[VOA News] The Afghan Taliban urged Islamic scholars on Tuesday not to let a proposed international religious congress become a means of legitimizing the Western-backed government in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... In a message sent to the "noble scholars of the Islamic World", the Taliban said its fighters were engaged in a jihad against Western invaders and the conference should not be allowed to be interpreted as support for the "aggressors".
"The transgressing enemy now wants to pacify the Jihadi uprising of the Afghan nation through misleading propaganda, psychological warfare, undercover plots, fake fatwas and other non-military tactics like grinding of the peace processores," it said.
Afghan government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said during a visit to Riyadh last month that an Islamic scholars' conference on the situation in Afghanistan would be held in 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... , although no firm date has been announced.
The Taliban statement said the proposals were backed by the Afghan government's High Peace Council as a cover to deny legitimacy to the Lion of Islam movement.
"They want to present the sacred Jihad in Afghanistan which is on the brink of success as unlawful bloodshed which opposes the texts of Shariah and defames the name of Jihad," it said.
The message appears to put a dampener on hopes of reviving the stalled grinding of the peace processor which broke down last year almost immediately after preliminary talks began in Pakistain.
Since then, there have been various efforts to get the process started again, including a series of talks involving the United States, Pakistain, China and Afghanistan but none has so far had any success.
The Taliban has dismissed previous Islamic scholars' conferences in recent years, seeing them as instruments to grant legitimacy to the Kabul government and undermine its own position.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Libya Observer] A number of Russian experts arrived in the eastern region to support Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s Dignity Operation forces, The New Arab reported Tuesday.
"The Russian support is conducted through UAE and Egyptian mediation assistance." The newspaper added.
It also reported Libyan reliable sources as saying that the Russian experts had arrived in the areas where Haftar’s forces are in control.
"There are tens of them and they are specialized in different war-related fields." The New Arab added, saying that those were the first group out of other ones as per an agreement between Haftar and Russian officials.
It also explained that the agreement aims to reassemble Hafatr’s forces, renew the weapons system they have, and overhaul the air and naval defense systems.
"The whole air force system used by Haftar’s forces was overhauled by the Russian experts." The London-based newspaper said according to its own sources.
It indicated that the Libyan-Russian ties are being woven by the Emirati and Egyptian assistance, adding that many meetings between Tobruk government and Russian officials have been taken place in Cairo for a year, resulting in these agreements and procedures on the ground.
"Military deals are on the table between Tobruk camp and Russia and they are worth 4 billion dinars." The New Arab stated, concluding that other military groups specialized in training will also arrive in the east.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
#1
they are worth 4 billion dinars
And there you have motivations all in a nutshell.
Since we are no longer dependent on ME oil, how much latitude should Russia be allowed?
[Libya Herald] Despite earlier reports that it has stopped bombing in Sirte, the United States on Monday renewed authorisation to continue air strikes against 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.... at Sirte, after a three-month blitz failed to finally propel the Government of National Accord’s Bunyan Marsous forces to victory against the so-called Islamic State (IS).
A final round of strikes against Sirte was unleashed by attack helicopters on October 31, after which the Pentagon briefly contemplated suspending the campaign. But ground forces continued struggling to push IS fighters out of their final bastions in the shattered town, and US planners have decided the bombing must continue.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Libya Herald] Misrata members of the House of Representatives and the State Council have joined forces to demand the Presidency Council, the Central Bank of Libya and the Audit Bureau provide proper funding for the Bunyan Marsous military operation so that it can finish the battle against the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Sirte.
"The group of Misrata representatives follow with concern the continued demands by the Bunyan Marsus Operations Room for necessary financial support to run the military operations against ISIS in Sirte," a statement from them read.
The group comprises Omar Abu Leefa, Hana al-Arafi, Fathi Bashagha, Suleiman al-Fagieh, Aisha Ghaliwan, Belgassem Gzeit, Mohammed Hneish, Jamal Karwad, Mohammed Raied, Abdulrahman Sewehli and Mohammed al-Taib.
The group was formed as the united political block a couple of days ago, despite previous rivalries between some of them. Sewehli, for example, had tried to have Gzeit suspended from the State Council over a visit the latter made to Beida for talks with former GNC members who support Khalifa Hafter. Gzeit also condemned Sewehli’s move in September to declare the State Council as Libya’s sole legislature
The eleven have not gone the full step of creating a Misrata political party ‐ Sewehli still has his Union for Homeland party. Nor is it clear if the bloc created will be able to last. But it is clear that all Misrata’s politicians feel a strong need at present to defend their city’s interests on the wider Libyan political stage.
