[Creeping Sharia] Over 750 Muslims and Catholics from the surrounding area gathered at the SABA Islamic Center on Monday, January 16, for a community event of hope and solidarity. Following the event, leaders from the two religious communities have agreed to form a local Muslim-Catholic Council.
"Let us commit to move forward together so that today’s prayer is not simply a symbolic gesture of good will, but rather, a promise to engage in an on-going dialogue of mutual understanding leading to friendship and common work," said Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, of the Diocese of San Jose during the event.
Bishop McGrath will appoint several Catholic members and the same will be appointed from members of the Muslim community. The Council will meet quarterly to plan and evaluate collaborative efforts. The multi-lateral aspects of their efforts will include:
Clergy-to-clergy. This would entail regular meetings between Catholic clergy and professional ministerial staff and Muslim clergy and professional staff. These conversations could be about topics that clergy deal with every day, things of professional interest, or possible projects that clergy might want to do together. Some sessions could talk about respective theology and culture, others about hotter items like Palestine. The Council would determine the curriculum of such conversations.
Religious Education; educator-to-educator. These conversations would be between Catholic educators and Muslim educators. Among them, school principals, administrators, religious educators, who would gather to talk about topics that would help respective Muslim and Catholic students understand and appreciate the nuances of religious traditions. It would also help plan and coordinate guest speakers to come to speak to students in classrooms.
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Goody. Still, it offers opportunities for Muslims to quietly decide to convert, a real risk for the Muslim side of the equation.
[FOX] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday that he was requiring health insurance companies to cover medically necessary abortions and most forms of contraception at no cost to women.
Cuomo’s announcement comes on the same day that over a million people around the world took to the streets to protest Donald Trump just hours into his presidency.
The ’Women's March’ attracted protesters who mostly sported pro-women and anti-Trump messages. Hundreds of "sister marches" were held in cities across the U.S. and internationally.
Cuomo took to Twitter to talk about his effort to "firmly secure access to reproductive health services in New York State."
[DavidWarrenOnline] Doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink. Admits to a germ phobia. Works twenty hours a day. This might be a crazy man.
Or possibly an android. But androids aren’t vain. And besides, he admits that he is vain, unlike the previous android. Prides himself especially on his "common sense." He also seems to have a sense of humour, and to be capable of self-deprecation. But hasn’t made a habit of it.
Extreme self-confidence; comfortable among strong-willed people.
He is very smart, very sharp, with that kind of intelligence that was made for survival on a stage. Quick on his feet; knows when to duck. And unlike a politician, when not to. (As I mentioned in a recent post, the public are good at judging pretty faces on their TVs; not so good at estimating intelligence.)
Remarkably candid. Doesn’t mind if you don’t like it.
Likes people in uniform, from generals to hotel cleaning staff. Knows how to wear a tuxedo; or a babe on his arm. Decidedly heterosexual. Likes strong women, too. (Women are discovering that sometimes a man is okay, for a change.)
Can do business with anybody, both in his imagination and in fact.
Bit of a temper on him: retaliates for slights. Can recall, but does not nurse a grudge. People who have actually known him for a long time say he is a warm, loyal, generous friend, who remembers birthdays. (Certainly well organized, in that way.)
And I have seen interviews with him from years ago, in which his political views were solicited, before he became a professional politician. (Once a hack, always a hack: I can’t stop myself inquiring into "background.") Those views have not changed: a "populist" then as now.
Doesn’t like wars. Knows they cost a lot of money. Would rather that no one got hurt.
Given to overstatement and wild exaggeration, but with enjoyment. Needs coaching on the understatement side.
Basically honest, in a businesslike way. Unlikely to commit crimes, once he knows what they are.
I have no reason to believe he is a gangster, apart from the fact he’s been in real estate, and often talks like a gangster. Also looks like a gangster, and dresses like one, and has a wife who looks like a moll, but I don’t think it’s fair to dwell on appearances. (Too, she looks absolutely gorgeous in powder blue.)
For that matter, most gangsters are refreshingly honest, when the stakes are low. Gratuitous dishonesty is for the general population, who never take big risks.
As protection rackets go, one is probably better off with gangsters than with minor-league bureaucrats, looking for something to enforce, if only to assuage their minor-league bureaucratic egos. Gangsters are happy to overlook the small stuff. They get big by focusing on the "bigly." We get small by focusing on the small change. Fortunately for us, gangsters create employment, and don’t make a scene unless they have to. (However, little-league gangsters can be a pest.)
Moses gave ten commandments, by the way. Only three are currently enforceable, and those only in carefully specified cases.
But there are more than 10,000 felonies on the U.S. books today (I saw an estimate somewhere, of nearly 17,000) -- from dwarf tossing (in Florida) to slow dancing (in a national park). They are currently increasing faster than 1,000 a year: a few by statute, the rest through regulatory codes. Goodness knows how many misdemeanours. Nanny State can always nail you for something.
Nineteen in twenty convictions are by plea bargain; 97 percent of charges stick in some form (approximately the level in Stalin’s Russia). And this despite sometimes slovenly police. Tens of millions of convicted felons; about 7 million currently in gaol or on parole; well over a million busy lawyers. Just think if they had proper trials.
So yes, the people in the inaugural crowd who shouted that Hillary should go to gaol, had a point. And Donald should surely go there, too. So should everybody. Indeed, it is conventionally Christian to observe, that we all deserve to hang.
I listened carefully to the inaugural speech. You had to be a foreigner to appreciate it. To such an one, it sounded as if the new Chief Executive conceives of Natted States Merica as one yuge protection racket. As I said: better to be in than out.
And on reasons hinted, I think this is for the best. The previous Chief was a fusspot, a nickel-and-dime man, lacking the strategic vision. He was never sure whose side he was on. He set some sort of record for new laws. High time to simplify things.
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yes good observations all. Better to have a tough guy who thinks big and is on YOUR side at the helm. He is not confused which side he is on, like Obama.
[Boston Herald] WASHINGTON -- The inaugural speech was "dark" -- that’s the storyline among the Democrats and their allies in the Fake News industry. It was "radical," "Hitlerian," or maybe Mussolini-ian -- or both, according to Comrade Chris Matthews.
But mostly it was dark. What else could it have been? If it was all sweetness and light in America, how far would Donald J. Trump have gotten in his campaign?
He had half as much money as the kleptocracy’s handpicked candidate. The alt-left media’s coverage of him was 90 percent negative, when they weren’t just making up fake news pure and simple.
Because the country was in a dark, dark place. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Yesterday was the dawn.
Trump said "America first." Twice! Hillary Clinton was giving him the evil eye. I hadn’t seen her this angry since maybe 10 minutes earlier, when she caught her "husband" staring at Melania Trump, or maybe it was Ivanka Trump, or maybe it was both.
Brevity truly is the soul of wit, and even more so, great speeches. Barack Obama couldn’t even finish clearing his throat in 14 minutes. But Trump hit all the right notes. And he only said "I" three times.
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I thought the speech was blunt, clear, and gave no hope whatsoever to anyone who thought that Trump was just woofing during the campaign. We're just so used to hearing nuanced double-talk that the speech had a surprising quality to it.
And I thought Trump very clearly defined his role as he sees it: he is an American president, not a citizen of the world who's going to stop the seas from rising. After the last eight years the idea of the president of America actively promoting American interests is truly shocking.
To me the key thing is the growth rate. If a year from now the GDP is growing at a no-bullshit 4% clip -- which is a really tall order from where we are now-- the deficit starts to shrink, the country looks more economically stable, and foreign investors are lining up to take a number.
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The state of the union address is going to be interesting.
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I suspect, as in many, a contributor to the confusion may be the new DNS stable HTTPS: protocol. Thank you ICANNt. Notice the browser URL banner changes to SECURE HTTPS: when you are rerouted to Google.
[Wash Times] Radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners on Friday that President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech further solidified his belief that a "reclamation" of America’s founding principles is underway.
Inauguration Day analysis was on the docket for "The Rush Limbaugh Show" leading into the weekend, and the man behind the "golden EIB microphone" was "taken aback" by what he heard. The conservative host said he was pleased that God is "on full display" without anyone apologizing, along with Mr. Trump’s ongoing attacks on globalism.
"There’s a reclamation of the country taking place," Mr. Limbaugh said. "And by reclamation of the country, I mean that the people who honor the time-honored institutions and traditions of this country from its founding are reclaiming this country from efforts made by others to eliminate those institutions and traditions or to water them down, and to transform this country away from what it was intended to be from its founding forward. I think that’s what these last eight years have been."
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#9 JFM: You're in France, right? (Or maybe Germany, I forget - sorry.)
It's unspeakably pathetic that our Rantburgers from foreign countries know MORE about U.S. history than native-born and "educated" so-called Americans, particularly those of the Left.
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Common Core is a globalist indoctrination, not American education.
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As to "allowed out without paying bail" it will be tricky getting a conviction from a hypothetical DC jury, but these are frequent flyers all, and next time around, in a "real" state, they have skipped bail on Felony Riot charges, re-offended, and bad things start to happen.
"Dans ce pay-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres."
Every city needs to round up a gaggle of scum, and put them through a bit of "convict boot camp". Or, as Ronnie Johns (playing "Chopper Reed") would say, "Harden the f#&K up"
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Of course, even if they bother to show up for trial, get convicted and sentenced (all unlikely), if a Democrat takes over in 2020, his or her first act will be to commute their sentences. And award them the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their "heroic" acts.
And how the heck do you get released on your own recognizance on a FELONY charge?
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Failure to show ends up with an outstanding bench warrant applicable to all 50 states. Nothing like giving the 'man' the means to screw with you anytime, anyplace.
[Ynet] The Paleostinians on the Gazoo street no longer believe that their living conditions will ever improve. The fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... protests of the past few days are an uprising in the making and have exposed, for the first time, the potential of toppling the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", government from the inside.
When thousands of members of "The Young" movement marched last Thursday on the streets of Jabalia in the Gazoo Strip, chanting the battle cry of the Tahrir Square, "Al sha'ab yureed iskat al-nizam" (the people want the fall of the regime), they attracted the attention of quite a few people in the Israeli defense establishment. There was a feeling that we are witnessing a rerun of the Arab Spring, threatening the Hamas regime this time.
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[NBC] The curious decline and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.
Long, statistics-filled analysis of where they are, how they got there, and what the future likely holds. The first thing I've seen that doesn't blame it on Russian hacking or Republican cheating. Conclusion:
No matter what, Democrats will need to reinforce their decaying state and local party apparatuses to build power outside cities. Conservatives understood the importance of these down-ballot races years ago and have invested heavily in them, while Democrats tended to concentrate on the presidency and interest-group specific causes.
Party leaders seem to have recognized the error and have the new Obama-backed effort to win state legislatures ahead of the next round of redistricting in 2020. If successful, the party will lessen the headwind of Republican gerrymandering, though they will still have their own self-gerrymandering to worry about.
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If you Chuck "Dick" Schumer's speech Friday, you know they haven't learned anything. Which is good
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That is why the Democrats pulled out the women card and got as many marching as possible (with pro-life women excluded). They need to keep their interest groups on the plantation.
