The Pentagon said Thursday the 10 U.S. sailors who were held by Iran before being released on Wednesday had made a navigational mistake that led them into Iranian waters. Here's point A. Here's point B. Don't go into area C. Got it?
"The information that they have given us, and through their commanders is that they did stray accidentally into Iranian waters due to a navigation error," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in an interview with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision in Miami. "So that seems to be the original cause of this, according to the interviews that we have done." Does this mean they didn't have any GPS devices to record the track they took between point A and point B?
Carter's comments were the most detailed so far from American officials on the incident, which rattled nerves just before the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Because they were all sitting around brainstorming on what might stick with the majority of voters.
On Thursday, Carter said the sailors apparently did not radio in to tell U.S. commanders they were off-course before encountering the Iranians. They didn't see it coming, or were they jammed maybe?
"They did not report this navigational error at the time. It may be that they were trying to sort it out at the time they encountered the Iranian boats and discovered they were inside of the territorial waters of Iran," Carter said in the interview. Maybe they were all taking a nap or watching one guy reel in a big swordfish.
He denied that the sailors were on a covert mission, saying instead, "they were simply transiting from one place to another." This is probably the only true part of this article. Maybe.
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I'm not an expert but I see three options (1) They were in Iranian waters because they dropped off or picked up someone (2) Engine damage and drifting led them into Iranian water (3) They were in international waters and the Iranians grabbed them anyway but admitting that would make Obama look like a fool.
I don't see the 'lost' as a credible story these days. I'm betting on option 3.
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It would be interesting to see, as has been suggested by another blogger here, if the vessels have had all their comms and nav equipment removed before release. ALso, what were the ROE regarding encountering Iranian vessels? Also, what was the USN quick response plan and what was the ToT if it was initiated? FInally, how far up Susan Rice's phone tree did they have to go to get permission to do anything, and how long did it take for her to call a meeting to discuss options on the optics of any action?
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I believe it is very likely that we will never hear the real story of what happened. If the truth is embarrassing to Obama, the sailors will be under strict orders to never talk about it.
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Iranians already on record as removing GPS devices, so the cover story of being off course is perfectly unverifiable. And it's never about embarrassing Baraka Hussein, he has no shame. It's all about embarrassing America, which of course Baraka is totes about
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I suspect the issue here is that under international law uninhabited islands can't have territorial waters. And I recall that putting a military base on an uninhabited island doesn't make it inhabited.
The territorial waters Iran claims may not have been marked on the US Navy chart they were using.
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Lots of small, flat islands in a relatively shallow sea. Factor in the winter weather (high winds and mid-to-rough seas.) Not sure about cruising speed, but I'll assume they were on the 'most-economical'. That's not going to help.
No doubt the IRGC were also tracking the craft, probably from the moment they left Bahrain.
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I too suspect they were in international waters, but Iran grabbed them anyway, because asshole regimes like Iran tend to make illegitimate, unrecognized territorial claims to what everyone else agrees is international waters. Especially since Iran swiped their GPS units, making it conveniently impossible to prove their exact location either way.
I read this as Iran giving Obozo and Kerry a wedgie, even after they've already agreed to hand over their lunch money. Just because they can.
Austal's Expeditionary Fast Transport ships need bow repairs
U.S. Navy adopted a flawed design to save weight, report finds
The U.S. Navy is spending millions of dollars to repair new high-speed transport ships built by Austal Ltd. because their weak bows can't stand buffeting from high seas, according to the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.
"The entire ship class requires reinforcing structure" to bridge the twin hulls of the all-aluminum catamarans because of a design change that the Navy adopted at Austal's recommendation for the $2.1 billion fleet of Expeditionary Fast Transports, Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation, said in a report to Congress.
"The Navy accepted compromises in the bow structure, presumably to save weight, during the building of these ships," Gilmore wrote lawmakers, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, in a September letter that wasn't previously disclosed. "Multiple ships of the class have suffered damage to the bow structure."
The speedy catamarans are designed to transport 600 short tons of military cargo and as many as 312 troops for 1,200 nautical miles at an average speed of 35 knots. They've been deployed to Africa and the Middle East as well as to Singapore as part of the U.S.'s Pacific rebalance and are being considered by military officials for expanded use there by the Marines. The vessels fill a transport gap between larger, slower vessels and cargo aircraft.
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Michelle Bowden, a spokeswoman for Henderson, Australia-based Austal, deferred comment to the Navy. Captain Thurraya Kent, a Navy spokeswoman, said the service accepted Austal's recommendation because the company's analysis showed the lighter-weight bow met criteria of the American Bureau of Shipping and Pentagon requirements. She said in an e-mail that Gilmore's report confirms that the vessel "meets and in certain area exceeds" key performance parameters.
The Navy bought 10 of the shallow-draft vessels, at about $217 million each. Five have been delivered and are in operation, while the other five are under construction at Austal's Mobile, Alabama, shipyard. Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which added $225 million for an 11th vessel to the fiscal 2016 defense spending bill last month.
So far, the Navy has spent almost $2.4 million strengthening the bow of the first four vessels delivered since late 2012.
Repair costs include $511,000 on the initial vessel, the USNS Spearhead, which was damaged during deployment by waves slamming into the superstructure, according to test data cited by Gilmore and the Military Sealift Command.
The second, third and fourth vessels cost as much as $1.2 million each to repair and a fifth vessel, the USNS Trenton, awaits its bow reinforcement during its next scheduled shipyard visit, Tom Van Leunen, a spokesman for the Military Sealift Command, which owns the vessels, said in an e-mail.
Added Weight
The retrofits have added 1,736 pounds to the ship's weight, displacing 250 gallons of fuel but having a minimal impact on the vessel's range when fully loaded, Gilmore said. His concern about the vessel is likely to be highlighted in his annual report on weapons testing that's scheduled to be released by Feb. 1.
"Since the repairs are still in progress, there has been no heavy weather testing yet to verify if the fixes are sufficient," Marine Corps Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a spokesman for Gilmore, said in an e-mail.
Even with reinforced structures, the fast transport ships operate under sailing restrictions because "encountering a rogue wave" can "result in sea-slam events that causes structural damage to the bow structure," Gilmore wrote. The operating restrictions include requiring vessels to wait out the highest seas or travel at speeds much lower than their maximum, according to Gilmore's report.
Van Leunen, the Military Sealift Command spokesman, said that "the Navy routinely diverts ships during transits to avoid heavy weather" and this ship is no exception. Its primary missions will often be in coastal waters that offer "some protection from weather and sea state when compared to open ocean transits," he said.
Generator Reliability
The vessel's latest sea tests also were marred by the poor reliability of generators made by Fincantieri SpA that supply electrical power, according to Gilmore. The generators failed "at a much greater rate than predicted."
Required to operate 8,369 hours between major failures, the generators failed as soon as 208 hours at some points, improving to 1,563 hours in the most recent tests.
Fincantieri spokesman Antonio Autorino said in an e-mail that "the concerns described in the report have been resolved and this information was provided to the Navy, yet was not included in the report."
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These repairs appear to be about 1% or so of the costs of the ship. I suspect they're not as big a deal as it's being made out to be, but they're in a mode of scrambling to Quick! Find! Out! Something! Austal! Did! Wrong! because budget cuts are probably going to force the Navy to downselect to one LCS hull that they'll then refuse to put antiaircraft or antiship missiles on.
[Wash Examiner] Hillary Clinton has forcefully denied reports that the FBI is expanding its investigation of her private email network to include allegations of "public corruption" involving the Clinton Foundation.
But thousands of emails made public by the State Department between May of last year and Friday indicate donors to the Clinton Foundation were often given personal meetings, generous contracts or special consideration that was seemingly not afforded to the same number of private groups that had not written checks to the charity.
The allegations that sparked the reported probe, which the FBI has yet to confirm or deny, focus simply on whether the State Department extended preferential treatment to Clinton Foundation contributors.
Below are nine examples of the type of State Department access Clinton granted to her foundation's top donors, as told by the private emails that have been made public so far by the agency. Anyone remember when it was just a stranger snoring loudly down in the Lincoln bedroom ?
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Those are the nine her staff missed when they deleted her "personal" e-mails.
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Hillary Clinton has forcefully denied reports that the FBI is expanding its investigation of her private email network to include allegations of "public corruption" involving the Clinton Foundation.
This forceful denial implies that if the allegations were true that it would be a very bad thing indeed. Now all we need is a tree . . . .
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So the Palestinians are revolting against the reduction in the provision of FREE STUFF, the result of which will end up reducing said reduced flow of FREE STUFF to none at all.
NONE. As in Zero. zip. Nada.
The Palestinians continue their losing streak that results from what appears to be a congenital lack of comprehension of cause and effect.
[Daily Caller] Oregon State Workshop: Ordering Starbucks Shows 'Implicit Bias,' Relates To 'Killings Of Black Men.'
The Jan. 19 workshop entitled "Making the Unknown Known: Exploring Implicit Bias in Everyday Life" is part of a nine-day Martin Luther King celebration at the school,
Michele Ribeiro, Oregon State's interim mental health promotion director, explained that going to Starbucks and purchasing coffee involves implicit bias and relates to white cops shooting black people "because it is a common, everyday thing people do."
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Ordering coffee is racist. That'll go over well with the student population. Next thing you know they'll go after beer to make sure they are mocked and loathed.
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"because it is a common, everyday thing people do."
So that'd certainly include drinking beer. But maybe not Chardonnay (or whatever it is the lefties like).
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And HERE is the illustrious Psychologist that is explaining how buying a Starbucks coffee connects to white cops shooting black people.
On New Years Eve I ordered a pumpkin spice latte from a barrista (who was black) in Portland, Oregon. As I exited the building, I did not see any black people being shot within a 2 mile radius of the building.
Now I feel guilty as hell-----not.
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Good name for a poorhouse.
Behind each intolerance-hater,
Each tirelessly indolent tater,
Each beatboxing nudnik
And nattering beatnik...
There stands a concerned educator.
[The Federalist] Ten American military personnel were arrested and detained by Iran on Tuesday, and President Barack Obama said not a word about it during his final State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
His administration swore up and down that Iran was just doing a solid for our sailors and Marines, whose boats, we are told, had apparently broken down. Obama's spokesman said the capture and detention of American servicemen and servicewomen were exactly why we had to lift sanctions on Iran and bless its enrichment of uranium. His surrogates whispered to media allies that rather than provoking the Iranians to attack the U.S., Obama's nuclear deal really made it possible for the U.S. to free its captured personnel who never should have been in Iranian custody in the first place.
The Obama administration gave us its word that Iran had no "hostile intent" when it captured ten Americans, forced their surrender at gunpoint, and then demanded an American apology for the whole affair.
And then Iran released these photos of the nine men and one woman who were arrested at sea by the Iranians.
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Unfortunately, Iran got exactly what it wanted. The Iranian humiliation of Barack Obama is now complete.
Davis has it nearly right. The target of Iran's humiliation is not the Champ however, he's simply a willing and duplicitous conduit. The actual target is the West and the United States in particular.
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BU - I was suspicious, and I am not a Navy Seal. So if an ex-Seal can see the light, so can SecNav, which means the CIC knew, or should have known.
Which doesn't surprise me one bit.
I suppose the crews will be ordered to shut up so as to not further embarrass the Lightbringer.
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Well, let's see who gets fired as a result of the captured sailors. I mean Rick Williams got fired for asking about an Obama vacation home in the MI.
Excerpt: “'On a serious note, I know that a man of Obama’s stature will send his ‘people’ to view the villa before buying it, but we are not aware of any such leads. My villa has been up for sale since the last six weeks and I can assure you no presidents have viewed it so far,' he said."
