[SHABELLENEWS] Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... politicians have voted to oust the state’s cabinet ministers following a session in Garowe on Tuesday morning, July 18.
During Tuesdy’s session, 47 MPs voted for the no confidence motion against the cabinet, 9 absatined, while one politician voted in favor of the region’s government.
The cabinet was booted out for accusing poor performance and failing the security. It was not yet clear the basis of the move and Puntland president did not comment on the matter.
Since Yesterday, there has been closed-door meetings in the Garowe city between the government and the politicians who backing the motion and those against it.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Kenya vowed tough security measures after suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants stepped up attacks around the East African nation’s coast and northeast.
President Uhuru Kenyatta said security forces had intensified their hunt for al-Shabaab militants in Lamu’s Boni forest, according to an emailed statement from his office.
“Fire must be met with fire,” Kenyatta said. “We shall bury them.”
The militants have increased raids in Lamu, Garissa and Tana River counties during the past weeks. In the latest incident, the Ministry of Public Works Principal Secretary Maryam El Maawy was wounded in a July 13 attack.
“We have to deal with these terror-mongers,” Kenyatta said. “I have no apologies to make in taking the tough measures we are taking.”
The government imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the three regions this month after suspected militants beheaded nine people.
Al-Shabaab, which is trying to impose its version of Islamic law in Somalia, has killed hundreds of civilians in Kenya, including at least 67 people in a 2013 attack on a shopping mall in the capital.
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[SHABELLENEWS] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has covered up wounding a Somali pregnant woman on July 9, 2017 in Arbacow area, about 20Km northwest of Mogadishu after IED blast on their convoy.
Radio Shabelle has reported the incident, quoting multiple sources on the ground who confirmed that AMISOM soldiers shot up nearby civilians, injuring a pregnant woman, following the kaboom.
The woman was immediately taken to the AMISOM level II hospital, where she received emergency treatment and was later transferred to a private hospital in Mogadishu, for further treatment.
Sadia Mohamud Dheere, the woman told Radio Shabelle that she has sustained a critical gunshot wounds from AMISOM fire which led to the death of her unborn baby, a report that is contrary to AMISOM statement.
"I was maimed by AMISOM soldiers. One of the bullets they fired at me has penetrated in the left side of my chest and abdomen. I underwent a surgery at the hospital," said Dheer.
"It changed my life because I lost my unborn baby," she said with her eyes full of tears.
The woman has appealed to the brass hats of Somalia’s Federal government to intervene in the situation and hold AMISOM accountable for deliberately wounding her.
On Sunday, July 16, 2017, AMISOM released a blurb, saying the woman was injured by shrapnel from al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... planted IED targeted its convoy at Arbacow, denying the Radio Shabelle report as false.
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[DAWN] The United Arab Emirates was not responsible for an alleged hack of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i websites which helped spark a month-long diplomatic rift with Doha, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs said on Monday. Anwar Gargash denied as false a story in the Washington Post that cited US officials saying the UAE had orchestrated the hack of Qatar’s state news agency.
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Wearing big boy pants, wants to play big boy games.
[IsraelTimes] China will host a symposium between the Paleostinians and Israelis later this year, an official says, as president Xi Jinping vows to "ceaselessly" contribute towards peace in the region.
Despite depending on the volatile Middle East for oil supplies, Beijing has long taken a backseat in Middle East disputes.
But it has stepped up its diplomatic engagement in the region in the past year, including offering to host talks on the Syrian conflict.
In a meeting with his Paleostinian counterpart the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... on Tuesday, Xi reaffirms China’s support for a two-state solution along the 1967 border and with East Jerusalem as its capital.
During closed door talks, Xi says China will set up a trilateral dialogue mechanism with the Paleostinian Authority and Israel, and later this year will host a peace symposium to help resolve the dispute, vice minister of foreign affairs Zhang Ming tells news hounds.
[AnNahar] Australia has created a super ministry combining its security agencies including the domestic spy service, border force and national police, the country's prime minister said Tuesday, calling the "historic change" necessary to tackle terrorism.
