[TASS] Russia’s Foreign Ministry will demand an apology from the chief editor of the New York Daily News for publishing an article which justified the liquidation of Russia’s Ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Andrei Karlov, the ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
"American journalist and writer Gersh Kuntzman This is the same guy who came down with temporary PTSD after firing an AR-15.
wrote in the New York Daily News that he was ’shedding no tears for Andrei Karlov’," the Russian diplomat wrote on her Facebook page. "He also said that the Ankara attack reminded him of the liquidation of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in 1938 who was killed in Gay Paree by a Jewish student. According to Kuntzman ’like Karlov, Rath was the public face of atrocity - in this case, Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... 's genocide, anti-Semitism and coming global aggression’," Zakharova noted.
"We will immediately forward a message to the chief editor of the newspaper that published this Russophobic article justifying a terrorist attack, and demand an apology," Zakahrova said.
"Gersh Kuntzman, are you seriously comparing a Jewish student’s ideas to the ones of Mevlut Altintas?" she addressed the author of the article. "Don’t you understand, you have said that the fight of the Jewish people against anti-Semitism in1930s amounts to the terrorist ways of 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.... and Jabhat 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 .. ... (both terror groups outlawed in Russia)? Are they really the same to you? Do you adopt the same sensitive approach to terrorist attacks happening in Israel?" Zakharova wrote.
According to her, the re-writing of history in the US has reached the point of absurdity but even against this background Kuntzman’s words stand out.
"And one last thing. I call upon the anti-fascist organizations all over the world to voice their position on this article before it’s too late," the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman stressed.
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Don't forget 'burgers, there are two main tabloids in NYC.
The Daily News is for Left Wing Wackadoodles; the New York Post if for the somewhat sane.
[Daily Caller] The Pentagon’s semi-annual assessment of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan portends a grim situation for President-elect Donald Trump when he assumes control of America’s longest war.
The sum of the assessment basically amounts to two ideas: The scale of the problem is much larger than the current U.S. commitment, and the pace of the solution — training Afghan soldiers and then keeping them alive — is faltering dramatically.
The U.S. resolute support command estimates the Taliban control 10 percent of the Afghan population, and contest the U.S. backed Afghan government for another 20 percent. The report notes that the government has been adept at keeping control of the major cities in Afghanistan, while continue face a “resilient insurgency” in rural areas.
The Pentagon also rated the U.S. backed Afghan Security Forces “promising but inconsistent” in their progress since the U.S. ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014. The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than at any time since the U.S. effort began in 2001. The group has proven adept at surrounding and besieging major cities, while consolidating rural areas.
The threat assessment of the report additionally highlights the many dangers emanating from Afghanistan. “Afghanistan faces a continuing threat from both the Afghan insurgency and extremist networks, including the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and to a lesser extent al Qaeda,” the report warns. Al-Qaida continues to provide “some limited support to insurgent groups targeting Afghan and coalition forces”
President Barack Obama has committed nearly 9,000 troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2017, but they will largely remain secluded on major U.S. bases. Trump will have to decide what force level to maintain in Afghanistan, what rules of engagement the U.S. operates under, and how to deal with Pakistani government to Taliban elements.
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The U.S. resolute support command estimates the Taliban Viet Cong control 10 percent of the Afghan South Vietnamese population, and contest the U.S. backed Afghan South Vietnamese government for another 20 percent. The report notes that the government has been adept at keeping control of the major cities in AfghanistanSouth Vietnam, while continue face a “resilient insurgency” in rural areas.
Some things never change.
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When you don't fight wars to win but do something 'kinder and gentler' what do you expect from an opponent who will not quietly go away? Oh, and give them sanctuaries to retire to. Speak loudly and carry a small stick?
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Considering all the money and American lives wasted over there, I cannot help but wonder, who won the 9-11 war?
I would just drop a couple or few high quality bombs there and call it a day. If the Pak Taliban tried to enter, I would tell the Pak government they will get the same treatment if they cannot get them under control.
Frankly, I'm getting tired of all the money and lives wasted with nothing to show for it. Time to withdraw and let them suffer their fate. It seems like they don't want to get better.
