Perpetrated by Muslim men, supported by Muslim women.
A French-language television station captured footage of a woman wearing a hijab ripping up an Israeli flag at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels.
The images were captured by the RTL television network and disseminated on the web and social media.
The incident took place at the vigil that was set up in the central Brussels landmark Place de la Bourse.
In the clip, the woman is seen sifting through the flags that were lining the pavement. After lifting a Palestinian flag, she then spots an Israeli flag and begins tearing it up. She then buries the ripped shards underneath other flags.
[AP] RYONGYON-RI, North Korea -- The village elder put his shovel aside, stooped down by a scraggly bush and pulled a sack from the freshly turned dirt. Spreading open the sack, he reached in to reveal femurs, skull and jaw fragments, boots and a rusted green helmet.
"These are your American GIs," Song Hong Ik said at a burial mound near the top of a small hill.
Perhaps they are. But for more than a decade, no one has been trying to find out.
"Until They Are Home" is one of the most sacred vows of the U.S. military, yet Washington has long suspended efforts to look for 5,300 American GIs missing in North Korea whose remains are potentially recoverable. The countries' abysmal relations suggest that no restart is coming soon.
In the meantime, possible remains and recovery sites are being lost as North Korea works to improve its infrastructure with projects such as the Chongchon River No. 10 Hydroelectric Power Station. The bones Song revealed came from that project's construction site.
His village, the hamlet of Ryongyon-ri, is nestled among low rolling hills in the heart of a Korean War battleground about 150 kilometers (almost 100 miles) north of Pyongyang. The 90-minute drive from the capital runs through mostly flat land covered by rice paddies or fields of corn and potatoes. The scene is quietly rustic. Farmers use oxcarts to transport produce and villagers can be seen walking in the distance on narrow dirt roads.
[Newsweek] Attacks on European countries are beneficial for Russia, the leader of the nationalist Liberal Democrat party told Russian state television on Tuesday night.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known for his anti-Western views, spoke on the popular panel show "An Evening with Vladimir Solovyev" hours after blasts killed at least 31 people in Brussels. In his trademark bombastic style, the former deputy speaker of parliament took the floor and urged Russians not to express sympathy for the victims.
"Terrorists attacks are happening in Europe and they will spread all over it," Zhirinovsky shouted at other panelists. "That is beneficial for us. Let them perish and die."
Zhirinovsky’s rationale was that after such attacks European countries would see Russia as an ally and align themselves with Moscow. “Let them then come to us and beg us,” Zhirinovsky said.
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The EU apparatchiks only care about their power and virtue and far less of the cannon fodder peons to be too concerned about asking Moscow for anything. Besides the Euros have no 2nd Amendment to correct that deficiency in perspective.
The flight attendant who dropped two suitcases full of cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport -- along with her Gucci shoes -- before fleeing in panic turned herself in to authorities in New York on Wednesday, sources said.
Marsha Gay Reynolds was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, sources said.
The JetBlue flight attendant, a former beauty pageant contestant, was randomly stopped last Friday at a checkpoint for airline workers. She kicked off her Gucci heels, dropped the drugs and bolted, according to sources.
She then boarded a flight to New York and went to her Queens apartment before holing up in the Hilton Hotel near JFK Airport, the sources said.
The nearly 70 pounds of cocaine found stashed in her suitcases was estimated to be worth $2 million.
During the LAX incident, Reynolds was escorted to the front of the screening area and apparently became alarmed when she realized she'd be caught.
After walking about 15 feet with her carry-on bags, the former NYU track star threw them down and made a run for it, leaving behind the dope.
"She kicked her high heels off and left her shoes and bag behind," said Marshall McClain of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association.
"She knew if she dropped both of them, she'd be able to run away more quickly," he explained. She could probably walk and get away from most of them.
"She was then able to high-foot it out of the terminal, down an Los Angeles on Wednesday.
In her bags, TSA agents found clothes, Trojan Magnum condoms and 68.49 pounds of cocaine wrapped in green saran wrap and labeled "BIG Ranch," cops said.
She also left behind her leather, size-8½ Gucci shoes.
But because TSA agents did not get her name, Reynolds may have been able to board her red-eye flight to LaGuardia on Friday night. After being apprehended in New York, she was charged in a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Reynolds is listed as a member of NYU's 2004 women's track and field team, according to the school's website. That may come in handy depending on who's chasing her in the prison exercise yard.
She was also a runner-up in the 2007 Miss Jamaica Universe pageant, according to the Jamaica Gleaner. Aaaand that'll probably make her popular in the jailhouse boom-boom room.
Reynolds was awaiting arraignment at Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday night.
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"In her bags, TSA agents found clothes, Trojan Magnum condoms and 68.49 pounds of cocaine wrapped in green saran wrap and labeled "BIG Ranch," cops said."
Channeling Slim Pickens: "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this stuff."
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The pitfalls of being a drug mule. My guess is the cartel bosses won't take kindly to her "bad parenting" of the shipment. Bet she turned herself in fearing a Vince Foster/Ron Brown type of ending..
The Belgian prosecutor's office has confirmed that the three men in this CCTV footage are suspects in the investigation of the Brussels attacks.
And this picture reveals an important detail that might have given them away.
The two men dressed in black are believed to have carried out the suicide bombings. They are wearing only one glove on their left hand. Big Michal Jackson fans maybe?
According to the Belgian news site La Libre, the single glove could have helped them hide a detonator. A security expert also told Sky News that the matching gloves could be a clue about which device was used.
The man in white on the right is suspected of being an attacker and is being actively sought by the police. He was named on Wednesday morning as Najim Laachraoui.
In addition to wearing a different colour scheme, Laachraoui does not seem to be wearing a glove. It is not clear whether the fact that all three chose to use luggage carts is significant. It is unclear whether there were explosives on those trolleys. An unexploded suicide vest and a Kalashnikov were also found at the airport.
The attacks on the Belgian capital on Tuesday killed at least 30 people and left hundreds more injured. Two explosions ripped through the Zaventem Airport, and another explosion rocked the Maelbeek metro station in the centre of Brussels.
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So in the future we'll have (a) no carryons and no bags at all in the terminal (b) Bags will have to be checked at a decent distance from the terminal and after being checked they will be subjected to shake tests to see if they explode.
The Jihadist response will be to put explosives in Baby carts.
On and on until our society is dismantled or our leaders wake up.
Radovan Karadzic, the Serbs' leader in Bosnia during the 1990s civil war, has been found responsible for genocide in Srebrenica as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes, a U.N. war crimes tribunal announced Thursday. He will be sentenced to 40 years in prison, RT News reports.
Carla del Ponte finally wins one! And we'll never hear the end of it...
In all, Karadzic has been indicted for two counts of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity, and four counts of violations of the laws of war as president of Republika Srpska.
The International Criminal Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia did not, however, find evidence of Serbian forces' "genocidal intent" during the war in Bosnia, CNN reports.
Karadzic, 70, who has been nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia," faced 11 counts of war crimes. He was allegedly behind the siege of Sarajevo, which left 11,000 dead, as well as the Srebrenica massacre, which took the lives of nearly 8,000 Muslim boys and men and was the worst mass killing in Europe since the Holocaust.
Karadzic went into hiding in 1996, only to be discovered 12 years later heavily disguised in Belgrade, assuming a false identity as a "healer." He was extradited to the Hague and pleaded not guilty. His trial, which came to an end in 2014, lasted 500 days, and included evidence from 586 witnesses.
A hastily written will by one of the suspected Brussels bombers has given some insight into the lives the extremists were living before their devastating attacks on Brussels' airport and a metro station on Tuesday, Newsweek reports.
The will was discovered on attacker Ibrahim el-Bakraoui's computer in a trash can in Brussels. "I don't know what to do, hunted everywhere, no longer safe," the note said, according to Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw. You know, if your human side is whispering hints like this to you, you should try something different.
The will also expressed fear for Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacker who was captured in Brussels last Friday. "I don't want to end up in a cell next to him," Bakraoui said in his note.
Ibrahim el-Bakraoui's brother, Khalid el-Bakraoui, was also one of the attackers in Tuesday's bombings. A third attacker, who has been identified as Najim Laachraoui, is said to be on the run.
The two explosions at Zaventem airport, plus a third at a metro station, killed at least 31 people and wounded about 270 others. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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No, you dumb asses. Until the splodydope releases the deadman switch, he has only committed modest crimes. And in Europe, he will only get a few years in the pokey. That a person on his way to become a splodydope wants to find a way out gives us an opportunity to give him an opportunity.
I encourage anyone who can read these words and has the agency to effect change, put up a suicide bomber hotline ad in the subway station your children use, and on the internet where little miss jihad can find it. Let every abu'jihad call in and ask for help rather than not.
