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Breaking: Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman Dies in Prison
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Nine people flee U.S. border patrol to seek asylum in Canada
[Reuters] Nine asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.

As a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.

One by one they scrambled across the snowy gully separating the two countries. RCMP officers watching from the other side helped them up, lifting the younger children and asking a woman, who leaned on her fellow passenger as she walked, if she needed medical care.

The children looked back from where they had come as the U.S. officer held the first man, saying his papers needed to be verified.

The man turned to a pile of belongings and heaved pieces of luggage two at a time into the gully -- enormous wheeled suitcases, plastic shopping bags, a black backpack.

"Nobody cares about us," he told journalists. He said they were all from Sudan and had been living and working in Delaware for two years.

The RCMP declined on Friday to confirm the nationalities of the people. A Reuters photo showed that at least one of their passports was Sudanese.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2017 04:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  A Rooters propagandist photog "just happened to be there"?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/18/2017 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I wouldn't be surprised the photographer, his crew, and fully equipped van accompanied them on their 'harsh journey'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/18/2017 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Welcome to the new version of the 'wildlife documentary'.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/18/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  It's a family migratory event Jim, much like our own Weaverbird (Ploceus cucullatus). See the older member lagging behind to retrieve the bundles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/18/2017 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  "Nobody cares about us," he told journalists.

WRONG!
We care that it took you 2 years to leave.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe Turdeau can put them up in his house.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/18/2017 12:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Why would we want to stop them?
Tell them that the Canadians have free brownies...
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/18/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Did Mohammed command Muslims to be drama queens?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/18/2017 14:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Since when have people exiting the USA at border crossings been stopped by US personnel? I've never seen anyone stopped this way. Getting stopped ENTERING a country, however, is the routine event at border crossings.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2017 15:19 Comments || Top||

#10  "Nobody cares about us,"

That's the only part of the story I can believe, and I agree 1,000% - I don't care.
Posted by: Raj || 02/18/2017 18:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Was the taxi driver a Somali?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/18/2017 22:15 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Not favoring govt collapse but serious reforms need: Sayyaf
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent Jihadi leader and former member of the Afghan parliament Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf
...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home...
has said no one is favoring the collapse of the current government but serious reforms are need in various sectors.

Sayyaf was speaking during gathering organized by the former Jihadi leaders to mark the anniversary of the withdrawal of the former Soviet Union forces from the country.

He said the government should further step up fight against corruption and bring reforms in almost all sectors, including security and economy.

The former Jihadi leader further added that a partially developed political system in power is better than the absence of no system.

In other parts of his speech, Sayyaf reiterated the call for support to Mujahideen, insisting that the sacrifices of Mujahideen should not be ignored.

He also called on neighboring countries of Afghanistan to refrain from intervention and called on international community to continue their support to Afghanistan and the Afghan people.

The remarks by Sayyaf came as reports have emerged during the recent months suggesting the growing interference by regional countries in internal affairs of Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Seoul to announce assassination of Kim Jong-Un's half-brother to North Koreans over LOUDSPEAKERS at the border if autopsy finds he was poisoned
  • Attack on Kim Jong-nam by 'North Korean hit squad' lasted just 'five seconds'

  • 'Cloth drenched in chemical' was 'clamped over his face' at Malaysian airport

  • Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said country was taking the death very seriously

  • North Korean officials say it will 'categorically reject' the results of an autopsy
  • Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


    Malaysian authorities refuse to release Kim Jong-nam’s body until family provides DNA samples
    [SCMP] The body of Kim Jong-nam, the assassinated brother of North Korea’s leader, will not be released until his family have provided DNA samples, Malaysia said on Friday, despite a request from Pyongyang.

    Detectives in Kuala Lumpur are trying to get to the bottom of the cloak-and-dagger murder that South Korea says was carried out by poison-wielding female agents working for their secretive northern neighbour.

    Forensic specialists were on Friday carrying out tests on samples from the dead man’s body to try to determine the toxin that was apparently sprayed in his face as he readied to board a plane earlier this week.

    North Korean diplomats have objected to the postmortem examination, Malaysian officials say, but Kuala Lumpur has stood firm, and said on Friday it would not release the body until procedures were complete.

    "So far no family member or next of kin has come to identify or claim the body. We need a DNA sample of a family member to match the profile of the dead person," Selangor state police chief Abdul Samah Mat said. "North Korea has submitted a request to claim the body, but before we release the body we have to identify who the body belongs to."