[IsraelTimes] Interior minister says it took months to plan murder of Mohammed al-Zoari, who the terror group says led its drone program
Tunisia’s interior minister said that journalists hired by individuals posing as a media company were entangled in the murder of an Tunisian engineer who the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group said spearheaded its drone program.
"It is possible that a foreign service is implicated but... We do not yet have any tangible proof," Hedi Mejdoub told a news conference Monday after attending a security meeting with his prime minister.
Mohammed al-Zoari, 49, was murdered at the wheel of his car outside his house in the port city of Sfax on Thursday. He was hit by 20 bullets.
Israel has not responded to an accusation by Hamas that it was behind the death.
Mejdoub told news hounds that "at least two foreigners" were involved in the shooting. The killing, he said, had the hallmarks of a foreign espionage agency’s handiwork.
According to Mejdoub, a Tunisian journalist told local Sherlocks that she was hired by foreigners posing as a media company planning to make documentaries in Tunisia for a Malaysian TV channel, including one about the aerospace industry in Arab states, and asked her to contact al-Zoari as one of the interviewees for the movie.
Paid 100 euros per day, plus expenses, the woman traveled to Tunis, filmed al-Zoari, and gave the footage to the company. In all, she received 2,000 euros for her work. Besides filming al-Zoari, she also rented a number of cars used in his liquidation, Mejdoub said, adding that planning for the killing took place over months, since at least June.
Three days before Saturday’s hit, the interior minister said, a foreign man working for the media company contacted her and asked her to rent two cars, and told her to then leave the country the next day.
The journalist was in Budapest during the hit, and only returned to Tunis after it was carried out.
The prosecution has said that 10 suspects, all Tunisians, have been detained for questioning, including a female journalist, and that authorities have seized four vehicles and two weapons.
Mejdoub said two Tunisian nationals living in Sweden were also involved in the operation. The two rented an apartment in Sfax to tail al-Zoari and rented four cell phones.
"The organizers prepared two plans for two teams, in case one failed or was caught. The hit was planned meticulously and thoroughly," he said.
Tunisian authorities have yet to identify who was behind the shooting.
Hundreds protested in Tunis on Tuesday over the killing.
[DAILYPOST.NG] The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has warned the government against delay in payment of salaries and allowances to troops, who are engaged in the battle against 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... Death Eaters.
Buratai was speaking at a seminar on Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), that was held yesterday for army personnel in Abuja. He explained that prompt disbursement of salaries and allowances, would boost the morale of soldiers fighting insurgency in the North East.
Buratai also stated that the objectives of the IPPIS, was to ensure transparency and improve payroll administration in all government ministries and agencies.
He said: "I approve this seminar and know that the implementation of IPPIS in the military will present new challenges in the management of troops’ salaries and allowances.
"I am hereby charging the finance corps to ensure that the nuances of transition are well understood so as to continue to boost the morale of the fighting troops.
"We understand that seamless, timely and regular payment of personnel salaries and allowances are an essential ingredient for the sustenance of morale of the troops.
"This is especially important towards the current ongoing efforts at consolidating on the counter-terrorism efforts in the north eastern part of the country and indeed all other operations around the country."
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[DeutscheWelle] Swiss police say the man who shot and injured three people at a Moslem prayer hall was not connected to radical Islam or the far right. The 24-year-old Swiss national did away with himself after the attack.
Zurich's police chief Christiane Lentjes Meili told a media conference that officers had searched the young man's home and found no links to hard boy Islam or any far-right group.
The 24-year-old Swiss national of partly Ghanaian descent
...Ghana is 17.6% Muslim, including Sunnis, Shiites, and Ahmaddis. The rest are various flavours of Christian...
burst into the Islamic Centre in central Zurich around 5.30 pm local time (16:30 UTC) on Monday and began shooting, according to police.
He "fired several shots at the worshippers," before fleeing, police said.
Three men, aged 30, 35 and 56, were maimed, two of them seriously. The suspect then beat feet from the mosque in the direction of Central Station," a police statement on Monday said.