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..Let me add something here: I think we're going to find out in the next six to eight months or so just how bad the financial situation is in some of the great Democratic strongholds - we know it's bad, but I suspect it's far, far worse than we've been told and the leadership of those cities have been desperately keeping a lid on it in the expectation that Malificent was going to win the election and bail them out when it hit the fan.
Once that gets exposed, the people responsible will either be on trial or on the run from an enraged nation and President. 2020? Hah. Try more like 2052 before they'll be able to mount a credible Presidential campaign.
/just my .02; YMMV
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Yup, under invested pension funds will run dry for one thing.
[PJ] If one event can symbolize the incoherence of the Obama administration's support for the so-called "vetted moderate" rebels in Syria, it would be one of Obama's last acts in his last full day in office.
On Friday the Pentagon reported that they had struck a terror training camp near Idlib, killing more than one hundred Al-Qaeda terrorists.
The wrinkle is that several members of a group that had previously been backed by the CIA and received TOW missiles as part of an Obama administration program--and were at the camp and embedded with Al-Qaeda--were also killed.
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Wasn't that long ago Obama was trying to ship arms to Syrian rebels embedded with AQ. Smartest man in the room. /sarc
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Brennan and Champ are all finished with them now. No sense leaving the 'hit men' standing, and what's do be done with all of that gear. Dead men tell no tales, and all of that.
[AlAhram] At least two copperswere maimed Saturday in festivities between security forces and unknown bandidosturbans in North Sinai, state owned news agency MENA reported, citing security sources.
In press statements, security sources said that festivities erupted in al-Arish and extended to a North Sinai highway, leading to the wounding of several coppers.
According to the sources, a North Sinai security directorate deputy in the investigation department and several conscripts were among those injured.
They were transferred to hospitals to receive medical treatment.
The sources said that the "terrorist elements" opened fire on a police contingent during a security raid, leading to major festivities with heavy gunfire as police forces responded.
Police were combing surrounding areas to arrest the bandidosturbans responsible.
The interior ministry has yet to release a statement on the incident.
The attack comes nearly a week after Egypt’s interior ministry announced it had killed a leading figure in the Sinai based terrorist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis during a raid on a house in the governorate.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has grabbed credit for the majority of attacks against security personnel and installations in the restive North Sinai.
[Ynet] Eight people were killed on Saturday after a shell landed on a house in southern Rafah, in the north of Sinai, eye witnesses and medical sources said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack and witnesses and medical sources said the source of the shell was unknown. Rafah is on the border with Gaza.
Egyptian forces have been fighting an Islamist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula which has gained pace since the military toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest Islamist movement, in 2013
[Ynet] Turkish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for more than 400 people, including soldiers and security officers, in 48 provinces across the country following July's failed coup, broadcaster Haberturk said on Saturday.
They were being sought on suspicion of using Bylock, an encrypted smartphone messaging app that the government says was used by the network of Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... who is alleged by Ankara to have orchestrated the attempted coup, Haberturk reported.
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[Breitbart] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, forces have jugged Please don't kill me! 22 members of its military wing en route to join Welayat Sinai,
...previously known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, currently affiliated with ISIS, before that pledging their blood and their lives to Al Qaeda...
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.... affiliate in the Egyptian peninsula, a top official in Gazoo told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Eighteen turbans, two of them senior operatives, were arrested in the city of Rafah, near the Egyptian border. Another four, one of them a senior turban, were arrested in Gazoo City and its environs. They were all interrogated by Hamas police.
The official said that Hamas set up an "ideological watchdog" in the wake of growing sympathies for radical jihadism among its members, especially the group’s so-called military wing.
Suspected IS loyalists are turned over to Hamas "reeducation committees," while more senior members are first arrested and interrogated, then assessed by the committees and eventually "pardoned," the official said.
IS, for its part, has started turning to disgruntled Hamas activists as a recruitment source. The organization is targeting them on social media, as well as publishing names and pictures of former Hamas members who were killed in action in Sinai in a bid to embarrass the Egyptian government.
Since last year, dozens of Hamas turbans, including several very senior ones, have defected to join IS ranks.
Hamas retaliated by arresting hundreds of IS loyalists in Gazoo. The arrests involved at least one exchange of gunfire.
Asked for comment on the arrests, Iyad Albuzum, a spokesperson for Hamas’ Interior Ministry, told Breitbart Jerusalem he could not provide details about actions taken by the security services.
[DeutscheWelle] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... recognizes it is no longer "realistic" to reach a solution to the conflict in Syria without Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , a top Turkish official said on Friday.
"We have to be pragmatic, realistic. The facts on the ground have changed dramatically," Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said at a panel on Syria and Iraq at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... . "Turkey can no longer insist on a settlement without Assad. It is not realistic."
As one of the main rebel backers, Turkey has long insisted al-Assad step down as part of any political solution to the nearly six-year civil war. But Ankara has refined its stance towards Syria in recent months, standing by as Aleppo fell to the regime and reconciling with the Syrian president's main backer Russia.
[The Hill] Former CIA Director John Brennan was reportedly "deeply saddened" by President Trump's remarks at the Central Intelligence Agency on Saturday.
According to former CIA deputy chief of staff Nick Shapiro, Brennan believes that Trump "should be ashamed of himself" for his "display of simple facts self-aggrandizement."
"Former CIA director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes. Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself," Shapiro said in a pair of tweets.
During his remarks on Saturday, Trump took the opportunity to blast the media for their coverage of the inauguration, accusing news networks of lying about the size of the crowd that attended the event.
"Honestly it looked like a million and half people, whatever it was it was. But it went all the way back to the Washington Monument ... and by mistake I get this network and it showed an empty field, and it said we drew 250,000 people. Now that's not bad, but its a lie," Trump said.
Trump also denied having a "feud" with the intelligence community, blaming it on "dishonest" media and vowing to strongly support intelligence officials.
"As you know I have a running war with the media," Trump said. Now you know, that I know, so please muzzle your dogs.
"They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. And just want to let you know that the reason you’re the No. 1 stop is exactly the opposite."
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During his remarks on Saturday, Trump took the opportunity to blast the media for their coverage of the inauguration, accusing news networks of lying about the size of the crowd that attended the event.
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Be advised ladies and gentlemen, I know what disinformation looks like.
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While the left works the donors, Hollywood, and msm, Trump works the grass roots. Started day 1 of his campaign, started day 1 in office. The secret to his success.
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Anon, I think there is a difference between a feud with the CIA leadership, Brennan, and the CIA community-the rank and file. The CIA is full of hard working Americans that care for our nation. The leadership has become political and needs to be fixed.
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In an analogy to waste water treatment, the scum that settles on top of the secondary cell or clarifier, must be skimmed off and returned to the mixed liquor in the primary cell, for further aeration and broken down into CO2 and H2O
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This campaign has caused me to return to the primary cell mixed liquor.
[Breitbart] Legendary interviewer Larry King assured fans that he was not hurt after protesters objecting to the peaceful transfer of power between presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump smashed in the windows of his car.
"Protestors in DC smashed the windows of my hired SUV & many other cars," King posted on Twitter. "I was working in-studio & am ok, but my driver is a bit rattled."
- Scarlett Johansson was seven minutes into her speech when her mic was cut off
- She was visibly annoyed and tried to shrug it off before complaining to a friend
- The 32-year-old said she would support Trump if he supported women's rights
- Johansson called on the president to allow her daughter to have the same access to services and 'privileges' that Ivanka Trump had during her youth Note to activists. Never ever diss one of your own (hopefully in perception only) when they are behind enemy lines.
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Scarlett Johansson has an estimated net worth of $80 million. Perhaps she might like to consider using her own money to pay for her daughters "privileges".
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I sure hope the girls get back from the march in time to clean up the kitchen...I have friends coming over later to watch football and we are going to need some hot snacks!!!
I need some shirts ironed for work this week too.
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I was especially moved by the vast sea of signs asking that women be given the same right as men to be drafted and to be able to serve their country in time of war.........not!!
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Actually Scarlett was by far the most respectful and least insulting speakers at the march (for contrast, see Ashley "nasty woman" Judd). Trump should invite her to the WH and pretend to listen to her.
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Actually Scarlett was by far the most respectful and least insulting speakers at the march...
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My comment on Facebook was that Ashley Judd needs to up her meds.
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Rambler in Virginia, The right they truly care about is the right for blacks to abort their babies in large numbers because that is primarily who is getting the abortions at Planned Parenthood.
Trump needs to let folks know they are promoting racist genocide wrapped in women's rights and split the African-Americans away from the Democrat plantation.
A spokesman for the Secret Service told The Gateway Pundit the agency is aware of the comment by aging pop star Madonna made at a large liberal women’s protest against President Donald Trump held in Washington, D.C., Saturday, that she has "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." The spokesman said an investigation would be opened but that the decision to prosecute rests with the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Transcript from the video excerpt of Madonna’s speech made at the Women’s March on Washington which appeared to be from prepared remarks.
"I’m angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. (Crowd cheers.) But I know that this won’t change anything. We cannot fall into despair. As the poet W. H. Auden once wrote on the eve of World War Two, "We must love one another or die." I choose love. Are you with me? (Crowd cheers.) Say this with me: We choose love!...We choose love!...We choose love!"
1. video of Madonna saying the thing she is accused of saying.
2. article in magazine of interview in which Madonna confirms she said that thing and is proud of it [OR that she is sorry she said it, because it was dumb.]
3. Recommendation: Trace her web of telephone and internet contacts. Unless she turns out to be connected to groups involved with violence, ignore the silly, self-important performer, as she lacks the skills or contacts to achieve her claimed goal. What she really wants is attention.
[Guardian] Donald Trump is actually giving Mexican workers more reason to head to the US, not less.
In Mexico it is known as "el efecto Trump": a barrage of taunts and tweets that rattle the economy and hammer the peso. For the new president, it is part of a strategy to pressure companies to move jobs back to the United States. Mexico’s job will be to suck it up, accept the millions of people Trump has promised to deport, and pay for the proposed border wall.
Reality may soon disrupt this vision because Donald Trump, in one of the first great ironies of his presidency, has given impoverished Mexicans more reason to migrate to the US.
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re #6: Raj, I seem to recall that there was a time where we stationed armed military on the border. Unfortunately, one of the troops shot a teenager who was out hunting, which ended the exercise.
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Police arrested 217 people in Washington D.C., on Friday after Inauguration Day protests turned into a full-scale riot.
The anti-President Donald Trump protests began largely peaceful Friday morning, but after Trump's noon swearing in, the protests became increasingly violent before they descended into a riot.
Rioters set fire to newsstands and trash cans in the middle of some D.C. streets, while others lit car fires, smashed business windows and injured police officers. and the rioters all had similar gear and clothing - who organized and funded the riot?
Israel's leader has recorded a conciliatory message to the people of Iran, saying, "we are your friend, not your enemy."
In the video uploaded to his Facebook page Saturday, Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the people of Iran in English, with Farsi subtitles. He says he will soon discuss with President Donald Trump how to counter the threat of an Iranian regime that calls for Israel's destruction, but that he distinguishes between the regime and the people.
