[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan security officials are saying that the deadly Kandahar bombing was likely planned in Quetta city of Pakistain.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) officials have said preliminary reports indicate the attack was plotted in Quetta city.
NDS front man Abdul Hassib Sediqi quoted in a report by RFE/RL said initial findings indicate the attack was plotted in Mawlavi Ahmad Kandahar seminary in Quetta.
In the meantime, the officials are saying that thorough investigations are underway regarding the incident.
The investigations are being conducted by three different delegations, including a delegation of the UAE officials.
The Taliban group rejected responsibility behind the attack and blamed the Afghan officials for the incident.
At least 12 people including the deputy provincial governor and five UAE diplomats bit the dust in the attack and several others including the UAE ambassador and Kandahar governor were maimed.
The cousin of the former Afghanistan's Caped President also departed this vale of tears he sustained in the attack as he was receiving treatment in India.
Hashim Khan Karzai was a local trader and had attended the meeting in governor’s guesthouse when he sustained injuries from the kaboom.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The main suspect involved in a deadly attack on a nightclub in Istanbul had received training in Afghanistan, it has been reported.
The city’s governor Vasip Sahin informed regarding the latest development after the apprehension of the suspect who was earlier identified as AbdulKadir Mashripov.
The suspect was tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during an operation late on Monday night with the security sources saying Mashripov is a member 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) also known as ISIS.
The sources further added that Mashripov was captured during a police operation on a residence in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district.
The incident in Reina nightclub took place on the new year’s eve when the attacker started indiscriminate firing, leaving at least 39 people dead.
A police officer was also among those killed and around 69 others sustained injuries in the attack.
This comes as the Afghan officials have long been expressing concerns that the foreign Lions of Islam have shifted to Afghanistan operating under the so-called ISIS Khurasan Caliphate in the remote parts of the country.
The officials had earlier said that the foreign Lions of Islam included Pak fighter and residents of the Central Asian states as they eye to benefit from the opium trade in the country and subsequently expand their foothold in the region.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Police in Istanbul apprehended late on Jan. 16 a gunman who killed 39 people in a terror attack on the city’s glamorous Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood early on Jan. 1, as details over the course of his 16 days on the run came to light.
Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin and Istanbul Police Chief Mustafa Caliskan announced on Jan. 17 that the attacker identified as Abdulkadir Masharipov and four other suspects were detained in a police operation in the Esenyurt district.
"The killer and perpetrator of this atrocious attack was apprehended in an operation conducted in the Esenyurt district tonight. The perpetrator is Abdulkadir Masharipov. His codename is Ebu Muhammed Horasani Abdulkavi. He was born in Uzbekistan in 1983. He was trained in Afghanistan and he is a well-trained terrorist who speaks four languages. It is believed that he came to our country in January 2016," Sahin said Jan. 17.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Indictments regarding the tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... co-leaders of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been completed, with the prosecutor seeking up to 142 years in jail for Selahattin Demirtas and up to 83 years in jail for Figen Yuksekdag.
Among the charges directed to Demirtas are "managing a terrorist organization," "making terrorist propaganda," "inciting people to violence and hatred," and "praising crime and the criminal," for which the prosecutor demands a prison sentence of between 43 years and 142 years.
Yuksekdag is charged with "opposing the meeting and rally law," "inciting people to violence and hatred" and "provoking people to commit crimes," for which the prosecutor demands a prison sentence of between 30 years and 83 years.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the lawyer of Ahmet Turk, the ousted and tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, has said his health is in a poor condition and "the public is waiting for him to be released."
"Turk’s health condition is poor. It’s not right for him to be transferred to a prison in [the eastern province of] Elazig at a time when the public is waiting for him to be released," lawyer Erdal Kuzu told the Dogan News Agency, referring to Turk’s transfer to Elazig from Istanbul’s Silivri prison.
Kuzu said Turk had been expecting to be transferred to a jail in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.
"Ahmet Turk learned that he was being transferred to Elazig on the plane as he was expecting to be transferred to Diyarbakir D Type prison," he added.
"He is uncomfortable with being on the agenda with his health problems. But due to his deteriorating health conditions it is a risk for him to travel. He needs to be released as soon as possible," Kuzu said.
