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The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday violent crime dropped across the country in 2018.
The agency released the Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report comparing the first six months of 2018 with the first six months of 2017. In the report, the FBI said robberies, murders, non-negligent manslaughter, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and aggravated assaults were all down in that time period. However, it also found rape increased slightly. Could this have something to do with cops no longer afraid of being branded racists whenever they have to deal with African American criminals?
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ The father of an Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State in Syria filed suit against the Trump administration Thursday in an effort to allow her return to the United States.
Ahmed Ali Muthana argues in the suit filed in federal court in Washington that his 24-year-old daughter, Hoda Muthana, is an American citizen by birth and should be allowed to come back to the U.S. with her toddler son.
Hoda Muthana is now in a Syrian refugee camp with the 18-month-old boy after fleeing the remnants of the Islamic State.
Her lawyers said in a statement that she expects to be charged with providing material support to terrorism if she is allowed to return to the U.S.
"Ms. Muthana has publicly acknowledged her actions and accepted full responsibility for those actions," the lawyers said. "In Ms. Muthana's words, she recognizes that she has 'ruined' her own life, but she does not want to ruin the life of her young child."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the young woman is not a citizen and will not be admitted to the country.
The family and their lawyers say they were told that the U.S. determined she did not qualify for citizenship because her father was a Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth.But the family argues that is incorrect. They say that her father ceased to be a diplomat before she was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and that she had a legitimate passport when she left the U.S. to join the Islamic State in Syria in 2014.
The Obama administration initially determined she was not a citizen and notified her family that it was revoking her passport in January 2016.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a person born in the U.S. to an accredited foreign diplomatic officer is not subject to U.S. law and is not automatically considered a U.S. citizen at birth.
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There is something of a precedent in the return of the Americans that fought in the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. They were not very welcome on return because of their Communist connections in Spain...
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Indict her for treason, threats against Americans, inciting riots.... then let her decide if she wants to come back and enjoy a lifetime in ADX Florence
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They were not very welcome on return because of their Communist connections in Spain...
Decades ago, various federal governmental applications for commissioned officers, etc. included questions about this very issue.
I thought it's about 19th century, imagine my surprise - it's about today
Martin County, Florida, sheriff William Snyder increasingly resembles Casablanca’s Captain Louis Renault who expressed "shock" that there was gambling at Rick’s Café Americain. We know the reason for the fictional gendarme’s incredulity; the real lawman’s surprise at prostitution and human trafficking taking place in his front yard is a bit harder to understand.
News reports out of Jupiter, Florida, say more than 170 individuals face charges in what may be part of a $20 million human-trafficking network that stretches from South Florida to China. Authorities say they have video evidence of wealthy white men from as far away as New England buying sex from Chinese women at a strip-mall massage parlor and spa.
There is much more to this sordid story, however, than grubby guys paying for something they could do for themselves at home for free. The story provides a prime opportunity to take a hard look at the stark truth behind the dirty little secret of our nation’s failed immigration policies.
Each year, as many as 17,500 victims of human trafficking come into this country, according to U.S. State Department estimates. No one knows for sure the accuracy of that number, just as no one knows how many of those victims end up in the sex slave industry. That is because human rights groups, ethnic organizations, labor unions, and other religious and social entities who are first in line to declare racism and discrimination when defending people who voluntarily sneak into this country, refuse to acknowledge the overt abuse and degradation of foreign sex slaves.
The State Department says the U.S., Japan, and Australia are the top three destination countries for sex traffickers; California, New York, and Texas have the most sex trafficking activity in this country.
[AmericanThinker] It's not exactly hamburgergate, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not coping very well with the pressures of being a media sensation. As a young woman who likes sharing her wisdom with hordes of admiring skulls full of mush, she might have realized that she would be held to account whenever she fails to live up to her proscriptions for the lesser mortals to live by.
Telling the masses they "shouldn't be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner" was a serious mistake for multiple reasons, not least of which is that denying favorite foods to people is not a recipe for popularity. But presuming to grab the moral high ground also imposes a standard that just might be hard to meet 100% of the time. It was an open invitation to mockery the first time she was seen in proximity to the delicious ground meat sandwich.
Tuesday night, she was dining out with her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who, in many ways, is the brains behind her rise from cocktail waitress to congressman, and he was eating a nice thick burger, heedless of the cow farts that lay behind its availability. She was not amused, and when the forbidden fartogenic food was featured in mocking tweets, she took to Twitter to claim victimization by a stalker. And the scary thing about AOC, and her entire generation, is that they see this as a valid argument
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Be careful. She will put you on her list! Then when the fascist left take over the list will be dusted off and you will get sent to an education camp...
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She’s got them on the list
She’s got them on the list
And they’ll none of them be missed
They’ll. None. Of. Them. Be. Missed.
/channeling Gilbert and Sullivan
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Well, it's easy. When they say we shouldn't eat hamburgers, they mean it. They obviously don't include themselves. I mean, duh. That part goes without saying.
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Saikat Chakrabarti eating a cow burger. No sacrilege there. He was eating the reincarnated bodies of our ancestors -- not his own. :)
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Cue farting, and Bart shouting "Wow!
A Hindoo dude having a cow,
For once, as in chowing
And not as in plowing."
Moo-mooing the flak-machers... pow!
[Ynet] Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, after Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit recommended charging the prime minister, pending a hearing, in three corruption cases.
"First embracing right-wing extremism. Now manipulating a free press, accepting bribes, and trading government favors. The allegations against Prime Minister Netanyahu are serious and cut to the heart of a functioning democracy.
[Washington Examiner] The depositions given by former British spy Christopher Steele and a longtime associate of John McCain must be unsealed, a federal judge said Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro overruled the objections of both Steele and David Kramer to make the depositions public. The pair gave testimony in a lawsuit brought against BuzzFeed in December 2018 by a Russian Internet entrepreneur.
The businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, was referenced in the infamous dossier compiled by Steele about President Trump’s alleged connections to Russia. Gubarev objected to BuzzFeed’s publishing of the dossier in January 2017, which accused him of using his companies to hack into computers owned by the Democratic National Committee.
[The Hill] The federal government should expand ObamaCare subsidies for low income people to reduce premiums, a health insurance group said Thursday.
According to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), expanding the tax credits to give more financial assistance would help reduce premiums and ensure more people get covered.
The proposal would also impose a cap on how much a household can spend on premiums, so coverage would be more affordable.
The group also wants to create a national reinsurance program to reduce premiums by helping insurance companies pay claims for high-cost patients.
The proposal echoes past stalled legislative efforts to stabilize the ObamaCare markets, and comes the day after House Democrats introduced "Medicare for all" legislation.
A bill introduced in 2017 by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would have funded a reinsurance program and three years of the subsidies for insurers.
But talks between Democrats and Republicans were derailed over a disagreement about the bill's treatment of abortion coverage.
[American Thinker] Civil wars are horrendous and bloody affairs. That's why we should avoid them. They happen when two sides cannot settle on who runs the country. When they can't reconcile the matter through elections, the country falls apart. When one side does not accept the election results, we have a countdown to a civil war.
This is the thesis put forth by journalist Daniel Greenfield. It rings true on many levels.
Does the fact that Democrats are rejecting a duly elected Republican president really mean they don't accept the results of any election they don't win? If so, we may be already nearing America's Second Civil War.
It is no secret that Democrats and Republicans are more ideologically divided than in recent years. Parts of the country detest the other parts. Coastal elites dislike flyover country. The blue states despise the red states, and vice versa.
We may now be near a point comparable to 1860. Modern Democrats hate President Trump as much as the Democrats of old hated President Lincoln. Democrats repudiated Lincoln for opposing slavery, and modern Democratic leaders are repudiating Lincoln's belief that the government is of the people, for the people, and by the people. Then as now, Democrats are on the wrong side of history.
