability and achieve a full drawdown ultimately of international military forces, which is their goal."
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Why the hell would they need to 'win' it when your quite likely to simply give it to them you moron?
Just like to gave Iran permission to build their nuclear bomb.
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The Democrats had this steely eyed dynamo as their Presidential choice at one time...along with John ( Breck Boy ) Edwards...a man who cheated on his wife as she was dying of Cancer.
Where do they find these Buboes?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama himself the" Red Line " Man.
And Russia will take Aleppo while the entire Middle East watches and knows whose word matters and whose word doesn't mean squat.
Winners and Losers, it isn't hard to tell.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... appeared reluctant to endorse the move to label Pakistain as ’State Sponsor of Terrorism’ as he considered the goodwill of Pak people towards the Afghan people.
In an exclusive with Times Now TV, Karzai emphasized on the role of the Pak people for hosting millions of Afghan refugees as he was asked if he would support to label Pakistain as ’State Sponsors of Pakistain’.
The former Afghanistan's Caped President said ’Well, see Pakistain is not only the Pak government or the Pakistain military establishment.
Pakistain is also the people of Pakistain and nearly 200 million people of Pakistain who are victims of terrorism as much as Afghanistan is India is. So, I wish the people of Pakistain will and I would never want to use a word or an action that would in any manner that would reduce the peace prosperity and the dignity of people of Pakistain."
Karzai further added "But in regard to the establishment of Pakistain and as regard to the military we should do all we can and to bring them to recognizing that there is a different way in behaving with neigbors and that way is a civilized and peaceful relation."
This comes as two powerful American politicians introduced an act in the US House of Representatives late last month to designate Pakistain a State Sponsor of terrorism.
Congressman Ted Poe, who is Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, said "It is time we stopped paying Pakistain for its betrayal and designate it for what it is: a state sponsor of terrorism."
The act, Pakistain State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation’ (HR 6069) has been introduced by Republican Poe along with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher ...Representative for Caliphornia's 48th congressional district, and previously the 46th, 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Republican Party and a former speech writer for President Reagan... of the Democratic Party, who is Ranking member of this influential Congressional Committee on terrorism.
Poe further added "Not only is Pakistain an untrustworthy ally, Islamabad has also aided and abetted enemies of the US for years."
"From harboring the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... to its cozy relationship with the Haqqani network, there is more than enough evidence to determine whose side Pakistain is on in the War on Terror. And it’s not America’s," he alleged.
According to Poe, the bill will require the Obama Administration to formally answer this question.
The President must issue a report within 90 days of passage detailing whether or not Pakistain has provided support for international terrorism, he said.
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France and Britain denounced on Tuesday the unilateral decision taken by rebels, who appointed Abdel Aziz bin Habtoor to form what they said was a “national salvation” cabinet, stressing the move would further complicate Yemen’s peace process.
The UK Minister for Africa and Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Tobias Ellwood, said the decision taken by Houthis and their ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to form a so-called national salvation cabinet is considered a unilateral decision and constitutes a direct threat to the U.N.-sponsored peace operation.
Ellwood expressed concern over the ongoing steps taken by Houthis and Saleh.
In France, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that Houthis’ decision to form a new government contradicts the path of Yemeni peace talks, adding it was essential to reach a political solution in the country.
Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognized government, which is supported by an alliance of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, is fighting the Houthis and Saleh militias who took over the capital Sana’a in 2014.
A Yemeni diplomat told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that the international community and the U.N. Security Council would never recognize the one-sided decisions made by the Houthis and Saleh militias, such as the establishment of a Supreme Political Council and a cabinet.
The diplomat, who spoke on conditions of anonymity, said that the Yemeni legitimate government does not support any efforts made outside the framework of the U.N., led by Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and based on the Gulf initiative and Security Council Resolution 2216.
Yemen’s representative to the U.N. Ambassador Khalid Al-Yamani told Asharq Al-Awsat that Houthis and their followers do not want peace in Yemen.
He said rebels are desperately trying to reach a solution that would enforce the rule of the Iran-backed militias in the country.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s National Army and Popular Resistance forces liberated on Tuesday the strategic Jabal Bahra, considered the highest summit in the Harib Nihm area, east of Sana’a.
Sources from the Popular Resistance told Asharq Al-Awsat that their forces were able to control the hill after fierce battles with rebel militias, and thanks to the support of Arab coalition warplanes, which launched around 15 raids in the area.
