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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Only US, Israel could pull off 9/11: Researcher
[PRESSTV] Only the United States and Israel had the means to pull off an attack like the one that hit New York City on September 11, 2001, says an American scholar.

James Fetzer, a leading 9/11 researcher, told Press TV on Saturday that the growing cases of post-traumatic disorders reported among 9/11 survivors and first-responders give away the underlying secret.

On Thursday, the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund released new data that showed the organization has awarded $3.6 billion to date to Americans who have filed claims since the 9/11 attacks.

Those exposed to toxins and debris in Lower Manhattan are reporting "increasing numbers and types of illnesses," the special master for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund said.

Since its inception, the compensation fund has received 35,477 eligibility claims and awarded nearly $4 billion to some 14,000 responders and 5,000 more claims are under investigation. The fund will stop accepting submissions by December 2020.

"The latest report confirms research conducted by experts associated with scholars... that 9/11 carried out using a sophisticated arrangement of mini or micro nukes," Fetzer suggested.

Citing his own research among the findings of other similar works on 9/11, Fetzer said "the medical anomalies are characteristics of those associated with exposure to ionizing radiation, including leukemia, multiple myeloma" and other diseases.

Talking about the possible perpetrators of the attack, the scholar said only the US and Israel had the ability to pull off an operation of this magnitude.

"Israel has a vast stockpile of undeclared weapons of mass destruction and where they have appeared to have refined hundreds of Davey Crockett tactical nuclear warheads in Israel and brought them back to the United States" to use on the Twin Towers, Fetzer argued.

The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  It's not only the micro-nukes: who else but the US and Israel would have the ability to mass hypnotize hallucinations like seeing airliners fly into buildings.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/14/2018 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  In the early 1990s, Fetzer started promoting John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, later 9/11 conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories regarding the 2002 death of Senator Paul Wellstone and more recently Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories. He cofounded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in 2005,[7] and claims that the United States government, Israeli government and Israeli Mossad are involved in these and other conspiracies. Fetzer's allegations and speculations have drawn strong criticism

A reliable PressTV source
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I wish he would look into the disappearance of the Neanderthals. That one always struck me as a bit suspicious.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/14/2018 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Kind of racist thinking when you get down to it.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/14/2018 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  The USA cannot balance a budget with 3.2 trillion in revenue so I seriously doubt they can pull this off.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/14/2018 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  And the US government can't put together a website in 2 years with a billion dollars. Along with all the other assclowns in the government, you really think they could pull off something like 9-11 without any leaks from the government?

Fat fucking chance.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/14/2018 12:08 Comments || Top||

#7  It's not only the micro-nukes: who else but the US and Israel would have the ability to mass hypnotize hallucinations like seeing airliners fly into buildings.

How many (remaining alive) actually saw the strikes vs. watched the films on their respective alpha-wave generators?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||

#8  My special sunglasses, ya' know the type that let you see Reptilians?, were lost in the sofa that week. Missed it.
Posted by: magpie || 05/14/2018 19:23 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghanistan wants Iran to rid it of terrorism scourge
[PRESSTV] Afghanistan's Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami has discussed stepped-up military and defense cooperation with Iran which is wary of ISIS's presence near its borders.

Bahrami is currently on an official visit to Tehran where he met Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri on Sunday after holding talks with his counterpart Brigadier General Amir Hatami.

Bahrami said his trip is aimed at expanding cordial relations between the two nations and their armed forces and securing Iran's help to rid Afghanistan of the terrorism scourge.

Iran was key to the defeat of ISIS in the region and Iraqi and Syrian leaders have repeatedly thanked the Islamic Theocratic Republic for its military advisory assistance to the countries.

After losing its bases in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has established a foothold in eastern and northern Afghanistan despite the presence of foreign troops and stepped up its terror attacks in recent months.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Nangarhar’s governor Gulab Mangal has reportedly resigned
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The governor of the eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province Mohammad Gulab Mangal has reportedly resigned from his position.

