[The National] The Egyptian man behind the machete attack on a soldier at the Louvre in Gay Paree worked in Sharjah and flew to La Belle France from Dubai last month.
The UAE has denounced the actions of Abdallah El Hamahmy, 28, a sales manager, who attacked guards at the museum.
"The UAE, while strongly condemning this hideous crime, affirms its full solidarity with the friendly French Republic and its support for whatever measures La Belle France may take to preserve the security and safety of its citizens and residents," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said on Friday night.
"We confirm our religious values and our human situation, which absolutely reject extremism, terrorism and crimes against innocent people."
El Hamahmy’s brother Ahmed, who works at the Ministry of Health in Dubai, was questioned by security officials for several hours, their father Reda El Hamahmy said yesterday.
The father, a retired police general, told of his disbelief at the attack and said his son, who is married with a seven-month-old child, showed no signs of radicalisation.
El Hamahmy’s brother Ahmed, who works at the Ministry of Health in Dubai, was questioned by security officials for several hours, their father Reda El Hamahmy said yesterday.
The father, a retired police general, told of his disbelief at the attack and said his son, who is married with a seven-month-old child, showed no signs of radicalisation.
On Friday, he attacked soldiers guarding the museum, which has reopened to the public, but was shot five times and maimed. Hundreds of tourists were held in secure areas of the museum until the situation was under control.
"He went on a company trip and when it was over, visited the museum. He was supposed to leave on Saturday," the father said.
"The French government’s account is not logical. He was 1.65 metres tall and attacked four guards? And in the end they found nothing in his bags."
"The French government’s account is not logical. He was 1.65 metres tall and attacked four guards? And in the end they found nothing in his bags.
"He is a simple guy. We all love him. Our household is a moderate household and mind our own business."
The father said he believed the maimed suspect to be his son but this had not yet been confirmed.
"National Security came yesterday and asked for information about him, and I gave them whatever I had," Mr El Hamahmy said. "All I want is to know the truth and find out whether he is dead or alive.
"This is all a scenario made up by the French government to justify the soldiers opening fire. He is a very normal young man."
The attacker is believed to have entered La Belle France legally on a flight from Dubai on January 26.
French president Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said "there is little doubt as to the terrorist nature of this act".
Investigators in Gay Paree said El Hamahmy was armed with two machetes and lunged at four patrolling French soldiers while shouting "Allahu Akbar".
One of the troops was slightly injured after being struck on the head, while a second soldier opened fire five times.
"The attacker fell to the ground seriously maimed," Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins said.
El Hamahmy’s condition stabilised overnight in a Gay Parisian hospital, a source said.
Investigators in Gay Paree are examining his Twitter account where he posted about a dozen messages minutes before the attack.
"In the name of Allah, for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world," he said linking to a post he wrote on his Facebook page.
"No negotiations, no compromise, steadfastness and no retreat."
"In the name of Allah, for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world," he said linking to a post he wrote on his Facebook page.
"No negotiations, no compromise, steadfastness and no retreat."
His Facebook page and Twitter account have since been suspended.
In another post on Twitter, he cited a Koranic verse that promises heaven to those who are killed fighting for the sake of God.
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The U.S. State Department will allow people with valid visas into the United States, a department official said on Saturday, in order to comply with an opinion from a federal judge in Seattle barring President Donald Trump's executive action, Reuters reported.
"We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas," the State Department official said in a statement. "Those individuals with visas that were not physically canceled may now travel if the visa is otherwise valid."
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Foggy Bottom had no problem at all slow-rolling court orders to turn over Clinton documents. Strange, very strange.
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Below from Bangkok Billy posted yesterday to "Travel Ban hurts SOF" article:
#6 Hate to break the news to you Devil Dog but our FID missions in IRQ and AFG have been total failures. 100's of SF lives and 100's of millions of dollars - failure. IRQ is lost and AFG is Vietnam in late 71 early 72 - just waiting for the Easter Offensive. We f'd up both places and we just don't have the sense or balls to own up it.
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I absolutely and emphatically agree. My point was, the FID failure came looooong before DJT. I probably should have referred to it (AFG FID effort) as a cock-up. No 'Devil Dog' here, by the way.
[NYPOST] President Trump’s national security adviser wants to fight not just Islamic Lions of Islam but the "radical ideology of Islam," and he plans to do it from the grass roots up, starting with our children at schools while also using social media.
Dealing with the global Islamist threat on a tactical level through dronezaps and arrests hasn’t worked, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn argues, according to his largely overlooked 2016 book, "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies." He wants to combat it more broadly, using informational warfare, among other things, on a scale not seen since World War II.