"You have a proud history. You have a rich culture. Tragically, you are shackled by a theocratic tyranny," he says.
Israel regards Iran as its most dangerous adversary because of its nuclear program, development of long-range missiles and continued support for militant groups. Netanyahu considers a nuclear-armed Iran a threat to his country's very existence.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Turkish 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.... member that was filmed burning two Turkish soldiers alive in Syria this year was reportedly imprisoned in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in 2012 and 2015, Dogan News Agency claimed on Saturday.
Aydin was reportedly a known Islamic State terrorist, but was still released by the Turkish authorities in both 2012 and 2015.
According to the Dogan News Agency, Aydin disappeared in May 2015 and was later discovered to have joined the Islamic State in Menbeij, Aleppo.
Aydin is still at-large and his whereabouts are still unknown, despite the cooperation of his family in Turkey.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two Afghan refugees have been nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on charges of sexually abusing a female university student in Delhi, the capital city of India, it has been reported.
The two men have been identified as 27-year-old Twaab Ahmad and 31-year-old Sulaiman Ahmadi.
The victim, a 21-year-old student of Jawaharlal Nehru University was reportedly drugged and sexually abused by the two men who met her at a pub in the city.
Chinmoy Biswal, additional deputy commissioner of police (south), quoted in a report by Hindustan Times, said that the arrested men were living in Delhi on United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards.
Biswal further added that Twaab was working as an event manager.
The victim was reportedly invited by the men to their apartment after they met in the pub.
Police officials have said the men and the victim had drinks in the apartment of the perpetrators and she found that she was gang-raped after waking up in the morning.
The woman has reportedly taken to a hospital for examination and the two men have been sent to Tihar jail after appearing before a Delhi court.
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The victim was reportedly invited by the men to their apartment after they met in the pub.
Police officials have said the men and the victim had drinks in the apartment of the perpetrators and she found that she was gang-raped after waking up in the morning.
Well it's good to know that stupid isn't unique to the European strains.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) foiled a massive assault by the Turkish Armed Forces in the Al-Bab countryside on Friday, putting a temporary end to their military operations in east Aleppo.
ISIS showed off photos of this failed Turkish Army assault on Friday, posting pictures of destroyed Leopard tanks and other armored vehicles near the town of Al-Sulfaniyah in eastern Al-Bab.
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Gonna take a while for the "New Turkish Army" to learn this schtuff.
[TIMESOFISRAEL] In a recent Friday sermon in the Gazoo Strip, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", MP Marwan Abu Ras accused Jews of recruiting hookers into the army "in order to lure Arabs into their traps," and further added that Jewish leaders send "AIDS-infected girls to fornicate with Moslem youths."
During the sermon, which was delivered on January 6 and was broadcast on Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV, Abu Ras also claimed that the Jewish state allowed drugs and tobacco to be smuggled through tunnels into Gazoo, while purposefully preventing the entry of essential goods.
"Do you know what commodity enters Gazoo in large quantities, with the blessings of the enemy? It is drugs," said Abu Ras. "Drugs only. The second commodity is tobacco. Those who want to smuggle drugs or tobacco into Gazoo can do so freely, but to smuggle a useful commodity into Gazoo? That is forbidden."
According to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the Hamas MP went on to attack Jews on the lam for spreading "filthy pornographic movies and websites."
Abu Ras concluded his sermon with an assurance to the crowd that the Jewish state would soon be defeated, adding a prayer that the "criminal Jews" and those who support them would be eliminated.
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[Al Jazeera] Two jacket wallahs have blown themselves up in a confrontation with security forces in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's second city of Jeddah, local media reported.
Sabq, a news website affiliated with the kingdom's Interior Ministry, reported on Saturday that security officers surrounded a house in Jeddah and exchanged fire with two men, who then detonated explosives that images showed completely destroyed the home.
[DAILYCALLER] Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers behind Saturday’s Women’s March, being held in Washington, D.C., was recently spotted at a large Moslem convention in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... posing for pictures with an accused financier for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the terrorist group.
Sarsour, the head of the Arab American Association of New York and an Obama White House "Champion of Change," was speaking at last month’s 15th annual convention of the Moslem American Society and Islamic Circle of North America.
While there, she posed for a picture with Salah Sarsour, a member of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and former Hamas operative who was nabbed Please don't kill me! in Israel in the 1990s because of his alleged work for the terrorist group.
Salah Sarsour, who is also a board member of American Moslems for Paleostine, served as a bodyguard of sorts at the convention for Sumeyye Erdogan Bayraktar, the daughter of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s president, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... .
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Democratic Party brings Jews & Muslims together - do Muslims have to bring their own knives?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan High Peace Council (AHPC) Chief Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani passed way, it has been reported.
Gilani was an influential political and religious leader and was reportedly suffering from an illness.
Sources close to Gilani have said he passed way as he was receiving treatment in the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) hospital.
Gilani assumed charged of the Afghan High Peace Council late in the month of February last year.
He assumed charge of the High Peace Council almost a month after the major donors including the United States and United Kingdom suspended their financial aid to the council earlier last year.
According to the council officials, the donors suspended financial support to the High Peace Council since the beginning of the last year, citing lack of chairman for almost a year and issues within the secretariat of the council.
Gilani assumed charge of the High Peace Council amid ongoing efforts by Quadrilateral Coordination Group involving representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistain, United States and China to revive direct peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban groups.
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Burundi and the African Union have signed a deal to renew the mandate of Burundian peacekeeping troops in Somalia, the bloc said Friday.
Amazing what happens when you not just threaten to pick up and leave but start packing the vans...
The move comes more than two months after Burundi said it would withdraw all its troops on duty in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) due to a dispute with the European Union over the payment of salaries.
“I thank the Burundi Ppl for their legendary hospitality & Govt for fruitful visit. Agreement reached; Burundi Peacekeepers will stay in Somalia,” tweeted Smail Chergui, the African Union’s commissioner for peace and security.
“Africa is grateful for sacrifices made by Burundi & all AMISOM TCCs for peace in Somalia. We also deeply appreciate EU’s critical support,” he added, using the acronym for troop contributing countries.
Chergui also said that very soon AMISOM’s Burundian troops will receive their allowances, local media reported.
Which means Mr. Big must have already received his...
“I have just received Chergui, African Union commissioner for peace and security, with whom I have had fruitful exchanges. The question of the salary of our troops in Somalia is settled,” Burundi’s First Vice-President Gaston Sindimwo told a press conference in the capital Bujumbura.
“We are satisfied, we have discussed well with Chergui, and a memorandum of understanding has been signed,” he said.
In March 2016, the EU suspended direct aid to Burundi, including funds for its peacekeeping contingent in AMISOM. Burundian troops have not been paid for 12 months, Gaston Sindimwo said Tuesday.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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.... (ISIS) launched a powerful assault last night in the Deir Ezzor Governorate, targeting the strategic military airport under the control of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
ISIS stormed the military airport at 9:30 P.M. (Damascus Time) last night, striking the southern flank of this installation from their positions at the rocket battalion base.
In response to the Islamic State offensive last night, the Russian and Syrian air forces stepped up their attacks over Deir Ezzor, launching over 40 Arclight airstrikes against terrorist targets in this desert province.
No gains were reported by either side last night, despite the intensity of the Islamic State attack on the military airport.
The Islamic State launched this offensive at the military airport after they foiled the large-scale advance by the Syrian Arab Army in the Panorama and cemetery areas.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] Algerian anti-terrorism troops on Friday discovered a load of war weapons in the province of Tamanrasset, near the Malian border, while a group of six terror-supporting individuals were nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the province of corpse-littered Boumerdes, defense ministry said on Saturday.
Army troops deployed near the border with Mali discovered a terror bunker containing 22 war weapons and ammunition, said the ministry. Rocket launchers, machine guns of different calibers, and ammunition were retrieved.
This operation shows the commitment and determination of the People's National Army to secure the border and foil any attempt harming the integrity and security of national territory, the ministry said.
Elsewhere, in the northern province of corpse-littered Boumerdes, 55 km east of Algiers, six individuals were arrested over charges of providing support to terrorist groups.
This operation was conducted by joint security forces, as part of counter-terrorism efforts of army troops, the ministry said.
Located in a region plagued by unprecedented security and political instability, Algeria faces ongoing terrorist threats.
A few faceless myrmidons affiliated to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and recently established 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.... affiliate group of Caliphate Soldiers are still taking refuge in the woods of central provinces, including Bouira, corpse-littered Boumerdes and blood-stained Tizi Ouzou east of Algiers in addition to desert areas near the troubled Libya and Mali.
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[ABC.NET.AU] When Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... arrived at the inaugural luncheon following his swearing-in as US President, he immediately shook hands with his election rival Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... , who was sitting with members of his family.
"There is something that I wanted to say," he told those who had gathered.
"I was very honoured -- very, very honoured -- when I heard that President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... and Secretary Hillary Clinton was coming today.
"I'd like you to stand up, I'd like you to stand up."
What followed was a standing ovation, but it wasn't the one that Mrs Clinton had been looking forward to getting on January 20, 2017, before her dream of returning to the White House -- this time as president rather than first lady -- was shattered last November.
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"There is something that I wanted to say," he told those who had gathered.
"And that is, it looks like you ended up in the same seat you had in 2012."
I'm sure Bill spent more time "admiring" (putting it loosely) and "valuing" (again, putting it loosely) women (...uh...putting it loosely) other than Hillary than he did her.
If she wants to claim the title, I'm guessing its more akin to "interim head coach" than it was a permanent position.
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For me the most glorious thing of the entire inauguration was watching Bill and Hillary leave the capital and get into a single sedan to drive away the end of great expectations and return to being almost unimportant. Everything they do has the undercurrent of power and access, which can be bought. When they are clearly relegated to sideline mementos of past significance no one wants to pay for their silly speeches or fund that ridiculous bribery fund masquerading as a charity. Huma waited outside and Bill will go back to serial lechery as they slide into insignificance. Thank God!
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The most corrupt American politicians since Boss Tweed and Huey Long. They are vile and what they did to our country and the rule of law is obscene. The deserve nothing better than to be smeared with honey and staked over a fire ants nest in the sun.
[Libya Observer] A boom-mobile has went kaboom! nearby the Qasir Libya Hotel ‐ al-Dahra, an area close to the Italian embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... A security source said that the man who carried out the blast in al-Dahra neighborhood, Tripoli, parked his car in the middle of the road near the Planning Ministry after he had been chased by the security personnel tasked to secure the Italian embassy.
"He was chased as he was rendered a suspect when he tried to park next to the Italian embassy." The source added.
The Red Islamic Thingy said they recovered two bodies from the went kaboom! car for the driver and his lover companion.
No further details about casualties have been reported yet.
Observers say targeting the Italian embassy days after reopening in Tripoli is a strong message to the Italians to reconsider their political agenda.