The local officials have not formally commented regarding the decision of Mr. Mangal to step down as the governor of Nangarhar so far.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
sources privy of the development are saying that Mr. Mangal has submitted his resignation letter to the Independent Directorate of the Local Governance.

Nangarhar governror’s front man Attaullah Khogyani later confirmed that the governor has stepped up down from his position.

Reports regarding the resignation of Mangal follows hours after a coordinated attack was launched on Nangarhar Customs Department in Jalalabad city.

The provincial public health directorate officials are saying that the dead bodies of at least 9 people have been shifted to the hospitals so far.

The officials further added that the attack has also left at least thirty people maimed.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Hamas leader heads to Cairo ahead of Gaza protests
[IsraelTimes] The head of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, the terror group that rules the Gazoo Strip, left for Cairo on Sunday, sources in the movement said, a day before major protests are expected in the enclave both over the US’s controversial Jerusalem embassy move and to mark Nakba Day, a national day of Paleostinian mourning for the "catastrophe" of Israel’s founding.

Nakba Day is commemorated every year on May 15 but was moved forward this year to coincide with the embassy move and to avoid falling during the holy month of Ramadan.

Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
passed through the Rafah crossing early Sunday and was expected to meet the head of Egypt’s security services, the sources said, as speculation mounts that Egypt is seeking to negotiate a deal with Hamas to ease potential violence on Monday, when tens of thousands of Paleostinians are expected to gather along the border between Gazoo and Israel. Haniyeh is expected to return to Gazoo late Sunday ahead of the protests.

Hamas leaders have voiced support in recent days for attempts to break the fence into Israel, despite the possibility of it leading to bloodshed.

Arab media have speculated that Egypt, one of only two Arab countries to have a peace treaty with Israel, could ease border restrictions with Gazoo and offer economic relief in exchange for protesters not trying to breach the fence.

According to the Hamas health ministry, 48 Paleostinians have been killed since protests and festivities began along the Gazoo border on March 30 and hundreds of others have been maimed from gunfire.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "I'm outta here til it cools down"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 9:17 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Bahrain adopts bill barring members of dissolved groups from contesting elections
[PRESSTV] Bahraini parliament has approved a controversial bill preventing all members of dissolved opposition groups and organizations from running for elections, a fresh step by the small Persian Gulf island country in suppressing the dissent ahead of parliamentary polls this year.

Bahrain's state news agency, BNA, reported on Sunday that the Consultative Council, the National Assembly’s upper house, passed the draft bill, according to which all leaders and members of political associations dissolved by the judicial system are prohibited from standing for elections.

The report added that the bill had been approved against these people "due to their serious violations of the constitution and laws of the kingdom."

The bill has already secured its approval from the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Assembly, but still needs to be signed by Bahrain's King Hamad
...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite...
bin Isa Al Khalifah to become law.

On July 17, 2016, the Bahraini High Administrative Court ordered the dissolution of the country’s main Iranian catspaw, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, and the seizure of its funds, accusing it of helping to foster violence and terrorism in Western-allied Bahrain, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is stationed.

The court ruling drew criticism from the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, with then Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon describing the dissolution as "the latest in a series of restrictions of the rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of association, and freedom of expression in Bahrain." al-Wefaq’s leader Sheikh Ali Salman, a senior Bahraini Shia holy man, has also been in prison on a nine-year jail sentence since late 2014.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  "Get that shia shit outta here!"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 9:16 Comments || Top||


Europe
Erdogan picks a fight with La Belle France
[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish universities will no longer admit new students to French language departments, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Higher Education Board has ruled, the latest development in the strained ties between Turkey and La Belle France.

The decision came in response to a manifesto signed by prominent French figures, calling for the removal of certain passages from the Koran, and as a reciprocal measure over the "lack of Ottoman Turkish studies departments in the European country," a Ottoman Turkish official told Al Jazeera.