Nicely qualified, eh?
And like Admiral Williams had no idea that all Military computers are monitored for internet dalliances...
France has banned three Islamic associations which ran a mosque in a Paris area shut down following November's jihadist attacks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday.
Three out of...
The mosque at Lagny-sur-Marne was closed in early December as part of a huge security crackdown after 130 people were killed in a coordinated series of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on November 13. The Islamic State group claimed the attacks.
"There is no place in the French Republic for groups which incite, and which call for terrorism or call for hate," Cazeneuve said as he announced the decision on Wednesday.
The government's spokesman Stephane Le Foll said after a cabinet meeting: "The fight against preachers of hate will be total."
He said the three banned groups "were clearly taking action to incite jihad".
The main group was called "Retour aux Sources", which loosely translates as "Back to our roots".
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A miracle! Retour aux Sources
Thought poor Marianne an old horse,
And were carving a steak
When she lept up, awake,
To beset the mosquée with her purse.
[Guardian] Adverts featuring the Virgin founder and Chinese celebrities highlight that the keratin found in rhino horn has no more health benefits than chewing your own fingernails. Another business development opportunity for 'Big Pharma' and Planned Parenthood. Who knew ?
[Traveler24] Cape Town - Travellers are being warned about a mile-high syndicate operating on board flights to Asian destinations, alleged to have netted stolen goods to the value of R6.5m in the last 9 months.
Figures released by the Hong Kong police point to an increase in theft during flights that land in Hong Kong. Over the past five years, reported cases of this mile high criminal activity have more than doubled and on 21 December 2015, South African Airways passenger Warren Becker became one of the latest victims.
Becker wrote to Traveller24 when he landed back in South Africa after what he calls a "ruined holiday". No mention here, but I wonder how many landed in Hong Kong surprised to find their passports nicked.
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"They left all the South African Rands as well as my camera, as if to make it look like nothing was taken," he told Traveller24.
Perchance it is the victim running the scan?
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Scam
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I don't see it as a scam as the chance of getting any compensation back from most any airlines is lower than getting a Victoria Secrets underwear model assigned to the middle seat next to you!
[Wash Times] They were untouchable, having created a cult of personality rivaled (and surpassed) only by President Obama.
Until now.
And surprisingly, the issue that is currently unraveling their Wizard of Oz illusion isn't the allegations of massive fraud at the Clinton Foundation or her mishandling of classified material on her private email server. (More on both fronts to come, courtesy of the FBI).
No, the issue posing the greatest risk right now to a Clinton Restoration is the public's voiding of the deal it made with the Clinton Devil in 1992.
The conventional wisdom has long been that Mr. Clinton's lewd, abusive past is itself a thing of the past. His serial extramarital affairs, including the one with the barely legal intern, Monica Lewinsky, his textbook sexual harassment of subordinates like Paula Jones, his alleged assault of Kathleen Willey and the rape alleged by Juanita Broaddrick, were considered old news, episodes litigated in the court of public opinion and dismissed for three reasons: 1) His piggery was already widely known; 2) a strong economy absolved many of his sins; and 3) the public took cues from his wife. "Hey, if she's OK with his piggery, who are we to judge?"
This cleverly constructed protective shield is now crumbling because Mrs. Clinton, after enlisting her husband on the campaign trail in a retread of 1992's "two for the price of one" deal, is oblivious to the political ground shifting beneath her.
Republican candidate Donald Trump does not play by anybody else's rules, least of all Clinton-enforced ones, but apparently no one has informed Mrs. Clinton. So she gleefully and blindly launched an attack on his "penchant for sexism."
You could almost see Mr. Trump's rhetorical gun turret turn slowly toward her before he opened fire. "Be careful," he warned on Twitter. And then, on MSNBC, he blasted her husband as "one of the great women abusers of all time," adding, "I think Hillary is an enabler." He then released an Internet ad tying her to the sex scandals of her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (husband of her closest aide, Huma Abedin) and Bill Cosby.
He dared to go where no traditional politician would -- hitting the Clintons' grotesque hypocrisy -- and made it acceptable to question both Clintons' character and judgment on women's issues. Suddenly, Mrs. Clinton -- self-styled champion of women and girls -- came under criticism, particularly from news organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, MSNBC and others that have long protected both Clintons.
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This cleverly constructed protective shield is now crumbling because Mrs. Clinton, after enlisting her husband on the campaign trail in a retread of 1992's "two for the price of one" deal, is oblivious to the political ground shifting beneath her.
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I can't help but think of that scene in THE LONGEST YARD with Burt Reynolds when they're playing football but the other inmates think Burt is scum so they stop blocking for him and he gets hit hard a few times.
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having the leftists beaten up by the further left leftists in the USA is essentially the same phenomenon as Islamists killed by more Islamic Islamists in Syria, afghanistan, etc
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There is a downside: if Shrillary does the perp walk, Bill Clinton will be a free man.
Oh well, maturity consists of being content with what one CAN get.
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That pic of the Hildabeest is start and so revealing of her character. Somebody has to photoshop a couple of Dracula fangs on and it would be perfect.
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[Fox] HOUSTON -- An Iraqi refugee who is facing charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group wanted to set off bombs at two Houston malls and was learning to make electronic transmitters that could be used to detonate explosive devices, a federal agent testified.
Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, who came to Houston from Iraq in 2009, was indicted last week on three charges, including attempting to provide support to a designated terrorist organization. He pleaded not guilty to all three charges during a court appearance on Wednesday.
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Immigrant advocates say they have full confidence in the vetting process and that tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees have been successfully resettled in the U.S.
You think anybody in San Bernardino has any confidence in the vetting process? And the guy user arrest was previously "successfully resettled in the U.S.", was he not?
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With Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court took on the outcome of one election. But the case heard by the Supreme Court on Monday could affect elections for many years.
The justices' remarks during arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association point to a major setback looming for public unions. The court will likely rule teachers and other unionized public workers don't have to pay their unions for representation unless they want to.
That means unions will have much less money to spend tilting elections for Democrats. Not only in California, but also in 22 other states where public workers are forced to support the union whether they want to or not. It's a political earthquake for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut -- where unions dominate public employment and politics.
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...Oh, I'd bet the house payment on a VERY fast, bi-partisan solution to this one by the Unified Ruling Party. Way too much at stake here for a little thing like Constitutionality to get in the way.
Mike
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Wonder what will happen to the CSEA's "union dues payments" where the employer pays employees' nominal union dues as part of their pay package if they opt to join the union; the employee never sees the money (they don't get it if they opt not to join.)
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As a retired military officer I opted not to use the CALPers healthcare plan since I had Tricare for life. (Different topic about what happened to that promise at 65). The state pay package for healthcare as a part of my salary showed over $200 a month. When I opted out, it just went away.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if Brazil won't approve former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador, Israel won't offer another diplomat. How do you say "Haven't you heard, oil is 30$ a barrel?" in Portuguese?
Sweden will not have any role to play in the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic process as a result of Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom's hostility toward Israel, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
The statement came as the ministry announced that its deputy director-general for Western Europe, Aviv Shir-On, called in Swedish ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser to protest Wallstrom's comments.
The decision to summons Nesser was made by Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who directed Shir-On to protest not only the statements, but to register the government and the country's anger at what they see as Sweden's imbalance and hostile attitude toward Israel. But we'll be willing to sell Sweden some (post) rape medical kits.
[Ynet] Terrorists were planting explosives on border fence; Paleostinians report one dead, three maimed in strike; Fatah's armed wing says killed from its ranks.
The Israel Air Force attacked a terror cell in the northern Gazoo Strip on Wednesday morning, in a joint operation with the Shin Bet.
Members of the terror cell were planting explosives on the border fence, which they were planning on setting off near an IDF patrol.
The Paleostinians reported one killed, 31-year-old Musa Za'aytar, and three others maimed in the attack, their condition currently unknown. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a myrmidon group affiliated with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ' Fatah group, later identified the dear departed as a member, saying he was targeted while planting explosives.
In a separate statement, Salah Bardawil, an official from Gazoo's ruling Islamic Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement, said Israel was "playing with fire" in the Arclight airstrike. He did not elaborate.
"Forces guarding the border with Gazoo face a growing threat from hostile terror groups attempting to destabilize the situation on the ground," said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military front man.
Initially, Israeli farmers were instructed not to come closer than one kilometer rom the border fence in light of the possibility of retaliation from the Strip, but the instruction was later lifted.
The Arclight airstrike marked a rare flare-up along the Gazoo border, which has remained largely calm since a devastating 50-day summer war in 2014.
Some festivities have erupted along the border in recent months but most of the confrontations and violence has taken place in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Last month, Israeli security forces stopped another wide-scale attack against IDF troops operating along the Gazoo border. A patrol of IDF engineering forces found that an area along the border fence mined with powerful explosives while examining remains of a roadside kaboom that detonated two days earlier. The explosives did not go off, but some were connected to remote-controlled detonators.
Battles continue.
Militants launched a gun and bomb assault killing at least six people in the centre of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, police said, in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their "spotlight".
Media said six bombs went off and a Reuters witness saw three dead people and a gunfight going on. One blast was in a Starbucks cafe and security forces were later seen entering the building.
Police said they suspected a suicide bomber was responsible for at least one of the blasts and up to 14 militant gunmen were involved in the attack, Metro TV reported.
Islamic State-linked suicide attackers struck the capital of Muslim-majority Indonesia Thursday, executing a Westerner and blowing up a Starbucks, police said.
Five extremists launched what police said were Paris-style attacks as they detonated explosives and shot at people in a district packed with malls, embassies and United Nations offices. The assault also left an Indonesian man dead and 20 other people injured, and a police post destroyed, in what the country's president called "acts of terror".
"Their network has links to ISIS in Raqqa," said Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian, referring to the IS group's stronghold in Syria.
The claim of IS involvement will send a chill through Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia with Muslim populations, where there are fears extremists bloodied on Middle Eastern battlefields could have brought their jihad home.
Police said the five-strong cell who struck Thursday included three suicide bombers who initially targeted a Starbucks near a major shopping mall. After the first explosion, men armed with pistols took two men hostage. Police identified them as an Algerian and a Westerner, although there were conflicting reports about whether he was Canadian or Dutch.
National police spokesman Anton Charliyan said the Algerian managed to escape with bullet wounds, but the second man was shot dead on the spot, while an Indonesian man who had tried to help the hostages was also shot and killed.
"Soon afterwards, two men riding.... motorbikes, ran into a police post and blew themselves up," he said, adding four officers had been left in a critical condition. "From what we see today, this group is following the pattern of the Paris attacks."
IS gunmen killed 130 people in a series of coordinated attacks on the French capital in November.
Yes, but this lot didn't.
Witnesses said the gunman who emerged from Starbucks began firing at bystanders, reloading his weapon as security forces moved in behind the cover of moving vehicles.
Jakarta police chief Karnavian said bombs containing screws and nails were hurled at police during the shootout, and they found six bombs planted in the area after the assault had ended.
Starbucks said it was shuttering all branches in the Indonesian capital in response to the attack.
"This store and all other Starbucks stores in Jakarta will remain closed, out of an abundance of caution, until further notice," a statement said.
The area is home to several embassies, including those of the United States, France and Spain. A number of United Nations agencies are also housed nearby.
The U.N. Environment Program said a married Dutch employee had been seriously hurt in the attacks and remained in a critical condition.
The New York-based Soufan Group says that of the 500-700 Indonesians who traveled abroad to join the self-proclaimed caliphate of the IS, scores have since returned.
Scores is a nicely uniformative number... As it is plural, we know they mean at least forty, and possibly as much as 99 (more than that and it would have been hundreds), but nothing more definite than that.
