[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... says the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group cannot win in the battlefield as he insisted on reconciliation process as the only way forward to put an end to ongoing violence.
Hekmatyar made the remarks during a gathering to mark the 29th year of the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from the country.
He called on the Taliban group to join grinding of the peace processor and said "Talibs should adopt the same approach as adopted by the Hezb-e-Islami."
This comes as the Taliban group has so far not shown any interest or readiness to participate in peace talks with the Afghan government.
The group however published an open letter addressing the American nation and Congress in which the Taliban showed readiness for the dialogue to end the violence.
Taliban called on the American nation and Congress to put pressures on American military and end the so-called occupation of Afghanistan.
In the meantime, Hekmatyar insisted on timely, free, fair and transparent elections to end the ongoing crisis and issues in the country.
Hekmatyar called on all Afghans to participate in the upcoming elections and urged the all parties involved in organizing the elections including the international community to pave the way for the participation of all political parties to monitor the elections process.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The local residents in Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia say they are complaining about the ongoing Somali and AMISOM military operations against Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Speaking to Radio Shabelle, the deputy governor of the region on financial affairs Abdifitah Hajji Abdulle said residents fed up with the army retreats from the liberated areas.
Abdulle added that the people in danger of Al-Shabaab reprisal for welcoming the allied forces upon their arrival in those areas vacated by the hard boys.
He has called on Somali Federal government to deal with the situation and urge its armed forces to remain in their positions and not allow Al-Shabaab to come back after liberation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A trial has started in a court in 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... of two Egyptian nationals accused of targeting important Saudi figures and leaders of Arab countries.
The defendants who support the Moslem Brüderbund and al-Qaeda terrorist group, were accused of targeting "a royal person", leaders of Arab countries, and military leaders of an Arab country, inside Saudi territory.
The lawsuit, revealed that the first defendant, an Egyptian born in 1982 and holds a bachelor degree, works in a hotel in Mecca.
The second defendant, an Egyptian born in 1980, holds a bachelor degree, is married and works as a manager in the internal supervision department of a hotel in Mecca.
The lawsuit revealed that the defendants gave their consent to carry out these operations to a person currently detained in Egypt. They planned to assassinate foreigners in Jeddah and that they traveled to Egypt for training and coordination.
One of the figures who was being targeted as per the plan, was an Arab interior minister during his stay in a hotel close to the Great Mosque of Mecca.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Ankara is not fighting a war in Syria but is fighting against terrorism, Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday.
"We are not conducting a war against any country. There is not a war in Syria, as we speak. In Syria, it’s just that there is a fight against terrorism currently. And this is not a fight which is conducted by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... only. There are 62 coalition member countries who are conducting this, including Russia, Iran, and Turkey. We are a part of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... , and we are within the coalition, and we provide air support to the coalition. And in NATO, through our NATO bases we help out with the operations," Yildirim said during the Munich Security Conference.
Terrorists have been using weapons from the United States and Russia, which were either provided directly or which they obtained through illegitimate means, Yildirim continued.
Ankara’s actions in Syria are in compliance with the international law and treaties, the Ottoman Turkish prime minister pointed out.
Turkey launched Operation "Olive Branch" in the northern Syrian Kurdish-held district of Afrin on January 20. Ankara has said its offensive is aimed at clearing the Ottoman Turkish border with Syria from terrorists. Turkey considers the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to be linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Damascus has expressed its opposition to the Ottoman Turkish operation in Afrin, saying that such actions violated Syrian illusory sovereignty.
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I say son, I say you gotta do a little PR work over here or there as the case may be.
#2
considering that Turkish proxies include various factions which have allied with AQ and other terrorist groups, the Turkish statement is false on its face
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[DAWN] 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.... government has directed the Rawalpindi’s district administration to conduct a survey for taking under its control more seminaries and health units run by the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) and to seek information from cantonment administrations about the activities of the group in their areas.
Also, the Islamabad administration has presented a report to the federal government about JuD’s health and education units which it has taken under its control.
Taking action against JuD, the Islamabad Capital Territory’s (ICT) administration has taken under its control three JuD-run dispensaries in a rural area and confiscated more than three ambulances.
Islamabad Deputy Commissioner retired Captain Mushtaq Ahmed told Dawn that the ICT administration had taken over three health facilities and seven ambulances in Shareefabad, Ghouri Town and Quba Mosque I-8/ Markaz in the federal capital.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court has said that negotiations like the ones the government held with leaders of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasoolullah (TLY) to end its 20-day sit-in at the Faizabad Interchange encourage protesters to try to take over the capital and paralyse state functions in a bid to pressurise the government for the acceptance of their demands.
The observation came during the hearing by a two-judge SC bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam of a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case about the use of abusive language by the TLYR leaders in their speeches during the sit-in.
When court deplored the absence of preventive measures to deal with Faizabad-like situations in future, Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf informed it that a draft Anti-Riot Protection Bill 2018, aimed at dealing with such situations in future, was expected to be taken up by the federal cabinet at its next meeting on Tuesday.
The AG conceded that Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code was not enough to prevent such circumstances.
The apex court expressed dissatisfaction over the reports submitted by the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) on the Faizabad sit-it and said it lacked information on many counts.
