[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent former Jihadi leader in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan Ismail Khan has warned of massive elections in the upcoming elections, insisting that the people of Afghanistan has not more trust on the current government.
Speaking during a gathering in Herat in province, Khan said the current government has been imposed on the Afghan people.
Khan went on to claim that in such a situation the people of Afghanistan will not participate in the elections and the ballot boxes will be filled in favor of a particular person.
The provincial governor of northern Balkh province and chief executive of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Ata Mohammad Noor had also participated in the gathering.
He said efforts are underway to interfere in the upcoming elections and urged the government to take immediate steps to change the formation of the elections commission and bring necessary reforms.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Sami (JUI-S) party led by Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... led by Maulana Samiul Haq has said peace will return to Afghanistan the moment the foreign forces leave the country.
A front man for the party Maulana Yousuf Shah has told a local media outlet that the leader of the party has been approached by the Afghanistan's Caped President and the Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain regarding his meddling in the Afghan reconciliation process.
"Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. and Ambassador to Pakistain Omar Zakhilwal have been pursuing the Darul Uloom Haqqania ...an Islamic seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and is headed by Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the Godfather of the Taliban. It has been dubbed The University of Jihad due to the methods and content of instruction along with the future occupations of its alumni.... chief [Samiul Haq] to help restore peace in Afghanistan," Shah told The Express Tribune.
He claimed that "But even if he [Haq] approaches the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , the Afghan nation will not accept foreign troops’ presence in their country."
He said the JUI-S had made it clear that peace was not possible in the presence of the US troops in Afghanistan.
"The Afghan government is confined to the district headquarters only and rest of the country is being run by the Afghan Taliban," he said.
Shah insisted that "The Afghan nation stands by the Taliban. The moment the foreigners leave, peace will automatically be restored across Afghanistan."
This comes as the leader of the party had earlier vowed support to Afghan peace and reconciliation processs.
Darul Uloomi-e-Haqqania led by Maulana Haq in a statement last monthat a two-hour long meeting was held between Maulana Haq and the Afghan Ambassador.
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I did not realize Israel had land in Pakistan learn something new all the time!
Nine dead children were among the 23 civilians who perished during October according to UNSMIL figures which also showed the number of non-combatants to die doubled over the figure for September.
The six boys and three girls, including a new-born child, died in the raid by unidentified warplanes on a farmhouse in Derna’s Al-Fatayeh district on 30 October. Also killed in that attack were three women. Another two females, a man and four children were injured in this strike. UNSMIL recorded that ambulances carrying injured civilians from the air raids were not allowed to pass through checkpoints at Martouba and Kirsa which it said were controlled by forces allied to the Libyan National Army (LNA)
The month began with the Misrata courthouse gun and explosives attack by the so-called Islamic State in which two male civilians were killed along with two security men. UNSMIL says that it has not been able to establish how many of the 41 injured in this assault on 4 October were civilians.
Two days later the body of a mentally-ill Tebu man was found in Kufra with gunshot wounds. UNSMIL said that he had gone missing 24 hours earlier and believed that he had crossed the dividing line with the rival Zwai community.
At the start of the month UNSMIL recorded the death of a man in Benghazi in a dispute between two families. Also in Benghazi on 16 October two men, one of them an Egyptian, were killed in an attack on a restaurant, it said because of a land dispute.
Not all the victims of violence were young. In clashes in Tripoli’s Ghraret district between the Rada (Deterrence) Force and members of the Al-Mungar family, apparently over drug smuggling, an 81 year-old Sufi imam was killed by gunfire. UNSMIL said that there were other casualties in these engagements but pointed out that it had been unable to find out if they were civilians.
On the 21st of the month UNSMIL recorded that a Tawerghan woman had received gunshot injuries when her refugee camp in Sidi Al-Saeh was attacked by the Al-Kani brigade.
Among the other killings, a Qaddafi-era officer was gunned down as he sat in his car in Warshefana. In the same district suspect car-jackers shot dead a store owner.
Two men kidnapped in Ajdabiya in July were found shot dead in Benghazi. UNSMIL said it had seen a video in which one of the murdered men had confessed to being involved in terrorism.
The UN organisation also noted the discovery of 36 bound bodies near Al-Abyar at the end of the month but did not comment on whether any of the victims were civilians.