Other Yemeni informed sources said army forces began a military mobilization to prepare for a wide operation to liberate Saada province, which is the main stronghold of Houthis in Yemen.
[AA.TR] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... on Wednesday slammed proposed legislation in the U.S. that would allow the families of victims of terrorist attacks to sue the foreign governments deemed responsible.
At a meeting of Qatar’s council of ministers chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatari officials described the bill as "a violation of the principle of immunity of sovereign states" and a "dangerous precedent in international relations", Qatar’s official news agency reported.
Entitled the Justice against State Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, the bill is supported by the families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington who hope to sue the Saudi government for its alleged role in the attacks.
Last week, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted in favor of overriding President Barack Obama I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something... ’s earlier veto of the bill.
Shortly afterward, 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... expressed its "serious concern" over the proposed legislation.
"The adoption of such a law should be a source of great concern to countries that object to the notion of weakening sovereign immunity -- a principle that has guided international relations for hundreds of years," the Saudi Press Agency quoted a Saudi Foreign Ministry source as saying.
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JASTA little too close to home, Qatar?
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sounds like somebody is worried about vulnerabilities.
MEDDLING Brussels has said the British press should not report when terrorists are Muslims in a slew of demands to the Government to crack down on the media. A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016.
Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.”
The report makes a whopping 23 recommendations to Theresa May’s Government for changes to criminal law, the freedom of the press, crime reporting and equality law.
And despite the report not analysing coverage of the historic Brexit vote, Mr Ahlund saw fit to comment on the UK's decision to leave the EU. In a sweeping statement, he said: “The Brexit referendum seems to have led to a further rise in ‘anti-foreigner’ sentiment, making it even more important that the British authorities take the steps outlined in our report as a matter of priority.”
The report lays into the British press and urges the government to “give more rigorous training” to reporters.
Send them to the New York Times?
In the 83-page report, the Commission said: “ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fuelling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety.
Not every act of terrorism is committed by a Muslim. But when such an act is committed by a Muslim, isn't is proper to note that? When Eric Rudolph was murdering abortion doctors, everyone knew he was a Christian...
“In this context, it draws attention to a recent study by Teeside University suggesting that where the media stress the Muslim background of perpetrators of terrorist acts, and devote significant coverage to it, the violent backlash against Muslims is likely to be greater than in cases where the perpetrators’ motivation is downplayed or rejected in favour of alternative explanations.”
Despite the creation of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) in 2014 as an independent regulator for newspapers and magazines,
I see your first problem right there...
the “ECRI strongly recommends that the authorities find a way to establish an independent press regulator according to the recommendations set out in the Leveson Report. It recommends more rigorous training for journalists to ensure better compliance with ethical standards.”
Whose ethical standards?
But as Britain prepares to leave the crumbling bloc, the Government waded in to defend freedom of expression. In a written statement to the ECRI, the Government said: “The Government is committed to a free and open press and does not interfere with what the press does and does not publish, as long as the press abides by the law.”
Our law, not yours, so sod off, as they say in British-English...
ECRI is a human rights body of the Council of Europe, composed of independent experts, which monitors problems of racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, intolerance and racial discrimination.
And they monitor problems in a certain way...
The group writes reports on every member state every five years and says the documents are “analyses based on a great deal of information gathered from a wide variety of sources.
In a statement, ECRI said: “ECRI welcomed, among other things, the entry into force of the Equality Act 2010 and the generally strong legislation against racism and racial discrimination in the country, as well as the government’s new hate crime action plan and substantial efforts to promote LGBT rights in the UK which have led to a significant change in attitudes.
“At the same time, the commission noted considerable intolerant political discourse in the UK, particularly focusing on immigration. It said that hate speech continues to be a serious problem in tabloid newspapers, and that online hate speech targeting Muslims in particular has soared since 2013.”
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Don't know about you, but - unless told otherwise - I always assume a perp of a terr-act is an adherent of Religion of Peace. Ditto for sexual molestation.
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American media is already doing the same, with no orders from Brussels. Have been for years.
When a crime is reported, if the perp is white, they will report it. If the perp is non-white there will be no mention of his description.
Prosecutors have indicted a German man accused of joining the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia on terrorism charges.
German federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the indictment against the 28-year-old identified only as Abshir Ahmed A., in line with German privacy rules, was filed Sept. 12 at a Frankfurt court. The suspect was arrested at Frankfurt airport as he returned home in July.
The charges include membership in a foreign terrorist organization and violation of weapons control laws.
Prosecutors say the man is believed to have joined al-Shabab in Somalia in 2012, undergoing weapons training and then being deployed in a defensive position for the group. They say that health problems forced him out of that posting.
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JERUSALEM — One of Europe’s most distinguished anti-Semitism researchers, Monika Schwarz-Friesel, has an alarming message: Scientific measures indicate a massive upsurge of Jew-hatred on the internet, as anti-Semitism reestablishes itself as an increasingly visible element in European mainstream discourse.
A psychologist, linguist and professor of cognitive science at the Technical University of Berlin, Schwarz-Friesel is one of the most quoted experts on anti-Semitism in both international academic literature and the German media.
In her numerous publications she analyzes and exposes new manifestations of old anti-Semitic sentiments — disguised though they might be — employing much of the same Jew-hatred that has been shaping European discourse throughout the years, even when officially outlawed.
These analyses are evidence that recent anti-Israeli tropes demonizing the Jewish state are actually work-arounds of old anti-Semitic sentiments that have been with us for two millennia.
As the go-to scholar on anti-Semitism in Europe, in March 2016, Schwarz-Friesel delivered a keynote speech at the Berlin Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism in the Bundestag (the German federal parliament) which was attended by 100 lawmakers from 40 countries. In 2015 she wrote a much noted expertise that was part of the testimony against German journalist Jürgen Elsässer in a court case, in which the latter sued the publicist and former politician Jutta Ditfurth for calling him a “glowing anti-Semite.”
And now, to further amplify her research outside of Europe, an English translation of her much celebrated study titled “Inside the anti-Semitic Mind” (co-authored with former Brandeis University president, Jehuda Reinharz), will be available this upcoming November.
Currently, Schwarz-Friesel, is spending the last part of her sabbatical in Jerusalem, where she met with The Times of Israel on Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus Campus to share some insight into the truly disturbing results of her research.
"Look, the Affordable Health Care Act did a world of good, and the 50-something efforts to repeal it that the Republicans have staged were a terrible mistake," Clinton said at a rally in Athens, Ohio. "We, for the first time in our history, at least are providing insurance to more than 90% of our people."
"But there is a group of people -- mostly small business owners and employees -- who make just a little too much money to qualify for Medicaid expansion or for the tax incentives who can't get affordable health insurance premiums in a lot of places. And the reason is they're not in big pools," Clinton said. "So they have no bargaining power."
[AA.TR] Iraq’s ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday after the Iraqi parliament's characterization of Turkishtroops in Bashiqa as "occupiers," according to a ministry source.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said Hisham Ali Akbar Ibrahim al-Alawi was called to the ministry early Wednesday.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry, for its part, responded by summoning the Turkishambassador to Baghdad.
Ministry front man Ahmed Jamal said the Turkish envoy was summoned "on the background of the provocative Turkish statement about the operation of liberation of djinn-infested Mosul." ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... On Tuesday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the Iraqi parliament's mischaracterization of Turkish troops in Bashiqa, situated near the ISIS-occupied northern Iraqi city of Mosul, who are present there to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS.
"We strongly condemn the Iraqi parliament's unacceptable decision, including dirty accusations against Turkish President [Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ]," the ministry said in a statement.
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A West Bank hospital official says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will undergo a heart test after being hospitalized. "There it is, black and shrunk, like a lump of misshapen coal, kinda like a deformed briquet"
The official says Abbas, 81, will undergo a cardiac catheterization, a procedure in which a thin tube is inserted into a blood vessel to examine the strength of his heart.
Abbas was taken to a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah after feeling "tired" Thursday, according to a Palestinian official.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the president's condition with the media. "I can say no more"
“His arteries look great, and there is no need for him to stay in the hospital,” heart specialist Dr. Mohammed al-Batrawi said. “He is leaving shortly.”
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[AA.TR] The Philippines president is expected to soon meet and hold talks with runaway Moro leader Nur Misuari in the southern city of Davao to advance peace in the country's Moslem south.
Rodrigo Duterte has said that the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founder -- wanted for a siege on a southern city in which around 200 people died and tens of thousands were displaced -- would be given safe passage and has described him as one leader who maintains influence and stature among all Moro rebels.
