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[USAToday] PHOENIX — A federal judge in Las Vegas ordered prosecutors in the Bundy Ranch standoff trials to turn over an investigative report accusing a key government witness of wrongdoing.
Judge Gloria Navarro denied motions to dismiss charges against 17 defendants who claimed the government withheld evidence by concealing misconduct allegations against the federal agent in charge of operations during the 2014 standoff.
Navarro said prosecutors had a duty to release a full copy of a report by the Department of Interior's Office of the Inspector General naming the agent, calling it "material evidence" that could be used to impeach the government's witness.
"The OIG Report details several violations of federal ethics regulations, misuse of government property, misuse of a government position, and 'a lack of candor when interviewed,' " Navarro wrote in a ruling Wednesday. "At a minimum, (defendants) may use this alleged misconduct on cross-examination to impeach (the agent)."
Opening statements began Thursday in the first of three trials against ranchers and militia members accused of conspiracy when they took up arms in 2014 to stop Bureau of Land Management officials from seizing cattle owned by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
The commander of the US war in Afghanistan has requested several thousand new troops for America’s longest-ever conflict to break what he described as a stalemate. In the first indication of the course the 15-year-old war will take under Donald Trump, army Gen John Nicholson told a Senate panel that he was facing a shortfall of troops necessary for training Afghan forces to ultimately replace their US and Nato counterparts.
“They could come from our allies as well as the United States. We have identified the requirement and the desire to advise below the corps level. It would enable us to thicken our advisory efforts across the Afghanistan mission,” Nicholson told the Senate armed services committee on Thursday.
Nicholson acknowledged that the Taliban has gained territory across the country in 2016, and that the Afghans have “tens of thousands” of absent or nonexistent Afghan soldiers on their payrolls. But he described the current situation in Afghanistan as a “stalemate.
One reason for the deadlock, Nicholson said, was the increasing spoiler role of Russia, which has been accused of aiding Trump in the election and with which Trump seeks to reconcile. Nicholson said Russia was seeking to undermine the US and Nato in Afghanistan, adding that he was “concerned about the increasing level” of unspecified Russian support for Taliban insurgents.
Nicholson said he was not seeking additional forces for counter-terrorism operations, the other remaining mission bequeathed to Trump by Barack Obama, who initiated a troop surge and then reduced them to their present levels of 8,400.
It is unclear how Trump will respond to Nicholson’s request. Over the years, Trump has publicly advocated withdrawal from Afghanistan and characterized the war as a disaster.
Nicholson said he believed the Trump administration was “open to a discussion of an objectives-based approach” that would include a commensurate troop increase, and said he thought it would be possible to meet US objectives with fewer than 30,000 troops.
The commander expected to discuss the force request “in greater detail” at next week’s conference of Nato defense ministers.
Trump has previously called the war in Afghanistan – a conflict in which nearly 2,400 US troops have died – “a total and complete disaster”. In 2013, he tweeted, “Let’s get out of Afghanistan,” calling the war “nonsense” and a waste of money.
Last month, the Taliban sent an open letter to the new US president, urging him to follow through on his longstanding position. “The responsibility to bring to an end this war also rests on your shoulders,” the insurgent group said.
Nicholson subtly contradicted Trump’s positions on defense. He conspicuously praised Nato for its persistent contributions to Afghanistan, despite Trump calling Nato irrelevant in an age of terrorism. He criticized Russia’s role in Afghanistan, where he said it was beginning to “publicly legitimize the Taliban” through a “false narrative” that the insurgents, not the Afghan government, were fighting the Islamic State presence in the country.
Though Nicholson praised Obama’s June relaxation of restrictions on US airstrikes, the commander criticized Obama’s troop reductions and limitations, and advocated managing the war “by objective, not force-manning level”.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's chief of military intelligence says the Moslem Brüderbund allied itself with the Islamic State Lion of Islam group since a popular uprising toppled former president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
Egypt's Chief of Military Intelligence Mohammed Farag El-Shahat said that the Egyptian army has killed nearly 500 forces of Evil in Sinai in military operations launched under the name "the martyr's right' since 2015.
A respectable number, if it's real...
