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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sister of Muslim student who made up Trump supporter subway attack story blames NYPD, media
[NYDAILYNEWS] The sister of a Moslem student who concocted a tale of subway harassment by three white men blamed the NYPD and the media for her sibling’s lies in a Facebook rant.

"I’m not excusing what my sister did," Sara Seweid posted Thursday on her page. "I was horrified yesterday and I’m still trying to grapple with the facts."

"Things snowballed out of our control because of the media ... Reporters made things so much worse for our family."

Yasmin Seweid, 18, finally admitted to police that she spun a phony tale of verbal abuse from three white men shouting "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...
!" because she missed curfew, sources told the Daily News.

Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  "We're Muslims, we don't take responsibility for out acts."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/17/2016 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Much more (pix and details) on this lovely family at the DM a couple of days ago. Multiple confirmation bias orgasm material.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/17/2016 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "We're Muslims, Democrats we don't take responsibility for out acts."

FIFY
Posted by: AlanC || 12/17/2016 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Girls just want to have fun.
Posted by: Ebbererong White2579 || 12/17/2016 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  When Yasmin arrived in a Manhattan courtroom, her head was shaved in a punishment apparently ordered by her parents

Good thing they live in NYC and not in Phoenix.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/17/2016 12:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Seems like they all need charged with "hate crimes" and deported.

I hear Syria is lovely this time of year.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/17/2016 16:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Zardad’s Deportation From UK Poses Threat To Witnesses: HRW
[Tolo News] The deportation of Commander Zardad Faryadi from the United Kingdom to Afghanistan on December 14, poses a clear danger for witnesses who testified against the former warlord in his 2005 conviction for torture and hostage taking, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement on Friday.

The watchdog called on the UK government to take immediate measures to protect witnesses, including by expediting asylum procedures and relocation outside Afghanistan.

The organization called on the Afghan government to impose parole restrictions on Zardad and the UK and Afghan authorities should scrupulously monitor his compliance in order to protect those witnesses who remain in Afghanistan.

"Zardad’s trial and conviction in the UK was a landmark case ‐ demonstrating that torturers cannot find safe haven by fleeing to another country," said Patricia Gossman, senior researcher on Afghanistan at Human Rights Watch. "But by failing to take measures to protect witnesses, the UK government risks betraying those who made that conviction possible. They owe it to them to take immediate steps to protect those most at risk."

"Those who testified at Zardad’s trial have expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
s for the safety of witnesses and their families. Some witnesses learned of Zardad’s imminent arrival only days before he returned," she said.

According to the statement, Zardad, who was prosecuted by UK authorities under English law implementing the Convention against Torture, for the crimes of hostage taking and torture committed in Afghanistan in the 1990s, was recently paroled after serving 11 years of a 20-year prison sentence. He arrived 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....
on December 14, and was reportedly taken into custody by the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS). A crowd of supporters, at least one armed, assembled inside the security perimeter of the airport carrying signs welcoming him home as a hero.

"Relocation of witnesses outside the country is likely to be the only way to protect those most at risk of reprisals," Gossman added.

Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar


Africa Horn
EU pledges €170 million to tackle Horn of Africa instability
To help tackle the root causes of instability, irregular migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa, the European Commission has adopted a new set of programmes today. The package of 11 measures is worth €170 million and was decided by the third Operational Committee meeting of the Horn of Africa region of the EU Trust Fund for Africa.

It complements 24 previously adopted actions amounting to €436.5 million for the Horn of Africa, which were approved in three packages in December 2015, April 2016 and October 2016.

Of the previously adopted actions for the Horn of Africa, €204 million have already been contracted. Among these are national projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, and four regional projects.
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Posted by: Steve White || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  The Byzantine sent a wagon load of God to Attila the Hun's camp in the hopes he would not invade Thrace and the Balkans.

The next year the price went up.
Posted by: Slaise Bourbon9007 || 12/17/2016 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  "TWO wagon loads of God!"?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  They tried a wagon load of Allan - that's why the price went up.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/17/2016 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, some more hard earned Europeans' tax money to be dumped down a hole.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/17/2016 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  From die Blombos cave, 70k to 100k years before the modern era. Still struggling with the concept of civilization. €170 million will accomplish what again ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2016 12:47 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
EU offers more funds to Africa curb migration
Once you pay Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
[Ynet] The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
offered Niger 610 million euros ($635 million) on Thursday to curtail migration from Africa through the Mediterranean to Europe and said it was seeking more such money-for-migration deals ahead.

Some 1.4 million refugees and migrants colonists arrived in Europe this year and last, and the EU wants to cut back on the uncontrolled influx of people.