Based on this report from the field, we can create an environment where their agents become our agents. And we should.
A 12-year-old girl was arrested and booked into juvenile detention after she allegedly pinched a boy’s butt in school during what she described as a popular game at her Florida school.
The girl is facing misdemeanor battery charges after the incident at Milwee Middle School, which is outside Orlando, and was reportedly read her Miranda Rights, put in the back of a patrol car and later charged.
"Lord, lord, lordy. . . what has this world come to?" asked the girl’s father, whose first name is Ray. "Kids can’t even be kids, and that’s basically what it is. She’s 12 years old, she was acting like a 12-year-old child." Fox News typically neither names minors charged with crimes, nor reveals the last names of their parents, to fully protect the identities.
The boy’s mother apparently disagrees, ClickOrlando.com reported. The boy reportedly told the school’s resource deputy that he did not want to press any charges. The accused, who said she didn’t know the boy, was suspended. The boy’s mother, however, asked that the girl be prosecuted for battery.
"I regret it," the girl reportedly said in an interview. "I didn’t know it’ll lead to this."
Authorities said the pinching incident occurred in March. KABC reported that the state attorney said the charge will be dismissed once the girl completes a diversion program that includes community service and a drug test.
The girl's father offered some parenting advice to the boy’s mother.
"I’m sorry my kid touched your kid. But I’m sorry because you need some help, I think -- too overprotective -- let your kid be your kid. He might get some friends, and that’s all I have to say."
I don't know but I'll wager that victim of this atrocity was a scorned kid for whatever reason, and further that this gal by her actions was trying to drag him back into the larger community. Trust me, crazy starts earlier these days.
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My guess is the kids were horsing around. An adult saw the pinch and broke it up. Boy victim said "he didn't want to press charges" but then someone told the boys parents and mom made a mountain out of a mole-hill.
Whole thing is embarrassing and the school should be seriously considering dismissing whomever made a big deal out of this initially.
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Of course this is stupidity writ large - our Educrat Imbeciles.... but as long as it's "no tolerance" for boyish behavior, a girl should face the same. NO double standards as long as we're uniformly stoopid
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mom made a mountain out of a mole-hill
Mom must have had a SJW Diversity class back in school. You know the type that says if you had regrets the morning after (consensual) extra curricular activities, its ex post facto rape.
Radar software being tested for the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp is not stable enough, Pentagon officials said in a written statement at a U.S. House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
The issue caused sensors to restart once every four hours of flying due to the timing of software messages from the sensors to the main F-35 fusion computer and the aim was to improve this to one in every eight to 10 flying hours, the statement said.
Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester, said the program would not be ready for operational testing until mid-2018, a year later than expected, due to delays in completion of the jet's software and other issues. He said more than 300 planes would have been produced by the end of fiscal 2017, when that testing is now due to start.
The software during flight test was not as stable as it needed to be, according to the statement by Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy, and Air Force Lieutenant General Christopher Bogdan, in charge of the F-35 program.
"We will be flight testing these fixes in the March-April timeframe," the statement said, adding that in testing the F-35C variant, cracking in part of the wing was found after a certain number of flying hours and efforts were being made to fix this.
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I've become bored with the subject, I'm afraid. To summarize what I have read in these pages: Some people love the idea, some hate it. It is behind schedule, over budget, burdened by too many bells and whistles, and takes funding from a variety of other platforms some people prefer for a variety of reasons. Further delays and cost overages are highly likely, but some of the improvements are in the meantime being put into the next iteration of the current thing in use as well as retrofitted onto those machines currently flying, so the pilots are getting some benefit from it, despite not having got any of the thing itself.
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...the graft (work in somebody's district/state), the medals for (un)service, and irrational fetish for 'the next big thing'. Perfect is the enemy of just good enough.
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tw, if you think about the airplane, then you have it about right. And it is boring. However, if you think about this as an international competition like the Olympics or soccer, it is much more interesting.
Our team has built 3 different version of this plane. They all fly, they are kind of expensive, but not more than the planes we have been using since the 70's. It is pretty good at most things, really good a some. All of our allies are going to buy a bunch of them, reducing our costs over time. And we are planning to build thousands of these things.
Next the Russian team is building the T-35. They have only flown test flights. If they can work out the bugs, it will be really good at some things and terrible at others. They can't afford to make very many, and almost no one else in the world wants to buy one. Even if they get a hundred of these some day, they will be hopelessly outnumbered.
Then there is the Chinese team. They are building prototypes of stuff they copied from the internet. It barely flys, and their engines are terrible. No one wants them. So, the Chinese are buying the Russian stuff and trying to fit it out with Israeli upgrades to sort of get a few planes that can hope to fight for a few days.
The European's don't have a team, except for the Swedes, who are just now getting to where we were 25 years ago.
The Israeli's are on our team.
Everyone else is watching on TV.
So, yes the F-35 is not an airplane that will make anyone excited. But it will overwhelm everyone else.
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..to include the maintenance teams trying to keep it out of red line. Given that maintenance and spare parts are among the primary cuts when cuts are due. That and training. (You got to pay the troops and make sure they're feed, they're use to ghetto housing and self repair cause that's another maintenance cut as well)
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The rest are 'trialing prototypes, working models and simulations'. We are building a air superiority strategy dependent on a platform that doesn't fly.
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BC, the plane flies fine. And the radar works fine for a few hours. How long is a mission for this plane? A few hours, and then it is out of gas and lands.
Is this a problem? Well with air refueling it could be. So we are going to fix it.
Is this a problem in real missions? No, not really.
[The Intercept] The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which issues the licenses, told The Intercept that it would not comment on what licenses companies possess or lack, calling them "proprietary corporate data," and asserted that information on the licenses is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Intercept has a long-standing FOIA request with the State Department seeking information on licenses granted to Prince and his former network of companies. To date, no information has been provided. The paragraph above was found deep within the article. Outsourcing to fill a vacuum left by someone else's cock-up? You decide.
After the heady excitement of seeing President Barack Obama shatter decades of US-Cuba hostility, Cubans woke up Wednesday wondering how much will really change on the communist island.
The climax of Obama's trip was a speech Tuesday in which his oratorical skills were on full display, urging Cubans to embrace democracy and vowing that the United States will drop its punishing economic embargo, even if that decision has to come from the more hawkish Congress.
The cheers for Obama in Havana's Gran Teatro showed how far the visit -- the first by any US president in 88 years -- has shifted Washington's old policy of treating Cuba like enemy territory. And while all-powerful President Raul Castro seemed less than happy, listening stone-faced, he had let the speech go ahead live on state television.
But after the euphoria came something of a hangover for Cubans who say there will be no easy answers.
"We appreciate his good intentions. He's a man who talks very well, but at the end of the day they're just words," said retiree Estrella Mora, 61. "Another thing is reality: Obama came and went, but the embargo is still there."
Cley Poll Betacourt, 41, praised Obama's speech and visit. "He said things as they are."
The problem, Betacourt said, "is that he wants to achieve very quickly things that will take years. We need time to change things here."
Betacourt said Cubans are not ready for radical political change and that reform of the country -- ruled by one party and with a sclerotic economy -- should come from within. "We are fine with our president. We listen to what he says, because he wants the best for us. We don't need anything else."
- Thinking for themselves -
Those who have experienced the hard end of Castro's rule cautioned that Obama -- however spectacular his visit -- has only limited power.
"I think the government will not listen to Obama's words on political change," said Mirian Leiva, a former member of the Ladies in White dissidents group. "I think these ideas of his were aimed at the population and that anything further is up to Cubans themselves."
And former political prisoner Jose Daniel Ferrer, 75, said Cubans will have trouble following through on Obama's call for them to build their own future.
He said Cubans are used to having a "paternalistic" figure "who will resolve all the problems, with everyone else like children who need being taken in hand and are waiting for a pope or a US leader."
That mentality, he said, is gradually easing but Cubans need to understand that "we are the ones with the main role for changing Cuba."
Certainly the state media have been quick to reinterpret Obama's speech for the population, warning that Obama's slickness could not be trusted.
"Obama's visit to Cuba was a masterclass in political marketing that we Cubans are not used to," state television commented.
"Maybe there won't be another US president for another 88 years. What will be more important is what happens and what happens depends not on what (Obama) thinks, but on the plans of an elite that he must now represent."
Terrorism seems to be a distraction from President Obama’s life of being a celebrity. He wants to be hanging out with Communist dictators and going to ballgames. ISIS is simply not treated as a threat by this president or at least, he doesn’t give the impression that he really cares about our allies or the Americans that were wounded. How are we going to defeat the terrorists while he’s watching a ballgame and giving interviews to ESPN? The fact is we have to do something concrete. The statements made by the president smack of the Marie Antoinette-ish attitude, ‘Let the people eat cake.’ I was on The Kelly File talking about this.