"We have condemned the controversial statements on the Koran coming from La Belle France. And the Higher Education Board, which is an autonomous institution, made this move as a response to those statements," said Emrullah Isler, chairman of the Committee on National Education, Culture, Youth and Sport in the Ottoman Turkish parliament.

Isler added that universities in La Belle France do not have enough departments teaching Ottoman Turkish, that there is an imbalance between the two countries in that area.

"Lack of university departments in La Belle France that teach in Ottoman Turkish is another factor behind the decision. They need to form decent Turkology departments there.

"Plus, there have been too many departments teaching in the French language in Ottoman Turkish universities," he told Al Jazeera from the capital, Ankara.

He added that the Higher Education Board took the decision in such a manner that currently enrolled students would not suffer from the measure.

"The existing departments with active students are going to continue teaching in French as usual, but will not admit new ones," Isler said.

The Board had cited "reciprocity" and "graduate-employment links" on Thursday as the reasons for its decision.

Koran row
Ottoman Turkish officials reacted with anger to a French manifesto calling on Islamic authorities to strike certain parts of the Koran. 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...
even likened the signatories of the text to members 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group.

The open letter, published on April 22 in French newspaper Le Gay Pareeien, and signed by nearly 300 prominent French figures, said that verses of the Koran calling for the "murder and punishment of Jews, Christians and disbelievers" should be removed from the book, arguing they were "obsolete".

The Ottoman Turkish government's first reaction came in early May, ahead of June parliamentary and presidential polls, despite the letter being published last month.

Signatories included former French President Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, as well as former ministers, deputies from the National Assembly and other public figures.

"Who are you to attack our scriptures? We know how vile you are ... You are no different than ISIS," Erdogan retorted on Tuesday in a speech in the capital, Ankara.

"Have they ever read their books, the Bible? Or the Torah?" Erdogan asked, referring to the Christian and Jewish holy books, adding: "If they had read them, they probably would want to ban the Bible."

French-Ottoman Turkish relations have been tense for a number of reasons.

Turkey slammed a recent proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to mediate between Ankara and outlawed Kurdish fighters in Turkey.

Gay Paree has been highly critical of Ankara's military incursions in northern Syria against the Kurdish fighters, which Turkey considers "terrorists".

In late January, Ottoman Turkish forces and Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
fighters started a military operation into Syria's Afrin to remove a US-backed Kurdish militia - known as the YPG, or the People's Protection Units.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Makes sense. Arabic is the only dead language they want to teach.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/14/2018 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Well French is hard - you never know which letters, about 50%, are silent.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Chinese is far worse than French - 100% of its characters are silent.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/14/2018 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Yea, but Grom Jr doesn't have to learn Chinese, and does have to study French.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 14:48 Comments || Top||

#5  does have to study French.
I hope he is able to learn it toute de suite, and the tooter, the sweeter.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/14/2018 17:11 Comments || Top||

#6  From your mouth to the ear of G*d.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 17:53 Comments || Top||


Europe challenges US role as self-appointed 'global policeman'
[PRESSTV] On the heels of a decision by 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...
to withdraw the United States from Iran’s nuclear deal, La Belle France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has urged Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to stop acting like "US vassals" and continue trading with Tehran in defiance of what "the economic gendarme of the planet" has in store.

Experts argue that the French minister's remarks are a sign that Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal has caused a split between the White House and its European allies while rifts within the US administration are also widening.

Speaking on Europe 1 Radio, the French minister recently said European countries do realize that "we cannot keep going in the direction we are headed today whereby we submit to American decisions."

"Do we accept that the United States is the economic gendarme of the planet? The answer is no," Le Maire said, adding, "Do we accept the vassalization of Europe in commercial matters? The answer is no;" "do we accept extraterritorial sanctions? The answer is no."

In the meantime, Le Maire urged other European countries to step up their economic illusory sovereignty. In the coming weeks and months, La Belle France will reach out to other countries and look at "how to endow Europe with financial tools to become independent from the United States."