In their statement setting up the bloc, the eleven insisted that the Libyan Political Agreement provided the only means to ending the political crisis. They also rejected any move towards military control of the country.
"The civil authority is the supreme authority of the country in accordance to the democratic and constitutional laws," they said.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Iran Press TV] The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) says it has received information that the Nigerian army plans to attack processions scheduled for the mourning rituals of Arba’een.
The group’s front man, Ibrahim Musa, said on Tuesday that military intelligence officers had told the IMN that the attacks will be launched against processions scheduled for November 20 that marks 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the third Shia Imam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission has called on Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the safety of mourners taking part in the procession.
Last month, at least 20 people were killed and several others injured when Nigerian forces shot up Shia mourners commemorating Ashura, the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (Peace be upon him).
The Nigerian state of Kaduna also banned the IMN as the state crackdown against the Moslem community continues.
In December 2015, Nigerian forces raided the house of the IMN’s leader Shia Moslemholy man Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! him after killing those attempting to protect him, including one of the movement's big shots and its front man.
The raid occurred a day after Nigerian soldiers attacked Shia Moslems attending a ceremony at a religious center in the city of Zaria, accusing them of blocking the convoy of the army’s chief of staff and attempting to assassinate him.
On August 1, the Islamic Human Rights Commission released a report, saying the Nigerian army killed 348 Shia Moslems during the attack on the religious ceremony.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[Breitbart] Legendary Israeli spy Rafi Eitan, the man who caught the architect of the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann, has told Europe to stop immigration.
The former officer of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, is well known in Israel and abroad after 56 years ago capturing notorious war criminal Eichmann. At the invite of the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) Mr. Eitan told an audience in Austria that Europe must "lock [her] borders", reports Austria’s Kronen Zeitung.
When asked his opinion on the security situation of Central Europe in the wake of the migrant crisis over the last year, Mr. Eitan stated: "The Muslim world is markedly different from Western culture," adding: "When there are Muslims, now, in every European country, we must expect violence and terror."
The former spy also warned that there were many extremists now living in Austria and Europe that will "make a Muslim country out of Germany or Austria".
When asked what he thought the solution to the current migrant crisis was, Eitan gave a clear response: "Three points of advice: First, stop immigration, set your limits, and secondly, give money for incentives , so that the refugees go back to Syria or to Iraq. Thirdly, do not let them have any spare time."
Israeli Herut party leader Michael Kleiner joined Mr Eitan on his trip to Vienna and also commented on the current situation in Austria. "Do not try to kill thousands of mosquitoes, just drain the swamp," he said, adding that Austria must tackle terrorism as a global issue from the source rather than try and deal with individual terrorists and Islamists on a case-by-case basis.
Mr. Kleiner noted that immigration has to be balanced because, he said, that if there are too many migrants coming from areas like the Middle East and North Africa en masse it would result in events like the New Year’s Eve sex attacks that occurred in Cologne, Germany.
The Israelis were invited to Vienna by the anti-mass migration FPÖ who have reached out to the nation in recent years to build connections with the Israeli right. National Councillor David Lasar said the party are happy with the visit and that they will join Mr. Eitan at two events in the coming days that mourn victims of the Holocaust.
The approval from one of Israel’s most well-known intelligence experts may give FPÖ presidential candidate Norbert Hofer yet another boost ahead of the delayed election in December, after he was recently referred to as a "Nazi" by former European Union head Manuel Barroso.
While Hofer remains the favourite against former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen, polls show the vote will likely be very close.
[Iran Press TV] German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has rejected a claim by his Turkish counterpart that Berlin supports anti-Ankara "terrorist groups."
Steinmeier said on Tuesday that groups such as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were banned in Germany.
"The PKK and other krazed killer parties are banned as terrorist groups here. They are criminally prosecuted," the German foreign minister said, adding, "That is why I cannot understand the comments made about Germany today in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Germany on Tuesday of being the country offering the highest level of support to the leftist murderous Moslem group of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, also known as the DHKP-C, and the PKK, which has staged armed attacks against Turkey.
"Germany is the country that supports terrorist organizations against Turkey the most," Cavusoglu said in the Turkish capital Ankara. "The DHKP-C and PKK are carrying out activities in Germany, but they support those because they are against Turkey."
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
Ankara-The trial of 36 suspected ISIS group militants has begun on Monday in Ankara for Oct. 10, 2015 double suicide bombings that killed more than 100 people in the capital just over a year in the deadliest attack in Turkey.
