[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s Court of Cassation has overturned a death sentence against deposed Islamist President Mohammed Mursi of the Moslem Brüderbund and ordered a retrial.
Mursi was sentenced to death in June 2015 in connection with a mass jail break during the country’s 2011 uprising.
The first president to be democratically elected after the 2011 revolt, Mursi was tossed in mid-2013 following mass protests against his rule.
Mursi, who was immediately incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! after his overthrew, has received lengthy jail sentences related to other charges, including two high-profile espionage cases.
Tuesday’s court ruling means he no longer faces execution.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni Foreign Minister al-Mekhlafi said Tuesday that his government was not consulted on the cessation of hostilities deal announced in the same day by US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
Mekhlafi criticized the agreement saying it will jeopardize prospects of reaching peace between Yemen’s warring sides.
"The government was not aware of nor is it interested in what Secretary Kerry announced, which represents a desire to scuttle peace efforts by trying to reach an agreement with the Houthis apart from the government," Mekhlafi wrote on his official twitter page.
Mekhlafi made his statement after Kerry said the Iran-backed 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 in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and the Arab Coalition have agreed to cessation of hostilities starting on Nov. 17.
Speaking to journalists at the end of a visit to the United Arab Emirates, Kerry added that all parties to the conflict have also agreed to work to set up a Yemeni national unity government by the end of the year.
In a related story, Saudi air defense forces on Tuesday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen towards the kingdom, the coalition said.
The missile was fired towards the Najran region but was shot down, said a coalition statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Coalition forces responded by targeting the source of the fire inside Yemen, it added.
The coalition has been engaged in a bombing campaign against the Houthis and their allies since March last year, and the militias have targeted their air bases.
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Well at least Obumble is sticking with his "Smart Diplomacy".
[Dhaka Tribune] Islamabad has begun the process of asking Dhaka for around $88m that it says are "outstanding dues" that Bangladesh owes Pakistain.
According to a Pakistain Express Tribune report, Pakistain’s central bank has written to Pak commercial banks and development finance institutions, asking for details of assets and other dues receivable from Bangladesh and India.
No Bangladesh government officials have yet commented on the matter.
The State Bank of Pakistain (SBP) circular says the receivables and assets include land, buildings, furniture and fixtures, office equipment and vehicles, government securities, papers, loans, advances and investments.
According to SBP figures, the value of assets in Bangladesh’s possession is more than 9.21bn Pak Rupees, approximately $88m, at the end of June 2016. India is estimated to owe 6bn Pak Rupees, roughly $57m.
Pak Banks and financial institutions were also asked to provide details of any write-offs they made in respect of assets or dues.
The Express Tribune report, quoting SBP figures that Bangladesh as the then East Pakistain owed Pakistain’s federal exchequer, said the money in question included transactions between government offices, loans, advances and papers.
Details from banks and financial institutions that will be provided to the SBP are expected to increase the estimated outstanding dues.
Pakistain says India has been Pakistain’s debtor since the time of partition. These debts include gold reserves, sterling securities, Indian securities, rupee coins and Pakistain’s share in the Indian currency at the time of partition.
Md Shahidul Haque, secretary of Foreign Affairs Ministry, declined to comment on the matter when contacted by the Dhaka Tribune.
The issue came to the fore at a time when a serious discussion kick started in Bangladesh public sphere regarding what Bangladesh is supposed to receive from Pakistain as pre-Liberation War dues.
In 2015, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told the Jatiya Sangsad (Bangladesh Parliament) that Pakistain owes Tk18,000 crore (approx $2.3bn), which includes $2.16bn ‐ half of the wartime reserve of undivided Pakistain ‐ and $200m as the 1970 cyclone relief donated by foreign governments.
He also said these financial issues had been raised in all bilateral talks since 1977 but the Pakistain representatives are yet to respond on the matter.
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[Ynet] The New York Police Department plans to beef up security for next week's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after a recent edition of a magazine published by 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.... called the event an "excellent target."
The Nov. 11 edition of Rumiyah, the terrorist group's English language propaganda magazine, focused on vehicular attacks and specifically highlighted the iconic parade through Manhattan.
John Miller, the NYPD'S deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, says police had already implemented precautionary measures for such an attack.
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Admitting it again! Trump does not need Congress to cut off the flow!
Trump campaigned on a promise to stop the flow of refugees from the Middle East, vowing to hit the pause button on the current administration’s acceptance of refugees from the brutal civil war in Syria. Since the refugee resettlement program is administered by the U.S. State Department, a president does not need congressional approval to make the change.