Niger's desert city of Agadez is a popular waystation for people trying to cross the Sahara to reach Libya and eventually Europe via Italia. This year has become the deadliest on record for those seeking to make the journey.

The EU has already offered similar schemes to Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
, Æthiopia, Nigeria and Mali, as well as to Afghanistan, Jordan, Leb and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, among others. On Thursday, EU leaders agreed in Brussels they would seek to engage more African countries in such collaboration.

The bloc has also strengthened control of its external borders and is trying to deport more people who make it to Europe but have no case for asylum.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Africa uses these funds to finance migration?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/17/2016 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  All "moslem refugees" will be put in Camps and issued work clothes, issued tools and have them charged for their maintenance and tenting expenses, and fed in Communal kitchens and set to building or maintaining roads, sewer projects and land clearance projects in the mountains.

Use the Military to police and guard the camps.. Separate the men from the women and children. Put the children under 12 in special education Camps. There they will learn to speak and read and observe the customs of the Country. Islam is not allowed. They will be taught a trade and can apply for citizenship when they are 21.If approved, NONE are allowed to marry a born citizen and all are on probation until the age of 40.

All Mosques are to be closed. Anyone who wishes to become or remain a Moslem will be Deported and property confiscated.

Any citizen who disagrees with the measures can work in the Camps and live with the Moslem refugees as an equal. Here is your shovel. Pay for it and don't lose it.
Posted by: Slaise Bourbon9007 || 12/17/2016 2:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Niger 610 million euros ($635 million) on Thursday to curtail migration from Africa through the Mediterranean to Europe

I think my globe is broken. According to it Niger is more than a thousand miles from the Med, with a few large countries in between. WTF??
Posted by: AlanC || 12/17/2016 7:35 Comments || Top||


Nigeria Discovers Oil In Former Boko Haram Heartland
[NEWSWEEK] Nigeria’s government says it has discovered crude oil in Borno state, the northeastern state that has borne the brunt of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
’s seven-year insurgency.

Jamila Shua’ra, the permanent secretary of Nigeria’s petroleum ministry, announced the find during a presentation at the Petroleum Technology Development Fund in the capital Abuja on Thursday, Nigerian newspaper Leadership reported.

While the administration of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has sought to diversify the country’s economic interests, the oil and gas industry still accounts for the vast majority of national revenue. Petroleum products are worth more than 90 percent of Nigerian exports, according to OPEC.

Shua’ra did not elaborate on how much crude oil had been discovered, but if it is found to be in commercially-viable quantities, the find could be an economic boon for Borno, which has been ravaged by Boko Haram. The bully boy group took up arms in the state capital, Maiduguri, in 2009 and have been fighting to create an extreme Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria since. More than 26,000 people have been killed in Borno since 2011, according to the Council on Foreign Relations; the vast majority of the deaths are likely to be due to the insurgency.

Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Britain
Britain migrant colonist briefs
From Breitbart:
Gang ‘Smuggled Islamists into UK’ with Fake Passports
13 Dec 2016
Hundreds of illegal Iranian migrants, including suspected Islamist terrorists, were smuggled into Britain by a gang selling fake passports for up to £12,500, Greek investigators have said.

From the Daily Mail:
'We must control immigration!' Even Jeremy Corbyn's allies don't agree with him as 'Red' Len McCluskey says UK must END free movement to protect British workers
16/12/16
In a split from his key ally Jeremy Corbyn (right), 'Red' Len McCluskey (left), the general secretary of Unite, said Labour and the unions must 'listen to the concerns of working people'. Ironically Mr McCluskey, 66, called an early leadership election at his Unite union in a plot by the hard-left to cling on to power so they can continue bankrolling Mr Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party. But as he launched his re-election campaign today, one of his three main policies puts him at odds with Mr Corbyn on immigration. The Labour leader has defended freedom of movement despite June's Brexit vote and opposes calls for restrictions on Britain's open borders policy. In an article on Huffington Post today, Mr McCluskey wrote today: 'Unions understand that workers have always done best when the labour supply is controlled and communities are stable.

Britain's migration rules will NOT be part of the Brexit negotiations with Europe and will be set entirely in the UK, David Davis tells MPs
14/12/16
In one of the clearest signals yet on the direction of the talks, the Brexit Secretary said it was vital to respect the referendum demand for lower migration.