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Yes! It's about time! Cut them loose, they are well able to defend themselves without America paying for it all. They are wealthy countries.

The sooner we bring a halt to globalism i.e. world mafia enforcer, the better off Americans will be. Imagine spending all the saved money on ourselves instead.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 05/14/2018 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you. For 70 years our troops have had to endure seeing your women's unshaved arm pits.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 05/14/2018 2:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Military welfare state is as bad for countries as an economic welfare state is for citizens.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/14/2018 4:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Lets see you invade Poland.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  How many divisions do they have?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/14/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  And they are going to invest in the logistical infrastructure to support global action, when? The US isn't investing enough and they leech off of our efforts.
So, fine! Stop barking from the porch and jump out there in the street, Dawg!
Posted by: magpie || 05/14/2018 9:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Did George Wills get $1,000,000 and credits for pointed use of his Never-Trump Thesaurus/vocabulary thingy? That's not normal stuff. It sounds like Mr. Wills moved to Belgium.
Posted by: Beau || 05/14/2018 12:05 Comments || Top||

#8  It's time to go to bed here in China. I'll leave all comments on 'how to endow Europe' to my bigger brothers and sisters.
Posted by: Beau || 05/14/2018 12:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Yeah... good luck with that. You idiots don't have enough divisions between you to invade anywhere important, no heavy lifting or transport capability, barely enough air power to protect your capital and no navy to speak of.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/14/2018 12:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Well, they can all fight amongst themselves. I mean, they've done it for centuries. Why stop now?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/14/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||

#11  "Do we accept that the United States is the economic gendarme of the planet? The answer is no,"
"Do we accept the vassalization of Europe in commercial matters? The answer is no;"
"do we accept extraterritorial sanctions? The answer is no."
"Do we continue to accept US foreign aid in all of it's many manifestations? Uhm, well,...ahem...for the children?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2018 12:39 Comments || Top||

#12  LOL, Skidmark.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 13:21 Comments || Top||

#13  US has been waiting Europe to step up to the plate and help police the mess their colonialism made of much of the world, and now they act like they are only doing it because of US overreach? Nice.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/14/2018 13:42 Comments || Top||

#14  Europe challenges US role as self-appointed 'global policeman'

IOW: We will sell our souls for Iranian economic lollipops.
Posted by: gorb || 05/14/2018 15:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Vassals pay tribute. I'll take my free Renault now. I understand that while scrap prices are low, the amount of materials in a car should fetch me a few hundred bucks, at the very least.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/14/2018 16:40 Comments || Top||


French police seek clues after Chechen-born knifeman strikes Paris, friend arrested
[DAWN] Investigators on Sunday were probing the background of a 20-year-old Frenchie born in Chechnya who killed one man and maimed four other people during a stabbing spree in central Gay Paree, for which the murderous Moslem 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) group grabbed credit.

The Saturday night attack in a lively area of theatres and restaurants near the city's historic opera house was the latest in a series strikes in La Belle France that have killed some 245 people since 2015.

Panic broke out on the busy Rue Monsigny with people fleeing into bars and restaurants as the man walked along stabbing people before police shot him dead.

Police identified the assailant as Khamzat A, who grew up with his family in Strasbourg, eastern La Belle France, a source close to the inquiry told AFP. The city is home to a large community of refugees from the Moslem Russian republic of Chechnya.

He became a French citizen in 2010 after his mother was naturalised, government front man Benjamin Griveaux told French television.

Russian news reports said the Russian embassy in Gay Paree was pressing French officials for more information on the knifeman, whose parents have been taken into custody for questioning in Gay Paree.

Although Khamzat had no criminal record, he had been on both of La Belle France's main watchlists for suspected faceless myrmidons ‐ the so-called "S file" as well as a more targeted File for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalisation (FSPRT), which focuses on people judged to be terror threats ‐ since 2016.

Friend of Paris knifeman arrested, home searched

[IsraelTimes] Heavily armed police arrest and search the home in Strasbourg of a friend of the knifeman who carried out a deadly attack in Gay Paree, according to AFP.

