[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Amid deteriorating relations between Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Islamabad, the government of Pakistain eyes to create a joint mechanism, involving military, intelligence, and political cooperation to jointly fight terrorism.
Pakistain’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... informed regarding the talks during a presser in Islamabad on Saturday.
He said Islamabad has sent its proposals to Kabul for the joint mechanism and further talks are expected on the sidelines of Regional Economic Cooperation Conference.
Aziz further added that both Kabul and Islamabad have agreed to the notion that terrorism a common enemy and an agreement has been reached for joint cooperation to deal with the issue.
According to the local media reports, the two sides have quietly started working on a proposal, which envisages engagement at multiple levels -- military, intelligence, and political.
This comes as tensions further intensified between the two nations following a series of deadly attacks across Pakistain in the past three weeks.
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the government of Pakistain eyes to create a joint mechanism, involving military, intelligence, and political cooperation to jointly fight terrorism
Which has pretty much been Pakistan's objective - not to fight terrorism, but to gain 'cooperation'.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak Ambassador to Afghanistan was summoned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan regarding the persistent artillery shelling in eastern provinces of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said Ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned and a protest was lodged by deputy foreign minister for administrative affair Dr. Nasir Ahmad Andisha.
Dr. Andisha strongly condemned the artillery shelling on Sarkano district of Kunar and Goshta district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. which resulted into blaze in a jungle in Shangari area of Sarkano.
He sought clarifications from the Pak envoy regarding the shelling that resulted into displacement of hundreds of people.
Another protest was also lodged regarding the military activities across the Durand Line and the harassment of Afghans by the Pak authorities, calling for an immediate release of the detained Afghans in Pakistain.
In his turn, Ambassador Hussain said the recent military activities along Durand Line were aimed at curbing the bully boyz activities and vowed to forward the concerns of the Afghan government to the relevant authorities in Pakistain.
This comes as the local officials in Kunar said Sunday that the artillery shelling resumed late on Saturday days after it was halted.
The officials further added that the shelling has not resulted into casualties of the local residents but hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Taliban’s leader called on Afghans to plant trees as Spring approaches in a rare public statement Sunday that comes amid fears of another bloody fighting season.
Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour... , who became head of the Taliban after his predecessor was killed in a US dronezap in Pakistain last May, urged for more tree planting in a message on the group’s website.
Spring traditionally marks the start of the fighting season for the myrmidons, so called their annual "Spring offensive", in which the Taliban launches a major campaign of attacks across the country.
Akhundzada said trees played "an important role in environmental protection, economic development and beautification of earth".
"The Mujahideen and beloved countrymen must join hands in tree plantation and not hold back any effort in this regard," he added.
Sediq Sediqqi, the interior ministry front man, responded by saying the Taliban should stop planting bombs instead.
"They should stop planting IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) that are killing so many innocent Afghans including children and women daily", he said on his Twitter account.
Afghan civilian casualties in 2016 were the highest recorded by the UN, with nearly 11,500 non-combatants killed or maimed.
More than 3,500 children were among the victims, a "disproportionate" increase of 24 percent in one year, the UN said in a recent report.
Afghanistan last year also saw the highest recorded civilian casualties caused by pressure-plate IEDs in a single year, according to the world body.
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Trees versus poppies? Poppies are more profitable.
Spending government money in support of Christians attacked by Muslims? Whatever will they think of next!
[AlAhram] Egypt has rehoused 118 Coptic families who fled North Sinai after a spate of killings of Christians by holy warriors there, the parliamentary affairs minister told parliament on Sunday.
The state announced on Sunday it had housed 118 Coptic families fleeing from North Sinai to four governorates, according to the latest report presented by a Cabinet operation room.
Minister Omar Marawan said that 96 of the families were given shelter in the neighbouring Ismailia governorate, eight families in Qalioubia, 12 in Assiut, and two in Cairo.
"The social solidarity ministry will bear the cost of education, accommodation and healthcare for the displaced families, as well as allocating EGP 1000 each in urgent financial aid," he added.
In the past few days, churches in Ismailia have received dozens of Coptic families who have fled Arish, in the light of a number of killings of Christians linked to holy warriors in the governorate.
On Saturday, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered the government to take all necessary measures to provide assistance to Christians who have fled Sinai.
