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Anyone watching the video shouldn't have a problem understanding what went down. What isn't being talked about is the increase in crime across the city since DoJ put a leash on the APD. When citizens fear for their life, those of their family, their property, they tend to look for someone to provide protection, and make compromises with what ever ethics they have.
[SouthAfricaToday] An unarmed black man shot dead by a white police officer after his car broke down on a city street last month was high on the hallucinogenic drug PCP in when he died, according to toxicology tests released by a medical examiner Tuesday.
Terence Crutcher, 40, had “acute phencyclidine intoxication” when he died Sept. 16. Officer Betty Jo Shelby was charged with first-degree manslaughter after his death, with a prosecutor saying she reacted unreasonably when Crutcher disobeyed her commands.
Medical literature says PCP, also known as Angel Dust, can induce euphoria and feelings of omnipotence as well as agitation, mania and depression.
Dr. Matthew Lee, a physician and pharmacist who also works for the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, said the 96 nanograms per milliliter of PCP found in Crutcher’s system is more than enough to cause someone to be uncoordinated, agitated and combative.
“It’s on the high side, relative to causing some sort of impairment or intoxication,” Lee said.
Videos from a police helicopter and a dashboard camera showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby on a North Tulsa street with his arms in the air, but the footage does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the single shot.
Tulsa police had said previously that they had found a vial of PCP in Crutcher’s SUV — and the police officer’s lawyer said she had completed drug-recognition training and believed Crutcher might have been under the influence of drugs.
Lawyers for Crutcher’s family released a statement saying the toxicology report “does not change the most pertinent facts of this tragedy” and that Shelby “should be held accountable for her unlawful actions.”
According to an eight-page report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City, Crutcher suffered a “penetrating gunshot wound of chest” and noted both of Crutcher’s lungs were pierced and that he had four broken ribs. In addition to saying Crutcher had PCP in his system, it said he was obese and had too much cholesterol in his gallbladder. The examiner recovered a bullet fragment from Crutcher’s left chest.
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...As soon as it became known he'd been tagged before for PCP possession/use, I said that finding PCP in his system was the only chance the officer had.
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I witnessed a police action against a man high on PCP some years ago. During a Mardi Gras parade the man was running down the street pushing stepladders over - with little kids in boxes on top. Cop tackled him right in front of me. The guy was flopping like a fish out of water, kicking, trying to bite, etc. Every time he did so the cop whacked him on the shin with his billy club. Some stereotypical little Jewish lawyer came up accusing the cop of brutality, whereupon the cop held the club out to him and said "OK, YOU hold him until the wagon gets here." The offer was declined. I gave my name and contact info to the cop and said I'd be happy to testify on his behalf if anything came of it - it didn't. Once the guy was handcuffed and in the van he started lungeing from side to side, slamming into the walls until it looked like the van would flip over. All the cop said to me was "He is feeling no pain now but he sure is going to hurt in the morning." Of course both perp and cop were white, so ....
Many guns imported by the Somali government with U.N. approval are being resold by arms dealers on the black market in the nation’s capital Mogadishu, two Western diplomats said.
Such sales violate a three-year-old deal which exempted government weapons imports from a U.N. arms embargo. The U.N. Security Council partially lifted it in 2013 to equip government forces fighting al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants. The United Nations imposed a blanket arms embargo on Somalia shortly after the nation plunged into civil war 25 years ago.
The two diplomats, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, said through photographic evidence it was calculated between 35 to 40 percent of automatic rifles and other small arms on sale on the Mogadishu black market were imported by the government under the exemption.
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Send in Marc Turi with a pocket full of travelers' checks and a shopping list.
[PULSE.NG] The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Umaru Ibn Garbai Elkanemi has disclosed that over 100 of his chiefs were killed by 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... He said he lost the chiefs within the seven years of the terrorists' activities, adding that it will be a huge task for the Borno people to accept the repentant members of the group back in their communities.
The Shehu stated this in Maiduguri on Monday, October 11, when the delegation of African Region Centre For Humanitarian Dialogue ( CMD), led by its director, Ms Meridith Preston Mcghie paid a visit to his palace.
"How can you unite with people that destroyed your homes, killed and displaced you? We have suffered a lot. I lost more than 100 local chiefs under my kingdoms. I was attacked by jacket wallah, thousands of women became widows and children orphans. I think, to unite people with repentant snuffies is a big task," he told the delegation.