Police leave the home with a man in handcuffs, his face hidden by a hood, wearing a black T-shirt with "Grozny," the capital of Chechnya, on the front and a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle on the back.

A source close to the case says the young man was the "individual closest" to the Chechen-born Khamzat Azimov, who went on a stabbing spree in central Gay Paree that left one dead and four maimed. Both were born in 1997.

A laptop is also seized in the police raid.

Azimov had lived for several years in Strasbourg, home to a sizeable Chechen community.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  was he legally in the EUSSR vassal region known as France?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/14/2018 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  We'll probably never know why he did it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2018 9:20 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Israeli regime pushing Middle East to war: Turkish President Erdogan
[PRESSTV] 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...
has lambasted the Israeli regime for its use of "unnecessary aggression" in Syria following recent Israeli Arclight airstrikes in the war-torn Arab country, saying Tel Aviv is dragging the Middle East into war.

The Ottoman Turkish president made the comments in an interview with BBC Arabic on Sunday, saying the occupying regime "is sowing fear and pushing" the Middle East "region to war."

Erdogan also denounced the Israeli aerial aggression against the illusory sovereignty of Syria, three days after Israeli warplanes attacked dozens of "targets" inside the Arab country in what was said to be the most extensive strike in Syria in decades.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Pakistan can no longer remain subservient to US: Siraj
[DAWN] Jamat-e-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
said on Saturday he supported Pakistain’s decision to restrict movement of US diplomats in the country, but stressed that relations between the two countries must proceed on an equal footing and with mutual respect.

Speaking at a presser here, the JI leader termed the United States untrustworthy, saying that Pakistain could no longer remain subservient to it.

JI’s provincial emir Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi, former Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Assembly speaker Matiullah Agha, Allama Jumma Asadi, Maulana Anwarul Haq Haqqani and other members of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal were present on the occasion.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  oh, going to admit you're an enemy?
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/14/2018 12:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Given the fact that we're the ones sending free money to Pakistan, I'd say the US is the one that's subservient to Pakistan.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/14/2018 16:58 Comments || Top||


Body formed to probe youth’s ‘custodial’ death
[DAWN] NAWABSHAH: Shaheed Benazirabad DIG Ahmed Yaar Chauhan on Saturday constituted an inquiry committee into the alleged custodial death of a 20-year-old youth who had apparently gone missing after attending a court hearing on Friday.

A search for the youth, Sajid Jokhio, led his family to the Peoples Medical University Hospital, where his body was found in the morgue on Saturday.

The dear departed youth’s brother, Mashooq Jokhio, and cousin, Murtaza Jokhio, told news hounds at the morgue that while searching for him at sessions court in Nawabshah, they were told by people there that Sajid was taken away by a police team led by SHO Ghulam Sarwar Zardari of Qazi Ahmed cop shoppe.

The DIG has asked the probe team to submit its findings within three days.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Indian govt biggest obstacle in Mumbai attacks trial, says Nisar following Nawaz's question. Honest.
[DAWN] Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Former Interior Minister of Pakistain under Nawaz Sharif. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that, since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
on Sunday stressed that the uncooperative attitude and stubbornness of the Indian government has been the biggest obstacle in the Mumbai terror attacks trial reaching a conclusion.

Nisar's comments comes in the wake of a statement by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
that has been spun by the Indian media as a tacit admission of Pakistain's involvement in the 2008 attacks that left 166 people dead.

In an exclusive interview with Dawn on Friday, Sharif had criticised the apparent delay in the conclusion of the Mumbai attacks trial.

"Militant organizations are active. Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can’t we complete the trial?" Sharif had asked in the interview.

Criticising the country's foreign policy, Sharif had added: "We have isolated ourselves. Despite giving sacrifices, our narrative is not being accepted. Afghanistan’s narrative is being accepted, but ours is not. We must look into it."

