[Libya Observer] War on Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... and his militias is still ongoing, Derna Shura Council has stated.
"The war is on despite the lack of support that we have." Derna Shura Council added in a statement Saturday.
It stressed that what is keeping their fight against Haftar and his forces alive is the backup of the residents in Derna and their rejection of the military coup.
"Our council doesn't follow the agenda of any political party in Libya as it is not a part of the conflicting political parties in the country." Derna Shura Council reaffirmed.
"No party or individual is allowed to use our name inside or outside Libya without a formal letter signed by the council's head." It explained.
It also expressed utter rejection for any political standpoint or vision that can make the country get astray away from the February revolution or harm it in any way.
"We only follow the Libyan Fatwa House that is headed by the Libyan Mufti, al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... ." The council reiterated.
The statement of the council clarified that the only goal the council has is to protect February revolution and the city as well as the residents, let alone helping Libya's revolutionaries, especially in Benghazi, given the amount of crimes and inhumanity they are facing.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] 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... has released new video threatening to behead 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... President Paul Biya.
"I would behead you Paul Biya, it’s me that would behead you with the left hand, be ready," a Boko Haram commander said in French displaying Biya’s picture in a news magazine.
The man later drops the magazine and crushes Biya’s face with his leg, saying "I would behead you, imbecile, sluggard!".
He said he would decapitate Biya with the left hand, and called him a bigger Christian.
Biya is a catholic who regularly attends church service in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon.
The terrorist warns residents of other parts of Cameroon that the Boko Haram members were on their way to invade the country.
He warned residents of Maroua, Cameroon’s far north capital, and those in the northern region capital of Garoua, and Ngaoundere that fighters were coming.
Shooting could be heard in the background of the 6-minute clip.
The Boko Haram commander shows shoes, helmets and other military items he claimed belonged to Cameroonian soldiers.
"These are their shoes they left behind, these are their helmets they left behind, these are their mats for prayers they left behind.
"They are fighting God and praying again? I do not understand why you’re still praying?" The Boko Haram terrorist continued in French.
"We are ready to arrive. We are on our way to Maroua, Garoua and Ngaoundere," he said, naming three capital in northern Cameroon.
"We are on our way to Ebolowa, Yaounde, we will arrive in God’s name," he added, mentioning the capital of President Paul Biya’s region in the South and the country’s capital itself in Yaounde.
The man displayed identity cards belonging to Cameroonian citizens.
One of the identity cards he placed closer to the camera, in his words, belongs to the minister of defence.
No fewer than 150 Cameroonian soldiers and coppers have been killed by Boko Haram while over 2000 civilians have bit the dust since 2014 in several attacks, including suicide kabooms.
In Nigeria, more than 30,000 people have been murdered by members of Boko Haram and over 2million civilians in Northeastern region displaced.
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JEDDAH: Houthi militias and supporters of Yemen’s ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh have established about 480 secret prisons to detain and hide prisoners across Yemeni governorates under their control.
According to a recent report by the National Committee for Human Rights in Yemen, prisoners are subjected to severe torture, which includes mock executions and burning them.
The report stated that several government and private buildings were transformed into secret prisons and penitentiaries by militias, including 227 government buildings, 27 medical institutions, 49 universities, 99 schools, 25 sports clubs, 47 judicial buildings and 10 private houses.
There were 16,804 cases of arbitrary arrest, torture and enforced disappearances committed by Houthi militias and ousted Saleh forces, all of which were civilians, according to the report.
Several international organizations including Amnesty International have demonstrated such cases of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance by the militias in their reports.
Following field visits, the National Committee for Human Rights in Yemen has reported that some detainees who were released after their arbitrary detention are suffering from poor psychological and physical health due to severe torture.
The released prisoners said the forces of Saleh and Houthi militias forced them to confess to crimes they did not commit.
The Houthis forced 99 percent of the released detainees to sign written pledges and papers to prevent them from engaging in any political rights, international or social activities that work against them.
If these pledges are violated, the militias will have the right to kill the detainee and his family, or confiscate his money and property.
Houthis have the secret penitentiaries under tight security, with access to only those in charge, as they have imprisoned prominent figures as well. Guards have to hide their identities so that they can prevent themselves from being identified in the future by any party.
The militias also abducted children from schools and forced them to engage in military actions. Alliance forces to support legitimacy in Yemen recently handed over 52 children who were recruited on the Yemen-Saudi borders after coordinated action with a number of international organizations such as the Red Cross and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
[RT] Bahrain's king has approved a law allowing civilians to be tried in military courts, amid a major crackdown on dissent in the Gulf kingdom. Amnesia Amnesty International has called the move "disastrous" and "unfair."
The constitutional amendment, approved by King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... bin Isa Al Khalifa on Monday, drops a clause limiting military trials to members of the armed forces or other security branches, AFP reported, citing Bahrain’s BNA news agency.
Although the law reportedly applies only to those accused of terrorism, the legislation does not specify what constitutes an act of terrorism, and Bahrain has previously charged peaceful protesters and activists with such offenses.