In a cabinet meeting, the president stressed the importance of countering attempts to "undermine security and stability in Egypt," saying the displaced families, had been "received and housed until terrorist elements are dealt with."
At the Ismailia’s main youth hostel where authorities were putting up 45 families, luggage, boxes of food and new displaced arrived throughout the day.
"I don’t want to stay there and die as a casualty in the war that has hit el-Arish," said Reda, a civil servant who arrived two days earlier with six family members including grandchildren. "If they allow us we will stay here until the terrorism is over and the government makes peace."
Before Egypt’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising, some 5,000 Christians lived in northern Sinai, but the number has since dwindled to fewer than 1,000, priests and residents say. Egypt does not keep official statistics on the number of Christians in cities or across the country.
[AnNahar] La Belle France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after turbans ambushed a military patrol killing 16, the defense ministry said.
The decision, announced late Saturday, was taken following a request from President Mahamadou Issoufou after Wednesday's attack near the border with Mali.
The bushwhack, which took place in an area some 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Niamey, the capital, also maimed another 18 Niger troops, with the army blaming "terrorist elements".
Following talks with Issoufou, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said La Belle France was preparing to send a detachment of troops "to help our Niger colleagues."
A French military source said it would include 50 to 80 troops, most of them special forces, who would be operational in the area "within three days." They would be equipped with aerial support capacity to provide backup for Niger forces on the ground.
The troops are part of Operation Barkhane, a French counterterror operation whose mission is to target jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... south of the Sahara Desert.
Set up in 2014, the operation comprises around 4,000 soldiers who are deployed across five countries -- Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... . In Niger, it operates four Mirage 2000 fighter jets and five Reaper drones for gathering intelligence.
Niger shares its southern border with Nigeria which has been struggling with a bloody seven-year uprising by the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Lion of Islam group that has so far claimed more than 20,000 lives.
The insurgency began in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... but has since spread to Chad, Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and Niger.
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That back up wouldn't happen to include big lumpy guys speaking French with a Russian accent would it???
Betcha the French Foreign Legion is on this like a duck on a june bug...of course, you will not hear a peep out of the French media about what they do or how they do it. Funny the French MSM is as lefty as ours if not worse and they don't compromise secrets and missions and intel gathering operations like ours...perchance ours is MORE leftist than the French...God protect us.
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Years ago (many years now) when the French jump into the Shaba province (Kantanga now I believe) of what was then Zaire, the ROE was a bit different. Word had it, no bag limit.
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I had essentially the same ROE, make no contact and if you do leave no witnesses and take no prisoners...
I just honestly believe from my experiences with the Foreign Legion that anyone with two brain cells to rub together would think twice about screwing with the French and risk garnering the Legion's affectionate attentions.
Two years on, police are still to submit the chargesheet in the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy. Investigators say they were waiting to arrest the five, who were involved in the assassination of the Bangladeshi American writer, who founded the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers).
It's too bad the perps were lefties in some way. The RAB would have dealt with this long before today...
Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya were attacked on the night of Feb 26, 2015 on the Dhaka University Campus. Machete-wielding men attacked the couple as they came out from the Ekushey Book Fair. Avijit suffered a deep gash on his head and died while Bonya survived but lost a finger in the assault.
Islamist zealots had been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals, for quite some time.
His father Ajay Roy, a well-known physicist who has taught at the Dhaka University for a long time, started a police case over the incident.
A bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, Avijit Roy founded the the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers). A bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, Avijit Roy founded the the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers). The couple was attacked at the TSC intersection on the Dhaka University campus. The couple was attacked at the TSC intersection on the Dhaka University campus. In the last two years, the Detective Branch (DB) pleaded 15 times to the court for extending the deadline to submit the probe report.
Police say they are now clear about the motive and that they have identified the perpetrators.
A senior police officer, who is supervising the probe, said they are conducting raids to nab the five assailants.
Maybe you should send the RAB...
"So far, eight persons have been arrested over the killing," said DB Deputy Commissioner Md Mashruqur Rahman Khaled.
Since the killing of Avijit, several others, including online activists, writers, publishers, members from the minority communities have been attacked or killed in similar fashion by machete-wielding attackers, targeting the head to ensure immediate death.
You get more of what you encourage...
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[AA.TR] More than half of construction of a concrete wall along the Turkish-Syrian border was completed, said the head of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s housing agency.