The monarch asked for the organization's help in uniting the people as it did with two inter-communal dialogue in Plateau and Kaduna states.
"We need your assistance to reunite our people again, we as well know what you did in Kaduna and Plateau to solve inter- communal crisis. We will give you all the support to succeed," he said.
In response, the director of the dialogue team, Ms Mcghie said the organization will do all it can to ensure things do not spiral out of control.
"The delegation will ensure proper communication so that things do not go out of control, emotions don’t get so high, the centre will adopt different channels of dialogue which will be a gradual process and usually takes longer period of time before peace is achieved in a crisis environment," she said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Just as Nigeria is winning the battle against the ISIS-aligned 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... terrorist organization, it faces an even greater threat from Iran.
The Iranian-financed and trained Shiite movement, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has pledged a "tragedy of monumental proportions" if the fanatic group’s tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! leader, Sheikh Zakzaky, continues to remain in jug.
This week, the radical Shiite movement, estimated at over four million, intends to descend on Abuja to instigate a Khomeinist uprising. It claims it will be peaceful, but the Iranian-backed group resorts to violent confrontation with non-Shiite residents to assert control over the streets. Many fear bloody chaos as Shiite gunnies pledge to "storm" the capital.
Zakzaky has been held in jug since December 2015 following festivities between the army and IMN’s armed Shiite thugs, who blocked and attacked a convoy carrying an army chief. Sunnis living in IMN’s stronghold areas accuse the group of running a parallel government that uses extortion and terror.
A judicial commission of inquiry set up by the Kaduna state government to investigate the clash blamed Zakzaky for the incident which led to the loss of 348 Shiite lives. The inquiry reported that "The IMN is notorious for engaging in hate and dangerous speech that provoke other Moslems ... Members of the IMN owe absolute loyalty to Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky.
He therefore bears responsibility for all acts of lawlessness committed by the organization and should therefore be held responsible, fully investigated and prosecuted."
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More cases of cholera have been registered in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a World Health Organisation Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday. The United Nations first reported the cholera outbreak on Friday.
"The number of cases has increased from five to 11 people," WHO official Omar Saleh told a news conference in Sanaa.
Medics were working to curb the epidemic, which has yet to claim any deaths or spread beyond the capital, he said.
Thousands of families fleeing Yemen's war are living in camps outside Sanaa, where conditions could lead to the spread of cholera, including through contaminated food or water.
Saleh said that more than half of Yemen's health centers had ceased to operate since the start of the war after not receiving funds from the health ministry.
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[Asharq Al-Awsat] After Yemen’s ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh made an unrestrained speech in which he called for an intensification of the ongoing fighting, Houthi-Saleh militias attacked the city of Taiz yesterday with various types of weapons and fiercely and intensely bombed the city and its neighborhoods, villages and rural areas. The siege on all entrances to the city has also been intensified, except for Khat Al-Dhubab where legitimate forces managed to lift the partial siege there in late August with the help of coalition aircraft.
Popular Resistance Sources on the ground told Asharq Al-Awsat that Houthi militia violently bombed the neighbourhoods of Taiz with Katyusha rockets and the most violent raids were carried out on the northern and western neighborhoods. Fierce offensives were also launched on various fronts.
The same sources confirmed that “what these militias are doing is in retaliation for casualties amongst rebel leaders on various fronts in Taiz where the army and the Popular Resistance achieved great progress and recaptured several sites that were under the control of militias. In addition to the continuous shelling on residential neighborhoods in the city and the countryside and the displacement of residents of some villages and areas still under the control of the rebels, these militias also bombed residential houses”.
Directly posted HRW news release, so salt, or better yet, booze it up
[Human Rights Watch] Despite rising outrage over the bloody civilian toll in Yemen’s war, the United States administration is showing no signs of breaking with – or attempting to check – the actions of its ally Saudi Arabia, the leader of the nine-nation coalition against Yemen, a report by Human Rights Watch said.
The report refers to an article in the Washington Post this week that suggested the US is willing to rationalize Saudi responsibility for laws-of-war violations in the 19-month campaign – as well as attempting to minimize its own role in the conflict.
“Does an ally have to give you a blank check for everything you’re doing in a war?” a senior State Department official is quoted as saying.