"There are no indications that terrorism was involved," prosecutor Francoise Stadelmann said, adding that police are still unclear as to the suspect's motive. But Sherlocks said he "was possibly interested in occultism."
An interesting supposition to add without giving reason.
The police would have been unsure of the motive if the perp had been screaming "Alan Snackbar"...
Suspect did away with himself
After a short search, police found the suspect's body a few hundred meters (yards) from the scene on a river bank under a bridge. He appeared to have turned his gun on himself, Sherlocks told Tuesday's media conference.
The shooting happened just a few hours before a man plowed a truck into a Berlin Christmas market.
Answering questions from the media, a front man for Zurich's cantonal police said there was no indication of a connection between the two incidents.
While not identifying the suspect, Sherlocks said he had stabbed an acquaintance to death over the weekend after an argument. That victim was found on Sunday.
A third point would indicate a pattern -- d'you suppose his suicide counts as a third murder, dear Reader?
Police said the shooter lived alone and had quit his job at a shop last Friday.
Let that be a lesson unto you, dear Reader: keep your mind clear of occultism.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] A NATIVITY play was turned into chaos after an asylum seeker stormed the stage and started preaching from the Koran.
The Somali asylum seeker suddenly leapt on stage during the traditional depiction of the Christian story in the Austrian town of Oberndorf near Schwanenstadt in the state of Upper Austria, causing horror and upset amongst the children and parents.
At first, no one had reacted when the asylum seeker came to the venue and stood next to the stage where children of nursery school age were performing.
The asylum seeker suddenly leapt on stage, took out a copy of the Koran from his rucksack and started preaching.
The 24-year-old, who was wearing a white robe, was eventually overpowered by a number of men, including two brothers, while he was shouting "Allahu Akbar".
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Was friends with a guy from the ME and he was not religious at all but when he died unexpectedly his family and friends who were not religious either had an Imam come in and speak at his funeral just for formalities. After listening to his non-sense for about 10 minutes every body felt like over powering him, too.
[MSN] Berlin police have yet to even put their hands on the right suspect after a truck ploughed into a Christmas market and left 12 people dead.
But 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... has no doubts about what happened.
Just three hours after Monday's apparent attack, the US president-elect had branded it the latest outrage in what he sees as a global religious war.
His language was a dramatic departure from how Western leaders generally respond to Islamist extremism but reflected the tone of his campaign.
"Innocent civilians were murdered in the streets as they prepared to celebrate the Christmas holiday," he declared, in a statement from his office.
His decision to focus on the presumed religion of the attackers was a deliberately chosen contrast with the policy of outgoing president Barack Obama.
The seasoned US leader called Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday to offer his condolences on "the horrific apparent terrorist attack."
"ISIS and other Islamist forces of Evil continually slaughter Christians in their communities and places of worship as part of their global jihad."
Trump made this case before German police released for lack of evidence a Pak asylum-seeker who was jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! after the truck attack.
And he spoke even before Amaq, a jihadist-linked news agency, claimed that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group was behind the ramming of the market.
Trump resorted to similar language to condemn the murder, on the same day, of Russia's ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... by a "radical Islamic terrorist."
His decision to focus on the presumed religion of the attackers was a deliberately chosen contrast with the policy of outgoing president Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... The seasoned US leader called Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... on Tuesday to offer his condolences on "the horrific apparent terrorist attack."
Obama's administration is fighting holy warrior groups like the so-called Islamic State, but doing so under the banner of "countering violent extremism."
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Islam is a legal, financial, and religious system. The Islamic radicals are at war with anyone who does not believe as they do. The West and those who embrace freedom will have to decide whether they want to be over-run by these supremacists or not. One should not get lost in the weeds in arguments about what to call them. Arguing about what to call them is just more stick-your-head-in the-sand behavior. We need to get smart about the fight and not be on a destructive suicidal mission ourselves. If we do not do this, we will cease to exist as a country and a culture.
[BREITBART] Austrian police will hand out 6,000 pocket rape alarms on New Year’s Eve to help fight mass sex attacks such as those perpetrated by migrants colonists in neighbouring Germany a year ago.