Unexploded ordinance, which UNSMIL calls Explosive Remains of War (ERW), continued to take a toll in Benghazi after the recent fighting against militants. Five men were killed and a boy and six other male were injured. In one incident two men, including an Egyptian, were blown up and three others wounded when they went to clean a property around which fighting had raged.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi stressed Egypt’s firm stance towards the unity of the Somali’s territories and its illusory sovereignty.
This remark came during a phone call on Wednesday between Sisi and his Somali counterpart Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo.
During the phone conversation, the two sides discussed means of enhancing joint ties besides promoting bilateral cooperation in the field of fighting terrorism and extremism.
They also reviewed the latest developments in Somalia and the efforts of the Somali government to restore security and stability so as to fulfill the aspirations of the Somali people in achieving development.
Farmajo lauded the Egyptian stance backing his country and the support it offers in attaining stability.
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[DW] The German government has admitted that it does not always know the whereabouts of rejected asylum seekers, but argues that the number doesn't tell the whole truth. The government's asylum agency faces a file backlog.
According to a report in Thursday's mass-circulation daily Bild, the government's Central Register of Foreign Nationals (AZR) counted around 54,000 people at the end of 2016 who were obligated to leave the country, but only around 23,000 were claiming state benefits in accordance with the law governing asylum applicants, according to numbers from the Federal Statistical Office.
An Interior Ministry spokesman told Bild, "It can't be ruled out that individuals obligated to leave the country documented in the foreign nationals register have already left the country or have disappeared without the relevant foreign nationals authority having been made aware of it, or reporting the fact to the AZR."
[Breitbart] A leaked audio recording has revealed a Berlin police academy instructor talking about problems dealing with migrant recruits, saying that many have stolen items and threatened other officers with violence with the instructor calling them an “enemy in our ranks”.
The unidentified police instructor complained that many officers who come from migrant backgrounds, specifically from Turkish and Arabic origins, refuse to learn in the academy classrooms and some have trouble simply articulating or writing in German, Die Welt reports.
In the recording, which was confirmed to be authentic by the Berlin police on Wednesday, the instructor said: “I’ve never experienced anything like this, the classroom looked like hell, half Arabs and Turks, cheeky as hell. Stupid. Could not articulate. Two or three I had been close to knocking out because they only disturbed and literally slept. German colleagues have said that they were threatened with violence.”
The instructor added that he was “so shocked, and I’m really scared of them, and I think the trainers too because if they throw them out, they’ll be there and break everything”.
The future of the Berlin police force looks in jeopardy according to the instructor who said the migrant police officers would be “a second-class of police that will only be corrupt”.
“These are not colleagues, that’s the enemy. This is the enemy in our ranks and I have never felt such hostility in this class,” he added.
Police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said that while he objected to the instructor’s tone, “He was clearly in an overwhelmed situation.”
According to sources within the police academy, the problems with migrant recruits is nothing new. The source said Turkish, Arab, and Afghan recruits “lack respect” and many refused to accept female officers with one student questioning why a female officer did not dress conservatively enough in her time off-duty.
Another issue has been that many individuals related to Arab clan criminal gangs have also been joining the forces. An official said that the police could not criticise those with a clean record but noted: “We know that with these people the family is above everything else.”
Arab clan gangs have also reportedly been recruiting asylum seekers in asylum homes to run low-level drug operations and the connection between the drug scene and the radical Islamist scene has authorities in the city concerned.
If an Islamist were to infiltrate the Berlin police, it would not be for the first time. Last year, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) arrested one of its own officers who was not only recruiting jihadists but plotting to bomb the agency headquarters in Cologne.
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has in the recent weeks forced from office several of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's big-city mayors, in a purge of local officials designed to shore up support for his ruling party.
In a fast-moving and sometimes ruthless chain of resignations, four top city mayors have stepped down at Erdogan's request, paying the price for the ruling party's somewhat lacklustre performance in the April referendum on constitutional change.
Analysts say that after 15 years in power, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Erdogan is genuinely worried about its level of support ahead of a critical election year in 2019.
"The dismissals of the mayors are for different reasons but it's all with the aim of improving the electoral position of the party," Ilter Turan, a professor of political science at Istanbul's Bilgi University, told AFP.
"The party is in a quandary as to why is it losing votes. The erosion of support was evident in the referendum.