    Laboratory technicians working on blood and tissue samples would "conduct the analysis as soon as possible", Dr Cornelia Charito Siricord of the science ministry’s chemistry department told national news agency Bernama.

    Police were meanwhile questioning two women ‐ one travelling on a Vietnamese passport and the other on an Indonesian document ‐ as well as a Malaysian man.

    The drama erupted on Monday morning as Jong-nam, the estranged elder brother of Kim Pudge Jong-un
    ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
    , readied to board a plane to Macau. Malaysian police say the 45-year-old was jumped by two women who squirted some kind of liquid in his face.

    Jong-nam told staff he was suffering from a headache and was taken to the airport clinic grimacing in pain, according to Malaysian media citing CCTV footage from the airport. He was rushed to hospital suffering from a seizure but was dead before he arrived.

    South Korea has pointed the finger of blame at the North, citing a "standing order" from Jong-un to kill his sibling and a failed liquidation bid in 2012 after he criticised the regime.
    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies


    Kim assassination: Indonesian suspect thought she was part of a comedy show prank, police say
    [SCMP] The Indonesian woman enjugged
    Please don't kill me!
    for suspected involvement in the killing of the North Korean leader’s half brother in Malaysia was duped into thinking she was part of a comedy show prank, Indonesia’s national police chief said on Friday, citing information received from Malaysian authorities.

    Tito Karnavian told news hounds in Indonesia’s Aceh province that Siti Aisyah, 25, was paid to be involved in Just For Laughs style pranks, a reference to a popular hidden camera show.

    He said she and another woman performed stunts which involved convincing men to close their eyes and then spraying them with water.

    "Such an action was done three or four times and they were given a few dollars for it, and with the last target, Kim Jong-nam, allegedly there were dangerous materials in the sprayer," Karnavian said.

    "She was not aware that it was an liquidation attempt by alleged foreign agents," he said.

    Karnavian’s comments come after a male relative of Aisyah said in an Indonesian television interview that she had been hired to perform in a short comedy movie and travelled to China as part of this work. Indonesian Immigration has said Aisyah travelled to Malaysia and other countries, which it did not specify.
    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

    #1  Interesting analysis: A Death in Malaysia
    Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/18/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

    #2  She didn't 'prank him to death with a tire iron'?
    (Gratuitous Christopher Walken reference.)
    Posted by: ed in texas || 02/18/2017 14:47 Comments || Top||


    Europe
    Dutch Muslim who preached ‘harmony’ unmasked as ‘rabid anti-Semite’
    [IsraelTimes] Moroccan-born baker who appeared in TV show about coexistence previously tweeted that ’Hitler was nothing compared to Israelis.'

    A Moslem baker who moved many viewers in the Netherlands with his televised plea for coexistence and acceptance had called in the past for a genocide against Jews, Dutch papers revealed.

    Rachid el Hajoui, an immigrant from Morocco who works at a pizza eatery in Tilburg, made his emotional appearance during an expose on growing feeling of insecurity and estrangement in the Netherlands aired on the Feb. 14 evening news edition of the NOS public broadcaster, the country’s best-viewed station.

    In the interview (link in Dutch), el Hajoui confessed he feared going to mosque "because some crazy person might attack" there. "Intelligent people incite to the most stupid actions. And stupid people do it," he said. He complained about "the hateful voices" on Twitter and in the political establishment, ostensibly against Moslems. "I stand for democracy and I want my family and everyone to live in harmony," he said.

    But on Wednesday, the de Dagelijkse Standard conservative blog found some hateful statements by el Hajoui, whom they also discovered was previously an activist for the Socialist Party and later with the progressive D66 party.

    An English-language message posted on el Hajoui’s Twitter account in 2014 read: "Hitler was nothing compared to the Israelis. Someone would had to finish his work 60jr ago." He also wrote in Dutch: "Only answer to Israel is total extermination, annihilate the cockroaches #1945 #wehateisrael."

    He also praised Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
    ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
    , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
    ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
    ’s authoritarian and Islamist leader, as "the only real man among Moslem leaders."

    The revelation exposed NOS to scathing criticism in other media for affording el Hajoui the opportunity to preach tolerance without addressing his past statements, which were revealed by Twitter users and bloggers who took an interest in him following the news broadcast. BY Friday, El Hajoui appeared to have deleted his Twitter account.