Egypt's security forces have been battling a decade-long Lion of Islam Islamist insurgency, which intensified since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013, mainly in North Sinai 's Rafah, Arish, and Shiekh Zuwied cities.
Militant attacks have left hundreds of police and army personnel dead.
More or less one for one, then?
El-Shahat statements came during the Egyptian Armed Forces 24th intellectual seminar titled "Counter-terrorism; a Nation's Will" that commenced on Thursday.
The Egyptian military commander affirmed that the banned Moslem Brüderbund organization formed an alliance with 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.... Lion of Islam group based predominantly in North Sinai, a move aimed at putting the Brotherhood back in power.
El-Shahat pointed out to a statement made by a Moslem Brüderbund leader in late 2013, in which he said that terrorism in Sinai would stop at the moment president Morsi returns back to power.
In late 2013, Egypt designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization, after the authorities blamed a number of deadly attacks against security forces in the aftermath of the ouster of Morsi.
"Militants attempted to announce an Islamic state in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid city after they launched a major attack on 1 July 2015," El-Shahat stated, affirming that army and police in North Sinai foiled this attempt, causing tangible loses among forces of Evil and terrorist groups.
The General Command of the Armed Forces also issued its first official statement on battles against Islamist forces of Evil who attacked army posts that day.
The statement said that the army killed more than 100 forces of Evil during its counter-attacks in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah cities, after 17 army personnel including four officers were killed during the fighting and 13 others were maimed in the attacks.
The Egyptian military intelligence chief also said that the state of instability in many countries in the region contributed to the rise of terrorist attacks in Egypt during this period.
[AlAhram] British Ambassador to Cairo John Casson announced on Thursday the signing of a £2 million British programme to assist Egypt in combating human trafficking, saying that while there are no magical solutions to the problem, the UK strongly supports Cairo’s efforts in this area.
"Human trafficking costs the world €6 billion annually" Casson said, praising a recent law approved by the Egyptian government which incriminates all parties involved in human trafficking operations.
Casson said the law, signed by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in November 2016 amid a hike in the number of migrants colonists departing the country for Europe, underscores Egypt’s political will to curb this phenomenon.
The British ambassador also praised Egypt's role in aiding immigrants colonists and refugees and its assistance to neighboring Libya, which is considered the main point of departure for refugees and irregular migrants colonists traveling to Europe.
The head of Egypt's National Coordinating Committee for Combating and Preventing Illegal Immigration (NCCPIM) Ambassador Naela Gabr welcomed the announcement of the programme, which is under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The spokesperson for the Arab coalition, General Ahmed Assiri, said that the ousted Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... will be subject to trial on charges of involvement in the Houthi-led coup in Sanaa.
Assiri assured, in an exclusive interview with the Russian news agency Sputnik and Novosti on Thursday, that Saleh is a Yemeni citizen, "who committed criminal acts in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and he is now subject to international sanctions." He added that the government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi is responsible for its citizens and, therefore, will hold Saleh accountable for his actions and put him under "trial in accordance with the laws of Yemen."
Furthermore, Assiri asserted that Saleh "belongs to the category of criminals who carried out a coup against the authority" in the state, and pointed out that Saleh ought to cooperate with the legitimate government if he wants to avoid the punishment he deserves according to the law.
Assiri stated that the Arab coalition considers "all the groups that supported the coup as one bloc and led Yemen to the tragedy" that the country is undergoing.
Assiri announced that under the leadership of President Hadi, the Yemeni government now controls more than 85 percent of the Yemeni territories, and stressed that "the Houthis only have influence in Sanaa and some areas of Saada."
The spokesperson refused to comment on the rumor that Riyadh has been targeted by a ballistic missile launched from Sanaa, saying: "I do not comment on these kind of lies. Whatever is happening in the Saudi Kingdom or in the areas of operations will be announced through an official statement of the alliance. And since we didn’t publish an official statement about the practices of the Houthis, it means that this is a lie, and we do not have time to argue."
He affirmed: "We are in the realm of facts. We are accustomed to credibility with the Saudi community and with the Arab and international countries. We have nothing to hide. The Saudi Kingdom reported on the 38 ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis. Most of these rockets failed to do any damage and they are only threatening the lives of Yemeni citizens since they didn’t reach the Saudi territory. If anyone can confirm that Riyadh has been hit by a missile, he can go ahead and present a statement."
