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Africa North
Merkel: Tunisia agrees to take back 1,500 migrants
It's a start.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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...
said on Friday Tunisia had agreed to take back 1,500 rejected Tunisian migrants colonists from Germany, after an attack by a Tunisian on a Christmas market in Berlin which killed 12 people.

Merkel had told Tunisia she wanted to speed up repatriation of failed asylum-seekers after ISIS supporter Anis Amri drove a truck through the market in December.

Amri had been denied asylum six months earlier. Merkel has come under heavy pressure for policies that allowed a million refugees into Germany in two years.

"We have agreed with Tunisia to send back 1,500 Tunisians in Germany who have been refused (permission) to stay in Germany," Merkel said at a news conference with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in Tunis.

"Those who want to return voluntarily will be able to receive aid."

Essebsi said Tunisia would send a delegation to verify the identities of those returning. German authorities have detained another Tunisian man they suspect of involvement in the truck attack.

Merkel also said the German government would provide Tunisia with 250 million euros in aid for development projects.

Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Did she pay them one pallet of Euros, or two?
Posted by: Raj || 03/04/2017 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Angela Merkel
Learned that the Turk'll
Bake Germany feebler
By making like Keebler.

Okay, so maybe she didn't.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/04/2017 18:16 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Houthis targeting tribes and suppressing public officials
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militias have embraced a systematic strategy to distort 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...
social structure designed to create rifts between the country’s different tribes by employing its alliance to eradicate others against the militia.

Ten tribes, based in four different provinces, suffered the most from the despot Houthi’s callous military and economic campaigns inflicting human loss, displacement of families, and mass property damages.

These tribes are:
Sana’a: Arhab and Bani Dubian
Dhumar: Atmah and al-Haddah
Ibb: Al Khafar, al Shawour, al-Adin, Ba’dan, al Radmah, al Oud, al Siyahi
Al Hudaydah: al-Zaranik

Furthermore, the militia also resorted to various economic means to penalize and repress opponents from civil servants terminating the service of thousands of them and replacing them with henchmen, in addition to halting salary payments to hundreds of thousands of workers in civil and military sections.

Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Turkey’s Erdogan accuses Germany of ‘aiding and harboring terror’
[ARA] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Friday accused Germany of "aiding and harboring terror" and claimed a journalist who was detained this week on terror-related charges was a German agent.

"They need to be put on trial for aiding and harboring terror," Erdogan said, criticizing German authorities who had allowed outlawed Kurdish leaders to speak yet had blocked rallies where Turkish ministers sought to address the Turkish community.

The president, speaking in Istanbul, also claimed Deniz Yucel, a correspondent for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, who was detained on Monday, was a "German agent."

Earlier on Friday, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
accused Germany of working for a "No" vote ahead of an April referendum on whether to boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers in an executive presidency.

"They don’t want Turkey to campaign here, they are working for a ’No’. They want to get in the way of a strong Turkey," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told news hounds in Ankara after German local authorities blocked rallies where Turkish ministers were due to speak.

German Govt Says Not Involved in Decision to Scrap Turkish Rallies

[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The German government Friday denied having anything to do with municipal authorities’ decisions to block rallies by Turkish ministers to promote a referendum on expanding President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First’s powers.

"That is a decision the federal government has absolutely no influence on ... because it falls under local or state jurisdiction on which we have zero influence," said foreign ministry front man Martin Schaefer.





Dutch govt opposed to planned Turkish referendum rally in Rotterdam

[Ynet] The Dutch government said on Friday it opposed plans by Turkish authorities to hold a referendum campaign rally in Rotterdam, saying it would inform Ankara of its opposition to the "undesirable" move.

Earlier, the leader of an association of Dutch Turks said Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was planning to attend the March 11 rally, hoping to persuade the Netherlands' hundreds of thousands of dual citizens to vote for a new constitution that would give Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First greater powers.
Update from Al Ahram at 11:55 a.m. ET:
German town that cancelled Turkish event receives bomb threat.
Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


In tit-for-tat move, EU to end visa-free travel for Americans
[DAWN] The European Parliament on Friday voted to end visa-free travel for American citizens in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, The Independent reported.

