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-Land of the Free
Huma Abedin's extensive Muslim Brotherhood ties
Former US Federal Prosecutor Andrew C McCarthy gave this speech in 2012 about the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of the US Government and its intel agencies

He warns that Erdogan finances Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch.

It is extensive on Huma's Muslim Brotherhood ties beginning around 33 minutes in.

Not just 3 family members including her late father and her mother have ties with Muslim Brotherhood operatives and organisations.

She herself does.

This is an excellent speech. Why wasn't he listened to?

He wrote The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America in 2010

Clearly none of it was listened to.

Let's hope Mr Trump will listen
Posted by: anon1 || 10/31/2016 01:47 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban reveal relations with Iran
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Mullah Zabihullah, the official front man of the "Afghan Taliban" and the second man in the movement revealed the presence of relations and new networks with Iran.

"The movement is trying to benefit from all legitimate means to reach a regional agreement as part of the war against the American invasion; therefore, the Imara holds ongoing networks with a large number of regional and neighboring states."

He said to the London based Asharq al-Awsat in an email 18 months ago, that the movement had received drone planes, which help film suicidal operations.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
he refused to reveal the side providing such advanced equipment, but asserted that the "movement is expecting to soon receive more advanced weapons."

Commenting on reports saying that Taliban had appointed a representative in Iran, Zabihullah said: "We heard these reports, but they are untrue."

Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Arabia
Death toll in Soddy air raid raises to 46
[al-Manar] The death toll from raids of the Saudi-US aggression on Yemen on the Zaidi Directorate Security Administration in Hodeidah Governorate rose to 46 martyrs and 38 wounded.

Al-Massira website suggests that the toll would rise as search and rescue operations are still ongoing. The site reported that most of the martyrs are prisoners of the Zaidi directorate, pointing out that nearly 130 prisoners were in the jail during the raids.

Earlier at dawn on Sunday, the initial toll of martyrs was more than 46 people, and 20 people at least.

The Health Bureau in Hodeidah province launched a distress call to donate blood for the wounded, pointing out that 15 injured were transferred to the military hospital, 3 were taken to the May 22 hospital and one is treated in the Revolution Hospital.

The Hodeidah massacre comes in light of the lies driven by the Saudi-led aggression media against the Yemeni military and the Popular Committees Forces to cover up its crimes against the Yemeni people.
Posted by: badanov || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Up to 50 UK families have had their children taken into care over fears they were being radicalised by jihadi-supporting parents
[DailyMail, of course] o Counterterrorism police boss warns over number of radicalized families

o Mark Rowley said parents had tried to take teenagers to Syria to join ISIS

o Last week couple arrested over trying to fly their five children to Syria

o More than 700 people from UK have gone to fight for terror groups
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


British police investigate raising of Hezbollah flags on Ashura
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British police are investigating an incident where flags affiliated with the Lebanese murderous Moslem Hezbollah group were raised during Shiite Moslem commemorations earlier this month.

Demonstrators on Oct. 12 have reportedly raised "Hezbollah" flags at a procession marking Ashura.

Raising Hezbollah’s flag falls under the penalty of anti-terrorism laws according to British laws.

"By the virtue of Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000, whoever shows a flag or any other instrument in public place, aiming at raising doubts on his/her affiliation or support for an outlawed group, is considered to have committed a crime," read a statement by Scotland Yard on Friday, received by Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Several Moslem leaders in Britannia condemned the politicization of the procession by raising slogans and chants that were not linked to the annual religious commemoration.

Protests are usually filmed by Scotland Yard arrests could be made among the people who hoisted Hezbollah’s flag at the procession.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Europe
Europe migrants colonists
From Breitbart:
Tired of Waiting in Greece, Syrians Bid to Return Home
30 Oct 2016
“I want to go back to Syria. There is war in my country, but we’ve been living for seven months in Greece like prisoners.”

Hundreds of Migrants Pitch Tents on Paris Streets as Calais Camp Shuts
30 Oct 2016
The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the “Jungle” shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said on Friday.

Integrate Into Migrant Cultures To Make Newcomers Welcome, Germans Told
30 Oct 2016
A sociologist in Germany has blamed Germans for the lack of progress in integrating new migrants to the country claiming that the Germans themselves need to integrate into migrant cultures. Sociologist Annette Treibel has a message for Germans when it comes

French president vows to clear Paris streets of migrant camp
30 Oct 2016
[Ynet]French President Francois Hollande vowed Saturday to shut down a bulging migrant camp in Paris, after his government moved 5,000 people from a camp in northern France in an overdue effort to tackle the migrant crisis.