And, just as we predicted! Obama may be trying to front-end the resettlement of his 110,000 refugee plan for FY2017. However, contractors beware because if you get out ahead of your federal funding, you may actually have to find private money later in the year (or go belly-up!).
The New Jersey-based agencies that have federal contracts to help refugees find housing and jobs all vow to continue to welcome people who have come to New Jersey from at least 18 countries. [Progress when mainstream media mentions that the ’religious’ groups have federal contracts!--ed]
If anything, some expect the pace of resettlement may pick up as the Obama administration tries to bring over as many families as possible before Trump takes office in January, one volunteer said. Using private contractors paid by the number of "refugees" resettled. "We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us." - Attributed to Marx, Stalin and Lenin, depending upon research.
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There going to find jobs like I'm winning the Tour de France next year. I'm training hard folks, one 12 oz. Bud Light at a time!
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Don't think the Tournalet is on the Tour this year. Stage 9 has multiple serious climbs Including Col du Grand Colobier And a return to Signal Mountain of the Kittuahs. :)
Refusing to call Islamic radicalism by name is inserting politics into warfare, asserts Gorka.
"Until politics is taken out of national security, we’re all at risk from the enemy whose name the White House refuses to use," he wrote on his website.
Refusing to recognize radical Islam has also put the fox in the henhouse.
The White House has enlisted the advice of various groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Gorka says should instead be recognized as the progenitor of twentieth-century jihadism.
"Washington must resist the continuous lobbying and subversive tactics of groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)," because these Muslim Brotherhood affiliates "helped establish ’violent extremism’ as the official label for jihadist terrorism, an act of misdirection meant to weaken our ability to identify and defeat the threat."
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... says India's violation of the ceasefire agreement at the Line of Control (LoC) is an attempt to divert the world’s attention from the atrocities it is committing against innocent people of India-held Kashmire.
Chairing a meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday to review the situation at LoC a day after seven Pak soldiers were killed in cross-border firing, the premier said escalation of tension at LoC by Indian forces is a threat to regional peace and security.
He stressed that Pakistain cannot be bullied by such tactics as "we are fully capable of defending our soil against any belligerence".
He urged the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to take notice of India's violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... briefed the premier on the latest situation after the latest skirmish at the LoC.
Aziz said the recent incidents of firing by Indian forces have resulted in the deaths of 26 and injuries to 107 civilians.
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[DAWN] Adviser to prime minister on foreign affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... on Tuesday said United States (US) president-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... would deserve Nobel prize if he intervenes and succeeds in resolving the Kashmire dispute between India and Pakistain.
"Trump would deserve Nobel prize if he helps resolve Kashmire dispute," he said on a lighter note while responding to a question regarding Trump's offer to mediate between Pakistain and India.
Aziz indicated that Pakistain will welcome any such intervention by the US president-elect Donald Trump.
The US president-elect, in an interview with an Indian newspaper in October, had said that he would be pleased to mediate between Pakistain and India.
"Well, I would love to see Pakistain and India get along, because that’s a very, very hot tinderbox. That would be a very great thing. I hope they can do it," said Trump.
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He's going to solve Kashmir dispute. Once political constraints on hydrocarbon production in USA are removed, the flow of petrodollars that promotes Islamic extremism worldwide - in particular the Kashmir dispute - will stop.
[ARA News] Qayyarah – Militiamen, Iraqi Security Forces, and civilians mutilated and dragged the bodies of at least five dead fighters of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah on October 3, 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
Anti-ISIS forces also executed at least one ISIS fighter after he surrendered.
“The Iraqi government should control its own forces and hold them accountable if it hopes to claim the moral upper hand in its fight against ISIS,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
“The failure to hold commanders and abusers to account does not bode well for the looming battle inside Mosul. Mutilation of corpses is a war crime, as is killing captured combatants or civilians,” she said.
According to HRW, the violations were carried out by both Iraqi troops and Hashad al–Asha’r militia fighters from the Maraeed tribe, local to Qayyarah and a branch of al-Jabouri tribe–one of the largest Sunni Arab tribes in Iraq.
A Video published online showed how Iraqi forces encircled an ISIS fighter and shot him dead. Another video showed a group of Iraqi children dragging a dead ISIS fighter by a rope around his ankle. They kick and beat his body with a branch, and a man in military attire with a special forces badge on one shoulder kicks the head of the corpse several times.
Furthermore, a resident of the al-Hud village beheaded the corpse of an ISIS fighter, cut out his heart, and presented the heart to his mother because the dead ISIS fighter was the one who killed the man’s father and three of his uncles.