"We know that ISIS has the desire to declare a province in this region," said Kumar Ramakrishna, a counter-terrorism analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
"The threat of returning Southeast Asian fighters radicalized in the Iraq/Syria region (is) another factor of concern."
An-IS linked news agency, citing an unidentified source, said that the attack was carried out by IS fighters but there was no immediate claim of responsibility from the group itself.
Regional terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna said the assault bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group.
"The only group that has the capability and the intention to mount coordinated, simultaneous attacks in Jakarta is the ISIS network," he told AFP in Singapore.
I don't see why. It was only a handful of jihadis, with a competent bombmaker in the background, and the aquisition -- legal or otherwise -- of two motorcycles and some handguns. The idea originated with ISIS, but anyone can copy an idea once it's been publicized.
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[IsraelTimes] Court in Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run enclave says three of the suspects were sentenced in absentia after having 'fled from justice'
A court in the Hamas-run Gazoo Strip on Wednesday sentenced four Paleostinians to death on charges of spying for Israel, a statement and court sources said.
The court said in a brief statement that a 23-year-old man from the Zeitoun area south of Gazoo City had been sentenced to death on espionage charges. It did not provide his name.
Three other men who "fled from justice" were also found guilty in absentia, it said.
A court source told AFP the four were convicted on "charges of spying for the occupation", including "surveillance" and providing information about cars and homes to help Israel plan alleged liquidations.
Hamas, a terror group sworn to Israel's destruction, took over the Gazoo Strip in 2007 after a battle with Fatah, which runs the Paleostinian Authority.
Eighty death sentences have been given in Gazoo since that date.
The Islamist group has previously carried out executions against those accused of dealing with Israelis, with the killings sometimes taking place in public squares.
Under Paleostinian law, collaborators, murderers and narcos can face the death penalty.
No doubt more information will be revealed, but I thought you would like to know more bad guys are off the streets, dear Reader.
[AnNahar] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday announced the arrest of a group of forces of Evil involved in an attack that killed 12 people in Baghdad two days before.
The attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, involved bombings, gunfire and hostage-taking that wreaked havoc in eastern Baghdad.
"The intelligence effort was able to arrest the terrorist criminal gang that bombed Baghdad Jadida," a statement from Abadi's office quoted him as saying, referring to the area where the attack took place.
The statement did not provide further details on the intelligence operation or specify what role those incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... played in the attack.
None of the forces of Evil who directly carried out the attack survived.
[AnNahar] Authorities in the northern French port of Calais were struggling to move hundreds of migrants into refitted shipping containers on Wednesday ahead of plans to bulldoze part of the notorious "Jungle" camp.
The government had planned to move 500-700 migrants and refugees out of the grim makeshift camp into refitted containers with heaters, electricity plugs and cribs for newborns. But many are reluctant to leave their tents, cafes and shops in the Jungle, and are suspicious about the new camp, which is surrounded by barbed wire and requires a fingerprint scan to come and go.
There is concern that the 125 containers -- each holding 12 people -- are not nearly enough for the 4,000 people currently estimated to be in the Jungle, who are trying to smuggle their way to Britannia by ferry or on cross-Channel trains.
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The French could buy them one way train tickets to Germany. The NYPD sends bums to DC and Miami via AMTRAK.
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Give the "migrants" credit for some brains: these ARE shipping containers. They go to bed one night, and in the morning the doors are locked, the floor is swaying, and they find out they're on a ship chartered by Nigel Farage, with the whole lot are headed back to Syria...
[AlAhram] The United States and its allies staged two dozen strikes against 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.... myrmidon group in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, the military coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
Sixteen strikes in Iraq were concentrated in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Ramadi and Kisik, where they hit four of the myrmidon group's tactical units and destroyed four of its bunkers, among other damage, the coalition said in the statement, released on Wednesday.
In Syria, eight strikes near five cities destroyed an ISIS excavator and oil booster pump generator as well as fighting positions, vehicles and other targets, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
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[AnNahar] Syrian rebels in a former opposition stronghold in Homs will relinquish nearly half their heavy weapons as part of a landmark truce with the government, the provincial governor said Wednesday.
Talal Barazi told AFP that the second phase of the agreement over Waer, which had been the last opposition-held neighborhood in the central city, was under way.
The deal was reached in December and envisions Waer coming under government control in exchange for the lifting of a devastating three-year siege.
In the first step, carried out last month, about 700 people -- 400 women and kiddies and 300 rebel fighters -- were evacuated from the district.
According to Barazi, "the second phase of the Waer agreement began four days ago and will continue until the beginning of February."
He said that it had started with a call for rebels to prepare to give up the weapons but that the handover had not yet started.
Barazi described the implementation of the deal as a "trust-building process".
Rebels are expected to hand over "nearly 50 percent of all medium- and heavy-weaponry, like machine guns and mortars," he told AFP by telephone.
Government forces will also open a second crossing point into the neighborhood, allowing residents and displaced individuals to travel more freely, Barazi added.
State institutions, including health centers, will begin gradually reopening in Waer.
Barazi said a "reconciliation process" would begin for the rebel fighters still in the district, estimated to number about 1,000.
"Whoever wants to regularize his status should present himself to the relevant authorities with information about his activities," Barazi said.
Opposition fighters who did not want to do so would be evacuated from the neighborhood in the third phase, he added.
They are expected to take the remaining 50 percent of heavy weaponry with them.
Similar local truces have been implemented in other parts of Syria, with rebels leaving towns or handing over weapons in exchange for an end to crippling sieges.
Both Syria's government and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... have been pushing for such localized ceasefires as a way to end Syria's nearly five-year war, which has left more than 260,000 people dead.
[BLOOMBERG] Maryland Governor Larry Hogan held a sidewalk presser last week in Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. He promised to revitalize the city by spending $75 million to tear down 4,000 vacant houses. Baltimore's population is dropping, a result of years of Democrat machine government. The blocks of vacant houses are festering civic sores.
"Fixing what is broken in Baltimore requires that we address the sea of abandoned, dilapidated buildings that are infecting entire neighborhoods," he said. It's a city that's infested by junkies, with falling property values and taxes that are twice what we pay in the counties.
Then the yellow paw of a Komatsu excavator ripped the face from a nearby row house, and Baltimore joined a growing club of declining U.S. industrial hubs that have decided they have more housing than their populations can support. The logic is that removing blighted sections of the city will help the larger body thrive, eventually clearing the path for redevelopment. The hard part is conceding that some areas are beyond short-term redemption. Just look for the burned out CVS pharmacies.
"When you demolish with no plans for new residential development, you're admitting that right now there's no demand for this block, this neighborhood, this city," said Erika Poethig, a fellow at the Urban Institute. "It takes a certain amount of political courage to do that." It's a city that tore down filthy abandoned housing projects along Martin Luther King Boulevard (somehow that's always where you find decayed housing projects) and built new housing at $300K a pop and sold them for a third that price. Drive by any time, wave to the bums, and read the graffiti.
Efforts to eliminate derelict homes in the U.S. were turbo-charged in 2013 when the U.S. Treasury allowed six states that had received money from a pool known as the Hardest Hit Fund to use some of it for tear-downs, in addition to other foreclosure prevention initiatives for which it was originally earmarked. The reasoning behind the move, which made $370 million available for the demolition of residences, is that vacant homes lower the value of neighboring properties.
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Never let a crisis go to waste. Detroit mayor tries to explain ever-higher prices for vacant home demolition. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan defended the rising costs of tearing down blighted homes Tuesday, just hours after the Detroit Land Bank Authority that oversees the demolitions fired its executive director for undisclosed reasons.
Duggan spoke before the City Council to explain why the average cost for tearing down vacant homes in the city has increased to $16,400 each, compared with about $10,000 in 2013. The Detroit land bank oversees the auctioning and demolition of vacant, abandoned and foreclosed properties.
It has experienced some trouble in selling its "Rehabbed and Ready" homes. Those homes are taken from abandoned to rehabbed — often pouring more money in the renovation than the house is worth — with the help of Home Depot and Quicken Loans. Only a few have sold since the inception of the program this summer.
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If you listen, you can hear this loud sucking sound. It is the redistribution of wealth from Montgomery and Howard counties into the city of Baltimore.
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See "The Wire"
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Nuclear demolition might be a viable option, if the northerlies and easterlies were cooperative.
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When son did mortgage re-titling on repos (1000s a month) he found Baltimore to be the most impossible city in the nation to deal with.
They don't allow turning off utilities (most owned by the city). The payments for the utilities can be purchased as a lien against the home. This makes cleaning up titles hard. To make it worse Baltimore only allows that clean up once a year for a few hours payable only by cash at the courthouse. No checks, no debit cards no credit cards only cash. The son damn near went nuts on this (as he was not even in Maryland) until he made a deal with a bail bondsman across the street from the courthouse. So whenever one of the homes whose title he was trying to clean got its date at the Baltimore court he would call his bail bondsman to rush dollars across the street. Baltimore needs to be punished by the nation for this sort of outlook.
[STRAITSTIMES] A jacket wallahwent kaboom! outside a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination centre in the south-western city of Quetta yesterday, killing at least 15 people, mainly coppers, officials said.
The coppers had gathered outside the centre to accompany workers on the third day of a polio vaccination campaign in the violence-racked province of 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... , of which Quetta is the capital. Polio vaccination teams are frequently targeted by murderous Moslem attacks in Pakistain.
"There are 15 dead, including 12 police, one paramilitary, and two civilians," a local police official said.
Mr Sarfaraz Bugti, Balochistan Home Minister, added: "So far 15 people have been injured in the blast, seven of whom are at death's door."
Militant group Jundullah, which has links with the Pak Taliban and has pledged allegiance to 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.... in Iraq and Syria, grabbed credit for the attack.
An Agence La Belle France-Presse news hound at the site saw three burnt-out vehicles. Human remains lay strewn across the ground, walls and electric poles along with items of clothing, including the caps and shoes of coppers.
Eye-witness Shabir Ahmed, a 32-year-old police constable, said he had been deployed to protect a polio vaccination team that was due to leave for various neighbourhoods of Quetta at 10am.
"Suddenly there was a loud bang and I fell to the ground; I could not see anything, there was dust everywhere," he said.
"Then I heard people screaming and sirens of ambulances," he continued, adding he had shrapnel wounds on his stomach, hands, legs and feet.
Pakistain is one of only two countries where polio, a crippling childhood disease, remains endemic. The other country is Afghanistan.
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Vaccinations limits the effectiveness of an ISIL weaponized polio virus?
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[ALMANAR.LB] It is supposed that the trucks carrying flour will arrive in the Syrian towns of Madaya, Kefraya and Fouaa on Thursday, al-Manar correspondent in Syria reported.
This move, which is supervised by the United Nations and the Red Cross, comes just few days after humanitarian aids entered these towns following long delay caused by the Takfiri terrorists.
Our correspondent said that the number of the civilians who get out of Madaya, in Damascus countryside, on Monday reached 300, noting that they got out of the town under a deal with the Syrian government.
80 men joined the fourth battalion of the Syrian army, the correspondent reported.
Under the deal, UN representatives entered Madaya, however they did not get into Kefraya and Fouaa, in Idlib countryside, under the pretext that there are checkpoints for Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham terrorists in the two towns, the correspondent said.
However, he noted that Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham insurgents also control the checkpoints in Madaya.
The Correspondent meanwhile, reported that residents in Kefraya and Fouaa call upon the UN representatives to get in to the two towns in order to inspect the humanitarian situation there.