The HRW report stated highlighted that the US has supported the Saudi-led campaign with aerial refueling and targeting assistance without criticizing Saudi Arabia and its allies for repeatedly and unlawfully bombing civilians, committing apparent war crimes.
“The nature of this support makes the US a party to the armed conflict, and potentially culpable in unlawful strikes,” it said.
“The US also continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia – more than $20-billion worth of military support and weapons in 2015 – despite increasing recognition that weapons may get unlawfully used,” it added.
The report underscored in the W. Post report that “US officials say that “errors of capability or competence, not of malice” led to repeated Saudi-led coalition strikes on civilian structures. But how do they know? There have been no serious investigations into allegedly unlawful attacks.”
“Moreover, whether Saudi targeteers were malicious or simply poorly trained does not absolve the government of responsibility. Indiscriminate attacks that fail to distinguish between civilians and military objectives as well as those that cause disproportionate loss of civilian life or property are also illegal under the laws of war,” HRW stressed.
Editor of the report, Priyanka Motaparthy , wrote that when she visited Washington this summer “to share Human Rights Watch’s findings on how the coalition has repeatedly hit civilian objects, administration officials said they believed the Saudis were just bad at targeting. This belief strains credulity. Coalition airstrikes have repeatedly struck, including with precision-guided weapons, civilian structures like medicine factories and food storage compounds, and clearly marked hospitals for which Medecins Sans Frontieres previously provided GPS coordinates. They have also repeatedly hit marketplaces during the day, when high numbers of civilians are known to be present. Lacking competence and showing insufficient regard for civilian lives or protected facilities are not mutually exclusive.”
The Washington Post article added that “military lawyers have reviewed Saudi actions and say no laws have been violated because, in their view, the civilian deaths appear to be unintentional.” But coalition pilots and operational commanders do not have to intentionally kill civilians to commit war crimes. Reckless attacks can be subject to war crimes prosecutions.
“As congressional concern with Washington’s role in Yemen increases, US officials will need to provide better answers for Saudi actions, rather than making excuses or stonewalling on the US role and how US weapons have been used. Helping a longtime ally does not let one off the hook for all responsibility in the deaths of more than 4,000 civilians, nor for shipping billions of dollars of arms that are likely to be used in the coming year’s abuses,” HRW ended up saying.
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I wonder if PD is raising hell in heaven or drilling for cold water in hell. Or perhaps come back as the 12th Imman from the well. SURPRISE SURPISE SURPRISE.
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A map that shows the 40 km strip, and also shows how most of the oil in the region lies where mostly Shia live. Maybe the Sunni/Shia thing is more about oil than religion?
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No reason it can't be both, Bobby.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Saudis were tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after they attempted to flee the country to join the war in Syria, using fake passports.
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... ’s Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution filed a lawsuit against the two on Tuesday.
The suspects are said to have contacted "smugglers" in and outside the kingdom to facilitate their travel.
They initially tried to escape to Bahrain using a fake Bahraini passport for the first suspect. But they were arrested by Saudi authorities.
Nevertheless, the suspects attempted to escape two days later but this time through Yemen. They were then arrested by Yemeni authorities and handed over to the Saudi authorities.
It was found that the first defendant had already been arrested as he tried to travel to Afghanistan. He was later released and resumed his studies.
He then decided to join the ongoing Syrian war and this is when he met the second defendant.
They both agreed they wanted to go to Syria, and were preparing to join the ranks of "Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... " group via a Syrian fighter.
Saudi Arabia is trying to prevent young people from going to fight in Syria.
Many of the imported muscle flocking to Syria to join groups like the ISIS are Arabs from the Middle East and Africa, although gunnies have attracted fighters from across different countries ranging from Norway to Uzbekistan.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tribal leaders and family members of the funeral home attack have stopped Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias from lifting up debris of the strike that killed more than 80 people.
Yemeni sources confirmed that Houthi militias issued directives to quickly remove the debris and aftermath of the strikes that targeted a funeral hall in Sanaa on Saturday before the arrival of any investigative teams.
The news comes following the victims’ families and tribes releasing a statement calling the strike on the funeral a ’conspiracy’ and urged for calm and restrained pending further investigations.
Sources close to Al Arabiya News Channel say more than 80 people were killed in the strikes, among them Sanaa’s mayor Abdul-Qader Hilal and a senior figure in the ouster former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ’s party.