Ergun Turan, the president of Turkey’s state-owned housing agency TOKI, said half of the 511 km Syrian border wall has been completed.
Turan said so far the construction of 290 km of the wall along Turkey’s border provinces of Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Mardin and Sirnak had been finished.
"The construction works of about 221 km part are ongoing and we will complete it as soon as possible," he added.
Turkey shares a 900-kilometer (559 miles) border with Syria which has been embroiled in a civil war since 2011.
The construction is undergoing in cooperation of TOKI and the ministries of defense and finance.
The Turkish Armed Forces are boosting security on the Turkish side by putting up the concrete walls, and on the Syrian side with coalition air forces, through Operation Euphrates Shield, which began on Aug. 24 last year. The operation aims to provide security, support U.S.-led coalition forces and eliminate the terrorist presence along Syria’s northern border with Turkey.
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Where is the international outrage? Did the wall cost 100 billion dollars. I need to go to my safe place.
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What odds the concrete mix isn't close to international standards?
[AA.TR] The nation saying Yes to the April 26 referendum on constitutional changes will end all kinds of terrorism in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Sunday.
"With the new constitution, Turkey will be cleared of FETO, the PKK, as well as the ISIS terror group," Yildirim told a Yes rally, referring to the FETO terror group, blamed for last July’s defeated coup; the PKK, which has killed over 1,100 people since July 2015; and ISIS, currently active in Syria and responsible for numerous attacks in Turkey.
"Turkey will get rid of living with terrorism. It will have a clear view of its future," he added.
Yildirim, speaking in the Kahramankazan district of the capital Ankara -- where nine citizens were martyred during FETO’s coup attempt -- argued that approving the referendum will bring peace and stability and strengthen Turkey and also provide a bright future to its people.
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[AA.TR] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... met the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish region Sunday in Istanbul.
The one-hour closed meeting between Erdogan and Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish Regional Government, took place in Mabeyn Palace on the European side.
Economic ties and saving djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from ISIS terror group were the main topics, according to Barzani’s office.
On Wednesday, Erdogan’s front man Ibrahim Kalin said about the meeting: "We have a lot to talk about.
"Iraq is important for us in all terms -- economically, in terms of border security and in humanitarian and cultural terms," he said.
Ankara has taken an active role in the international fight against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. Turkish troops provide training to local fighters in Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul.
In Syria, the Turkish military announced Friday that the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield has resulted in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... wresting control of al-Bab -- 30 kilometers south of Turkey-Syria border -- from ISIS.
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[AnNahar] Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... or Sudan, according to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ' refugee point man in the country.
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Raises an interesting ethics question. Canadians (people, not ruling elites) clearly don't deserve them - nobody deserves to have Muslim neighbors. On the other hand, neither do Americans - who did vote for somebody who promised to rid them of this plague.
So, the question is: does USA has a moral obligation to guard the border from its side --- detain the fleeing Muslims and ship them back to Dar?
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...above all people who had good reason to leave their country with prospects of being recognized as refugees.
Well, Mr UN refugee guy it would seem that statement doesn't square up with the facts. Initial reports say that most of the illegal border crossers' VISA's are either expired or close to it. That would indicate they didn't or won't qualify for refugee status. Really it's now just a matter of which country is gonna cave in or pay to ship em back.
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The moral obligation of any legitimate government is to provide security to its citizens, their families and their property. If the government fails or refuses to do that, it has no legitimacy. The government of the United States derives its powers from its citizens not from the UN. And that is one of the reasons you got Trump.
[Clarion Project] The liberal left has teamed up with extremist and violent Islamists in its next salvo against newly-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, a follow-up event to the January 21 Women’s March on Washington, will be staged.
One of the co-authors of the "militant" manifesto behind the nationwide event is convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh.
Odeh was convicted in Israel in 1970 for being involved in two fatal bombings. Odeh spent 10 years in jail before she was released in a prisoner exchange in 1980.
She moved to the U.S. by omitting her terror conviction on her immigration papers and served as the associate director of the Arab American Action Network in Chicago and later as an ObamaCare navigator. In 2014, she was convicted in the U.S. for concealing her past and thus illegally obtaining U.S. citizenship.
After claiming she forgot about her conviction and imprisonment in Israel due to post traumatic stress disorder, she was awarded a new trial which is currently pending.