    The Center for Information and Documentation for Israel, the country’s main watchdog group on anti-Semitism, filed a complaint for incitement to hatred against el Hajoui.

    But Esther Voet, the group’s former director and currently the editor-in-chief of the Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad, wrote in an op-ed in her weekly that while what she called el Hajoui’s hatred and hypocrisy are not surprising, what "is big news is that NOS made a hero out of this rabid anti-Semite" el Hajoui, whom she also called a "pet Moroccan."

    Separately, the Christian organizers of a festival for peace in the eastern city of Apeldoorn last week apologized for offering a podium to an anti-Israel activist whom they said had used anti-Semitic terminology in speaking about the Jewish state during the event last week.

    Ending a protracted dispute, the Foundation Jewish Apeldoorn and the organizers from the Church Group Peace Week Apeldoorn signed a joint statement on Feb. 10, denouncing the remarks of the anti-Israel activist Cornelis Blok as "anti-Semitic." The parties stated that Blok of the Sabeel group used the term "Jewish race" during his speech and equated Paleostinian jihadists with anti-Nazi resistance fighters.

    Blok denied harboring any anti-Semitic intent.

    The chief organizer, Eddy Anneveldt, also apologized for writing to Blok a friendly email stating: "Because of you, my view of Jews has not particularly improved." In the statement, Anneveldt wrote this was a generalization.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 02/18/2017 01:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

    #1  Pretty much par for the course. The MSM puts these manipulators forward to progress the narrative... then it falls apart when they are exposed to be just as big as fuckwhits as all their kin.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 02/18/2017 5:53 Comments || Top||

    #2  Learning the definition of Taqiyya, no?

    Dank u voor uw begrip.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/18/2017 8:29 Comments || Top||


    The Grand Turk
    Presidential system 'will help Turkish economy'
    [AA.TR] Deputy prime minister says constitutional change will provide stability
    It'll make the trains run on time.
    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

    #1  It'll make the trains run on time.

    LOL
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2017 3:27 Comments || Top||

    #2  More efficient flow of bucks into his pocket. It's not the graft it's the velocity of the graft.
    Posted by: AlanC || 02/18/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||


    Charter changes are for the nation, not myself. Honest. Erdogan
    [AA.TR] Turkish president kicks off Yes campaign in runup to April 16 referendum on constitutional changes
    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

    #1  "L'Etat c'est Moi"
    Posted by: Frank G || 02/18/2017 7:40 Comments || Top||

    #2  We're from the government. We are here to help you.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||


    Turkey Recalls Clerics, Denies Wrongdoing in Germany Spy Case
    [An Nahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
    ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
    's religious affairs agency said Friday it had recalled six holy mans from Germany for exceeding their authority but lashed out at German police for raiding the homes of preachers suspected of spying for Ankara.

    The Diyanet agency's chief Mehmet Gormez vehemently denied there had been any wrongdoing by the holy mans, saying his organization was the target of a defamation campaign.

    German police this week raided the homes of four Turkish Moslem holy mans suspected of spying for President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
    ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
    's government on the movement of U.S.-based preacher Fethullah 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...
    , whom Ankara blames for a coup bid last year.

    The imams, who were not named, are accused of reporting to Diyanet on Turkish followers of Gulen, through the Turkish consulate in Cologne
    ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there...
    "The holy mans did not engage in any illegal act," Gormez told news hounds in Ankara, adding that information had been shared with Germany.

    But he said: "Six holy mans who were evaluated to have exceeded their authority were sent back to their posts in Turkey."

    This was "to maintain the mutual trust between two countries and as a gesture of goodwill," Gormez added.

    He emphasized that they had never participated "in any act of intelligence-gathering or espionage", but confirmed that the six recalled included the four holy mans whose homes were raided.

    Gormez indicated that they had already been recalled before the raids took place, slamming the police actions as subject to "political and media pressure."

    He expressed hope that German officials would help in "sensibly ending this unreasonable and pointless process."

    Gormez gave no details on how the recalled holy mans had exceeded their authority.

    German police made no arrests in the raids but confiscated written material and data storage devices.

    German media said imams belong to Ditib, an organization controlled by Ankara that manages some 900 mosques or religious communities in Germany. Diyanet sends holy mans to work in its mosques.

    The range of its influence has on occasion caused controversy in Germany, as with similar organizations in the Netherlands and Austria.

    The raids came at a time of high tension between Ankara and Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel
    ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
    's government repeatedly criticizing the scale of the crackdown in the wake of the July 15 failed coup.

    Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is heading to Germany at the weekend and is expected to meet Merkel.

    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


    Great White North
    Canada gov’t bid for ‘anti-Islamophobia’ motion stalls
    [AA.TR] An anti-Islamophobia
    ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
    motion proposed by the Canadian government stalled Thursday in Parliament and now awaits a new proposal next week from the opposition Conservative party.

    The motion, M-103, was tabled in Parliament by MP Iqra Khalid, a Moslem.

    It asked the government to "recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear", and condemn Islamophobia, along with other racist and religious discrimination, according to the Canadian Press wire service.

    It was endorsed by the National Council of Canadian Moslems that previously called on Members of Parliament to support the motion in light of the recent shooting at a Quebec City mosque where six were Moslems were killed and 19 injured, CTV television news reported.

    The motion is non-binding, meaning it is not enshrined in law and is more of a guideline, but is an important symbolic rejection of "discrimination and prejudice against Moslems", said Conservative MP Michael Chong.

    But Chong's Conservative colleagues were worried the motion could lead to infringement on free speech, that the motion does not define "Islamophobia" and might also prove problematic to Canada’s ability to denounce terrorism.

    "Motion 103 will not prevent anyone from criticizing Islam or radical Islamic terrorists," Chong said, as reported by CTV.

    There is also criticism that one religion is being singled out for special treatment.

    Conservatives want to replace Islamophobia to include "Moslems, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and other religious communities," the Ottawa Citizen newspaper reported Thursday.

    But Khalid said the motion tackles more than just Islamophobia and by passing the motion, the government recognized the need to speak out.

    "We need to recognize that we have a problem and we need to tackle it," Khalid said, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

    To prove her point, Khalid told the House of Commons on Thursday she has received more than 50,000 emails, many of them containing discrimination or threats.

    I have asked my staff to lock the office behind me as I now fear for their safety," she said, as reported by the CBC. "I have asked them not to answer all phone calls so they don't hear the threats, insults and unbelievable amount of hate shouted at them and myself."

    The motion also calls for the formation of a committee to study how the government could institute measures to fight racism and collect more data for hate crime reports.

    Before the debate, the Liberal government took the unusual move of holding a presser in the foyer of the House of Commons. Cabinet Minister Melanie Joly said the government is throwing its "strong and clear support" behind the motion.

    "There is no place for hatred and no tolerance of abuse," Joly said.
    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

    #1  They want to kill all the Jews, a lot of Christians, and enslave everybody else - and we are phobic?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2017 3:29 Comments || Top||

    #2  Virtue signalling. It will get watered down to meaningless verbiage and all the players will be busy slapping themselves on the back. Meanwhile the serious players will be concerning themselves, not with "Islamaphobia" whatever that might mean, but with Islamacide.
    Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/18/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Lawmakers probe US funding for Soros groups, left-wing causes in Europe
    [FoxNews] George Soros' alleged meddling in European politics has caught the attention of Congress.

    Concerns about Soros' involvement most recently were raised by the Hungarian prime minister, who last week lashed out at the Soros "empire" and accused it of deploying "tons of money and international heavy artillery."

    But days earlier, Republican lawmakers in Washington started asking questions about whether U.S. tax dollars also were being used to fund Soros projects in the small, conservative-led country of Macedonia.

    Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., led a group of House lawmakers in writing to Ambassador Jess Baily -- an Obama appointee -- demanding answers. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, also expressed concerns about USAID money going to Soros' Open Society Foundations as part of a broader concern that the U.S. Embassy has been taking sides in party politics.

    “I have received credible reports that, over the past few years, the US Mission to Macedonia has actively intervened in the party politics of Macedonia, as well as the shaping of its media environment and civil society, often favoring groups of one political persuasion over another,” Lee said in his letter.

    Together, the concerns reflect growing conservative pushback against Soros' operations in Europe.

    George Soros' alleged meddling in European politics has caught the attention of Congress.

    Lee’s staff recently met with Macedonia lawmakers, who also passed on a white paper from a citizen’s initiative called “Stop Operation Soros” which alleges U.S. money has been funding hard-left causes in the country -- including violent riots in the streets, as well as a Macedonian version of Saul Alinsky’s far-left handbook “Rules for Radicals.”

    In an extensive 40-page dossier, the group alleges USAID money is being used to fund activists and exclusively left-wing media groups as a way to sway the country’s politics.