Houthi senior figures were also confirmed killed during the attack, among them Mubarak al-Zaydi, a member of the Houthi militias’ political office.
Denial
There was no Arab coalition air role in a strike in Sanaa on Saturday, sources in the Saudi-led coalition said.
"Absolutely no such operation took place at that target," one of the sources said, citing what he described as confirmation from the coalition air force command.
"The coalition is aware of such reports and is certain that it is possible that other causes of bombing are to be considered. The coalition has in the past avoided such gatherings and (they) never been a subject of targets."
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...Hmm. How do you say 'Reichstag' in Houthi?
Mike
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former Guantanamo inmate resettled in Uruguay in 2014 is at death's door from a two-month-old hunger strike he launched to demand authorities transfer him to another country, an official said Monday.
Jihad Diyab, a 45-year-old Syrian, launched his protest in early August, demanding to be transferred to an Arab country and reunited with his family.
"He is in serious danger," said Uruguay’s rights ombudswoman, Mirtha Guianze, describing his condition as "very critical."
"His situation has us extremely worried from a humanitarian standpoint," she told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
A Uruguayan court ruled last month that Diyab had the right to continue his hunger strike, after he briefly went into a coma, then refused to be fed through an IV.
Diyab is one of six former Guantanamo inmates resettled in Uruguay as refugees, part of a deal with the United States to help close the controversial prison set up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Accused of terrorist links, the men -- four Syrians, a Paleostinian and a Tunisian -- were never charged or tried. They had been cleared for release but could not be sent to their home countries because of unrest there.
Diyab is a veteran hunger striker, having staged prolonged hunger strikes during his 12 years at Guantanamo to protest his detention.
He began his latest hunger strike in August in a Venezuelan prison, where he was detained after leaving Uruguay undetected and showing up at the Uruguayan consulate in Caracas, demanding to be taken to his family in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Venezuela deported him back to Uruguay.
Guianze said Diyab is demanding a letter from the Uruguayan government expressly allowing him to leave the country -- which officials have said he has the right to do -- and a copy of Uruguay’s agreement with the United States on his transfer.
Uruguay says it is working to arrange his resettlement, but has yet to find a country willing to take him.
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By all means, please continue your hunger strike!
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A real hunger strike is just slow motion suicide. It might work if someone cared if you live or die. In this guy's case, nobody cares.
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Well, we can only hope that he is successful with his latest hunger strike venture. A quick google search reveals ole Jihad's sins: A Syrian terrorist that:
- hosted Abu Musab Al Zarqawi to stay in his house;
- was an expert forger;
- was a member of Asbat Al Ansar;
- wanted to attend the Khalden training camp, but attended the Khandahar airport camp instead;
some senior al Qaida members resented his assumption that he could attend an al Qaida camp without being vetted;
- some senior al Qaida members were suspicious of him because of his ties to takfiris;
The US military is to deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) counter missile battery to the Republic of Korea (RoK) as quick as possible, the White House said on 10 October in response to an official protest.
"The United States is working with the RoK to deploy this system as soon as feasible in order to more safely defend our RoK ally and US military personnel deployed to the region from the North Korea nuclear and ballistic missile threat," read the statement. A written petition decrying the deployment, created in July, garnered enough signatures (more than 100,000) to warrant a response.
The petition called the looming THAAD deployment "a controversial move that will likely … escalate tension in the region, by provoking North Korea, China, and Russia into a spiralling arms race in the region that is already heavily militarised".
That's pretty foolish. All THAAD does it make it more difficult for someone firing missiles at you to hit something. It's a defensive weapon. The protesters are reading right out of the old Soviet playbook of the late 1970s / early 1980s with the Pershing missile kerfuffle in Germany...
The White House said the move is necessary "to improve the missile defence posture of the US-RoK Alliance". After years of speculation and discussions, Washington and Seoul agreed in July to deploy THAAD, although details of the deployment are still being worked out. It is expected that a THAAD battery could deploy to South Korea sometime in 2017.
South Korean officials changed the initial plan to base the system at an artillery facility near the town of Seongju, but this met with significant opposition from locals and in late September a new location for the system was revealed to be Lotte Skyhill Country Club in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province, which is farther from densely populated areas and 680 m above sea level (300 m higher than the previously selected location).