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemen’s government demanded that United States forces operative in the country refer to Yemeni officials before engaging in any military action, whether aerial or ground based.
Coordination with Yemeni forces is to reduce risks of losing civilian lives.
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... said it had not suspended counter-terrorism operations with the U.S. government, despite controversy over a U.S. commando raid on al-Qaeda snuffies in which several civilians were also killed.
A statement by the Yemeni embassy in Washington said the government "stresses that it has not suspended any programs with regards to counterterrorism operations in Yemen with the United States Government".
The Yemeni government "reiterates its firm position that any counterterrorism operations carried out in Yemen should continue to be in consultation with Yemeni authorities and have precautionary measures to prevent civilian casualties."
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[IsraelTimes] Britannia is ending a program to take in child refugees proposed by a politician who arrived in the country by Kindertransport during World War II.
Proponents of the program had wanted the United Kingdom to take in as many as 3,000 lone child refugees, but the government said Wednesday that the initiative would end in March after the resettling of 350 children, according to The Guardian.
Given that a significant, but hidden, proportion of those "children" were most definitely adults -- and in some cases clearly middle-aged -- ending the program is the right call.
Alf Dubs, who was born in Czechoslovakia and arrived in London as a child by way of the Kindertransport rescue effort, proposed the program in the House of Lords last year. Dubs, who previously served in the House of Commons for the Labour Party, called on Prime Minister Theresa May not to end the program, The Guardian reported.
Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said local authorities had stated that they could only resettle 400 unaccompanied child refugees until the end of March and the government had never committed to taking in a specific number of children.
The unit investigating claims of abuse by British forces in Iraq is to close down, the government has announced, saying it will also greatly reduce similar inquiries connected to Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
The Iraq historic allegations team (Ihat) will close as early as this summer, the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, said on Friday. Any remaining investigations – expected to soon fall to about 20 from a peak of 3,000 – will be investigated by the Royal Navy police. They would be expected to complete any final investigations by the summer of 2018, Fallon added.
He said the decision was made after the campaigning human rights lawyer Phil Shiner was struck off this month over multiple professional misconduct charges, including dishonesty and lack of integrity. Shiner had led legal claims against British troops for their treatment of Iraqi detainees after the 2003 invasion. His company, Public Interest Lawyers (Pil), was involved in passing on almost two-thirds of the 3,392 allegations received by Ihat.
He was a progressive wanker and someone who lived by the mantra of "by any means necessary" ...
Shiner had pursued the case of Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker whose death after 36 hours in British military custody prompted an inquiry which condemned the treatment of detainees.
However, other allegations turned out to be untrue. In 2014 the long-running al-Sweady inquiry rejected claims that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies. Shiner later admitted paying an Iraqi middleman to find claimants, in breach of professional standards.
His downfall was “the beginning of the end for Ihat”, said Fallon. “This will be a relief for our soldiers who have had allegations hanging over them for too long. Now we are taking action to stop such abuse of our legal system from happening again.”
As part of this process, the Royal Military police is to discontinue about 90% of 675 allegations of abuse from Afghanistan, a Ministry of Defence statement said.
For historical investigations in Northern Ireland, the government will ensure “veterans and former police officers are not dragged through the courts in disproportionate numbers compared with terrorists”, the statement added.
General Sir Nicholas Carter, chief of the general staff, said credible abuse claims should be investigated. “However, a significant number of claims made against our soldiers have not been credible,” he added.
But Amnesty International said the failings of Shiner and his firm should not mean all abuse claims were dropped.
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[TheGuardian] Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf, who gained infamy after his young son was pictured holding a severed head, is believed to have become the first dual national stripped of Australian citizenship under anti-terrorism laws.
Khaled is not exactly an "Australian" as you and I think of the word...
A spokeswoman for the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, told Guardian Australia on Saturday an individual had been stripped of citizenship under anti-terror laws which passed parliament in 2015. She declined to name the person but the Australian newspaper reported it is dual national Sharrouf.
