[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In Afghanistan’s patriarchal society, a woman’s name should not be revealed, even on her grave.
"Mr X’s" mother, daughter or sister, the headstone might read, rather than the name of the dear departed.
Openly using the names of women is regarded as inappropriate and even an insult in the conservative Moslem nation.
On a birth certificate there is no sign of the mother’s name. On a wedding invitation the bride’s name is not mentioned - only the names of her father and husband-to-be.
But a women-led campaign on social media is starting to challenge the old Afghan tradition.
#WhereIsMyName, recently launched by a small group of women’s rights activists, wants to bring women’s given names to official documents and to the lips of Afghan people.
"Our society is full of injustice for women, basically everything is taboo for women," activist Bahar Sohaili, a prominent member of the campaign, told the Thomson Rooters Foundation.
"With this campaign we aim to change many things for women and social media has opened a new window to Afghanistan’s young generation."
Popular Afghan singer Farhad Darya has supported the campaign, posting a picture of himself with his wife and the caption "Farhad and Sultana Darya".
Thousands of Afghans, including authors, journalists and musicians have backed the movement on Facebook and Twitter, aided by widening access to the internet in the country.
"I went to a private bank office to fill up the form, when the manager asked my mother’s name, I paused for few seconds, because I had actually forgotten my mother’s name. Nobody in all these years asked or called her by her name," said Batool Mohammadi, a member of the campaign.
’Unwanted chaos’
The practice of erasing women’s names is rooted in Afghan customs, rather than Islam, the dominant religion.
It is a symbol of women’s second-class status in society, where decisions about their education and marriage are left to the men of the family.
Since the ultra-conservative Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... was tossed in 2001, Afghan women have regained the right to go to school, to vote, and to work. But violence against women in the home is widespread, and often goes unpunished.
#WhereIsMyName aims to challenge attitudes that allow men to make all decisions and leave women invisible and powerless.
"Many times I meet wonderful women with bright thoughts and opinions during my work trips, but when I want to interview them or take pictures they say to me, ’Let me ask my husband, father or brother if they allow me to talk or be pictured,’" said Farzanah Wahidi, a female photojournalist from Kabul.
Bahar Sohaili and her friends are fighting for the day that a woman’s name and her identity will no longer be shameful.
"We aim to put pressure on the government to enact laws to protect women’s rights. Whenever we demand our rights before a court or in parliament they (officials) use the pretext of religion to put us down," she said.
According to Afghan law a mother’s name should not be recorded on a birth certificate. Abdullhah Atahi, a front man for the High Court in Kabul told the Thomson Rooters Foundation that Afghan society wasn’t ready for change.
"We don’t have a problem mentioning the mother’s name on the birth certificate or on other relevant documents, but in Afghanistan’s culture people aren’t ready for such a modern step," he said. "It may invite unwanted chaos."
South Koreans do something similar, though less intense. (I have no idea what North Koreans do.) A girl is known by her own name until she marries, when she becomes known to all as Mrs. Husband. Then when she has her first child, she becomes known as Child's Mommy. Thus, I would have been trailing to all and sundry as a girl, then Mrs. Wife, then trailing daughter #1's mommy. My South Korean friends introduced themselves to me as Hae Jong's Mommy and Boe Kynung's Mommy; it's only because I am a friendly, ignorant American that I could insist on knowing their own names -- which they had not shared with each other before, despite all being upper middle management Samsung wives together in a foreign land.
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[Tolo News] A local commander of Hizb-e-Islami in Baghlan has said that he is ready to support the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the central province.
Mirwais Jihadyar, who has at least 1,000 fighters, said from now on, he will fight against those groups which threaten the national interests of Afghans.
He claimed that he controls the areas that are out of government’s control in Baghlan, especially in Baghlan-e-Markazai district.
The Hizb-e-Islami commander said they have local courts where they address peoples’ judicial problems.
According to him, he has control over 150 villages in the province.
"We fight and stop those who by foreigners’ order fight against people and harm them," said Jihadyar.
TOLOnews news hounds Sharif Amiri and Hamid Shirzai say the Hizb-e-Islami fighters are using a small room as a court where they address legal and judicial problems of people living in the nearby areas.
On Saturday, two men visited the court ‐ bringing murder and land dispute cases.
"My son is in prison. Government has put him behind bars for 20 years. I have come here and want Mirwais Khan to address my problem," said Ismail, a resident of Baghlan-e-Markazi district.
"Our region is in the hand of Hizb-e-Islami and we know their good and bad points and we have come here to find a solution for our problems," said Haji Ahmad Wali, another resident of the district.