"It’s a national campaign aimed primarily at women on New Year’s Eve," ministry front man Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP.
The interior ministry said Tuesday that officers will be distributing the devices in the run up to the festive celebrations in the capital Vienna, Welt reports.
"It’s a national campaign aimed primarily at women on New Year’s Eve," ministry front man Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP.
When activated, the gadgets will emit a shrill sound aimed at deterring potential attackers and attracting help, Mr. Grundboeck explained.
Hundreds are expected to visit the city for New Year’s Eve, and the ministry has already announced beefed up security following the deadly attack at a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening.
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Hopefully those alarms go "bang" when you squeeze the trigger.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Following the deadly Berlin terror attack at a Christmas market on Monday evening, which left 12 people dead and another 48 injured, Mrs Merkel’s leadership has been called into question.
The German Chancellor, currently seeking a fourth term in office, has been correctly accused of putting Germany at risk as a result of her decision to allow over a million migrants colonists to enter Germany since 2015.
Speaking the day after the attack Mrs Merkel said: "It would be very difficult for us to learn that a human being committed this deed who came to Germany to ask for refuge and asylum."
Her comments were skewered on Sky News by TV critic Kevin O’Sullivan, who accused the Chancellor of attempting to cover her own back following the attack. He said: "What she actually means is ’it would be very difficult for me [Merkel]’ to learn the attack was carried out by someone who came to Germany for refuge.
"Because of course it is her policy."
He continued: "The problem is... of course the far-right are having a field day because she let 1.1 million refugees come into Germany without any checks.
"For God’s sake is it any great surprise that possibly one of these people ‐ they are coming from an area known for terrorist and unrest ‐ is it a great surprise that this sort of thing would happen?"
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The young Turkish policeman who killed Russia’s ambassador to Ankara this week had provided security for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... eight times since the July 15 failed coup bid, a report said on Wednesday.
Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, pumped nine bullets into ambassador Andrei Karlov at an art exhibition centre on Monday evening, before he himself was killed by Turkish police.
Altintas, a member of the Ankara anti-riot police for two-and-a-half years, had been on duty at eight events attended by Erdogan since July, the Hurriyet daily said.
At such events he was part of the second wave of Erdogan’s security after the personal bodyguard team of the president, wrote Hurriyet’s writer Abdulkadir Selvi, known for his contacts in the ruling elite.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told US counterpart 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, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... in a phone call on Tuesday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... believed the US-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who it blamed for the July 15 coup bid, was behind the liquidation plot.
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[The Hill] Terrorist attacks like the one in Berlin will continue to happen if the U.S. plays defense, former CIA Director James Woolsey said Tuesday.
“This is all going to happen again and again and again as long as we keep playing defense,” Woolsey told “Fox and Friends.”
Woolsey, who is currently serving as an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, compared the U.S. fighting terrorism to playing in a hockey game.
“It’s as if we’re in a big, really important hockey game and we deploy our entire team as goalies. We’re going to lose,” he said. “We can try to catch people after the fact. We can try by vetting extreme people out. But if we keep going this way, we’re going to continue to have terrorist attacks of major proportion.”
[BUZZFEED] Jan. 16, 2017, will mark Moath al-Alwi’s 15th anniversary as a detainee at Guantánamo Bay. His lawyer argued in court this week that his continued "indefinite" imprisonment is unlawful.
Al-Alwi is one of 59 detainees still held at Guantánamo Bay. Pak authorities turned him over to the US in late 2001 on suspicion of ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban. The B.O. regime recently moved ahead with plans to transfer out another 17 or 18 detainees, according to The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , but in the meantime al-Alwi is challenging his detention in court.
Al-Alwi’s attorneys say that the nature of the conflict in Afghanistan in 2016 is so different from when he was captured 15 years ago and detained as an enemy combatant that the United States no longer has legal authority to hold him.
Guantánamo Bay detainees have so far unsuccessfully tried to convince judges that President B.O.’s public statements in 2014 and 2015 that the US combat mission in Afghanistan was over meant that they should be released. Three federal judges in Washington rejected variations of this argument, finding that there are still "active hostilities" in Afghanistan that give the US legal authority to hold enemy combatants.