He went to fight with Isis in Syria in 2013, a year after being released from prison for his role in a terrorism plot. In 2015, there were unconfirmed reports Sharrouf had died in a drone strike in Mosul. However he continued to be the subject of an active arrest warrant.
He gained infamy for posing in photographs with the severed heads of Syrian soldiers in 2014. Sharrouf’s seven-year-old son was pictured holding up the severed head of a Syrian government official around the same time.
In February last year it was reported the widow of Sharrouf had died in Syria, leaving her five children and a grandchild stranded and in hiding in Raqqa. Tara Nettleton is believed to have died from complications after an operation for appendicitis in September. Nettleton followed Sharrouf to Syria from Sydney with their children in 2014.
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Hungary has been accused of “stooping to a new low” after it announced plans to detain all asylum seekers in shipping containers near the border with Serbia.
The government of prime minister Viktor Orbán says the measure is necessary to secure the EU’s borders and deter migrants coming into the country from the Middle East via Serbia. It has already set up two razor fences on the border with Serbia and is deploying more than 600 soldiers to guard the fence.
But Amnesty International said the measure was in clear contravention of EU law and the Refugee Convention.
Everything Amnesia Int'l doesn't like is against a law somewheres...
According to the AFP news agency, asylum seekers are to be held at four military bases along the fence, where they will be housed in barracks built from shipping containers. Each camp will have room for 150 people, the agency reported.
Plug the containers together and it might not be too bad -- add some heat, set up a few as a dining hall, and so on. Beats being in Aleppo...
The government is due to submit its proposal to parliament, which will then debate and vote on the measures within weeks. It will involve taking hundreds of existing asylum seekers to the container camps. The new regulations will be implemented only as long as the government-declared state of emergency over mass migration is in place, such as the one currently in force.
The government’s chief spokesman, Zoltán Kovács, had announced at a briefing in London this week that all asylum seekers will be detained during the entire period of their asylum application, rather than being released pending an appeal.
But giving further details following government meetings Orban’s chief of staff, János Lázár, said all current and future asylum seekers would be transferred to container camps in a so-called “transit zone” near the border, where they would be held for the duration of their asylum application process.
Asylum appeals would by default be conducted with the asylum seeker attending only via a video link to a court, rather than in person.
“People’s freedom of movement will be removed,” said Lázár. “They will be able to stay only in a place designated for them. This place will be the state border, where containers suitable for accommodating 200 to 300 people will be erected. Migrants will have to wait there for a legally binding decision on their claims.”
Gauri van Gulik, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Europe, said: “Rounding up all men, women and children seeking asylum and detaining them for months on end in container camps is a new low in Hungary’s race to the bottom on asylum seekers and refugees.
“By amending a raft of laws to lock up all asylum seekers, the Hungarian government will inflict unnecessary trauma, compounding what people seeking protection have already suffered. The government has in no way proven that the detention of each asylum seeker would be reasonable, necessary and proportionate. Detention should always be the last resort and not an knee-jerk reaction, as is the case here.
“This is further evidence that the EU needs to stand firm on Hungary’s flagrant disregard for European and international law.”
People seeking asylum cannot currently be detained in the so-called “transit zones” along Hungary’s border with Serbia for more than four weeks, after which they must be allowed inside the country. The reform under consideration would remove that time limit and introduce mandatory detention for the whole duration of the asylum procedure.
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The answer is stop coming. You are not invited anymore.
These camps, I could only dream of housing myself, or the Refugees I had in these facilities.
#3
Maybe Soros houses them in his own house. Fat chance.
If the World does not do something about this fucking piece of shit from hell fucker soon, I will have reason to believe that ALL of you are insane and fire up the death star.
Get rid of Soros, and I MEAN NOW.
Rothschilds too.
A Rottweiler eating your intestines out of you is a better feeling than with this most worthless scum of the earth walking around and fucking every Country he touches.
That is EVIL in person/
Get that shit out of my face without delay.
The absolute current leader of the scum of the earth. And I AM not kidding.
...a.k.a. Fereed Mumuni and Freed Mumuni because of those layers of editors and fact checkers...