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[al-Monitor] Lebanese soldiers arrested a would-be suicide bomber inside a crowded cafe in one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the capital Beirut on Saturday night, security sources told AFP.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a man wearing an explosive bomb belt had been detained by authorities after entering a coffee shop in the upscale Hamra neighbourhood in west Beirut.
The cafe is on the main street of the bustling area, and was filled with people socialising on a weekend evening when the arrest occurred around 2100 GMT.
The sources said the man was being followed by security forces, who have stepped up foot patrols in the neighborhood in recent weeks. The man was injured during the arrest, with several soldiers holding him down to ensure he was not able to detonate the belt, one security source said. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment before interrogation, the sources added.
Lebanon has been hit by a string of bomb attacks in recent years, with some linked to the ongoing war in neighbouring Syria. Some of the deadliest blasts have targeted neighbourhoods sympathetic to the powerful Shiite Hezbollah movement, which is fighting alongside Syria's government against an uprising. The casualties in the blasts have been almost exclusively civilians.
The Hamra neighbourhood, a district known for shopping and nightlife, has not previously been hit by an attack.
But in June 2016, the army said it had arrested jihadists from the Islamic State group planning attacks against busy areas, including Hamra. An AFP correspondent in Hamra said a heavy security presence remained in place with the cafe and several nearby restaurants closing after the incident.
But residents could still be seen on the street, which was reopened to traffic around an hour after the arrest.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] Sudan government on Saturday welcomed the inauguration of the new United States President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , reiterating commitment to dialogue with the new U.S. administration, Sudan's Ashorooq Net reported.
Donald Trump was inaugurated on Friday as the 45th president of the U.S..
"Sudan will continue what it has started of dialogue with the U.S. on bases of the trust built between the two sides," Ibrahim Ghandour, Sudan's foreign minister, was quoted as saying.
"We do not expect change in the U.S. external policy as it is a state of institutions," he added.
The Sudanese minister reiterated that his country would continue dialogue with President Trump's administration until reaching full lifting of sanctions, including the removal of Sudan from the U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
That's easy enough: stop spreading terrorism...
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[al-Monitor] Egypt's religious scholars are up in arms over a new film that takes on the nation's sheikhs and mosque preachers. The film, called "Mawlana" ("Preacher"), has been screened at cinemas nationwide since Jan. 4. It has stirred up controversy among Islamic scholars who accuse its makers of tarnishing their reputation and call for it to be pulled from theaters.
"Works that address religious texts should be reviewed by religious institutions before being made into films," Shoukri el-Guindi, a member of the parliament's Religious Affairs Committee, wrote on Facebook. "Inside these institutions, there are wise people who love their religion and their homeland, not ones who only follow their personal interests."
He said religious scholars should not be turned into film characters and that their sanctity must be respected, asking, "Will the public follow these religious scholars if they are portrayed as lustful figures ... and hypocrites?"
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Will the public follow these religious scholars if they are portrayed as lustful figures ... and hypocrites?
And here we have the crux of the issue for all things and people, political or religious. .
Is it the portrayal, or is it the reality?
Everyone written about in any religious text or history book or news paper etc. is being portrayed by someone else. The question is "how close to reality is the portrayal" and how much is the narrative?
For some in the Clinton orbit, the 2016 cycle has not ended. In fact, Hillary Clinton’s stunning upset loss to President Donald J. Trump seems to have prompted some of her top allies to open another front to defeat the president through impeachment. Joe Schoffstall and Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon have obtained a confidential memo from longtime Clinton ally David Brock that alleges he will use his PAC, American Bridge, to set the wheels in motion.
This will be a multi-year project, with Brock hoping that articles of impeachment against Trump will come out of their work. He also hopes to build a network of donors that rivals the right-leaning Koch Brothers:
Brock is currently at the Turnberry Isle Resort in Aventura, Fla. for a weekend conference with more than 100 major liberal donors. Attendees are mapping out a course to combat the newly sworn-in president.
According to the private and confidential memo, Brock plans to defeat Trump "through impeachment," using American Bridge, his liberal super PAC, as the main vehicle to do so.
"No other progressive organization has the resources and assets that American Bridge has amassed over the past several election cycles to hold Trump, his administration, and the politicians accountable," the 44-page confidential memo states.
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Yeesh. Given all their breathless hype about what would happen if Trump got the nuclear codes, you'd think they'd be afraid to even think about this kind of thing.
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Oh my gosh! Aren't the worried Trump will put them on a blacklist, or send them to a camp? No, no - not a summer camp, one with a barbed wire enclosure.
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The problem with the plan of impeachment in the next 4 years is it has to go through congress. Two years from now during the next congressional election the map is not favorable to the demoncrats and they won't get back the house, which is necessary to start the impeachment.
They also have to win the senate, which is possible but difficult, but there is no way they will get a 2/3 vote to impeach.
The only sweet spot for them to actually do this is if Trump wins ANOTHER term and then the demoncrats win back congress in the 6th year and manage to convince a lot of Republican Senators that Trump is a crook.
Soo... pie in the sky liberal wet dream meets shitty plan and while both are doing nasty things with each other in liberal's brains, reality runs over everyone with a tank.
[Al Jazeera] A kaboom struck the Rakban camp for displaced people in Syria near the border with Jordan on Saturday, causing injuries and deaths, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor.
The camp is home to displaced civilians and to rebel groups that fight both Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) gang, and was targeted by bombings last year.
Jordan's official Petra news agency, citing a military source, confirmed that an kaboom went off inside the camp.
Syrian local media said the blast was caused by a boom-mobile and caused deaths and injuries.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Diyala Police Command announced on Saturday conducting several security operations and arresting seven persons wanted on criminal and terrorism charges in different areas of the province.
The Command said in a press statement, “Security forces from Diyala police, emergency regiments and Diyala Intelligence detachments carried out, at noon today, security operations in different areas in Baqubah, al-Wajihiyah, Hamrin and Habhab, resulting in the capture of seven persons wanted on criminal and terrorism charges.”
“The operations were carried out based on accurate intelligence information and arrest warrants issued by the concerned courts,” the statement explained.
“The arrested persons were transferred to a security center for interrogation,” the statement further added.
Large areas of Diyala province were occupied by the Islamic State, then liberated by security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] Visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari thanked Saturday Leb's support for Iraq in regional and international arenas, pointing that his country "has no desire to interfere in the local affairs of any Arab country."
"We reached an understanding on the need to maintain the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... as a form of unity between Arabs. We don't dismiss the existence of division, as there are various regimes and backgrounds, but what unites us is more than what divides us," Jaafari told news hounds at the Baabda Palace following meeting with President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... For his part, Aoun stressed that "combating terrorism is not the responsibility of one state but requires collaboration and coordination between all countries".
The president expressed hope that the upcoming Arab summit, which will be held in Jordan in March, would be able to "represent the much-needed Arab solidarity to fend off the circumstances that all Arab countries are passing through."
Jaafari handed Aoun a letter from his Iraqi counterpart President Fouad Masoum, congratulating Aoun on his election and the desire to promote bilateral ties between the two countries and invited him to visit Baghdad.
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The Al Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab militants have attacked a Kenya Defence Force (KDF) convoy in Gedo region in the south-western Somalia. The Al shabaab fighters were reportedly attacked the KDF convoy at Busar near near the border town of El Wak in Gedo region. Several Kenyan soldiers died in the ambush raid.
Meanwhile, the local residents of Busaar area said they heard gunfire and explosions as the two sides exchanged RPGs and machine guns during the fighting.
There were reports that a number of Al shabaab fighters lost their lives in the attack, which has sparked a deadly exchange of gunfire that broke out following the surprise assault.
Al shabaab said it destroyed a military vehicle in the attack on KDF convoy near El Wak.
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[NOTTINGHAMPOST] A Guantanamo Bay prisoner with suspected Al Qaeda links who wanted to join his family in Nottingham is now a free man.
Ravil Mingazov has been released after being imprisoned in the US detention camp at the military prison in Cuba for the past 14 years, and seven months after his release was approved.
The Post reported in July last year that Mr Mingazov, 49, wanted to join his former wife and their teenage son, who live in Nottingham, to "live happily ever after in Sherwood Forest", and his lawyers had made a request to the Home Office.
It is not known whether the ex-wife and son were still living locally.
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DC is not a village. DC is a place of many different people all going their separate ways. Then they think they are the best of humanity collectively. Best example is O's new home with his security wall. You wouldn't see people talking over the backyard fence to their neighbor. Laundry hanging in the backyard. No front stoop gatherings. All live in their private little boxes. The only power they have is intimidation to their group thought. Stray and you'll pay.
[NATION.PK] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... yesterday said the Panama leaks case had exposed the real face 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... who used politics and public offices to boost his business and increase his wealth.
In an interview to Waqt News, Imran Khan said the Panama issue should have ideally been resolved in the parliament. PTI had to come on the roads on being denied justice in the parliament, he averred.
He lauded his party workers, including women, youth and children, for staging protest sit-ins against corruption. He extended his gratitude towards his supporters who stood by him against corruption and whose support made the rulers accountable.
The PTI chief said Gen Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... had brought Nawaz Sharif in politics by holding non-party-based elections in 1985.
Answering a question, Imran said 20 years back, he joined politics because nobody was prepared at that time to speak against corruption. Sounding optimistic regarding the Panama outcome, Imran said he was about to achieve his objective against corruption after 20 years.
He said: "It must be ascertained who is lying, Nawaz Sharif or his children. It has been proven that the country’s plundered money was sent abroad to purchase the London flats and set up offshore companies. BBC has also made a documentary on it." Khan affirmed he was desirous of engaging Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan as his counsel in the Panama case, but he didn’t do so because of his affiliation with PPP.
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[POLITICO] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s staff started arriving at the White House less than two hours after their boss took the oath of office.
Raj Shah, a new deputy communications director, showed news hounds his teal-blue badge (in contrast to the B.O. regime’s royal blue hard passes) and said he was on hand "literally to hit ’send’ on things." Indeed, the prepared text of Trump’s inaugural speech and the first White House pool report landed in inboxes from a White House press address labeled "OCIO."
It’s unclear how many others will make it onto the White House campus on Friday, Shah said. Vans have been carrying staffers over from the transition offices, "a bunch of NSC staff, primarily," he said, referring to the National Security Council.
Asked whether Trump would make more executive moves during his first hours in office beyond those he signed at the Capitol, Shah said, "Stay tuned for that."
He added: "Don’t start drinking yet."
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Go over the whole building first with electronic bug detectors.
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gorb, for that suggestion yesterday: here are your eyebrows, stickum to attach them with, and periwinkle glitter to shake over yourself because you are much too grown up for a gold star.
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and O-parasites moled into the bureaucracy. Rescind all hires going back three months for "special review"
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A long time ago (and far far away) I was involved in a study regarding variations in the current draw of light bulbs when subject to changing air pressure. The results led to a change from incandescent to fluorescent bulbs, and power filters on limited access rooms.
A little more recently I read a patent brief for a paint additive with similar interesting properties. When energized (illuminated) the molecule would vibrate in out of band frequencies. Pretty much a light powered tunable transponder, in the paint.