The average conservative and the average liberal disagree on the vast majority of the issues, and in the few cases where they can agree, each won't support the other out of sheer tribalism for his side. Since Democrats can't win the argument with reason and facts, they try to intimidate us into silence. While Trump is their focus, we should know that the loathing is really against normal everyday Americans.
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No. life is too good for it to happen. most people could care less. as long as theres plenty of food, leisure time, and spare cash, nobody will lift a finger to help politicians with their BS games
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OTH__ forever is a long time to keep your temper....
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As that sort of thing gets closer a lot of folks will start to pay actual attention to the news and may find they have been lied to constantly by the media an political class. Civil war aborted at the ballot box with both parties losing vast numbers. Who gets the votes I don't know at this point.
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forever is a long time to keep your temper.... Once a person has mastered the vice of procrastination, they can solve their anger issues by a careful sequencing of these vices. Just procrastinate your anger indefinitely.
[American Thinker] In 2016 I discovered and wrote about Dr. Frank Schnell, career government employee toxicologist, when he asserted that formaldehyde was not a cancer-causing agent - and that the EPA had lied about it.
I saw a gem, a Ph.D. toxicologist retired from the Communicable Disease Center ‐ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) after 20 years of professional work there, ready to reveal government scientific misconduct on matters of designating toxins and carcinogens. On the formaldehyde issues, Schnell displayed his expertise and his knowledge of EPA misconduct as a view from the belly of the beast. He outlined the science misconduct directed by the EPA and its agency allies, supported by fanatic environmentalists inside and outside the government.
Read this wonderful man's explanation in multiple articles that I admire and applaud from his ACSH archive, but also look at his archive at Science 2.0. For those who are interested in the politics, he is lucid; for those who are interested in getting into the scientific weeds, he is plenty smart and easy to understand.
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government scientific misconduct on matters of designating toxins and carcinogens Before the government ever got involved, consider the controversies engaged in by the scientists themselves: nothing but disagreements and scandals. Consider how reports on the dangers and benefits of coffee swing back & forth every few months or so. Consider what happened to Mme. Curie. Consider what happened to Dr. Karen E. Wetterhahn of Dartmouth, a specialist who died in 1997 of toxic metal exposure. She was a world renowned researcher in -- toxic metal exposure. Various governmental agencies only got involved in the Wetterhahn case after it was far too late. Dartmouth had to pay penalties for negligence that the "top men" -- and women -- of the time did not even know existed!
There is far more to this issue that political hijacks.
[Bloomberg] Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rebounding in developed countries after being firmly in retreat for decades. The consequences can be devastating. Syphilis, for example, causes more than 200,000 stillbirths and infant deaths worldwide annually, and years later can lead to blindness, dementia or paralysis.
The resurgence is a result of multiple factors including inconsistent condom usage and the abuse of illicit recreational drugs. At the same time, some common STIs, such as gonorrhea and shigellosis, are becoming harder to treat due to antibiotic resistance.
In the U.S., which has the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease in the developed world, the crisis is costing an estimated $16 billion annually in preventable health-care expenses.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have been rising among gay and bisexual men, with increases in syphilis being seen across the country. In 2014, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men accounted for 83% of primary and secondary syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known in the United States. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men often get other STDs, including chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. HPV (Human papillomavirus), the most common STD in the United States, is also a concern for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Some types of HPV can cause genital and anal warts and some can lead to the development of anal and oral cancers. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men. Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who do not have HIV to get anal cancer.
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I'm going to guess that the subcutaneous birth control implants make some ignorant folks feel immune to getting pregnant and don't feel the need to use condoms.
[France24] The United States and North Korea on Friday put forward starkly different accounts over the breakdown of a high-stakes summit in Hanoi but offered guarded hope that they could meet again.
After weeks of building expectations and with a signing ceremony ready to go, President Donald Trump abruptly ended his second-ever meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and declared a deadlock.
"Sometimes you have to walk and this was just one of those times," an unusually downbeat Trump told reporters.
"Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that," Trump said before flying back to Washington.
In an exceptionally rare meeting with reporters, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho summoned the press in Hanoi at midnight and denied the White House account that Pyongyang was only seeking a complete deal.
North Korea had offered to "permanently and completely dismantle all the nuclear production facilities" at its main complex in Yongbyon if the US dropped sanctions "that hamper the civilian economy and the livelihood of our people", Ri said.
[Free Beacon] Senate Republicans introduced legislation Thursday meant to block gang members from entering the United States or applying for asylum.
The bill, largely the work of Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is named Singh's Law, in honor of slain police officer Ronil Singh. Singh, an officer in Newman California, was murdered in December of 2018 by an illegal immigrant with known gang affiliations and two prior DUI arrests.
Cotton promised to introduce a measure in honor of Singh earlier this month, as part of a broader commitment to combatting illegal immigration and transnational crime. Now, his proposed law has the backing of Republican colleagues Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Thom Tillis (N.C.).
"Corporal Singh is dead because we failed to secure our border and enforce our immigration laws," Cotton said Thursday. "This bill is our attempt to honor Corporal Singh's vast sacrifice and ensure our communities are better protected from illegal-alien gang members."
If implemented, Singh's Law would prohibit people associated with a criminal gang and previously convicted of a crime from entering the United States. It would also bar illegal immigrants with a gang association from receiving asylum, temporary protected status, a special immigrant juvenile visa, or other forms of protection from deportation. These changes would make it easier for law enforcement to swiftly deport illegal immigrants with gang affiliations, like many members of the infamous gang MS-13.
[Free Beacon] Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt (R.) signed a bill into law on Wednesday that eliminated permitting requirements for concealed gun carry inside the state.
The bill, H.B. 2597, would allow anyone who is 21 years old or older to legally carry a concealed firearm so long as they are legally allowed to possess a firearm. It also includes exemptions for anyone between the age of 18 and 21 to be able to carry without a permit so long as they are a member of the military, national guard, or are an honorably discharged veteran.
Oklahoma follows South Dakota as the second state to adopt a permitless carry‐often referred to as "constitutional carry"‐in 2019. It is now the 15th state to adopt such a system. Twenty-seven other states and the District of Columbia employ a "shall-issue" system where those who pass background checks and meet other requirements must be given permits to carry. The other eight states employ a "may-issue" system where those who pass the checks and meet the stated requirements may still be denied permits by government officials.
[Breitbart] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is being accused of antisemitism again after accusing pro-Israel Americans of "allegiance to a foreign country" at an event on Wednesday evening in Washington, DC.
Laura Kelly, reported at the Jewish Insider that Omar told an audience of supporters at the Busboys and Poets café: "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country," meaning Israel.
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She undoubtedly knows exactly what allegiance to a foreign country/religion means, and cannot help herself in showing it to those who know even slightly about the virulent nature of it. A little Gaza Strip in the House of Represntatives with all the noise and. venom you’d expect...
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A new paper written by zoologist Dr Susan Crockford to mark International Polar Bear Day today has found that global polar bear numbers have continued to rise. Numbers have been steadily increasing since 2005, with 2018 data estimating the highest number of polar bears globally since they were protected by international treaty in 1973.
Numbers are so high that Inuit leaders have been pleading with he Canadian government for more polar bear population control as violent attacks against native populations have dramatically risen in recent years. Far from the 2007 predictions of a 67% decline in global polar bear numbers, the new report reveals that numbers have risen to the highest levels in decades. Happy International Polar Bear Day!
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Far from the 2007 predictions of a 67% decline in global polar bear numbers
If the predictions of your model or theory don't match the observations, then your model is wrong - no matter how elegant or how much time you spent on it or how much you believe it. It's wrong.
[Ynet] The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, holy warrior group says that Egypt has released eight Paleostinians, including four of its members, from detention after years of denying knowledge of their abduction.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... announced the release of the detainees and thanked Egypt upon his return from a three-week trip to the country on Thursday.