But first, he writes, the government has to overcome the political taboo of tying Islamic violence to the religion of Islam, including its sacred texts, which he says the enemy is using as a manual of warfare.
Last week, Trump asked Flynn to work with the Pentagon and other security agencies to draft a comprehensive plan to not only defeat ISIS on the battlefield but "delegitimize its radical Islamist ideology," and have it on his desk by the end of this month.
Advance details of the plan can be gleaned from Flynn’s book. In it, the 33-year Army veteran proposes discrediting the "evil (religious) doctrines" motivating jihadists -- namely the Islamic rewards for martyrdom (or suicidal terrorism) and the totalitarian tenets of Sharia law -- using psy-ops and counter-propaganda, not just through federal government channels but also through "our schools, media and social networks."
"If we can’t tackle enemy doctrines that call for our domination or extinction," Flynn writes, "we aren’t going to destroy their jihadis."
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but also through "our schools, media and social networks."
Good luck with that, General.
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start with the Islamic schools K-12
let's see how that works out
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We tried this in AFG. Turned out you not only have to build the schools and provide teachers, you have to guard both 24/7. And the markets the teachers shop in. And the Police units that patrol the areas. And the roads that they travel on. Etc, etc, etc...
Lotsa Boots.
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[An Nahar] Israel discovered Friday that settlement construction may not be as simple as it thought under U.S. President 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... , implying it would tone down activity ahead of crucial Washington talks.
Paleostinians, however, were worried by the Trump administration's first direct statements on the issue made since the January 20 inauguration. Some people are never happy, especially those who don't want to be...
The White House issued a statement seeming to tone down Trump's full-throated support of settlement construction after a series of Israeli announcements on thousands of new homes in settlements, as well as plans to build a new settlement for the first time since 1992.
But the remarks did not criticize the very existence of Jewish settlements in Paleostinian territories as previous U.S. administrations had consistently done.
"While we don't believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful," White House front man Sean Spicer told news hounds on Thursday.
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Stay OUT of their business, remarks, etc. In fact, stay OUT of everyone's business.
[MAANNEWS] Israeli forces have reportedly finished a 10-kilometer section of the Israeli separation wall in the south of the occupied West Bank district of Hebron, Hebrew-language media reported on Saturday.
Hebrew-language site Walla reported that the order to complete the wall in the area came as a punitive response to a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv carried out in June last year by Paleostinians from the village of Yatta in Hebron.
According to Walla, the plan was set by the Israeli Defense Ministry and states that the separation wall would start from the Tarqumiya checkpoint in western Hebron to the Meter checkpoint in the south. The wall is 42-kilometers long and is erected on the side of bypass road 35, constructed for the use of settlers illegally residing in Paleostinian territory to connect them with Israel.
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[MAANNEWS] Thousands rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in protest of home demolitions targeting Paleostinian citizens of Israel, with demonstrators calling the Israeli state’s demolition campaign "racist" and an act of "incitement" against Paleostinian citizens.
Protesters reportedly called on Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan to resign for "lying" to the Israeli public, saying they held him responsible for the killings that took place during a raid to evacuate the Negev region Bedouin community of Umm al-Hiran last month.
Local math teacher in Umm al-Hiran Yacoub Abu al-Qian was rubbed out on Jan. 18 by police before Israeli authorities demolishes more than a dozen structures in the village, with authorities claiming he was carrying out a deliberate vehicular attack, in contradiction to numerous eyewitness reports and video evidence that attested his car spun out of control only after Israeli police opened fired on him.
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[An Nahar] Iran's missiles will come down on the country's enemies if they do wrong, a senior commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was quoted as saying in a Saturday report from semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the Guard's airspace division, said: "If the enemy does not walk the line, our missiles come down on them."
Hajizadeh's comments came during a Revolutionary Guard military exercise aimed at testing its missile and radar systems. The exercise was taking place in a 35,000-square-kilometer (13,515-square-mile) area in Semnan province in northern Iran.
The exercise comes a day after U.S. President 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... 's administration imposed sanctions on Iran in response to a recent missile test. The sanctions target more than two dozen people and companies from the Persian Gulf to China.
Tasnim said all the equipment used in the war game, including all defensive systems, radars, command centers and ground-to-air missile equipment, are designed and manufactured by Iranian scientists.
Iranian English language Press TV reported that Iran Senior Vice President Ishaq Jahangiri dismissed what he called recent anti-Iran posturing by the U.S. He said "threadbare" accusations are aimed by Washington at scaring away investors.
"The Iranian nation and authorities do not attach the least value to these remarks," he said.