Nisar, in a statement issued on Sunday on "Nawaz's statements and the Indian media's reaction", emphasised that the Indian government was to blame for the hold-up in the Mumbai attacks trial.

"I say with full responsibility that the delay and slow pace of the Mumbai attacks-related case in Pakistain was not Pakistain's doing but was a result of non-cooperation and stubbornness by India," said the disgruntled PML-N member.

Nisar, under whose watch the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was investigating the Mumbai attacks, said that since the assault took place in the Indian financial capital, it was the Indian government which possessed "90 per cent of the evidence and facts" of the incident.

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Iraq
Iraq: 44.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in parliamentary polls
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said on Sunday that 44.5 percent of Iraqis cast their ballots in the first legislative elections in the country since the defeat 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....
last year.

"Of all 24.5 million eligible voters, just 10,8 million voted in the parliamentary polls with a percentage of 44.2," Knooz Media quoted Riyadh al-Badran, the commission’s spokesperson, as saying.

Commenting on recent reports of fierce festivities between rival parties in oil-rich Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Badran stressed that the electoral process was running smoothly there, noting that "all political parties have the right to challenge the results of elections."

In October, Iraqi forces backed by Shi’ite militias dislodged Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who had taken control of Kirkuk city in 2014, preventing its capture by Islamic State Lions of Islam who had overrun Iraqi army positions in northern and western Iraq.

The return of the Iraqi army to Kirkuk was greeted with relief by the Arab and Turkmen populations there.

Saturday’s elections are the first in Iraq since the defeat of Islamic State last year by Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition.

The elections will decide the 329 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister.
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#1  that 45% is way down from previous elections

Posted by: lord garth || 05/14/2018 9:35 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Al-Qaeda leader calls for jihad on eve of US embassy move to Jerusalem
[France24] Ayman al-Zawahiri said America's decision to shift its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was evidence that negotiations and "appeasement" have failed Palestinians.

In a five-minute video entitled "Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims," the Egyptian doctor who took charge of the global terror group after its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 referred to the Palestinian Authority as the "sellers of Palestine" while urging followers to take up arms.

US President Donald Trump "was clear and explicit, and he revealed the true face of the modern Crusade, where standing down and appeasement does not work with them, but only resistance through the call and jihad," Zawahiri said, according to a transcript provided by the SITE monitoring agency.

He added that Bin Laden had declared the US "the first enemy of the Muslims, and swore that it will not dream of security until it is lived in reality in Palestine, and until all the armies of disbelief leave the land of Muhammad."

He argued that Islamic countries had failed to act in Muslims' interests by entering into the United Nations, which recognizes Israel, and submitting to Security Council and General Assembly resolutions instead of sharia (Islamic law).
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#1  There is already a Jihad in progress. What difference does this one make?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/14/2018 17:09 Comments || Top||


Opening tense week, government okays huge East Jerusalem ‘sovereignty plan’
[IsraelTimes] Ministers authorize NIS 2 billion ($560 million) for plans to formalize land ownership claims, apply Israeli curriculum to Paleostinian schools, and build cable car to Western Wall

Government ministers vowed Sunday to "deepen Israeli illusory sovereignty" in East Jerusalem as they approved a hefty series of plans to fete Jerusalem Day ‐ the anniversary of when Israeli forces took control of the Old City and Arab-majority East Jerusalem in 1967 ‐ in what they described as a unique opportunity created by 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 decision to move the US embassy to Israel’s capital.

At a celebratory cabinet meeting held in Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, the cabinet authorized programs in the capital estimated at some NIS 2 billion ($560 million), which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said were intended to "​build up and develop Jerusalem, east and west, north and south."

​The proposals given the go-ahead include plans to formalize land ownership claims in East Jerusalem and transfer Paleostinian schools in the area to use of the Israeli curriculum. Ministers also earmarked budgets for the development of increasingly Jewish areas of the majority-Arab Old City and Mount of Olives, and to build a cable car from West Jerusalem to the Western Wall.