The four Hamas Lions of Islam were kidnapped in August 2015, when unknown button men ambushed a bus ferrying a group of Paleostinian travelers across the Gazoo-Egypt border.
[Jpost] The IDF had been conducting ongoing operations to uncover illegal weapons and cash used by forces of Evil in the West Bank.
Two Carlo-type sub-machine guns and a truck were seized during overnight raids conducted by the IDF, Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency), Border Police and Israel Police in a special joint operation, the IDF Spokespersons Office announced.
Twelve wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities and violent disturbances against civilians and soldiers were taken into custody as well and questioned by authorities.
The illegal weapons were found in the Arab community of Asira ash-Shamaliya, located near the IDF Shomron Regional Brigade base. The town is under the jurisdiction of the Nablus Governorate of the Paleostinian Authority.
A second operation was conducted in Idhna, a PA city of 19,000 located near Hebron. IDF soldiers seized the vehicle belonging to an individual suspected of being involved in the transfer of tens of thousands of shekels used to fund terrorist activities. The operation was part on an ongoing campaign to crack down on terror funding.
The terrorist who murdered 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher earlier this month lived in Hebron. The nearby community of Idhna was the site of a discovery last year of ancient burial tombs dating to the time of the Second Temple Era.
[IsraelTimes] Former intel chief also ordered to prison, but ex-president Carlos Menem acquitted as four-year trial into allegations of meddling in investigation of AMIA bombing wraps up.
The former Argentine judge who led the probe into the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires was locked away Please don't kill me! for his role in a cover-up Thursday, but the country’s former president Carlos Menem was acquitted.
Juan Jose Galeano was locked away Please don't kill me! for six years for concealment and violation of evidence.
Former intelligence chief Hugo Anzorreguy was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for his role in the cover-up surrounding the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) center, which killed 85 people and injured 300 others.
They were among 13 defendants facing a slew of corruption and obstruction of justice charges in a trial that lasted four years.
The court sentenced Carlos Telledin, a used car dealer who sold the van that contained the bomb, to three-and-a-half years in jail.
The court found Galeano paid Telledin $400,000 to implicate a group of coppers in the bombing. Galeano denied prosecutors’ assertions that he had acted on the orders of Menem, who is now a senator.
In addition, former prosecutors Eamon Mullen and Jose Barbaccia were convicted of not fulfilling their duties as public officials and each sentenced to two years.
No one has ever been convicted of the bombing, though Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ‐ and Israel ‐ have long pointed the finger at Iran.
They suspect a Lebanese Hezbollah operative of carrying out the suicide kaboom on Tehran’s orders.
But decades of investigation in Argentina have been roiled by political interference and allegations of corruption.
The bombing investigation was plagued by irregularities, according to a court ruling in 2004. That court acquitted a number of people who had been charged as part of an alleged "local connection" in the attack. The court asked for an investigation into members of the government and judicial system for their roles in the investigation’s problems.
Prosecutors had called for a four-year jail sentence for Menem, Argentina’s president from 1989-1999, on grounds that he ordered a cover-up. Instead, he was cleared of allegations that he tried to divert attention in the bombing investigation away from a Syrian businessman who was a Menem family friend.
"In these three years there was not a single element that could justify an illicit act on the part of the former president," Menem’s lawyer, Omar Daer, told news hounds after the sentence was heard. "He feels relieved."
Even if convicted, he likely would have avoided prison due to his legal protections as a senator.
The aging statesman gave little away in his testimony, saying state secrets meant he was prevented from presenting bombshell evidence.
His lawyer explained to the court in 2016 that Menem declined to reveal any information "that could affect the current government, the interests of the nation, and peaceful coexistence with other nations."
Decades of obstructed investigation meant a key line of inquiry in the case, the so-called Syrian track, was abandoned.
That track led to Syrian businessman Alberto Kanoore Edul, a boyhood friend of Menem. The prosecutor said that on the day of the attack, the businessman had spoken with Telledin.
Galeano, the ex-judge, said during the trial that the investigation was flawed by problems within the Argentine secret services. He was accused of acting on Menem's orders to drop the Syrian track of the investigation implicating Edul and other businessmen linked to the purchase of the bomb materials.
In addition to Galeano and the intelligence chief, two police officers and two former prosecutors in the case were also sentenced to jail time.
However, a former Jewish community leader, Ruben Beraja, as well as a lawyer and two former members of the intelligence services, were acquitted.
Prosecutors separately indicted ex-president Cristina Kirchner in 2017 for whitewashing Iran's alleged role in the attack. Kirchner had the Argentine Congress' backing for a 2012 political deal with Iran to allow Iranian suspects to be questioned in their own country by Argentine prosecutors. The deal was never ratified by Tehran, but prosecutors investigating Kirchner for corruption say the deal was effectively a cover-up to absolve Iran in return for lucrative trade deals with her government.
Tehran has always refused to hand over Iranian diplomats suspected of having participated in the planning of the attack.
Come home — all is forgiven. (Or possibly not, but it is hard to be ruler of all one surveys without an adequate supply of adoring populace.)
[AnNahar] Syria's government on Thursday called on thousands of displaced Syrians stranded near their country's southern border with Jordan to return to their homes, as the U.N. appealed for protection guarantees.
Nearly 50,000 Syrians are living in squalid conditions in Rukban, an isolated desert camp located near the al-Tanf base used by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The Syrian government and regime-ally Russia said on February 19 that they have opened corridors from Rukban, calling on residents to leave the settlement.
Damascus renewed the call on Thursday, SANA state news agency said, citing an unnamed foreign ministry source.
"Out of concern for the interest of its citizens, Syria renews its call to our people in the Rukban camp to leave this settlement and return to their cities and villages," the source said.
"The Syrian government will do everything it can to facilitate the transfer of these citizens from the camp to their place of residence," he added.
No civilians are believed to have left Rukban in the two weeks since Russia and Syria announced the opening of corridors, Panos Moumtzis, the U.N. regional coordinator for Syria told AFP on Thursday.
"So far, as far as we know, there has not been any movement of civilians outside of Rukban," he said.
The official said the U.N. is not involved in the opening of the corridors but noted that most Syrians are seeking protection guarantees before deciding to leave.
"Most of the people from Rukban, more than 95 percent, want to leave and most of them actually want to go back to government-held areas," Moumtzis said.
"But they have expressed concerns on issues related to protection... basically they want to know that they will be safe," he added.
Conditions inside the settlement are dire, with many surviving on just one simple meal a day, often bread and olive oil or yoghurt, according to one resident.
Severe weather has hit the region in recent weeks, including heavy and sustained rainfall that flooded the settlement.
Earlier this month, a humanitarian convoy of 133 trucks delivered food, clothes, healthcare items and medical supplies to the camp's residents.
The February 6 delivery was the second delivery in three months.
Syria's civil war has killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011.
[AnNahar] Despite a Russian initiative that vowed to help repatriate the Syrian refugees to their homeland, genuine efforts to ease that return are "disrupted," al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.
Official sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told the daily the file is currently "totally disrupted," and that Lebanese officials have no signs of any Arab or international efforts in that direction.
Although "Moscow confirms it has not stopped to secure the return of Syrian refugees, but nothing tangible has yet emerged," added the sources.
Moreover, the "shy" voluntary return of some of the refugees that is being coordinated with Leb’s General Security apparatus is "not compatible with the magnitude of this file," said the daily.
Last year, Russia has put forward plans to the United States to cooperate for the safe return of refugees to Syria.
It proposed the establishment of working groups in Leb and Jordan, to where many refugees have fled.
Seven years into Syria's war, Leb hosts around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, compared with a local population of 4.5 million.
Several hundred Syrians have willingly returned to their hometowns in Syria in the past few months.