Kuzu also said he had met the tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... co-mayor of Diyarbakir, Firat Anli, who was also transferred to Elazig from Kandira prison. Kuzu said Turk’s application to stay in the same cell as Anli had been rejected.
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Among the charges directed to Demirtas are "managing a terrorist organization," "making terrorist propaganda," "inciting people to violence and hatred," and "praising crime and the criminal,"
- Roger Stone claims he was poisoned by political enemies in the 'deep state'
- He says they wanted to stop him testifying about Russian hack before Congress
- Stone has been accused of having prior knowledge Putin orchestrated hack on thousands of DNC emails
- He claims he would have been able to prove that he didn't but that he became ill
- The 64-year-old said doctors told him he had been poisoned with polonium
- Radioactive chemical was used to kill Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006
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The widow of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen ... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent... was formally charged Tuesday with a terror-related offense and obstruction of justice.
The two-count indictment states that Noor Salman, who was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Monday in northern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, aided and abetted her husband’s attempt to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, namely 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.
She is also charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly misleading local police in Florida and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on information relating to the attack.
Forty-nine people died in Mateen’s assault on the Pulse gay nightclub on June 12, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Salman, who had a four-year-old son with Mateen, made an initial appearance in federal court in Oakland, California, on Tuesday and had the charges read out to her.
She faces up to life in person if found guilty.
Given that it was unclear if she had an attorney, another hearing was scheduled for Wednesday, a front man for the US Attorney’s office told AFP.
He said Salman was provisionally represented by a federal public defender on Tuesday.
It was unclear what she was doing in California and her case is expected to be transferred to Florida.
Media reports have said that Salman may have had prior knowledge of her husband’s plan to carry out the massacre as she had accompanied him on at least one trip to the nightclub and on one occasion went with him to buy ammunition.
The indictment, which was returned in Florida on January 12, asks that Salman’s assets, including $30,500, be forfeited.
She was taken into custody early Monday in Rodeo, a community about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... . It was unclear if her son was with her.
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Katherine Russell Tsarnaev to the white courtesy phone please. Katherine Russell.
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Found my bags in a escorted terminal warehouse search. Items spatially ordered by control type(checked, carryon, abandoned) and cross indexed by size, color and composition(hard, soft, wheeled(2-4), shipping container, exotic(baby (stroller, carseat, crutch, walker, laptop, phone, purse). Even items clearly tagged with names, addresses and flight information were held for passenger pickup, to get a video record of the physical release I suppose. Everything had a 'where found' grid reference tag. I'm assuming that was a NTSB crash protocol.
Laptop and phone release required visual inspection and video record of successful startup and password access.
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In this, as the others(San Bernardino, Orlando, Boston), we'll find a dominant manipulative matriarch serving as an intermediary, in the guise of a diminutive companion.
We dominant males underestimate their coordinated influence on repressed males. They cannot comprehend the amazing number of unprotected soft target clusters.
These have been trials to evaluate approach and the effectiveness of engagement strategies against model targets.
[NYTIMES] President B.O. on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning ...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Currently doing 35 years in Leavenworth and writing editorials for the New York Times.... , the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous. First president we've ever had who was demonstrably on the other side.
The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to kill herself last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the men’s military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
The act of clemency could be seen as a reversal, at least in part, of the B.O. regime’s unprecedented criminal crackdown on leaking: The administration has brought charges in about nine cases, about twice as many as under all previous presidents combined.
At the same time that Mr. Obama commuted the sentence of Ms. Manning, a low-ranking enlisted soldier at the time of her leaks, he also granted a pardon to Gen. James E. Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one of the highest-ranking officials ensnared in the leak crackdown.
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A trannie with chassis enchanting
(uncanny!) may channel Miss Channing,
May bitchily banter
With Bette (supplant her!)...
Just don't make us buy his dismanning.
#9
Maybe it's just Obama being old fashioned. Now that the traitorous twerp switched from he to a she, everyone knows that women don't get as harsh a sentence as men.
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[DAWN] The federal government on Tuesday failed to secure the consent of opposition parties on the issue of extension of military courts.
The special powers given to the Army to establish tribunals to try civilians on terrorism charges had ended earlier this month on the expiry of the mandated period.
The military courts had been established through a constitutional amendment following the attack on the Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. This was the government's second in-camera consultation with parliamentary leaders on the issue. The meeting, held at the parliament house, was chaired by Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq. The first meeting in this regard had also concluded without a consensus.