The decision made by the parliament's civil liberties committee follows the United States' failure to agree to visa-free travel of citizens of five EU countries including Romania, Poland, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Croatia under a reciprocity agreement.

The European Commission had discovered three years earlier that the US was not meeting its obligations under the agreement, but has yet to take legal action regarding the matter.

The parliament's vote means that American citizens will have to apply for travel documents for the next 12 months and it comes after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
signed an executive order in January banning all immigrants colonists and visa holders from seven Moslem-majority countries from entering the United States for 90 days.

The seven countries initially mentioned in the order were Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, but Iraq was recently dropped from the 'ban' list.
Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does this include the UK?

We're going over this summer for a friend's son's wedding and, as we have never needed visas before, this could be a pain if it takes a long time.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/04/2017 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  HH is an acceptable alternative. No visa required. Arrive before 5:00 for the Early Birds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Effect on tourism? Cutting off the nose to teach the face a lesson.

We were thinking about a trip to the EU in 2018, but there's still England, Scotland, and Ireland(s). Down Under is so far away.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/04/2017 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Read this Der Speigel article on their military and politics. We should pull out of NATO and let the ingrates scramble.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/04/2017 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Steiner will save us. Where in heaven's is Steiner?????!!!!!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/04/2017 21:28 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey Accuses Berlin of Working against Bid to Boost Erdogan Powers
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Friday accused Germany of working for a "No" vote ahead of an April referendum on whether to boost President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
’s powers in an executive presidency.

"They don’t want Turkey to campaign here, they are working for a ’No’. They want to get in the way of a strong Turkey," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told news hounds in Ankara after German local authorities blocked rallies where Turkish ministers were due to speak.

The Turkish public will vote on April 16 on whether to create a system which Ankara says will be like that of La Belle France and the United States and ensure political stability.

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
critics say the system will weaken parliament further and lead to one-man rule.

Tensions have increased in recent days between Turkey and Berlin after Ankara’s provisional detention of a German journalist on terrorism-related charges on Monday.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag scrapped his visit to address the Turkish community in the western German town of Gaggenau on Thursday after local authorities withdrew an agreement to allow the rally.

He had also been due to meet his German counterpart.

Cologne
...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there...
city authorities meanwhile said they would no longer allow the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) to use a hall on Sunday, when Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci was expected to make a speech.

The row deepened after the Turkish government summoned Germany’s ambassador to Ankara on Thursday in protest at the cancellation of the rallies.

Cavusoglu hit back at the moves by German officials, accusing them of double standards and failing to "honor democracy, freedom of expression or freedom of assembly".

Ahead of an election later this year, Cavusoglu warned Germany to "stay far away from populism" and told Germany it would "need to learn how to behave towards Turkey" if Berlin wanted to maintain relations.

"You must see us as an equal partner," he added.

Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Great White North
Bomb Hoax Targetting Muslim Students - Guess Whodunnit!
The man charged in connection with Wednesday's bomb threats at Concordia University, Hisham Saadi, was a PhD student in economics there, according to the man who sublet Saadi his apartment.

Speaking to CBC's French-language network, Radio-Canada, under the condition of anonymity, the man said he had met Saadi at Concordia to pick up a rent cheque.

He said Saadi is of Lebanese origin.

"I think he has [Canadian] citizenship," he said. "He has been here for many years."

Saadi has been ordered to undergo a psychological assessment. However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
his sublessor brushed off a question about Saadi's mental health.

"He's a PhD student, he doesn't have [psychiatric] problems. He's lonely. Single, I mean," he told Radio-Canada.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Hisham Saadi sounds very suspicious. Mormon, Amish, evangelical?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/04/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  He's a PhD student, he doesn't have [psychiatric] problems.