A family is in grief and wants answers. I understand the anger. We can talk about the raid and what went wrong, but let's never forget that defending our country has a terrible price for a few of our people.
When they brought William “Ryan” Owens home, the Navy SEAL was carried from a C-17 military plane in a flag-draped casket, onto the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base, as President Donald Trump, his daughter, Ivanka, and Owens’ family paid their respects. It was a private transfer, as the family had requested. No media and no bystanders, except for some military dignitaries.
Owens’ father, Bill, had learned only a short time before the ceremony that Trump was coming. Owens was sitting with his wife, Marie, and other family members in the solemn, living room-like space where the loved ones of the fallen assemble before they are taken to the flight line.
“I’m sorry, I don’t want to see him,’’ Owens recalled telling the chaplain who informed him that Trump was on his way from Washington. “I told them I don’t want to meet the President.”
It had been little more than 24 hours since six officers in dress uniform knocked on the door to Owens’ home in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. It was not yet daylight when he answered the door, already knowing in the pit of his stomach what they had come to tell him.
Now, Owens cringed at the thought of having to shake the hand of the president who approved the raid in Yemen that claimed his son’s life — an operation that he and others are now calling into question.
“I told them I didn’t want to make a scene about it, but my conscience wouldn’t let me talk to him,” Owens said Friday, speaking out for the first time in an interview with the Miami Herald.
Owens, also a military veteran, was troubled by Trump’s harsh treatment of a Gold Star family during his presidential campaign. Now Owens was a Gold Star parent, and he said he had deep reservations about the way the decision was made to launch what would be his son’s last mission.
Ryan and as many as 29 civilians were killed Jan. 28 in the anti-terrorism mission in Yemen. What was intended as a lightning raid to grab cellphones, laptops and other information about terrorists turned into a nearly hour-long firefight in which “everything went wrong,” according to U.S. military officials who spoke to the New York Times.
Bill Owens said he was assured that his son, who was shot, was killed early in the fight. It was the first military counter-terrorist operation approved by the new president, who signed the go-ahead Jan. 26 — six days into his term.
“Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn’t even barely a week into his administration? Why? For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen — everything was missiles and drones — because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden we had to make this grand display?’’
In a statement from the White House Saturday, spokesman Michael C. Short called Ryan Owens “an American hero who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of his country.”
The White House did not address his father’s criticisms, but pointed out that the Department of Defense routinely conducts a review of missions that result in loss of life.
Bill Owens and his wife sat in another room as the President paid his respects to other family members. He declined to say what family members were at the ceremony.
Trump administration officials have called the mission a success, saying they had seized important intelligence information. They have also criticized detractors of the raid, saying those who question its success dishonor Ryan Owens’ memory.
His father, however, believes just the opposite.
“Don’t hide behind my son’s death to prevent an investigation,” said the elder Owens, pointing to Trump’s sharp words directed at the mission’s critics, including Sen. John McCain.
“I want an investigation. … The government owes my son an investigation,” he said.
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Typical of the media to give a megaphone to Gold Star parents who are critical of a GOP president, while denying same to Gold Star parents who were critical of Obama. It's good to own the megaphone.
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Almost all missions go tits up in the beginning. You train for the fact that Mr. Murphy will be there trying to fuck you every way he can. Our troops are good because they can adapt and still complete the mission when Plan A, B, C and D go all to hell.
It is always good to have a AAR (After Action Review) to dissect what went wrong, but unless their is gross incompetence you never blame anyone.
This is more of a media witch hunt to try to further discredit Trump. There were raids that got US soldiers killed under Obumble and there wasn't one goddamn peep about it from the MSM.
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I just don't understand why this guy is blasting away at Trump...the mission was developed under the sheep in sheep's clothing president and went FUBAR as soon as their skids hit the ground.
Its been in the media several times that the mission was compromised and this guy blames Trump?
Well, looking at it this way, he's grieving and he's hurt and he's still in the denial/anger phase of the process. He is lashing out just because he can't do anything else...we should pray for him and his family and we should pray for the SEAL's immortal soul.
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Mr. Owens is being stress-pumped by every interviewer and any/every response is distorted at 'print' time. This increases the sticky-ad view frequency and click interval.
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White House said today there will be an investigation. If there was a tip off, this will add gravity to the cause of finding those who are leaking to undermine the White House.
Dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia have been broken and overturned. The Philadelphia police say this was an act of vandalism at the Mt. Carmel Cemetery on the corner of Frankford and Cheltenham avenues.
Aaron Mallin of North Jersey made the disturbing discovery Sunday when he came to visit his father's grave.
"It's just very disheartening that such a thing would take place," Mallin said. He says he knows this doesn't look good, but is hoping that somehow this wasn't an anti-Semitic attack.
"I'm hoping it was maybe just some drunk kids. But the fact that there's so many, it leads one to think it could have been targeted," Mallin said.
The damage is widespread all across the cemetery with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of headstones affected.
Mallin just doesn't understand how someone could do this. "It's just very heartbreaking," Mallin said.
Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon released a statement on Twitter saying, "#Philadelphia Jewish cemetery desecration is shocking and a source of worry . Full confidence #US authorities catch and punish culprits."
The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia tells Action News they will be opening a mailbox at jewishphilly.org later Sunday to begin raising money to help speed up the repairs of the cemetery.
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...is hoping that somehow this wasn't an anti-Semitic attack
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday said that he is not in the habit of criticising other members of the government, but had to break his silence after the federal government was criticised for the lack of security at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's shrine.
"'Was security at the shrine the federal government's responsibility, or was it provincial's'? I asked, after our department was blamed for the lapse," he said, narrating the incident.
"At the briefing after the Sehwan blast, I had to raise the question and ask them why there was not enough security to begin with. Why were the walk-through gates not working, and why was the power supply cut at the shrine? They had no answers to these questions," he added.
Talking about lapses on provincial governments' part, due to which several terrorist bids were allegedly not foiled in time, Nisar said: "There have been numerous times that our department has had intelligence about certain attacks and we informed the provincial governments to take measures to prevent those attacks, but they did not act on our tips."
"When those attacks that we had told them about were carried out, they shamelessly raised fingers at the interior ministry for not doing its job," he added.
Nonetheless, Nisar added that: "I have lived by two personal rules during my term as the Interior Minister: To not take credit for any win that comes our way, rather, share it with all departments; and to not criticise anyone for any lapses."
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As Iraqi forces continue their advance towards key Isis-defended districts in west Mosul, attention is turning to what northern Iraq will look like once the jihadi group is routed. Ministers from the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) believe that one option might be offering to Baghdad land their peshmerga forces have recaptured from Isis in return for self-rule, the pinnacle of Kurdish ambition for decades.
Oh, that's going to twist some turbans in Ankara...
Speaking from his office in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil, foreign minister Falah Mustafa said that, although the Mosul alliance of Iraqi and peshmerga troops was on course to quash Isis in Iraq’s second city, the time had arrived for Kurdistan to move forward by itself.
“It’s important that the right to self-determination is put on the table – we need to put an end to this unhealthy relationship [with Baghdad]. We are neither fully integrated into Iraq, nor are we fully independent and sovereign.
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Kurds should try to get as many Turkish Kurds as possible to resettle in Kurdish Iraq. If you drain enough out of Turkey the Turkish opposition *might* diminish. Even if it doesn't it means a larger military force.
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(1) Better to have all Kurds together in one location where they can have strength rather than be picked apart as seperate groups in Iraq/Syria/Turkey. (2) Turks are likely to go Armenian on them before Kurds can become the majority population due to birthrates.
[Jpost] Hamas on Monday evaded claiming responsibility for a rocket launching that struck southern Israeli territory earlier in the day, and accused the IDF of escalating tensions with Gaza.
"We place full responsibility for the continuation of this dangerous escalation in Gaza on the Israeli entity, which is targeting the Palestinian resistance and the people of Gaza," Hamas charged in a statement.
"The continued targeting of the resistance's locations, the purposeful explosion of the situation in Gaza, and the imposition of new formulas on the resistance can not be permitted irregardless of the price."
Hamas claimed that three Gazans were moderately wounded during an Israeli bombardment east of Rafah.
[Jpost] UNRWA has suspended Suhail al-Hindi, an employee of the UN agency, pending the investigation into allegations that he was elected into the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",politicianship, Chris Gunness, a UNRWA front man wrote in an email.