[AnNahar] Kurdish-led fighters readied Thursday for a final onslaught against jihadist fighters who have been defending the last patch of their "caliphate" in eastern Syria.
The SDF estimates the number of people inside the last IS redoubt, a patch of half a square kilometre on the banks of the Euphrates river, at anything from a few hundred to several thousand.
"We're not sure about the number of civilians still inside but everyday we're astonished by the number of people coming out. We didn't expect that," Afrin said.
The SDF also announced Thursday its forces had secured the release of 24 of their comrades who had been captured by the jihadists but did not specify how.
The US-backed SDF is ready to move from the west and north of Baghouz while the Syrian regime fighters and Iraqi paramilitaries sealing the siege are stationed across the river and border.
Accounts from women who have left the enclave in recent days suggest IS is allowing many families to go, sending them to a hill from which they can walk to an assembly point and hand themselves over.
"We have been waiting here a long time for the vehicles that will take us out," said Nadia al-Hamid, a woman from the nearby city of Mayadin.
- SLEEPING ROUGH -
Many of the civilians who spent months holed up in the last dreg of the "caliphate" proclaimed almost five years ago, are in bad physical and mental health.
"There have been more than 100 cases of diarrhoea among new arrivals and efforts are ongoing to prevent an outbreak of dysentery," the International Rescue Committee said.
"We are now seeing thousands of people sleeping rough in the arrivals area at the camp, where they are exposed to the cold, wind and rain," said Misty Buswell, the IRC's Middle East advocacy director.
"Many of the children are having to cope without shoes or coats," she added.
[IsraelTimes] A front man for US-backed forces fighting the Islamic State group in Syria says they have uncovered a mass grave near the last IS-held pocket in the country’s east.
Adnan Afrin says the grave unearthed outside the village of Baghouz contains the remains of men and women but says the number of bodies and their identities remain unclear.
A video published by Kurdish-run Furat FM TV station has emerged showing several bodies dug out from a pit.
Afrin says his forces managed to free 24 SDF fighters over the course of evacuating civilians from the area.
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[DAWN] Two unidentified button men opened fire on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) judge Justice Ayub Khan's car on Thursday morning while he was on his way to the high court, police said.
The judge and his driver, both of whom suffered injuries were shifted to a private hospital, Superintendent of Police (SP) Wasim Riaz said, adding that the victims were out of danger.
The incident took place in a residential area in Hayatabad's Phase V, SP Riaz said.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Zahoor Afridi said that a 9mm Kalashnikov had been used by the button men, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the attack.
The police have launched a probe and recorded the statements of two eyewitnesses so far, SSP Afridi told the media.
He said that the police were also investigating why a security guard had not been accompanying the injured judge.
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In an arrest that stood out from the rest, this terrorist attempted to assassinate a police officer in west Mosul while posing as a fighter from the PMF. The ISIS member was taken down at the Karama industrial area. pic.twitter.com/j2k0MZ3FTk
When jihad outranks research, the outcome follows.
[DAWN] At the opening ceremony of the 5th Science and Technology Exchange Programme (STEP) International Conference at Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University (KU), speakers expressed concern over the alarming decline in the sectors of education, science and technology and called for united efforts to change this dismal situation.
The event, titled ’Health challenges of communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases’, was organised at the KU’s International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS).
Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD) of the ICCBS hosted the science conference in collaboration with Mustafa (PTUI!) Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) in Iran.
Regretting lack of progress in science and technology in the Moslem world, Prof Atta-ur-Rahman, chairman of the Task Force on Technology Driven Knowledge Economy, said it’s unfortunate that not a single institution in Moslem countries had been conferred with the Nobel Prize so far.
"The challenges of the 21st century require that Pakistain change its economic directions. We must drastically change the strategy for socio-economic development as natural resources have lost their importance," he said.
It was the ability of nations to manufacture and export high value-added goods, which determined their state of development, he added.
Citing Singapore’s example in this regard, he pointed out that it was for this reason alone that tiny Singapore with a population 40 times less than that of Pakistain had exports of $330 billion, 15 times higher than those of Pakistain.
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Pakistan had a Nobel winner in Physics. Mohamed Abdus Salam, an Amadi Muslim from Pakistan, won the Nobel in 1979 with Weinberg and Glasshow for Electro Weak unification.
The earliest written records indicate the Egyptians and Babylonians used all the elementary arithmetic operations as early as 2000 BC. These artifacts do not always reveal the specific process used for solving problems, but the characteristics of the particular numeral system strongly influence the complexity of the methods. The hieroglyphic system for Egyptian numerals, like the later Roman numerals, descended from tally marks used for counting. In both cases, this origin resulted in values that used a decimal base but did not include positional notation. Complex calculations with Roman numerals required the assistance of a counting board or the Roman abacus to obtain the results.
Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal (base 60) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal (base 20) system that defined Maya numerals. Because of this place-value concept, the ability to reuse the same digits for different values contributed to simpler and more efficient methods of calculation.
The continuous historical development of modern arithmetic starts with the Hellenistic civilization of ancient Greece, although it originated much later than the Babylonian and Egyptian examples. Prior to the works of Euclid around 300 BC, Greek studies in mathematics overlapped with philosophical and mystical beliefs. For example, Nicomachus summarized the viewpoint of the earlier Pythagorean approach to numbers, and their relationships to each other, in his Introduction to Arithmetic.
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Islam. Just need the Koran.
Socialists. Just need Das Kapital.
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The conception that the Muslim world was the leading light in science at the time Europe was in the dark (or at least pre-dawn) ages is correct, but ignores the fact that their pre-eminence came from conquering and co-opting the then-leading Greek science base, particularly in Alexandria.
Given that the Koran and Hadith are basically spooky-mystical, Islamic scientific progress has suffered greatly since then. On the other hand, the current "intersectionality/diversity/pick any gender but pizza" fads in western education will even the playing field and we'll all be digging in the dirt with a stick in a few years.
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The Arabs did manage to give the world two major things that have made the modern world possible though. Their sails (further modified of course) made colonization of the Americas possible, and Arabic numerals were vastly superior to the Roman ones still in use in Europe even in the beginning of the Renaissance. But since then, Islam has basically given people war, plagues, and heartache, to varying degrees.
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Mohamed Abdus Salam, an Amadi Muslim from Pakistan
Following the loss of Bangladesh, in 1974 Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto constitutionally redefined the Ahmadi sect as not Muslim. As far as I can tell, functionally the Ahmadiyyas were, until that moment, the Gulenists of Pakistan, so their takedown from positions of leadership throughout Pakistani society was gleefully pursued by those who had been outcompeted by them. Much more here.
Depict for us Europe, O fictor,
Unsqueezed by an Arab constrictor,
And Rome in the East
Still secure in her lease
Till the Mongols arrive to evict her.
Right everyone, and here we have it.... Sat images (to be released tomorrow) show IAF have missed their targets and not hit the camp in response to Pulwama. https://t.co/ZwFr7cI3ee
[AlAhram] A suicide boom-mobilewent kaboom! in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least five people and destroying buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street, police said.
"The kaboom took place in a business center full of hotels, fairs, shops and restaurants," Major Mohammed Hussein, a police officer, told Rooters."Many cars are burning now," he said following the blast in Maka Al Mukaram street. "We know five people are dead and the corpse count is sure to rise."
A Rooters witness saw four dead people and dozens of others injured. He saw blood stains, a dozen cars burning and three buildings including hotels destroyed by the blast.
Earlier, a Rootersnews hound heard a huge blast followed by clouds of smoke and heavy gunfire.
The ambulance service reported another 25 wounded were carted to hospital. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. A volley of gunfire was heard after the explosion. A second blast was heard in the area a few minutes later, but it was unclear what caused that explosion. Al Shabaab said their fighters were trying to kill senior officials staying in the famous Maka Al-Mukarama hotel.