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"threadbare" accusations are aimed by Washington at scaring away investors. "The Iranian nation and authorities do not attach the least value to these remarks," he said
Uh huh. Squeal away, bitches
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[ARA] The latest edition 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.... ’s (ISIS) propaganda magazine Rumiyah, published on Saturday, suggests that the goal of Erdogan’s safe zone plan is to prevent a Kurdish state and pressure the Syrian government in the future.
The myrmidon group also said that in the future the Syrian rebels will have no choice but to surrender to Assad, or join the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed rebels in northern Aleppo and fight ISIS.
On August 24, the Turkish Army and allied rebels in Syria launched the so-called Euphrates Shield Operation under the pretext of combatting terrorism.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... Kurdish politicians and activists said that Turkey’s intervention in Syria was mainly aimed at attacking the Kurds, namely the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). It seems that the Islamic State agrees with this analysis.
"The taghut [tyrant] Erdogan and members of his apostate government increased in talking about the "Safe Zone," mentioning its being a means of preventing the establishing of the Kurdish state, to which the secular kafir PKK aspires," ISIS magazine said.
"As such, Turkey seeks to take control over the area stretching between Jarabulus and ’Azaz, covering more than 50 km of land, which would prevent the areas ruled by the apostate PKK snuffies east and west of the Euphrates from joining together. Doing so, the Turkish murtaddin [apostates] would make this area barrier to block Islamic State mujahidin from reaching their lands," the magazine added.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... according to the Islamic State, Turkey wants to control the area in northern Aleppo not only to destroy the Kurdish plans to unite their cantons, but also to weaken the Syrian government.
"Whoever scrutinizes the actual situation on the map and the ongoing political events in both Turkey and Sham [Syria] will recognize that the importance of this area to the apostate Turkish government far surpasses the issue of destroying the plans of the Kurdish state, despite its importance to them," ISIS said.
"This is because the Turkish army’s assertion of control over some part of Sham will be a means of great pressure on the Nusayri [Alawite] regime in the future, which will exceed the importance of controlling the many factions of the Sahwah murtaddin [anti-ISIS Syrian rebels] ‐ meaning that they will reap many rewards in a future withdrawal, no matter what kind of taghut [tyrant] government is set up in Damascus," the Rumiyah magazine said.
Moreover, the magazine added that Turkey’s partial control of northern Syria, with Russian and American air support, would prevent Assad from bombing it. "This would help Turkey to eventually rid itself of a large number of undesirable refugees (those who are disruptive or offer little benefit to Turkey) by opening refugee camps for them in this area. Such would also alleviate much of the great costs burdening the declining Turkish economy," the ISIS magazine said.
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I think they left out Turkey establishing a de facto homeland for ethnic Turkmen.
[The National] The US defence secretary James Mattis on Saturday called Iran the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world after the White House announced new sanctions linked to Tehran’s ballistic missile programme.
Iran responded to the sanctions by ramping up its rhetoric of defiance and carrying out missile defence exercises on Saturday.
The Iranian foreign ministry said Tehran would impose its own "legal limitations" on Americans that it said supported holy warriors in the region.
The missile defence exercise in Semnan province aimed to "showcase the power of Iran’s revolution and to dismiss the sanctions", according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards website.
The tests were to be of short-range missiles with a 75km range, according to the site, and would display Iran’s "complete preparedness to deal with the threats" from the US.
The administration of new US president 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... was expected to take a harder line on Iran than Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... , who sought to engage rather than contain the US adversary, but there has been a sharp escalation of rhetoric after a ballistic missile test and an attack by Iran-backed Yemeni rebels on a Saudi frigate last week.
"As far as Iran goes, this is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world," Mr Mattis said in Tokyo.
Mr Mattis said the US has no plans to send more troops to the Middle East in response to Iranian missile tests.
"It does no good to ignore it. It does no good to dismiss it and at the same time I don’t see any need to increase the number of forces we have in the Middle East at this time," he said. "We always have the capability to do so but right now I don’t think it’s necessary."
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nothing like calling a spade a spade St. Mattis of Quantico.
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[MAANNEWS] Israeli forces have reportedly finished a 10-kilometer section of the Israeli separation wall in the south of the occupied West Bank district of Hebron, Hebrew-language media reported on Saturday.
[MAANNEWS] Thousands rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in protest of home demolitions targeting Paleostinian citizens of Israel, with demonstrators calling the Israeli state’s demolition campaign "racist" and an act of "incitement" against Paleostinian citizens.
[An Nahar] Iran's missiles will come down on the country's enemies if they do wrong, a senior commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was quoted as saying in a Saturday report from semi-official Tasnim news agency.
[The National] The US defence secretary James Mattis on Saturday called Iran the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world after the White House announced new sanctions linked to Tehran’s ballistic missile programme.