"​We will make a series of decisions to​ ​build up and develop Jerusalem, east and west, north and south, in all directions ‐ to both reveal its past and build its future," Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting. "We dreamed of returning to rebuild it, the city that is joined together ‐ this is exactly what we are doing today​."

Telling ministers that Jerusalem is "the capital of our people, and only of our people," Netanyahu also acknowledged the controversial nature of the plans, which encroach on parts of the city claimed by Paleostinians as the capital of a future Paleostinian state.

"I know that there will be difficulties along the way; there have been difficulties for the past 70 years. We have met them since 1949 and up to recent years. We will also meet them in the future​," the prime minister said.

The meeting came at the start of a politically tense week for Jerusalem that will see the US move its embassy to the capital on Monday, and the culmination of over six weeks of protests along the Gazoo border, when Paleostinians mourn the "catastrophe" of the creation of the Jewish state, on both Monday and Tuesday.

Later on Sunday, thousands of Israelis took part in the annual Jerusalem Day parade celebrating 51 years since the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six Day War.

The march, in which primarily religious teenagers parade through the Old City decked in white and blue, the colors of the Israeli flag, has raised tensions over its route through the Old City’s Moslem Quarter. In previous years, the march has sparked sporadic incidents of violence between Israeli revelers and local Paleostinian residents in East Jerusalem.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An old preacher once told his congregation a few decades ago that when Jerusalem becomes all Israeli, set your watch to the last chapters of The Book of Revelations.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 05/14/2018 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  We are stuck in REV 14 and meddling in REV 19 and others. It is okay to have a FRAGO or more.
Posted by: newc || 05/14/2018 3:30 Comments || Top||

#3  There once was a period in History when Revelations chapters concerning the return of the Jews to their Land of Israel was an un-fulfilled dream. A figment without a Sykes-Picot to its name.

There once was a time when a whole lot of people laughed at the Book of Revelations as a mythical BS joke. Not a chance, right? 1898 and hogwash?

Its a grim book. Seems to have an Atomic war in it somewhere. But, then again, I could be wrong.

Something about the rebuilding of the Jewish temple ? Something about "the Two Witnesses", whatever that's all about. Another name for the Book is "the Apocalypse "
Stuff that bringing an umbrella along won't fix.
Posted by: Snakes Hupoluse7121 || 05/14/2018 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Setting the Bible aside for a moment, let's just hope Bibi doesn't over play his hand. Trump has given him more than an inch, I pray he uses it well.
Posted by: jvalentour || 05/14/2018 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Nobody is rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem. We replaced animal sacrifice with prayer during the Babylonian Exile aftr the fall of the first Temple in 587 BCE. Yes, some Jews partook of the sacrifices after the Second Temple was built in 516 BCE (and then rebuilt on a glorious scale by King Herod centuries later), but most Jews never returned to the land of Israel, just as the majority of the world’s Jews do not live in Israel now.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2018 22:30 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US main organizer of terrorists in Middle East: Shamkhani
[PRESSTV] A senior Iranian official says the United States is the main organizer of terrorist groups and the creator of instability and insecurity in the Middle East.

"The experience in Iraq and Syria shows that the US is at the root of organizing snuffies and creating instability and insecurity in these countries and certain reactionary Arab countries have also logistically and financially supported this process," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said in a meeting with Afghan Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami in Tehran on Sunday.

There are many documents proving that the US and its allies have "shamelessly" attacked the Iraqi and Syrian military and security forces at different junctures with the purpose of saving terrorists, he added.

The senior Iranian official emphasized that the Takfiri
...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...
terrorism, backed by certain regional countries, is a serious threat to Moslem nations and countries, saying, "It can be countered only through [improving] cooperation and adopting joint approaches."

In a meeting with Bahrami on Saturday, Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the emergence and expansion of ISIS Takfiri terrorist group in Afghanistan was a "very dangerous phenomenon," expressing Tehran's readiness to cooperate with Kabul in the fight against terrorism.