Security forces and al-Shabab gunmen clashed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday after an attack by the Islamist militants on a hotel used by government officials killed at least 19 people and injured dozens more.
"The militants are still fighting from inside a civilian house adjacent to the hotel ... [They] are fighting back with grenades and Kalashnikov [rifles]," police officer Major Musa Ali told the Reuters news agency.
Thursday evening's attack targeted the Maka Almukarramah hotel, which has already suffered several assaults by the al-Qaida-linked group. Al-Shabab said a suicide bomber from their group was responsible for the attack, which it said aimed to kill senior officials staying at the hotel.
The hotel is situated in a busy street in Mogadishu that was filled with people at the time of the attack, witnesses said. Officials say that the death toll is likely to rise, with many people lying severely wounded in hospital.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The president of the Parliament indicated that he will return to the country after holding meetings with leaders of several nations such as Colombia, Brazil and Paraguay.
[Rudaw] Belgium won an appeal Wednesday against a ruling ordering it to repatriate six children of Belgian jihadists living in a refugee camp with their mothers in Syria.
"The Brussels appeals court finds in favour of the appeal of the Belgian state "against a lower court's decision handed down on December 26, it said in a statement, confirming that "the Belgian state is no longer obliged to undertake any act of repatriation."
Another court had previously rejected a demand lodged by two women, each mother to three of the children, for their home government to intervene.
But the Phlegmish-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels overturned that with its December ruling, ordering Belgium to take "all necessary and possible measures" to bring the children home from the al-Hol refugee camp, overseen by Kurdish forces, near the Iraqi border.
Human rights campaigners welcomed that ruling.
The children, all aged six or under, are the offspring of alleged jihadist fighters. Human rights groups fear as many as 160 Belgian minors are trapped in the Syrian conflict zone.
The December ruling gave the Belgian state 40 days to comply or face fines of 5,000 euros (almost $5,700) per child per day.
As a proportion of its population, Belgium has been one of the main suppliers of Europeans travelling to fight for Islamist bad boy groups in Syria and Iraq.
In all, more than 400 adults are thought to have left to join groups such as 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.... or al-Qaeda since 2013.
Belgium has been hit by several attacks claimed by IS, notably the Brussels attack in March 22, 2016 which killed 32 people.
The Belgian government has said it is willing to "facilitate the return of children (of jihadists) under the age of ten whose descent from a Belgian parent is proven. But for the remainder it is on a case-by-case basis."
European governments fear returning hard boyz will bring violence home, but the presence of non-combattant family members has complicated security policy choices.
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What was it Kurtz said? "A pile of little arms." Or a pile of little human shields...
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[KhaamaPress] The Talibs and their commanders have suffered heavy casualties during the festivities and Arclight airstrikes in northern Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said at least 8 Talibs were killed and 5 others were maimed during the airstrikes and armed festivities which took place at around 1:20 pm local time in Chematal district.
The statement further added that a similar clash took place between the security forces and Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Tawa Village of Shulagara district leaving 8 bully boyz dead including their commander Mullah Faiz Ur Rahman. The dead bodies of two bully boyz were left in the area.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 13 bully boyz also sustained injuries during the same festivities and one of their commanders Mullah Hafeez is also among those maimed.
The Afghan forces also confiscated a Ak-47 rifle, a rocket launcher and three cycle of violences following the festivities, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A is targeted for 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2. It will dock at ISS - yes dock not be attached. Ripley (with alien?) to ISS
[DailyExpress] The armed assailants attacked the center which is run by French charity Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday. On Sunday, assailants set fire to a treatment center in the city of Katwa in the Ebola-ravaged eastern region of the country.
Emmanuel Massart, MSF's Emergency Coordinator in the city said: "This attack was traumatic for patients, their relatives and staff present inside the center at the time. It has also crippled our ability to respond to what is now the epicenter of the outbreak." Tribalism or Death cult, or /sarcasm overly agressive anti-vaxxers?
Seems to me if you are doctoring in a war zone, you either need an organic defense capability, some strong local friends, or to bring along an ass-kicking private military company.
[TheDrive] Demand for the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan appears to be absolutely on fire, as the British automaker claims that despite expanding production and hiring more employees, there simply isn't enough supply to satisfy the extreme demand fuelled by brand loyalist and new-found female, younger buyers.
According to Automotive News, Rolls-Royce's order log for Cullinan SUVs is jam-packed until June, and that's not counting the current orders that dealerships are placing each and every day. In order to alleviate the problem, the ultra-luxury brand hired 200 more people, bringing its global headcount to 2,000, and beefed up its production pipeline in late 2018, but that's hardly made a dent.
"I would like to have a little bit more supply," Martin Fritsches, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Americas told Automotive News. "And I don't get it because we are running on 100 percent of production capacity, increasing the production capacity throughout the weeks and months, but still not being able to catch up to demand."
Some of the additional demand can be attributed to the new customer demographics that the Cullinan has helped uncover, such as female and young, affluent buyers who may be buying their first Rolls-Royce vehicle, but most likely won't be their last. On the other hand, the idea of owning an adventurous, "weekend-only" Rolls with four-wheel-drive also appeals to current owners.
[Bangkok Post] A Thai ranger was killed and another ranger and a civilian injured when a roadside bomb exploded in Yala province on Tuesday morning. Police said two homemade bombs were hidden on a roadside in Banang Sata district.
One was detonated as a six-man ranger patrol on teacher protection duty passed the spot. Two rangers were hit by shrapnel. One was killed and the other wounded. A woman riding a motorcycle along the road was also knocked to the ground and broke her wrist.
Bomb disposal officers sent to the scene found the second bomb hidden nearby in the grass along the roadside. They safely destroyed it.
[Inquirer] An Abu Sayyaf militant was killed and a militiaman was injured in a clash in Barangay Masola in Isabela City on the evening of February 25. Isabela police chief William Gadayan identified the injured party as Boy Hashim, a a resident of Barangay Kapayawan.
The unidentified Abu Sayyaf fighter was killed where the special forces recovered an M14 rifle with seven magazines of live ammunition.
“The body was brought to La Isabela Funeral Homes waiting for post mortem examination and for proper disposition,” Gadayan said.
The Isabela City Police learned about the encounter through Captain Artemio Sombrio Jr., the 4th Special Forces Battalion commander based in Cabunbata village in Isabela City. Sombrio appeared at the police station on Tuesday morning to report the clash.
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Prime Minister Justin “Pretty Boy” Trudeau, not content with firing his attorney general for refusing to join in his unethical behaviours, is tossing vocabulary about in an effort to hide his refusal to live up to oft and loudly stated principles with regard to repatriating innocent jihadi wives and children stranded in Syria.
[Rudaw] Bringing Canadian nationals accused of joining and fighting alongside 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) to justice is proving "difficult" as Canadian prosecutors face huge hurdles in collecting "usable evidence" against around a dozen men and women detained in Syria, a senior law enforcement official said.
"The issue is in part working with our allies to make sure that we are collecting the maximum amount of usable evidence that can be practically available and usable in a Canadian court system to lay charges, to prosecute. That's difficult..." said Deputy Commissioner Gilles Michaud, the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) federal policing branch on Wednesday.
Michaud highlighted that the main problem with suspected ISIS members is ensuring a trail of justice between their actions in the Middle East and the Canadian legal system.
He was responding to questions to journalists including those from Global News Canada.
At least 12 Canadian nationals are known to be held by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
He noted that the evidence would be coming from a battlefield that is "half a world away," but international allies long have discussed the issue of evidence at various meetings and conferences.
"This is a dangerous and largely dysfunctional part of the world and we do not intend to endanger the lives of our consular or diplomatic officials," added Michaud.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... called on countries in the international anti-ISIS coalition to repatriate their nationals, amid a massive US troop withdrawal from northeast Syria. The SDF has said imported muscle should face justice in their home countries.