"We have seen the latest communication from the Israeli authorities," he said. "Before that communication, and in light of our ongoing independent internal investigation, we had been presented with substantial information from a number of sources which led us to take the decision this afternoon to suspend Suhail al-Hindi, pending the outcome of our investigation. As with all UN Agencies, we will ensure that a staff member’s due process rights are followed."
Hindi was elected to the Hamas politicianship in the Gazoo Strip, the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories unit alleged on Sunday.
"The name Suheil Ahmad Hassan al-Hindi has emerged as one of those selected for membership in the Hamas politburo," a report published on COGAT’s website stated, two days after a senior Hamas official denied the claim.
Reached by telephone Sunday evening, COGAT, which coordinates civil, economic and security affairs in the territories, said it concluded, after an investigation, that Hindi was elected to Hamas’s leadership in the Gazoo Strip.
On Friday, a senior Hamas official denied that Hindi, who is a part of UNRWA’s education staff and chairman of the union for UNRWA employees in Gazoo, was elected to a leadership position in Hamas.
"Suheil was not elected to any position nor did he participate in elections for any political party," a senior Hamas official told The Jerusalem Post. "He has no position in Hamas."
Hamas’s denial came a day after Foreign Ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon tweeted that Hindi was elected to the Hamas leadership.
On February 13, the same day that Hamas announced the completion of its internal politicianship elections in the Strip, some Paleostinian media outlets reported that Hindi was elected.
Hindi quickly responded, denying the reports and calling them inaccurate.
"I have no relation to that issue in any way and I will sue the parties that are throwing around my name on social media and new sites," Hindi said in a statement.
UNRWA said on Thursday that the results of an ongoing internal investigation gave it no reason to believe the allegations against Hindi are true.
"As soon as the allegations came to UNRWA’s attention, the agency undertook a preliminary investigation, including discussing the allegations with the staff member. Based on the due diligence carried out by the agency to date, UNRWA has neither uncovered nor received evidence to contradict the staff member’s denial that he was elected to political office," Gunness said in an email late Thursday evening.
A recent video posted this week shows Islamic Republic strategist, Hassan Abbassi, discussing the destructive potential of Iran's hidden army within the US. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Abbassi admitted to having terror cells situation and ready to strike in the United States.
Abbassi: "I'll be brief. We have two million Iranians there. Be certain that I will raise a guerilla army from amongst them against you. You know this well. Look how vulnerable you were on 9-11 when four Arabs who don't know how to fight managed to endanger your foundations."
Well, why would be doing extreme vetting, then?
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Hmmmm. Is that why the Academy had to give one of their people an Oscar last night?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/27/2017 10:31 Comments ||
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not 'admitting to having terror cells'
but 'bragging about their terror cells'
Posted by: lord garth ||
02/27/2017 10:43 Comments ||
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The irony of the statist's fit against vetting is that their cities will be the first ones hit.
#4
Iranian Revolutionary Guards in a fifth column in the U.S. ready to strike?
"Are you feeling lucky punk? Well are you?" That would be the last mistake they made. This POTUS is not going to screw around. Has Hassan Abbassi noticed that Trump has brought in many former and current military guys into key government positions?
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It is much more cost effective to learn the lessons vicariously and through reasoning than to be a dumb $h!t and blunder into it. Unfortunately some people never learn.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
02/27/2017 18:31 Comments ||
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Obama and Valerie Jarrett are the head of the Iranian threat to the national security of the United States.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has decided to run for re-election in May, the vice-president for parliamentary affairs said on Sunday, according to state news agency IRNA.
"In recent weeks, Mr Rouhani has reached a conclusion to take part in the presidential elections," Hosseinali Amiri told news hounds.
Rouhani, 68, has been widely expected to run for a second term but has yet to formally announce his candidature for the May 19 election. He remains popular for stabilizing the economy and ending sanctions through a nuclear deal with world powers.
The conservative camp has so far failed to settle on an obvious challenger to Rouhani, who sits atop a relatively unified coalition of moderates and reformists.
There is no such thing as 'reform' and 'conservative' in Iran; there are only those who are in-favor and out-of-favor with the leading ayatollahs...
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... the only person to throw their hat in the ring has been Hamid Baghaie, a former deputy to former president Mahmud Ahmadinejad who ruled between 2005 and 2013 but fell out of favor with conservatives. Baghaie said he was running as an independent.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/27/2017 00:00 ||
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