Other details of the deployment are to be discussed during an RoK-US Security Consultative Meeting to be held on 20 October in Washington.
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"...was revealed to be Lotte Skyhill Country Club..."
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"So I'm getting ready to golf there, and the caddy told me there is a dogleg left on hole 3. I get there...no food stand, no nothing. Some places just don't do it right."
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I can attest to the lefties in Germany going apeshit when Reagan deployed the Pershings - almost got my ass kicked in Hannover, early 1987. The cops were very nice to me, got me the hell out of there.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... can’t be excluded from a possible operation to recapture the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Turkey’s president said Tuesday, telling Iraq’s leader to "know his place."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ’s remarks were likely to add to tensions between the two neighbors, which are key US partners in the fight against the ISIS group.
In a speech delivered in Istanbul, Erdogan also said Turkish troops wouldn’t withdraw from a base near Mosul, saying the Turkish army wouldn’t take orders from Baghdad. Turkey is training anti-ISIS fighters to help retake Mosul from the murderous Moslem group.
Turkey-Iraq relations became strained after Ankara sent troops late last year to the region of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul, to train anti-ISIS fighters there - a move Baghdad has since labeled a "blatant violation" of its illusory sovereignty. Iraq has demanded a Turkish withdrawal, but Ankara has repeatedly ignored the call.
Turkish officials say hundreds of their soldiers are based at Bashiqa, training more than 3,000 Turkmen, Kurdish or Sunni Arab fighters from Mosul.
Turkey says about 700 ISIS Death Eaters have been killed in retaliatory attacks against the Lions of Islam carried out from the base.
Turkish warnings about possible sectarian festivities in Mosul if the majority Sunni region were placed under Shiite militia control also have drawn Baghdad’s ire. Last week, both countries summoned each other’s ambassadors while Iraq requested an emergency session of the UN Security Council over the presence of unauthorized Turkish troops in northern Iraq.
Speaking to Moslem religious leaders from the Balkans and Central Asia, Erdogan said objections from Iraq wouldn’t stop Turkey from participating in any operation to free Mosul and proceeded to make vitriolic remarks against Iraq’s prime minister.
"You are not my interlocutor, you are not at my level, you are not my equivalent, you are not of the same quality as me," Erdogan said, addressing Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. "Your screaming and shouting in Iraq is of no importance to us. You should know that we will go our own way."
Erdogan also said Turkey wouldn’t withdraw its troops from the base in Bashiqa, adding that it was al-Abadi himself who had asked Ankara to train fighters there back in 2014.
"Turkey’s army hasn’t lost enough of its quality to take orders from you," Erdogan said in response to Iraqi calls for the troop’s withdrawal. "We would do whatever is necessary as we have done until today."
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, meanwhile, again warned that any operation to free Mosul shouldn’t lead to any demographic change. Turkish is worried that once Mosul is liberated from ISIS, Kurds or Shiite groups may take Mosul over and push out Sunni Arabs or ethnic Turkmens.
"We have explained to all of our friends that the operation planned for Mosul should be limited to removing ISIS," Yildirim said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
"If you, after removing ISIS, attempt to change Mosul’s demographic structure, you will light the fire of a very big civil war, of a sectarian war. This is our warning," Yildirim said.
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[IsraelTimes] Mahin Khan, 18, pleads guilty on terrorism charges in plea bargain
An Arizona teenager has pleaded guilty to plotting an attack on government buildings and the Tucson Jewish Community Center.
Mahin Khan, 18, pleaded guilty on Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court to charges of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons, according to reports.
Khan reportedly struck a plea bargain with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office under which he will serve a prison term of at least five years and no more than 10 years and three months, as opposed to the life sentence that he could have received. He will be sentenced on Nov. 4.
Khan was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in his parents’ home on July 1 and has been held in prison without bail for fear he would flee to Syria or Pakistain. He pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." at the time.
His parents have said that Khan is autistic and not capable of carrying out the terror attacks he had planned.
Being autistic does not necessarily mean he was not capable of it, just that he was more gullible to evil manipulations.
The FBI told the court that Khan had described himself in an email as an "American jihadist" who supports 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.... . In contact with undercover FBI agents, Khan said he wanted to carry out "lone jihadist" attacks that would kill hundreds of people in Arizona.