The bombing outside Ankara’s main train station targeted mainly young people attending a peace rally of pro-Kurdish activists that was to start later that day.
The twin suicide bombing took place in NATO member Turkey 20 days before a fiercely contested general election, raising tensions between the authorities and opposition supporters among the Kurdish community, Turkey’s largest minority.
Thirty-five of the suspects are Turkish while one –Valentina Slobodjanjuk – is a Kazakh citizen.
Several of the suspects face multiple sentences of up to 11,750 years in prison each on charges of murder and seeking to change the constitutional order.
Others have lesser charges of being a member of ISIS and face up to 22.5 years in prison.
The hearing took place under the highest security, with security forces in body armor and helmets standing guard inside the courtroom, images showed.
The authorities have identified one of the suicide bombers as Turkish citizen Yunus Emre Alagoz; the other was a Syrian citizen who has yet to be identified.
ISIS has grown increasingly active in Turkey, which has in the last year been hit by a string of major suicide bombings blamed on ISIS including a triple attack at Istanbul’s main airport in June that left 47 dead and an August blast at a Kurdish wedding in the southeastern city of Gaziantep that killed 57 people, 34 of them children.
ISIS, which is believed to operate sleeper cells in major Turkish cities, never claimed these attacks.
A news agency affiliated with ISIS said they staged a bombing on the southeastern city of Diyarbakir last week that killed 11. If confirmed, it would be the first claim by ISIS for an attack in Turkey.
But Sunday, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), seen as an splinter group of the better-known Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said it had carried out the attack.
Posted by: badanov ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[al-Manar] Ankara accused Washington on Tuesday of arming Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Syria despite assurances to the contrary.
The United States continues to supply weapons to Kurdish forces in Syria despite assurances to the contrary, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
“The US says it does not give weapons to the YPG [People’s Protection Units], but we know that they do. We see that the YPG and the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] are the same and arming them is wrong. We know that the US continues to give them weapons, and we have expressed our concerns with the fact,” Cavusoglu said.
The diplomat stressed that similar mechanisms for better coordination exist not only with the US, but with other countries, including Russia.
Posted by: badanov ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
#1
I wish we were arming the YPG
Posted by: lord garth ||
11/09/2016 0:09 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Individual americans are sending money to them.
[AA.TR] The leader of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party has voiced support for the arrests of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies.
At his party's parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday, Devlet Bahceli made clear his party's position on the arrest of HDP deputies.
"The fundamental duty of the state is to bring people who say 'I do not recognize the law’ to justice," said Bahceli.
"Qandil's law is not valid here, but The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's law is," stressed Bahceli referring to the Qandil Mountains in northeastern Iraq where the terrorist organization PKK is known to have camps and its headquarters.
"Nobody should forget [...] that the betrayal to Turkey has never gone unpunished," said Bahceli.
Since last Friday, a total of 10 HDP politicians, including co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, were remanded in jug for failing to answer public prosecutors’ summons concerning an ongoing counter-terrorism probe.
Diyarbakir deputies Ziya Pir and Imam Tascier, and Ankara Deputy Sirri Sureyya Onder were released under judicial control.
"Being elected does not give the right to aid and abet in a crime," said Bahceli adding that those who wanted to topple the constitutional order could not be forgiven.
Bahceli also criticized the main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) position on the arrests.
"Considering this as an occasion of mourning by the CHP is not reciprocated in the nation's conscience," he said.
The CHP has said the arrests were "against the constitution".
Bahceli also addressed the HDP's suspension of its parliamentary activities.
"The Turkish Grand National Assembly is on duty. Nobody goes into mourning for the decision of terror's stooges," he said.
HDP, on Sunday, announced the suspension of its parliamentary activities following the arrests.
The government has accused the HDP of links to the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and EU.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[AA.TR] The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini's statements concerning The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... were "unacceptable".
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said the EU "had lost credibility among Turkish people" concerning the fight against terrorism.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... issued a statement Tuesday, calling on Turkey to "safeguard its parliamentary democracy, including the respect for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , the rule of law, fundamental freedoms and the right of everyone to a fair trial, also in conformity with its commitments as a candidate country."
The statement issued by Mogherini said the recent events in Turkey were "extremely worrying".
Turkey "should pursue" the PKK as a terrorist group but the arrest of politicians from "a legal Kurdish party was polarizing society," the statement said.