He is, or he isn't.
Can't have both.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||

#3  It's quite possible he was and is no longer a doctoral student there. He may have withdrawn. He might have done so after his advisor dropped him, or his dissertation proposal was trashed by his committee or because he was floundering.
Posted by: Angusock Chuting6110 || 03/04/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||

#4  A Moslem got frisky in Montserrat.
A fascist? A Basque? Maybe Hottentot?
A nudist? An oudist--
NO! Lutist! Not Buddhist.
A cockney or crashlanding cosmonaut?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/04/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Denver Muslim: I Killed "Solely for Pleasure of Allah"
Denver terrorist Joshua Cummings told authorities he did not kill for ISIS, but simply to please Allah.

Denver terrorist Joshua Cummings told authorities he murdered a security guard on January 30, 2017, to please Allah.

Cummings asked the judge for a copy of a Koran during his first court appearance.

Cummings shot Scott Von Lanken, a 56-year-old RTD security guard, in the back of the head.

He later admitted he did it for the pleasure of Allah.


CBS Local reported:

The man charged in the murder of a Regional Transportation District security guard says his actions that night were to please Allah.

Joshua Cummings, 37, is charged with the Jan. 30 murder of RTD security guard Scott Von Lanken. What happened was a cold blooded murder ‐ a shot to the head ‐ but the reason behind it is still unclear. From his jail cell, by phone, Cummings told CBS4 three days after his arrest he pledged his allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State.

"I give my bay'ah (pledge) to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and I am committed to being a soldier for the Islamic State," he told CBS4 Investigator Rick Sallinger.

Cummings would not say if he committed the murder.

"On the night in question, what I did do, I didn't do that for the Islamic State. I did that purely and solely for the pleasure of Allah," Cummings said.

He would not explain why his actions that night would have been for God.


Cummings was found a short time after the killing nearby with a gun the same caliber as the shells found at the murder scene. He was carrying Islamic literature. He says whatever he did that night was not in the name of ISIS.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/04/2017 09:58 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  says his actions that night were to please Allah.
....a shot to the head ‐ but the reason behind it is still unclear.


ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Damn I hate these PC A-brains. He F'ing told you why he did it!!! What the hell is "unclear" about that???
Posted by: AlanC || 03/04/2017 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Unclear how it fits into their narrative?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/04/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice friendly god you got there, Joshua.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/04/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Take all the Mohammedans' shilling
cum grano. It's only flesh willing
(behold Allah's Cummings
and animal bummings!)
when murderous Muslims come killing.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/04/2017 18:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Cummings asked the judge for a copy of a Koran during his first court appearance.

He should be fed page after page of it, by force.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/04/2017 20:08 Comments || Top||

#6  and animal bummings!

*snicker*
Posted by: SteveS || 03/04/2017 20:45 Comments || Top||


About that man arrested for bomb threats against 8 US Jewish centers
What was known at the end of the day yesterday, and a place to put any new discoveries today.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect Juan Thompson apparently made threats as a campaign to harass former girlfriend, using her name; investigation into robocalls to other JCCs ongoing.

US law enforcement agencies have tossed in the clink
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
a man suspected of being behind at least eight bomb threats against Jewish organizations in recent weeks, Federal authorities said Friday.

Authorities named the suspect as Juan Thompson, 31, and said that the threats were made as a campaign to harass a former girlfriend, using her name to make some of the threats.

"Today, we have charged Juan Thompson with allegedly stalking a former romantic interest by, among other things, making bomb threats in her name to Jewish Community Centers and to the Anti-Defamation League," New York-based US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "Threats of violence targeting people and places based on religion or race ‐- whatever the motivation ‐- are unacceptable, un-American and criminal."

Thompson was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri and was expected to appear in a Missouri court later Friday on one count of cyberstalking.

The FBI, NYPD and New York state police "informed us arrest made in bombthreat vs ADL & several other Jewish institutions," ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted. "Thx to them for amazing work."

The ADL was one of the institutions target by Thompson.

Since January there have been five waves of bomb threats to Jewish community centers and other institutions nationwide, totaling over 100 incidents. Other anti-Semitic attacks have also sparked worry in Jewish communities.

"Today, we have charged Juan Thompson with allegedly stalking a former romantic interest by, among other things, making bomb threats in her name to Jewish Community Centers and to the Anti-Defamation League," New York-based US Attorney Preet Bharara said.
On Thursday, a cemetery in Rochester, NY was vandalized, and in the previous week hundreds of Jewish tombstones in Pennsylvania and Missouri were toppled.