The Hizb-e-Islami commander in Baghlan-e-Markazi said they investigate up to four cases every day.
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[All Africa] An unknown number of gunnies have attacked the rural home of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto in Sugoi, Uasin Gishu County.
The armed attackers are said to have forced their way into the home shortly before 1pm (local time) on Saturday.
Officer Injured
They are said to have approached a police officer manning the gate with some wares they said they were selling before grabbing his gun and butting him with it and then entered the home.
The officer was left unconscious.
Gunshots
A series of gunshots could be heard inside the home at about 2pm to 3pm.
A dozen of elite officers from Recce unit arrived at the home at 2.45 pm and have taken over the operation to fight the attackers.
The attack happened three hours after Mr Ruto left the home to attend a campaign rally in Kitale, North Rift, where he joined President Uhuru Kenyatta.
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[All Africa] Nigeria has ordered its military chiefs to relocate to Maiduguri in the northeast following a bushwhack on an oil exploration team in which more than 50 people were killed by 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... earlier this week.
Tuesday's attack in the Magumeri area of Borno state on a ten-vehicle convoy of specialists from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was the Islamist krazed killers' deadliest in months.
A rescue was attempted by military personnel and vigilantes - many of whom were killed.
The army said on Wednesday that 10 people were killed in the attack.
But a source involved in dealing with the aftermath told AFP on Thursday: "The corpse count keeps mounting. Now we have more than 50... and more bodies are coming in.
"It's clear that the attack wasn't for abduction. They (Boko Haram) attacked just to kill."
[AlAhram] Boko Haram Islamists have published a video showing three kidnapped members of an oil exploration team, after an ambush in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... earlier this week that killed at least 50.
In the four-minute video, the trio identify themselves as being from the University of Maiduguri and call on the government to meet the jihadists' demands in exchange for their safe return. The men were part of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) team on a mission to find commercial quantities of oil in the Lake Chad basin when they came under attack on Tuesday.
"I want to call on the acting president professor Yemi Osinbajo to come to our rescue to meet the demand," one of the men says in the video, which he said was shot on Friday.
He attributed the attack to 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.... -supported Boko Haram faction headed by Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi, which has promised to hit military and government targets.
There was no indication of where the video was shot but the convoy came under attack near Magumeri, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) by road northwest of Maiduguri.
Most of the victims were soldiers and civilian militia members providing security. Five members of staff from the university -- two lecturers, two technologists and a driver -- were also killed, vice-chancellor Ibrahim Njodi said on Friday.
University of Maiduguri front man Danjuma Gambo confirmed the identities of the three kidnapped men in the video.
"They are our staff but one more is yet to be accounted for," he told AFP.
"It's a confirmation of the boldness and reassurance that Boko Haram has managed to gain over the last six weeks," Yan St-Pierre, from the Modern Security Consulting Group in Berlin, told AFP. "They have been attacking more and more military outposts and more military convoys. For them to go after NNPC personnel just shows they don't fear any military reprisal.
"Basically they have managed to gain enough resources, enough material, to plan ambushes targeted towards high value targets."
The al-Barnawi faction differs from fighters loyal to Boko Haram's long-time leader Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... in that it disagrees with the indiscriminate targeting of civilians in suicide and kabooms.
Nigeria is searching for oil in the northeast to try to reduce its reliance on supplies from the Niger delta, where Lion of Islam attacks have slashed production and deepened the country's worst recession in decades.
The military gave the NNPC the green light to continue exploration in November 2016, according to Nigeria's junior oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu.
The University of Maiduguri's vice-chancellor told news hounds on Friday the university had been hesitant to send staff with the NNPC team but had been assured about security.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... ’s alleged "plots" against the UAE and Gulf states have been detailed in a new documentary released by Emirati state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channels, local media reported on Friday.
The program features audio and video confessions by Qatari Moslem Brüderbund supporter Mahmoud al-Jaidah, who received a seven-year jail term in the UAE for supporting the illegal Islamist group, Al Islah.
In the documentary, Jaidah is filmed saying that Qatar had become "the preferred" and "only" mediator of terrorist organizations in the past 20 years.
"The report revealed that Qatar supported Al Islah and provided hotel accommodations to members of the group," according to the Dubai-based Gulf News.
The documentary comes amid a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf, as 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... , the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have boycotted Qatar over its alleged support for holy warrior groups.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A detained 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 member of the Moslem Brüderbund confessed that the Doha government had provided the terrorist organization backing to target the Arab Gulf region, specifically the United Arab Emirates.