In addition to targeting the Tucson JCC, a Motor Vehicles office in Mesa and an Air Force recruitment center in Tucson were in his sites. Khan revealed his desire to attack the JCC while speaking with an undercover FBI employee in 2015.
Khan lived with his family in a gated community in north Tucson. He had threatened to kill his parents if they discovered his scheme and tried to turn him in.
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Khan revealed his desire to attack the JCC while speaking with an undercover FBI employee in 2015.
A mentally unstable (aren't they all?) youth born of Pakistani parents, living in a north Tuscon gated community, jailed for 5 years for talking tough to the FBI. He wanted to blow up the DMV.
I can't help but think this is a case of 'grooming'.
[Daily Excelsior] Breaking from tradition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attended the historic Ramlila celebrations here where he launched a veiled attack on Pakistain, saying those who help and provide shelter to forces of Evil cannot be spared, but made no reference to the surgical strikes.
Making terrorism the centrepoint of his over 20-minute speech, he said terror was the worst enemy of humanity and called upon the world community to speak in one voice against the menace to put an end to it.
"Terrorism does not have any boundaries. It is bound to destroy all...A need has arisen to root out those who spread terrorism. Those who help forces of Evil and provide shelter to them can no longer be spared," he said in an obvious reference to Pakistain without taking its name.
"Terrorism is against humanity. The entire world is being destroyed...If you think that we are insulated against terrorism, then we are wrong. It is a virus affecting our societies. All forces across the world have to talk in one voice and end it. It will not be possible to save humanity without eradicating terrorism," the Prime Minister said.
"The forces of humanism should unite globally to end the menace," he said.
Modi became the first Prime Minister to attend a Ramlila event outside Delhi and his participation at the Aishbagh celebrations assumes significance in the context of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh early next year.
The theme of this year’s Dussehra here was ’destruction of terrorism’. In the run up to the event today, there have been many references to the surgical strikes by characters enacting Ramlila.
In significant gestures, Modi was presented a Sudarshan Chakra, bow and arrow and a mace at the event, symbolising valour.
At the Delhi event at Ramlila Maidan, as usual, President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were present.
"No one should have this misunderstanding that they are safe from terrorism as terrorism has no boundary, no morality, it can go anywhere and it is bent upon crushing humanity...It is essential for all to come together against terrorism," Modi said.
"The entire world is being harmed. For the last two days we are seeing the picture of a little girl of Syria....And so today, when we are buring Ravana, all human forces as one will have to resolve to fight terrorism as humanity cannot be saved without bringing an end to it," he said.
Modi recalled his meeting with a top US official who had then not recognised terrorism as a problem and had instead termed it as a law and order issue. He said the world’s perspective towards terrorism changed after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
He also urged the people to remain vigilant against terrorists, saying their attempts to carry out attacks can be thwarted by alert citizens.
While celebrating Dussehra, which signifies victory of good over evil, the Prime Minister said Lord Rama represented humanity and its rich values and traditions.
He said the first person to fight terror was neither a soldier nor a politician, but the mythological bird Jatayu who fought against Ravana to protect a helpless Sita, whom he was trying to kidnap.
Noting that war at times becomes inevitable due to prevailing circumstances, he said India is a country which follows the principles of peace as taught by Lord Buddha.
"We balance between the Mohan of the Sudarshan Chakra, and the Mohan of the Charkha (Mahatma Gandhi)...We are the people who have seen yudhh (war) and Buddha. We can go from yudh to Buddha. Buddha’s path (of peace) should be our final path," he said.
Terming castiesm, communalism and nepotism as the forms of social evils present inside people, he said and there is a need to get rid of these ’Ravanas’.
Modi said on one side the country was celebrating Vijay Dashmi and on the other the world was observing the day of the girl child today and called upon people to end the menace of female infanticide and feoticide.
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[DAWN] GENEVA: The Permanent Representative of Pakistain to 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... in Geneva, Ambassador Tehmina Janjua, said on Tuesday that India’s pursuit of hegemonic policies is creating instability at the regional and global level.
She added India’s efforts for military domination in the region are contributing to the same.
"The pursuit of hegemonic policies in South Asia by India and its efforts for military domination are creating instability both at the global and regional levels," said the permanent representative at the Conference on Disarmament, a 192 member UN Committee which addresses disarmament and international security matters.
