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Troops kill seven Boko Haram insurgents in Borno
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Russia to suspend nuclear, rocket cooperation with America, ban US tobacco & alcohol
[RT] Russian lawmakers have drafted a bill suspending cooperation with US companies in the nuclear, missile and aircraft-building spheres, as well as introducing restrictions on imports of alcohol and tobacco produced in the US.

“The bill is about alcohol and tobacco products and about ceasing or suspending international cooperation in the nuclear sphere, rocket engine building and aircraft building between Russian companies and organizations under US jurisdiction,” one of the bill’s sponsors, MP Ivan Melnikov (Communist Party), was quoted as saying in the State Duma’s Twitter message.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2018 03:27 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Russian cooperation - add to the list of oxymorons
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/16/2018 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, good. There were families in Detroit that were low on alcohol and smokes.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/16/2018 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  A reduction in Amerikonski alcohol and smokes? I doubt that will be a popular move at home.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Quick! Ship in a bunch now before the embargo hits! Blackmarket rates will go through the roof!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/16/2018 9:36 Comments || Top||

#5  But we can still sell them marijuana, right?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/16/2018 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Does this mean we need to hitchhike home from the International Space Station? I know there have been some unmanned America resupply missions, but I thought the humans were carried by the Russians.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/16/2018 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Going to guess that the suits at ULA also expected swillary to win and also outlive McStain, thus ensuring RD-180s for as long as needed. I'm not a Musk fan, but Falcon sure seems to havr come along at the right time...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2018 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Drafted not passed
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2018 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Pretty sure the average Russian drinks Russian vodka. I wonder if they have ramped up production enough to keep everyone supplied. Couple years ago they had some kind of shortage...
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2018 11:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Atlas will be a huge hit.
Lockheed is supposed to have a bunch of engines stashed away but they need Vulcan with the BE-4 yesterday not in 2029-21.
ULA is screwed unless they can cook up something yesterday with the ATK engine for Atlas - It cough .. is supposed to be ... cough a drop in replacement... cough... I am betting maybe %10 it is.

The could back fill with F9/FH and certify quickly F9/FH for all USAF/NRO missions allowing reflight so they don't screw up SpaceX's switch to BFS/BFR Mars rocket.

F9 has over 50 missions under it's belt.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2018 22:59 Comments || Top||

#11  My bad not ATK rather AJR (Aero-Jet Rocketdyne)
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2018 23:35 Comments || Top||


Africa North
HoR head Saleh says he is in contact with Hafter and warns against rumours and incitement -- fails to allay rumours
[Libya Herald] House of Representatives (HoR) head, Ageela Salah, says he has been in contact with Libyan National Army (LNA) leader, Khalifa Hafter and discussed with him the latest developments. The comments came through the official HoR spokesperson Abdulla Belheeg yesterday.

Belheeg reported that Saleh, who is also the Supreme Commander of the mainly eastern-based Armed Forces, warned against the rumours and incitement that some are trying to spread. He did not specify which specific rumours were being referred to.

The official HoR spokesperson also reported Saleh as saying that work is continuing normally in all armed forces units and in all (military and security) operating rooms. Saleh was also reported as saying that he and Hafter were following up with the Chiefs of Staff and the Commanders of the operations rooms on a continuous basis. Furthermore, he assured all the Libyan people that the military institutions will remain the safety valve for the nation.

It will be recalled that on Wednesday, the official spokesperson for the Hafter-led Libyan National Army (LNA), Ahmed Mesmari, denied reports about the illness of Khalifa Hafter. He claimed on the LNA’s twitter account that ’’All the news about General commander’s health are false, Marshal Hiftar is in excellent health".

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
the statements have failed to provide adequate information or proof about the status or whereabouts of Khalifa Hafter, and failed to address directly the numerous growing domestic and international reports and rumours that have been circulating about Hafter’s state of health since Tuesday.

Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "in contact" - via Ouija Board?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/16/2018 8:46 Comments || Top||


Draft law on sequestering Muslim Brotherhood assets approved by parliamentary committees
So now it need only be rubber stamped by the entire parliament to pass into law. How pleased President El-Sisi will be.
[AlAhram] Two committees of the Egyptian parliament approved on Sunday a government-drafted law aimed at regulating the procedures for sequestering, managing, and disposing of the assets of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group.

The draft law also covers all Islamist groups and movements that are found guilty of mounting terrorist attacks or being affiliated with the Brotherhood in any way.

The Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee and the National Security and Defence Committee both gave their approval to the bill, which is expected to be approved by parliament in a plenary session on Sunday or Monday.

The 20-article draft states that an ad hoc committee will be formed with responsibility for managing the assets of the group and of all other groups and movements related with the mother organization and listed as "terrorist entities".

"The assets include all kinds of property, in-kind possessions, bonds, national or foreign cash, and financial securities," the draft states.

The law states that all state institutions ‐ including banks, whether public or private ‐ will be obliged to cooperate with the ad hoc committee, giving all necessary assistance and implementing its resolutions.

Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund was designated a terrorist organization following a number of terrorist attacks targeting buildings belonging to security forces in Cairo and Nile-delta cities in December 2013.

Many of the group’s leading figures were incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
, while many of its assets were sequestrated.

The government also designated two movements ‐ Hasm and Liwaa El-Thawra ‐ are terrorist organizations led by Moslem Brüderbund figures. The two movements were listed as "terrorist" entities by the United Kingdom and the United States.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  This one could really hurt. The Muslim Brotherhood as an institution includes some very wealthy individuals. Islam holds no prohibition to the accumulation of wealth. Just pay the annual tithe demanded of Muslims and everything is OK. Realistically, however, the membership has been moving funds from Asia and Africa to Europe since 2012. What the Brotherhood now stands to lose is real estate and such things as pharmacies, book stores, and retail outlets, which will reduce its presence throughout Egypt.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 04/16/2018 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  the membership has been moving funds from Asia and Africa to Europe since 2012.

I didn’t realize they have been moving monies to Europe, Clurong Peacock9529. The timing is interesting, too. But in Egyot the Sisi government has been confiscating Moslem Brotherhood assets for over a year. There are reports in the archives, but I’m not sure what key words would limit the result to just stories about asset seizures.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3  What's the status of the MB in the U.S. The last I heard was that Potus was considering listing it as a terrorist organization.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/16/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||

#4  The Muslim Brotherhood survives in the USA because it is supported by the Democrat Party. (Obama's half-brother is a bigwig in the International Islamic Dawaa organization dominated by Brothers.) It has been prorogued in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the fact that the ruling al-Thani family of Qatar still supports it lies at the heart of the effort to isolate Qatar from other Arab states.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 04/16/2018 21:32 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria marks fourth anniversary of Chibok kidnapping
[DAWN] Nigeria on Saturday marked four years since Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok, with renewed calls for their release and that of thousands of others seized in the bloody conflict.

A total of 219 girls were taken from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town in Borno state on the evening of April 14, 2014, and have become an enduring symbol of the Islamist insurgency.

Four years on, 112 are still being held.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  I bet Boko Haram is still laughing at that picture.
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2018 9:30 Comments || Top||


Britain
Jeremy Corbyn is slammed by his own MPs after saying he would NEVER take military action in Syria without getting approval from RUSSIA
[DailyMail] Jeremy Corbyn was slammed by his own MPs today after demanding Vladimir Putin is given the final say on British military action in Syria.

The Labour leader insisted he would never countenance deploying UK forces without a UN resolution - even though Russia has the power to veto them.

Mr Corbyn also made clear he does not accept that the strikes on Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability by the US, UK and France were legally justified on humanitarian grounds.

And he demanded a 'war powers' law to ban the Prime Minister from taking military action without a Commons vote.