The makeshift camps in Calais on the English Channel and in the French capital have become visible symbols of the country's struggle to accommodate migrants and refugees seeking better lives in Europe.

"We cannot tolerate camps," Hollande said, calling the street encampments "not worthy" of France. "We will evacuate the camps in Paris, because it cannot be a long-lasting solution." He also notably played down concerns that the closure of the Calais camp this week has driven its residents to the sidewalks of Paris, notably near the Stalingrad subway station.
From the Daily Mail:
Theresa May REBUFFS Francois Hollande's demand for Britain to 'do its part' to settle 1,500 child refugees left after demolition of the Calais Jungle
30/10/16
Theresa May told Francois Hollande in no uncertain terms that Britain had already committed to taking a 'considerable' number of child refugees from Calais.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


The Grand Turk
Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants, shuts media in latest crackdown
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and U.S.-based holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
KANSAS: Republican Mailer asks voters "Have you met the new neighbors?" (your ‘Muslim terrorist' neighbors)
[BareNakedIslam] Wichita Eagle - The other side of the mailer touts Republican Rep. Joseph Scapa's support for funding to train Kansas law enforcement officers to "recognize and deal with foreign and domestic threats to our state, from those who support ideologies that are in conflict with the U.S. Constitution and our Kansas values."

Clay Barker, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said similar mailers are being sent out around the state.

"We did polling and focus groups, and the one issue that got overwhelming positive response and was associated with Republicans was safety," Barker said. "You know, Gitmo, that article that came out back in August that ISIS had named soldiers for assassinations, police being shot and those knuckleheads in Garden City, it all kind of added up to a security issue ... the whole feeling that's there violence out there. And it’s a positive issue for Republicans."

The Republican mailer specifically depicts ISIS, the Islamic terror group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq.

Robert McCraw, director of government affairs for the designated terrorist group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) in Washington, D.C., called the mailers "a shameful example of scare mongering tactics that I hope the Republican Party can learn to move away from." He said it was appalling for the state party "to falsely insinuate that the state's Muslim population is linked to terror groups like ISIS." "This flier verges on incitement of violence to Muslims."

The Republican-controlled Legislature has passed resolutions opposing the possible transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Fort Leavenworth. Barker said there are several variations of the mailers. One depicts an explosion from a terrorist attack. "Its one of the few (issues) that was a clear, like high 80 percent positive and associated with Republicans," Barker said.

Barker also said the party is sending out mailers highlighting Republicans' support for ousting four of the sitting Kansas Supreme Court justices, portraying Democrats who support retaining the justices as soft on crime.

Rep. Joseph Scapa, who said he saw the mailer before it was sent out, focused his comments about the mailer more on Muslim refugees, who he says pose a potential security threat.

"We have people coming into our state from parts of the world who believe in ideologies that are incompatible with the United States Constitution and our Kansas values and that poses a threat," Scapa said. "We know for a fact that we cannot vet the people that are coming into our state from other parts of the world ... where they believe in ideologies that we don't."

Scapa's opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Bishop, criticized the mail campaign, saying the mailers could contribute to animosity toward Muslims in Wichita. (One can only hope)

Led by Republican Governor Sam Brownback the state of Kansas informed the Obama administration this week that it is defying its dictates for Kansas to cooperate in the resettlement of refugees from Syria. In a letter to Robert Carey, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Brownback wrote, "The State of Kansas hereby withdraws its Refugee Resettlement Program State Plan and terminates its participation in all federal refugee resettlement grants and programs, effective at the earliest possible date."

Brownback added that he was taking his action to "protect the safety and security interests of the State of Kansas."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scroll up to Up to 50 UK families have had their children taken into care over fears they were being radicalised by jihadi-supporting parents
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2016 9:45 Comments || Top||


Iraq
First mass in two years held in Iraq's main Christian town
[AlAhram] A handful of faithful gathered in a burnt out church Sunday for the first mass to be celebrated in two years in Qaraqosh, which was once Iraq's main Christian town.

Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh from 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 days earlier, as part of a massive offensive to wrest back the country's second city djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
"After two years and three months in exile, I just celebrated the Eucharist in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception the Islamic State wanted to destroy," Yohanna Petros Mouche, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, said.

"But in my heart it was always there," Mouche, who officiated with four priests, told AFP.

IS jihadists took over swathes of Iraq in June 2014, also taking Mosul where the prelate was based.

He moved to Qaraqosh, a town with a mostly Christian population of around 50,000 that was controlled by Kurdish forces and lies east of Mosul in the Nineveh plain.

But a second jihadist sweep towards Kurdish-controlled areas two months later forced around 120,000 Iraqi Christians and members of other minorities to leave their towns and villages.