The new Home Affairs portfolio -- which uses Britannia's Home Office as a template -- will be run by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton in a major shake-up of national security arrangements.
"I am announcing the most significant reform of Australia's national intelligence and domestic security arrangements and their oversight in more than 40 years," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in Canberra.
"We are taking the best elements of our intelligence and national security community and making them better. As Lions of Islam evolve their methods, we have to evolve our responses."
An office of national intelligence would be set up to help co-ordination between the agencies, with the shake-up concentrating more power in the hands of Dutton, who has been hailed by conservatives for halting the arrival of asylum-seeker boats from Asia.
Canberra lifted the terror threat alert level in September 2014 and introduced new national security laws amid concerns of attacks by individuals inspired by organizations such as 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.... Counter-terrorism police have also made a string of arrests since late 2014 across the nation and say they have prevented 12 terror attacks on home soil in the past few years.
But several attacks have taken place, including a cafe siege in 2014 where two hostages were killed and the murder of a Sydney police employee in 2015 by a 15-year-old boy.
[DW] The German chancellor has rejected calls from her sister party to limit the number of refugees entering Germany. In a wide-ranging interview she defended the G20 summit in Hamburg and spending on infrastructure.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to place an upper limit on refugees that the country accepts, speaking in an annual interview broadcast on Sunday.
Distancing herself from the position of her conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Merkel, who leads the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said placing a limit on refugees was not the way forward.
"As far as an upper limit is concerned, my position is clear: I will not accept it," she said, saying that numbers could be reduced by regulation and taking action to prevent the situations that cause people to flee one country for another.
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Surely no one is caught unawares of the cultural and economic impacts. Merkel appears almost diabolical in her denial of the irreparable harm this invasion is bringing.
[AA.TR] A German judge has banned a Syrian woman from wearing a headscarf in court during divorce proceedings against her husband, local media reported on Tuesday.
The woman's lawyer Najat Abokal told daily newspaper Tagesspiegel that the judge in the eastern city of Luckenwalde sent a letter to her client saying that religiously motivated statements such as wearing a headscarf would not be allowed in the hearing.
The judge's letter also warned the woman she would face legal charges if she did not comply with this instruction during the hearing scheduled for July 27, the lawyer was cited as saying.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... Roswitha Neumaier, the director of the district court, was reported to have said the hearing has been postponed over the objection.
In Germany, home to nearly 4.7 million Moslems, religious freedoms are protected by the constitution.
Several German states have banned public employees such as teachers, police, judges or prosecutors from wearing religious clothing and symbols while on duty. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... there is no law that prevents citizens from wearing headscarves or other religious symbols while they are in public institutions.
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I take it Catholic nuns will be treated similarly.
Yippy is begging for a divorce
In the latest display of Turkish anger at U.S. policy in Syria, the state news agency has divulged the locations of 10 U.S. military bases and outposts in northern Syria where the U.S. is leading an operation to destroy the so-called Islamic State in its self-styled capital of Raqqa.
The list published by the Anadolu news agency points to a U.S. presence from one end to the other of the Kurdish self-administration region‐a distance of more than 200 miles. The Anadolu news agency even listed the number of U.S. troops in several locations and in two instances stipulated the presence of French special forces.
Turkey has openly criticized the Trump administration‐and the Obama administration before it‐for relying in the battle against ISIS on a militia led by Kurds affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. A separatist movement now at war with Turkey, the PKK has been listed by the U.S., EU, and Turkey as a terror organization.
To avoid the appearance of allying with such a group, the U.S. military set up the Syrian Democratic Forces, which have a large component of Arab recruits. But they are led by officers from the People's Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian affiliate of the PKK.
Although Turkey's powerful president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, regularly vents his anger at the U.S., it is still highly unusual for a NATO ally to reveal details of a U.S. military deployment during active operations in a war zone. But the U.S. operation in Syria is in many respects an unusual case. Not only is the United States acting against the express wishes of NATO ally Turkey, which says its national security is directly endangered, it's also operating without the permission of the Assad regime.
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Erdogan... we remember Motorola and Nokia. We remember the 4th ID. We will remember this. We have long memories asshole even if the State Department doesn't have any damn memory.