"The Canadian share of that problem is relatively small, certainly smaller than most other countries involved," said Michaud.
The bulk of foreign ISIS suspects come from Russia, Europe, and the Caucuses.
"My abiding concern is always public safety and national security. And I want to make sure that those two imperatives are properly delivered on behalf of Canadians," Michaud said.
Those who joined ISIS need to "assume responsibility" for their behaviour, he underscored.
"In the case of North America [they were] abandoning the comfortable confines of free and open democracies to go half way around the world to engage with terrorist organizations..." Michaud said.
He called the behavior of alleged ISIS members who parented children in the so-called caliphate, "absolutely appalling and reprehensible."
However Ottawa will do what it can to "protect the innocent."
Alleged Canadian ISIS fighter Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed, who is held by the SDF, has appealed for his government to provide assistance.
SDF holds 800 alleged ISIS forces of Evil and 4,000 of their family members.
"ISIS from all over the world has gathered in Syria, out of the 800 fighters there were nationalities of 47 countries," Ilham Ahmed, the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) that is the SDF's political wing said last week.
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Trump should make 'em very uncomfortable by announcing "Send 'em on down, we'll electrocute them for you..."
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[NDTV] As India waited for the release of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who is in Pakistain's custody, exclusive details emerged on the unprecedented air combat operation along the Line of Control, where a package of 24 Pak aircraft were intercepted by eight IAF fighters, which included a MiG 21 Bison he was piloting.
The Wing Commander was in hot pursuit of a Pak F-16 jet, which he engaged with an R-73 air-to-air missile. The state-of-the-art Pak fighter, thought to be a two-seater variant of the jet, was shot down. Both pilots were seen parachuting down on the Pak side of the Line of Control.
NDTV has learnt that the Pak Air Force strike package included eight F-16s, four Mirage-3 aircraft, four Chinese made JF-17 "Thunder" fighter.
Other aircraft in the formation were escort fighters to protect the Pakistain strike formation from any IAF retaliation. The large Pak attack formation was detected at 9.45 am, when they came within 10 km of the Line of Control.
A small number of these fighters then proceeded to cross the Line of Control, when they were intercepted by eight IAF jets, which included four Sukhoi 30s, two upgraded Mirage 2000s and two MiG 21 Bisons.
The Air Force fighters gave chase to the Pak jets on their return leg after they had dropped a handful of laser-guided bombs that narrowly missed their military targets along the Line of Control.
Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was in hot pursuit of a Pak F-16, which his radar had locked onto.
Despite being warned by other aircraft in the formation about the presence of Pak fighters, he pushed home his attack and fired an R-73 air-to-air missile.
At this stage of the air-to-air encounter, the pilot's wingman was also exposed and vulnerable.
Two missiles were fired by Pak F-16s. One of them, an AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) struck his aircraft, while another missed his wingman.
The Wing Commander was forced to eject and landed into the Pak side of Line of Control, where he was captured. Pakistain has announced that he will be released tomorrow.
Early on Wednesday, Pakistain circulated videos of the pilot, where he was seen being interrogated -- maimed, tied up and blindfolded. The clips were, however, taken off once New Delhi accused Pakistain of violating the Geneva Convention for prisoners. A video circulated later showed the pilot sipping tea, saying he was being 'well looked after" by officers of the Mighty Pak Army.
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the F-16s sold to Pakistan in the 90s required Pak to sign a statement that they would never be used for offense
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They also promised to kiss their mothers every day and take out the garbage.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan has announced that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have conducted 4 joint offensive operations, 69 Special Operations, and 18 Arclight airstrikes in the past 24 which left 103 murderous Moslems dead, 38 maimed, and 8 others were locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, the Afghan Air Force also participated in 94 other missions to support the ground forces.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men. , Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Uruzgan, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , Baghlan, Balkh, Kunduz, Badakhshan, and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces and as a result 8 murderous Moslems were killed, 13 others were maimed, 3 motorycles and some explosives were seized in Shulgara district of Balkh province.
At least 2 murderous Moslems were killed killed in Jurm district of Badakhshan province, 2 others were maimed, and 2 weapons were confiscated in Jurm district of Badakhshan. Another holy warrior was killed in Alingar district of Laghman province and 4 suspects were arrested in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province.
Similarly, the air forces carried out airstrikes in Sancharak district of Sar-e-Pul province leaving 34 murderous Moslems dead including Temor Shaha, the shadow district of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... for Balkhab district, MoD said adding that 18 others were maimed.
At least 18 other murderous Moslems were killed in Hazaragi and Aab Dara Villages in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan, 17 others were killed, 5 were maimed, and some weapons and munitions were destroyed in Andar, Qarabagh, and Geru districts of Ghazni province.
The Afghan forces also killed 8 murderous Moslems in Chemtal district of Balkh province and some weapons and munitions were destroyed, 8 other murderous Moslems were killed and some weapons and munitions were destroyed in Marjah and Greshk districts of Helmand province, and 7 more were killed in Pul-e-Alam city of Pashtun-infested Logar province, a motorcyle and a vehicle were destroyed, the Ministry of Defense added.
Goodness. I never thought to hear the formerly important Hillary Clinton quote Sarah Palin.
[NeonNettle] Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she has little faith in President Donald Trump’s ability to negotiate with Kim Jong-un on North Korean denuclearization. Clinton added that any 'claims of victory' would be like putting "lipstick on a pig."The former secretary of State said she doubts Trump's goals will be achieved.Clinton told journalist Tina Brown in a podcast episode on Tuesday ahead of Trump’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, "I have serious doubts that whatever [Trump] claims will be actually achieved."
She then branded Trump’s vision of complete denuclearization a "fantasy," alleging Trump was doing it for the media attention. "All the intelligence, which Trump dismisses, suggests that it’s unlikely but not impossible that Kim Jong Un will give up his nuclear weapons capacity," she added."I don't see a deal there that is a verifiable, enforceable deal," Clinton claimed, but "I don’t know what Trump will claim."
"I don’t know whose national security interests Trump is either pursuing or will actually try to defend" ‐ Hillary Clinton.But Trump said he would not rush for denuclearization and that he was satisfied that Kim agreed to halt missile testing.
But some in the White House fear Trump may be outmaneuvered in negotiations.
Clinton attempted to back her argument up by comparing Trump’s diplomatic dealmaking with alleged stories she heard of Trump’s time as a New York real estate mogul."I've had so many guys who did business with him in real estate say, ’You know he'd have a 15 million dollar profit from a real estate deal which he would call $150 million and then he would call everybody and beg them not to contradict the press because he was going to tell them it was $150 million not $15 million," she said."So if he can put lipstick on a pig, and he can say ’OK this is what we're going to do with North Korea’ and he keeps saying it over and over again and Fox News says it over and over again and other outlets say it over and over again, and the so-called mainstream media does their both sidesism ... he wins the news cycle. And that’s really what he lives for," she concluded.In January, Trump has branded the US intelligence agencies as "naive" and "wrong" following their annual ’threat assessment’ and dismissed the agency's assessments of the threat posed by North Korea which contradicted his judgments during congressional testimony.The Senate committee was told by leaders of the US intelligence community that North Korea's nuclear threat remained valid and that Iran was not in the stages of developing a nuclear bomb.
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Why would anyone give a rat's patootie about what this psychopath says. Time and time again we have seen her climb a tree to lie when she could stay on the ground and tell the truth.
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Like her brilliant reset button and Russia? Sold them nuclear material, turned a blind eye to their actions, and colluded with them to try, rigged the DNC election process so no one could run against you and tried overthrow our government election system?? I do believe MRS Clinton you are the pig with lipstick today.