Mahmoud al-Jaidah, a leading member of the organization, appeared in a television documentary aired by the UAE news agency (WAM) on Friday during which he spoke of plots he was seeking to carry out in the country. He also highlighted the role the Brotherhood played in targeting the stability of the Gulf states.
Jaidah, 52, was responsible for providing financial support to members of the organization residing in the UAE. He is a members of the Brotherhood’s Gulf coordination bureau. He was sentenced to seven years in jail for attempting to illegally enter the UAE through Dubai international airport, but was later pardoned by President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan and expelled from the country.
He explained in the documentary how members of the Gulf cell were chosen, saying that it adheres to a strict hierarchy, which is headed by the executive and Shura councils. The Brotherhood, according to Jaidah, is led by general official Jassem al-Sultan. He is followed in the hierarchy by a 30-member council.
He said: "I was chosen with an administrative group that included Issa al-Ansari, Mohammed Thani, Nasser Mohammed Issa, Ibrahim al-Ibrahim, Abdulhamid Mahmoud and Khamis al-Mohannadi."
The report referred to Qatar’s efforts to embrace terrorist organizations, like the Moslem Brüderbund, to play a larger regional role, while allowing these organizations to infiltrate its state-run facilities and become key decision makers within Doha, reported WAM.
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Where in this hierarchy is Huma Abedin? Barack Hussein? Morsi?
[Asharq al-Aswat] The United Arab Emirates said Friday that the four countries boycotting 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... have conclusive evidence that Doha is financing holy warrior organizations in the region, including the terrorist al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder...... foreign ministers of the four anti-terrorism countries are preparing for a meeting in Manama to discuss the latest developments in the Qatari crisis.
UAE Ambassador to Washington Yusef al-Otaiba revealed that the four countries (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... , UAE, Bahrain and Egypt) have conclusive evidence to indict Doha for its support of armed militias in Syria, Libya and Somalia, in addition to supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, the Moslem Brüderbund, and many others including Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Otaiba told US TV channel PBS that Doha has the right to continue to do what it wants and support who it wants. The four countries in return have the right to continue their boycott and to take the measures that safeguard their rights and security as they wish.
He pointed out that the Washington-led international coalition against ISIS could triumph, but that would not be possible without putting an end to funding terrorism from foreign parties.
The ambassador said that the cause of the difference between the four boycotting countries and Qatar is the lack of its commitment to the charters and treaties that were signed in Riyadh in 2013 and 2014.
He stressed that the Gulf states and Egypt cannot agree to the policies of Doha that are contrary to the approach of the Gulf fold. The Gulf crisis is about a fundamental clash of visions over the future of the Middle East, the UAE’s ambassador to Washington said.
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We could have ended this charade 20 years ago. Send China a communique. End N. Korea's nuclear and missile programs, or in 6 months Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan will be nuclear powers.
#7
Why do we sit on our thumbs when this can be quickly ended?
Working to be the savior of the region or rebuilding Eisenhower's ring of fire around China?
[DAWN] A Ottoman Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of seven people in the trial of staff from an opposition newspaper seen as a test for press freedom under President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , but kept the most prominent journalists in jail.
The hugely controversial trial in Istanbul of 17 writers, cartoonists and executives from the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper on "terror" charges -- ridiculed as absurd by supporters -- began earlier this week.
After five days of intense hearings, the judge ordered that seven suspects, including cartoonist Musa Kart, be released ahead of the next hearing under judicial supervision, meaning they have to report to the authorities regularly.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the wake of his disqualification as prime minister and member of parliament by a Supreme Court order, the biggest challenge faced by Pakistain’s deposed premier 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... was keeping his political party PML-N intact and steering it from behind to complete the remaining one year of the 5-year term of government. His next task, however, was naming his political successor to lead the party.
The party has been functioning as family dynasty over the last two decades, as is the case with other mainstream political parties in the country like Pakistain People’s Party [PPP] led by the widower of the late Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... . This fact is truly suggested by PML-N party’s name, Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz.
Sharif acted swiftly to address such challenges in the 12 hours after the decision to sideline him by nominating Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , his younger brother and chief minister of Pakistain’s largest province, Punjab, as the next prime minister for the remaining term of his government.
Besides, Nawaz’s old ally Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was nominated to succeed him as interim prime minster for the mandatory period of 45 days, during which Shahbaz will contest elections of the parliament to succeed his deposed brother. Abbasi is considered as one the most trusted friends of Sharif and is the minister of petroleum and natural resources. He also owns Pakistain’s largest private airline, the main competitor of country’s national flag carrier.