Ahead of the king’s approval, the amendment was passed by both the upper and lower houses of Bahrain's parliament last month.
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[RT] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has announced a pay raise of up to 60 percent for the country’s air force pilots, according to SPA state news agency. It comes as the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... enters its third year.
The country’s cabinet announced in a Monday statement that it had amended laws pertaining to military officers, allowing air force pilots and weapons operators to receive a 35 percent pay raise on their basic salaries, Rooters reported, citing Saudi Press Agency.
Officers responsible for flying fighter jets and operating their weapons systems will experience a bigger pay raise, at 60 percent.
The cabinet did not give a reason for the pay increases, or any indication of what the country’s pilots currently earn.
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[IsraelTimes] Britannia has so far refused to grant a diplomatic visa to the newly appointed Paleostinian Authority representative to the United Kingdom, PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said on Monday.
In an interview with the Pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi, Abbas admitted the UK had thus far held off on granting Maen Areikat, the former Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Washington, the same status as his predecessor in London Manuel Hassassian, in what appears to be a sign of ambivalence over Areikat’s diplomatic status.
"We asked the British government to treat the new envoy as it had treated the previous ambassador. It should not change its treatment as that would mean bad will and misconduct from Britannia, and we will have a position and reaction to that," Abbas said, after being asked if it was true that Areikat had not been given the sought-after documentation.
When asked if he knew the British were attempting to reduce the diplomatic standing of the PA’s envoy to London, Abbas responded: "The British are trying to scale back and are trying to put restrictions and obstacles."
The Paleostinian office in London was upgraded into a diplomatic mission in 2011.
"The consultations are not over yet. I do not think it is a big problem," Abbas added.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... when asked if the PA would act in kind against Britannia, Abbas responded: "All possible options will be open to us."
Abbas did not explain why the British were withholding a diplomatic visa for Areikat.
The British consulate in Jerusalem did not respond to an inquiry on the matter.
The diplomatic dust-up comes as Paleostinians have threatened legal action against the British government if it does not retract its intention to celebrate the centennial of the Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration, a document signed on November 2, 1917, by foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, announced his government’s intention to facilitate "a national home for the Jewish people" in the Land of Israel.
Paleostinian officials have long branded the Balfour Declaration a "crime," and last July officials in Ramallah announced plans to sue the British government over the document, viewed in Israel as an important step toward the country’s creation.
Abbas has spoken out against the centennial celebration of the document at nearly all of his recent major international speeches, including most recently at the Arab Summit in Jordan last Wednesday.
He has also called on the UK to apologize for the declaration and do so by recognizing the state of Paleostine.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an official visit to the UK in February that an invitation he received from British Prime Minister Theresa May to attend November’s centenary celebrations of the Balfour Declaration in London "speaks volumes" about Jerusalem’s relationship with Downing Street.
[DailyMail] These are the first images showing carnage inside the carriage of a St. Petersburg metro train after a nail bomb went kaboom! inside - killing 11 people and injuring 50.
Police in Russia now believe a jacket wallah, who has close links to radical Islamists, was behind the attack.
He was described as being a 22-year-old from Kazakhstan and CCTV images of the suspect have been released.
One image shows a man in a red Parka jacket, wearing glasses and a dark green beanie hat and carrying a rucksack on his back. Another CCTV image shows the suspected suicide bomber walking along the street with both his fists clenched.
Despite initially issuing search warrants for two suspected terrorists, authorities believe the suspected suicide bomber was behind the attack and also have intelligence to suggest he planted a second bomb - disguised as a fire extinguisher - which was found and defused at a nearby station.
Nobody has grabbed credit for the kaboom, but previous attacks on Russia have been blamed on ISIS and Chechens.
Dozens have been injured, including at least three children, as it was reported the man left a briefcase on a train before moving carriages moments before the deadly blast.
Earlier several Russian media outlets released the CCTV pictures of the bearded suspect, who was wearing a long, black top and a hat, blamed for causing the carnage.
But it has emerged that the bearded man who was identified on CCTV as the main suspect, handed himself in to police and insists he is innocent. Detectives are putting the man through a lie detector test.
[RT] The head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s legal service has said a recent decision to allow Moslem headwear in Chechen schools should be reversed as it violates federal principles on the secular nature of state-run schools.
"Giving to schoolchildren such a right in the Chechen Republic is a violation of the secular principle of education in state-run schools and in this part the amendment must be corrected," Hegumenia (Abbess) Ksenia (Cherniga) was quoted as saying by Interfax.
The comment came just days after the parliament of the Chechen Republic passed a bill ordering all educational establishments to consider it students’ right to wear clothes or symbols required by their religion or national traditions, provided this does not contradict federal laws and does not harm the children’s health.
The bill means that the female Moslem hijab headscarf will be permitted in local schools. The Chechen capital, Grozny, introduced school uniforms with obligatory red headscarves for girls about a year ago.
Hegumenia Ksenia noted that Russian Federal laws do not grant schoolchildren the right to wear religious attire and therefore no Russian region could introduce any laws introducing it.