"The president is trying to develop ways to turn the electoral tide around," he said.
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[DAWN] The Uzbek immigrant behind New York's worst attack in 16 years confessed to acting in the name of 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 and "felt good" about the killings, having planned an assault for a year, Sherlocks said on Wednesday.
The shocking details emerged as federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges against Sayfullo Saipov, who subsequently appeared in court in a wheelchair ‐ he had been shot in the abdomen by police ‐ 24 hours after mowing down pedestrians and cyclists, and colliding with a school bus.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... vowed an immediate crackdown on the visa program that he said allowed the 29-year-old to immigrate in 2010, saying he would "certainly consider" sending the suspect to the military detention center in Guantanamo Bay and later calling for his execution.
The attack killed eight people, five of them childhood friends from Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... celebrating 30 years since their high school graduation, a 31-year-old Belgian mother, and two US men, from New York and neighboring New Jersey.
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As I said before - Islam is a religion for sociopaths.
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#1 As I said before - Islam is a religion for sociopaths.
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OK, but I've come to think of it as a religious, social and political system dedicated to the mass production of sociopaths.
It appeals to homicidal monster but it also seeks to manufacture them, as well.
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[DAWN] Attorney-General for Pakistain Ashtar Ausaf Ali on Wednesday presented ’sensitive’ documents before a judge of the Lahore High Court in his chamber to defend detention of Jamatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... Earlier, the AGP told the judge that the documentary material relied upon by the federal government to detain Mr Saeed was sensitive in nature and would not be appropriate to present in open court. He sought permission from the court to produce the relevant material in chamber and also requested it not to place the same on record of the case.
After Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi allowed the request the AGP shared the documents with the judge in his chamber where Advocate Dogar was also present.
Prior to the chamber’s proceedings, an officer of ministry of interior told the court that the JuD chief were tossed into the calaboose in the light of reports and recommendations by intelligence agencies. The judge would resume hearing today (Thursday).
Challenging the detention of Hafiz Saeed, Advocate Dogar had contended that the government detained his client on the basis of mere apprehensions and hearsay. He argued that an order of preventive detention had to satisfy the requirements laid down by the Supreme Court in its many judgments but in the instant case sheer violation of laws had been committed by the government.
He said imprisonment without trial and conviction was prima facie unlawful and unconstitutional.
A provincial review board had approved an application of the government seeking extension in the detention of Mr Saeed for another 30 days starting from Oct 25. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the board did not allow further detention of four other JuD leaders.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States has shared a list of at least twenty terrorist groups with Islamabad which Washington insists use the Pak soil for the terrorist activities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, it has been reported.
Diplomatic sources have confirmed to the local news outlet Dawn News that the White House retains a list of 20 terrorist groups that the Trump administration claims are operating in Pakistain.
The sources further added that the list has reportedly been shared with Islamabad by Afghanistan and the United States.
In the meantime, reports indicate that the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said the US and Pakistain had been engaged in "a very healthy exchange of information on terrorists" since his visit to Islamabad last week.
Tillerson has further added that further information will also be shared with Pakistain in the future to include information on "specific location on any given day of where certain individuals or certain cells may be located."
According to reports, the Haqqani terrorist network is on the top of the list shared with Islamabad as the US officials are saying that the network has safe havens in Fata and uses them to launch attacks into Afghanistan.
But the Pak officials reject the claims by Washigton and insist that no such safe havens exist in the country.
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Top on the list is the Haqqani network which, the United States claims, has safe havens in Fata and uses them to launch attacks into Afghanistan. Pakistan strongly rejects the charge, saying that there are no such safe havens inside the country.
Harakatul Mujahideen is a Pakistan-based militant group operating primarily in Kashmir. The US says that group had links to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda as well.
Jaish-e-Mohammed operates mainly in Kashmir and the liberation of the Indian occupied Kashmir is its declared objective.
Jundullah is associated with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and was commanded by militant Hakimullah Mehsud, the Emir of TTP until his death in November 2013. It had vowed allegiance to the militant Islamic State group.
The United States identified Lashkar-e-Taiba as one of the largest and most active terrorist organisations in South Asia. Founded in 1987 by Hafiz Saeed, Abdullah Azzam and Zafar Iqbal in Afghanistan, the group had its headquarters in Muridke. It too is focused on Kashmir.