Human Rights Watch examined photos also taken on October 3, in Qayyarah, of what appeared to be four more corpses, one with various organs outside his body and covered in blood, another stripped naked, with children kicking it. Another was strung up by his leg, at the entrance of the Qayyarah football field, which had been reduced to rubble by airstrikes.
“The Iraqi authorities should prevent armed groups with records of serious abuses from taking part in planned military operations in the city of Mosul,” Human Rights Watch said. “This includes Hashad al–Asha`ri militias and members of the [Shia majority] PMF [Popular Mobilization Units] responsible for serious rights abuses who have not been held to account.”
According to HRW, the Shia paramilitary groups such as the Badr Brigade, Hezbollah Brigade, and Imam Ali brigades operate in Qayyarah.
“The government should not stand idly by while fighters commit atrocities in its name,” Fakih said. “Political, security, and judicial officials should work together transparently to establish the truth about any abuses that take place in the course of this battle.”
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"The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ali and Sara, born in ISIS’s self-styled caliphate in northern Iraq, escaped to a camp for displaced people only to confront a new challenge -- with no identity documents, they risk joining a generation of stateless children.
After seizing large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, ISIS imposed its strict interpretation of Islamic law and began to establish the basic frameworks of statehood such as taxes and regulation.
But that project is collapsing in the face of a military campaign in Iraq to crush the myrmidons, with unexpected consequences for ordinary people escaping their grip.
Births in ISIS-controlled areas were registered with authorities that are not considered valid outside that shrinking territory - or not registered at all.
That is adding hundreds and perhaps thousands of children under the age of 2-1/2 to the growing numbers of children across the Middle East who are stateless ‐ lacking legal recognition as a citizen of any country.
Stateless children risk missing out on basic rights such as education and healthcare, are likely to face difficulties in adulthood getting a job, and are exposed to abuse and trafficking, according to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... The five-year-old civil war in neighboring Syria, which has uprooted 10 million people, threatens an even greater number of children born in areas outside Syrian government control or in refugee camps beyond its borders.
Sara was born just as the ultra-hardline Islamists stormed across Iraq in 2014. Her little brother Ali was born two years later, days before his family fled to Debaga camp from their village south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , ISIS’s last major stronghold which Iraqi forces are now battling to retake.
The children’s father, Mohammed, says he did not register either birth with ISIS.
"If you brought them a child, they would issue a birth certificate themselves in the name of their state," he said, spurning that proposition.
Some parents did register their newborns with ISIS, which issued proprietary birth certificates bearing the group’s black-and-white logo declaring "There is no god but God."
Furaq, a 22-year-old from the Mosul area, showed Rooters a lightweight pink document issued by the group when his eight-month-old son Yasser was born. It closely resembles its Iraqi equivalent.
Mahdi Waili, head of the government directorate which deals with nationality, said parents whose children do not have birth certificates would be able to go to the health ministry offices to arrange for their births to be registered.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... months after some areas in northern Iraq were retaken from ISIS, local government services have yet to be reinstated.
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Apparently the Arab press have figured out what Rush righty termed 'politics by sob story'.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Commander of Iran’s Basij forces Mohammad Reza Naghdi has said that the United States will collapse in less than 20 years and that President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... will speed up the process.
"According to the analysis made by the behind-the-stage and shadow decision-makers of the establishment in the US, the United States will collapse in 2035 and I think that it is an optimistic analysis as this will take place much earlier," Naghdi told Iranian Fars News Agency.
Noting that outgoing US President Barack Obama teachable moment... "showed the face of the US in disguise".
Naghdi also said that Trump represents "the real face of the US and he may accelerate collapse of the US".
The Basij’s militia commander has been known for controversial statements and action. He oversaw the destruction of 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers in July as part of a widespread crackdown against the illegal devices in Iran that authorities say are morally damaging.
"The truth is that most satellite channels... deviate the society’s morality and culture," he said at the time.
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Not if we bomb the living shit out of your nuclear weapons facilities first. That would you make you first out, wouldn't it? Consider it a repayment of all those pallets of cash the treasonous Obama Administration delivered to you assholes. It's time for payback, and you're not gonna like it one bit.
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Iranians need to pay attention to the old adage - Don't interfere with your opponent when he's destroying himself. Although, if one side does win the coming civil war, I wouldn't do even a fraction of the crap you've been pulling for two decades.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s Court of Cassation has overturned a death sentence against deposed Islamist President Mohammed Mursi of the 
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