University City, Missouri, police Lt. Fredrick Lemons told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that detectives will question Thompson about the 154 headstones toppled last month at a Jewish cemetery in the St. Louis suburb. He declined to say whether Thompson was considered a suspect.

Police told CNN that no one had been arrested for the series of robocalls to dozens of other JCCs and the investigation was ongoing.

There have been multiple other anti-Semitic incidents in the months since the US presidential election, including swastikas and racial slurs being drawn on schools and other buildings.

According to court documents seen by The Times of Israel, Thompson sent a series of emails and calls to a number of organizations accusing his ex-girlfriend of targeting Jewish institutions, spreading sexually transmitted diseases and carrying out hacking attacks.

"As set forth below it appears Juan Thompson, the defendant, has made at least eight JCC threats nationwide as part of harassment against the victim," said a statement to the court by an FBI agent who had been investigating him

Some were made in the victim’s name, while others were made in his own name. Thompson told the FBI the victim was trying to get him arrested.

He also tweeted that his ex-girlfriend was trying to frame him and that she had threatened to kill US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
On February 21, he sent an email to the ADL naming the victim as the person making the bomb threats. Then, on February 22, he made a phone call to the ADL saying there was C-4 explosives in the ADL’s New York office that would be "detonated within one hour."

Searches of the building revealed nothing.

The agent said Thompson was also responsible for threats to Jewish centers in Dallas and San Diego, the Jewish History Museum and a Jewish school in Manhattan.

In one call to a Jewish school in Michigan that was made in Thompson’s name, the caller said he was "eager for a Jewish Newtown" referencing the massacre in Newton, Connecticut in which 20 children were murdered.

The testimony said threatening calls were also made to Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
(CAIR
...designated a terrorist group by the UAE...

Thompson, a former journalist, was fired from the online publication The Intercept last year after being accused of fabricating several quotes and creating fake email accounts to impersonate people, including the Intercept’s editor-in-chief. One of the falsified stories involved Dylann Roof, the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooter.

The Intercept wrote Friday: "We were horrified to learn this morning that Juan Thompson, a former employee of The Intercept, has been arrested in connection with bomb threats against the ADL and multiple Jewish Community Centers in addition to cyberstalking. These actions are heinous and should be fully investigated and prosecuted."

The ADL said Friday that Thompson had been on its radar since he fabricated the story about Roof. According to ADL research, Thompson claimed that he wanted to dismantle the system of "racial supremacy and greedy capitalism that is stacked against us." He said he was going to run for mayor of St. Louis last year to "fight back against Trumpian fascism
...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
and socio-economic terrorism."

He created a GoFundMe page to raise $5,000 for his election bid. He got $25, the ADL said.
Another Times of Israel article points out he has falsified tweet identities before:
After news of his arrest was revealed on Friday, a news hound at an alternative weekly in St. Louis said he was subjected to social media harassment after writing about Thompson’s firing from a news site for fabricating stories.

The Riverfront Times news hound Doyle Murphy said Thompson set up anonymous accounts on Twitter and other social media posing as a woman who claimed she had been sexually assaulted by Murphy. Murphy says he contacted Twitter but every time one fake account was taken down a new one popped up. He called the harassment a "nightmare."

Thompson appears to tweet daily, often railing against "white people" and the "white liberal DC/NY media elite," sparring with supporters of US President Donald and tweeting directly on a number of occasions at Trump himself.

He worked at the New York-based The Intercept from November 2014 to January 2016.
NPR has a list miscreant's bomb threats, and adds:
Thompson has been charged with one count of cyberstalking. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison.

Thompson is accused of making the following threats against Jewish centers, none of which were found to be credible:

Jan. 28: Manhattan's Jewish History Museum received an emailed bomb threat stating that Thompson had placed two bombs there.

Feb. 1: A Jewish school in Farmington Hills, Mich., received an emailed bomb threat claiming that Thompson "put two bombs in your school last night. He is eager for Jewish newtown."