Highlighting India’s recent display of irresponsible behaviour, Janjua elaborated that South Asia’s security environment has suffered due to India’s arms build-up and a refusal to engage in any meaningful dialogue on regional security.
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[AA.TR] Fresh regiments of Iraqi forces have been deployed southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in preparation of a joint operation against ISIS in the city, an Iraqi military official said Tuesday.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Col. Abdul Sahib al-Daraji said: "The first and second regiments within [Iraqi army’s] brigade 76 of division 16 arrived in Makhmur district, 25 kilometers [15.5 miles] from the center of Mosul city.
"The regiments will move tomorrow Wednesday towards the eastern axis of Mosul and will be positioned near the Mosul Dam, which is the mobilization point of division 16, charged with carrying out military operations against ISIS from the axis of al-Khazir," al-Daraji said.
"This force is at a high level of military readiness and is supposed to have a significant role in penetrating the first line of defense of ISIS from the eastern axis of the city of Mosul," he added.
Iraqi armed forces along with the Peshmerga and other combat units were being mobilized on the outskirts of Mosul to regain the city after ISIS captured it in June 2014.
Bomb attack
At least one person was killed and eight others were maimed in a kaboom near a market in Euphrates district, west of Baghdad, Daham al-Mahmoud, a captain in the Iraqi interior ministry, said.
Separately, Iraqi bomb-disposal units in Babil province defused an bomb at the al-Risalah Park, in the center of Jableh district, some 55 kilometers (34.1 miles) northwest of Hillah, al-Mahmoud added.
ISIS stepped up its attacks in Iraqi government-held areas in recent months in conjunction with the decline of their influence on the ground in the north and west of the country.
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Muslim on Muslim violence.
Remind me again of the more "nuanced" view of such encounters.
[Ynet] The Israeli Army welded shut the entrance to the sweet shop, located in the village of al-Ram and below the family’s home; residents of the village confronted Israeli security forces in the process; in a separate operation, a house in Nablus purchased by the terrorist who supplied the weapons used in the attack that killed Na’ama and Eitam Henkin was demolished.
The IDF sealed off the entry to the candy shop belonging to the family of the terrorist who carried out Sunday’s attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The security forces welded iron rods to block the entry to the store, in which the terrorist filmed his “will” before heading out for the attack. In light of the attack, and in an effort to meet public dafety concerns, security in Jerusalem was put on high alert ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
The terrorist managed to kill two people—1st Sgt. Yossi Kirma and Levana Malihi—before being shot and killed himself by security forces.
The candy shop was closed by decree of Head of Central Command Maj. Gen. Roni Numa. The shop is set up on the first floor of the building, underneath the terrorist’s home. The welding roused members of the village to physically confront the security forces on the job, who contained the violence before it escalated further.
Following the attack, celebrations broke out in East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and candy was handed out to passersby. Palestinian media reported that the candy was provided by the terrorist’s family. The terrorist’s daughter also put out a video after word of the attack broke out, praising her father and saying their relationship “was excellent.”
In addition, the IDF also destroyed a house of Amjad Elewi, who was responsible for supplying the terror cell with the weapons that were used to kill Na’ama and Eitam Henkin in 2015 in front of their four children. He was convicted and is now serving two life sentences. Elewi’s house was only now demolished due to a delay caused by petitions made to the High Court against the move, which based their arguments on the notion that while he did supplied the weapons, he did not carry out the attack.
In December 2015, the IDF destroyed a house in Nablus belonging to the head of the terror cell that killed the Eitams, had recruited people to his cell, guided them how to execute the attack and made sure to provide them with weapons
[Ynet] Police in Thailand Tuesday said they have increased security at major landmarks in the capital Bangkok, at airports and in surrounding provinces following reports of bomb plots just weeks after deadly attacks rocked the country's south.
An gang was plotting car kabooms in a province near Bangkok, Thailand's national security head said.
"The deputy prime minister instructed security agencies closely track and monitor anything unusual including things used to prepare bombs and cars," Thawip Netniyom, chief of Thailand's National Security Council, told news hounds.
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.
Many guns imported by the Somali government with U.N. approval are being resold by arms dealers on the black market in the nation’s capital Mogadishu, two Western diplomats said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former Guantanamo inmate resettled in Uruguay in 2014 is 
The US military is to deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) counter missile battery to the Republic of Korea (RoK) as quick as possible, the White House said on 10 October in response to an official protest.
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