By Harry de Quetteville in Cizre, Turkey12:01AM GMT 24 Mar 2003
American troops began to withdraw from logistics bases in south-eastern Turkey yesterday as the Pentagon finally conceded that US forces would not be able to move through the country to open a northern front in Iraq.
Turkey has resisted US pressure to allow attacks on Iraq from its soil, forbidding American warplanes to use its air bases and the 4th Infantry Division to set up camps just north of the Iraqi border.
Nonetheless, US military planners had hoped for a change of heart and a small number of US scouts had established a chain of logistics bases from Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun across the south of the country to its frontier with Iraq.
Yesterday those personnel began to withdraw, with a column of lorries taking men and equipment back to Iskenderun - finally shelving the planned US operation.
At the outset it was assumed that Turkey would renew the help it provided in the first Gulf war, when it allowed coalition aircraft to use the Incirlik air base in return for US financial aid.
"Never trust a Russian. Never trust an Arab."
~ Author unknown.
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At the time, I believed that Turkey refused the 4th ID, recon assets and flights as they were colluding with Saddam to protect the northwestern part of Iraq. This would allow for 'escapees' and their cash to flee (for a price, of course) to Syria.
Upon hearing of the Iraqi/Russian 'CBW Remediation Conveys' heading for Syria (who wouldn't have been able to make that journey if they were being watched or confronted), the collusion became even more apparent. Wonder what the price for this was?
Besoeker nails it with the 'Never trust' statement.
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The pomelo skin on Erdogan's head is very becoming.
[AA.TR] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s prime minister said Tuesday that Turkey will continue to conduct its fight against terrorism until the last terrorist is dead.
Speaking at the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's parliamentary group meeting, Binali Yildirim said: "Until the last terrorist in this territory is killed, we will resolutely continue our fight against terrorism."
He added: "We will continue our fight against terrorism not only at home but also abroad using our rights based on international law."
This June Ottoman Turkish security forces killed 270 PKK bandidossnuffies in nationwide counter-terrorism operations.
The PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and EU -- resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July 2015.
Since then, more than 1,200 victims, including security force personnel and civilians, have bit the dust.
Turkey has been conducting operations in both Turkey and northern Iraq to fight the terrorist PKK.
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Judge Derrick Watson and Dems hardest hit butthurt. I think it also tips where they'll rule when it finally comes before SCOTUS
[ABC10news] The Supreme Court is granting the Trump administration's request to more strictly enforce its ban on refugees, at least until a federal appeals court weighs in.
But the justices are leaving in place a lower court order that makes it easier for travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to enter the United States.
The high court acted Wednesday on the administration's appeal of last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson that required the government to allow in refugees formally working with a resettlement agency in the United States. Watson also vastly expanded the family relations that refugees and visitors can use to get into the country.
The justices said the federal appeals court in San Francisco should now consider the appeal.
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I don't hold much hope the SanFran wackos will keep to the law. They'll go and allow the stupid Hawaii ruling and ignore the Supreme Court.
Hell, at this stage I wouldn't be surprised if they declared the SC decision unconstitutional.
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While the appeals court justices are working up their next ruling in a way that will finally persuade the Supreme Court to accept their argument, all involved will have to put other efforts on the back burner, reducing the amount of mischief they can get up to. This is a good thing, I think.
[BREITBART] The Trump Administration is providing funding for the Texas National Guard’s efforts to assist in securing the state’s border with Mexico. This follows more than three years of the Obama Administration’s refusal to help with any funding for Texas’ border security operations.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the State would receive funding from the federal government to help support its efforts in Operation Secure Texas. Members of the Texas National Guard currently deployed to the Texas/Mexico Border will begin to transition to federal orders later this month, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas from Governor Abbott’s office.
"The taxpayers of Texas have funded border security, a federal responsibility, for far too long," Abbott said in a written statement. "I am grateful that the federal government and Congressional appropriators are stepping up and dedicating additional resources to provide for the safety and security of all Texans. The State of Texas also extends it gratitude to the men and women of the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety for their continued commitment to securing our border."