Thirteen suspected migrants including three children who were stuck in a refrigerated lorry on the M25 are rescued after calling police and begging for help
14/12/16
Surrey Police said 10 adults and three children were removed from the HGV in Chertsey at around 3.10pm on Tuesday

The Grand Tour is slammed after broadcasting a 'how to guide' for smuggling migrants into Britain in an Audi TT
13/12/16
Jeremy Clarkson introduced the stunt on the Amazon show, which was filmed in Whitby, North Yorkshire. He joked that he was about show 'a better way for immigrants of getting into Britain

'Right on' critics are ignoring problems caused by immigration, government tsar warns after Muslim groups condemn her 'inflammatory call' for newcomers to take a vow of allegiance
12/12/16
Dame Louise Casey says Ghettos have formed in areas like Bradford (pictured) because the pace and scale of immigration has been 'too much'.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Europe
Germany begins controversial collective deportations to Afghanistan
[THELOCAL.DE] On Thursday morning a flight carrying 34 rejected asylum seekers arrived in the Afghan capital, 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....
. They were the first people to leave Germany in a highly contested programme of "collective deportations" to the war-torn country.

Awaiting the men were Afghan coppers and refugee ministries officials, as well as representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The mood was sombre among the deported men. Some were sad, others were angry.

Babur Sedik said that he had spent four years in Germany and had never made it out of a refugee camp. The 22-year-old said he has no idea what to do next. He comes from Kabul province, which is still relatively stable.

"But if the security situation doesn’t improve and I don’t find work, then I won’t have a choice - I’ll have to flee again. Or I’ll go to Pakistain or some other country."

For Rahmat Khan, the possibilities are even slimmer. Also 22, he comes from Paktia province and he says that he can’t go back as the Taliban are everywhere there. He lived in Germany for five years, working as a waiter and learning the language.

"In Germany I wanted to work towards a better future for my family," he says, adding that he has no idea where he will go now.

The so-called Sammelabschiebungen (collective deportations) have resulted in protest due to the unstable security situation in Afghanistan.

Trip back to Afghanistan was 'no free ride' for deportee Amiri

[DeutscheWelle] An Afghan refugee deported from Germany spoke to DW after arriving in Kabul about his last moments in Germany. He said he was forced to pay for his deportation and was not allowed to contact his family before leaving.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Deportation WORKS. Tell him to wear a hat and dress warm. No, he doesn't need to pack anything. Tell him the truck will be by with six soldiers as soon as he puts his curly toed slippers on.
Posted by: Slaise Bourbon9007 || 12/17/2016 3:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Immigration strategy: AFR->GER->AFG
Works almost as good as bullets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  'Controversial' - with whom?
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2016 15:12 Comments || Top||


Berlin police identify U-Bahn attacker, no arrest yet
[THELOCAL.DE] The man, whose brutal attack on a woman at a Berlin U-Bahn station went viral, has been identified but not jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
, officials said on Wednesday.

Public prosecutors said they had identified the man who kicked a 26-year-old woman down a flight of stairs at a Berlin U-Bahn station.

According to Berlin tabloid B.Z., police had not been able to apprehend the suspect because he had gone to his home country of Bulgaria. But prosecutor Martin Steltner told DPA of this report that: "We will investigate."

Tagesspiegel reported that police would neither confirm nor deny the report to their journalists.

The assault had taken place in October at the Hermannstrasse U-Bahn station, but police last week released CCTV footage vividly depicting how the man - seemingly unprovoked - had kicked the woman in the back, causing her to fall face-first to the platform below. He and several acquaintances then walked away while others on the platform came to the woman’s aid.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  he had gone to his home country of Bulgaria

Open borders but no extradition.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually no, Skidmark. If Germany demands extradition, Bulgaria needs to comply.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/17/2016 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The thug has just been arrested... in Germany
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/17/2016 14:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank you, EC.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/17/2016 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Glad to hear it, European Conservative.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2016 16:04 Comments || Top||

#6  That's what I love about Rantburg, EC - we have so many people "on the ground," so to speak, all over the place who can give us the correct information.

Thank you.
Posted by: Barbara || 12/17/2016 17:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US offers $25 million reward for information on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The United States on Friday more than doubled its previous reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, offering $25 million for information that would help locate, arrest or convict the head of the jihadist group, Reuters reported.
Pikers. Offer $100 million. And two blank, valid, US passports.
The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program previously offered $10 million for information on Baghdadi, announced in October 2011. The increase was announced in a statement on Friday.

Baghdadi, an Iraqi whose real name is Ibrahim al-Samarrai, declared himself the caliph of a huge swath of Iraq and Syria two years ago. His exact location is not clear. Reports have said he may be in the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, Iraq, or in Islamic State-held territory to the west of the city, close to the border with Syria.

