[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) expressed its interest to interrogate the five alleged New JMB Lions of Islam who were reportedly tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by the elite crime busting unit on Wednesday night from different parts of the capital.
A 40-year-old Islamic spiritual leader and a 27-year-old explosives expert were among the group detained in a series of raids in the capital late Wednesday and early Thursday.
Abul Kalam Azad, director of intelligence wing of RAB on Friday told the Dhaka Tribune that they would seek permission from the Home Ministry to investigate the case, confirming the common knowledge that the RAB and police are evidently not on the best of terms.
Azad said: "Usually, after a case is field, the police take charge of the investigation. But as we are working on controlling militancy since the agency’s inception, we want to investigate the whole issue."
Earlier on Wednesday night, a team of the elite force detained Maulana Abdul Hakim Faridi alias Sufian, 40, Rajibul Islam alias Ahmed, 29, Gazi Kamrus Salam Sohan alias Abu Abdullah, 27, Md Sohel Rana alias Khadem alias Moazzin alias Shahidullah, 23, and Sheikh Md Abu Saleh alias Liton alias Huraira, 42, from Airport Railway Station and Adabar areas in the capital.
"They belonged to Sarwar-Tamim group of the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)," RAB said in a statement, referring to the myrmidon group the government has blamed for the July attack.
"As the arrestees played a very important role for New JMB, we need to know about their other activities and accomplices," Azad added.
It is mentionable that there have been a few instances in the recent past that indicate a rift within these two forces, and expression of RAB’s interest to interfere into police responsibility clearly shows that the rift is widening.
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in RAB parlance, 'grill' is a verb, not a noun: as in :'fire up the grill to heat the #5 mustache pliers.'
[Gladstone] According the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) -- part of the Council of Europe -- the British press is to blame for increasing hate speech and racist violence. On October 4, 2016, the ECRI released a report dedicated only to Britain. The report said:
some traditional media, particularly tabloids... are responsible for most of the offensive, discriminatory and provocative terminology. The Sun, for instance, published an article in April 2015 entitled "Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants", in which the columnist likened migrants to "cockroaches"...
The Sun newspaper has also published inflammatory anti-Muslim headlines, such as its front page of 23 November 2015 which read "1 in 5 Brit Muslims' sympathy for jihadis", along with a picture of a masked terrorist wielding a knife...
The ECRI report establishes a direct causal link between some tough headlines in British tabloids and the security of the Muslims in the UK. In other words, the British press is allegedly inciting readers to commit "Islamophobic" acts against Muslims.
ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fueling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety. Con't
Turkey reopened an important border gate with Syria on Nov. 17, two days after an outbreak of fighting across the frontier between two fractions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels that are fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria as part of the Euphrates Shield Operation.
The Öncüpınar crossing point in the southeastern province of Kilis has reopened, Kilis Governor İsmail Çataklı told state-run Anadolu Agency.
On Nov. 14 Turkey temporarily closed the gate but Çataklı said on Nov. 17 that the situation on the Syrian side had returned to normal.
The crossing, which is a major point for traffic between Turkey and opposition-held areas of northern Syria, lies around six kilometers (four miles) from the Syrian town of Azaz, which is controlled by Turkey-backed opposition groups.
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Mohammed Hamzah Khan had just been sentenced to a little more than three years in prison Friday for trying to fly overseas to join the Islamic State terrorism group when the judge told him to pay close attention to the way he'd just been treated under U.S. law.
Though Khan had faced up to 15 years behind bars, he'd instead been given a remarkable second chance, U.S. District Judge John Tharp said. He was afforded his right to counsel, his family and friends were allowed to support him in court and federal authorities had agreed to provide resources for years to come to get his life back on track.
It was the opposite of what he would have faced under Islamic State's brand of justice, Tharp said.
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The picture doesn't look like what I would call a man from Illinois. He looks more like a colonist.
Six inmates at MCI Norfolk are facing discipline after a probe into information that some convicts at the prison’s Muslim chapel were preaching jihad speeches by a former Al Qaeda recruiter, FOX25 Investigates has learned.
FOX25 confirmed a report that inmates used recordings from Al Qaeda recruiter and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed years ago in a drone strike, to preach jihad to others at the state prison.