Al-Alwi’s lawyers are hoping for a different outcome before the latest judge to consider the argument, US District Judge Richard Leon, who heard arguments on Tuesday on the government’ s request to dismiss al-Alwi’s case.
Leon ruled in 2008 that al-Alwi’s detention was lawful given evidence of his ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban. The judge on Tuesday expressed doubts about al-Alwi’s latest challenge and questioned whether it was Congress’ job, and not the courts’, to decide how to handle detentions if US anti-terrorism efforts continued without a definite end date.
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"We went to his cell to release him but discovered he had committed suicide. He swallowed his elbow"
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As I understand the Geneva Convention, and illegal combatant can be given a court martial and then executed if found guilty. Only various elements in the US insisted that the prisoners in Gitmo be given the rights and privileges of POWs.
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As I understand the Geneva Convention, and illegal combatant can be given a court martial and then executed if found guilty.
It calls for combatants to have identifiable uniform or markings to distinguish them from civilians. Failure to do so makes one an 'illegal combatant' not protected by the Convention. The CM can be held in country and punishment carried out as Skorzeny's boys found out in Belgium. However, these miscreants were deemed more important for intel than being dealt with as illegal combatants. It's like not Mirandizing a perp, you believe the info is more important than the individual. See - time bomb, kidnapping, et al
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In fact by extending GC protections to illegal combatants, as we do in far too many places, you place your own soldiers in danger because now your [future] enemy has no compulsion to follow the GC with your soldiers.
[DAWN] Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi said he has become more moderate and distanced himself from his previous anti-Shia rhetoric after winning a regional assembly seat.
Jhangvi's December election to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... provincial assembly caused a stir in due to fears his political ascent would increase sectarian divides in Jhang, a dusty town with a history of violence between its resident Shia and Sunni communities.
The 29-year-old is also on a list of people with suspected ties to holy warrior groups. Jhangvi's assassinated father, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, was a fierce anti-Shia holy man who founded the now proscribed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... . He was killed in 1990.
The banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , which has carried out some of the worst sectarian attacks in Pakistain's history, was named after his father.
"Responsibility has fallen on my shoulders, now I am representative of all the people of Jhang," Jhangvi told Rooters in an interview last week during an hours-long tour of his home town.
"I consider everybody to be human, and I want peace in Jhang and in Punjab," Jhangvi added.
The proscribed Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) strongly backed Jhangvi during the election but the bearded holy man denies being a member of the group.
In the Punjab assembly, Jhangvi has joined the far right religious party Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F).
Jhangvi distanced himself from sectarian video clips by saying they were several years old.
But when asked if he regretted making inflammatory comments about Shias in the past, Jhangvi smiled and said "no comment".
One prominent Shia resident in Jhang said Jhangvi did not run a sectarian campaign and has portrayed himself as a de-radicalised figure, even managing to win some Shia votes in the Dec 1 election.
"Time will prove whether it is genuine deradicalisation and a departure from the past or whether it's based on political expediency," added the resident, who did not wish to be identified.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said Wednesday that Pakistain will control all traffic from Afghanistan through six dedicated routes by 2020.
"The border [between Afghanistan and Pakistain] stretches over more than 2,400 kilometres. We need to improve its management," Nisar said.
He was speaking at a presser near the Torkham Border in Landi Kotal, Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... "Peace between the two countries is inter-linked," he said. "Pakistain wants free movement and welcomes the Afghan people, but terrorist infiltration needs to be curbed," he added.
Nisar said that no terrorist networks or headquarters were functional in Pakistain currently, claiming that forces of Evil have either been killed or have fled the country following the 'historic' Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... He added that certain rogue elements were now operating from across the Pak-Afghan border. "These people sneak across the border, enter our country, and attack our citizens like cowards," he said.
"We've always helped the Afghan people in their time of need. But forces of Evil took advantage of unregulated movement on our borders," Nisar said, adding that forces of Evil have been infiltrating Pakistain by hiding among ordinary citizens.