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The proggies and Zero wannabes will never worry about terrorism until they are directly attacked.
Lets see what their response would be if the Muzzies blew up the Oscars or a Democrat fundraiser. Sometimes I think the terrorists don't attack the proggie icons cause they believe in professional courtesy.
This is communism; the score was 0-0 , the umpires won.
Anyone mentioning Earned Run Average will be purged.
Obama is truth. Truth is power. You have 10 minutes amnesty to turn in any single piece of metal of value over $100. This is a green request to save Cuban polar bears. Greetings and salutations.
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I guess the Cubans didn't get the memo about the emperor having no clothes? Maybe they are isolated. We caught on to the empty or invisible suit long ago.
Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility in the wake of deadly attacks by the Islamic State group in Brussels and Paris.
Paul Lewis, the Pentagon's special envoy for Guantanamo detention closure, declined to provide the GOP-led House Foreign Affairs Committee with details. He would not say whether the incidents occurred before or after President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.
"What I can tell you is unfortunately there have been Americans that have died because of (Guantanamo) detainees," Lewis said during an exchange with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.
"When anybody dies, it is tragedy and we don't want anybody to die because we transfer detainees," Lewis said.
An Obama administration official said Lewis was referring to an incident that involved an Afghan prisoner released from Guantanamo while George W. Bush was president. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
During the Bush administration, 532 prisoners were released from Guantanamo, often in large groups to Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia - the two nationalities that made up the greatest number of prisoners.
The Obama administration has released 144 detainees after a screening process that involves representatives from six government agencies and departments who must make a unanimous decision to release.
Lewis testified before the committee along with Lee Wolosky, the State Department's special envoy for Guantanamo closure. They argued the prison is a powerful propaganda tool for the Islamic State group and keeping it open damages U.S. national security.
Republicans and a few Democrats in Congress have repeatedly thwarted Obama's effort to close the prison and blocked any attempt to move detainees to U.S. prisons in legislation the president has signed into law.
Wolosky said the Guantanamo prison did not prevent Tuesday's attacks in Brussels that killed at least 34 people and wounded more than 200 or the November 13 attacks in Paris.
"There are unfortunately going to be acts of terrorism, probably whether the facility is opened or closed," Wolosky said. "The proper analysis is, 'What are the risks of keeping it open in light of the very obvious use of that facility as a propaganda tool,' which, frankly, you should not have to question."
The committee's hearing marked the first open exchange between the Obama administration and Congress over the utility and future of the prison since Obama sent his plan for shutting it down to Capitol Hill last month. The proposal was greeted with firm opposition from Republicans, who declared his proposal to deliver an unfulfilled campaign promise a non-starter.
Republicans see the prison at Guantanamo as more essential than ever. With the Islamic State group carrying out deadly assaults in Europe and expanding its base in Libya, they said, there needs to be a place to hold terrorist suspects. Republicans have refused Obama's request that Congress change the law that prohibits moving detainees accused of violent extremist acts to U.S. soil.
The committee's chairman, Rep. Ed Royce of California, and other GOP lawmakers have also criticized the Obama administration for moving detainees to countries that are probably unable to ensure they don't resume the behaviors that got them locked up in the first place.
"Countries like Ghana and Uruguay aren't typical security and intelligence partners, but they are being asked to shoulder a heavy burden and responsibility," Royce said.
There are 91 men held at Guantanamo, down from nearly 250 when Obama assumed the presidency. Those left include 36 who are cleared for release if security conditions can be met in the countries where they will settle. Seven face trial by military commission, including five charged with planning and supporting the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. Three others have been convicted.
The Director of National Intelligence reported this month that 5 percent of Guantanamo prisoners released since January 2009, when the U.S. began using the multi-agency screening process, have re-engaged in terrorism and 8 percent are suspected of it. That compares to 21 percent confirmed and 14 percent suspected under the earlier system.
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The Director of National Intelligence reported this month that 5 percent of Guantanamo prisoners released since January 2009, when the U.S. began using the multi-agency screening process, have re-engaged in terrorism and 8 percent are suspected of it. That compares to 21 percent confirmed and 14 percent suspected under the earlier system.
According to DNI Clapper, recidivism rates are down, thus the killing of innocent proles Americans must be down as well, all of which indicates progress. I mean, if you can't believe Jim Clapper. See gov't spending and national debt reduction logic for fuzzy math and further details.
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Do this the American way. After they leave their offices of immunity, sic them with a class action suit on behalf of the victims families. If you corrupt the judiciary with progressives for which textual law has no meaning, then by all means, take the SJW approach all for 'fairness and justice' and redress of past wrongs.
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Having experienced the Argentine Tango, I can tell you it is quite enjoyable. And we should be grateful there are no pics of Waffle One doing this with the Wookie.
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He did at least give the North 4 more years to industrialize.
Andrew Jackson was the only President who could have prevented the War Between the States. On John C. Calhoun long after the nullification kerfluffle , "I should have hung bastard when I had the chance"
#11
So when a real human being who is kind of a buffoon but not a sociopath starts winning presidential primary elections the sociopaths start going NUTS!
[IsraelTimes] Bernie Sanders was the only presidential candidate who opted not to speak at AIPAC’s 2016 conference, citing campaign commitments elsewhere. Here’s the address he says he would have delivered
Since I posted links to the texts of the speeches Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made to AIPAC the other day, I thought I'd post the Bern's for comparison. I suspect he decided not to go after he wrote the thing, choosing to avoid the predictable AIPAC reaction.
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A military grade movement barrier needs to be put into place in these areas. As any combat engineer would tell you, you do not need a continuous barrier, but one that slows and funnels to where they are forced to come across areas where you can control and counter the enemy. Barrier here with patrols and obstacles in the more remote areas makes sense. The Israelis can teach the US how to prevent tunneling.
The problem is the US does not have the political will to do these things.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian suspect allegedly used computer skills to gain access to overhead footage, watch troop movements and track planes at Ben-Gurion Airport
The Israel Police and Shin Bet security service incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a Gazoo resident suspected of hacking into the feeds from Air Force drones and collecting information on troop movements and civilian flights for the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group, police said Wednesday.
A police statement named the suspect as Majd Ouida, 22, describing him as an "electronics engineer" from the Gazoo Strip.
Ouida, who also held the position of chairman of the "Paleostinian talents society," was arrested on February 23 while en route to a meeting with young candidates on a television singing contest, the statement said but did not detail where or how he was arrested.
A police spokesperson for the Israel Police clarified that Ouida was not arrested inside the Gazoo Strip, implying he was en route from the coastal enclave to the West Bank when security forces scooped him up.
According to the indictment, he was recruited by Islamic Jihad in 2011 while working as a radio broadcaster and was made their "computer administrator."
"He carried out tasks that he received from his handlers, including coding a computer program that enabled the viewing of road cameras, hacking into the computers of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, interior ministry in Gazoo, and more," police said.
According to the indictment filed against the suspect, he was asked by the Islamic Jihad in 2012 to hack into the IDF’s network of drones in operation above the Gazoo Strip.
He purchased the requisite equipment from dealers in the United States and created a computer program that could intercept the broadcast feed, the prosecutor claimed.
His first two attempts at intercepting the feed failed, according to the indictment, but on his third try he was successful, allowing his handlers to see some of the footage captured by the IDF drone cameras.
"While watching the broadcasts, the defendant realized the drone was collecting intelligence on terrorist operatives working on launching and storing missiles in the Gazoo Strip," according to the indictment.
Ouida also succeeded in accessing footage from highway cameras inside Israel, obtaining for his organization information on the movement of Israeli security forces and civilians during wars in the Strip and rocket strikes, the indictment said.
Further, the man allegedly developed an application that compiled information on the movement of planes at Israel’s Ben Gurion international airport, as well as gaining access to passenger manifestos, plane weights and makes, and takeoff and landing times.
Ouida faces a litany of charges for his actions, including espionage, conspiracy to commit a crime, computer hacking and transferring information to an enemy with the intent to harm national security.
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Ouida, who also held the position of chairman of the "Paleostinian talents society," was arrested on February 23 while en route to a meeting with young candidates on a television singing contest, the statement said but did not detail where or how he was arrested.
Paleo Idol™?
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[PJ] Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country’s ability to gather intelligence.
His comments came after one of his rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, called for law enforcement "to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized."
Mr. Kasich told reporters in Minneapolis, "We are not at war with Islam; we’re at war with radical Islam."