Feb. 1: A Jewish school in Manhattan received two messages in 10 minutes claiming that Thompson had placed bombs in the building.

Feb. 7: A Jewish community center in Manhattan received an emailed threat claiming that Thompson had stashed two bombs in the center's office.

Feb. 20: The JCC in San Diego received an email stating that the woman had placed a bomb in the center.

Feb. 21: The Council on American-Islamic Relations received an email stating that the woman "has put a bomb in the Jewish center in Dallas."

Feb. 21: The Anti-Defamation League received an email that said the woman "is behind the bomb threats against jews. She lives in nyc and is making bomb threats tomorrow."

Feb. 22: The ADL received a call claiming there was explosive material "in the ADL's New York office, and that it would be 'detonated within one hour.' "
Update at 3:15 p.m. ET from the NPR article:
The Federal Communications Commission has also gotten involved, granting a waiver to Jewish Community Centers allowing them to see who might be calling from blocked phone numbers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Rajnath seeks report from J&K on settlement of Rohingyas
[Daily Excelsior] Acting tough, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today sought report from Jammu and Kashmire Government on illegal settlement of Rohingyas and Burmese in Jammu region, an issue which was being raised vociferously by some BJP leaders as well as Opposition parties as they felt that they could become security threat in the State and also lead to change of demographic character in the region.

Top official sources told the Excelsior that at a high level security review meeting at North Block in New Delhi today, Rajnath has sought a detailed report from Jammu and Kashmire Government, where BJP is partner with the PDP, on the number of Rohingyas and Burmese nationals settled in Jammu, the time period from which they were living here, reasons for their settlement and all other related issues.

The Union Home Minister, who was holding first high level review of security situation in Jammu and Kashmire after over a month due to his busy campaigning in Uttar Pradesh elections, was concerned over increase in number of illegal settlement of Rohingyas and Burmese nationals in Jammu region following an alarm raised by various political parties and social organizations especially Union Minister in Prime Minister’s Office and Lok Sabha member from Udhampur-Doda, Dr Jitendra Singh, who too had sought an in-depth probe into settlement of Rohingyas on outskirts of Jammu and need for effective steps by the Government to keep check on them.

Rajnath, who reviewed security situation in Jammu and Kashmire with National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and Intelligence Bureau Director Rajiv Jain apart from other top officers of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Intelligence agencies, could act further after receiving detailed report from the State Government on settlement of foreigners in Jammu.

"There were very specific Intelligence inputs that Rohingyas and Burmese, settled on outskirts of Jammu, could become security risk as anti-national elements were out to exploit them," sources said, adding that their activities have come under scanner of security and Intelligence agencies.

According to sources, the Union Home Minister has also sought from the State Government the steps being taken to check any further flow of Rohingyas in Jammu and to ensure that they don’t fall into the hands of Death Eaters and anti-national elements.

The settlement of Rohingyas in Jammu has become a major issue here with some political parties and social organizations demanding their ouster describing them as security threat.

Reacting to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s very tough stance on settlement of Rohingyas in Jammu, Dr Jitendra Singh told the Excelsior that an inquiry should be conducted as to which Government at the Centre and State facilitated their settlement in Jammu as United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) cards (for settlement of Rohingyas) can’t be issued without the consent of Centre and State Governments.

"At the time of settlement of Rohingyas in Jammu, it was UPA Government at the Centre and National Conference-Congress coalition Government at the State," Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out and said the then Union Home Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram owed a reply to the people of the State on facilitating settlement of Rohingyas in Jammu.

In response to BJP MLA Sat Sharma’s query in the Assembly, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had disclosed that there are 5743 Burmese residing in the State, where they had entered on their own and are staying at various places in the districts of Jammu and Samba.

The Government had named a number of NGOs, which have been funding stay of Rohingyas in Jammu and Samba districts.

The Government reply had said apart from 5,700 Rohingya Moslems, 322 other foreigners are presently living in Jammu and Samba districts. The reply had also stated that 17 FIRs have been registered against 38 Rohingyas for various offences including those related to illegal border crossing, she added.