Al-Manar had earlier exposed how the Takfiri insurgents have been using the civilians in these towns as human shields and preventing access to food supplies.
When the aid got into Kefraya, Fouaa and Madaya on Monday, the residents assured that the terrorists were selling the food aids which were delivered to these towns.
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[DEADLINE] With all of the Big 4 running it live, the very last State of the Union address of Barack Obama’s presidency saw jokes and barbs about those running to succeed him, a call to cure cancer, pleas to pass the big Pacific Rim trade deal and Paul Ryan’s debut in the Speaker’s chair over POTUS’ shoulder. Overall, the President also offered an optimistic assessment of the nation in his just over an hour speech but the incumbent conceded he hadn’t been able to overcome the harsh bipartisan battles that have characterized his term in office. I saw a few minutes of it. The man's voice makes my skin crawl. You're a brave man. A few minutes is a few minutes more than I could possibly stand... I boycotted the entire address, but it's not just the voice.
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I watched the whole thing so that as it ended I could celebrate a milestone on the way to the bammer's exit, stage right. I actually thought that as I tuned it in.
That man is living in an alternate universe. You can fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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I can't stand anything about him or his administration. Whenever I hear him or see him, even in a 10 second spot on ESPN, I feel nauseated.
This regime is the antithesis of anything remotely American as I was raised to understand and love it.
I'm currently trying to avoid an ulcer thinking about what horrors he can inflict this year.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Obama has rewritten that little bit of wisdom in a most perverse manner. He fooled enough of the people enough of the time. Can't give him all the credit though. He had a lot of help from MSM and a complicit gang of Republicans.
And, yes, there are those of us who find that unbearable to watch no matter how much whiskey we drink.
[AA.TR] Four individuals, including three Americans, have filed a civil suit against Israel, seeking compensatory damages for injuries suffered during an attack aboard a U.S. ship in international waters in 2010.
During a Washington presser Tuesday, the plaintiffs said they wanted compensation for "the harm and distress, injuries and losses caused by the attack".
Israel has refused to acknowledge responsibility and liability for the attack and is yet to pay compensation to victims aboard the Challenger I that was part of a Freedom Flotilla set to deliver humanitarian aid and medical supplies to Gazoo that was and still remains under an Israeli blockade.
According to the complaint, the U.S ship has never been returned by Israel and is still being held there.
Israeli special forces stormed the ships and killed nine civilians aboard another ship in the flotilla, the Turkish Mavi Marmara. That event has since frozen relations between Israel and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
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Michael J. Totten, always always worth the read, describes the issue at length in the World Affairs Journal. Very long so just a few paragraphs here to whet your appetite. Egypt apparently is the worst, to which Lara Logan could attest. Hat tip Instapundit.
Germany is in an uproar. Protests are breaking out everywhere, with demonstrators yelling “deport them” and carrying signs that say “Rapefugees not welcome” in English.
The culprits are mostly Arabs, and Merkel’s refugee policy is predictably collapsing as a result, but the rapefest in Cologne was not imported from Syria. It mostly comes from North Africa.
Women have fewer rights in the Middle East and North Africa than anywhere else in the world with the single exception of Afghanistan, and they’re abused far more often over there than anywhere in the West, but they aren’t routinely assaulted by hundreds of men in unruly mobs all at once anywhere except Egypt.
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Mock if you wish, but I think Totten is on to something. We need more in-depth knowledge of these cultures, and we're sure not going to get that from either the NYT or Le Monde.
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Men began to rip off my clothes. I was stripped naked. Their insatiable appetite to hurt me heightened. These men, hundreds of them, had turned from humans to animals.
Packs of Penghou was it? Not so mythological after all. Is there an international animal control number we can ring up ?
[PHILSTAR] A branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for an attack yesterday on Pakistain's Consulate in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least seven members of the Afghan cops.
The attack in Jalalabad, the capital of the volatile 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 that borders Pakistain, started when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives vest outside the diplomatic mission, said Attaullah Khyogani, front man for the province's governor.
The kaboom triggered a gunbattle between Afghan cops and the bad boys. Along with the coppers killed, seven people were also maimed in the attack, Khyogani added.
He said all three attackers were killed, including the suicide bomber. The two gunnies, who later took positions in a guesthouse close to the consulate, were killed hours later, Khyogani said.
The US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors bad boy trafficking, said the affiliate known as the "Khorasan Province of the Islamic State" claimed three of its "soldiers" attacked the consulate and allegedly killed "dozens" of the mission's staff.
Hazrat Hussein Mashraqiwal, the front man for the provincial police chief, said three police and two intelligence officers were among the killed and three civilians were among the maimed.
It was the first Lion of Islam-style attack on a Pak diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, an official at the Pak Embassy said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Pak government properties have come under attack in the past during protests by Afghans angry at Islamabad's perceived support for the Taliban, who have waged war on the Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... administration for more than 14 years.
The scene of the attack is close to a hospital and schools as well as the Indian Consulate. The schools were evacuated, officials said.
The Pak Consulate is usually busy during morning rush hour as people queue for visas. The suicide bomber joined the visa queue before blowing himself up, officials said. All consular staff were quickly evacuated.
In Islamabad, the foreign affairs ministry condemned what it called "the terrorist attack" on its consulate and requested a thorough investigation. One official at the consulate was slightly injured by broken glass, it said.
The office of Pakistain's 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... said Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. telephoned him to guarantee enhanced security for Pak diplomats in Afghanistan.
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Heh. The Paks have found a terror group they don't control.
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The scene of the attack is close to a hospital and schools as well as the Indian Consulate
Wonder if the Islamofacists got the wrong embassy?
[AA.TR] South Korean President Park Geun-hye made it clear Wednesday that China has a "necessary role" to play in forcing North Korea to back down from its current policy of nuclear armament.
In an address to her own nation, Park spoke of the need to properly punish Pyongyang, after the North claimed last week that it had carried out its first hydrogen bomb test.
Any sanctions would be useless, according to the South's leader, unless North Korea actually "feels pain" -- Beijing has been accused in the past of failing to ensure Pyongyang feels the squeeze of international restrictions.
On the contrary, the North has refused to engage in denuclearization talks since 2008, and has conducted several nuclear tests and missile launches in that time.
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What can we do to make life worse for the norks? Impose fat-boy as a leader, no. Cause massive starvation, no.
Boy, that is a toughy.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province said on Wednesday, that 26 ISIS elements had been either killed or injured in an intensive aerial bombing by the international coalition in central Nineveh.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Warplanes of the international coalition had bombed, intensively, sites for the ISIS militants in the eastern and western axes, resulting in the death of 18 militants and wounding 7 others, in addition to destroying nine headquarters for the organization.”
The source pointed out, “The ISIS elements transferred their dead to the forensic medicine department, while left most of their positions for fear of being targeted.”
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For some reason I thought of Jonah (if you don't follow God's wishes you end up inside big stinky fishs) but the spelling is different.
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[AA.TR] The U.S. defense chief said Wednesday that special forces troops that were announced last month to be deployed to Iraq have arrived in the country.
"The specialized expeditionary targeting force I announced in December is now in place and is preparing to work with the Iraqis to begin going after ISIL's fighters and commanders, killing or capturing them wherever we find them, along with other key targets," said Ash Carter as he briefed service members who will soon be deployed to Iraq.
He said the anti-Daesh [Islamic State] campaign has three prongs, namely "destroying the parent tumor" of Daesh [Islamic State] in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq, and al-Raqqa, Syria; preventing the holy warrior group's "metastasizing in areas such as North Africa, Afghanistan, and Yemen" and protecting the U.S. homeland.
He also noted his meeting with his counterparts from La Belle France, Australia, Germany, Italia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in Gay Paree to discuss the fight against the holy warriors.
When Carter initially announced the special forces deployment, he said the troops would "conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture ISIL leaders," as part of a revision of the anti-Daesh [Islamic State] strategy.
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[Inquirer] Notorious fugitive Nur Misuari, founding chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front, was among over 2,000 MNLF militants and supporters who came from all over Mindanao to attend a "general membership meeting" in Sulu province last weekend, according to a top faction chief of the group. Habib Hashim Mudjahab, chair of the MNLF's Islamic Command Council, said the talks were focused on preparations for the tripartite meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from January 25-27.
Misuari faces multiple murder charges in connection with the 2013 siege of Zamboanga City by his rebel followers, which left more than 200 people dead and hundreds of thousands of families homeless. A warrant for his arrest was issued in December 2013, but there was no move by law enforcement agencies to arrest him during the meeting in the militant stronghold in Barangay Kagay in Indanan town.
Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado, who confirmed Misuari's presence in Kagay, said, "It is not our job to serve the warrant of arrest. It's the mandate of our police. If they (police) need our help as backup support, we will do so."
Mudjahab said it would not be easy for security forces to arrest Misuari in the presence of thousands of MNLF militants and supporters. He said, "The meeting was in full coordination with the local authorities, and maybe they made an evaluation about the repercussions (of a Misuari arrest)."
[Fox] An Oregon folk singer plans to leave next week to serenade the Islamic State, and he intends to bring the black-clad barbarians a prayerful message of peace -- despite a warning from the State Department that his life could be in danger.
James Twyman, of Portland, Ore., told FoxNews.com he feels a "calling" and believes he can soften the hearts of the Islamist army known for beheading Westerners, throwing gays off of buildings and summarily executing innocent women and children.
"It's going to be pretty powerful," Twyman said, referring to his plan to have those attending and others around the world sing and pray for peace at the same time. "When people come together and focus on something in a positive way...there's scientific evidence that it can change things for the better." Portland area fellow is he? Perhaps James should ensure his affairs are in order.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – Three mass graves were found in the village of Abu Hamam in Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, the Syrian Center for Human Rights reported on Wednesday.
“The dead bodies found in the newly discovered mass graves are believed to belong to members of the Shaitat tribe who have been massacred by terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS),” Syrian lawyer and spokesman of the Center for Human Rights Ibrahim Hussein told ARA News.
ISIS militants have earlier executed more than 700 members of the Shaitat tribe in Deir ez-Zor for opposition the group’s control over the province. Several mass graves have been discovered in the eastern province over the past few months, most of the victims were identified as members of the al-Shaitat tribe.
“On Wednesday, villagers of Abu Hamam were allowed by ISIS to return home after months of forced displacement. However, after returning they discovered three mass graves in their village,” Hussein reported.
The source added that 37 corpses were found in the three mass graves.
“The first mass grave was found in Nazal Gaada neighborhood in Abu Hamam village and it included ten dead bodies of civilians; the second was discovered in the Nabayi neighborhood and it included 20 corpses; while the third grave was found in the Madrasa Gharbi area in central Abu Hamam where seven corpses were revealed,” Syrian Center for Human Rights’s spokesman told ARA News.
Several children and women were among the victims.
The center reported that it has earlier documented six mass graves that have been left by ISIS militants in Deir ez-Zor countryside, confirming that most of the victims were identified as members of the Shaitat tribe.
Hundreds of civilians in Deir ez-Zor have been killed for refusing to swear allegiance to the ISIS self-declared Caliphate. The al-Shaitat tribe had the lion’s share of victims for launching an armed rebellion against ISIS in the province end of 2014.
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Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday killed a Yemeni police officer who worked at the airport in the violence-plagued second city of Aden, security officials said.
Lieutenant Colonel Amin Shaef, from the airport's investigation unit, was leaving his home in the Mansura district when the assailants opened fire before fleeing, the sources said.
There has been a growing number of attacks and assassinations in Aden, the government's temporary capital, targeting members of the security forces and government officials.
Al Qaeda and the rival Daesh groups are both present in the city, occupying government buildings, and are frequently seen patrolling several districts and intimidating civilians.