Remember the new embassy building in Russia a few years back? Frequency scans for transmitters is no longer a sufficient preventative. Active anechoic treatments will be necessary.
[al-Manar] Dozens of Saudi-led mercenaries were killed or wounded when the Yemeni army and popular forces waged an offensive on Saturday against their sites in Khab and Sha’af district of Jawf province, a military official told Saba.
The army and popular forces stormed two locations of the mercenaries in al-Mahashamah area of the district, the official said.
Scores of mercenaries were killed, others injured, and some others captured, as well as two military vehicles were burned during the storming operation, he added.
Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
[NYTIMES] A bombing killed at least 20 people on Saturday during an auction at a vegetable market in a mostly Shiite town in northwestern Pakistain, ending a long lull in holy warrior violence there, officials said.At least 43 people were maimed in the morning bombing in Parachinar, capital of the Kurram tribal region, which borders Afghanistan.
The Pak Taliban grabbed credit for the attack."I was in my shop when a deafening blast shook the market," a Parachinar resident, Hussain Ali Tori, said by telephone.
"I have seen dozens of shattered bodies lying on the ground. Some were dead, and many were crying for help."A Taliban front man, Muhammad Khurasani, said a jacket wallah had carried out the attack, but a Kurram official, Nasrullah Khan, said the bomb appeared to have been planted in a crate.
"The place is always crowded," said Mr. Khan, a deputy administrator.Parachinar has been a center of resistance to the Taliban, specifically the Haqqani network, which is one of the movement’s most violent factions, and it has been the site of numerous bombings in the past. But there had been none since December 2015, when another market bombing killed 23 people.
An kaboom in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistain's remote northwestern tribal region, an official said, in an attack jointly claimed by the Pak Taliban and a branch of the sectarian Lion of Islam group 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 ... About 40 others were maimed in the blast in Kurram region, near the border with Afghanistan, said Sajid Hussain Turi, member of the National Assembly from the region.
"We received 21 bodies of the local tribal people killed in the blast," Turi said, adding that there would be a mass funeral followed by a demonstration over the attack.
Spokesmen for the Pak Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami said the two groups coordinated the attack together.
Mohammad Khurassani, a front man for the Mehsud faction of the Pak Taliban, said the attack was to avenge Tuesday's killing of the leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Asif Chotoo, by police in the eastern province of Punjab.
Ali bin Sufyan, front man for LeJ's Al Alami faction, told Rooters his group had coordinated the attack with the Pak Taliban. The Al Alami gunnies in the past have claimed to have coordinated attacks with Middle East-based 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.... 's branch in Pakistain, including the November bombing of a Moslem shrine that killed 52 people, but the group also allies with the Taliban.
Reports differed on the cause of the kaboom.
Turi said a homemade bomb had been planted in a pile of tomatoes and went kaboom! as people gathered in the market in Parachinar, Kurram's main town, early on Saturday morning.
Talibs have been active around Parachinar in the past, ad the town has also suffered sectarian tension between Sunni and Shi'ite Moslems.
Another Kurram official, Sabzali Khan, said early reports had suggested that a jacket wallah was responsible for the blast.
An eyewitness, Ashiq Hussain, said he saw bodies strewn around the market and maimed people crying out for help.
"There was no ambulance, and people had to carry the injured in cars and private pickup trucks to the hospital," Hussain told Rooters.
A statement from Pakistain's military said army helicopters had been dispatched to evacuate the maimed.
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[BLOOMBERG] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... began his first full day in office Saturday at a prayer service in Washington where pastors of many faiths urged him to embrace peace and compassion, as tens of thousands of women gathered across town on the National Mall to protest his presidency.
"Look with compassion, O heavenly Father, upon the widowed and orphans, outcasts and refugees, prisoners, and all who are in danger, that they may find you and be comforted," Anthony Vance, director of public affairs at the United States Baha’i Community, read during the service at the National Cathedral, a U.S. post-inaugural tradition dating to George Washington.
Trump will travel in the afternoon to CIA headquarters to meet with intelligence agents, his press secretary, Sean Spicer, said on Twitter. He’ll be accompanied by his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, and his nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, Representative Mike Pompeo, two people familiar with the matter said.
Trump’s relationship with the intelligence community is strained after he publicly criticized its leaders for announcing that the U.S. had determined the Russian government was responsible for hacking Democratic Party officials’ e-mail accounts during the presidential campaign.
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“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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"We're soldiers. Soldiers don't go to hell. It's war. Soldiers kill other soldiers. We're in a situation where everyone involved knows the stakes and if you are going to accept those stakes, you've got to do certain things. It's business."-Tony Soprano
It will be interesting to see if this program continues in the same form on President Trump's watch. I assume the Arab elements of the SDF have been quietly sharing their weapons with their Kurdish allies.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Pentagon officials have emphasized to their Turkish partners that the US are only arming the Arab elements in the Kurdish-less Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF
The US has already begun airdropping aid to the Arab factions of the SDF to assist in their fight against ISIS in Raqqa countryside.
"Our local partners in Syria continue to converge down on Raqqa and I’m also confident that they will soon have ISIS’s so-called capital isolated," outgoing US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said on Thursday about the US support for the SDF forces.
"The isolation of Raqqa continued...our partners cleared more than 3,000 square kilometers since the start of their operations. ISIS’s days there, as well as in Iraq, are numbered," Carter added.
However it was Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook that tried to ease the concerns of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "We have been supplying the SDF, specifically the Syrian Arab Coalition, for some time, with materiel support. We continue to do that, and there’s been no change," he said.
"We continue to provide that support for the Syrian Arab Coalition," he stressed.
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Trump's got Twitter. It gets his opinion out and it gets him feedback.
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Forget CNN. Fox news is pulling away with the power every day. They let go George Will at Fox, Hallelujah!!. Then they bring on Farage. “He was right when he called it a movement but a movement can’t exist, a movement can’t flourish without a leader and Trump is the only person I’ve ever met in my life who makes me feel like an introvert. He is a larger than life personality. When he was given the rule book for how you run for president, he tore it up." Now that's saying something. This is going to be fun.
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Dale, I used to really enjoy George Will. But with Trump, Will showed he inability to see and accept real change. Too bad, I liked him.
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Seems to me the Media has found Trump's weak spot. He doesn't like to admit he was incorrect. So they'll drag it out and show the photo comparisons until they can make him look the fool or force an admission of being incorrect.
President Donald Trump assured employees at the CIA of his strong support and said he would unleash them to defeat Islamic terrorists after previous presidents had held the intelligence community back during the nation’s 16-year-old war with extremists.
The Donald assumes that the CIA wants to be unleashed against terrorists. I wouldn't be so sanguine...
"We have not used the real abilities that we have. We’ve been restrained,” Trump said in a rambling speech that strayed into criticism of the media, his performance during Friday’s inaugural speech and his belief that the U.S. should have “kept the oil” after invading Iraq.
Standing before the CIA Memorial Wall, which is engraved with stars representing employees who lost their lives in service to the country, Trump rejected the notion that he had been in a “feud" with the intelligence community over its investigation of the Russian government’s hacking of the presidential campaign.
He was not specific about what additional “abilities" the Central Intelligence Agency should use against terrorism, but during his presidential campaign, Trump openly suggested his predecessor, Barack Obama, was wrong to ban waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques criticized as torture.
"Radical Islamic terrorism, and I said it yesterday, has to be eradicated, just off the face of the Earth," Trump said in his speech at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. "This is evil."
Trump visited the agency on his first full day on the job to begin patching up relations strained by his public criticism of the intelligence community’s investigation of Russia’s hacks of Democratic Party officials’ e-mail accounts during the campaign. After winning election, Trump repeatedly questioned the community’s findings.
"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," Trump’s office said in a December statement challenging the findings on Russian hacking.
In a later pair of tweets, Trump appeared to accuse Obama CIA chief John Brennan of being behind the leak of an unverified dossier purporting to contain compromising information on Trump and said the previous team “couldn’t do much worse.”
Trump was angered by comments Brennan made in a Fox News interview in his final week in office.
“What I do find outrageous is equating intelligence community with Nazi Germany,” Brennan, who served in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Obama, said in the interview. “I do take great umbrage at that, and there is no basis for Mr. Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking information that was already available publicly.”
Trump quickly retorted, saying on Twitter: “Oh really, couldn’t do... much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?,” a reference to the dossier.
Now as president, Trump was more conciliatory.
“There is nobody who feels stronger about the intelligence community and the CIA than Donald Trump,” he said. He was accompanied by his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, and his nominee to lead the agency, Mike Pompeo, who is awaiting Senate confirmation.
"Maybe sometimes you haven’t got the backing that you’ve wanted," Trump said. "You’re going to get so much backing, maybe you’re going to say, ‘please don’t give us so much backing. Mr. President, please don’t give us so much backing.’"
After an introduction by acting CIA Director Meroe Park, Trump jokingly suggested that most of the audience had voted for him, but said he wouldn’t ask them to raise their hands. "The military gave us tremendous percentages of votes," he said. "Probably almost everybody in this room voted for me. I would guarantee a big portion."
He just can't help himself, can he...
The visit was planned with the expectation that Pompeo, a Kansas Republican, would be confirmed by the Senate on Friday and could be sworn in Saturday. Instead, objections from Democrats postponed the vote until next week.
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"The military gave us tremendous percentages of votes," he said."
A sharp stick in the eye to his hosts. Flynn has had to have informed him of their decades long contempt for DoD and the military.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces recaptured on Saturday two of a handful of remaining districts in Islamic State grip in northeastern Mosul, becoming so close to announcing a total liberation of the eastern section of the city from the group.
Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Yarallah, commander of the Joint Operations Command in Nineveh, said the troops recaptured al-Arabi district and al-Qawsiyat village, and became closer to al-Rashidiya, another neighborhood.
Meanwhile, a local source in Nineveh told Alsumaria News that the bodies of seven Islamic State militants were found floating above the Tigris River. He said the dead fighters were swimming across the river over the past few days to escape battles with government forces in the east to the western bank, where the extremist group still predominates. He said the group was still searching for other missing corpses.
Earlier on Thursday, a spokesperson of the US-led coalition against IS, John Dorrian, said aerial bombardment destroyed 90 boats used by the militants to cross from the east to the west of the city.
Iraqi forces, backed by popular militias and US-led international advisers and troops, have entered a third month of operations to retake Mosul, the last outstanding IS stronghold in Iraq which fell to the group in 2014.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the basic military plan for Mosul’s liberation had been completed “in most combat axes” with the recapture of central Mosul, adding that operations continue to liberate “a few other regions” in the north of the city.
Commanders from the Iraqi army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces said in a press conference on the same day they had retaken all districts assigned to them in eastern Mosul, killing 3300 militants since operations launched.
After getting finished with eastern Mosul, Iraqi generals plan to advance to the western region of the city beyond the Tigris River, where Islamic State still predominates a majority of territory.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The US-led international coalition announced on Saturday destructing 90 boats and three ships belonging to the Islamic State group in eastern Mosul.
The spokesman for the Joint Task Force, Colonel John Dorian said in a press statement, “We thought terminating the members and leaders of the Islamic State is hard.”