    The Open Society Foundations did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  If Congress starts an in depth investigation of Soreass he's libel to end up in the orange jump suit.
    Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 02/18/2017 1:00 Comments || Top||

    #2  Won't happen Jeasing. Most of the left would be there with him.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 02/18/2017 5:54 Comments || Top||

    #3  Forget the orange jump suit. He's so old it wouldn't matter much anyway.

    I'm thinking civil asset forfeiture. After all it's his money (how many billions?) that's causing the trouble. Take it ALL away and knock a zero or two off the debt.
    Posted by: AlanC || 02/18/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

    #4  the shaping of its media environment and civil society, often favoring groups of one political persuasion over another

    Gee, I wonder if the investigation will discover he does that in other countries?

    How many countries?

    How close to the continental U.S.?
    Posted by: Bobby || 02/18/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

    #5  Don't forget to include his son as well.
    Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/18/2017 9:50 Comments || Top||

    #6  So Congress doesn't know where they are spending our money?
    Posted by: gorb || 02/18/2017 21:58 Comments || Top||


    India-Pakistan
    Unmanned entrance: Reports reveal how Sehwan bomber entered the shrine
    [GEO.TV] Now ridden with blood, victims' clothes, and half-eaten food, the compound that leads to the main hall of the shrine was brimming with around 1,000 people when it was crossed by the jacket wallah.

    Sifting through intelligence reports and strings of information pieced together, we have tried to retrace how the attack was carried out and why the attacker was not apprehended.

    The shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, built in 1356 in honour of one of Sindh’s most revered poet, philosopher, and Sufi saint, is also one of the most famous in Pakistain. It is a place that welcomes all, regardless of their religion, cast, or creed.

    Originally from Persia, it is believed that Saint Syed Muhammad Usman Marwandi resided in Sindh during the 13th century. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar or ’Laal Saeen’ (as he is remembered by his followers) preached peace and tolerance.

    The shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, decorated with traditional Sindhi Kashi-tiles with inlaid mirror work and a grand golden gate donated by then Shah of Iran, Raza Pehalvi, is brimming with devotees every Thursday, especially in the evening.

    The attack
    It was around 6:30PM when the attacker entered through the golden gate of the shrine, investigation reports have revealed. Clad in a burqa, the bomber managed to make his way inside without being searched since there were no female security personnel present at the entrance. The golden gate is one of the main gates of the premises.

    The suicide kaboomer managed to wade through the crowd without catching attention, more so because the main lights were turned off for the dhamaal, a ritual in which people are usually in a trance. Everyone's attention was focused on the dhamaal, even those who were not could not have spotted a suspicious person entering the main hall as a large number of people kept entering and leaving the area.

    Inside, the hall was crammed with men and women revering the dhamaal, with children running across while others tugging at their mothers' dupattas, not knowing death loomed moments away.

    By the precision of movement traced in investigation reports, it appears the attacker had surveyed the area. The timing and spot also appeared pre-planned, as a large number of people from different social and economic backgrounds visit the shrine on Thursdays. Although the shrine is one of the most famous in the country, none of its main entry points were guarded, which made it easier for the terrorist to carry out his nefarious plan.

    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


    Pakistan army summons Afghan diplomats, demand actions against 76 terrorists
    [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak military has reportedly summoned some of the Afghan diplomats following a series of deadly attacks across Pakistain, claiming that 76 gunnies are involved in the attacks using the Afghan soil.

    "Afg Embassy officials called in GHQ. Given list of 76 Ts hiding in Afg. Asked to take immediate action / be handed over to Pakistain," DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a Twitter post.

    Earlier, the Pak military announced that the routes linking the two countries along the Durand Line have been closed after the attacks.

    Gen. Ghafoor said "Pakistain-Afghanistan Border closed with immediate effects till further orders due to security reasons."

    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


    Iraq
    US-led coalition trains 5,000 Iraqi forces to join anti-ISIS campaign in Mosul
    [ARA] The Iraq security forces have nearly 5,000 more members to assist as hold forces in Eastern djinn-infested Mosul
    ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
    and eventually in the fight against ISIS in Western Mosul following recent graduation ceremonies at Taji, Besmaya, Erbil, and Al Asad Airbase, the US-led anti-ISIS coalition said on Friday.

    At Taji and Besmaya, nearly 2,000 Nineveh coppers were trained by Australian and New Zealand soldiers and are poised to assist in the fight against ISIS in Mosul.