"In our country," he said, "we don’t want to create divisions where we say, ‘O.K., well your religion, you’re a Muslim, so therefore we’re going to keep an eye on you.’" He added that "the last thing we need is more polarization."
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Thats why Ted isnt popular in the senate. He doesn't change from his core values. Unlike spineless McConnell and McCain and Gang Of 8 Rubio. All Kasich is doing now is making sure that the race goes to Trump by dividing the anti-Trump vote, so he can get a job in the Trump administration. Shame of it is, Trump is going to lose bigger than anyone since Mondale based on the latest RCP polls.
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The ugly truth. Trump loses massively to Clinton and that is before the progressive and liberal media goes after Trumps already historically massive negatives - Trump backers are suicidal. Cruz is close but still loses - Cruzers can argue, but when the press gets done, Hillary will probably beat him.
Here is the kicker: Kasich wins vs Clinton. WTF? Is Kasich going to be the establishment guy that steals the nomination if Trump does not win it outright?
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I wish I could see into the future the way Knuckles and Flating do. I wish I was clairvoyant like that. I wouldn't bother with politics. I'd make my fortune on Wall Street. Then I could buy and sell the politicians like Soros does.
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I can't believe anyone on this site, especially contributors, believes the polls. Shame on you.
If Trump is the best we can do then vote Trump. If we get Cruz, then vote Cruz. Vote for the best person available.
Anyone would be better than Hillary.
The problem is she should not even be there. She should be indicted. The Obama InJustice Dept refuses to prosecute. Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed had nothing on this bunch of corrupt bureaucrats. They are Chicago machine all the way. Rostenkowski, George Ryan, Blagojevich, Mel Reynolds, the Crouthers family, all of them the Chicago Democrat contemporaries and forebears of Obama.
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Polls have been fairly accurate in predicting the rise of Trump. Why would they not be as considered for his fall? Its the media that is shaping all this.
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At what point can we start calling Kasich a Democrat? I mean he came in 4th in a 3 person race in Arizona because his policies are so out of line with the base.
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The only poll that counts is the one on election day.
With rampant voter fraud like this event back in 2012, that's what I'm worried about the most.
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Kasich and his supporters need to feel continuous heat for why they haven't folded their campaign. All he's doing at this point is taking up space (and votes) that belong elsewhere--he can't win, and if the "establishment" were to attempt to install him at a brokered convention there would be outright rebellion.
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It's sort of like those preachers who designate a date of the end of the world which then comes and goes, but they still believe what they have to say.
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GOPe rumor says if they can get to a contest convention, nobody with a first ballot majority, then Kasich gets the VP nod with Walker as a compromise Presidential nominee.
Im not sure how that works. Walker would be a good president in all likelihood, and he could beat Hillary simply be not being as abrasive as Trump. But he did sell out in his campaign by hiring establishment guys to run it and they ran him into the ground. Who is to day Rove and company wouldn't repeat that in the general election.
The GOP needs a giant enema, and right now, that appears to be what it is getting in Trump.
[IsraelTimes] In camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly former Soviet bloc, jihadists are creating network of cells to strike West
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 has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Gay Paree with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum carnage, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named has learned.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF soldiers have tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! an armed Paleostinian man during operational activity near the Ma’ale Shomron settlement in the West Bank, the army says. In a statement, the IDF says a group of reservists stopped the man and found in his possession a makeshift gun and a knife.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... near Beit Fajjar, in the Bethlehem area, a group of soldiers arrested a female Paleostinian who threw rocks at them. Upon arresting her, they found a knife on her person.
The two were being interrogated, the statement says
Nearly half of Yemen’s 22 provinces on the verge of famine as result of the war there and more than 13 million people need food aid, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) says.
Aid groups have blamed curbs imposed by the Saudi-led coalition on access to Houthi-controlled ports for the crisis and also accuse Houthis of preventing supplies from reaching some areas, including the city of Taiz in the southwest.
“From a food security perspective, 10 of Yemen’s 22 provinces are classified as emergency, which is one step before famine,” Adham Musallam, deputy director of the WFP office in the capital Sanaa, said as the agency launched a food voucher program to help the most needy.
Fighting over the past year has displaced about 2.3 million people and left more than half of Yemen’s 26 million population in need of food aid, Musallam said.
“This means that we must not wait until the situation reaches famine but must act now to provide humanitarian aid directly,” Musallam said.
The Houthis took over Sanaa in September 2014, ousting President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, then seized his temporary headquarters in the southern port city of Aden.
The Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in March 2015 to try to restore Hadi to power and roll back Houthi gains. More than 6,200 people have been killed in the conflict, half of them civilians.
To counter the food crisis, the WFP has launched a program of emergency food vouchers to provide up to one million people with basic needs eventually.
In Sanaa, which is still under Houthi control, hundreds of people queued for hours to register for the vouchers. Under the program a family of six receives wheat grain, pulses, vegetable oil, salt and sugar provided by the WFP through a local supplier.
But one Sanaa resident expressed concern that the aid might not be sustained.
“We would like to have rations provided for the entire month, not just for a week or five days,” he told Reuters TV.
Many Yemenis have sought refuge in Sanaa after air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition destroyed their homes, especially in northern Yemen, where the Houthis, a Zaydi Shi’ite group, come from.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A 12-year-old child assigned for a suicide mission surrendered himself to the security forces in the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of AFghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the child was recently taken to Jalalabad city from the neighboring Pakistain for the suicide mission.
Provincial police chief Fazal Ahmad Shirzad said the child was trained in a Madrasa in Pakistain regarding the suicide kaboom and the kid handed over himself to the security forces on Tuesday.
The child said he was motivated to refrain from the attack after witnessing the Afghan people are offering prayers and there are plenty of mosques open in the country, apparently gesturing towards the terror groups claims regarding the ruling un-Islamic system, a claim which is mainly used to brainwash the children and young people for the terrorist attacks.
This comes as the Afghan children have regularly been recruited by the turban groups, the Taliban and the Haqqani network for the terrorist related activities, including suicide attacks.
Madrasas are described as the main recruitment source for the turban groups as poor families in Pakistain and Afghanistan send their sons to such madrassas for free education and lodging.
According to the testimonies given by the children recruited for suicide attacks, their handlers promise them heaven and an end to all problems by carrying suicide attack, a similar testimony given by the 12-year-old child who surrendered to security forces in Jalalabad yesterday.
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[SLTRIB] Syrian government forces backed by Russian Arclight airstrikes advanced swiftly in central Syria on Wednesday, seizing high ground around Palmyra and positioning themselves to recapture the historic town held by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The troops, supported by pro-government militias, approached to within 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) of the town, according to state TV. A Lebanese television station close to Damascus broadcast footage of the troops advancing single-file through a desert as helicopter gunships provided cover.
"God willing, within a few hours we will enter and secure the town," one officer told the Syrian Ikhbariya TV, as a group of soldiers broke into chants in support of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... . The station was broadcasting live from a road reportedly on the outskirts of Palmyra.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A gang of miscreants hacked a man, who is accused in several criminal cases, to death at Sitakunda upazila, Chittagong on Tuesday night.
Local sources said Riaz Uddin Nayon, 28, son of Saleh Ahmed of Boro Darogarhat area of Sitakunda was involved with Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... ’s politics, but police could not confirm his any political identity.
Riaj was a local goon in Sitakunda area and accused of six cases filed in connection with murder and extortion with Sitakunda cop shoppe, said Officer-in-Charge of the cop shoppe Iftekhar Hasan.
A group of miscreants swopped on Riaj with sharp weapons in front of Molla Market and hacked him indiscriminately around 8pm, leaving him critically injured, said the OC.
He was first taken to upazila health complex from where he was shifted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). Later, he died.
OC Iftekhar said Riaj had a long standing rivalry with another local terrorist "Harun group". He also suspected that he might have been killed over previous rivalry.
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[Daily Excelsior] A shootout broke out tonight between a group of holy warriors of Hizbul Mujahideen who were trapped and security forces in village Drubgam of South Kashmire’s Pulwama town.
On the basis of specific information about presence of three Hizbul Mujahideen holy warriors -- Nasir Pandit, Zahid Ahmad and Tariq Pandit -- in an orchard in village Drubgam, Special Operations Group (SOG) Pulwama, 44 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) of A rmy and 182 battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) this evening cordoned off the village. The holy warriors on seeing the troops fled to the nearby Drubgam village and took refuge there.
Security forces immediately laid cordon around the village and conducted house to house searches. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... locals threw stones at the security forces to help the holy warriors to flee from the cordon.
Security forces have tightened the cordon after they came under stone pelting and at around 10 p.m. encounter started after security forces fired at the house where holy warriors were hiding. The holy warriors returned the fire in response to the security forces firing.