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[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court administration has decided to register a first information report (FIR) against Axact chief executive officer Shoaib Ahmed Sheikh for bribing a judge to get acquittal in a fake degree scandal case.
A senior IHC official told Dawn that the court’s administrative committee had recommended registration of the FIR against the Axact CEO and additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) Pervaizul Qadir Memon. He said the matter had been referred to IHC Chief Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi, and after his approval a formal FIR would be lodged against both with the Federal Investigation Agency under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Pakistain Penal Code.
On Thursday, the IHC dismissed ADSJ Memon from service after he confessed to having received a bribe of Rs5 million to acquit Shoaib Sheikh in the fake degree case.
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[DAWN] Announcing that the investigation of the Sehwan shrine blast has been completed, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Friday that the criminal mastermind and all Death Eaters involved in the Feb 16, 2017 attack were either tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! or killed in encounters.
Mr Shah said this while talking to newsmen on the occasion of first death anniversary of those killed in the suicide kaboom at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar that claimed the lives of 90 people and injuries to 300 others.
The local business community and traders closed their businesses to observe the death anniversary. People from different walks of life arrived at Sehwan Sharif from across the country to attend the event.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A huge mass grave composed of relics of more than 100 victims, executed 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.... , has been found, south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a security source from Nineveh Operations Command said on Saturday.
"Testimonies of local residents enabled army troops to reach the grave, located at al-Ramdaniyah village in Qayyarah, south of Mosul," Col. Saleh al-Sherifi told BasNews.
"The grave contained relics of more than 111 victims," Sherifi added. "The relics had symptoms of shooting at chests and heads."
"Most of the victims were civil servants from the Nineveh elections commission office and security personnel," he said.
IS murderous Moslems, according to Sherifi, executed the victims and buried them at the grave during their control on Mosul, which lasted for three years.
Security troops ran into tens of mass graves at regions recaptured from IS. More than 70 graves, including Yazidis killed by IS, were also found.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared in July victory over IS bandidosmurderous Moslems who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25,000 Islamic State bandidosmurderous Moslems were killed throughout the campaign.
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[DAWN] About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were killed or injured by US-led coalition forces in Syria last week, sources told Rooters.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... according to Russian officials, there was initial information about the death of five citizens but they had no relation to Russia’s armed forces.
The timing of the casualties coincided with a battle on Feb 7 near the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor where, according to US officials and associates of the fighters involved, the US-led coalition forces attacked forces aligned with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... A source who knows several of the fighters said the corpse count was in excess of 80 men, while a Russian military doctor told Rooters that around 100 had been killed. The maimed evacuated from Syria in the past few days have been shifted to four Russian military hospitals, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
The doctor, who works in a Moscow military hospital, said more than 50 maimed men evacuated from Syria were under treatment at the hospital last Saturday. Around 15 of them were said to be in a serious condition. He claimed that three planeloads of injured fighters were flown to the city from Feb 9 to 12. They were flown back on military cargo planes which can each accommodate two or three intensive care cases.
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, said initial information was that five Russian citizens in the area of the battle had been killed, but they were not Russian troops. She said reports of tens or hundreds of Russian casualties were disinformation inspired by Russia’s opponents.
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Badanov explained how the numbers like 300 and 200 have special meaning to Russian troops much like police call numbers do. The reporters are messing up on this.
[The Hill] President Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner has reportedly requested more intelligence information than almost every other White House official.
The Washington Post reports that Kushner, whose portfolio encompasses issues ranging from the Middle East peace process to modernizing the federal government’s use of technology, has put in more requests for U.S. intelligence information than any White House staffer not working for the National Security Council.
Kushner holds a Top Secret/sensitive compartmented information (SCI) security clearance, the highest level, which allows him to review some of the nation’s most closely-guarded secrets and allows him access to the presidential daily briefing, according to the Post.
He is one of reportedly dozens of White House officials who have been operating with temporary clearances during Trump’s first year in office, and his clearance could be in jeopardy following chief of staff John Kelly’s changes to the clearance process, the Post said.
In a memo released Friday, Kelly outlined a series of changes to the clearance process amid the controversy surrounding former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned over domestic abuse allegations.
"The American people deserve a White House staff that meets the highest standards and that has been carefully vetted‐especially those who work closely with the president or handle sensitive national security information," Kelly wrote in the memo. "We should ‐ and in the future must ‐ do better."
The changes include calling on the FBI to specifically brief the White House counsel on any potential concerns flagged in a background check, aiming for the FBI to bring any problematic findings to the White House within two days of discovery, limiting new interim clearances to a maximum of 270 days and cutting off certain clearances for employees whose clearance investigations have been pending since before June 1, 2017.
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I would be more reassured if it wasn't for that most intel reports are smoke and bad smells.
(They cloud the issue, and you always ask "where did that come from?")
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
the personification of Somali state failure...
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court administration has decided to register a first information report (FIR) against Axact chief executive officer Shoaib Ahmed Sheikh for bribing a judge to get acquittal in a fake degree scandal case.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A huge mass grave composed of relics of more than 100 victims, executed by 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