"A return to a credible political process and to a genuine political dialogue is essential for the country's democracy and stability in the region," it added.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry, in its statement, responded: "The EU -- which did not give us the support we expected from them after the July 15 coup attempt and adopted a prejudiced attitude -- unfortunately insists on not understanding Turkey's sensitivities regarding the fight against terrorism."
The co-chairs and several other deputies of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been remanded in jug since Friday for failing to answer summons linked to a counter-terrorism investigation before public prosecutors.
The politicians face prosecution under anti-terrorism laws after their parliamentary immunity was lifted earlier this year.
[DeutscheWelle] The German minister of state for Europe has said that the country would willingly receive asylum requests. Germany is "open to all those politically persecuted as a matter of principle," he has told German media.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[AA.TR] The build-up of tanks and armored vehicles in the border town of Silopi will prevent PKK gunnies from securing a base in northern Iraq’s Sinjar region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday.
Reiterating earlier comments by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s defense minister and president, Cavusoglu warned that Turkey would not stand by while the PKK expanded their influence across the region.
"We have taken our measures especially against the PKK, which is trying to turn Sinjar, under the guise of protecting Ezidis, into Qandil," he said, referring to the PKK’s main base on the Iraq-Iran border.
"One of the purposes of sending a certain number of troops and our armed forces lately is this. We will never allow such things. We will not."
Armored columns headed into Silopi, which lies on the Turkish border with Iraq and Syria, last week.
The operation to liberate djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from ISIS has seen the PKK move into Sinjar, an area heavily populated by Ezidis that lies around 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Mosul and around 100 km (62 miles) southwest of the Turkish border.
The PKK and its Syrian offshoot the PYD are listed as terror groups by Turkey although the U.S. and EU only view the PKK as a terrorist organization.
Cavusoglu was speaking at a parliamentary planning and budget commission in capital Ankara.
Last week, Defense Minister Fikri Isik said Turkey was not obliged to wait behind its borders if PKK gunnies moved into Sinjar. Previously, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... had warned that the terror group was already in the area.
Cavusoglu said Ankara had warned the governments in Baghdad and Erbil, capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, as well as coalition officials against allowing a PKK foothold in the region.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[AA.TR] The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, recently met Cemil Bayik, a leader of the PKK terrorist group, in Iraq’s northern city of al-Sulaymaniyah, a Kurdish website has reported.
According to the basnews website, Soleimani asked Bayik to send PKK holy warriors in Sinjar to take part in an ongoing campaign aimed at capturing Iraq’s northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from the ISIS terrorist group.
Linked to the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), the basnews website is based in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
While in al-Sulaymaniyah (also located in the Kurdish region), Soleimani reportedly promised Bayik that Iran would increase its financial and military support to the PKK if the group’s fighters took part in the Mosul campaign.
He also reportedly asked Bayik to bolster the PKK’s presence in parts of Iraq that fall within Iran’s sphere of influence.
According to the website, the meeting came directly after members of Iraq’s central government "provided facilities to the PKK in Baghdad in which to establish a military and political headquarters".
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Shahfan Abdullah, an MP for the KDP and a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, pointed out that, according to an agreement with a U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, PKK holy warriors would be targeted if they approached Mosul from the Sinjar Mountain region.
This, he said, did not only apply to the PKK, but also to the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia and affiliated groups.
Established in mid-2014 with the express aim of fighting ISIS, the Hashd al-Shaabi is an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias.
Abdullah went on to assert that Iranian military experts had recently visited the Mosul front and held a number of meetings with Hashd al-Shaabi leaders.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[AA.TR] Five students have been tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for allegedly attacking police personnel after they were identified from images taken during disturbances that followed a mass demonstration against a governor seen to insult the Koran.
Tuesday's arrests comes as the country awaits a live television show on the allegations made against Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, due to be broadcast Nov. 15 or 16.
Jakarta police spokesperson Commissioner Awi Setiyono said Tuesday that the five are members of an Islamic organization involved in Friday's protest and they were arrested early Tuesday in various places in the capital.
"They are all members of the Islamic Students Association (HMI)," Setiyono told Anadolu Agency by phone.
The men are being held on charges of committing violent affray on Friday when trouble broke out outside the presidential palace after what had been a peaceful protest against Ahok by around 100,000 Moslems.
The governor -- a Christian -- is accused of publicly insulting Islam, however he says he was calling for people not to be "deceived" by those using a Koranic verse, Al Maidah: Chapter 51, not that the verse itself was insulting.
Setiyono said Tuesday that one of those held was a 23-year-old man caught on a news hound's camera trying to hit police with a bamboo pole.