Federal Law and Justice Minister Zahid Hamid briefed the meeting on the performance of the military courts till their disbandment.
Following the meeting, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi told media that opposition parties had demanded that the government call an in-camera session of the parliament in which representatives from security institutions should brief the house.
He said that the Tuesday meeting had given birth to several more questions, and added that opposition parties now seek an explanation from the government on the issue.
Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said that the opposition asked for explanation on issues pertaining to the military courts.
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[DAWN] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked Pakistain to "walk away from terror" if it wants to establish amicable relations with India, The Indian Express reported.
Modi was speaking at the inauguration of the second edition of the Raisina Dialogue, an annual conference held in New Delhi, envisioned to be India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics.
In his speech, he said if Pakistain wants to build a relationship with India and have a dialogue, it must distance itself from "terror activities".
"Those in our neighbours who support violence, hatred and export terror stand isolated and ignored," Modi said.
The Indian premier said he extended an invitation to all members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), including Pakistain, around the time he assumed office.
"I had also travelled to Lahore but India alone cannot walk the path of peace," the Indian premier added.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Iraq has provided information to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... regarding 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) members that crossed into Turkey or who have been trying to do so, Iraq’s ambassador to Ankara has said.
"The available information suggests that a significant number of them have already crossed the border to Turkey. Others are trying to do so. Many of them are from Tel Afar and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... or from other towns around. We have provided this information to Turkey," Ambassador Hashim al-Allawi told the Hurriyet Daily News.
"It’s important that the two sides cooperate and share information when it comes to separating genuine citizens that have been forced to leave their hometowns and from ISIS [members] that left towns and villages because of military operations. They could pose a threat to the national security of Turkey, as well as the national security of Iraq," the ambassador stated.
It is a serious issue since "we are taking about thousands of DEASH" members, al-Allawi said, using an Arabic abbreviation for ISIS.
On the sidelines of a high-level cooperation council meeting on Jan. 7, the heads of intelligence chiefs "have discussed these issues in detail and there is an agreement to cooperate," he said.
The issue was also discussed when a Turkish delegation went to Arbil, as part of Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s visit to Iraq earlier in the month, he said.
"I was with them. There was a joint meeting between the Turkish delegation and the Iraqi Kurdistan delegation. One of the key issues that two sides discussed was security cooperation," said al-Allawi.
Approached by the Daily News, a Turkish official said that during the meetings in Baghdad, two sides agreed to develop bilateral relations, enhance cooperation primarily in the struggle against terror and exchange the names of terrorists.
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[IsraelTimes] Talks held in Moscow with unofficial Russian mediation; both parties urge Lavrov to convince Trump not to move US embassy to Jerusalem.
Thus Vladimir Putin obliged incoming President Trump, disobliged France's struggling Hollande and the EU, and prevented Palestinian grandstanding in Paris. Their unity government should unexpectedly start falling apart moments after the ink on the agreement dries.
Optimist...
After three days of reconciliation talks in Moscow, the main Paleostinian parties on Tuesday announced a deal to form a national unity government prior to the holding of elections.
"We have reached agreement under which, within 48 hours, we will call on [Paleostinian Authority President] the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to launch consultations on the creation of a government" of national unity, senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad told a presser, speaking in Arabic.
After the government is formed, the Paleostinians would set up a national council, which would include Paleostinians in exile, and hold elections.
"Today the conditions for [such an initiative] are better than ever," said Ahmad.
No doubt that's true. Meaningless, but still true.
The non-official talks in Moscow began on Sunday under Russian auspices with the goal of restoring "the unity of the Paleostinian people." Representatives came from Fatah, terror groups Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , and other factions.
Abbas’s secular Fatah and the Islamist terror group Hamas have been at loggerheads since the latter seized Gazoo in a bloody coup in 2007.
Last year the Paleostinian government postponed the first municipal polls in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip in 10 years, after the Ramallah-based high court ruled they should be held only in the Fatah-run West Bank.
The last time the Paleostinians staged elections in which both Hamas and Fatah took part was in 2006, when Hamas claimed an unexpected victory.