"The Federal Law on Education establishes the secular character of education and therefore cannot give schoolchildren the right to choose uniforms that match their religious beliefs," she said.
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The bill means that the female Moslem hijab headscarf will be permitted in local schools.
That crap should never be allowed in any public place. It IS a threat to public safety--it conceals the identity of the wearer.
[DAWN] Jammu and Kashmire Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... on Monday slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in India-held Kashmire (IHK) a day ago, in which the premier asked Kashmiri youth to choose "tourism over terrorism".
"The statement of the Indian prime minister, that Kashmiris should choose between terrorism and tourism, and that youth who are striving for freedom are misguided, is absurd," the JKLF leader said in response to Modi's statements.
The Indian PM had visited IHK on Sunday to inaugurate an 11-kilometre-long highway tunnel worth 37.2 billion Indian rupees.
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[RT] The major parties in Iraqi Kurdistan have agreed on a roadmap for a much-anticipated referendum on independence. Although a timeline for the landmark vote is yet to be set, the region’s leaders say it is Kurds’ "natural right" to secede from Baghdad.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) met on Sunday with Masoud Barzani, the long-time president of the Kurdish autonomous region, to discuss the practicalities of the independence referendum.
In a joint statement quoted by Rudaw news outlet, Kurdish leaders declared that the vote was "a natural right of the nation of Kurdistan to decide on its political and administrative path in a referendum and an entity of an independent state."
A joint committee will now be set up to discuss the issue with the other parties of Iraqi Kurdistan as well as "to set the timing and mechanism to hold a referendum," the statement said.
A spokesperson for the KDP, Mahmud Mohamad, told Rudaw that it had already been agreed that the referendum would be held in 2017. Kurdish parties will start talks with Baghdad and neighboring countries on the issue, he added.
Calls for Kurdistan’s secession from Iraq gained impetus following 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 (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) offensive on northern Iraq. Baghdad-controlled forces abandoned some areas, which were then recaptured by Kurdish Peshmerga militia and placed under their control.
As the struggle against IS in Iraq gained pace, Kurdish leaders argued that it was the right time for Kurdistan to employ the right to self-determination.
In October last year, Iraqi Kurdistan’s prime minister, Nechervan Idris Barzani, told German newspaper Bild that the Kurds will renew their push for self-rule once djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... is liberated from Islamic State.
"We are not Arabs, we are our own Kurdish nation... At some point there will be a referendum on the independence of Kurdistan, and then we will let the people decide," he said.
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[Gulf Today] A top military official disclosed that their counterparts in Indonesia and Malaysia have been allowed to enter Philippine territory while in "hot pursuit" of Abu Sayyaf militants and other rebel groups.
Major General Carlito Galvez said allowing the presence of Indonesian and Malaysian troops in maritime areas of common concern is contained in an agreement signed by the three countries in 2016. He explained, "Based on the agreement, we can allow the hot pursuit to neutralise the threat (by the Abu Sayyaf) provide there is prior co-ordination," as he revealed security forces arrested the leader of a rebel group and killed another during operations in Sulu.
He added the three countries are also planning to designate an area for the deployment and naval and air force "multi-forces" on a rotational basis.
According to Galvez, the Philippines and Indonesia have an existing agreement but will include Malaysia because the area utilized by pirates and the Abu Sayyaf are the Celebes and Sulu Seas.
On Monday, security forces rescued the three of the five Malaysian crewmen of a tugboat abducted by the rebels and held captive by the Abu Sayyaf off the Malaysian state of Sabah in August 2016.
In a related development, Galvez reported the arrest of the leader of a criminal group suspected of providing arms to the Abu Sayyaf as well as the slaying of his follower. The leader, identified as Saudi Hadja, was nabbed after he and his men clashed with government forces on an island off the coastal town of Omar in Sulu. In addition to being wanted for arson and murder, Galvez said that military intelligence tagged Hadja as the source of major weapons to the Abu Sayyaf.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The "Who Dares Wins" forces won a stunning victory against ISIS fighters defending the strategically vital Tabqa dam and airbase, sources said according to The Sun.
A source said: "This was a well-planned deliberate operation to liberate two strategic strongholds.
"SAS forces played their part, identifying weak points in defenses and allowing Syrian Defence Forces to win a momentous victory."
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Meanwhile, in UK itself, Muzzies do as they please.
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Every encounter between Muzzie madness and western civilization should be dealt with with extreme prejudice to send a message that you cannot win so shut up and go home.
[DAWN] Iran has expressed its reservations regarding the appointment of the former army chief, retired Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... , as head of the Saudi-led 39-nation Islamic military alliance, saying it is not 'satisfied' with the coalition.
"We are concerned about this issue... that it may impact the unity of Islamic countries," Iran's Ambassador to Pakistain Mehdi Honardoost said.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted Honardoost as saying that Pakistain had contacted Iranian officials before issuing the no-objection certificate (NOC) to Gen Sharif to lead the Saudi alliance.
"But that does not indicate that Iran is satisfied with this decision or it has accepted the same," the envoy said.
The ambassador said Iran had conveyed its concerns to the Pak government.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