22, admitted to the plot Thursday -- plus charges Mumuni tried to fatally stab an FBI agent with a kitchen knife.
The agent, helping execute a search warrant at Mumuni's house, was protected by body armor.
Saleh, the one-time Queens college student, said Friday he spoke with others about traveling to join ISIS. He said he got hiking boots for a co-conspirator trying to get to Syria, and passed along contact information for someone he thought was an ISIS recruiter. The group of terror wannabes included several New Jersey men.
If Saleh opted for trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Solomon said the government would've shown Saleh was in contact with "attack controller" Junaid Hussain.
...also cleverly known as "Abu Hussain", the young former Birmingham, Englander was briefly the proud husband of middle aged, former punk rocker Sally Jones and one of ISIS' long-distance jihad coaches. He was killed at age 21 by a drone in Raqqa in August 2015.
Solomon said Hussain relayed instructions to Saleh on how to build a pressure cooker bomb like the one that killed three people during the 2014 Boston Marathon.
Hussain, a hacker with a big role in ISIS online recruitment, was killed in an August 2015 U.S. air strike in Syria.
As Brooklyn Federal Judge Margo Brodie made sure Saleh understood what he was doing by pleading, she asked if anyone threatened or forced him to plead.
Saleh paused before saying yes.
The judge noted the hesitation and asked again if he'd been pushed into the plea.
"Partly. More like, my counsel said, between a rock and a hard place," he said.
Both Saleh and Mumuni are scheduled for May 16 sentencing. Saleh faces up to 53 years and Mumuni could get a maximum 85 years.
"In the name of ISIS's false and hateful ideology, these defendants attacked the law enforcement officers who work tirelessly to preserve the safety of our communities," said U.S. Attorney Robert Capers.
Saleh's lawyer, Deborah Austern Colson, and Saleh's parents did not comment after the plea.
An undercover FBI agent who was investigating terrorism was driving past two Arizona men just before they opened fire outside a prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas in 2015, court records show, raising questions about whether authorities could have done more to stop the attack.
The records became available to The Associated Press in the criminal case against Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a Phoenix man who was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison on criminal convictions that included providing support to Islamic State.
Kareem wasn't at the event in Garland, but authorities say he provided guns used by Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi in the attack, instructed them on how to use weapons and watched violent jihadist videos with them.
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The FBI investigated Tamerlan back in 2011, less than two years before he blew up the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds. When the FBI discovered photos of Tamerlan and his brother at the marathon, they knew they had their suspects. But according to the bureau, officials at the Boston office couldn’t put names to their faces — despite the fact that JTTF officials in Boston had interviewed Tamerlan on numerous occasions as part of its terrorism investigation against him.
#5
So once again, a weapons enabler with a driver and the two deaders. Seems a standard 3 man cell is the model. Bet the driver that disappeared was a girlfriend.
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"We are convinced that there is much more to this story than the FBI has admitted ," said Trenton Roberts, an attorney for security guard Bruce Joiner.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has said the Taliban and Haqqani network leaders are enjoying freedom of action within Pakistain safe havens.
Gen. Nicholson is the commander of the US forces and the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... -led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
"The Taliban and Haqqani network are the greatest threats to security in Afghanistan. Their big shots remain insulated from pressure and enjoy freedom of action within Pakistain safe havens," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
He said "As long as they enjoy external enablement, they have no incentive to reconcile. The primary factor that will enable our success is the elimination of external sanctuary and support to the Death Eaters."
Gen. Nicholson also added that Russia has become more assertive over the past year, overtly lending legitimacy to the Taliban to undermine NATO efforts and bolster belligerents using the false narrative that only the Taliban are fighting ISIS-K.
"Similarly, neighboring Iran is providing support to the Taliban while also engaging the Afghan government over issues of water rights, trade, and security," he added.
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[ARA] Fayiz is a 9-year-old boy from Raqqa countryside who was injured due to the kaboom of an ISIS landmine. He was walking alongside his uncle and grandfather in a village in Raqqa countryside when a landmine went kaboom!. Fayiz’s grandfather died during the kaboom, and he was heavilyy injured in his leg. The boy was transferred to Sere Kaniye town along with his uncle for treatment.