Duterte's government is in the process of consolidating all agreements with all Moro groups in an effort to finally achieve peace in the south.
Late Tuesday, however, he rejected a plan by Misuari to bring his own men to Davao for talks.
"That would not be possible anymore. First, he is facing charges and if at all he is allowed to go out, he cannot bring arms," the Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted Duterte as saying in a speech in Makati City, Metro Manila.
"I don't care if he will do that, that would not bother me, but the fact is the military and the police will not allow it, and I won’t run roughshod with them if I insist it my way."
Duterte has instead offered to fetch the 77-year-old from Sulu and bring him to Davao for talks, but has not said when such a meeting will take place.
Misuari is wanted for staging a bloody siege in the majority Christian city of Zamboanga in 2013 to protest a grinding of the peace processor by rival group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which Misuari claims leaves Moslems in the country’s south shortchanged in comparison to an earlier MNLF peace deal.
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"Pssst, Rodrigo? Misuari is a drug addict"
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Running the old Soviet military playbook step by step
AMSTERDAM – The Russian Ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, confirmed that Syrian and Russian government airstrikes target hospitals.
Activists reported on Wednesday that while Russia and Assad claim to target extremists, “airstrikes in Aleppo destroy homes, hospitals and schools.”
However, the Russian ambassador said that the targeting is justified since Syrian rebels are using the hospitals and civilians as human shields.
“Most hospitals are unmarked rebels’ field facilities. Keeping civilians as a human shield is a well-known terrorist tactic,” Ambassador Yakovenko said.
Syrian and Russian jets resumed their bombing of rebel-held areas, backing Shia militias and the Syrian army to besiege eastern Aleppo.
The intensification of violence in Aleppo followed the breakdown of a Russian-US ceasefire deal last month.
“Children are being killed and maimed. Airstrikes are hitting the few remaining hospitals. The use of bunker-busting bombs means children cannot even safely attend schools that are underground,” Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said in a press release.
“We call on Syria and Russia, as well the international community, to show they abide by their human rights obligations set out in those treaties and find a way to end this raging conflict now,” Mezmur said.
According to a Reuters report, France is launching a new initiative to resume the ceasefire to prevent the massacring of civilians, and to allow aid into Aleppo.
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Some are forced into this service, some are not. If it is long term safe haven for Al-Shatan worshipers, it is usually by force - who uses the excuse to use Medical equipment from other hospitals which were ravaged for the only purpose of keeping useless jihadi scrotums alive.
Consider the staff was not complicit and rather hostage. I run over this every time... Any thoughts on this one?
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On Peleilu inside the ridge of the Umurbrogol Pocket the caves went from one side of the ridge to the other, a very large underground area, largely split between a Hospital aid station for the wounded and the Jap command facilities., an area a quarter of a mile wide and another three quarters of mile long. Packed with Japanese wounded and fighting soldiers in the cave structures defending the island from an American assault which lasted twelve weeks...America lost over 6,000 dead leading up to the Final flame thrower attack against the Hospital and command center inside the Ridge.
On Saipan American Destroyers churned thru Japanese intestines from floating civilian corpses , suicides jumping from the cliffs into the sea. America did what was NECESSARY to win the war. That IS what wars IS. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's why they call it War.
No "playbook" involved. Just who wins and who loses. Sometimes you shoot their wounded and don't take prisoners. Hospitals are targets.... sometimes. So is your Mother....sometimes. The Russians are not Obama and Nancy Pelosi. America is Obama and Nancy Pelosi. The Russians ARE going to take Aleppo.
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Just imagine the uproar if Israel had done the same thing to Hamas Hospitals.
And Israel would have sent messages in advance to the hospital to evacuate all non-combatants.
And phone calls to all they could identify.
Even when after warnings and phone calls and Hamas prevented non-combatants from leaving a building, bombing it was called an Israeli war crime.
Do the Russians have evidence that Aleppo hospitals are used as rebel headquarters?
Does that justify attacking them without warming?
Or is that genocide?
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Secretary State of 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 
MEDDLING Brussels has said the British press should not report when terrorists are Muslims in a slew of demands to the Government to crack down on the media. A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016. 
On Tuesday, he tried to clean up his criticism.
A West Bank hospital official says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will undergo a heart test after being hospitalized.