All eyes on Maryam
Still, these measures seem insufficient for party stalwarts to enable Sharif to maintain his complete grip over his political party, for the fear of cracks and formation of a king’s party, as it happened with the party following his ouster in 1999 in a military coup.
"All eyes are focused on Nawaz’s eldest daughter Maryam Nawaz, who has been unusually active in the frontline of party leadership during the last four years, to succeed her father as party chief," said a senior party leader. "She is the only child of Nawaz Sharif showing the flair of political acumen and diplomacy, since her two younger brothers lacked such skills," he added.
But, the political fate of Maryam hangs in the balance after the recent decision of the apex court where it was directed to register criminal cases against her husband, father, two brothers and the father-in-law of her youngest sister Asma Nawaz.
The joint investigating team (JIT) established on the directives of Pakistain’s Supreme Court in its final report and concluded that Maryam Nawaz is the real and ultimate beneficial owner of the Avenfield controversial apartments. She never declared the ownership of these overseas properties, submitted fake documents and misled the Supreme Court.
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Proof that much more than term limits, an every-third-generation-is-eligible-for-political-office law is needed. Here in the US especially.
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[DAWN] History was repeated on Friday morning. 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... was sent home after the Supreme Court disqualified him under the Constitution’s Article 62(1)(f) for misdeclaring his assets when he was just 10 months away from completing his five-year tenure in office. He became the 15th prime minister of the country who got sacked without completing the term. He also became the first prime minister who was elected thrice but couldn’t complete even a single term.
The PML-N leader was first booted out of the office by his close ally in the presidency, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, in 1993. Although the apex court reinstated him, he agreed to quit along with the president under pressure from the military command.
His second term was terminated prematurely when Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and generals close to him ousted him in a bloodless coup in 1999.
This time the burden of sending him packing was borne by the country’s top court, which used the infamous Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution, which, political leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi recently said, were inserted by dictator Gen Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... to use them as a stick against politicians.
The PPP’s Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... was the first premier to vacate the Prime Minister House on the court’s orders. He was also the first chief executive of the country to have been disqualified in 2012 under the Article 63(f)(1) after the judges found him ’guilty’ of having committed contempt of court because he did not write to the Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against then president Asif Ali Zardari under their order.
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[DAWN] PML-N leaders, in a parliamentary committee meeting headed by ousted 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 Saturday, decided that Nawaz's younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , should take over as the party's leader in parliament.
Additionally, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who was till Friday the petroleum minister, will take over as interim prime minister till the time Shahbaz is elected to parliament, and then to the prime minister's office.
Shahbaz's ascension to the prime minister's office is considered to be a foregone conclusion, as the PML-N continues to hold a hefty majority in parliament and can independently vote him into office. He will also likely seek election to the National Assembly from Nawaz Sharif's constituency, which is a PML-N stronghold.
As part of the agreed-on course of action, Shahbaz will also have to forego his seat in the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly and his successor will need to be chosen. Sources claim that Punjab Excise and Taxation Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman is likely to replace Shahbaz as the chief minister Punjab.
A formal announcement has been made in this regard.
Abbasi, during the meeting, said that the party had made a decision and everyone had acted on it. "There is no conflict in the party. We may have given in, but history will not accept this decision [to disqualify Nawaz Sharif]. The nation has not accepted this decision," he added.
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[Breitbart] Four German women who travelled to Iraq to join 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.... and were recently captured in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... are said to have worked for the terror group as "morality police" enforcing strict Shariah law.
The report comes from the German security services who told German magazine Der Spiegel that the four women, including 16-year-old Linda Wurzel, worked as Shariah enforcers in Mosul in the so-called al-Khansaa Brigade. The women are said to have enforced the strict dress codes and social codes of Shariah and had the ability to physically beat women who disobeyed the laws, Die Presse reports.
At least two of the women were also involved in recruitment propaganda for the terror group, according to the report. The German government has been in talks with the Iraqi government regarding the four women, and has so far confirmed that none of the four will face the death penalty for their actions on behalf of the Islamic State.
So far there is no evidence that any of the women were involved in killing or fighting, though according to some reports members of the al-Khansaa Brigade had special privileges other women did not within Islamic State territory, which included being able to take up arms and drive vehicles.
A report on the brigade from 2015 stated that many of the members were foreign women and said non-Arab women were often allowed to take a role in the frontline fighting.
The most well-known of the four women captured in Mosul is Linda Wenzel, a 16-year-old who was radicalised over the internet and convinced to join the terror group by a jihadi she had met through an online chatroom. After being detained by Iraqi forces recently Wenzel claimed she just wants to go home to Germany.