Lashkar-e-Taiba was involved in the 2001 Indian parliament attack and the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Lashkar-i-Jhanghvi, an offshoot of anti-Shia sectarian group Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori and Ghulam Rasool Shah.
The US blames this group for committing hundreds of target killings and dozens of mass attacks inside Pakistan.
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella organisation of various militant groups, was based in Fata, but has now relocated to Afghanistan. The US says that the group wants to enforce its own interpretation of Sharia and plans to unite against Nato-led forces in Afghanistan. It has conducted hundreds of terrorist attacks inside Pakistan.
Other groups on the list are: Harakatul Jihadi-i-Islami, Jamaatul Ahrar, Jamaatud Dawa al-Quran and Tariq Gidar Group, which is one of 13 TTP affiliates. The Tariq Gidar Group has been behind some of the deadliest attacks inside Pakistan, including the Dec 16, 2014, massacre at the Army Public School in Peshawar that left 132 schoolchildren and nine staffers dead.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Commander Nazir Group, Indian Mujahideen, Islamic Jihad Union, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ISIS-Khorasan, Al Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent and the Turkistan Islamic Party Movement are also on the list.
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Nothing new about them wanting it, but now they can enforce their desire.
[AlAhram] Iraq wants the Kurdistan region to stop independent crude exports and to hand over sales operations to the Iraqi state-oil marketer SOMO, the company's director said on Thursday.
Iraq is talking to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to allow SOMO to sell the Kurdish crude that arrives by pipeline in Ceyhan, the Ottoman Turkish terminal on the Mediterranean, acting SOMO director general Alaa al-Yasiri told news hounds in Baghdad.
About 530,000 barrels per day (bpd) used to arrive in Ceyhan via the pipeline until mid-October, of which about half came from the Kurdistan Regional Government's oilfields and the rest from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a disputed province claimed by both the Kurdish region and Iraqi authorities in Baghdad.
Output from Kirkuk fell in mid-October, when Iraqi forces took back control of the northern region's oilfields from Kurdish fighters who had been there since 2014.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces deployed in Kirkuk in 2014, when the Iraqi army fled in the face of an advance by 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.... (IS) murderous Moslems. The Kurdish move prevented the murderous Moslems taking control of the oilfields.
The pipeline carried on average 419,000 bpd in October, down from 600,000 bpd in September, said Farid al-Jadir, the director general of North Oil Company, which operates Kirkuk.
NOC should resume exports from Kirkuk through the Kurdish pipeline this month, after the two sides agree on terms of use, Yasiri said. Kirkuk would also export by tanker trucks about 15,000 bpd to the refinery of Kermanshah in Iran, he added.
Yasiri expected an old pipeline that bypasses most of the Kurdistan region to resume operation in three months.
The pipeline was severely damaged by Islamic State (IS) after it took over djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's Nineveh province in 2014. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces ousted the group from Mosul in July, after a nine-month campaign supported by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.
Iraq, the second-largest producer of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after 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... , supported any future decision by the group to support oil prices, Yasiri said.
OPEC is expected to extend curbs on oil output when it meets in Vienna at the end of month.
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I don't think anybody informed the Iraqi's about our Shale-oil boom and the actual price of oil. The rubes in Baghdad might find their pockets lighter than expected.
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[AlAhram] Iraq's Kurdistan region said on Thursday it has offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , with the participation of the U.S.-led coalition that was helping fight 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.... (IS) turbans.
The offer was disclosed hours after Iraqi armed forces accused the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of delaying the handover to Iraq of control of the borders with Turkey, Iran and Syria, and threatened to resume operations to capture Kurdish-held areas.
The KRG defence department said the offer was part of a "deconfliction" proposal made to the Iraqi government on Oct. 31.
The other points included a ceasefire on all fronts, continued cooperation in the fight against IS and a joint deployment in so-called disputed territories, which are areas claimed by both the KRG and the Iraqi central government.
The KRG "continues to welcome a permanent ceasefire on all fronts, deconfliction and the start of a political dialogue" with Baghdad, the Kurdish statement said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered economic and military retaliation after Iraqi Kurds voted for independence in a referendum held in September that Baghdad declared illegal. He insists that the KRG cancel the referendum's outcome as a pre-condition for any dialogue. Iran and Turkey back his measures against Iraq's Kurds, fearing the drive for independence will spread to their own Kurdish populations.