The state Department of Correction has confirmed six inmates who attended the prison’s Muslim chapel are facing discipline for setting up a structure of power over other inmates, requiring uniforms and demanding contracts of allegiance.
Martin Horn, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who once led New York City’s prison system and set up an intelligence center on Rikers Island, said law enforcement officials need to look at more than just the jihad preaching.
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[DAWN] Indian authorities imposed curfew-like restrictions in different parts of held Kashmir, including Srinagar, barring people from offering Friday prayers at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid for the 19th consecutive week.
Large contingents of police and paramilitary troops were deployed on roads and all the entry and exit points of Srinagar were blocked with concertina wires and other barricades to prevent the assembly of people, local Current News Service (CNS) said, quoting witnesses.
All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and JKLF chief Yasin Malik remained under house arrest.
The Mirwaiz delivers sermon at the Jamia Masjid every Friday.
The agency said that roads in Srinagar and other major towns witnessed thin traffic and all shops and businesses remained closed.
There were reports of minor clashes in different parts of held Kashmir, in which four people were injured.
In Anantnag, police arrested Hurriyat leader Mir Hafizullah for leading a pro-freedom rally in Hakura village near Dialgam.
Mr Hafizullah, who organised hundreds of rallies during the ongoing uprising, was evading arrest for a long time despite numerous raids by police at his home.
In one of such raids, his brother was also arrested.
A police official said that Mr Hafizullah was wanted in 25 cases.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) during a weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Friday said that Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's recent 'no first use' statement on India's nuclear doctrine "amounts to nothing", according to a statement shared by the Press Information Department.
FO Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said, "Pakistan believes the ambiguous 'no first use' declaration is not verifiable and amounts to nothing. It can't be a substitute for verifiable arms control and restraint measures proposed by Pakistan's standing offer of Strategic Restraint Regime."
The spokesman said that such a statement by the defence minister of a country that repeatedly and constantly heightens tension with an aggressive posture should be a matter of concern not just for countries of the region but also a threat to global peace and security.
The statement comes as an extraordinary plenary session of the NSG specially convened to discuss India's membership of the bloc concluded without the members reaching any consensus. India has been pushing for NSG membership before the end of 2016.
The NSG is a 48-nation club dedicated to curbing nuclear arms proliferation by controlling the export and re-transfer of materials that could foster nuclear weapons development.
The group's membership has signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty but India has refused to do so.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and the US president-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone Friday for the first time since Mr Trump was elected to the office earlier this month. The American leader told Abadi that Iraq “will find strong and deep support” from the United States under his presidency.
“You are essential partners to us and you will find strong and deep support.” Mr Trump told the Iraqi PM, according to a statement from the Iraqi PM’s office.
Mr Abadi congratulated Mr Trump on winning the US presidential elections, and “expressed Iraq's willingness to expand the scope of relations between the two countries.”
Both sides also discussed the ongoing war against the so-called Islamic State, and the offensive to retake the Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul.
“Mr. Trump also extended an invitation to Dr. Al-Abadi to visit the United States and meet with Mr. Trump soon after the inauguration ceremonies next January.” the statement added.
Iraqi government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told Rudaw soon after the results for the US election came out that Mr Trump’s victory will not impact or change its bilateral relations with the United States, including the war against terror.
“The Iraqi-American strategic agreement, including the economy and war on terror are all mutual files between the two countries and these ties will remain as they are and will not change anything between Iraq and the United States,”
Al-Hadithi said, “There are common interests and mutual relations between Iraq and America and I don’t expect any of this to change with Trump’s victory,”
Al-Hadithi whose government has a strategic security agreement with the US said that the election of Trump is only a change in names.
“For the past eight years the democrats have been in power in the United States and today the republicans have won, but this is only the change of people and names and not policy,” he argued. “Politics will stay as they are now.”
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This lame duck tour is at least keeping soon to be former Secretary of State John Kerry out from underfoot during the transition.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and 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... continued discussing the problems plaguing the Syrian Conflict, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday.
"Following Thursday’s talks on the sidelines of the APEC forum in Lima, Peru, the two top diplomats continued the discussion of the Syrian settlement problems with a focus on the situation around Eastern Aleppo," the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the telephone conversation was initiated by the US side.