"We had no other choice but to convert or become slaves. We fled to preserve our faith. Now we're going to need international protection," Father Majeed Hazem said.

Donning a resplendent chasuble and stole, Mouche led mass on an improvised altar in front of a modest congregation mostly made up of members of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), a local Christian militia.

"I can't describe what I'm feeling. This is my land, my church," said Samer Shabaoun, a militiaman who was involved in operations to retake Qaraqosh.

"They used everything against us: they shot at us, they sent boom-mobiles, suicide kaboomers. Despite all this, we're here."

Shortly before Sunday's mass, the soldiers now guarding Qaraqosh were surprised to find two elderly women in a bouse, one of them bedridden.

"We stayed the whole of the occupation by the Islamic State, from the first day. Sometimes they would bring us food," one of them said.

The bell tower of the church was damaged, statues decapitated and missals strewn across the nave floor, which is still covered in soot from the fire the jihadists lit when they retreated.

But some of the crosses have already been replaced and a new icon was laid on the main altar, where the armed militiamen took turns to light candles.

"This church is such a powerful symbol that if we hadn't found it like this, damaged but still standing, I'm not sure residents would have wanted to come back," Mouche said.

"But the fact that it's still here gives us hope," the blue-eyed prelate, who wears thin-rimmed glasses and sports a neatly trimmed white goatee, said as he surveyed the damage in Qaraqosh after mass.

It could be months before former residents return to a town that needs to be cleared of bombs left behind by IS and whose infrastructure suffered badly.

The seminary library was completely burnt down and the ashes were still warm.

"This is barely a few days old -- the jihadists torched it when soldiers started entering the town," Mouche said.

In the course of his visit to Qaraqosh, the archbishop recited ritual phrases to "purify" various buildings, holding a cross in one hand and swinging a thurible of incense with the other.

Jihadists appear to have used the cloister-like back yard of the cathedral for target practice.

The ground was littered with casings, the pillars riddled with bullet impacts and IS instructors even left behind a board detailing the workings of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The Iraqi offensive on Mosul launched two weeks ago has yet to reach the city borders, and commanders have warned it could last months but Mouche was optimistic: "I hope to celebrate a Christmas mass in Mosul cathedral."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah stooge set to become president of Lebanon
[FOXNEWS] Barring any surprises, a former Lebanese general and a strong ally of the holy warrior Hezbollah group is poised to be elected Leb's president next week, formally ending a two-year vacuum in the country's top post and a political crisis that has paralyzed the troubled Mideast nation.

Michel Aoun
...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
, an 81-year-old veteran Christian leader, will likely be chosen by Parliament on Monday as part of a deal that's expected to give not just a boost for Hezbollah but also to the Shiite group's ally, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
The strong-willed Maronite Catholic general notoriously led a "war of liberation" against the Syrian army in Leb in 1989-90, but reconciled with the Syrian leadership in 2005 after Syria pulled out of Leb. He has been a strong supporter of Hezbollah's involvement on the side of Assad in the neighboring country's civil war, now in its sixth year.

Analysts believe Aoun's pick will also affect regional politics beyond Leb and Syria and have implications for the rivalry between the Sunni power Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the mostly Shiite Iran.

"Aoun's election is a clear victory for the pro-Iranian axis in the Levant and another climb down for Saudi Arabia," wrote Paul Salem, vice president for policy and research at the Washington-based Middle East Institute.

Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2016-10-31
  19 Lashkar-e-Taiba Terrorists Killed In Airstrikes In Afghanistan
Sun 2016-10-30
  Dozens die as Syrian Army convoy is hit
Sat 2016-10-29
  Turkey launches crackdown on Kurds, cuts internet
Fri 2016-10-28
  Jailed Qaeda Leader Killed in Yemen’s Lahij
Thu 2016-10-27
  ISIS, al-Nusra slug it out in eastern Lebanon
Wed 2016-10-26
  Tunisia arrests two US citizens over ties with Daesh
Tue 2016-10-25
  Gunmen kill 59 in attack on police academy in Pakistani city of Quetta
Mon 2016-10-24
  Egyptian air force hammers Sinai jihadists, 70 said killed
Sun 2016-10-23
  Senior Egypt military officer shot dead near Cairo
Sat 2016-10-22
  Bangladesh Says Head of Group Blamed for Cafe Siege Dead
Fri 2016-10-21
  Christian Refugees Facing Persecution in Germany
Thu 2016-10-20
  Militias fighting among each other in Tripoli
Wed 2016-10-19
  Drone strike kills 8 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Tue 2016-10-18
  Battle for Mosul On
Mon 2016-10-17
  Three Attackers Killed in Myanmar as Violence Persists


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