The joint deployment at the strategic Fish-Khabur crossing was meant "as a goodwill gesture and trust-building exercise that ensures a limited and temporary arrangement until an agreement is reached in accordance with the Iraqi Constitution", the Kurdish statement said. Fish-Khabur is strategically important for the Kurdistan region because it is the point where its oil pipeline crosses into Turkey.
Iraq's entire land border with Turkey is located inside the Kurdish autonomous region and has been controlled by the Kurds since before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Abadi declared a pause on Friday in an offensive that began on Oct. 16 to take over the disputed areas. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk fell on the same day without much fighting.
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command accused the KRG on Wednesday of using the talks that started on Friday to "buy time" to strengthen Kurdish lines.
"We will not allow it; the federal forces are mandated to secure (the disputed) areas and borders," it said in a statement.
The Kurdish Peshmerga command also accused Iraqi forces on Wednesday of massing weapons and threatening force to resolve "domestic political differences".
Iraqi troops set up positions between Ottoman Turkish and Iraqi Kurdish checkpoints on Tuesday at the Habur border crossing, between the Ottoman Turkish town of Silopi and the Iraqi town of Zakho.
That meant vehicles crossing the border were subject to three separate checks. Eight members of Turkey's security forces and five Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Lions of Islam were killed in a clash early on Thursday near the border between northern Iraq and southeast Turkey, Ottoman Turkish security and hospital sources said.
The PKK launched a separatist insurgency in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says members of ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group executed 741 civilians during a nine-month military campaign by Iraqi army forces and pro- government fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units to retake the strategic northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from the Lion of Islams.
The UN rights office, in a report released on Thursday, said that a total of 2,521 non-combatants were killed, mostly by ISIS attacks, during the battle, accusing the forces of Evil of perpetrating "international crimes" in Mosul, located some 400 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad.
"Those responsible must answer for their heinous crimes," said United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein.
On July 10, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared victory over ISISmurderous Moslems in Mosul, which served as the terrorists’ main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.
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[Ynet] Jordanian government spokesperson Mohammad Al Momani said Thursday that Israel's Embassy in Amman would not be reopened until Israel prosecutes security guard Ziv Moyal, who rubbed out two Jordanian citizens after one attacked him with a screwdriver.
"We obey international law and expect Israel to obey international law as well and prosecute the murderer," Al Momani said. "This is our demand. The ambassador would not return and the embassy would not be reopened until this is done."
[IsraelTimes] Defense Ministry demands progress on Israelis held in Gazoo before five bodies believed to be under rubble can be extracted
Israel on Thursday said that until there is progress toward releasing Israeli citizens and remains of IDF soldiers held in Gazoo by Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, it will not allow the terror group to retrieve the bodies of gunnies thought to have been buried under rubble when the military destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel on Monday.
Hamas said it believes five bodies are still inside the tunnel near the Israeli border, which was being built by the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group extending from the Gazook city of Khan Younis into Israeli territory, near Kibbutz Kissufim. The IDF blew up the tunnel in Israeli territory.
Hamas reportedly asked the International Committee of the Red Thingy to coordinate with Israel to allow its men to enter the Gazoo-Israel buffer security zone and search for the missing bodies within the tunnel.
Major General Yoav Mordechai, head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Israeli Defense Ministry branch that liaises with the Paleostinians on civil and security affairs, said that he refused a request by the ICRC to search for the missing bodies in the tunnel.
According to a statement by COGAT, Mordechai told the head of the ICRC delegation in Gazoo, Jacques de Maio, that "Israel will not allow search operations in the area of the security barrier in the Gazoo Strip without progress on the issue of Israelis kidnapped and MIAs."
Hamas still holds bodies of Israeli soldiers killed during the 2014 war in the Strip, and has refused requests from Israel and the ICRC to return them to their families. It is also believed to be imprisoning three mentally unstable Israeli citizens ‐ Avraham Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed and Juma Abu Anima ‐ all of whom are believed to have entered the Strip of their own volition.
The families of the soldiers, along with several Israeli politicians, said that Israel should not accede to Hamas’s request without a reciprocal deal to return their loved ones’ bodies.