The Paleostinian representatives also met on Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and asked him to dissuade 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... from carrying out a campaign pledge to move the US embassy in Israel from coastal Tel Aviv to the capital Jerusalem, which is also claimed by the Paleostinians as the seat of government for their future state.
"We sensed understanding on the part of Mr. Lavrov," said Ahmad.
In other words, he made an odd little half smile and sent the girl off to fetch them drinks.
Ahmad and Moussa Abu Marzouk of Hamas both spoke derisively of the Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... -- the foursome of Middle East peacemakers comprising the United States, Russia, the EU and UN -- in its years-long effort to end the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
"The Quartet’s work completely failed. It was unable to advance the decisions taken by the international community, including [UN] resolutions," said Ahmad.
"It is imperative to find a new working mechanism for the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict," he said.
Abu Marzouk, a bigwig in the terror group, said he no longer wanted to work with the Quartet but instead with countries and organizations on an individual basis.
"Russia can play a substantial role" in the region, he said.
[IsraelTimes] Barrier and other measures slash rate of illegal migration; only 11 successful attempts to cross the fence in 2016.
It also incidentally keeps Ansar Bayt al Maqdis and other nefarious groups from running amok among the juices.
Israel said Tuesday it has finished raising the height of an electronic fence along part of its border with Egypt to shut down irregular migration routes.
The 242 kilometre (250 mile) barrier, stretching from the Gazoo Strip to the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat, was completed in 2014.
The Israeli government hoped it would tackle illegal migration, drug and weapons trafficking and infiltration by terrorists.
It slashed the number of African migrants colonists arriving in Israel, which had been running at a rate of hundreds every month, though at least 213 still managed to breach the fence in 2015, the Defense Ministry said.
That prompted authorities to raise its height from five to eight metres (15 to 25 feet) along a 17-kilometre (10-mile) stretch, it said.
That, plus additional detection devices, had "significantly curbed the flow of illegal infiltration into Israel, with only 11 successful attempts to cross the fence throughout 2016," it said.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... says Israel hosts 53,000 refugees and asylum seekers including 36,000 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... ns and 14,000 Sudanese.
Most reached the country via Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
[Nikkei Asian Review] Muslims in southern Thailand are bidding farewell to a prominent Muslim leader accused by police of leading a separatist movement intent on creating a homeland for ethnic Malays in the region. Local media quoted Sapae-ing Basor's family members as saying he had passed away on January 10 while living in exile in Malaysia.
About 2,500 people gathered on Monday morning at the school in southern Yala province where Sapae-ing served as principal until he fled the country in December 2004. Sapae-ing had been charged with treason by police over his alleged involvement in a series of attacks on police and military facilities in the region.
Sapae-ing, who was educated in Saudi Arabia, commanded respect from Thai authorities as well as admiration from local Muslim communities. "He was the most selfless person we ever knew. He always placed the needs and dignity of his community before him," said one cadre from the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, a key southern insurgent group that surfaced in the early 1960s.
Since its inception, the BRN has looked to post-colonial Indonesia for inspiration, while relying on a network of traditional Islamic schools in the southern Thai region as its support base.
Thai police have maintained that Sapae-ing is the overall leader of the BRN, and at one time they placed a 10 million baht reward on his head. The reward system for the region was dropped by the military government that assumed power in 2006.
A senior BRN source said the movement would continue its fight against the Thai government, noting that Sapae-ing's death would not affect the group's military operations. Thai security officials and BRN rebels said that his death would not have a significant impact on stalled peace talks between the Thai government and Mara Patani, an umbrella organization of southern rebel groups.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran agrees to build mobile network, has the right to operate phosphate mines in war-torn country.
Iran will build a mobile phone network and gasoline terminal in Syria under deals signed in Tehran on Tuesday during a visit by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, Iranian media reported.
The five deals include a "license for a mobile phone operator, the transfer of 5,000 hectares for the creation of a petrol terminal and 5,000 hectares for farmland" in Syria, according to the IRNA news agency.
Iran will also have the right to operate phosphate mines in Sharqiya, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the jihadist-held ancient city of Palmyra, and to invest in an unnamed Syrian port.
Tehran is the chief backer of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , providing military advisers and coordinating thousands of "volunteer" fighters on the ground considered vital to last month’s recapture of the rebel stronghold in Aleppo.