"[Every unscrupulous element] who enters Pakistain enters in broad daylight, but we have kept our promise with Afghanistan not to publicise this," he said.
But Afghanistan does not return the gesture, Nisar noted. "[Instead] they accuse us publicly of things we haven't even done," he said.
He urged the Afghan government to 'respect' the shared interests of both countries and its people, and avoid getting influenced by 'others'.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel Police say activist from Northern Branch of Islamic Movement continued to express support for organization after it was outlawed.
An alleged senior member of a recently outlawed Islamist group was detained by police for questioning Wednesday on suspicion of incitement to terrorism and violence, as well as supporting an illegal organization.
The investigation into the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement
...the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, notorious for funding Hamas, agitating about the Temple Mount, and providing social services to the Arabs of the Galilee...
member by police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit was launched with the approval of the State Attorney’s Office, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement.
The unnamed activist had expressed support for the Northern Branch on multiple social media platforms since the organization was outlawed last year, the statement said. He also openly talked about his position within the organization.
Police said his online statements and own confirmation of his role in the Northern Branch amounted to incitement.
Last year, Israel banned the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement, accusing it of links to terrorist groups and stoking the recent wave of violence that has seen 36 Israelis, two Americans and an Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n national killed in a spate of stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks. Some 238 Paleostinians, a Jordanian and a Sudanese migrant have also been killed, according to AFP figures, most of them in the course of carrying out attacks, Israel says.
After the security cabinet declared the movement illegal last September, then-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon signed an edict banning any activity connected to the group.
Founded in the 1970s, the Islamic Movement is not just a political organization but also a religious outreach group and social service provider rolled into one. The movement’s overarching goal is to make Israeli Moslems more religious and it owes much of its popularity to providing services often lacking in Israel’s Arab communities. Today the group runs kindergartens, colleges, health clinics, mosques and even a sports league ‐ sometimes under the same roof.
The movement split two decades ago. The more moderate southern branch began fielding candidates for Israel’s Knesset in 1996 and is now part of the Joint (Arab) List, an alliance of several Arab-Israeli political parties. Three of the Joint List’s 13 current Knesset members are part of the movement. The more hard-line northern branch rejects any legitimization of Israel’s government and has called on its adherents to boycott elections.
In May of this year, northern branch leader Raed Salah began a nine-month prison sentence for incitement to violence and racism over an inflammatory sermon he delivered in 2007 in Jerusalem.
During the sermon, Salah expressed hope that "the streets of Jerusalem be purified with the blood of the innocent, who shed it in order to separate from their souls the soldiers of the Israel occupation, also in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque." He further said that "our finest moment will be when we meet Allah as deaders in al-Aqsa."
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran insists move is permitted under 2015 nuclear deal which allows R&D on IR-8s, capable of enriching uranium 20 times faster than previous machines.
Iran’s nuclear energy agency indicated Tuesday that Tehran would soon begin injecting gas into the latest generation of advanced centrifuges, IR-8, in a move that marks the next step to make them operational and that Iran says is permitted under the terms of the nuclear deal signed last year with six world powers.
"The IR8 tests have come to an end and they will go into the stage of gas injection in the next few weeks," a front man for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi, announced at a presser on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars new agency.
The report added that this step will proceed in accordance with "the nuclear deal that allows research activities on the eighth generation of Iran’s centrifuge machines, known as the IR-8."
Iran has said that its IR-8 centrifuges enrich uranium 20 times faster than the IR-1 centrifuges, which the country used prior to the deal.
Under the terms of the agreement as issued in a fact sheet released by the US State Department last year, Iran "will not use its IR-2, IR-4, IR-5, IR-6, or IR-8 models to produce enriched uranium for at least ten years. For ten years, enrichment and enrichment research and development will be limited to ensure a breakout timeline of at least 1 year. Beyond 10 years, Iran will abide by its enrichment and enrichment R&D plan submitted to the IAEA, and pursuant to the JCPOA, under the Additional Protocol resulting in certain limitations on enrichment capacity."
Iran has maintained that, under the accord, it was allowed to conduct R&D on its more advanced centrifuges.