"We hope that the Israeli government will not dare to comply with Hamas’s request as long as they do not return Oron," said the family of soldier Shaul Oron. "Oron was kidnapped through a tunnel that Hamas dug, and for more than three years has been held by them in Gazoo, and yet they do not allow the Red Thingy to check on his condition."
Seven Paleostinian gunnies ‐ including two senior Paleostinian Islamic Jihad commanders and two members of Hamas’s elite naval unit ‐ were killed as result of the tunnel’s kaboom on Monday, and 12 others were maimed, Gazoo’s Health Ministry said.
The IDF suspects the missing diggers were working in the stretch of the tunnel that is inside Israeli territory.
According to Israeli and Paleostinian assessments, most of the Paleostinians who died in the attack tunnel were not killed from the initial blast, but died in its aftermath, from smoke inhalation, secondary kabooms, and collapses.
[PRESSTV] The head of the Office of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says Myanmar must grant citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Moslems so that they can return to the Southeast Asian country, where they fled government-run violence against the persecuted minority group.
"These people cannot remain stateless because this statelessness exposes them to discrimination and abuse, as has been the case in the past," said Filippo Grandi at a presser after addressing the UN Security Council on Thursday.
More than 600,000 Rohingya Moslems have so far fled the predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since August 25, when the crackdown on the Rohingya intensified in Rakhine state.
The massive exodus of distressed Moslems in Rakhine has also altered the demographic status of the state, where the military and Buddhist mobs have since last year been attacking Moslem Rohingya civilians.
Many of those who have fled have recounted harrowing accounts of rape, murder, and arson at the hands of Myanmar’s forces and Buddhist mobs, in what has been branded "an ethnic cleansing campaign" against the Moslem minority group.
Estimates as to how many Moslems have been killed vary from 1,000 to 3,000.
"For people to go back and for this return to be sustainable, you need to address the very complex issue of citizenship," Grandi told news hounds during the presser, adding, "No return will be sustainable ... if that issue is not unblocked."
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[PRESSTV] Russia has strongly criticized as "superficial and unprofessional" a recent United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... report blaming the Damascus government for a gas attack in a bad boy-held town in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib back in April.
"We believe that the report turned out to be superficial, unprofessional and amateurish," the head of the Security and Disarmament Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Ulyanov, said on Thursday, adding, "The mission did their research from a distance, which in itself is a scandal."
At least 87 people died in the April 4 purported gas attack on Khan Shaykhun, which Western countries blamed on the Syrian government.
Using the incident as a pretext, US warships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from two warships in the Mediterranean Sea at the Shayrat airfield in Syria’s central province of Homs on April 7. US officials claimed that the suspected Khan Shaykhun attack had been launched from the military site.
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[PRESSTV] Syria has written two letters to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , calling on the world body to take swift action against Israel's attacks on the Arab country.
In the letters addressed to the UN chief and the Security Council chairman, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry complained on Thursday about a recent Israeli Arclight airstrike on a copper factory for civil industries in the town of Hassia in Homs Province.
The Syrian ministry urged the UN Security Council to take "strict and immediate" measures to stop Israeli attacks.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, claimed that Israeli warplanes had targeted an arms depot belonging either to the Syrian government or the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement.
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So long as President Trump is in office, the Security Council will be locked from such actions against Israel. This is posturing..
[PRESSTV] Human Rights Watch has warned that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s reported new policy for the assassination of terrorism suspects increases the risk of civilian deaths.
The Trump administration should immediately publish the proposed new rules on lethal dronezaps outside conventional war zones and strengthen protection for civilians, the New York-based human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organization said Wednesday.
"Trump’s reported changes for targeting terrorism suspects will result in more civilian deaths with less oversight and greater secrecy," said Letta Tayler, senior terrorism and counter-terrorism researcher at Human Rights Watch.
"The US should be increasing civilian protections off the battlefield, not dismantling them," she said.
Trump recently approved new rules that dismantle much of the Presidential Policy Guidance on assassinations issued in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... , The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported in September.
The Trump administration has neither denied nor publicly acknowledged the policy changes.
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No dealing with the actual cause. Islam is what increases civilian deaths. Something about the whole convert to the moon goddess, be enslaved or murdered.
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States has shared a list of at least twenty terrorist groups with Islamabad which Washington insists use the Pak soil for the terrorist activities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, it has been reported.
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[IsraelTimes] Defense Ministry demands progress on Israelis held in 
