Lynne F. Stewart, a radical-leftist lawyer who gained wide notice for representing violent, self-described revolutionaries and who spent four years in prison herself, convicted of aiding terrorism, died on Tuesday at her home in Brooklyn. She was 77. too old soon
Her son, Geoffrey Stewart, said the cause was complications of cancer and a series of strokes.
Ms. Stewart, who had been treated for breast cancer before entering prison, was granted a "compassionate release" in January 2014 after the cancer had spread and was deemed terminal. Doctors at the time gave her 18 months to live.
A former librarian and teacher, she had taken up the law in the cause of social justice after seeing the squalor in the area around the public school in Harlem where she taught. She built a reputation for representing the poor and the reviled, usually for modest, court-paid fees. traitorous POS. Think Ed Asner with more hair
(including ears) and breasts
Believing that the American political and capitalist system needed "radical surgery," as Ms. Stewart put it, she sympathized with clients who sought to fight that system, even with violence, although she did not always endorse their tactics, she said. She just helped them along...
One such client was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who was found guilty in 1995 of leading a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, including the United Nations, after some of his followers had driven a powerful bomb into a garage beneath the World Trade Center in 1993, killing six people. Ms. Stewart would visit him in prison, where he was serving a life sentence in solitary confinement. Her death came less than three weeks after his: He died in prison on Feb. 18. They say that when one of a couple goes, the other...
Ms. Stewart was convicted in 2005 of helping to smuggle messages from the imprisoned sheikh to his violent followers in Egypt. Her prison sentence, initially set at 28 months, was later increased to 10 years after an appeals court ordered the trial judge to consider a longer term. Traitor, Islam-Loving Opportunist. Hairy Whiskers. So many offenses to America and civilization The NY Post has a pungent opinion piece on the matter.
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This is an obituary to be read with great pleasure.
AMISOM has welcomed the surrender of a senior Al shabaab commander to Somali troops in Baay region of Southern Somalia, urging othern militants to follow his footstep. The African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) through its Twitter timeline stated that Hussein Salad Mukhtar presented himself to the Somalia National Army on Tuesday.
The Mission further divulged that an amnesty had been issued for any of the militias who have been terrorising the horn of Africa region to surrender their weapons.
“AMISOM calls on AlShabaab fighters to heed the Government’s amnesty, lay down their weapons & join other Somalis in rebuilding their country,” read the AMISOM statement posted on Twitter.
It further expressed hope that dozens of youth who had been recruited by the terrorist group would change their mind and follow Mukhtar’s footsteps.
“AMISOM hopes that other sons and daughters of Somalia who have been misled into terrorist acts will emulate the courageous action of Mukhtar,” it stated.
According to Somalia media, the commander was also a bomb expert and surrendered to the government forces in Baidoa town.
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China has controlled North Korea for decades and used them as the crazy cop to manipulate the US.
It really shows something if Trump's trade talk has convinced China to finally end the game and try to regain control of their mad dog. If they can that is.
Asked if she believed there were any "good Muslims" living in Australia, Ms Hanson suggested they were difficult to spot.
"I believe there are some that want to live a good life and a quiet life," she said. "But you tell me -- you line up a number of Muslims, who’s the good one?"
Ms Hanson, who has sparked a war of words with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in recent days over her support of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, also said Australia was at risk of becoming a "third-world country" if the major parties did not get their act together.
"The grumbling from the people -- they’re actually fed up with both sides of politics, whether it be Liberal, Labor or the Nationals, and they certainly don’t want the Greens.
"’People actually want to see One Nation in power. And that’s what I’m picking up all the time." She's a little over the top, but....
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Holy crap - how many bullshit scripts and other overhead are running on that site's webpage? Took me 30 seconds to load that page. Almost as bad as Gateway Pundit.
[IsraelTimes] Intelligence service suspects Revolutionary Guards were preparing ’asymmetrical warfare’ for possible conflict with the US, Israel.
Pak man accused of spying for Iran went on trial in Germany Wednesday, for allegedly searching out potential Israeli attack targets for the Revolutionary Guards.
The accused, named only as 31-year-old Haidar Syed M., remained silent -- "out of fear," according to his defense lawyer. He is accused of espionage "against Germany and another NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member," La Belle France, for the Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Prosecutors charged he had compiled dossiers on possible attack targets -- a German politician who is the former head of a German-Israeli organization, and a French-Israeli professor of economics.
Investigators found detailed dossiers on the men and their daily routines, with hundreds of photos and video clips, the Berlin court was told. Those documents allegedly detailed the targets’ homes and work places, various access routes to them, as well as information on security guards, surveillance cameras and nearby cop shoppes.