Security forces have tightened the cordon and lit up the area so that the holy warriors may not flee.
Nasir Pandit is a police deserter turned holy warrior. Last year he fled from the residence of then Minister in former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s cabinet, Altaf Bukhari. He took away two rifles along and security forces have been hunting him since then.
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[Indian Express] Central agencies have warned the Delhi, Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Assam police about a former Pakistain army soldier entering India through Punjab with six holy warriors last month, and a possible attempt by them to carry out terror attacks in hotels and hospitals in New Delhi during Holi.
According to the alert issued by central security agencies, Mohammad Khurshid Alam alias Jahangir, an ex-Pakistain army employee, worked as a recruiter, coordinator and guide of jihadi elements in Assam.
The input said Alam had slipped into India from Pakistain through the border at Pathankot on February 26, accompanied by six hardcore terrorists.
"The intention of this group is to kill citizens in Delhi in hotels and hospitals on or before Holi," the alert said.
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[Free Beacon] The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
The administration’s disclosure came in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), who was seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a "ransom payment" for Iran’s release that month of several U.S. hostages.
The administration’s official response to Pompeo was sent earlier this week, just days after a Free Beacon report detailing a months-long State Department effort to stall the lawmaker’s inquiry.
"We apologize for the delay in responding," Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs, states in the letter’s opening.
Obama administration officials first began talks to settle a number of outstanding legal claims leveled against the United States by Iran in 2014. The administration predicts that more taxpayer-funded payments are likely to be granted to the Islamic Republic in the future, according to the letter.
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Maybe one of the smarter people here can explain why our judicial system allows nations with whom we don't have diplomatic relations can avail themselves of redress in our courts?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Five members of the Lion of Islam group of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) which is also known by its Arabic name Daesh [Islamic State] have been killed in a drone strike in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, an official said on Wednesday.
Achin’s governor Haji Ghalib Mujahid said the Lions of Islam were targeted in Bandar area late Tuesday afternoon.
He added that one of those killed was a local commander of the group who was riding on a horse by the time of the attack.
U.S. Forces have increased air campaign against Lions of Islam in Nangarhar which is considered the stronghold of Daesh [Islamic State] in Afghanistan.
The coalition officials estimate between 1,000 to 3,000 Islamic State fighters are stationed in eastern Afghanistan and are trying to establish a base of operations in the rugged mountains of Nangarhar Province.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday, that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, a bomb exploded in Bowie village in Madain District in southern Baghdad, killing two people and injuring seven others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while an operation was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in eastern Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Yesterday evening, an explosive device exploded near shops in al-Amin area in eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding six others.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident.”
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives have placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a group of 4 suspected forces of Evil in connection to terrorist related activities in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , mainly involved in planting Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the intelligence operatives seized 2 magnetic bombs and a vehicle from the detained bully boys.
NDS further added that the detained individuals have been identified as Ahmad Khan son of Abdul Qayum who is also famous as Asad Khan.
The other suspects have been identified as Tela Gul son of Haji Ghamai, Omran son of Gulab and Wali Khan son of Mohammad, NDS said.
NDS also added that the detained suspects have confessed that they were looking to carry out terrorist activities during Nowruz celebrations by using the magnetic bombs.
This comes as the Afghan intelligence arrested a group of forces of Evil including jacket wallahs who were looking to stage attacks during Nowruz celebrations in the capital.
The forces of Evil were arrested during a special military operation conducted by the intelligence operatives in Shahzada market which is the main currency exchange market in the city.
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[An Nahar] The army's strike force launched on Wednesday a search for two Lebanese members of the murderous MoslemIslamic 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 in the eastern Bekaa town of Baalbek, reported the National News Agency.
The search is focusing on the Sharawneh and al-Shiqan neighborhoods that have been cordoned off.
The suspects have been identified as Aa.M. and H.R.Sh. and are reportedly in possession of explosives and boom jackets.
The army and security forces have in recent months tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! numerous terror suspects linked to murderous Moslem groups involved in the conflict in neighboring Syria.
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HOMS ــ Pro-regime warplanes conducted several airstrikes in Syria’s Hama province, causing casualties among civilians and destruction in residential buildings, local sources reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to ARA News in Hama, rights activist Atif Ismail said the Syrian warplanes launched several airstrikes on the town of Kafrenbuda and its environs, killing and wounding over twenty civilians.
The attack resulted in a massive destruction in Kafrenbuda, amidst continued battles between rebels and pro-regime forces west of the town in an attempt by the latter to advance in the area.
“A soldier from the Syrian army forces was shot dead by rebel snipers in Hama suburbs,” Ismail added.
Local sources reported that the pro-regime warplanes also targeted the towns of Sarhan, Atshan and Shuyoukh in Hama province with a number of airstrikes. At least three civilians were killed and ten more wounded in the strikes, including rebel fighters.
“Syrian regime helicopters dropped several barrel bombs on southern Hama, targeting the towns of al-Nazaza, al-Damina, and al-Qarbata, causing the injury of dozens of civilians and the destruction of surrounding residential buildings,” an eyewitness told ARA News.
“The Syrian regime has repeatedly violated the truce in Hama,” he said.
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North Korea conducted a ground ejection test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile last week, according to a U.S. website.
Quoting U.S. defense officials, the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday reported that the test on March 16 "involved a 'pop-up' or 'ejection test' of the developmental SLBM from a canister ashore at the Sinpo shipyard… on North Korea's east coast" where it is being developed.
The test, the first since the UN unanimously passed powerful sanctions against the North on March 2, violates UN Security Council Resolution 2270 aimed at deterring the North from continuing nuclear and missile development.
The UNSC will, of course, be all over this...
The North also conducted a test of the missile from a submarine in waters near Sinpo on Dec. 21 last year, which the website reported on Jan. 5. The test failed.
The rocket is apparently an improved version of the Russian-made SS-N-6.
The North would need to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to 500-600 kg to mount it on a submarine-launched missile.
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With all the recent Nork submarine activity, it is time to seriously consider a baking soda embargo.
HOMS – Syrian Islamist rebels called on people in the southern province of Daraa to leave the ranks of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), accusing them of “postponing victory” against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s war.
The Jaish al-Islam (army of Islam), an extended umbrella for several Syrian rebel groups, issued Wednesday a statement, obtained by ARA News, saying: “We call on all those who have joined the terror group (ISIS) in the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria, to leave it as soon as possible.”
"Leave those infidels and join the true faith!"
"Hey, we're the true faith and you're apostates!"
“The door of amnesty is still open for those who did not shed blood,” leadership of Islamist rebels stressed, warning “members of the Army of Islam in southern Syria will not save any effort to punish those who are behind the delayed of victory over the regime.”
“ISIS extremists combat opposition fighters, deforming the name of Islam as well as deceiving our young people through demonstrating adherence to religion,” the statement said, adding they are “the worst enemies of Islam”.
“We are fully supporting the Court of Justice in Dar Horan, the only forum to bring justice and unity to people in Daraa,” leadership of the Islamist rebels stressed.
Speaking to ARA News in Daraa, media activist Mohammed Hassan said the rebel group of the Yarmouk army has sent a message similar to that of the Army of Islam, calling on ISIS militants to desert its ranks in the Yarmouk district, south of Syria.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – The Federal police announced on Wednesday, that it repelled ISIS attack on Makhoul hills north of Baiji District in Salahuddin Province, while pointed out that four suicide bombers were killed and a bulldozer belonging to ISIS was destructed during the operation.
The Federal Police Captain Raed Shaker said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Federal Police forces repulsed ISIS attack on Makhoul hills,” noting that, “The operation resulted in the killing of four suicide bombers, as well as destroying a booby-trapped bulldozer belonging to ISIS.”
Shaker also pointed out, “The Federal Police artillery shelled ISIS headquarters in Masoud village north of Beiji, killing nine terrorists and destroying two vehicles.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – An informed source in Kirkuk Province announced on Wednesday, that the so-called ISIS prepared its fighters in Hawija District to launch attacks on two oil fields in Salahuddin Province, while pointed out that ISIS is strengthening its presence in Kasabt Bashir area.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a number of vehicles and dozens of ISIS members were gathered in Hawija District to launch several attacks on Ajil and Alas oil fields in southern Kirkuk,” adding that, “ISIS strengthened its presence in Kasabt Bashir to be prepared against its approaching liberation operations.”
The source also pointed out, “ISIS started to concentrate its attacks on Makhmur axis south of Mosul in order to target the Iraqi army members and American advisers, as well as Peshmerga forces.”