Kurdish officials believe that growing pressure resulting from a coalition military assault on Mosul is causing Baghdadi and his top lieutenants to move around and try to hide themselves.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Checked Detroit?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 12/17/2016 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, I just thought of a new revenue stream for the Clinton Foundation.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/17/2016 7:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone in the area wouldn't know what to do with that much money. This act seems futile.
Posted by: gorb || 12/17/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||


Trial for Kansas men charged in alleged terror plot set for April
An April 25 trial date has been scheduled for three southwest Kansas men accused of planning to detonate bombs at a pair of Garden City apartment buildings where a number of Somali refugees live and worship.
Terrorism is terrorism. Jug these guys for a long, long time.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren scheduled a jury trial for Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, both of Liberal, and Patrick Eugene Stein of Wright,
...a.k.a. Patrick Stein...
to begin at 9 a.m. April 25 in federal court in Wichita.

The three men are charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to carry out a planned attack on a pair of apartment buildings on Mary Street, home to many Somali Muslims. A one-bedroom apartment in one of the complexes, 312 W. Mary St., serves as a Muslim mosque.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, the indictment against the three men alleges that they conducted surveillance to size up potential targets, stockpiled firearms, ammunition and explosive components, and prepared a manifesto to be published after the bombing.

If convicted, the men face up to life in federal prison.

According to a criminal complaint, the men were part of a small militia group called the Crusaders that espouses sovereign citizen, anti-government, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant beliefs.

The planned attack allegedly was scheduled for Nov. 9, the day after Election Day.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UK cracks down on Palestinian aid following three-month freeze
[IsraelTimes] Major changes in funding announced over concerns money was being used to pay salaries for convicted Paleostinian terrorists.

Britannia has made major changes in funding Paleostinians after a three-month freeze on part of its aid, over concerns that the money was being used to fund salaries for convicted Paleostinian terrorists.

In October the Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, ordered a review of the funding procedure and froze about a third of Britannia’s aid to the Paleostinians while the review, undertaken in close collaboration with the Foreign Office, was carried out.

This week, DIFD -- the Department for International Development -- announced that although Britannia would continue to fund the Paleostinian Authority, there would be certain crucial changes. In future, DIFD said, its aid would go "solely to vital health and education services, in order to meet the immediate needs of the Paleostinian people and maximise value for money.

Funding will only go towards the salaries of health and education public servants on a vetted list". Money from the UK "will no longer be used to support the salaries of Paleostinian Authority public servants in Gazoo who have not been able to work".

And Britannia "will assess fiscal and public financial management reforms that the Paleostinian Authority will need to show progress against in order to secure full future payments from the UK".DIFD says that UK support to the PA -- up to £25 million this financial year `-- will help to pay the salaries of up to 30,000 teachers, doctors, nurses, midwives and other essential health and education public servants on a vetted list.

"This will enable around 25,000 young Paleostinians to get an education, provide up to 3,700 immunisations for children, and around 185,000 medical consultations annually."

The payments to the PA will now be made through an EU system which is checked by independent auditors; payments are additionally checked through a strict vetting process which takes in a variety of different sanctions, including, says DIFD, "terrorism financing".
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2016 06:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


PA claims it got no US aid in 2016. In fact, State Dept. gave Palestinians $357 million. And that’s not all
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian PM last week accused the US of failing to come through with a single dollar of a promised $263 million. The American government actually gives more aid than any other country.

Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah claimed last week that his government has received no aid from Washington in 2016, accusing the US of imposing a "financial siege" on the Paleostinians. But the State Department has in fact provided Ramallah with over $357 million in financial assistance in the past year, according to information given to The Times of Israel by a US State Department official on Thursday.

Additionally, in 2016 alone, the US contributed $355,177,827 to the United Nations
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2016 06:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  They meant 2017
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2016 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  and Social Security COLA for 2017 was boosted .3%.

Which is the greater return in value?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  The maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax (taxable maximum) will increase to $127,200.

Which means, the vast majority of Americans will never reach full annual payment, and thus never qualify for full SSN benefits. Nothing quite like it, losing on both ends.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||


Jerusalem terror attacks down 72% last month — Shin Bet
[IsraelTimes] Fall makes November tally the second lowest figure recorded since October 2015, when cycle of violence began.

The number of terrorist attacks recorded in Israel dropped last month by 38 percent over October nationally -- largely thanks to a 72 percent drop in incidents in Jerusalem.

The Shin Bet internal security service recorded a total of 95 attacks in November, with only nine in Jerusalem, compared to 153 attacks in October nationally and 48 in the capital, according to the security agency’s monthly report, which it published on its website earlier this week.

Only one Israeli, a member of the security forces, was maimed in the November attacks -- he sustained minor injuries ‐ compared to 23 maimed and two killed during the previous month.