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Trump is doing, imho, an 'average' job of dealing with the Totalitarians her party gave the smart, hard-working third of the world to over the last eighty years.
JUST IN: North Korea's foreign minister says if the United States removes partial sanctions they can permanently dismantle all nuclear material production; says Pyongyang asked U.S. to lift some sanctions, not entirely pic.twitter.com/yKqx9X7wfC
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] North Korean officials made a rare appearance on Thursday after President Trump departed Vietnam to publicly dispute aspects of his claims about the breakdown in talks. Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said the country asked for 'partial sanctions' relief, primarily in the areas harming North Korean citizens and affecting their livelihoods. In return, Pyongyang offered to 'permanently' close its plutonium and uranium facilities in the Yongbyon region in the presence of U.S. inspectors. He said North Korea asked the U.S. to lift sanctions corresponding with five United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... resolutions adopted between 2016 and 2017. Trump said that North Korea was 'not ready' to meet the United States' conditions. Ri said talks broke down 'when it became crystal clear that the US is not ready to accept our proposal,' according to a Bloomberg. The U.S. president expressed confidence that an accord could be struck in the future that would see North Korea denuclearize, but the Ri told news hounds: 'Our proposal will never change.' He left media availability without taking questions. His deputy Choe Son-hui did interact with press, and took a question in English from an NBC news hound on Otto Warmbier. Choe declined to comment, telling a rowdy group of news hounds would only talk about denuclearization. She proceeded to answer questions in Korean for three and a half more minutes before she left the scrum at Melia Hotel in Hanoi. Trump speculated at his presser that 'top leadership' in North Korea did not know about the college student's arrest and his condition, considering it wasn't to Kim's 'advantage' to send him back in a coma.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have thwarted an attack by Talibs in Arghandab district of Zabul province leaving at least 28 murderous Moslems dead, informed military sources said Thursday.
In the meantime, at least 30 murderous Moslems were killed were killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces and an Arclight airstrike which were conducted in Tarinkot of Uruzgan, Nahr-e-Saraj and Sangin districts of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , and Hisarak district 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 sources further added that similar operations were also conducted in Sabari district of Khost, Shahwlai Kot district of Kandahar, Sancharak district of Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province, and Qarabagh district of Ghazni province leaving at least 32 murderous Moslems dead and 5 others maimed.
An air strike in Mohammad Aghah district of Pashtun-infested Logar province left 7 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters dead, the sources said adding that similar airstrikes in Zurmat district of Paktia province killed 2 Taliban fighters.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The former goalkeeper for the Syrian national football team, ’Abdel-Basit Sarout survived an liquidation attempt in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate on Thursday, opposition activists reported via social media.
According to reports, Sarout, who is now a commander in the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s (FSA) Jaish al-Izza faction, was targeted by an improvised bomb inside the town of Ma’arat al-Nu’man.
The reports added that Sarout survived the liquidation attempt with minor wounds.
Sarout rose to prominence during the early years of the Syrian uprising when he joined protests against the government in his home city of Homs.
The former national team member would then join the rebel forces to fight the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in several parts of the country.
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[DAWN] People took out processions in different areas here on Wednesday against the Indian aggression and vowed full support to the Pakistain Army for protection of the country.
Holding Pak flags in their hands, they marched on the Ring Road, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , from Achini Chowk and shouted slogans in support of the country’s armed forces. The people appreciated the Pakistain Air Force for shooting down two Indian fighter jets inside Pak territory and described it a brave step on the part of national leadership.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... the leaders of various political parties and minorities also condemned the intrusion by the Indian fighter jets and vowed that the entire nation would be part of the Pak security forces in case of war with India.
Qaumi Watan Party, Pakistain Peoples Party and Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz leaders and chief bishop of the Church of Pakistain in their separate statements on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the shooting down of the Indian warplanes inside Pak territory and said that they would fully support the security forces for protection of the country.
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Meanwhile in Karachi it was business as usual -- rape, robbery, pillaging, arson, murder and other fun pastimes.
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"All hope, ye who enter, abandon!"
Not Wagah-Attari but London.
Thank Allah, we Pakis
Repelled this attack
As a cab wallah cries, "Aiii, I'm undone!"
[AnNahar] Jihadist attacks in the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Mali and Niger have disrupted schooling for more than 400,000 young people, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ' children's agency Unicef said Thursday.
Nearly 2,000 schools have had to close, a doubling since 2017, it said in a statement.
"Direct attacks on schools, teachers and schoolchildren themselves, and the military occupation of places of learning are serious violations of children’s rights," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
"When children miss out on school ‐- especially in times of conflict -‐ not only are they unable to learn the skills they need to build peaceful and prosperous communities, they also become vulnerable to horrific forms of exploitation including sexual abuse and forced recruitment into gangs."
Northern and eastern Burkina Faso, north and central Mali, and the west and southeast of Niger are particularly unstable due to the activities of armed jihadist groups, according to local NGOs.
The armed forces in all three countries are struggling to contain the jihadists, including Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters, who attack businesses and livestock, torch schools and evict villagers, according to the NGOs.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Force says bullets hit an army vehicle near the border with Egypt, adding it is likely spillover from infighting in Sinai.
The military says in a statement that there were no injuries caused in the incident, which follows several similar occurrences in recent months.
Egypt’s hunt for ISIS in the Sinai is getting frisky again, it appears.
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[DAWN] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court has ordered the federal government not to send former agency surgeon of Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... Dr Shakil Afridi
... the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden in 2011 by running a fake vaccination program. He has been kept in solitary confinement in the high security Sahiwal prison, falsely convicted of supporting the terror group Lashkar e-Islam...
abroad in case of any secret deal with the US government.
The orders were issued after a bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan accepted the petition of senior lawyer Mohammad Khursheed Khan against the ’possible’ handover of Dr Shakil to the US.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan pronounced the order after the petitioner, Mohammad Khursheed Khan, completed his arguments contending that any move by the government to shift Dr Shakil abroad would be unconstitutional and illegal.
The petitioner, who is a former deputy attorney general, had filed the petition in 2017 when there were rumours that Dr Shakil might be shifted abroad and handed over to the US government.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has urged the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council and other international organizations to ask India why it has imposed war ‐ that can prove harmful for the entire region ‐ on Pakistain.
The maulana said at a presser at Larkana Press Club here on Wednesday that Indian aggression was a war crime as the country violated the Line of Control on the pretext of unfounded claims of Pakistain’s involvement in Pulwama incident. India should have provided proof of the incident instead of imposing war, which was an irresponsible act, he said.
He said that Indian war hysteria was inexplicable at best as one could not understand what the Modi government could achieve by stoking war in the region. "Though we are confronting domestic, political and economic problems and our foreign policy is heading for failure we have complete confidence in Pakistain army and it is our first priority," he said.
As a mark of solidarity with Pakistain army his party would stage protests across the country on Friday and appealed to all religious and political parties to participate in peaceful demonstrations in large numbers, he said.
He urged all political and religious parties to participate in processions, protests and demonstrations and assured Pakistain army that the nation stood by it.
The maulana said in answer to a question about invitation to Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to the meeting of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that OIC was an ineffective forum which carried no weight.
He said that India did not qualify to be an Islamic country while Pakistain was a large Moslem nation. It was right decision to boycott the OIC’s emergency meeting, he said, adding that war was fire that burned everything to ashes.
He said that Kashmire was a disputed issue and Pakistain had always welcomed international arbitration for settling it but India resisted such attempts. "Our stand about weaker role of international organizations in helping settle Kashmire dispute is still unchanged," he said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... confirmed plans to create a working party with Israel and other countries to normalise the situation in Syria once the last pockets of terrorist resistance have been cleared. He made the comment in Moscow on Thursday.
"The idea is to create a structure that includes all involved parties," he said.