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[IsraelTimes] One of the bandidosholy warriors who carried out attacks Tuesday that killed more than 30 people in Brussels was caught in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in June and deported to Belgium, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said Wednesday, but the Belgian authorities released him despite Turkey’s warnings that he was "a foreign fighter."
Erdogan said the man was detained at Turkey’s border with Syria at Gaziantep and that Turkey formally notified Belgian authorities of his deportation on July 14.
Erdogan said "despite our warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist fighter, Belgium could not establish any links with terrorism."
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Gee, just like those guys getting a free ride home from Cuba.
A Turkish state-run agency says authorities detained three men, including two foreigners, suspected of planning another attack in Istanbul.
Anadolu Agency says security operations targeted three different Istanbul addresses based on information gathered by the Turkish anti-terrorism agency and German intelligence services. A Turkish national, an Iraqi and a Syrian were detained.
The arrests come after a suicide bomber in Istanbul killed four foreigners. Turkey has witnessed a series of deadly suicide bombings, some claimed by Kurdish militants and others blamed on ISIS.
Three suspected Islamic State group members arrested in Turkey were planning attacks on Germany's diplomatic missions or schools in the country, which were closed last week over a terror threat, Turkish media reported Wednesday.
Last Thursday, Germany closed its embassy in Ankara, its consulate in Istanbul and German schools in both cities, with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier citing "very serious" indications of planned attacks. Turkish authorities had criticised the closures, saying they were unjustified.
Tuesday's arrests in Istanbul come as police continue to hunt three Turkish suspected members of an IS group cell believed to be planning further attacks in crowded public places.
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And will be a national hero when he gets out of prison and returns to China. I bet if he's got family back in China they will be well cared for and his stay in prison will be a white collar don't dare let the foreign national get hurt style situation.
All in all this guy will come out a winner and the US will look the fool.
[An Nahar] Saudi security forces have jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a Shiite preacher accused of glorifying Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Hussein al-Radi was detained after Gulf Arab states declared Hizbullah a "terrorist" group earlier this month and brought in tough new measures against anyone supporting it.
The Al-Watan daily reported that security forces arrested Radi, from the Al-Ahsa oasis region in Eastern Province.
"This is after he glorified the terrorist group Hizbullah and insulted the kingdom in a video clip that has been shared" online, the report said.
Radi "also broke previous pledges he had made after defending the terrorist Nimr al-Nimr following his execution," it added.
Nimr, another Shiite holy man from Eastern Province, was a driving force behind protests that began in 2011 among the Shiite minority in Sunni-majority Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The Shiites complain of marginalization.
Nimr and three other Shiites were among 47 people executed on January 2 for "terrorism."
Iranian demonstrators stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran and a consulate following Nimr's execution, prompting Riyadh to cut diplomatic ties.
Al-Watan quoted a security source as saying authorities had shown "patience" over a number of violations Radi allegedly made.
"But he continued to incite the public, taking advantage of the mosque platform to breach regulations."
A video posted Sunday on YouTube showed the bespectacled Radi, with a bushy white beard, speaking at a podium where he hails Hizbullah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... as a "hero."
Radi also praises Iran as a regional and international power.
An interior ministry front man could not confirm Radi's arrest to AFP but said: "I would assure you that ... laws in the kingdom are enforced."
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[ORLANDOSENTINEL] A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat.
At a run-down strip mall in the neighborhood known as Little Arabia, flags from a half-dozen Muslim countries flap in a stiff breeze. Flying above them is a giant American flag.
After Sen. Ted Cruz called for increased surveillance of Muslims in the U.S., many people in this community and others like it either challenged the Republican presidential candidate or dismissed his comments as mostly meaningless rhetoric.
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The key word is "increased" surveillance. Believe it or not, currently there is ongoing targeted surveillance in muslim communities. Problem is the FBI's Civil Rights division appears to have more clout then their CT division. Perhaps, Cruz will clarify.
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According to wiki, The overall number of mosques in the United States quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, an increase of 74%. Through 2014, a building boom for mosques has been going on.
If so damn many of them weren't immigrating to the U.S., they wouldn't need all these mosques.
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The "rest of us," also known as members of no particular politically favored minority, have been told for years that "if we are not doing anything wrong, we have nothing to worry about" with respect to loss of privacy, heightened scruitiny, etc. Interesting...
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[An Nahar] War crimes judges Wednesday confirmed 70 charges against notorious Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen for crimes committed in Uganda, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child soldiers.
Judges at the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... "confirmed 70 charges brought by the prosecutor against Dominic Ongwen," the Hague-based court said, paving the way to a trial on the alleged crimes.
Known as the "White Ant" in his native Acholi language, Ongwen is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role from 2002 to 2005 in the rebel group's reign of terror in northern Uganda, led by its runaway chief Joseph Kony ... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo... Ongwen will be the first LRA member to face trial at the ICC, set up in 2002 to try the world's worst crimes.
A former child-soldier-turned-warlord, Ongwen was Kony's one-time deputy and one of the most senior commanders of the LRA, which is accused of slaughtering more than 100,000 people and abducting 60,000 children in a bloody rebellion against Kampala that began in 1986.
Prosecutors in January told the ICC's judges that Ongwen was the "tip of the spear" of the group that has sown terror in several countries across central and eastern Africa.
Ongwen, who is about 40 years old, allegedly ordered the killings of civilians as well as the abduction and enslavement of children to be rebel soldiers as the LRA attacked helpless villages across the Ugandan countryside, prosecutors said.
Witnesses to the carnage said Ongwen ordered his hostages, at least on one occasion, to "kill, cook and eat civilians," prosecutors said.
The LRA first emerged in northern Uganda in 1986, where it claimed to fight in the name of the Acholi ethnic group against the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
But over the years it has moved freely across porous regional borders, shifting from Uganda to sow terror in southern Sudan before heading into northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , and finally crossing into southeastern Central African Republic in March 2008.
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Kenyan Defense Forces warplanes have separately bombed several Al Shabaab targets in Lower and Middle Juba regions in south of Somalia, residents said. Local residents who asked not to be named told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu that strikes hit areas controlling by Al Shabaab near towns of Jilib and Badhadhe in the region.
The exact casualties of the bombing are yet to be established. Neither Kenyan officials nor Al Shabaab commented on the strikes.
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My husband was always "fastidious;"
His squeamishness now is most piteous:
His method of diving
Resembles the striving
And gasping of beings amphibious.
[An Nahar] An Army Intelligence unit rubbed out on Wednesday a Lebanese military deserter in the northern district of Akkar, the military said.
Corporal Atef Saadeddine died during a shootout with the intelligence patrol, it said in a communique.
The incident took place near the town of al-Bireh where soldiers were raiding a house where he was hiding.
Saadeddine, 26, faces desertion charges since he disappeared in the eastern Bekaa Valley almost two years ago.
He defected to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front in neighboring Syria claiming in a video that his move came as a result of the injustice against Sunnis in Leb.
In the 6-minute long video, he also called on Lebanese soldiers to take a similar step.
Islamists in the country claim that Sunnis are facing harassment by the army, which they accuse of working under the command of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... The army communique said Saadeddine was injured when he fought alongside hard boyz who overran the northeastern border town of Arsal in August 2014.
The deserter was also involved the fighting between troops and jihadists in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and surrounding areas in October of the same year, it added.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... says his trip to Buenos Aires "is a new beginning" between the United States and 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... Obama is being honored at a state dinner in Argentina by President Mauricio Macri. He says the world has noticed Macri’s eagerness to re-engage Argentina with the world community.
Macri says Argentina recognizes Obama’s visit as a gesture of friendship. He says Argentina developed with the same values as the U.S.
The dinner is taking place at Latin America’s biggest cultural center, overlooking the Buenos Aires waterfront.
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Probably another message given behind closed doors.
[An Nahar] A U.S. air strike on an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has killed at least 40 fighters in a major blow to the jihadists who have been expanding their territory in the war-torn country.
The murderous Moslems have exploited a security vacuum in the Arabian Peninsula nation since Iran-backed Huthi Iranian catspaws seized the capital in September 2014, forcing the internationally recognized government to flee.
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[Indian Express] Convicted American terrorist David Coleman Headley told a special court Wednesday that he donated 60-70 lakh
... 1 lakh = 100,000...
Pak rupees
...and there are 103.8 Pakistani rupees to US$1, so you can do the math, dear Reader.
to Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT). Headley, an approver in 26/11 attack case, was being cross-questioned by the lawyer of accused Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal for the first time.
Appearing in the special TADA court via video conferencing from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location in US, Headley told defence advocate Abdul Wahab Khan that he made the donation in 2006. Asked if the money was used to fund the Mumbai attack, Headley replied, "It was donated by me for many things, different things."