The drop in attacks makes the November tally the second lowest figure recorded since October 2015, when 620 attacks were recorded following a near tripling over the previous month. The lowest figure recorded in any month after that conflagration was in August of this year, with 93 incidents.

But for Jerusalem, November has been the calmest month since the flare-up last year, which Paleostinian nationalists said was over Israeli actions endangering the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is located on the Temple Mount. Israel’s government denied these claims, maintaining it was keeping the status quo.

The Shin Bet reports do not include dozens of incidents of rock throwing that occur every month, mainly in the West Bank.

In September, October and November on 2015, the Shin Bet recorded 223, 620 and 326 attacks, respectively, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "wave of terror."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2016 06:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More bullets, fewer attacks.
Somebody figured it out.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2016 8:16 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rooshuns say wimmin and kidz evacuated from Aleppo
[al-Manar] The Russian Defense Ministry said that all women and children have been evacuated from militant-controlled districts in Aleppo.

More than 9,500 people have been evacuated from eastern Aleppo, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said.

All people who wanted to leave eastern Aleppo did it, the Russian center said. According to the center, the operation to evacuate militants and their families from Aleppo has ended. “The operation of the Russian center for reconciliation on the evacuation of militants and their families from eastern districts of Aleppo has ended.” Over 4,500 militants and 337 wounded people have left eastern Aleppo, according to the Russian military. Groups of militants who shell Syrian troops remain in certain areas of Aleppo, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. “According to evacuees in the last convoy, all those who wanted it have left eastern districts of Aleppo over the past 24 hours. Groups of militants…, which shell the Syrian army, remain in some districts. Syrian army units continue the liberation of districts in Aleppo, where terrorists remain.”

Earlier in the day, a Syrian state-run TV channel reported that militants shelled an evacuation corridor from eastern Aleppo in the Ramouse district and violated an agreement with the Syrian government by attempting to take hostages with them. The Syrian army has been sent to the area.

The withdrawal of the remaining militants and their families from the eastern parts of Aleppo is organized by the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation, in cooperation with the Syrian authorities. According to the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the militants are set to be taken out of the city by buses and ambulances through a special corridor to the city of Idlib. Representatives of international organizations have been invited to monitor the process.
Posted by: badanov || 12/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Syrian rebel training new recruits for Raqqa fight
[ARA News] Raqqa – In cooperation with the US-led counter-terrorism coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) organized a military training for new recruits. The SDF trained 365 new Arab fighters from Raqqa this week to participate in the Euphrates Wrath Operation, a campaign aimed at liberating Raqqa from ISIS.

Talal Silo, the official spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces, told ARA News that the anti-ISIS coalition assisted in organizing the training to further the SDF capabilities in the fight for Raqqa.

“This is the second military training for the SDF to prepare new factions in this camp. The training was facilitated and supported by the US-led coalition” Silo said. “The newly trained fighters will join the Euphrates Wrath Operation.”

The Syrian Democratic Forces launched the battle for Raqqa on November 6. Under the banner of Euphrates Wrath Operation, the campaign proceeds stage by stage with the goal of isolating and eventually liberating Raqqa from ISIS.

Thousands of Arab fighters have joined the Kurdish-led SDF forces in the battle for Raqqa. Some of the new SDF factions previously fought under the Free Syrian Army while others used to operate independently. The new SDF-led factions include the Syrian Elite Forces, Raqqa Revolutionaries Brigade and the Deir Ezzor Military Council.

Imad Menno, and SDF military trainer, said that US Special Forces played a key role in training the new SDF recruits.

“Coalition experts have participated in training our forces on combat skills,” Menno told ARA News.

The SDF was formed with the start of the cooperation between the Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the US-led coalition. Then dozens of Arab factions joined the Syrian Democratic Forces’ ranks. The SDF umbrella expanded after these forces expelled ISIS from major areas in northern Syria.

The SDF and the US-led coalition have liberated 37 km2 so far as part of the second phase of the operation. During the first phase of Euphrates Wrath, SDF soldiers captured an area measuring approximately 560 km2.The long-term objective of Euphrates Wrath is the elimination of the Islamic State in its de facto capital, Raqqa city.

Military sources told ARA News that more than 200 ISIS jihadists have been killed since November 6. Cihan Shekh Ehmed, an SDF spokesperson, declared that the “operation will continue until all of its goals are accomplished.”
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US boosts reward on IS leader to $25 mn
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#1  Enough for me to go on a road trip.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Convenient cover for action. They've probably already got a grid on Baghdadi. We'll never know where the $25m ever ended up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2016 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry for the duplication. I usually check more carefully.
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