Last week, American politicians voted to extend some sanctions against Iran for another 10 years and although President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... declined to sign the act it still became law.
In response, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sent a a letter to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, calling for a joint commission meeting on the nuclear deal.
Iran believes the US has violated the nuclear deal by renewing the Iran Sanctions Act, which eased sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.
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... during his campaign labeled the deal, which saw punishing economic sanctions on Iran lifted, a "disaster" and threatened to tear it up.
Last month, the head of the UN atomic watchdog chided Iran after a second minor breach this year by Tehran of the 2015 nuclear deal.
A report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency in November showed that Iran’s stock of so-called heavy water had inched above the level agreed under the landmark accord.
Heavy water, a modified form of normal water, is used in certain types of nuclear reactors.
"Iran has since made preparations to transfer a quantity of heavy water out of the country," which will bring it below the ceiling, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told the agency’s board.
"It is important that such situations should be avoided in future in order to maintain international confidence in the implementation" of the deal, he said in Vienna.
The July 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers states that Iran’s "needs" are estimated to be around 130 metric tons of heavy water.
The confidential IAEA report, seen by AFP, said that Iran exceeded this level by 100 kilograms but that Iran had undertaken to export five tons.
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What a coincidence. Israel has just received their first F-35s and they are injecting gas into its fuel tanks:
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Pliny, my hope is the that the Israelis shake out those F-35s good and hard. Perhaps they need to do some long-range missions. You know, just to get the feel of the airplane...
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...wait till 20 January, and politely ask for the IFF codes.
[DAILYSABAH] The former leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, Subhi al-Tufayli
...according to Wikipedia he and Hezbollah parted ways over joining the government after the Lebanese civil war ended, and accepting the patronage of Iran. Some say he is funded by Saudi Arabia...
slammed the Assad regime and pro-regime forces for the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria's Aleppo in a video released on Friday.
In the released footage, Tufayli speaks about the current situation in Syria and says "regime forces are the real bandidosbully boyz and they are the father and mother of ISIS terrorist group."
Tufayli, who was the first leader of Hezbollah from 1989 until 1991, said the people of Aleppo are being slaughtered at the hands of the regime forces, and ISIS is allowed by the Assad regime to flourish in Syria.
Tufayli also slammed the allies of the regime, for not being against the ISIS terrorist group in Syria, while praising the Syrian opposition fighting against the regime.
The people of Aleppo have witnessed deaths of thousands, bomb shelling and sounds of kabooms or fire by regime and pro-regime forces since the civil war began in 2011.
The humanitarian tragedy in Syrian towns, recently in Aleppo continues to receive criticism from different parts of the world.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... dozens of the civilians and moderate opposition fighters of Aleppo have been evacuated from the Syrian town despite attacks by regime and pro-regime forces on evacuation convoys.
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[RUDAW.NET] Brigadier General Sherko Abdullah of Iraq's interior ministry says that they have reached a memorandum with their Iranian counterparts on tightening their stretch of the border against illegal crossing of people and the smuggling of goods.
This part of the border stretches from Biyara in the Hawraman region in Halabja province all the way down to Quratu crossing in the Garmiyan Region.
Some of the borders are official while others are semi-official.
Dozens of Kurds known as Kolbar [those who carry goods on their backs] are transporting goods between Iranian Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Region.
They have often been placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! by Iranian border guards, their horses and mules shot and their cargo seized, while several of these porters have been shot and killed by Iranian forces on accusations of smuggling in recent years.
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One of the features of this is that, in some degree, the 0bama govt has funded both sides so as to protect a border. A priceless "twofer.".
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Ahram] 
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] A NATIVITY play was turned into chaos after an asylum seeker stormed the stage and started preaching from the Koran.
[MSN] Berlin police have yet to even put their hands on the right suspect after a truck ploughed into a Christmas market and left 12 people dead.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Following the deadly Berlin terror attack at a Christmas market on Monday evening, which left 12 people dead and another 48 injured, Mrs Merkel’s leadership has been called into question.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The young Turkish policeman who killed Russia’s ambassador to Ankara this week had provided security for President 