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[AnNahar] Two Iranians were indicted Monday in the United States with hacking a defense contractor and stealing sensitive software used to design bullets and warheads, according to the Justice Department.
According to the newly unsealed indictment businessman Mohammed Saeed Ajily, 35, recruited Mohammed Reza Rezakhah, 39, to break into companies' computers to steal their software for resale to Iranian universities, the military and the government.
The two men -- and a third who was nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in 2013 and handed back to Iran in a prisoner swap last year -- allegedly broke into the computers of Vermont-based Arrow Tech Associates.
The indictment said they stole in 2012 the company's Prodas ballistics software, which is used to design and test bullets, warheads and other military ordnance projectiles.
The material stolen from Arrow Tech was protected by US controls on the export of sensitive technologies, and its distribution to Iran was banned by US sanctions on the country.
The two men were charged in the Rutland, Vermont federal district court, which issued arrest warrants for the two, who are believed to be in Iran.
In 2013 the US secured the arrest in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... of a third Iranian in the case, Nima Golestaneh, 30, who was extradited to the United States.
In December 2015 he pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and computer hacking.
One month later he was freed as part of a prisoner exchange with Tehran, which returned four Americans in exchange for seven Iranians who had been arrested in separate schemes to obtain and smuggle to Iran sensitive US technologies.
President Obama will go down in the history books, most assuredly.
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[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Monday to quit his office as soon as possible since a three-judge Supreme Court bench began hearing the Panama Papers case in the light of a damning report prepared by a joint investigation team formed to probe money laundering allegations against the PM and his children.
The CM told news hounds here that the ’noose’ around the PM’s neck was being tightened, as two SC judges had already declared him guilty of being involved in the Panama Papers case and after the JIT report he had no justification to remain in power.
The CM’s plane made an inaugural landing at the under-construction Islamkot airport. He drove straight to Malani House in Mithi where he told the media that he had already directed the authorities concerned to complete the remaining part of the airport so that foreign engineers, especially those from China, engaged in mining and power production could easily travel.
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[DAWN] In the sternest warning as yet, Pakistain on Monday signalled that it could consider choking India’s supply lines near the Line of Control (LoC) if the latter did not ’rein in’ its troops committing ceasefire violations, as six more civilians, four women among them, were maimed in Azad Jammu and Kashmire in "unprovoked and indiscriminate" shelling by Indian soldiers.
The threat was conveyed during a conversation between the directors general of military operations (DGMOs) of Pakistain and India over the telephone hotline. The conversation was held in the aftermath of targeting of a Pakistain Army’s vehicle along the Neelum River on LoC at Athmuqam. The vehicle fell into the Neelum River. Four soldiers drowned after the attack.
The Inter-Services Public Relations said it was a "weekly hotline contact", which usually happens every Tuesday between officers of operations directorates of the two countries. The Indian Army in its statement said the conversation had been requested by the Pak side for discussing the Athmuqam incident.
Last such conversation between the DGMOs took place almost six weeks ago when the Pak side sought a contact for protesting over killing of civilians on its side.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's senior counsel Khawaja Harris on Tuesday resumed his arguments in the Panamagate case before a three-member Supreme Court bench, objecting to the findings of the joint investigation team's (JIT) report, which he called "unreliable" and "misleading".
The bench, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal and comprising Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, had resumed the Panamagate case on Monday, nearly three months after ordering the formation of a JIT to investigate the allegations of money laundering against the Sharif family.
During the lawyer's arguments, Justice Ijazul Ahsan remarked that the PM, despite being given the opportunity, did not "give us anything".
"He [Nawaz Sharif] was asked about his speech, but he did not answer [...] when he was asked about the London flats, he said that he did not know," said the judge.
"Don't accept, don't reveal -- that seems to be the thinking," Justice Ahsan remarked.
Harris, however, clarified to the court that the documents submitted on behalf of the Sharif family on Monday were based on legal objections. "The JIT’s opinion does not have a legal holding," he insisted.
Justice Ejaz Afzal replied that the judges will not look at the JIT’s opinion, but instead take into consideration the contents of the report.