“These boats were used to transport the Islamic State’s members from eastern Mosul to its Western side, to flee from Iraqi security forces,” Dorian added.
Nineveh Province is witnessing wide-scale military operations to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State’s grip that captured the city in June 2014.
Nineveh (Iraqi News) Iraqi fighter jets bombarded a number of neighborhoods held by Islamic State militants in western Mosul on Saturday, two days after government forces became a few districts away from totally recapturing the eastern section.
A source at Nineveh operations told London-based The New Arab newspaper that the airstrikes also killed a number of militants who were escaping the eastern regions to the west on nine boats via the Tigris River.
The source said battles between government forces and the extremist group still continue at the districts of Rashidiya, Baisan and al-Qawsiyat in the northeast, which he said were the last Islamic State hideouts in the east.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the basic military plan for Mosul’s liberation had been completed “in most combat axes” with the recapture of central Mosul, adding that operations continue to liberate the Ghabat and Presidential Palaces area besides “a few other regions” in the north of the city.
Commanders from the Iraqi army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces said in a press conference on the same day they had retaken all districts assigned to them in eastern Mosul, killing 3300 militants since operations launched in October 2016.
After getting finished with eastern Mosul, Iraqi generals plan to advance to the western region of the city beyond the Tigris River, where Islamic State still predominates a majority of territory.
The campaign to retake Mosul has entered its third month, with Iraqi government forces backed by U.S.-led international coalition fighter jets as well as popular militias.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The head of the primary military court in Kunduz province was kidnapped by unknown gunnies, local officials said. The incident took place earlier today on Takhar-Kunduz highway.
A security official in Kunduz confirmed that the head of the court was on his way from Takhar to Kunduz when he was kidnapped by unknown gunnies. The official further added that the main motive behind his abduction is not clear yet and a search operation is underway for his release.
No group including the Taliban Lions of Islam has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban Lions of Islam are actively operating in a number of its districts. The Talibs often establish check posts on the main highways connecting Kunduz with the other northern provinces and kidnap passengers on charges of working for the government.
Several kidnapping incidents took place on Takhar-Kunduz highway last year and scores of passengers were kidnapped by the holy warriors.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the majority of the passengers were released after they were taken by the Talibs for interrogation.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Salahuddin Province revealed that five members of the Islamic State were killed in a proactive operation, east of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Saturday.
“Today, security forces, backed by Army Aviation, dismantles a vehicle carrying weapons and explosives belonging to the Islamic State, north of Mutaibaja area, east of Salahuddin,” the source told Alsumaria News.
“The operation also resulted in the killing of five members of the Islamic State group,” the source added.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... (Army of Islam) bandidosholy warriors tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! several citizens in the east Qalamoun area of rural Damascus on Friday after accusing them of planning to reconcile with the government.
Residents of al-Rahibah were rounded up by members of Jaish al-Islam on Friday and accused of attempting to reconcile the village, despite the Islamist rebel groups refusal to do so.
Recently, a group of Salafist tough guys turned in their weapons to the Syrian Arab Army in the east Qalamoun area as part of a peace deal that would allow the bandidosholy warriors to seek amnesty.
In response to the surrender of several rebels this week, Jaish al-Islam has begun arresting anyone suspected of attempting to reconcile with the government.
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[Iran Press TV] Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have targeted a gathering of the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorist group in northeastern Leb, killing and wounding a number of them.
The media bureau of Hezbollah Operations Command announced in a statement on Friday that resistance fighters struck the murderous Moslems’ position in the Wadi al-Sahrij region of Ras Baalbek village in the northern Beqaa Valley with a rocket, Arabic-language al-Manar television network reported.
On November 21, 2016, Hezbollah fighters targeted holy warriors belonging to the Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... group on the outskirts of the eastern border village of Tfail, inflicting casualties on the Takfiris.
Lebanese resistance fighters struck a ISIS inspection post in Zeituniya area on the outskirts of the border al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek villages on June 16, causing casualties among the ranks of murderous Moslems.
In August 2014, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... , formerly known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, and ISIS terrorist groups overran the eastern Lebanese town of Arsal, killing a number of Lebanese forces. They took 30 soldiers hostage, most of whom have been released.
Since then, Hezbollah and the Lebanese military have been defending Leb on the country’s northeastern frontier against foreign-backed terrorist groups from neighboring Syria.
Hezbollah fighters have fended off several ISIS attacks inside Leb. They have also been providing assistance to Syrian army forces to counter the ongoing foreign-sponsored militancy.
The movement has accused Israel of supporting Takfiri faceless myrmidons operating in the Middle East.
Israel, which continues to occupy Leb’s Shebaa Farms and Syria’s Golan Heights, is widely reported to be offering medical help to Takfiri faceless myrmidons injured in Syria. In December 2015, British newspaper the Daily Mail said Israel had saved the lives of more than 2,000 Takfiri holy warriors since 2013.
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"In December 2015, British newspaper the Daily Mail said Israel had saved the lives of more than 2,000 Takfiri holy warriors since 2013"
actually the 2000 figure is total number treated which is mostly civilians but also includes combatants some of whom are probably ISIS sympathizers-- typical presstv misstatement
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"What? No, no -- fingerprinting, photos and DNA typing are part of our standard patient check-in process. It's just paperwork. Now who did you say your father's second brother's fourth son was again? I think I misspelt it, because the stupid computer kicked it back, and they won't let us treat your gaping wound until all the forms are filled out properly."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he planned to discuss soon with US President Donald Trump how to "counter the threat" from Iran.
"I plan to speak soon with President Trump about how to counter the threat of Iranian regime which calls for Israel's destruction," Netanyahu said in a video message posted on his Facebook page.
Before his inauguration on Friday, Trump had repeatedly denounced the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, which Israel has also staunchly criticised.
Netanyahu has been an ardent opponent of the 2015 pact signed by Iran, the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany. The deal supposedly placed curbs on Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for cash the lifting of international sanctions.
In December, Netanyahu said there were many ways of "undoing" the Iran nuclear deal and that he would discuss that with Trump. "I have about five things in mind," he said.
But before he left office, former president Barack Obama warned against rowing back the pact, emphasising its "significant and concrete results".
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has also said that the bloc would stand by the accord -- which she helped negotiate -- because it showed that diplomacy worked and served Europe's security needs.
By kicking the can down the road and allowing the evil Joooz to take it on the chin when the bill arrives...
And on Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the nuclear deal was approved by the UN Security Council and therefore "is not a bilateral deal" with the US that Trump can renegotiate.
In the video message posted online, Netanyahu also addressed the Iranian people saying "we are your friend, not your enemy".
Meanwhile, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, whose role is largely ceremonial, said in a statement that he had invited Trump to visit Israel.
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[REUTERS] Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... 's former leader Yahya Jammeh on Saturday flew into exile in Equatorial Guinea after stepping down under pressure from West African nations to accept that he lost a December election to President Adama Barrow, mediators said.
His exit ends rising tension as thousands of troops from Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... and Nigeria who entered the tiny country on Thursday were poised to swoop on the capital Banjul. It also paves the way for the return home of Barrow, who was sworn in as leader at the Gambian embassy in Senegal on Thursday.
Jammeh took power in a coup in 1994, and his government is accused of torturing and killing perceived opponents. There were few celebrations in Banjul as news of his departure spread, but some people said they felt relief after years of fear.
"The rule of fear has been banished from Gambia for good," Barrow told a crowd at a Dakar hotel on Friday, once it became clear a deal had been struck for Jammeh to relinquish power.
"To all of you forced by political circumstances to flee our country, you now have the liberty to return home," said Barrow, 51, who worked as a property developer and led an opposition coalition few thought would win the Dec. 1 vote.
The initiative to force Jammeh out will likely be viewed as a triumph for African diplomacy and could set a precedent in a region where democracy advocates have spent decades pressing for fair elections and an end to authoritarian regimes.
Jammeh's security forces offered no resistance to soldiers from West African bloc ECOWAS. Around 4,000 troops are still there and some will remain to ensure security, said Marcel de Souza, head of the ECOWAS commission.
The crisis was a test for the bloc, not least because Jammeh had held office longer than any other current president in the grouping of 15 states.
"If something like that (not accepting poll results) happens in the same way in another ECOWAS country, it will be the same treatment," de Souza told a news conference in the Senegalese capital Dakar.
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[LIBYANEXPRESS] According to high-profile Egyptian sources, Cairo will host a meeting between the leader of the Operation Dignity, Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , and the Prime Minister of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Serraj.
"the meeting will try to build bridges between the two parties and will aim at finding a solution for the Libyan political crisis." The sources added.
Upon his last visit to Cairo, days ago, Haftar express willingness to sit with al-Serraj, the sources said on Saturday, adding that al-Serraj said he supports removing (Article No. 8) from the Libyan Political Agreement.
Article No. 8 is related to appointment of high-ranking and supreme military positions in the Libyan government.
The sources also said that Egypt is trying to bridge the gap among the conflicting parties in Libya so that the country retrieves its stability soon.
Headed by the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Sokri, a meeting for the neighbouring countries of Libya kicked off in Cairo Saturday to try to find a suitable and common ground among Libya’s political factions so that they can all agree on implementing the Skhirat agreement.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] An unidentified gunman on Saturday shot up police in Istanbul, marking the third armed attack in the city within 24 hours, local media reported.
No causalities were reported at the attack in which the attacker managed to escape after opening fire on a police vehicle in Istanbul's district of Esenyurt, according to CNNTurk.
The attacker remained on the lam leaving his gun and a bag containing hand grenades behind after police returned fire, CNNTurk added.
In the meantime, a truck, which supposedly has a brake failure, caused panic at the city's main police headquarters where the police opened fire into the air after the truck has not stopped at the security check point, press reports said.
Police detained two suspects in front of the headquarters in relation with the incident, according to private Dogan news agency.
On Friday evening, unidentified gunnies attacked Istanbul police headquarters and a building of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) with flame throwers, causing no causalities.
According to press reports, police detained another five suspects in operations conducted in 15 addresses in the city over their links to the attacks.
Turkish police on Wednesday detained 27 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) suspects in northwestern city of Bursa over their links to the shooting attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, local media reported.
A gunman, identified as Abdulgadir Masharipov, a Uzbek national, rubbed out 39 people and injured 69 others in Istanbul's Reina nightclub early on New Year's Day.
He was captured on Monday night after 17 days on the loose. The IS has grabbed credit for the mass shooting.
According to Masharipov, the IS gave him 197,000 U.S. dollars after the attack for him to flee to Raqqa, an IS stronghold in Syria, CNNTurk said.
Istanbul has been hit by a series of deadly attacks over the past year.
Turkish authorities have identified one of the assailants responsible for Friday's attacks as a member of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), the broadcaster NTV reported on Saturday. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either attack. Operations were under way to capture both suspects, Dogan and NTV reported.
Authorities suggested the outlawed ultra-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) could be to blame.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there was speculation that a "leftist terror group" was the culprit but said it was not clear which one, referring to the DHKP-C and another.