"The regular security forces have taken over most of the state institutions, including the airport and the port of Aden, to secure the city," Aden Governor Aidarus Al Zubaidi said during a joint news conference Tuesday with Police Chief General Shallal Ali Shayae.
Shayae said that security services loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi are committed to securing Aden "in stages", starting with a night-time curfew declared earlier this month.
Zubaidi and Shayae survived a car bombing that targeted their convoy in Aden on January 5 and killed two of their guards.
In a separate story, a child was killed on Wednesday and three civilians were wounded after Iran-backed Houthi militias and their allied forces fired Katyusha rockets on a village west of the southwestern city of Taez.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition has launched attacks at Houthi sites in Al-Dhabab and Al-Masrakh areas in Taez, leaving several killed and wounded.
The coalition also targeted arms depots in Bani Hashish directorate in Sanaa province while the pro-government resistance captured large parts of the Naham directorate east of the province.
[ARA News] AFRIN – Militant fighters of al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda branch in Syria, targeted the Kurdish area of Afrin in northwestern Syria with dozens of mortar shells, military sources reported on Wednesday.
The radical group hit the Sherawa sub-district in Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo, targeting headquarters of the Kurdish forces and residential buildings there.
Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) reported the death and injury of several people in the bombardment.
Most of the shells hit security checkpoints of the YPG and allied Kurdish female fighters of the YPJ near the village of Bashmere in Sherawa sub-district.
“Subsequent to the Qaeda-led bombardment, the YPG and YPJ units counter-attacked the strongholds of the terrorists in the northern countryside of Aleppo with heavy artillery shelling,” a statement by the Kurdish forces said on Wednesday evening.
The Kurdish units, in cooperation with allies of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have recently made gains against Nusra militants and other Islamist groups in Aleppo countryside, recapturing the villages of Tat Mrash and Tanab in the vicinity of Azaz city north of Aleppo after clashes with militant fighters of Nusra Front and the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham.
The western-backed alliance has also regained the village of Keshtaar in the suburb of Tel Rafaat city north of Aleppo, which has been constantly used by Nusra militants and allied Islamists as a base from which they used to attack the Kurdish region of Afrin northwest of Aleppo.
[DAWN] 'WE will not allow our soil to be used against any other country for terrorism.' This oft-repeated cliché in our official statements has almost become a national embarrassment. A solemn pledge loses all credibility when major murderous Moslem attacks in other countries are allegedly traced back to our territory.
It is not just cross-border involvement but also the activities of banned outfits at home that raises questions about how much control the state really has within its own domain. Then there is also the question of whether or not we are really serious about getting rid of all violent non-state actors that have become a pervasive challenge to state authority. The Pathankot air force base terrorist attack has yet again brought the issue of non-state actors to the fore.
Surely, it is too early to confirm or deny the Indian allegation of a Pak murderous Moslem group being involved in the incident, but such possibility cannot be completely ruled out given past experience. Pakistain has once again been put in the dock by this latest terrorist incident across the border.
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No terrorism of any kind can reach across borders, continents or oceans without some form of state sponsorship, whether willing or unwilling. Nor can localized terrorism survive long without some form of internal or external sponsorship, willing or unwilling.
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[IBT-UK] The jailed spiritual leader of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah has said that his sentence should be overturned because the funds he raised for a military-style training camp was an 'act of worship'. Caged cleric Abu Bakar Bashir appealed to have his conviction for funding a terrorist camp overturned because it was Allah's order.
During the hearing he argued that his aid for the camp was an 'act of worship' despite the militant network being accused of planning attacks on foreigners in Jakarta, and the assassinations of moderate leaders, including former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Jemaah Islamiyah were also blamed for the savage 2002 Bali bombings which claimed the lives of 202 people.
In 2011 Bashir was convicted of funding the militant training camp in Aceh province and jailed for 15 years. But a higher court later cut the sentence to nine years.
At the District Court in Cilacap, near the prison island of Nusakembangan where he is currently incarcerated, Bashir said that the camp was designed to defend Muslims. He said, "The physical and weapons' training in Aceh were aimed at defending Islam and Muslims in Indonesia and overseas, and were an obligation Muslims must fulfill because it is God's order. My deed of helping the physical training in Aceh was merely an act of worship."
A lawyer representing the cleric said that he knew the camp violated firearms laws but he was simply following Allah's orders in supporting it. He added that the funds were also for religious use.
Outside the court hundreds of supporters waited for a heavily-guarded Bashir to arrive. They yelled "Allah Akbar," "Bashir is not a terrorist" and "Free Bashir."
[ALMANAR.LB] Four Saudi soldiers were killed on Wednesday as Yemeni army and popular committees fired a rocket on a Saudi post in Jizan.
Local media reported that the Yemeni army, backed by popular committees fired a rocket on a Saudi post in Jizan region in Saud Arabia's southwest.
The media also reported that another soldier was killed during festivities with the Yemeni forces in al-Rabou'a area of 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 southwestern Asir region.
Saudi armed forces said Sergeant Jobran Hassan Meqlez Siram succumbed to the injuries he had sustained during the festivities in hospital, said al-Masirah television channel.
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[Bangkok Post] A team of rangers overran an insurgent camp in Narathiwat province on Tuesday following a clash with armed militants. The rangers were patrolling a mountainous area in Cho Ai Rong district, when about six rebels opened fire. The militants fled into the jungle after a 10-minute exchange of fire. There were no casualties. After the battle, the rangers found a rebel camp, and recovered an M16 rifle found to have been stolen during a militant attack 12 years ago.
[DAWN] HAVING pledged to investigate and act on any evidence found or shared on the involvement of Pak individuals in the Pathankot attack, the government claims to have detained alleged members of Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and sealed so-called offices of the banned Death Eater group.
The emphatic language in the statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office following a meeting of senior civilian and military leaders suggests that the government is attempting to ensure that the foreign secretary talks meant to kick off the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue can take place as soon as possible.
Officially scheduled to begin on Jan 15, there is reason to be hopeful that the talks will, in fact, go ahead as planned, or take place after a minor delay.
The initial response from the Indian government to yesterday's announcement of fresh steps being taken against JeM also suggests that the high-level diplomacy and personal involvement of 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... and the military leadership in the Pak response to the Pathankot attack may pay off.
Whatever the JeM Death Eaters intended to achieve with the Pathankot attack the governments of India and Pakistain appear to have thwarted with their mature responses. But why was the group still able to plan and execute such an audacious and sophisticated attack on the air force base?
The PMO statement offers a clue -- "offices of [JeM] are also being traced and sealed" -- but it is an inadequate explanation. Thirteen years after the group was banned by the state, why was it able to still operate offices that are only now being sealed?
For too long, Death Eater groups that have been banned by the state have simply changed their names or gone temporarily into hiding, only for them to reappear stronger and more resilient. In the case of JeM, the state's failures have been exceptionally egregious. Until yesterday, when he was reportedly detained, Masood Azhar was a free man; other well-known leaders of the group apparently routinely roam the country preaching jihad.
It is fairly obvious that leaders of banned outfits publicly exhorting violence is likely to lead to some kind of disaster or crisis. Pathankot has certainly been the former, though mature politicianship on both sides of the border has prevented it from becoming a full-blown crisis.
For the state here, the challenge will be to ensure that the initial actions against JeM are converted into sustained and meaningful measures that ensure the long-term dismantling of Death Eater groups. Too often steps taken in haste have unravelled over time.
To permanently seal offices and successfully prosecute those involved in the Pathankot attack, a great deal of evidence will need to be gathered.
Past experience suggests that JeM, like some other banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations, has access to sophisticated legal counsel which can help protect its operations and its leaders' freedom. This time JeM, and others like it, must be fully and permanently dismantled.
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Police have prevented a terrorist attack in central Kapisa province by seizing two home-made bombs in a Corolla vehicle, Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday.
According to the statement, the bombs were seized in the jurisdiction of 1st PD of the provincial capital around 11 am today.
No suspect has been detained in connection to the bombs but security agencies have launched a search operation in the area.
This comes as two huge explosions already rocked two cities of Afghanistan today.
A suicide attack which was followed by a gun battle between security forces and the attackers left at least six people martyred in Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangarhar province.
Four terrorists were killed and five others wounded in the encounter in Ghorak District.
A power explosion rocked Helmand province in southern Afghanistan earlier this afternoon.
Preliminary reports suggest a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) has been detonated in Lashkargah city.
Provincial governor spokesman Omar Zwak confirms the incident and said at least one person has been injured in the attack which was carried out by a car bomb.
He was citing preliminary police reports regarding the incident and said further details will be released later.
No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
This comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant during the recent weeks despite efforts to bring the group to negotiations table in a bid to end the violence.
At least six people including policemen and civilians were killed in a separate suicide attack in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan this morning.
The Afghan national security forces thwarted a deadly terrorist attack plot by the anti-government armed militants in southern Kandahar city.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the terrorists were eliminated in a special military operation by the Afghan police before they manage to carry out the attack.
A statement by MoI said the terrorists were looking to detonate a truck packed with explosives in the city.
The statement further added that the truck was identified along with the terrorists and the attack plot was thwarted in Ghorak district.
At least four terrorists were killed and six others were injured during the encounter with the police forces, MoI said, adding that the police personnel did not suffer any casualties.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Kandahar is among the relatively volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militants are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
The insurgency activities by the Taliban militants have been rampant despite efforts by the Afghan government and international community to end the violence through reconciliation process.
[BRISBANETIMES.AU] Denmark's parliament started to debate a raft of proposals on changing immigration laws, including a measure that would allow the authorities to confiscate all valuables belonging to refugees worth more than10,000 Danish crowns ($2083), and then use them to pay for the refugee's stay.
The proposal has been condemned by international media as well as the United Nations refugee agency.
"It is very odiously reminiscent of the German past – leave the valuables and go to the showers," Derek Beach, an associate professor in political science at Aarhus University, said. Except for the showers. And the fact that Denmark's not Germany. I think it was Mark Twain who pointed out that once a cat's sat on a hot stove it won't do it again, but neither will it sit on a cold one.
Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg has defended the proposal as being in keeping with a Danish norm that if you can pay for yourself, you must do so.
The Immigration Ministry said on Wednesday it would extend its temporary border checks at the usually open border with Germany until February 3, after an initial 10-day period expired.
Denmark has extended until February 3 passport controls and spot checks it introduced this month on its border with Germany.
"The assessment is that there is still a risk that a large number of illegal immigrants accumulate in Denmark," the ministry said in a statement.
More than 21,000 asylum seekers came to Denmark last year, up from about 14,800 in 2014. The government expects about 25,000 people to claim asylum in 2016.
Denmark, which swung to the right in the last election in June, is one of several European Union countries trying to discourage migrants from seeking asylum on its territory.
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[DAWN] WEDNESDAY'S devastating suicide kaboom in Quetta serves as a painful reminder that despite advances, religious militancy remains a major security threat to 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... Most of the victims of the attack were police personnel deputed to guard polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination teams. An anti-polio vaccination drive was under way in Balochistan on the day of the bombing. To their credit, the authorities resumed the anti-polio campaign soon after the tragedy.
The banned TTP has grabbed credit for the atrocity. It seems that with the bombing, forces of Evil have struck two of their 'favourite' targets: members of law-enforcement agencies, as well as the anti-polio campaign.
The bombing occurred the day after the new Balochistan cabinet took oath; indeed, the Sanaullah Zehri-led provincial set-up has its work cut out for it on the law and order and counterterrorism fronts.
