The view from Egypt, where they know the Moslim Brotherhood intimately.
[AlAhram] Will Donald Trump’s administration resort to purging the American system of those connected to the Moslem Brüderbund, asks an article in Bloomberg.
Prefacing this article with a couple of points of clarification is essential. This article has very little to do with President-elect 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... , his choice of advisers, and his intentions. Also, in no way am I siding with Trump’s notions on Islam, and his sweeping statements regarding banning Moslems from entering the US. But this article has everything to do with the disputable argument in Bloomberg’s, "Trump’s coming witch hunt against political Islam."
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[TODAYONLINE] Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by their kinship ties through marriage, involving facilitating logistics and finance for terrorist acts. But there is a growing trend of women taking on combat roles.
Detachment 88, Indonesia’s police counter-terrorism unit, recently locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three women who were allegedly involved in plotting to bomb the Indonesian State Palace. The women -- Dian Yulia Novi, Arida Putri Maharani and Tutin Sugiarti -- were a part of a Solo-based terrorist network under the coordination of Bahrun Naim, the man allegedly behind the 2016 Jakarta attacks.
A few days after their arrest, Detachment 88 also arrested Ika Puspitasari in a mosque near her home in Purworejo, Central Java.
Novi and Maharani are the wives of Muhammad Nur Solihin, who is believed to be the leader of the terror cell. Novi was responsible for preparing the planned suicide kaboom at the Indonesian State Palace.
Maharani was aware of these preparations for the attack and had facilitated its funding. Sugiarti, interestingly, played a key role in radicalising Novi despite Novi being married to the group’s head. The last woman, Puspitasari, had prepared to conduct a suicide kaboom in Bali on New Year’s Eve.
Within Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Indonesia’s most infamous terrorist group, women previously played only intermediary and childbearing roles, with the purpose of boosting ties and nurturing future jihadists in a bid to expand the group’s numbers. JI also relied on women to raise funds for violent jihad.
For example, Noralwizah Lee Binti Abdullah, a Sabah-Chinese woman who was the wife of JI’s former operational commander Hambali ...real name Riduan Isamuddin, close personal friend of Osama bin Laden, one of the founders of Jemaah Islamiyah and the planner of the 2002 Bali bombings. He was captured with the help of a mid-Eastern intel service, shipped to Guantanamo to rot but he'll likely be released eventually because that was a long time ago and we were all so much younger then... , was believed to be JI’s chief accountant.
Classical Islam does not favour women taking on combative roles. But, with the rise of the so-called 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), the role of women in violent terrorist acts is evolving.
With the goal of establishing an Islamic state at all costs, IS has had to extend the kinds of roles available to women in their organization, involving them to a greater degree in armed combat and suicide missions. IS has established the al-Khansaa Brigade, a women-only unit that patrols around cities such as Raqqa and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to enforce IS’ fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic values. Women also fought on the frontlines for IS in Libya.
Increased combat and planning roles for women in Indonesian terror cells reflects the influence and growing network of IS allies in South-east Asia. The East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) terror group, which pledges allegiance to IS, has conducted weapons training for its women including the wife of MIT’s commander. We should expect more women to be direct participants in terrorism in the future.
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Indonesia military full time: about 500,000 troops, another 500,000 part time. So that's a 1 million man army
equipment includes many amphibious tanks, sukhoi jets on order, submarines too.
they have plenty of gunna and plenty of men
and plenty of Islam - lots of Islamisation pouring in from saudi arabia
The ink was hardly dry on the Secretarial Order from Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell blaming California’s drought on global warming when rain and snow swept across the state. San Francisco International Airport was forced to cancel flights and there were blizzard warnings for Lake Tahoe. Face it. He is not happy with you.
The Los Angeles Times warned breathlessly of a winter war footing. San Francisco, the home of a million companies cashing in on environmental panics, received 130% of average rainfall. Sacramento, where terrible ideas from San Francisco go to become law under a Democratic supermajority, is at 160%.
Governor Jerry Brown had signed an executive order last year making temporary drought restrictions all but permanent. "Drought is becoming a regular occurrence," Executive Order B-37-16 stated. Then the proposal to "Make Conservation a California Way of Life" had made a big splash among bureaucrats. When the ruling class becomes that detached from reality...
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another big rain/snow storm expected by middle of next week in Calf.
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As Victor David Hanson has often said, if California had concentrated on building reservoirs, rather than dumping water into the ocean to save the delta smelt, they would not be in this situation.
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California really hasn't done much at all for infrastructure since the 1960s. Just look at how jammed the freeways are. But it ins't just the freeways. If you're really brave go to a hospital emergency room. And if you're really really brave wander through the hallways of one of our high schools. Water is but one example.
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The El Nino, La Nina pattern of dumping tons of water for 3-7 years and then leaving us in drought for 3-7 years was known when I was a kid. I have to imagine this was intentionally forgotten for 'religious' reasons.
If we had proper government we would have built cisterns to hold extra water so it didn't just run off into the Pacific when things were dry, and reinforced the levees and such against the big rains that we now are gonna come. Instead we have clowns who take advantage of the voters short memory and gullibility.
For those not familiar with Australian vernacular, a "dummy" is a baby’s pacifier. "Spitting the dummy" refers to throwing the kind of tantrum where said pacifier exits the baby’s mouth at speed, usually achieving an impressive arc before coming to ground somewhere hard to reach. Chances of the parents convincing the baby to put the thing in its mouth after it’s been located and cleaned are... minimal.
Winning the World Championship Dummy Spit is a rather Australian way to say "You can quit the tantrum now. The adults don’t care."
Seriously, I don’t care how disappointed you are. I don’t care if you think the President-Elect is Literally Hitler (he’s not. The last person who was shot himself in a bunker over seventy years ago) and is going to herd you all into extermination camps (he’s not. Even the most useless of you are capable of spending money, and he’s a savvy enough businessman to know a good business needs people to buy what it sells). I don’t care if you think I’m the biggest ___ist ever to walk the planet (I’m not. At least, not since I lost weight).
Life is not fair. It will not always do what you want. To go all Australian on you, shut yer gobs and rattle yer dags because you drongos are going to help clean up the fucking balls up you’ve created even though collectively you might be about as much use as a two-bob watch. Maybe. It’s a fucking tough world out there and Mother Nature’s a stone bitch. I’m from the land of everything trying to kill you: I know this shit.
You’ve wasted years using every lurk and perk you and your slimy pollies could dig up, and you think you can sit back and whinge while the rest of us work our arses off then enjoy the bennies? You’ve got yours and Buckley’s mate: it ain’t happening. Quit trying to beat your best dummy spit, and pitch in or bugger off.
You galahs claim to be for a fair go, but a fair go’s the last thing you want because deep down you know bloody well you haven’t got a leg to stand on. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be chucking a wobbly like this: you’d be in with the rest of us to help clean up.
Oh, right. You think a bit of hard yakka’s gonna make you kark it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[AlAhram] Will Donald Trump’s administration resort to purging the American system of those connected to the 