The comments immediately reignited the deep splits within Labour, amid a huge political row over Theresa May's decision to join reprisals over Assad's atrocity in Douma last Saturday.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2018 07:40 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Jeremy has these occasional Kim Philby moments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2018 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this Russian collusion? Mueller's targeting the wrong guy!
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Labour party have felt this way since the Cold War started, they just don't normally say so out loud.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2018 11:55 Comments || Top||

#4  He doesn't want to have to turn in his Komsomol decoder ring...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2018 13:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
France's Macron says he persuaded Trump to keep troops in Syria
What did President Macron trade to get that agreement?
[Rooters] French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he had convinced U.S. 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...
to keep troops in Syria for the long term and limit joint strikes to chemical weapons facilities.

Early on Saturday, the United States, La Belle France and Britannia launched 105 missiles targeting what they said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7.

"Ten days ago, President Trump was saying 'the United States should withdraw from Syria'. We convinced him it was necessary to stay," Macron said in an interview broadcast by BFM TV, RMC radio and Mediapart online news.

"We convinced him it was necessary to stay for the long term."

The United States, Britannia and La Belle France said they only hit Syria's chemical weapons capabilities and the strikes were not aimed at toppling Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
or intervening in the civil war.

Limiting the strikes to these specific targets was not necessarily Trump's initial plan, Macron said.

"We also persuaded him that we needed to limit the strikes to chemical weapons (sites), after things got a little carried away over tweets," he said.

While it is unusual for a French president to present himself as driving U.S. policy in military matters in the Middle East, Macron and Trump have developed a friendly relationship over the past year.

Macron invited Trump to assist to Bastille day celebrations last year and will travel to Washington on a state visit later this month.

Saturday's strikes on Syria were the first major military operation since Macron's election in May last year.

He reaffirmed that there was proof of chemical attacks, adding: "We had reached a point where these strikes were necessary to give back the (international) community some credibility."

Macron said that failing so far to get the red lines respected had led Russian authorities to think of Western powers that "these people from the international community - they are nice, they are weak".

"He (Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
) has understood it's not the case anymore."

Macron had warmer words for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
. "With those strikes we have separated the Russians and the Turks on this. The Turks condemned the chemical weapons."

Macron, criticised by the far-left and far-right and part of the conservatives over the attacks, said La Belle France, Britannia and the United States had "complete international legitimacy to act."
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  And we know it was the chemical attack in Douma, which nobody wants to take credit for, that caused Trump to stay in Syria - interesting, eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2018 0:10 Comments || Top||


#3  Leading from behind.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/16/2018 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Macron has a bigger ego than Comey.
Posted by: Elmavins Hitler3235 || 04/16/2018 13:19 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
US pastor faces terror charges in fraught trial in Turkey
[APNEWS] An American pastor imprisoned in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara.

Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor from North Carolina, is facing up to 35 years in prison on charges of "committing crimes on behalf of terror groups without being a member" and "espionage." The trial begins Monday in western Izmir province.

Brunson was enjugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
in December 2016 for alleged links to both an outlawed Kurdish holy warrior group and the network of the U.S.-based Moslem holy man who Turkey blames for a criminal masterminding a failed military coup that year. The holy man, Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, denies the claim.

Brunson, who has lived in Turkey for 23 years, has denied all allegations, saying that he solely worked as a pastor.

The Ottoman Turkish government has clearly linked Brunson’s case with its determination to force the U.S. to extradite Gulen ‐ and some see the pastor as a diplomatic pawn.

The American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative Christian group in the U.S., has called Brunson a "hostage of the Ottoman Turkish government." A petition has garnered more than half a million signatures, claiming that the case was putting Christianity on trial.

Brunson’s lawyer, Ismail Cem Halavurt, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Sunday he expects the pastor’s acquittal, arguing that the "weak" indictment lacked sufficient evidence to make the case hold up in court.

American officials have repeatedly requested that Brunson be released ‐ 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...
himself asked 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. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
to have his government "expeditiously" return the pastor to the U.S.

But Erdogan fired back at Washington, demanding that the U.S. first return Gulen.

"You give him to us and we’ll give you this one," he said, referring to Brunson.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
US to impose new sanctions on Russia over Syria
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
says the US will be imposing more economic sanctions on Russia for its support of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
and his apparent use of chemical weapons.