"It should deal with the final normalising [of the situation] after crushing the final remnants of terrorism. This is also connected with the complete military withdrawal from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as with the reconstruction of the Syrian state as well as the preservation of its territorial integrity," he added.
Putin also expressed confidence that the last pockets of resistance in Syria will be cleared soon.
The announcement comes following Putin’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where the two leaders discussed how to avoid military festivities in Syria, where Israel is taking military action against Iran.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led Afrin Liberation Forces resumed their operations against the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels in the Afrin region of northwestern Aleppo.
According to the Afrin Liberation Forces’ official media wing, their fighters killed at least seven Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) fighters between the dates of February 24-25.
The first three FSA fighters were reportedly killed along the Qara Road near Afrin city, as an IED targeted the rebel group’s vehicle.
Another attack was carried out against the FSA the following day when the Afrin Liberation Forces targeted a rebel checkpoint at the entrance of Nabi Huri.
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[DAWN] Speaking to CNN's Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi said Pakistain has never wanted to escalate, adding that it was when India attacked Pakistain that things escalated.
On a question regarding placing Jaish-e-Muhammad's Masood Azhar on the list of UN-designated terrorists, Qureshi said: "We are open to any step that leads to de-escalation and if they have good, solid evidence, please sit and talk, please initiate a dialogue and we will show reasonableness."
Responding to a question regarding Azhar's location, Qureshi said "he is in Pakistain, according to my information".
"He is unwell to the extent that he can't leave his house, because he's really unwell," the foreign minister said.
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"he's really unwell. He's got the Fevah. The Islam Fevah"
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A new report from the Syrian Elite Republican Guard revealed this week that several of the casualties from the Israeli attack this month on the al-Quneitra Governorate were, in fact, Iranian soldiers.
According to the Syrian Elite Republican Guard, five of the recovered corpses from the Israeli attack on the military garrison in western al-Quneitra were found to be the remains of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel that were positioned near the border of the occupied Golan Heights.
Thanks to DNA evidence, the Syrian military was able to confirm that the soldiers in western al-Quneitra were from the IRGC; they have since begun the process of returning the bodies to Iran.
While the DNA evidence helped confirm the identity of the soldiers, it also inadvertently revealed that the Iranian forces were still present along the border with the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.
The total number of Iranian soldiers present along the border is unknown; however, the targeted military garrisons that the Israeli forces hit on February 11th were located in an area near the demilitarized zone that separates the al-Quneitra Governorate and occupied Golan Heights.
On February 11th, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) heavily targeted three sites inside Syria’s al-Quneitra Governorate.
Of the targeted areas by the Israeli Defense Forces were two military garrisons and the al-Quneitra National Hospital.
The al-Quneitra National Hospital was turned into a weapons depot by the jihadist rebels during their reign over the bustling provincial capital.
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The idea that they shouldn't mess with Israel just doesn't seem to penetrate?
#4
"Sorry. Didn't realize they were your guys. If you can give us the exact locations where you have people, we'll be sure to be more precise next time."
[Rudaw] A boom-mobile killed one civilian and injured 13 in west djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... late on Thursday evening, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell.
Medical and police sources who spoke to Rooters put the number of maimed at 24.
"A terrorist attack via a VBIED [vehicle borne improvised bomb] which was parked next to the outside wall of the cultural group area in Mosul city, resulting in the martyrdom of one civilian and injury of 13 others, according to initial information on the incident," read a statement from Iraqi Security Media Cell.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
According to local media outlets, the kaboom took place near Mosul University campus.
Abdul-Karim Atroshi, head of the university’s media affairs, confirmed the kaboom to Rudaw English, but said it had not affected the university.
"It took place in a street near the university," Atroshi said.
In an earlier statement, the Iraqi Security Media Cell said a Hashd al-Shaabi vehicle went kaboom! after passing over an IED 50 kilometers south of the city.
[DAWN] An underage girl and her brother have gone into hiding after the girl accused her father and uncle of forcing her into a marriage.
Police said the girl started the paperwork but haven't done much else with the police against her father, her uncle and the man they tried to force her to marry for threatening her.
The case was registered with Koral police under PPC sections 506(ii) and 498(b).
The girl, 15, is a 10th grade student who was living with her family in Koral. She alleged that her father forced her to marry a 45-year-old man who was already married and has four children.
She told police the man drives a taxi and peddles drugs, and owns a number of properties.
Police quoted her as saying her parents were forcing her to marry the man, and called a maulvi to the house to arrange a nikkah on Jan 13.
She said she refused to sign the marriage certificate, after which her elder brother took her to his home in Sara-e-Kharbooza the same day.
The next day the man, his sibling and his mother came to her brother’s house and told him to hand over his ’wife’.
When her brother refused, the man’s family threatened them.
The girl was then brought to the women’s cop shoppe by her brother, and the police took her to Darul Aman.
Her father visited her at the Darul Aman a few days later and assured her he would not force her to marry the man. She returned home with her father on Jan 23.
Police said four days later, her father tried to forcefully send her to the man, telling her that he married her to the man "as Wali".
The girl again sought her brother’s help, and they went into hiding as their relatives and the man were searching for them.
Police quoted the girl as saying they had threatened the siblings and tried to kidnap her and take her out of the city.
When contacted, Koral Station House Officer Saifullah said the girl was safe and sound with her brother. He said she had alleged that her father sold her to the man for a significant sum of money.
The SHO said both the girl’s father and the man he forced her to marry were from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He said they had left their homes as, when the police approached them as part of the investigation, their houses were locked from the outside.
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[DAWN] The Gulberg police on Wednesday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against four people, including a woman, on charges of subjecting a minor maid to severe torture in Raja Town.
A video of torture-ridden Areej Fatima, 8, went viral on social media which drew the attention of the media.
Submitting an application to the police, Robina Iqbal, child protection officer at Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, said a media person had informed her to get a minor girl into custody who was with a councillor, Afzal Ahmed. The girl was employed by the family of Ms Wardha, Ahmed, Sadaqat and Haji Munir.
Fatima has torture marks on her face, legs, eyes, neck and her tooth is also broken.
The suspects used to beat her with sticks and iron rods and about two days ago she was beaten up again.
Fatima of Jaranwala has been serving at the house of the suspects for a couple of years.
The child protection bureau has taken the girl into custody and started her treatment.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Definition of MAGA. 
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
[DAWN] At the opening ceremony of the 5th Science and Technology Exchange Programme (STEP) International Conference at 
[AlAhram] A suicide 
[Rudaw] Belgium won an appeal Wednesday against a ruling ordering it to repatriate six children of Belgian jihadists living in a refugee camp with their mothers in Syria.
[DailyExpress] The armed assailants attacked the center which is run by French charity Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday. On Sunday, assailants set fire to a treatment center in the city of Katwa in the Ebola-ravaged eastern region of the country.
[Bangkok Post] A Thai ranger was killed and another ranger and a civilian injured when a roadside bomb exploded in Yala province on Tuesday morning. Police said two homemade bombs were hidden on a roadside in Banang Sata district. 
[Inquirer] An Abu Sayyaf militant was killed and a militiaman was injured in a clash in Barangay Masola in Isabela City on the evening of February 25. Isabela police chief William Gadayan identified the injured party as Boy Hashim, a a resident of Barangay Kapayawan.
[NDTV] As India waited for the release of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who is in Pakistain's custody, exclusive details emerged on the unprecedented air combat operation along the Line of Control, where a package of 24 Pak aircraft were intercepted by eight IAF fighters, which included a MiG 21 Bison he was piloting.
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and 
North Korea
[ALMASDARNEWS] The former goalkeeper for the Syrian national football team, ’Abdel-Basit Sarout survived an 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
[DAWN] 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
Mehmood 
[ALMASDARNEWS] A new report from the Syrian 
[Rudaw] A 