A representative of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, which handles counterespionage, said it was alerted to M. by a "reliable" source.
The service suspected the Quds Force was preparing for a possible future conflict with the United States and Israel, when it could hit targets in Europe in a form of "asymmetrical warfare."
The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -born M. came to Germany as a student in 2012 and most recently lived in the western city of Bremen. He had allegedly been in contact since 2011 with an Iranian named Mehmud who worked for the Quds Force, the court was told.
The Pak man had traveled to Iran at least twice, in October 2015 and February 2016, and received at least 2,052 euros ($2,166) for his intelligence activities.
He was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in July 2016 and faces up to three and a half years jail if found guilty.
The court has set seven hearings in the trial which is scheduled to run till late March.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an event commemorating the victims of a 1992 Iranian-sponsored terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... that the Islamic Theocratic Republic was the source of the vast majority of Israel’s security concerns.
"Iran is the greatest generator of terrorism in the world in the world and we need to to fight this terror because it is just one arm of Iranian aggression, which also seeks nuclear weapons and advances its ballistic missiles program," Netanyahu said.
Tehran continues to destabilize the region and to threaten Israel with annihilation, he went on. "One of our defense officials estimates that more than 80 percent of our security problems emanate from Iran."
A 31-year-old Pak man is going on trial in Berlin on allegations he spied for Iran on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Syed Mustufa H., whose full name was not giving for privacy reasons, is due in court Wednesday on espionage charges.
H., who was locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! in July 2016, faces a possible five years in prison.
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Almost astonishing that ze Cherman gummint identified a crime in this...
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Theater, M.
He must have been too 'overt' in his dealings to ignore.
They can also now say "See, we got one!"
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[Daily Excelsior] The NIA today handed over to the army two Pak youths whom it had tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... in connection with the last year’s terror attack on a military base in Jammu and Kashmire’s Uri that had killed 19 soldiers.
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson said they have handed over Faisal Hussain Awan and Ahsan Khursheed to the Army’s 16 Corps headquarters in Jammu and they will be sent back home.
The spokesperson added that the NIA’s probe "revealed that the two suspects had crossed over to the Indian side after altercation with their parents due to pressure of studies".
"Evidence collected in the form of statements, technical analysis of their mobile phones, seized GPS devices and other circumstantial evidence collected by the NIA did not reveal any linkage of the suspects with the Uri attackers," the spokesperson added.
It was initially suspected that the two youths acted as guides for the Uri attackers.
On September 18 last year, four heavily armed Death Eaters had stormed the Uri Army base camp in Jammu and Kashmire killing 19 soldiers and injuring few others.
The NIA had taken over the investigation in the case from the state Police.
The two youths were arrested by the BSF and the Army in a joint operation at ’Angoor Post at Gavalata village in Uri when they were trying to infiltrate into India.
They were also brought to the NIA headquarters here for detailed interrogation.
The NIA has claimed that terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... was behind the Uri terror attack.
The spokesperson added that "further investigation is continuing in the case."
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[LI] As the Islamic state (ISIS) retreats from Mosul, Iraq, more locals have spoken out about life under the terrorist group. ISIS captured Iraq’s second largest city in the summer of 2014.
OB-GYN Dr. Fatima Khaleel spoke with The Sunday Times about the females she treated in Mosul, noting most of them desperately wanted to get pregnant by ISIS fighters to breed caliphate cubs.
Stories have circulated since Mosul fell to ISIS, but this is one of the first hand accounts from a doctor who had these females as patients:
"I had a lot of Isis wives come," Khaleel said last week, 50 miles east of Mosul, where she fled after Isis was driven from the eastern half of the city in January. "British, French, Russian. They wanted to get pregnant."
Khaleel said the brides came to her with all the same features: "their faces were covered, they were armed to the teeth and they were desperate to get pregnant."
These females also received free healthcare since they belonged to the high levels of ISIS.
Each wife arrived at Khaleel’s clinic "with an entourage -- sometimes carrying Kalashnikovs slung over their black robe-like abayas." From The Sunday Times:
"All Isis wives have the right to shoot at any time," Khaleel said. "They all had guns in their bags or in their pockets. I was so scared. These foreigners follow the rules of Isis 100% more than people from Mosul."/blockquote>
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Write it off. Send in a small exploratory team in 1000 years to check the progress of civilization.
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Between the fantastic nutrition and the meth, the "successful" pregnancies were probably hard to look at.