Over the past several years, the province has suffered from a low-level separatist insurgency along with sectarian terrorism. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... last year, after the formulation of the National Action Plan, like elsewhere in Pakistain there seemed to be perceptible movement on the anti-militancy front. Provincial officials claimed "thousands" of Death Eaters had been tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! .
While some observers point out that most of these were quite likely Baloch separatists, it is a fact that religiously motivated and sectarian Death Eaters were also apprehended. Moreover, some high-profile sectarian Death Eaters were eliminated in Balochistan in 2015; their numbers included Usman Saifullah Kurd, a provincial 'commander' of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... But while sectarian killings may indeed have come down, especially compared to the situation in 2013 when massive bombings targeting the Hazara Shia community resulted in hundreds of deaths, the infrastructure of religiously motivated militancy very much appears to be intact in Balochistan, as Wednesday's bombing shows.
The significance of Death Eaters targeting security officials guarding polio teams also cannot be overlooked. Last year, significant gains were made in the fight against polio, with far fewer cases reported as compared to 2014.
Hence, the momentum of the anti-polio drive should be maintained and security for the vaccinators beefed up. The civil and military leadership must reassess the threat posed by religiously motivated Death Eaters to Balochistan. Intelligence-based operations need to be stepped up to dismantle what remains of the terrorist infrastructure in the province. Balochistan is far from pacified.
The gains made in the realm of security in the recent past should not be squandered, and terrorism and militancy of all shades must be eliminated in the province.
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[FreeBeacon] Excerpt: The Department of State recently discovered "thousands" of previously unreviewed documents that relate to Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi attack, according to a watchdog group that has been suing the department to release public records from Clinton's tenure.
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The Department of State recently discovered "thousands" of previously unreviewed documents that relate to Hillary Clinton
Senior Executive level employees at Foggy Bottom making a calculated decision. Give up the data now, or face potential inquiry or prosecution at some future date under a Pub presidency and Attorney General.
Sorry Secretary Clinton, but my daughter is in her fifth year at William & Mary and our Loudoun County residence needs a new slate roof, the under-butler is insisting upon a salary increase, and then there's the pasture fence which needs mending. We simply cannot afford the legal fees.
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"Don't these people realise that in about a year there will be a new AG empowered to investigate them?"
They are probably hoping that if they delay long enough they might have some control over who is the new AG. Say she ducks out for Sanders after a backroom deal or something along those lines.
Or they might be hoping to play the vast right wing conspiracy martyr angle that worked so well in the 90s hoping it pops up her numbers.
I think they are forgetting that even the left tends to dislike them on a good day.
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This is what happens when new polls come out showing Bernie ahead in New Hampshire AND Iowa. Suddenly Hillary doesn't look like Mrs. President anymore. Suddenly people ask "Why are we protecting this ***hole?" Suddenly all the "Go f**k yourselves" she gave to the peasants come back to haunt her.
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And Vince Foster is still dead
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#12 And Vince Foster is still dead. Posted by Mullah Richard
I think there have been a few (dozen) others since then. If Hitlery had to truly answer for all the crimes she's committed, she'd be in jail for 7,723 years, even on good behavior.
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KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti court sentenced two men accused of spying for Iran and Hezbollah to death on Tuesday. The case also included the possession of weapons. One who got the death penalty was an Iranian convicted in absentia, and the other was a Kuwaiti who was in court. Other suspects were given sentences from five to 25 years, and 3 were found innocent.
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[DAWN] A majority of faceless myrmidons fleeing operations in Pakistain's Mohmand and Orakzai agencies joined the Afghan chapter of the Death EaterIslamic 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, Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistain Janan Mosazai said on Wednesday.
Addressing a seminar in Islamabad, the Afghan envoy said IS has become a major threat in the region.
About 60 to 70 per cent faceless myrmidons fleeing Pakistain during offensives in Mohmand and Orakzai went on to join IS in Afghanistan, Mosazai claimed.
He said terrorism was a common issue for both Pakistain and Afghanistan, and reiterated the Afghan government's commitment to not allow anyone to use its territory against Pakistain.
Mosazai said Afghanistan was committed to its policy of non-interference in neighbouring countries, including Pakistain.
Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... wants good neighbouring relations with Pakistain as it is important for the economic prosperity of Afghanistan, the envoy said.
Mosazai said Kabul recognises the importance of the China Pakistain Economic Corridor, which he said will have a positive impact on the economy of Afghanistan as well.
Reports in the past suggested that faceless myrmidons fleeing military operations in different regions of Federally Administered Tribal Areas joined various terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
Security officials have warned against IS gaining a foothold in Afghanistan's eastern region, where the group reportedly murdered tribal elders, clashed with the rival Taliban, imprisoned families and enforced strict rules on women.
Afghanistan does not provide a natural constituency from which IS can recruit, meaning the group relies heavily on defections from existing myrmidon outfits.
Backed by US drone strikes, Afghan cops last year mobilised and eliminated multiple IS leaders along with dozens, if not hundreds, of Death Eaters.
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[HUFFINGTONPOST.AU] Al Jazeera America will shut down its operations in the United States by the end of April, the company told employees in a meeting on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera America President Kate O'Brian tearfully relayed the news to stunned colleagues, alongside CEO Al Anstey. In a memo to staff, Anstey said the decision was driven by the "fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in an increasingly digital world, and because of the current global financial challenges."
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"fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in an increasingly digital world, and because of the current global financial challenges."
Among other things......heh
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[DAWN] Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday said the government wants to send a team of special Sherlocks to the Pathankot air base in India for further investigation.
In a statement, the PMO also confirmed the arrests of several members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... murderous Moslem group, which India suspects of involvement in what was nearly week-long siege of the Pathankot Indian air base earlier this month.
A Rooters report later cited unnamed Pak officials as saying head of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group, Masood Azhar, was among those tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... along with his brother and brother-in-law. This could not be independently verified by Dawn.com.
The Pathankot airbase attack was claimed by separatist group United Jihad Council, an alliance of Kashmiri murderous Moslems.
The statement was issued after a high-level meeting was chaired by 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... to discuss the country's security situation.
The PMO statement further elaborated that Jaish-e-Mohammad offices in the country were being traced and sealed.
These developments come two days before a meeting between the foreign secretaries is scheduled to take place.
"The meeting expressed national resolve not to allow our territory to be used for acts of terrorism anywhere," the statement said.
It was also noted that "considerable progress" has been made in the investigations, being carried out against terrorist elements reportedly linked to the Pathankot incident.
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[Daily Excelsior] Dreaded terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... chief Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... has accepted that the six gunnies who attacked the Pathankot airbase belonged to his group.
Azahar owned the Death Eaters a day after India told Islamabad that he was among the four handlers of the attack in Pakistain.
Uploading an audio on the internet, the Jaish-e-Mohammabd Chief described how the Death Eaters intruded into the sensitive air base of Pathankot to destroy vital IAF assets and fought the Indian artillery and security forces to achieve their aim.
Warning Pak government against accepting any dossier or proof regarding the Pathankot airbase attack from the Indian government , Masood Azhar asked, "why are Pak leaders bashful and bow to Indian leaders?"
This is the second audio of Azhar released in two months. In the first audio, he had pledged 'Jihad" against India.
In the investigation conducted by the Indian defence forces into the Pathankot airbase attack, the names of Masood Azhar and his brother Rauf have surfaced along with two others.
Four Pak handlers have also been identified who were issuing directions to the faceless myrmidons holed up inside the Pathankot airbase.Two other conspirators, apart from Azhar and Rauf, have been identified as Ashfaq and Kasim.
Rauf was the man behind the hijacking of Indian aircraft IC-814 to Kandhar in which three Pak terrorists, including Masood Azhar, were released in exchange of passengers.
Investigative agencies have come to know that the attack was plotted near the border at a place called Makarz . India has already handed over all the evidence to Pakistain in this regard.
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[DAWN] WHILE President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... lamented that his country was the "top target for all terrorist groups in the region", Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu wasted no time in blaming the bad boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group for Tuesday's carnage in the heart of Istanbul.
The suicide kaboom at the tourist hub should be seen against the background of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's stepped-up role in the anti-IS coalition and the military reverses His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... 's hordes have of late been suffering.
Ankara has allowed American warplanes to use its Incirlik base, while the Turkish air force, too, has been bombing IS targets in Syria.
Moreover, the overall military situation doesn't seem to be going in the bad boy group's favour. Last month, it lost Ramadi to Iraqi forces, while there are reports that some IS commanders are deserting.
Observers believe that the city of Manjib could be retaken next by Syrian forces. No wonder, IS should have thought it fit to strike what is Europe's biggest city (in terms of population) and convey a deadly message -- that it can strike wherever and whenever it wants. The carnage in Gay Paree is still fresh in everybody's mind.
Until late last year, Turkey had not really shown much zeal in taking on IS, even when the snuffies had come as close to its border as Kobane.
Instead, the Erdogan government seemed focused on ending the Bashir al-Assad regime. Its other concerns were the Kurdish militia in Syria and the PKK, with which the ceasefire has all but collapsed. While Ankara must seek a peaceful settlement of the Kurdish issue, the Erdogan government has no choice but to throw its full weight behind the US-led coalition to wipe out IS and give peace and dignity to the people in what is the heart of the Middle East.
Situated strategically, Turkey cannot anymore ignore IS terror attacks on its soil or sit on the sidelines while the snuffies remain in possession of large chunks of territory and use it as a base for international terrorism.
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I could see Recep being tipped off by his ISIS buddies and allowing this to happen. Don't forget, there's a different mindset at play in this part of the world with regards to 'collateral damage'.
Promotes his 'we're all in this together' meme, and 'solidarity' with the western powers, plus obfuscates the Neo-Ottoman Empire's collaboration with the Daeshbags. (love that term)
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Mullah Richard----with Recip's lust for power, I can easily see him going for this in a convoluted untraceable way. He needed some victim points after hosing Putin, who does not forget, and dealing with the consequences of that fiasco.
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[AA.TR] Police have detained four suspects in connection with the Istanbul suicide kaboom, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Wednesday.A blast at the city's Sultanahmet district on Tuesday morning killed 10 people -- mostly German tourists -- and maimed 15 others.
A Syrian jacket wallah carried out the attack, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , said earlier. Police have identified the suicide bomber, Davutoglu told journalists in Istanbul but did not supply a name. He said that the bomber had Daesh [Islamic State] links.
"Police were not in pursuit of the bomber. He had come to Turkey as an ordinary refugee. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... after the attack, all his contacts were brought out," Davutoglu said. "We are trying to find out who are the real actors behind this," he said, suggesting that other parties may have helped Daesh [Islamic State] in carrying out Tuesday's attack.
D'you suppose he means Russia or Israel, dear Reader?
Davutoglu was speaking after a briefing on the deadly terror attack with Turkey's Interior Minister Efkan Ala, Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin, Mayor Kadir Topbas, and Chief of the Istanbul Police Department Mustafa Caliskan. They all, along with German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, visited the site of the Sultanahmet blast and visited injured victims at the Haseki Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul. The Turkish prime minister paid condolences to the families of Tuesday's victims and said that out of the injured, six were still in hospital.
"Terror is a threat to humanity all across the world," the Turkish PM stressed, adding: "We will take more effective measures to ensure public security in every corner of Turkey and especially in Istanbul."
"We have the responsibility to make Istanbul one of the most secure cities in the world," he added.
He invited "all German and European friends" to Istanbul, declaring: "Turkey is safe, Istanbul is safe."
Stating that around 12 million tourists visit the city per year, Davutoglu said every type of measure against terror would be taken to make the city even safer.
He stressed determination against "all kinds of terror regardless of religion, sects, and ethnicity".
Turkey is exposed to multiple terror threats, including Daesh [Islamic State] and the PKK, Davutoglu said.