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#1  I think he's referring to Obama's and ValJar's transfer of $150 Billion to the Mullahs, so, factually correct
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 8:56 Comments || Top||


Iran to remain in nuclear deal if given guarantees: Rouhani
[PRESSTV] President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will remain in the 2015 nuclear deal if other parties to the agreement guarantee the country's interests after the US left it.

"If the remaining five countries which have been accompanying us in this agreement live up to their commitments and guarantee that Iran's interests will be fulfilled, the agreement will remain despite the will of America and the Zionist regime," he said Sunday.

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...
, who had been threatening to pull out of the accord since his inauguration last January, announced Washington’s withdrawal from the agreement on Tuesday.

Rouhani said during a meeting with visiting Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena that the US withdrawal is "a violation of morals, politics and the proper diplomatic path as well as international regulations."

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#1  Related:
Trump's Iran Decision Is Already Paying Off - American Greatness http://ow.ly/dzY230jZTMy
Posted by: newc || 05/14/2018 18:32 Comments || Top||


Angry Iran threatens to expose Western officials who took bribes to make nuke deal happen
[BIZPACREVIEW] Somehow we knew that.
Then once everyone was on board, Soetoro reimbursed the Iranians with pallets of USD and Swiss fr. I love it when a plan comes together.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  John Kerry sure has been busy lately trying to get a grip on this situation. My guess is he is racing around trying to keep this expose from happening.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 05/14/2018 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh boy I can't wait. If Trump can pull this off he's a hero again.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 05/14/2018 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait! Wait!! Let me order more popcorn!!!
Posted by: Adriane || 05/14/2018 1:08 Comments || Top||

#4  At least this explains why so many European politicians have been urging Trump to let the "deal" continue: they are afraid that the government of Iran will expose their venality if they side with the US, or their countries economies will tank if they do not side with the US.
This could be fun to watch.
Posted by: Daniel || 05/14/2018 1:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Pretty please?

You could earn some credibility!
Posted by: newc || 05/14/2018 3:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll get the lawn chairs!
Posted by: gorb || 05/14/2018 4:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Just like the invasion of Iraq exposed how Saddam Husein had corrupted the oil for food program to buy off all the greedy European countries and to generate over 10 billion dollars in illegal revenues,
Trump's decertifying the Iran nuclear deal will eventually lead to exposing all of the secret bribes that were traded to seal the nuclear deal with Iran.
Then as soon as the sanctions were lifted off Iran all of the European countries rushed in to sign trade deals with Iran to get some of that $150 billion dollars in sanctions relief.
Even Boeing got a big order for passenger planes.
But the Boeing deal will have to be cancelled because sanction will have to come back on and Iran would convert the planes so it could secretly use civilian aircraft as military cargo transport planes to smuggle state of the art rockets to the northern of the border of Israel.
Posted by: boomerc || 05/14/2018 5:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Iran sees the "west" as one monolithic bloc they don't see different groups of rent seekers abusing the western wealth creators.
So when they take one out they won't care.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/14/2018 7:24 Comments || Top||

#9  O please don't throw me in the briar patch, Reza.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/14/2018 8:18 Comments || Top||

#10  May 12th 2018:
"UN nuclear watchdog chief inspector suddenly bows out, sets off speculations"
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/14/2018 8:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Can we check his bank account?
Posted by: Daniel || 05/14/2018 10:29 Comments || Top||

#12  "Scott Ritter to the Courtesy Phone. Scott Ritter"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2018 10:37 Comments || Top||



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  ISIS militants kill 9 of their own comrades in Nangarhar province
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  BREAKING. President Trump's Remarks On Leaving The Iran Nuclear Deal
Mon 2018-05-07
  District governor among 5 killed, wounded in Paktia car bombing
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Fri 2018-05-04
  Syrian rebels start pull-out from south Damascus
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  28 foreign females sentenced to death over belonging to Islamic State
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