When Khan put the question to him in other forms, he said: "That would be impossible because the last donation was made in 2006 and the attacks had not been planned then."
Asked if he had disclosed this to the US government, he said, "I don’t remember... Maybe."
After having established that Headley visited Pakistain once for drug smuggling between 1992 and 1998, Khan asked him how he invested the proceeds of the criminal activity.
"I had purchased a few shops in the UAE in 2004," Headley said.
Headley lost his cool briefly when Khan suggested that he invested in real estate using his income from the LeT. "I never received any income from the LeT. I gave LeT funds myself," he said.
After Headley admitted to investing in property in Pakistain, Khan asked again, "Did you invest in Pakistain using income from the LeT or the drug business?"
"Urdu mein samjhaaon aapko?," bristled Headley.
"Punjabi mein samjhao," Khan smiled back.
Headley shot back. "Your client is fighting for his life. You have to be serious... It is not a joke."
When Khan repeated the question, Headley said: "My answer is that it is nonsense."
Khan complained to Judge G A Sanap, who admonished Headley. "You have to be very polite," he said.
"I am telling him in the language he understands," replied Headley.
Nikam objected to the question, "He is irritating the witness," he said.
Earlier, Khan took Headley back to 1988, when he was first placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for drug smuggling. He had entered into a plea bargain and served three-and-half years in prison.
In 1998, Headley was again arrested by Drug Enforcement Authority while attempting to smuggle narcotics into the US from Pakistain. Headley deposed that he entered into a plea bargain once more and served 15 months in jail.
The second jail term was followed by five years of supervised release. Headley said he had violated terms of the plea agreement to not indulge in criminal activity by joining LeT.
Asked whether 26/11 attack convict Dr Tahawwur Rana had been in touch with LeT turbans prior to 26/11, Headley replied, "I don’t remember. I will refer to the notes tomorrow and let you know."
Headley deposed that he had told Rana about his involvement in the attacks conspiracy "4-5 months before the end."
Headley also told court that Rana’s chief concern was that terror activities should not be carried out from his office in Tardeo, which Headley was running.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source in the city of Mosul revealed on Wednesday, that the so-called ISIS used rabid dogs to torture and kill people in the city.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS members used rabid dogs to murder and torture 10 citizens in Mosul on charges of spying and cooperating with the Iraqi security forces.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “Those people were placed along with the dogs in a fenced yard in a Garden in Tal Afar City,” pointing out that, “The rabid dogs devoured them.”
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Fun things to do at Hawloween:
Dress normally.
Obtain yor dawg and 3 cans of compressed air Kool Whip.
Put nozzle of Kool Whip in dawg's mouth, give the dawg a 10 second burst of sugar and NO2.
Ring door bell before yor dawg finishes off the Kool Whip
FOAMY SEZ TRICK OR TREAT AND HE WANTS A DECENT CUT OF MEAT.
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Smells like bullshit. What kind of rabid dog can 'devour' a human? The whole point of rabid dogs is that they have rabies, which is a nerve disease that kills slowly, over weeks. They just have to bite you and you get infected. They don't kill you right away, that defeats the entire point of rabies.
[BLOGS.SPECTATOR.CO.UK] Well at least we all know the form by now. This morning Islamist suicide-bombers struck one of the few European capitals they haven’t previously hit in a mass-casualty terrorist attack. Serious Islamists attacked non-serious Euros. We've seen this before, because it's happened so often before.
Last time it became a serious ongoing problem, a variety of European countries, including Switzerland, arranged to pay the PLO billions to transit them quietly instead of while bombing, shooting, and kidnapping. They are, I believe, still making those payments.
The standard response now goes as follows. First the body parts of innocent people are flung across airport check-ins or underground trains. Briefly there is some shock. On social media the sentimentalists await the arrival of this atrocity’s cutesy hashtag or motif and hope it will tide them over until the piano man arrives at the scene of the attack to sing ‘Imagine there’s no countries’. Meantime someone will hopefully have said something which a lot of people can condemn as ‘inappropriate’. I see that the Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson was this morning’s Twitter miscreant, foolish enough to say in the wake of the Brussels attack that the EU might not make us very safe. One may agree or disagree with this sentiment, but Ms Pearson should have known that the only acceptable thing to do after a jacket wallah detonates beside the European Commission is to acclaim the Commission as one of the few entities able to keep us safe.
We will shortly move to the next phase, which is to find a good news story amid the rubble. Anything will do, but best of all is a Muslim good news story. After Gay Paree it was swiftly reported that one of the suicide bombers at Stade de La Belle France had been turned away by a brave Muslim security guard. The story whizzed around the world before anyone could check whether it was true. It wasn’t. But people needed it to be. Not because Muslims don’t do good deeds, but because in the wake of any Islamist terrorist attack people need people opposed to the bombers to be Muslim and the bombers themselves not to be Muslim. Then the good Muslim can represent Islam while the bad Muslims can be said to have nothing to do with it.
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kinda reminds me of that movie men at work - SOMEBODY GONE AND THROWN OUT A PERFECTLY FINE WHITE MAN -except now it,s dozens at a time who is funding this war on both sides?
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of Hashed al-Shaabi in Anbar Province announced on Wednesday, that the joint forces started a military operation to cleanse Saqlawiyah vicinity in northern Fallujah, while pointed out that the first few hours of the operations witnessed the killing of dozens of ISIS members.
The commander of Karmat Fallujah brigade in al-Hashed al-Shaabi, Colonel Khamis Bahr al-Halbusi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today the joint forces from the police, army and tribal fighters launched a military operation to cleanse Saqlawiyah vicinity from ISIS terrorist gangs,” pointing out that, “Dozens of ISIS members were killed in the first few hours of the operation.”
Halbusi added, “The military operation was launched from the Technical Institute axis and Maftool crossing axis toward Albu Shajl areas in northern Fallujah.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi announced on Wednesday, that the security forces repulsed an attack carried out by the so-called ISIS on Albu Daeij area in southern Fallujah.
Mahalawi said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS launched an attack using booby-trapped vehicles and weapons on the army’s 8th brigade that were stationed in Albu Daeij area north of Amiriyah Fallujah.”
Mahalawi added, “The security forces managed to kill dozens of ISIS members, while the Iraqi Army Aviation bombarded three booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers,” pointing out that, “Albu Daeij area is now under the control of the security forces.”
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[Dhaka Tribune] Belgium’s chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Dae’sh jacket wallahs who killed at least 31 people in the most deadly attacks in Brussels’ history but said another key suspect was on the run.
The federal prosecutor told a news conference that Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, one of two men who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, had left a will on a computer dumped in a rubbish bin near the murderous Moslems’ hideout.
In it, he described himself as "always on the run, not knowing what to do anymore, being hunted everywhere, not being safe any longer and that if he hangs around, he risks ending up next to the person in a cell" - a reference to suspected Gay Paree bomber Salah Abdeslam, who was tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! last week.
His brother Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, detonated a bomb an hour later on a crowded rush-hour metro train near the European Commission headquarters, prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said.
Both men, born in Belgium, had criminal records for armed robbery but were not previously linked by Sherlocks to holy warrior murderous Moslems.
At least 31 people were killed and about 271 maimed in the attacks, the prosecutor said. That toll could increase further because some of the bomb victims at Maelbeek metro station were blown to pieces and victims are hard to identify. Several survivors were still at death's door.
The Bakraoui brothers were identified by their fingerprints and on security cameras, the prosecutor said. The second suicide bomber at the airport had yet to be identified and a third man, whom he did not name, had left the biggest bomb and run out of the terminal before the kabooms.
Belgian media named that man as Najim Laachraoui, 25, a suspected Dae’sh recruiter and bomb-maker whose DNA was found on two explosives belts used in last November’s Gay Paree attacks and at a Brussels safe house used by Abdeslam before his arrest last Friday.
Khalid El Bakraoui had rented under a false name the apartment in the city’s Forest borough, where police hunting Abdeslam killed a gunman in a raid last week. He is also believed to have rented a safe house in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi used to mount the Gay Paree attacks.
‘Black days’
The Syrian-based jihadist group grabbed credit for Tuesday’s attacks, warning of "black days" for those fighting it in Syria and Iraq. . A minute’s silence was observed across Belgium at noon. Prime Minister Charles Michel cancelled a trip to China and reviewed security measures with his inner cabinet before attending a memorial event at European Commission headquarters with King Philippe, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
More than 1,000 people gathered around an improvised shrine with candles and street paintings outside the Brussels bourse.
Belgium’s crisis coordination centre kept the level of security alert at the maximum as the man hunt continued. Some buses and trains were running but the metro and the airport were closed, along with key road tunnels in Brussels.