First vice-president, Eshagh Jahangiri, said Khamis’s visit marked "a new page for economic activities between the two countries".
"The recent victories in Syria are due to the resistance of the people, the Syrian army... and the cooperation on the ground and politically between Iran and Syria," he said at a news conference with Khamis.
At a separate presser later in the day, President Hassan Rouhani welcomed the fragile ceasefire in Syria.
"Iran wants the ceasefire to continue, that the negotiations continue, that the war against ISIS [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] and the 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 .. ... Front continues so that Syria achieves a stability and a peace so that it can hold a real election," said Rouhani.
Khamis, who arrived with a large business delegation, said the two countries were in "the same trench."
He was also due to meet Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, which oversees political and military cooperation with Russia and Syria.
Iran will take part in Syria peace talks alongside Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in the Kazakh capital Astana on January 23 aimed at building on a fragile ceasefire with rebel groups.
"There are negotiations between the government and the [rebel] groups present on the territory that could be serious," Rouhani said. "Iran, Russia and Turkey have made a lot of effort to ensure these negotiations in Astana... these countries have influence and can make it work."
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There has to be some payback for the cost of supporting the Alawite regime while fighting ISIS, et al, Pappy. Otherwise they could wait a bit until until only enemies were left, then simply mow them all down.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United States wanted to use 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 .. ... terrorist groupings (outlawed in Russia) to overthrow Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sad at an annual presser on Tuesday.
"There are a lot of examples showing that the Americans and their allies sneakily wanted to use al-Nusra and the IS to weaken and finally overthrow the Assad regime," Lavrov said.
"That is why, they were quite reserved in implementing their stated goal of fighting against terrorism," the Russian foreign minister said.
Similarly to how al-Qaeda emerged when the Americans supported mujahideen in the 1980s, the IS came into existence after Iraq’s occupation in 2003, Lavrov said.
"Exactly in the same way, Jabhat al-Nusra, which is one of Al Qaeda offshoots, is the most vicious, the cruelest and the most merciless terrorist force in the Syrian crisis now," he added.
As the Russian foreign minister said, "it was only after the Russian air task force started to operate in Syria in September last year at the request of President Assad that the US-led coalition that had existed for a year by that time started in earnest at least somehow to bomb IS positions and deliver strikes against its infrastructure, including oilfields, which the IS used for its own financing through smuggling," the Russian foreign minister said.
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You don't wanna believe the Russians when they say things like this but with Baraq you just never know.
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You mean, McCain's Heroes?
Especially after the idea of intervention was so odious a vote was shelved.
So they rounded up every anti-assad swinging turban, trained and armed them, then sent them off to topple a government - then failed to provide air support.
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My favorite part was when McCain had his photo op with the Fresh Faces of Arab Spring...and the next day Al-Qaeda was all, "You're gonna arm them...they're all a bunch of assholes!"
Then some of our guys were like, "Yeah, they look familiar....hey, don't arm them, they're a bunch of assholes!"
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iran’s First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri has said on Tuesday at a presser with Syria’s Prime Minister Imad Khamis, that Syria is winning the war with solid victories because of the close coordination between Damascus and Tehran.
Khamis traveled to Tehran at the head of a delegation.
"It is certain that Syria’s victories are owed to the gallantry and steadfastness of the Syrian people, army, the fighters of the resistance axis, and also the result of coordination on the field as well as political coordination between the country and Iran," the Iranian official said.
"As the government and people of Iran, we have supported and assisted the Syrian people and legitimate government" in the face of terrorism, he added.
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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
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The Afghan Intelligence, 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The main suspect involved in a deadly attack on a nightclub in Istanbul had received training in Afghanistan, it has been reported.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Police in Istanbul apprehended late on Jan. 16 a gunman who killed 39 people in a terror attack on the city’s glamorous Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood early on Jan. 1, as details over the course of his 16 days on the run came to light.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Indictments regarding the 
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[DAWN] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked Pakistain to "walk away from terror" if it wants to establish amicable relations with India, The Indian Express reported.
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[Nikkei Asian Review] Muslims in southern Thailand are bidding farewell to a prominent Muslim leader accused by police of leading a separatist movement intent on creating a homeland for ethnic Malays in the region. Local media quoted Sapae-ing Basor's family members as saying he had passed away on January 10 while living in exile in Malaysia.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