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Linda Wenzel, a 16-year-old who was radicalised over the internet and convinced to join the terror group by a jihadi she had met through an online chatroom
Ilse Koch is moldering in the grave, but her spirit is marching on?
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IS Morality Police in Iraq? Are ya sure members of this group aren't from Evergreen State College up in Washington State? There is a movement afoot to rename the college: "If a recent ballot initiative proposed in the Washington state legislature passes, Evergreen State College will be renamed “Social Justice Warrior PC Indoctrination Compound.” Yes really.
[RT] Photos: Israeli border guards fire a stun grenade at Palestinian worshippers outside Lions Gate, one of the entrances to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, on July 22, 2017.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... hailed on Saturday Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's fighters who were killed during a battle to "eliminate" al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front group murderous Moslems from the outskirts of Arsal.
"We are waiting for the Lebanese army to conclude the operation in Arsal's outskirts, meanwhile we greet the deaders of Hizbullah who have fallen during the first stage of the mission," said Jumblat in a tweet.
Hizbullah launched a major ground offensive last week aimed at ending the yearslong presence of hundreds of murderous Moslems in a border area between the two countries.
Reports said some two dozen Hizbullah fighters have been killed overall in the battle, and nearly 150 from the other side.
The offensive, which ended with a ceasefire agreement and a condition to release Hizbulah fighters captured by Nusra, was widely expected after negotiations with murderous Moslems to leave the area failed over the past days.
The battle was fought by Syrian troops and Hizbullah gunnies on the Syrian side of the border while the Lebanese army will likely fight against the murderous Moslems on the Lebanese side.
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese Army is gearing for a battle against 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 murderous Moslems on the eastern borders in the al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek which will reportedly "begin within 72 hours," al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... daily said on Saturday.
Senior military sources told the daily that "military reinforcements taken in al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek come in the context of preparing for "zero hour" that will mark the start of the battle waged by the army to liberate a distinctly Lebanese land.
"It falls within the framework of the army's duties and role in the protection of borders and illusory sovereignty," stressed the source on condition of anonymity.
On the reasons that made the army refrain from taking part in the battle waged by Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... against al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front murderous Moslems in the outskirts of Arsal, the source stressed: "The recent battles against Nusra had been launched mainly from within the Syrian territory, specifically from the outskirts of Flita. Consequently, the Lebanese army had no mission or role except to protect the Lebanese border, Lebanese civilians and displaced Syrians.
"However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the army is the sole entity that will wage the battle in the outskirts of al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek," stressed the source.
He added that the battle is expected to be within a "geographical area free of any civilians or displaced people," which will comfort the military units while facing terrorist groups who will not be able to use the encampments of the displaced or civilians as human shields.
The area has witnessed an exchange of shelling in the past 48 hours.
The report comes in the wake of a Hizbullah assault in Arsal's outskirts that managed to oust al-Nusra Front's jihadists from the area.
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[An Nahar] In light of battle reinforcements taken by the military forces to oust 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's hard boyz from Leb's eastern border area, the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... said the expected battle in Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa is different from the one waged in the outskirts of Arsal, al-Jouhmouria daily reported on Saturday.
"The battle in the outskirts of Ras Baalbek differs in form and content from the battle in the outskirts of Arsal," LF sources told the daily.
"In form, Ras Baalbek's outskirts are Lebanese while the outskirts of Arsal are triangular, one part is Lebanese, another is Lebanese-Syrian and the third is Syrian. Thus, the Lebanese state can not enter into a confrontation on Syrian soil and fight alongside the Syrian army which has been isolated at Syrian, Arab and international levels," added the source.
Media reports said Saturday that the Lebanese Army is gearing for a battle against the Islamic State group hard boyz on the eastern borders in the al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek's outskirts.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity assured that the army "was the first to start the battle through its Arclight airstrikes and artillery," pointing out that the reasons were not enough to let the army engage in the battle in Arsal.
"In content," added the source, "the Lebanese army represents all the Lebanese people as it fights to protect the land and Leb's interest. While Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's fight is a class struggle-- even if Leb is benefiting this time in exceptional ways. Hizbullah's main goal is to achieve the interest of the axis it belongs to, not Leb's interest."
Last week Hizbullah launched an assault in Arsal's outskirts that managed to oust al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front's jihadists from the area.
Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... , and the Islamic State group are entrenched in rugged mountains along the Lebanese-Syrian border.
The Lebanese army regularly shells their positions while Hizbullah and the Syrian army have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border.
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