"He attacked police after his friends did," said Setiyono. "They were provoked after someone read over loudspeakers that they should not be afraid [of the police] and move forward."
On Tuesday, national police spokesperson Commissioner Martinus Sitompul told Anadolu Agency that police would carry out President Joko Widodo's order to perform a transparent case screening on national television next week.
"The case is planned for Tuesday or Wednesday," said Sitompul.
The live legal broadcast is the first of its kind in Indonesia, and organized to answer any questions the public may have, while dealing with any accusations of bias
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
[CEBUDAILYNEWS.INQUIRER.NET] The Carcar City Police is studying what action to take against a teenager, who posted on her Facebook page a false information about a supposed Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group allegedly cornering a Ceres Bus in Barangay Ocaña, Carcar City, Cebu.
Chief Insp. Jose Liddawa, Carcar City Police Chief, said they were considering pressing charges against the 17-year-old Information Technology and Communications student of a school in Argao town, who posted the false information on her FB page last Nov. 7, to stop others from also spreading false information on social media.
A person could be held liable for spreading a hoax or false information under two penal laws‐Presidential Decree No. 90 of 1973, which penalizes rumor mongering and spreading false information and Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
"But if we don’t do anything, this might lead other malicious Facebook users to follow and spread more false information," said Liddawa.
Liddawa said that there were never any Abu Sayyaf group in the city and that what happened last Monday night was only a vehicular accident. "I was at the cop shoppe that night and we’ve never tracked such report. Malakas lang siguro yung imagination nung batang ’yun," Liddawa said in a phone interview.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf
[ARA News] Kobane – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched on November 6th a new military operation against the Islamic State’s (ISIS) capital, Raqqa, and have so far liberated several areas north of Raqqa Governorate. Several military factions are participating in the battle, known as the Euphrates Wrath Operation, among them the all-female Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).
Nisrin Abdullah, the YPJ’s Official Spokesperson, told ARA News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that their participation in the Raqqa campaign is aimed to free the people of Raqqa from ISIS suppression, especially the women.
“The Women’s Protection Units is one of the main factions participating in the anti-ISIS battle for Raqqa,” she said. “The YPJ units have experience in combat and military operations. We will play an effective role in the Raqqa campaign.”
“The Raqqa operation is highly important for us. Raqqa is different from any other city, as it represents the capital of the ISIS self-declared caliphate,” Nisrin told ARA News.
According to the Kurdish official, the YPJ is participating in the battle for Raqqa in response to a call by the women of Raqqa. “We assure them that we will fight, at the frontline, until liberating Raqqa,” she said.
“The YPJ has participated in most of the military campaigns in Rojava and northern Syria. Our women have joined the frontline and fought heavy battles. The YPJ has always played a leading role, especially in the fight against ISIS and in the liberation movement,” Nisrin said.
“We have earlier fought for Manbij and participated in liberating its people, especially the women, from suppression by ISIS terrorists. Later on we handed the city over to its people and we retreated towards our headquarters,” she said.
The YPJ spokesperson told ARA News that liberating Raqqa would mean defeating ISIS.
“This liberation would break down the radical group’s will and eventually lead to its collapse. However, this won’t be an easy battle, as ISIS has for long worked on fortifying the city. We expect this enemy to be highly prepared to fight for its main stronghold in Syria,” she said.
“We are freedom fighters, and we won’t stop until liberating our people from terror groups,” she concluded. Video report at the link
Posted by: badanov ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[AA.TR] Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) on Tuesday denied remarks by a high-ranking Iranian official in which he said that KRG President Masoud Barzani had allowed the Saudi consulate in Erbil (the KRG’s administrative capital) to supply weapons to a group hostile to Iran.
The KRG described the assertion -- made earlier the same day by Major-General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a special advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei-- as "baseless" and "lacking in evidence".
Such assertions, the KRG said in a statement, "serve to destabilize the long and friendly relations between the KRG and Iran".
"We challenge Safavi to produce a single document proving that the [Kurdish] regional government poses a threat to Iran," the KRG said, going on to voice hope that Safavi’s remarks did not represent official Iranian policy.
At a news conference held in Tehran earlier Monday, Safavi noted that the KRG and Barzani enjoyed "good relations" with 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... , Israel and the U.S.
He went on to accuse the KRG and its president of allowing the recently-opened Saudi consulate in Erbil to supply arms to a group -- he did not say what group -- that was "hostile to Iran".
Posted by: Fred ||
11/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
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.