In recent years, there have been sporadic attacks by turbans from the DHKP-C, which seeks a Marxist revolution in Turkey and espouses a fiercely anti-Western agenda.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] Iraqi authorities found Saturday the remains of some 89 bodies believed to be for soldiers of Speicher Camp who were executed 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.... (IS) bandidoshard boyz when the group seized Tikrit in June 2014, a provincial security source said.
A joint committee from the security authority, forensic team and the Iraqi High Commission of Human Rights (IHCHR) arrived to the site of the mass grave at one of the former presidential palaces in central Tikrit, and began to exhume the decomposed bodies, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The latest discovery of the bodies was based on information extracted during interrogation of IS detainees who were captured earlier by the security forces, the source said.
The victims were believed to be among 1,700 soldiers who walked out of an airbase, known as Camp Speicher, north of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, but were kidnapped and then killed by IS bandidoshard boyz and some Sunni rustics.
In June 2014, armed Sunni bully boys, spearheaded by the IS group, an al-Qaeda offshoot, launched a surprise offensive on Iraqi security forces and captured a large part of the country's northern and western territories after government troops abandoned their posts and military equipment.
The IS group later posted video footage and images showing the execution of Iraqi government soldiers.
After Iraqi security forces recaptured Tikrit from IS bandidoshard boyz in April 2015, authorities, including forensic teams, worked at several mass graves sites and unearthed hundreds of bodies, many in military uniforms or with military identity cards.
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[CNN] It was not the Inauguration Day that Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... imagined.
When the skies finally opened up on Friday and rain began to fall over the US Capitol, Clinton's turn to stand before the thousands gathered on the Mall and take the oath of office as the 45th president never came.
Instead, she remained seated with her husband, Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , by her side. And she watched a man whom she believes is fundamentally unfit to hold the highest office of the land get sworn in as her next president.
Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's inauguration on Friday and the ceremonial passing of the baton by Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... crystalized before a watchful nation the deeply personal loss that Clinton had suffered in November.
For the former Democratic presidential nominee, the decision to attend Friday's ceremony was not an easy one.
Clinton anticipated that it would be painful for her to watch Trump become the next president, according to a former aide, but felt she had no choice but to attend given her role both as former first lady and Trump's challenger. It weighed on her, this aide added, that her presence symbolized the peaceful transition of power, regardless of her own emotions about the day.
The Clintons arrived on Capitol Hill shortly before the swearing-in. At the same time, the presidential motorcade was making its way down Pennsylvania Ave. towards the Capitol. In one car sat two men who had each taken away Clinton's dreams of becoming president -- Obama and Trump.
Clinton wore a white coat -- something she did often on the campaign trail to represent the color women wore during the suffrage movement. She and Bill Clinton were introduced to the inaugural stage by the announcer as "the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, and the honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton." ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward ...
For Clinton's supporters, both were painful reminders of how close Clinton -- the first woman to clinch a major political party's nomination for president -- had come to becoming to the president of the United States.
With the exception of when she exchanged pleasantries with other dignitaries on the stage, Clinton, for the most part, appeared stoic.
Trump, with his former political opponent seated behind him, delivered an inaugural address reminiscent of his campaign speeches, vowing that the "forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now," Trump said.
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"forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."
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After all the fighting, most of her antics were vile and unacceptable. At least she was man enough to stand up and be there admitting her defeat. I don't give that woman much credit, but she gets it for this humiliating defeat and still going.
Or, maybe it was Bill that forced her to go because it was as close as he could get to Trumps daughters!!!
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The sad thing about Hillary is that she cannot stand outside herself, like great leaders, and see herself and correct mistakes and improve. IMHO, Hillary was more of a figurehead than a leader to be. Her record in public "service" was lacking, to be charitable. Bill and a bunch of others put her up to this presidency thing to use her as a figurehead for their own nefarious aims. They appealed to her ego, her "right" of being the first woman president, etc. etc. The sad thing is that she really had no product to sell, other than First Woman President(TM). She was used as a cheap trick, and she maybe has started to realize this.
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It was all about money.
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Disagree AP, there is nothing sad about the vile, vicious, old sow. She has wanted to be a fascist tyrant queen her entire life and has schemed accordingly.
She belongs in Argentina where she could be worshiped by the peons and bestow her blessings.....while sucking every dime they had.
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For all the fussing about her presence and feelings, Hillary was merely there as the wife of former president Bill Clinton. All of the other presidential candidates who were there came in their capacities as serving legislators or incoming officials in the Trump administration.
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AlanC's description is spot on, and that is what made it easy for her to be used by people smarter than her. As AP pointed out. The latter, would not have been possible with the former.
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See, AlanC and I may have a different approach on how we see her and her role in the election, but we can still be civil and friends.....Hey Alan, watcha doing with that boxed set of 18 century dueling pistols? Tell you what, lets go to the O-Club and have a drink and forget all this. Hildabeest drives us nuts.
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[al-Monitor] A high-profile French jihadist was charged with terrorist offences and remanded in jug on Saturday, a day after being transferred to La Belle France from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , where he had turned himself in to authorities.
Kevin Guiavarch, a 24-year-old who converted to Islam 10 years ago, was one of the UN's most wanted jihadists and had been placed on a blacklist in 2014.
Suspected as being one of the major 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 recruiters attracting young French people to join the jihadist cause in Syria and Iraq, Guiavarch rubbed shoulders with some of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks while living in Raqa, IS's de facto capital.
The former church choirboy, who was raised by a single mother in Brittany, now claims to be "reformed" -- though he has also told French author David Thomson, who wrote a book about returning jihadists, that he left IS because he was afraid of dying.
He spent four years in Syria amongst jihadists, first with former al-Qaeda affiliate the Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... Front, and then IS.
He quit Syria in June 2016 with his four French wives and six children, and went to Turkey where they were all placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... All four wives had already been deported to La Belle France.
Guiavarch, who had been the subject of an international arrest warrant, arrived in the French capital on Friday night before on Saturday being charged with association of a criminal terrorist organization and financing terrorism, the Gay Paree prosecutor said.
French authorities will now try to determine whether Guiavarch is truly reformed or part of a sleeper cell aiming to carry out attacks in La Belle France at a later date.
What to do with returning jihadists -- whether claiming to be reformed or not -- is a major concern for many European countries.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Joint Operations Command’s War Media Cell announced on Saturday, that a large cache of weapons belonging to the Islamic State group was destructed by an air strike, west of Anbar.
The Cell said in a brief statement, “Iraqi Air Force carried out an air strike, based on information obtained from the National Security Service, destroying a large cache of weapons and equipment belonging to the Islamic State in al-Rumeiya area in Qaim District, west of Anbar.”
Noteworthy, Islamic State group captured the western areas of Anbar Province in mid-2014, while Iraqi security forces continued their preparations to liberate these areas and cities few weeks ago.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi policeman survived an explosive device blast in Anbar on Saturday, a security source has said.
“The IED placed under a car belonging to a police captain at Anbar police exploded this morning at the region of Hasiba, east of Ramadi, leaving only material damages,” the source told Alsumaria News.
Islamic State militants, who took large areas of Iraq in 2014 to establish a so-called “Islamic Caliphate” have stepped up attacks in the past few months outside Mosul, the group’s largest bastion in Iraq where a three-month-old security campaign has driven the group out of a half of the city.
Four army personnel were killed on Friday when Islamic State militants attacked their patrol on a road between Ramadi and Rutba.
The Iraqi army command in Anbar declared on the 5th of January the start of operations to retake western Anbar regions, close to the borders with Syria, from militants. The operations lasted for a few days, recapturing a few villages, before halting again. Observes see confusion regarding readiness to launch operations in the province, pointing out to the fact that the start of the security offensive was not officially declared by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as was the case with Mosul, where government forces have entered a third month of battles with the group.
Security sources said a week earlier that the government had decided to halt battles in Anbar until the end of operations in Mosul. The replacement of the army’s operations commander in Anbar, Ismail al-Mahallawi, cast more doubts on the reason behind the halt.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) One person was killed and 20 others were wounded on Saturday when a bomb blast hit al-Karma region, east of Ramadi, Anbar.
Aref al-Jumaili, a member of al-Karma’s council board, said the IED exploded inside a tribal guesthouse. He said the casualties included a brigadier at the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), the militias fighting Islamic State militants on the side of the Iraqi government.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the bombing, but Islamic State militants, who took large areas of Iraq in 2014 to establish a so-called “Islamic Caliphate”, have stepped up attacks in the past few months outside Mosul, the group’s largest bastion in Iraq where a three-month-old security campaign has driven the group out of a half of the city.
The Iraqi army command in Anbar declared on the 5th of January the start of operations to retake western Anbar regions, close to the borders with Syria, from militants. The operations lasted for a few days, recapturing a few villages, before halting again. Observes see confusion regarding readiness to launch operations in the province, pointing out to the fact that the start of the security offensive was not officially declared by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as was the case with Mosul, where government forces have entered a third month of battles with the group.
Security sources said a week earlier that the government had decided to halt battles in Anbar until the end of operations in Mosul. The replacement of the army’s operations commander in Anbar, Ismail al-Mahallawi, cast more doubts on the reason behind the halt.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] Iraqi security forces on Saturday continued fierce festivities to drive out the Lions of Islam of the hard 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.... (IS) group from their last strongholds in the northern outskirts of the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the Iraqi military said.
The army soldiers, backed by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition aircraft, took full control of al-Arabi neighborhood after heavy festivities with IS Lions of Islam and raised the Iraqi flags on some of its buildings, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement.
The festivities resulted in the killing of 27 IS Lions of Islam and the destruction of a tank at the adjacent IS-held neighborhood of al-Rashidiyah, which became the last neighborhood under control of the hard boy group, the statement said.
Also in the day, the soldiers recaptured al-Qowsiyat village in north of Rashidiyah after heavy festivities with IS Lions of Islam and Arclight airstrikes on their positions, leaving some 40 Lions of Islam killed and four boom-mobiles destroyed, the statement added.
In central Mosul, the commandos of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) continued their operations to clear the neighborhoods and areas freed recently from IS Lions of Islam after the elite troops fulfilled their mission by recapturing the whole central part of the eastern side of the city, locally known as the left bank the Tigris River which bisects Mosul, according to the statement.
The commander of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) forces said on Wednesday that CTS troops are now in full control of the main part of the eastern side of Mosul.
"CTS forces have completely retaken control of the eastern side of Mosul," Lt. Gen. Talib Shghati told news hounds.
"The only neighborhoods left in Mosul are in the northern part of the city which the army units are fighting to liberate soon," Shghati said, adding that Mosul's five bridges over the Tigris river are all under security forces' control.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said Friday that his government would offer asylum to Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange for as long as the whistleblower wants.
"If he wishes to give up asylum and hand himself over, that is his decision. But if he wants to remain under protection, the Ecuadorian state will continue (offering it)," Correa told the press during a trip to the coastal province of Esmeraldas.
Correa spoke out after Assange said Thursday that he would accept to be extradited to the United States if his rights are protected.
The former hacker and journalist has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he is wanted in connection with the sexual assault of two women.