Haley says Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be making the announcement by Monday and it will affect companies that are "dealing with equipment related to Assad and any chemical weapons use."

She tells CBS’s "Face the Nation" that Russia needs to feel the consequences for protecting the Assad regime. Haley notes that Russia has vetoed six resolutions in the United Nations Security Council regarding chemical weapons.

Haley says the fact that Assad was making the use of chemical weapons "more normal and that Russia was covering this up, all that has got to stop."

Syrian opposition activists and first responders say a chemical attack on the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital, killed more than 40 people on April 7.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



International-UN-NGOs
Saudi Arabia to donate $200 million for Palestinians, Riyadh Arab meeting named ‘Jerusalem Summit’
[AlAhram] 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...
’s King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
Bin Abdel-Aziz announced on Sunday that the kingdom will be donating $150 million to the Jerusalem Religious Endowments fund, as well as $50 million to the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNRWA).

King Salman also announced that the ongoing Arab summit which is hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will be named the ’Jerusalem Summit.’
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tell me again about Saudis changing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2018 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Somewhat like President Trump's dilemma with California, the funding was already in this year's budget cycle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2018 1:03 Comments || Top||


The Arab region is facing a 'serious crisis,' says Egypt's Sisi at Arab Summit
[AlAhram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Sunday that Arab countries are facing unprecedented threats, while criticising regional states that aim to increase their influence in Arab countries.

Speaking at the Arab Summit held 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...
, El-Sisi said that Arab countries are facing the "most serious crisis since their independence" from occupation, citing attempts to interfere in Arab countries as well as setbacks in efforts to resolve the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.

"There are regional states that are not respecting the principles of neighbourliness and are working hard to establish spheres of influence within the Arab states," El-Sisi told leaders of countries in the 22-member Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
"The army of one of the regional countries is present on the land of two Arab countries, in a state of explicit occupation," he said during a speech broadcast live on TV, without elaborating further.
Oooo, ooooo, I know! It’s Iran, right?
El-Sisi added that "another regional party" exploited instability in the region in recent years to "built up areas of influence in more than one Arab country."
Or maybe that is Iran?
On Paleostine, El-Sisi warned that non-activated international decisions on the conflict with Israel as well as division between Paleostinian factions threaten Paleostinians' longstanding hope for a state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Uh oh.
Saudi Arabia currently holds the rotating chair of the Arab summit. King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
has said that the ongoing Arab summit would be named the ’Jerusalem Summit.’

El-Sisi said the "Arab right to Paleostine is a fixed and legitimate right that cannot be rewritten or appropriated,"
No it isn’t, actually, no matter how much Muslim countries and other Jew-hating types might pretend otherwise. But it is interesting that they keep telling themselves so.
referring to an Egyptian-drafted UN General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to reverse its December decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The UN resolution was backed by a majority of UN-member countries in December.
Y’all keep saying that as if the General Assembly mattered...
El-Sisi also called for a comprehensive strategy to preserve national security in Arab countries to protect against any attack or foreign interference.

El-Sisi also referred to a ballistic missile launched across the Yemeni border in Saudi Arabia, which targeted Riyadh and was intercepted by Saudi air defences last week.

"Egypt will not accept Yemeni elements bombing Saudi territory with ballistic missiles, as this constitutes a threat to Arab national security," he told the gathering.
That’s nice, dear. But as you don’t want to send large numbers of troops, there is no practical difference between accepting and not accepting.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  El-Sisi said the "Arab right to Paleostine is a fixed and legitimate right that cannot be rewritten or appropriated,"

An Arab is an Arab: a "moderate one" is just one practicing Taquia.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2018 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  since the street signs in Israel are in arabic as well as hebrew and english, it seems to me that this 'arab right' to palestine already exists under Israeli jurisdiction

there are even streets and towns named for famous sheiks
Posted by: lord garth || 04/16/2018 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  since the street signs in Israel are in arabic as well as hebrew and english

Pretty much describes much of southern Mexifornia.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2018 2:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Funny thing in California is a lot of the signage (housing developments mostly) are in a pseudo Spanish. Not real words but they look Spanish. OF course who's gonna say boo when Spanish speaking people tend to be priced out of those areas anyway.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2018 13:45 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Number of IS’ families on the rise in Anbar as displaced return back home
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The number of families of 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....
members has been growing as hundreds of displaced families returned to their regions, a security source from Anbar police said on Sunday.