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Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav has been booked, will be prosecuted: Sartaj Aziz
[DAWN] Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs 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...
on Friday briefed the Senate that the government was not considering any option to extradite Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, and said an FIR had been registered against the alleged Indian spy.

While speaking during the Question Hour in Senate, Aziz explained that "it has never been said that there was any lack of evidence against Jadhav".

Senator Talha Mehmood had asked the adviser whether the government was planning to give the same 'red carpet' treatment to Jadhav, which they gave to CIA contractor Raymond Davis.

"We have prepared an FIR and a case in the process of registration to prosecute the Indian state actor for involvement in subversive and terrorist activities in Pakistain," he told the House in response to the query.

The adviser said Pakistain has shared a dossier with the UN Secretary General on the Indian involvement in internal affairs of Pakistain and in subversive and terrorist activities in Pakistain.

"This dossier includes details about Kulbhushan Jadhav and his activities."

He said the government is also examining the possibilities for sharing the dossier with other countries and international organizations.

He explained that dossier was not the only route to deal with the issue, and the actual route is prosecution, for which a case is being prepared.

The adviser also said the dossier has been prepared based on thorough groundwork and input from various state departments.

"This is a very delicate and sensitive issue and requires detailed preparation and homework as it relates to the direct or indirect involvement of an Indian state actor in subversive and terrorist activities in Pakistain."

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Iraq
Iraqi Federal Police Using Weaponised Drones-and shuttlecock bombs
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Robot wars are here.
Posted by: Tennessee || 03/04/2017 1:58 Comments || Top||


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Russian General Staff: Aviation, Special Forces Play Key Role in Palmyra Recapture
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Russia’s Aerospace Forces and Special Operations Forces played the key role in decimating ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Lions of Islam in the battle for Palmyra, Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi, the chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate, said on Friday.

"Russian aviation and Special Operations Forces were instrumental in battering ISIS in the Palmyra area," he said.

He noted that the operation involved advanced Ka-52 helicopters which demonstrated high efficiency in the conditions of desert and mountains.

The Syrian Army regained control over Palmyra earlier on Thursday with support of the Russian aircraft operating in Syria.

ISIS seized Palmyra, which was the capital of the Palmyrene Empire and one of the richest cities of the Roman Empire, in May 2015. Terrorists destroyed a number of historic sites designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Arch of Triumph, the Temple of Baalshamin and the Temple of Bel. The Takfiris also looted the national museum and the famous Palmyra’s necropolis.

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Iran Can Raze Tel Aviv, Haifa in 7 Minutes: Commander
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] A senior adviser to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite al-Quds Force, Brigadier General Ahmad Karimpour said the Islamic Theocratic Republic can raze the Zionist entity in less than eight minutes should ’Israel’ launch any aggression.
Iran's and Lebanon's populations aren't hostage to the same threat, naturally.
In a ceremony held in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, Karimpour stressed his country’s readiness to respond to any aggression "with the same force."

"All targets in Israel have been defined and our long-range missiles will destroy them within 7 minutes and 30 seconds, in case Iran was subjected to any attack."

Referring to threats made earlier by the Supreme Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution
...Iran's doddering head theocrat...
, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Karimpour said: "The Leader said we will retaliate in the same pace."

"Certainly, the United States doesn’t dare and even doesn’t have the capacity to set the level of any attack against the Islamic Theocratic Republic."

"If Needed, Iran can Raze Tel Aviv, Haifa in seven minute," the Iranian commander said.
Update from The Times of Israel at 6:10 a.m. ET:
Hezbollah-linked video threatens attacks on 9 Israeli nuclear, chemical sites: Propaganda clip includes pictures and details of the sensitive facilities.
Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  So Iran now has a bomb tested in NKor?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/04/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Yea and seven minutes after that, Iran no longer exist as a country.

Oh, Most of Iran missiles will never make it to their so called targets and what's left will miss their targets.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 03/04/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Yea, well Ahmad, people been trying this for more than four thousand years, and we're still around --- whereas most of these who tried are not.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/04/2017 11:49 Comments || Top||



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