The situation in Syria was in focus of Lavrov’s meeting with Kerry in Lima.
"These contacts produce results, but everything is stalled by the same problem that once prevented the Americans from fulfilling our bilateral agreements - (the problem of) separating the so-called moderate opposition from al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ," Russia’s top diplomat said.
"There is mounting evidence, and we cannot escape this impression that the dominating decision is to preserve al-Nusra as the strongest force that opposes (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, regardless of the fact that it was put on all terrorist lists in the United States, Russia and the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ," Lavrov said.
"At the same time, we would try to find some solutions to this situation. It appears to me that John Kerry is truly interested in it," the minister added.
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has stressed that Ankara expects the fulfillment of the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) from Manbij, as recently reiterated by the United States.
“In every meeting, they say they are behind this agreement and will do what is necessary. We are still waiting for this. [The PYD] will withdraw, one way or another,” Yıldırım said.
On Nov. 16, both the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, Brett McGurk, and the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of the PYD, said they will withdraw from northern Syrian town of Manbij toward the east of the Euphrates River, as Turkey has long demanded, after their duty in the area is finalized.
The YPG said it would withdraw from Manbij and join the operation to liberate Raqqa, ISIL’s de facto capital, from the jihadists.
However, Turkish security sources told daily Hürriyet on Nov. 17 that the U.S.’s remarks on the YPG’s withdrawal from Manbij were “not true.”
Sources claimed the YPG was still located in Manbij, with some being permanently being located across the town. Turkey has shelled PYD targets in the region, sources said.
State-run Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 17 that the YPG, launching an offensive from Manbij, had taken control of eight villages on the road to al-Bab. Meanwhile, the YPG released photos showing a convoy of vehicles leaving Manbij on Nov. 18, Doğan News Agency reported.
US, Russia also have some thoughts on Al-Bab: Turkey
In addition, Turkey, which had set liberating Syrian town of Al-Bab from extremist jihadists as a priority target, said Washington and Moscow “also had thoughts” on the key town and underlined they were in communication with both countries on the issue.
“Not only Turkey, but both the U.S. and Russia also have some thoughts on Al-Bab. We are in efforts to handle it on the table and through communication,” Defense Minister Fikri Işık told reporters on Nov. 18.
Işık stated that the Turkish intelligence agency and military had been in close coordination with their American and Russian counterparts on developments in the field.
“There are different interest groups. Turkey is taking steps to protect its own and regional interests and to increase its security to a maximum level,” he said.
Turkey and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have declared liberating Al-Bab from ISIL as their next target and started to advance toward the strategic town last week. However, Turkey’s plans to advance toward Al-Bab are not being supported by the U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition air strikes because it was “independently” launched by Turkey, said U.S. Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for the coalition fighting the jihadist group in Syria and Iraq on Nov 17.
“That’s a national decision that they have made,” Dorrian said.
Over the last three days, Turkish warplanes have not carried out airstrikes over Syria in support of the FSA, sources told daily Hürriyet, saying the Syrian regime had plans to launch an offensive and take Al-Bab itself. The Syrian regime therefore renewed its airspace violation threat to Turkey, with the consent of Russia, sources added.
Işık, however, claimed there was “no problem.”
“There was a Russian measure on this in the past. But it has been removed now. Necessary aerial support is being given,” he said.
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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
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[Gladstone] According the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) -- part of the Council of Europe -- the British press is to blame for increasing hate speech and racist violence. On October 4, 2016, the ECRI released a report dedicated only to Britain. The report said:
Six inmates at MCI Norfolk are facing discipline after a probe into information that some convicts at the prison’s Muslim chapel were preaching jihad speeches by a former Al Qaeda recruiter, FOX25 Investigates has learned.
[DAWN] Indian authorities imposed curfew-like restrictions in different parts of held Kashmir, including Srinagar, barring people from offering Friday prayers at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid for the 19th consecutive week..jpg)
[DAWN] The Foreign Office (FO) during a weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Friday said that Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's recent 'no first use' statement on India's nuclear doctrine "amounts to nothing", according to a statement shared by the Press Information Department.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State 