Speaking to Almaalomah website on Sunday, the source said "number of IS families in Hit city and surrounding regions reached 150 families, which indicate terrorist operations that could target security troops and civilians, given that those families provide the gunnies with information about security personnel in order to target them."

"The presence of those families in Hit threaten safety and stability of the region. Displacing them could be hard due to pressures by rights groups," the source added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel reveals how it’s winning the battle against Hamas’s Gaza attack tunnels
[IsraelTimes] After it destroys longest, deepest tunnel dug by terror group under border into Israel, army showcases its new tech 'laboratory' systematically neutralizing the subterranean threat.

Hours after announcing the destruction of the longest and deepest Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, attack tunnel reaching into Israel from Gazoo, the Israeli army released a video on Sunday, showcasing the new, special "laboratory" it established for locating cross-border tunnels dug from the Hamas-run coastal enclave into Israel.

The laboratory, which located five tunnels in recent months, was established two years ago as part of the IDF’s Gazoo Division and is headed by Captain B, who was trained in electrical engineering and chemistry, the army said.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israeli army announces West Bank closure for memorial, independence days
So hopefully there will be nothing to report from the area for a few days.
[IsraelTimes] The army announces it will impose a closure on the West Bank during Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day this week.

The IDF says the closure will begin at midnight on Monday and be lifted on Thursday at midnight "in accordance with a situational assessment."

Border crossings with the Gazoo Strip will also be shuttered during this time, the army says.

"During the closure, passage will be allowed in humanitarian, medical and exceptional cases only and subject to the approval of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories," the IDF says in a statement.

The West Bank and Gazoo border crossings are typically closed during Israeli and Jewish holidays, when the risk of terror attacks is assessed to be higher.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Myanmar military put on UN blacklist for sexual violence
[DAWN] A new UN report puts Myanmar’s armed forces on a UN blacklist of government and rebel groups "credibly suspected" of carrying out rapes and other acts of sexual violence in conflict for the first time.

An advance copy of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report to the Security Council, obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, says international medical staff and others in Bangladesh have documented that many of the almost 700,000 Rohingya Moslems who fled from Myanmar "bear the physical and psychological scars of brutal sexual assault."

The UN chief said the assaults were allegedly perpetrated by the Myanmar Armed Forces, known as the Tatmadaw, "at times acting in concert with local militias, in the course of military ’clearance’ operations in October 2016 and August 2017".

"The widespread threat and use of sexual violence was integral to this strategy, serving to humiliate, terrorise and collectively punish the Rohingya community, as a calculated tool to force them to flee their homelands and prevent their return," Guterres said.

Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army


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Is chemical inspectors' OPCW mission in Syria still relevant?
[Al Jazeera] Representatives of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have arrived in Damascus, where they will conduct a so-called 'fact-finding mission' into the chemical attack in Douma on April 7.

The OPCW will try "to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic" in the Damascus suburb of Douma.

According to the organization, its mission will continue despite Saturday night's air strikes by the United States, French and British forces, aimed at destroying Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

That mission was announced on April 10, three days after the chemical attack in which at least 85 people were killed and hundreds were maimed.

The countries that conducted last night's air strikes on at least three targets in the war-torn country have all claimed they have proof of the Syrian regime being behind the attack on Douma, raising the question how much the OPCW will actually accomplish.

Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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  East Ghouta officially under the Syrian Army’s control after last militant convoy leaves Douma
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  Day 2:Joint US, France, UK attack launched on Syria on rural Damascus
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  Russia threatens to shoot down any US missiles fired at Syria
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  ISIS Khurasan leader Qari Hekmat killed in Jawzjan airstrike
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