The Turkish premier recalled similar deadly attacks -- such as in Ankara on Oct. 10, 2015 which left over 100 people dead and another one in Suruc on July 20 last year in which a suicide bomber killed 32 Kurdish activists.
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[AA.TR] The residents of at least 13 Syrian towns and villages under siege by the Assad regime and its allies now face the specter of starvation, according to local sources.
Jayrud, Rabayah
Opposition-held Jayrud and Rabayah, both located in eastern Damascus, face frequent attacks by both the Assad regime and Daesh [Islamic State]. Both towns have remained under a regime-imposed blockade since April 2013.
Abu Kamal, a local opposition commander, told Anadolu Agency that 85 percent of the recent deaths in the town had been caused by attacks by regime forces or Daesh [Islamic State].
The city of Al-Dumayr, located some 40 kilometers northeast of Damascus, also remains under a regime-imposed blockade.
Eastern Ghouta, Al-Tall
The Eastern Ghouta region to the east of Damascus, meanwhile, has remained under a regime-imposed siege since December 2012, which has impeded delivery of humanitarian aid and deprived the region of electricity and water supplies.
According to a local coordination committee in Eastern Ghouta's Douma area, some 1,600 local residents have recently died, with an estimated 40 percent of the casualties having been caused by regime Arclight airstrikes and the rest blamed on malnutrition.
The Assad regime attacked the Eastern Ghouta region with sarin gas in August 2013, causing some 1,300 deaths among local residents.
The city of Al-Tall, meanwhile, located west of Eastern Ghouta, has also remained under a regime-imposed siege since June 2015.
The Yarmouk Paleostinian refugee camp has been blockaded by the regime since December 2012.
Many inhabitants of the camp, which is surrounded by Daesh [Islamic State] from the south, have recently moved to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Hatay province or to the Syrian provinces of Hama, Idlib and Aleppo.
More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in the camp since the Syrian conflict began in early 2011.
Darayya on the southern outskirts of Damascus has also remained under a regime-imposed blockade since late 2012. By July 2015, when the siege entered its 1,000th day, some 2,200 residents had died as a result of the siege or from attacks by the regime.
Local sources say around 1,000 barrel bombs -- improvised bombs -- have been dropped on the region by the Assad regime.
In the town of Muadamiyat al-Sham in southwestern Damascus, meanwhile, some 40,000 civilians have remained under total siege for the last 15 days.
With food not allowed to enter the town, residents say child mortality has skyrocketed due to widespread malnutrition.
The village of Kanaker, meanwhile, located southwest of Damascus, has remained under siege since March 2015.
Al-Waer, Houla, Talbiseh, Al-Rastan
Al-Waer, a central district of Syria's Homs province, also reportedly remains under a regime-imposed blockade.
During the siege of Homs from 2011 to 2015, which ended with the region being handed over to the Assad regime, some 150 people died of malnutrition and an acute lack of medical treatment.
According to the Homs Coordination Center, some areas of Al-Waer are still under siege.
The Houla, Talbiseh and Al-Rastan regions in northern Homs, for their part, have all remained under siege for the last three years.
Madaya
Spanish Ambassador to the UN Roman Oyarzun Marchesi recently quoted UN humanitarian affairs chief Stephen O'Brien as saying that some 400 people in the town of Madaya were in "very critical situation".
This week, a humanitarian aid convoy reached the regime-blockaded town, carrying food and medical supplies for Madaya's 42,000 residents who were starving to death.
Last month, 23 people, including six children, died of starvation in the town, according to a report issued by Madaya's local health committee.
"The humanitarian crisis in Madaya is one more sign of the Assad regime's brutality," U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power asserted in a recent statement. "Blocking aid in order to starve civilians is grotesque, and one more reason why Assad's supporters should recognize that he has lost legitimacy."
The ongoing conflict in Syria, which will enter its sixth year in early 2016, has left more than 250,000 people dead and turned the country into the world's largest source of refugees and displaced persons, according to the UN.
Since the conflict began, nearly 8 million people have been internally displaced, while more than 4 million have fled to neighboring countries.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Nearly 10 million Yemeni children are victims of pain and suffering because of the war in the country, the UNICEF said. That's a lot of kids out of a total population of 24 million.
In a statement published on Tuesday, Julien Harneis, UNICEF Representative in Yemen, said that the "continuous bombardment and street fighting are exposing children and their families to a deadly combination of violence, disease and deprivation."Yemeni children suffer from war
UN statistics showed that the "direct impact of the conflict on children is hard to measure."
"The statistics confirmed by the UN (747 children killed and another 1,108 injured since March last year; 724 children pressed into some form of military activity) tell only part of the story. But they are shocking enough in themselves," the statement said.
It went on to talk about the broader effects of violence on civilians.
"The broader effects of the violence on innocent civilians extend much further.
Children make up at least half of the 2.3 million people estimated to have been displaced from their homes, and of the more than 19 million people struggling to get water on a daily basis; 1.3 million children under five face the risk of acute malnutrition and acute respiratory tract infections. And at least 2 million children cannot go to school."
Public services like health, water and sanitation have been decimated and cannot meet the ever-increasing needs of a desperate population, Harneis said in the statement.
Few of the 7.4 million children requiring protection (including psycho-social support to help deal with the effects of their exposure to violence) will actually receive it, he added.
Harneis note that international agencies are doing their best in "extremely hazardous working environment," but stressed that "so much more is needed."
"The children of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... need urgent help and they need it now... What is really needed -- above all else -- is an end to the conflict. Only in that way can the children of Yemen look forward to 2016 with hope rather than despair," the statement concluded.
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Common Core Math
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In a 'generational war', needs of a desperate population
have formed two generations of an aggression avoidance psychology, i.e. post WWII Europe.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Wednesday, Commander of Anbar tribal fighters in the eastern sector of Ramadi announced, that 16 elements of the ISIS organization were killed in the cleansing battles east of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad), while emphasized that the organization besieged 700 families in the eastern axis of the city.
Eyal Mohammadi said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today, the security forces carried out a large-scale military operation against ISIS strongholds in the areas of al-Sofiya, Joabiya and al-Took east of Ramadi, killing 16 elements of the organization and destructing nine booby-trapped vehicles.”
Mohammadi added, “The security forces are advancing in the eastern axis of Ramadi backed by the coalition aviation,” pointing out that, “The number of ISIS elements in the eastern areas of Ramadi does not exceed 200 insurgents, while the number of families besieged by ISIS in those areas reaches 700 families.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi, announced on Wednesday the complete liberation of the area of Albu Aitha northeast of Ramadi.
Mahalawi said in a brief statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The joint security forces managed to liberate the area of Albu Aitha completely and raised the Iraqi flag over one of its buildings,” pointing out that, “The operation resulted in killing a number of ISIS elements.”
He added, “The joint forces gained full control over the area and began to put fortifications in the area.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Wednesday, Joint Special Operations Command announced, that 18 senior leader of the ISIS organization including the so-called Wali of Baghdad (Governor of Baghdad) had been either killed or wounded in an Iraqi air strike on their gathering in western Anbar.
The Joint Special Operations Command said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Falcons Intelligence Cell in the Ministry of Interior monitored the movements of the ISIS gangs, while detected the presence of a suspicious gathering of ISIS dangerous leaders in Gamaheer neighborhood in Qaim District,” adding that, “The Joint Special Operations Command planes shelled the gathering’s headquarters, killing 11 elements of the organization including the so-called Wali of Baghdad and seriously wounding seven others.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – A security source in Anbar province said on Wednesday, that dozens of ISIS elements had been killed in an aerial bombardment by the international coalition west of Ramadi.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition aviation, in coordination with the Seventh Brigade, bombed headquarters and vital sites belonging to the ISIS in the district of Kabisa in the city of Heet west of Ramadi.”
“The bombing resulted in killing dozens of ISIS elements, in addition to destroying a number of weaponry and vehicles for the organization,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Wednesday, a source in Anbar Operations Command announced, that the ISIS organization has executed four of its elements in western Anbar, after fleeing from the battles with the security forces in the city of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS organization executed four of its elements by firing squad in Hit District (70 km west of Ramadi), after fleeing from the city of Ramadi in the past few days,” adding that, “The ISIS organization threatened its elements in Anbar with death, in addition to burning their homes and detaining their families.”
Noteworthy, ISIS organization controlled most of Anbar cities, while the security forces begun wide cleansing battles and restored the city of Ramadi after fierce confrontations with the ISIS elements.
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[Daily Excelsior] Pakistain today detained Jaish- e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... , his brother and "several individuals" belonging to his dreaded outfit, which is suspected to have engineered the Pathankot terror attack, and sealed its offices after India demanded action, linking it to the fate of Foreign Secretary-level talks.
Lt Gen (Retired) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Minister for Frontier Regions, confirmed that "Azhar was enjugged
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[ALMANAR.LB] A jacket wallah killed 12 worshippers at a mosque in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... on Wednesday, security officials said, in an area regularly targeted by Nigeria's Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 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... s.
The blast struck the mosque in the village of Kouyape, in Kolofata district north near the Nigerian border, at around 5:30 am (0430 GMT) during morning prayers, a security source said.
Since July last year Cameroon's far north has been hit by a series of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to the Takfiri group, ISIL (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.... in Iraq and Levant).
"Eleven worshippers were killed at the scene. A twelfth died of his wounds in hospital," the security source said, adding that the attacker was praying alongside other worshippers when he went kaboom!.
Another source close to the security services confirmed the blast killed 12 people and the bomber.
The bombing came after two people were killed overnight in the same area in another attack blamed on Boko Haram, the security source said.
Cameroon has beefed up its military presence along the Nigerian border as part of a regional coalition, after years of doing little to stop Boko Haram fighters using its territory as a rear base to arm and equip themselves.
The group has increasingly targeted imams and traditional chiefs for their opposition to the Islamists.
Cameroon has meanwhile banned the Islamic veil in a bid to pre-empt suicide kabooms staged by attackers wearing the full-face veil.
Despite the offensives launched by regional forces, the group maintains strongholds in areas that are difficult to access, such as the Sambisa forest, the Mandara mountains and the numerous islands of Lake Chad.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Oil dived Tuesday close to $30 on abundant crude supplies, as OPEC member Nigeria called for an emergency meeting to address collapsing prices that have ravaged revenues.
In late afternoon deals, New York's benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for February delivery tanked to $30.10 a barrel, which was the lowest level since December 2, 2003.
Europe's Brent North Sea crude for February had earlier dived to $30.43, a point last seen on April 6, 2004.
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[Philippine News] Fighting broke out when Philippine troops encountered 20 heavily-armed Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province on Tuesday afternoon.
Col. Alan Arrojado said infantrymen encountered a group led by Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Ninok Sapari alias "Alkam" in Patikul town. He said, "The troops were conducting focused military operation and encountered 20 Abu Sayyaf members led by Ninok Sapari."
Arrojado said the troops initiated the attack and killed an undetermined number of casualties. The gun battle lasted for about five minutes, with Philippine troops killed or injured.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The delivery of ten thousand AK-47 assault rifles by Russia to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will be completed by this month, the officials said Wednesday.
A front man for the National Security Adviser, Tawab Ghorzang, said Deputy National Security Adviser Mohammad Sulaiman Kakar met with the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Alexander Mantytskiy in his office today.
He said the two sides discussed bilateral relations and joint fight against terrorism by Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Moscow.
Mr. Kakar also held talks over the Afghan peace efforts and Russia's military support to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), Ghorzang said, adding that Mr. Kakar emphasized on regional cooperation to combat terrorism.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... the Russian Ambassador said Moscow remains committed to support the Afghan government in reconciliation process with the anti-government armed bad boy grouips.