"They [ISIS] had covered the bomb with stones, so we didn’t expect that kaboom to occur," Fayiz said.
Ayed al-Faraj, Fayiz’s uncle, told ARA News: "I’ve lost my father in that kaboom. My nephew and I have survived the incident. We were maimed and now being treated."
Fayiz’s family is not the only Syrian family to suffer from ISIS bombs.
The ongoing conflict in Raqqa Governorate has led to a large number of civilian casualties. Many of them are injured in kabooms of landmines planted by ISIS holy warriors. The majority of the injured lose their lives before having access to treatment.
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) Lions of Islam have left behind thousands of explosives after being forced by the Kurdish YPG troops and allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to withdraw from large areas in northern Syria. Those explosives continue to pose a serious threat to civilians’ lives.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... the local Roj Organization (RMCO), a Kurdish group specialised in dismantling landmines and bombs, says that the lack of advanced equipment has been preventing them from carrying out their work efficiently. The organization has been working on clearing areas liberated from ISIS in northern Syria, by dismantling explosives.
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[ARA] Iranian Kurdish parties are urging US president Trump’s administration to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, during the 38 anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic republic. On Friday, Kurds organised a Twitter storm to demand the listing of the IRGC as terrorists.
The Trump administration is considering listing the Moslem Brüderbund and the IRGC as terrorist organizations.
"After Khomeini created the IRGC, these forces immediately started to kill our people," Aso Saleh, a representative of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDK-I) in Sweden, told ARA News. "All Kurds believe that the IRGC forces are acting in violation of basic human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. by killing civilian people and supporting other terrorist organizations in whole the world," he said.
"They participate directly or indirectly in hundreds of terrorist attacks not only against the regime’s opposition leaders (like Dr.Qasemlou or Dr. Sharafkandi) but also against other countries. We think that is a correct decision and we support it. Stopping all kinds of terrorism, from ISIS to IRGC is a responsibility to all of us in this era," he concluded.
Hiwa Bahrami, a spokesperson PDK-I front man in Germany, told ARA News: "We are launching a Twitter campaign with the goal to push the US to recognize the IRGC as a terrorist organization. The IRGC has been oppressing Kurds in Iran for years. If they are classified as a terrorist organization, they will be very limited in their activities in the region."
"This concerns not only the military or political ambitions of the IRGC but also the economic interests. In addition, the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iran are fighting against IRGC, in that case this fight will be called a fight against terror on an international level!" Bahrami added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former ISIS hard boy has revealed details of how the hard boy group filmed the execution of a Jordanian pilot in 2015.
In a documentary that was aired on Al Arabiya, the former hard boy who kept his identity hidden, said that after the pilot was caught, the hard boy group decided to use him to send a message to the world.
"We filmed him on the site of where he was going to be executed and zoomed in on his face, but at that time he didn’t know we were planning to set him a light," the hard boy said, adding that the pilot only realized he was going to be burnt when they pour gasoline on his body.
"We also filmed the fighters, who were standing on guard," he said.
The hard boy said that there was four cameras given to other fighters to capture the footage.
Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh was captured by ISIS while he was on a mission in Raqqa when jet jet was shot down.
His death was confirmed by Jordan after a video published online by ISIS claimed to show him being burned alive. The video showed a man standing in a cage engulfed in flames. The video posted on Tuesday was distributed via a Twitter account known as a source for IS propaganda.
The highly produced 22-minute film includes a sequence showing the Jordanian pilot walking at gunpoint amongst rubble apparently caused by coalition air strikes that targeted hard boys.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The spokesperson for the Arab coalition, General Ahmed Assiri, said that the ousted Yemeni President 
[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemen’s government demanded that United States forces operative in the country refer to Yemeni officials before engaging in any military action, whether aerial or ground based.
[TheGuardian] Islamic State fighter 
Hungary has been accused of “stooping to a new low” after it announced plans to detain all asylum seekers in shipping containers near the border with Serbia.
An undercover FBI agent who was investigating terrorism was driving past two Arizona men just before they opened fire outside a prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas in 2015, court records show, raising questions about whether authorities could have done more to stop the attack. 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former ISIS