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[USATODAY] U.S.-led coalition warplanes successfully targeted a flotilla of 90 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.... boats being used by the forces of Evil to cross the Tigris River in a desperate effort to escape fighting in eastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the U.S. military announced Saturday.
The Arclight airstrikes occurred as coalition-backed security forces seized the eastern portion of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and began preparations for clearing the western side of the city. The city is divided by the Tigris River.
The strikes targeted 90 boats and three barges between Wednesday and Friday, the coalition said in a statement. Most were being used by the Islamic State, also called ISIS or ISIS, to escape from the eastern part of the city, which has been secured by Iraqi forces in recent days. Since the Mosul operation began in October, the coalition has hit 112 watercraft on the Tigris River in Mosul.
"We believe this was a desperate attempt to retrograde ISIS fighters now that the Iraqi security forces own the eastern bank of every bridge in Mosul," Col. John Dorrian, a coalition front man, said in the statement.
U.S.-coalition aircraft earlier disabled five bridges that cross the Tigris River in an effort to prevent forces of Evil from sending fighters and boom-mobiles across the river to attack Iraqi forces as they fought through the eastern part of the city.
U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces are now preparing to retake the western part of the city, a densely populated area with thousands of civilians. Iraqi forces are holding the eastern part of the city as additional forces press in from the north and south.
The Mosul offensive was launched three months ago in an effort to recapture the Islamic State’s remaining stronghold in Iraq. A U.S.-backed force of about 45,000 Arabs and Kurds is simultaneously closing in on Raqqa, the Islamic State’s defacto capital in neighboring Syria.
It is not clear how many forces of Evil were killed in the strikes, but the coalition wants to prevent fighters from escaping Mosul and fleeing to Raqqa.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Unknown gunmen kidnapped on Saturday a leading member of the Islamic State at the center of the town of Hawija, one of the remaining IS pockets in the province.
News reports quoted the sources as saying that the armed group, boarding a civilian vehicle, kidnapped the militant, nicknamed Abu Tayba al-Anbari, who oversaw a series of executions of prisoners held by the group on Friday in Hawija.
Several instances of Islamic State members assassinations have been reported in some group strongholds in Iraq over the past few weeks.
The group took over several Iraqi cities in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled “Islamic Caliphate”, but a major campaign since October, carried out by Iraqi security forces and popular militias, and backed by US-led advisers and troops, has forced the group to cede much territory, most notably the city of Mosul, its last urban stronghold in Iraq and its previously-proclaimed capital. Nearly 3300 group members were killed since operations launched, according to Iraqi army commanders.
The group has tried to make up for losses and to distract security forces with attacks on civilians and troops at other provinces, especially in Baghdad, Anbar and Salahuddin.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have begun attempts to stoke sectarian tensions in western Mosul with abusive wall paintings, a local source in Nineveh has said.
The group is trying to induce a state of chaos in the city of Tal Afar before Iraqi government forces begin operations to recapture the group’s stronghold in Mosul’s west, the source told Alsumaria News. Some of the walls in Tal Afar are bearing sectarian phrases, the source added.
“Daesh (Islamic State) have accused whom they called security collaborators of being behind those sectarian murals in an obvious attempt to deceive the public,” said the source. He stressed that citizens had not been taken in by the attempt, especially as some had seen IS members painting them overnight.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the basic military plan for Mosul’s liberation had been completed “in most combat axes” with the recapture of central Mosul, adding that operations continue to liberate “a few other regions” in the north of the city.
Iraqi army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces hav said they had retaken all districts assigned to them in eastern Mosul, killing 3300 militants since operations launched in October 2016.
After getting finished with eastern Mosul, Iraqi generals plan to advance to the western region of the city beyond the Tigris River, where Islamic State still predominates a majority of territory.
The campaign to retake Mosul has entered its third month, with Iraqi government forces backed by U.S.-led international coalition fighter jets as well as popular militias.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State members on Saturday blew up Mosul’s second biggest hotel in the city’s western section, while 12 militants were killed in security offensives in the northeast.
A security source was quoted by Mawazin News Agency as saying that the city’s second biggest, 236-room Mosul Hotel was blown up by militants, but did not explain the extent of the damage from the explosion. He said IS members filled the building with TNT barrels.
The city’s biggest hotel, Nineveh Oberoi, a 262-room facility, was blown up by the group in October, but was recaptured last week by security forces.
In the eastern section, where government joint forces are a few districts away from announcing a total recapture of that region, Walid Khalifa Majid, a Brigadier-General at the army’s 9th division, said troops killed 12 IS members in Alam Louk village. He said troops proceeded towards al-Qawsiyat area in the north, one of the last few remaining regions held by the extremist group in eastern Mosul.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the basic military plan for Mosul’s liberation had been completed “in most combat axes” with the recapture of central Mosul, adding that operations continue to liberate “a few other regions” in the north of the city.
Commanders from the Iraqi army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces said in a press conference on the same day they had retaken all districts assigned to them in eastern Mosul, killing 3300 militants since operations launched in October 2016.
After getting finished with eastern Mosul, Iraqi generals plan to advance to the western region of the city beyond the Tigris River, where Islamic State still predominates a majority of territory.
The campaign to retake Mosul has entered its third month, with Iraqi government forces backed by U.S.-led international coalition fighter jets as well as popular militias.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi authorities announced on Saturday discovering a mass grave containing bodies of 89 victims of Camp Speicher massacre that were executed by the Islamic State, after capturing the city of Tikrit in June 2014.
A source in Salahuddin Police Command told the Chinese Agency ‘Xinhua’ that security forces received information, obtained from the detained members of the Islamic State, indicating to the presence of a mass grave in the presidential palaces area in central Tikrit, containing remains of Camp Speicher’s victims.
“A specialized committee of the Ministry of Health and Human Rights Watch examined the grave, and exhumed 89 bodies of Camp Speicher’s victims,” the source added.
The source also revealed that the bodies will be sent to the forensic medicine department, in order to identify the identities of bodies.
After capturing the city of Tikrit in June 2014, Islamic State group executed more than 1700 Iraqi soldiers in Camp Speicher base, northwest of Tikrit, then threw dozens of the bodies in the Tigris River and buried hundreds in mass graves.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A senior leader of Islamic State was gunned down by unknown attackers in western Mosul on Saturday, according to a a security source.
The militant, nicknamed “Abu Abdulrahman”, a Saudi national, was shot at by unknown gunmen in al-Askari district, the source said in a press statement.
He was responsible for executions of females in that region, according to the source.
Islamic State militants still control most of the western section of Mosul, and are almost driven out from the east as Iraqi government forces have become a few districts away from declaring eastern Mosul IS-free.
Iraqi forces, backed by popular militias and US-led international advisers and troops, have entered a third month of operations to retake Mosul, the last outstanding IS stronghold in Iraq which fell to the group in 2014.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the basic military plan for Mosul’s liberation had been completed “in most combat axes” with the recapture of central Mosul, adding that operations continue to liberate “a few other regions” in the north of the city.
Commanders from the Iraqi army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces said in a press conference on the same day they had retaken all districts assigned to them in eastern Mosul, killing 3300 militants since operations launched.
After getting finished with eastern Mosul, Iraqi generals plan to advance to the western region of the city beyond the Tigris River, where Islamic State still predominates a majority of territory.
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Would I be a 'bad person' for wishing the captured executioner was given some of ISIS' same medicine they gave their prisoners? boiled alive, acid baths, burnt alive, drowned; almost a Baskin-Robbins sized menu of dispatch methods.
[al-Manar] Syrian Army soldiers continued to attack ISIL’s positions near T4 military airport in Eastern Homs, capturing more key heights with the aerial back up of the country’s warplanes.
An army unit killed a number of al-Nusra Front terrorists and destroyed a vehicle for them in the northern countryside of Homs Province.
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[CNN] Turkish politicians approved a controversial package of constitutional reforms that would hand sweeping powers to President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , according to state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu.
After almost three weeks of debate, the 18-article package -- known as the "power bill" -- was approved by 339 member of the Parliament early Saturday morning, Anadolu reports.
The new Constitution will now be put to referendum vote, likely to be held in April.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, who also chairs Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, congratulated politicians for passing the constitutional changes according to Anadolu.
"People will have the final say," Yildirim said.
If the referendum passes, the reforms will turn The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's parliamentary system into a presidential one, effectively consolidating the power of three legislative bodies into one executive branch. It will abolish the role of Prime Minister while granting authority to the President to issue law, declare states of emergency, dismiss Parliament and to appoint ministers, public officials and half of the senior judges.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A large gorup comprised of Hezbollah and Syrian special forces arrived in the Khanasser Plain on Saturday to lead the military operations against 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.... (ISIS) turbans near the al-Raqqa Governorate border.
The Syrian special forces were comprised of several units from the army's Elite Republican Guard that were originally deployed to Aleppo city to participate in the bustling provincial capital's offensive.
Once Jaish al-Fateh ...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey... (Army of Conquest) and their allies surrendered the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, the Elite Republican Guard units were free to be redeoployed to another front in northern Syria.
AL-Masdar cannot confirm where the Hezbollah forces came from; however, they most likely redeployed from the southern countryside of Aleppo, where they were preparing a large-scale offensive against Jaish al-Fateh near Khan Touman.
The purpose of this Khanasser Plain offensive is to reach the nearby Maskanah Plain, which is the gateway to the al-Raqqa Governorate's western countryside.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group still pose serious threats to Afghanistan, a Ministry of Interior (MoI) official said Saturday.
MoI front man Sediq Sediqi told news hounds in 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.... that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) continue to maintain pressure on the loyalists of the terror group in East of Afghanistan.
Sediqi further added that ISIS loyalists have managed to harm the residents of 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.
He said the Afghan forces continue to suppress the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar provinces, specifically in Achin, Kot, and Deh Bala districts.
According to Sediqi, more operations have been conducted to prevent ISIS loyalists expand foothold in Nangarhar districts and other provinces.
The latest remarks by Sediqi came as the loyalists of the terror group received major blows during the recent months in Nangarhar, particularly during the operations of the Afghan and US forces
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key Taliban fighter expert in making magnetic bombs was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... by the Afghan intelligence operatives in Jalalabad city, the picturesque provincial capital of 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.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement said the detained bully boy has been identified as Baryalai son of Mohammad Jalat Khan.
The statement further added that Baryalai was expert in making magnetic bombs besides he was conducting other insurgency activities including murders and bombings.
Baryalai was looking to transport 6 magnetic bombs to Jalalabad city to target the civilian and military vehicles when he was arrested from Shah Amanullah town.
According to NDS, the intelligence operatives also confiscated two pistols with silencers from Baryalai.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups including the Taliban bandidos murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as the Talibs have stepped up magnetic bombings in key cities of the country, including capital 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.... during the recent years.
In majority of such bombings, the ordinary civilians are targeted besides the magnetic bombings claims of the government officials and security personnel.
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pliers, blowtorch, etc.,...
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Okay... I will bite. WTF does the Taliban consider a magnetic bomb to be? (Obviously not some sort of EMP one.)
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