He also reaffirmed Moscow's support to Afghanistan in all sectors and informed the Deputy National Security Adviser regarding the delivery of ten thousand AK-47 Assault Rifles to Afghanistan this month.
This comes as the Afghan government has stepped up efforts to attract the regional as well as global support to equip the Afghan national security forces.
The delivery of the assault rifles is part of Russia's support to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan cops to fight the menace of terrorism.
"Russia has been consistently pursuing the policy of providing comprehensive assistance to Afghanistan in the establishment of a peaceful, independent, stable and self-sufficient state, free from terrorism and drugs," Russian President's special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov said late in December last year while informing regarding the dispatch of the rifles to the Afghan forces.
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[AA.TR] Three children were killed and another 25 people injured on Wednesday when Russian warplanes targeted a primary school in the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to local Civil Defense sources.
The sources, who are based in the targeted area, said that Russian Arclight airstrikes had been carried out in Aleppo's Zibdiya district.
Following the strikes, Syrian Civil Defense teams rushed to the area to help the victims.
"Russian warplanes, which have been targeting civilian areas, have now begun striking schools," local activist Ahmed Abu Ammar told Anadolu Agency, going on to note that a school in Anjara and a mosque in Aleppo had both recently been targeted by Russian warplanes.
He described the Russian strikes on residential areas as "Dire Revenge" for the Assad regime's recent failure to make significant military gains in Aleppo province.
On Monday, 17 people were killed and another 25 injured when Russian warplanes targeted a school in Anjara, a town in western Aleppo.
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What are Russia's consequences? The Chechens might rebel. Oh yeah....
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If Russians think of this at all, they think Beslan.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Wednesday, a source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced that, three elements of the Iraqi Army had been either killed or wounded by unknown gunfire south of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, shots were fired on a checkpoint belonging to the Iraqi Army from an unknown source in Latifiya area south of Baghdad, killing one of its elements and wounding two others.”
The source added, “The security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the Forensic Medicine Department, while a raid was carried out to find the source of the shooting.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Wednesday, a security source in the Ministry of Interior announced, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast near a popular market east of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a bomb exploded near a popular market in al-Obeidi District east of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding six others.”
He added, “An ambulance rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while the security force cordoned off the area and barred approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Wednesday, a source in the Iraqi police said, that a policeman had been killed by a militant attack in the district of al-Mada’an southeast of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A force from Baghdad police carried out a raid operation inside one of the fields in the district of al-Mada’an southeast of Baghdad,” noting that, “Unidentified militants left the field and opened their fire against the force resulting in the death of one of its elements immediately.”
“The force transferred the dead body of the policeman to the forensic medicine department, while continued its inspection operation in the area,” the source also added.
[Dhaka Tribune] District-based Islamic scholars have started identifying the members of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and snuffies in the mosque management committees across the country.
Primarily, they have identified several dozens of such mosques in Chittagong, Sylhet, Habiganj, Dinajpur, Bogra, Satkhira and Chandpur districts. After information on all the mosques are collected, the police will scrutinise those and take further action.
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"Stop it, or I will turn this armored force around and give you something to fight about!"
(IraqiNews.com) Basra – On Wednesday, a security source in Basra Province announced, that the armored security forces arrived in Basra to end the tribal conflicts and reinforce the province’s security, while a number of tribal figures indicated that the security reinforcements is part of Basra residents demands.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The Ministry of Defense sent an armored combat force accompanied by tanks and armored vehicle to Basra in order to end the tribal conflicts and reinforce the province’s security,” adding that, “The security force was deployed in the northern areas of Basra that witness frequent disputes.”
Meanwhile, Basra Council’s member Mujib al-Hassani said, “The security force was sent to Basra based on the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s instructions.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Wednesday, Kurdistan Democratic Party announced, that 11 elements of the ISIS organization were killed in armed clashes with a tribe south of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad).
Kurdistan Democratic Party’ Spokesman in Mosul Saeed Mamouzini said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, an armed clashes broke out between the elements of the ISIS organization and Jabour Tribe’s fighters in Qayyarah (55 km south of Mosul), killing 11 elements of the organization.”
Mamouzini added: “The clashes continue after the killing and the arrest of several members of the tribe.”
Noteworthy, Kurdistan Democratic Party announced on Saturday (2 January 2016), that the ISIS organization had executed 83 people from Jabour Tribe south of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad) on charges of cooperation with the security forces.
Jabour tribe is considered as one of the largest tribes that inhabits the Province of Nineveh.
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[ARA News] URFA – Turkish authorities announced on Wednesday the arrest of 68 suspects affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group across Turkey.
Turkish police detained the militants in raids in Ankara, Izmir on the Aegean, the town of Kilis, Sanliurfa close to Syria; Mersin on the Mediterranean, and the southern city of Adana.
This comes just one day after a suicide bombing hit Istanbul and left 10 people dead, mostly Germans.
In Ankara, police forces arrested 16 people who were suspected of planning a major attack in the capital, according to an official statement.
In Sanliurfa, 21 people were detained after being accused of planning an attack at an unspecified location in Turkey.
Three other suspected ISIS members were arrested on Wednesday in the southern resort city of Antalya. All three are Russian citizens, according to authorities.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Person or persons unknown hurled a hand grenade on the Islamabad office of local television channel, ARY News, on Wednesday evening, injuring a channel staffer.
According to ARY News, the attackers also shot up the office, injuring a non-linear editor working for the news channel.
In December last year, a similar attack outside another news channel, Dunya News' Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... bureau, had left three of the channel's employees injured.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Kind of a no-brainer there, nor should it be hard since the Dems are the anti-white party. Bad mouth us for culture and skin color long enough and eventually we'll catch on. You know, "white people be like dat."
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They will try to act as politicians to steal away the diverse supporters of Trump but having been lied to so many times Trump supporters will not be so easily deceived. Meanwhile Trump will have moved on making their efforts meaningless. Being an original thinker adept at communication he is far more effective and actually perceived as a natural leader. The man for our times.
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No secure border (you had 8 years with George in the WH), rubber stamping even more H1Bs. Yep, the GOPe and Chamber of Commerce certainly knows how to appeal to the 'working class'.
Details are slim prior to an official announcement, but here's what we know so far:
The terms offered by state and local government in Massachusetts weren't immediately clear. Another person familiar with the matter said GE could notify employees at its Fairfield, Conn., offices as soon as Wednesday. A GE spokesman declined to comment.
Boston's win came amid competition from New York officials, who hoped to bring the headquarters to Manhattan or Westchester County, and from Connecticut officials, who wanted to avoid losing one of its most iconic corporate citizens, if not its largest employer.
GE has complained before about Connecticut's high new corporate tax rate and its "inhospitable business climate," so the move comes as no surprise.
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When Boston is your low-cost, business-friendly alternative, you might want to rethink a few things.
Similarly, I was wondering how Boston was such a good place. Any comments from our local 'Burg correspondents?
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Well, Bobby, we do have a 'pub governor.
Boston, as a city isn't too bad. The cultural tone is first rate, the crime rate isn't too bad and the football team is quite good.
The weather does suck for a good part of the year but............
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Young, good food, summer --> winter over a weekend (but you can drive north to see fall early), high taxes, limited awareness of the civil war, aggressive drivers. Oh yes, white mountains are an easy drive away.
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I spent 1991 and 1992 working in Boston. I found it quite pleasant once I convinced peopl The Beverly Hillbilly was not a documentary.
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"aggressive drivers"?!?
Boston is the only place I've been, and that includes Paris, where the drivers will come up on the sidewalks after pedestrians... and I grew up in MA, so I know whereof I speak.
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My 1st time in Boston, I was coming out of the Lincoln tunnel when someone tried to pass me on the right in rush hour traffic. I was in the right lane and they had to give up because a mailbox was blockingg their path.
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It was common practice for drivers to use the breah-down lane as aa regular lane.
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01/14/2016 13:22
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My 1st time in Boston, I was coming out of the Lincoln tunnel when someone tried to pass me on the right in rush hour traffic.
Overtaking on the right via a turn lane, is legal in Georgia. It must be, no one is ever pulled over or ticketed.
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There was no turn lane. Sidewalk then wall. Got my attention.
Posted by: Sven the pelter ||
01/14/2016 14:02
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Sven, there is no Lincoln tunnel in Boston, Callahan or Sumner maybe?
Now I did get bumped deliberately on the Tobin bridge. When I stopped to confront the bumper he turned directly across my front to go down the off ramp onto Storrow Drive.
But Boston drivers are legendary for good reason. God help you if you try to go from the North Shore to Cape Cod on a Friday afternoon in Summer.
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01/14/2016 19:51
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I flew into Logan on my second trip requiring a rental car, heading north to Manchester. Made it out of the tunnel, on some elevated highway, MMOB in the second lane over... see something ahead, what is it? HOLY CRAP a shopping cart laying dead ahead! Cut left and fortunately no one occupying the same space at the same time in the Time and Space continuum... guy behind me not so lucky, bangs into cart that comes up next to me! Driving gods not angry with me that night but a long drive until I could check my shorts.
[THECOLLEGEFIX] At Pennsylvania State University, the public university is in the midst of a massive campaign that encourages students not only to watch what they say, lest they offend someone, but also to report any and all biased statements to campus officials.
“There is no place for hate, overt or subtle, at Penn State – such actions do not represent our mutually held values,” Eric Barron, president of Penn State, stated in a recent message to the campus community. Well, I'm offended. Rat bastards.
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I bet if they ever post the list of reports it reads like something out of the onion and further I suspect it nearly breaks the internet as non-students pile on to read and mock.
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OK, Fred. We need a microagression meter, with a logarithmic scale so we can see all the way from mega to femto agression. Kinda like a dB meter. Damn! Autobartender could build up one if he is on line.
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01/14/2016 14:57
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Well Hello 1984, come right in and make yourself comfortable.
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01/14/2016 16:42
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Too bad they weren't as sensitive to the victims of their pederast coaching staff.
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01/14/2016 19:58
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As the resident Penn State alumni here (in my handle)let me mention that the PSU alumni base is still quite fragmented from the Sandusky scandal and most folks have settled on where they place the blames and for what. For the record, I have looked at the facts and the hundreds of nameless trained professionals who signed off that it was a good idea to place at risk kids with the former coach have more responsibility than the old school football coach- but I feel no need to try to change opinions like Sgt above any longer...I face the same sniggering every time I go to an away game!
But to get to my bigger point, how does PSU plan to mediate between my POV and Sgt. D.T. above? I could easily consider that a MA... he/she could consider mine a MA. If we meet on campus and both express our opinions, who is the white hat and who is the black hat?
If I do trigger a micro aggression, please accept my micro apology... and as for PSUs Dean of fundraising? Please look for my micro donation in the mail.
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the guys in the black hats are the guys that failed to take appropriate action when they should have known that Sandusky was buggering little boys. The guys in the black hats are the guys that were and continue to be more concerned about a
Alumni funding and sports teams than the welfare of children who never had a chance to pay for college or become an Alumni donor.
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Sorry Sgt. Who are these people you speak of? State of Pennsylvania sure hasn't found a good reason to go to trial for anyone " not the monster" for over 4 years now? Educate me please...
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Does the above exchange require a new "micro aggression incident report" or do the comments get carried forward on the original, even though I don't yet have a incident request number? Is there an 800 number I can call?
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[THECOLLEGEFIX] At Pennsylvania State University, the public university is in the midst of a massive campaign that encourages students not only to watch what they say, lest they offend someone, but also to report any and all biased statements to campus officials.