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I suspect the 'wives' are elite for now, married to high ranking ISIS lads, but If they don't provide sons they may be handed down to the troops. Thus the desperation to get pregnant.
[Iraq News] Security forces in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... discovered tunnels that were used by 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, to avoid being attacked by coalition and Iraqi aircraft, after liberating the majority of areas in Nineveh, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday.
According to social media activists, one of the tunnels contains several sculptures, including the famous winged bull, which is also known as Lamassu.
The Islamic State was searching for sculptures and monuments to sell them abroad, and thus providing the needed funds for the group.
The Daily Mail has more here, plus photos, of course.
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[Iraq News] Iraq will continue to hit 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.... targets in Syria, as well as in neighboring countries if they give their approval, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Wednesday.
"I respect the illusory sovereignty of states, and I have secured the approval of Syria to strike positions (on its territory)," he told a conference in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya.
Abadi on Feb. 24 announced the first Iraqi air strike inside Syrian territory, targeting Islamic State positions in retaliation for kabooms in Baghdad.
"I will not hesitate to strike the positions of the snuffies in the neighboring countries, we will keep on fighting them," Abadi said.
The total damage to property and infrastructure caused by Islamic State is about $35 billion, he said.
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[Iraq News] The Kurdish group which controls Iraq’s Kirkuk oilfields has reached an agreement with Baghdad to keep crude flowing from the region through a pipeline to a Turkish export terminal on the Mediterranean, a Kurdish official told Rooters on Wednesday.
Kosrat Rasul said the agreement was reached on Tuesday between his group, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
"The agreement ended the problem and there is no deadline anymore" to shut the pipeline, said Rasul, who is the PUK deputy secretary general, giving no further details.
PUK forces seized the Kirkuk facilities last week, briefly suspending oil flows and threatening further action if its demand to have a share in the revenue is not fulfilled.
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[YAHOO] A law to muffle mosques' amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem won preliminary approval on Wednesday in a charged parliamentary session where Arab politicians denounced the measure as racist. They had to holler it out back in the days of the prophet, so what's the bitch?
Supporters of the bill say it is aimed at improving the quality of life of people living near mosques who have been losing sleep. The calls usually begin sounding a little before 5 A.M. through loudspeakers mounted on minarets
Opponents say the legislation, sponsored by right-wing parties, impinges on the religious freedom of Israel's Moslem minority. Arabs make up almost 20 percent of the population and have long complained of discrimination.
Two versions of law won initial approval and will go to committee for further discussion before any final vote in parliament, in what could be a lengthy process.
"You are committing a racist act," said Ahmed Tibi, an Arab politician, told supporters of the legislation.
The proposed law refers in general terms to "houses of worship", but it has been dubbed the "muezzin law" by the Israeli media, referring to the man who chants the Moslem call to prayer.
One of the bills would ban a summons to worship via loudspeakers between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. That would effectively mute one of the five daily calls emanating from mosques. The second proposal would bar amplification in residential areas at all hours and impose a 10,000 shekel ($2,700) fine for violations.
"This is a social-minded law that aims to protect citizens' sleep, without, God-forbid, harming anyone's religious faith," politician Motti Yogev, one of the bill's sponsors, said during a debate punctuated by shouting matches between the bill's backers and detractors.
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Supporters of the bill say it is aimed at improving the quality of life of people living near mosques who have been losing sleep. The calls usually begin sounding a little before 5 A.M. through loudspeakers mounted on minarets
Yet another reason to ban mosques stateside. Note that Muslims are just 20% of Israel's population.
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In other more serious news about noise reduction; NASCAR is studying ways to make the race cars quieter.
Mute the Mosques, but not the Mustangs....(and Camaros, and...)
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Over the years the Coast Guard has gotten involved in a lot of environmental stuff, including permitting. Public agencies and private entities that want to build a bridge or even dig a ditch near a river have to coordinate permits (the Corps of Engineers also does permits). This has led to a lot of environmental policy, a low of power hungry people building bureaucratic empires, etc. I doubt its a billion dollars worth but there certainly is much worth cutting.
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I always have to coordinate with ACOE, CG, et al, on bridges over navigable waterways. CG is not usually a problem and are usually easy to work with, maybe from familiarity
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I understand it'll make a better frigate than the LCS will if you go ahead and arm it as such
And considering that the design work is done and there's a contract in place with construction completed, it should be less expensive than a new-build.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[IsraelTimes] Intelligence service suspects Revolutionary Guards were preparing ’asymmetrical warfare’ for possible conflict with the US, Israel.
[Daily Excelsior] The NIA today handed over to the army two Pak youths whom it had 