    "Task Group Taji IV is proud to see them develop into an effective security force, ready to take the fight to ISIS," said Australian Col. Richard Vagg, commander TG Taji IV.

    "The police trainees are determined to defend their country against ISIS," said Col. Vagg. "They’re young and determined ‐ many of them come from Mosul where they’ve lost family members to ISIS’s campaign of terror."

    Over the past month, the Coalition provided infantry-based tactics, techniques and procedures to men who will play a major role in defending, holding and stabilizing areas liberated from 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) myrmidons.

    In Besmaya, Spanish Coalition members led Nineveh police forces’ training.

    In addition, 3,000 Iraqi security forces graduated from patrol and clearing techniques training at Al Asad Airbase led by the efforts of Danish, British, Latvian, Estonian and American forces.

    The government of Iraq, supported by the US-led multi-national coalition, launched the Mosul offensive in Oct. 2016 to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city which was taken by ISIS in June 2014.

    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

    #1  Weren't similar things done before?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2017 3:29 Comments || Top||

    #2  Yes. But this time they've been given sensitivity training.
    Posted by: Pappy || 02/18/2017 7:48 Comments || Top||

    #3  Uhmm, Pappy, that may have been true under Obama, but now with Trump in charge...
    Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/18/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

    #4  It takes a while for institutional changes to take place. Especially in the DOD.

    Ask me how I know.
    Posted by: Pappy || 02/18/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

    #5  Good point Pappy!

    I'll bite. How do you know?
    Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/18/2017 10:49 Comments || Top||

    #6  Yarn us a Yarn Pappy!
    Posted by: Shipman || 02/18/2017 12:43 Comments || Top||

    #7  Well, there's this (and the subsequent mandatory training) for a start...
    Posted by: Pappy || 02/18/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Terrorism makes January Israel’s bloodiest month since June
    [IsraelTimes] Five Israelis were killed and 16 hurt in 100 incidents, according to Shin Bet, including truck-ramming attack that claimed four lives.
    That seems awfully inefficient to me, but of course I have no idea.
    Four of the victims were killed in Jerusalem on Jan. 8 when the assailant drove his truck into a crowd of soldiers. One man was killed the previous week in Haifa.

    Of the attacks documented last month, 81 involved the hurling of Molotov cocktails. December 2016 had seen 98 attacks.
    No mention of the many arrested, the guns, supplies, and funds confiscated, the dwellings knocked down, for some reason.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 02/18/2017 01:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The slogan "Have Arabs, have terrorism" is legally (Supreme Court of Justice) racist in Israel.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2017 3:26 Comments || Top||


    Syria-Lebanon-Iran
    IS Leaders Leaving Syria's Raqa, Pentagon Says
    [An Nahar] Leaders 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....
    group are leaving their Syrian stronghold of Raqa, fleeing in the face of the Arab-Kurd offensive backed by the international coalition, the U.S. Defense Department said Friday.

    "We are starting to see now that a lot of senior ISIS leaders, a lot of their babus bureaucrats... are beginning the process of leaving Raqa," said Pentagon front man Navy Captain Jeff Davis, using an alternate acronym for the jihadist group.

    "They have definitely taken note of the fact that the end is near in Raqa," he told news hounds, describing a retreat that seems "very organized, orderly."

    After a string of major losses in both Iraq and Syria, the jihadists' two main strongholds of djinn-infested Mosul
    ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
    and Raqa are both under attack from forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition.

    After a massive, four-month campaign, Iraqi forces are tightening the noose on Mosul, while in Syria, the Arab-Kurd alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, has been advancing to cut off IS access in Raqa.

    According to the Pentagon front man, that objective is nearly complete, with the Islamic State group now controlling only one road, in the southeast of the city.

    Located along the north bank of the Euphrates River, the road links Raqa to Deir Ezzor, said Davis, who did not give precise details about the extent of the jihadists' retreat.

    Roads in the north and west are blocked by the Syrian Democratic Forces, and in the south, by the destruction of bridges on the Euphrates, he said.

    While the isolation operations on Raqa have made progress, the coalition has not announced its plan for recapturing the city.

    Still unknown is what role the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the YPG, will play in the U.S.-backed Arab-Kurd alliance.

    The YPG, considered a terrorist group by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
    ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
    , fights the Islamic State group in northern Syria as well as Ankara's forces.

    Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
    ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
    has proposed that the coalition replace the YPG with Turkish forces.

    Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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