"After reviewing the report and looking over the evidence, we will decide whether the case should be transferred to the National Accountability Bureau or if the SC will make a decision regarding the disqualification of the PM," Justice Ahsan said.
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[DAWN] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Monday to fast-track new legislation for autonomy in the country’s most volatile region, advancing a protracted process to end decades of rebellion and thwart rising Islamist militancy.
The Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) submitted to Duterte on Monday is the culmination of a rocky 20-year grinding of the peace processor between the government of the predominantly Christian Philippines and the Moslem separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
It aims to turn predominantly Moslem parts of the southern island of Mindanao into an autonomous region with its own executive, legislature and fiscal powers.
"May I say to you my brothers ... I will support and hasten this instrument as it goes to the legislature," Duterte said in a ceremony for the handover of the bill, drawing loud applause.
"There will be no objections of the provisions of all that is consistent with the constitution and aspirations of the Moro people." Passage of the bill would be a major achievement for Duterte, who was a mayor in a Mindanao city for 22 years and has made peace deals with separatists and Marxist rebels a priority for his year-old government.
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[AlMasdar] Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS/Al-Qaeda) are once again at each other’s throats after a ceasefire between the previously allied factions proved short-lived.
Some 48 hours after signing a truce covering all of Idlib province, the Ahrar al-Sham leadership accused HTS of failing to comply to the agreement. This disagreement soon resulted in festivities between the two jihadist factions in several rural areas on Tuesday.
Thus, HTS hard boyz stormed the main Ahrar al-Sham checkpoint near Hazareen after which al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise branch captured the town itself and tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a number of Ahrar al-Sham fighters.
On the other hand, Ahrar al-Sham overwhelmed HTS checkpoints in the town of Ableen, resulting in the death of at least one al-Qaeda fighter with about a dozen more captured.
With the provincial ceasefire shattered, HTS prepared of convoy of some 250 Lions of Islam and sent the vehicles towards the Jabal al-Zawiyah area in the southern Idlib countryside which is known to be largely under Ahrar al-Sham control. A major confrontation is effectively brewing.
Consequently, all preparations for large-scale offensives against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) have been postponed due to rivalry and tensions between HTS, Ahrar al-Sham, Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) groups and ISIS sleeper cells.
[DAWN] A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 per cent sure that IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... was alive and located in south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, despite reports that he had been killed.
"Baghdadi is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 per cent he is alive," Lahur Talabany told Rooters in an interview. "Don’t forget his roots go back to Al Qaeda days in Iraq. He was hiding from security services. He knows what he is doing."
"He is not an easy figure. He has years of experience in hiding and getting away from the security services," Talabany said. "The territory they control right now, still to this day, is very tough territory. It is still not the end of the game for ISIS. Even though they have lost almost all of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and they are getting ready to lose Raqqa as well."
Talabany said IS was now shifting tactics despite low morale and it would take three or four years to eliminate the group as it takes to the mountains and deserts to stage hit and run attacks and unleash jacket wallahs.
"They are getting ready for a different fight I think. We have a lot tougher days ahead of us than people think. "Al Qaeda on steroids," said Talabany. "We saw why they were smarter. Al Qaeda never controlled any territory. They will be smarter."
Numerous reports suggesting that Baghdadi had been killed have raised questions about who might replace him as head of a diverse group comprised of Iraqis and other Arabs as well as hardcore imported muscle.
Iraqi intelligence officers who served under Saddam Hussein have been described as the military strategists instrumental in creating an IS reign of terror.
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It almost sounds like people are trying to justify their budgets going forward, or "protecting our phony-baloney jobs" if you will. I'm not convinced that's the case, but the appearance is there.
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Are they keeping some viable tissue in a petri dish somewhere to clone their 'Galactic Caliph'?
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I am philosophically opposed to targeted assassination but in al-Baghdadi's case, an exception seems entirely appropriate.
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.
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[DAWN] In the sternest warning as yet, Pakistain on Monday signalled that it could consider choking India’s supply lines near the Line of Control (LoC) if the latter did not ’rein in’ its troops committing ceasefire violations, as six more civilians, four women among them, 
[AlMasdar] 