After a tip-off from a taxi driver who unknowingly drove the bombers to the airport, police searched an apartment in the Brussels borough of Schaerbeek late into the night, finding another bomb, a Dae’sh flag and bomb-making chemicals.
An unused bomb was later found at the airport.
Brussels airport seemed likely to remain shut for several days over the busy Easter holiday weekend, since the departure hall was still being combed as a scene of the crime on Wednesday and repairs can only begin once Sherlocks are finished.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... stressed Wednesday that Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... does not want presidential elections in the current period or the election as president of its main Christian ally, Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... founder MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... "At the strategic level, Hizbullah cannot coexist with a real state in Leb ... and at the tactical level Hizbullah does not want General Aoun as president, although it cannot afford to lose him, which has pushed it to obstruct the presidential vote," Geagea said in an interview with Russia Today TV.
"This way it does not lose Aoun and it postpones the problem," Geagea added.
On Monday, Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... accused the LF of seeking to stir a dispute between Hizbullah and the FPM.
"If we head to parliament, it is known that =Aoun will not be elected," Nasrallah noted, dismissing LF calls in this regard.
"Our relation with (Speaker Nabih) Berri is not based on coercion and we are ethically committed to supporting Aoun's nomination," Nasrallah added.
Leb has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... ended in May 2014 and the FPM, Hizbullah and some of their allies have been boycotting the electoral sessions.
Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. launched late in 2015 a proposal to nominate Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his suggestion was rejected by the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
In January, Geagea announced his support for Aoun's presidential bid after the LF and the FPM signed a rapprochement agreement described as a "declaration of intent."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Top security officials from the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense visited eastern Kunar and 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 ot review the security situation as well as cross-border incursions by Pakistain.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the delegation of the top security officials is led by the commander of the border protection police forces Gen. Abdul Fatah Frogh.
A statement by MoD said Gen. Mohammad Afzal Aman accompanied the delegation from the Ministry of Defense during the visit to Kunar and met with the provincial governor Alhaj Wahidullah Kalimzai, commander of the border protection forces Gen. Wali Khan Shenwari, provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Habib Syed Kheli, NDS chief and the commander of the second division of 201st Corps of the Afghan National Army.
Following the review of security situation and report on recent cross-border incursions by Pak military, the commander of the border protection forces Gen. Frogh said the security forces have been instructed to respond to any future cross-border violation.
He said the Afghan forces are currently in better condition in terms of moral and equipment and are able to defend from the borders and national illusory sovereignty of the country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... a local tribal elder in Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar province, Malik Nadir Khan pledged support to the Afghan government and security forces.
He said the cross-border incursions by the Pak military have created problems for the local residents which continue since three years, forcing almost 200 families to abandon the area.
The cross-border incursions by Pak military intensified during the recent weeks and in its latest provocative move, the Pak military helicopters enter the Afghan air space in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... and dropped several bombs in certain areas earlier this month.
The provocative move by the Pak military sparked anger among the Afghan people and officials with the former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... strongly condemning the provocative act.
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[An Nahar] Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo on Wednesday said Warsaw would not take in its share of migrants colonists under an EU plan because of the jihadist attacks that killed 31 people in Brussels.
Poland is the first EU member to take such a step after Tuesday's bombings at the Brussels airport and metro, which also left 270 maimed -- including three Poles -- and were claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
"After what happened in Brussels yesterday, it's not possible right now to say that we're OK with accepting any number of migrants colonists at all," Szydlo told private television Superstacja.
Her conservative and euroskeptic Law and Justice (PiS) government had earlier been willing to welcome the 7,000 refugees agreed by its liberal predecessors under Ewa Kopacz.
Europe is grappling with its worst migrant crisis since World War II. Last year alone some 1.2 million people flooded into the EU, most of them Syrians fleeing via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Greece.
"We're forced above all to ensure the security of our fellow citizens," Szydlo said, urging Europe against accepting "thousands of migrants colonists who come here only to improve their life conditions."
Among these migrants colonists "there are also terrorists."
The first refugees were due to arrive in Poland in late March or early April, after EU leaders forced through a one-off controversial deal last September to relocate 120,000 refugees among member states.
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Give them each a rifle as you drop them off in Syria and tell them that when they've killed off ISIS they can come back as tourists.
My mother's male cousins and her first husband basically did that during the Nazi era. They dropped off sisters and parents who'd got out with them, joined the military of whichever country provided asylum, and went back to destroy the Nazi beast. They all checked in at the Amsterdam fraternity house that had been hiding my grandparents, among others, then kept going until the war was won.
Angela Merkel hoped to get wage slaves to replace the ones the Germans hadn't been giving birth to, which is the other reason she encouraged the young-men-first migration.
[An Nahar] Israel's intelligence minister accused Belgian leaders of laxity Wednesday over the threat posed by homegrown Muslim radicals, the second cabinet member to hit out after the deadly bombings in Brussels.
"If in Belgium they continue to eat chocolate, enjoy life and parade as great liberals and democrats while not taking account of the fact that some of the Muslims who are there are organizing acts of terror, they will not be able to fight against them," Yisrael Katz told public radio.
Katz charged that not only European leaders but also U.S. President Barack Obama teachable moment... had undermined the battle against jihadist violence with their unwillingness to define it as "Islamic terrorism".
"When you don't define your enemy, you can't lead a worldwide campaign," he said.
Katz, who is also transport minister, is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud and widely seen as his principal rival within the party.
He has taken a hawkish position on the wave of violence that has rocked Israel and the Paleostinian territories since October, calling for the families of Paleostinians implicated in attacks to be sent to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo as a deterrent.
On Tuesday, another Likud member -- Science, Technology and Space Minister Ofir Akunis -- lashed out at Europe after the Brussels bombings, accusing it of ignoring the danger of "Islamic terror cells" and focusing on criticising Israel instead.
"Many in Europe have preferred to occupy themselves with the folly of condemning Israel, labeling products, and boycotts," Akunis said on his Facebook page.
"In this time, underneath the nose of the continent's citizens, thousands of Death Eater Islamic terror cells have grown."
Those comments drew a rebuke from Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog, who accused Akunis -- a Netanyahu ally -- of "miserable cynicism".
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[IN.REUTERS] More aid agencies helping refugees and migrants colonists arriving in Greece said they were joining a boycott of detention centres on Wednesday, angered at an EU deal they say runs roughshod over human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... Human rights organizations reject the pact between the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to fast-track registration and asylum applications, under which hundreds of new arrivals have been detained since Sunday. Refugees or migrants colonists whose applications fail will be sent back to Turkey.
Aid agencies said cooperating with the Greeks at detention centres would make them complicit with an "unfair and inhumane" practice.
Notice that the reporter doesn't bother to tell us what the problem is. What exactly is 'unfair and inhumane'? The refugees are coming to Greece. If they don't like the terms, turn around and go home.
Two aid agencies said on Wednesday they were following the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and aid organization Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a major contributor to the ISIS war effort relief effort, which both announced on Tuesday they would cut back assistance.
"The IRC alerted the (Greek) coasties on Monday that we would not transport the world's most vulnerable people to a place where their freedom of movement is impeded upon," said Lucy Carrigan, a regional spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
The IRC will continue to support those at another makeshift camp, she said.
The Norwegian Refugee Council, a major non-governmental organization, said it was suspending most of its activities at a detention centre on the Greek island of Chios.
"We are extremely close to be in a position where this site is dangerously overcrowded ... We have a large number of refugees including pregnant women and kiddies lying on the concrete floor in the reception hall," said Dan Tyler, a protection adviser for the council.
Tension in the facility was building up and there had already been demonstrations, he told Rooters.
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they say runs roughshod over human rights
That is the human right to steal what other people earned as their ruling class fleeces them to signal their virtue and transnational loyalties.
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The UNHCR, Doctors Without Borders, IRC and NRC are notoriously pro-refugee organizations that support dumping the Muslim problem on Europe's doorstep. The UNHCR and IRC work hand in hand with the US State Department to replicate the European disaster in the USA.
Turkish armed forces said on Wednesday that the military carried out air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq and killed 26 militants in southeast Turkey.
Violence in Turkey has increasingly flared since a ceasefire with the Kurds broke down last July.
Tuesday’s air strikes targeted shelters, caves and ammunition depots used by the PKK in northern Iraq and rural areas near the southeastern Turkish town of Semdinli, at the mountainous border with Iraq and Iran, the military statement said.
The military says more than a thousand militants have been killed in the largely Kurdish southeast since the 2-1/2 year PKK ceasefire collapsed in July, prompting the heaviest clashes in the region since the 1990s.
President Tayyip Erdogan has said more than 300 members of the security forces have died, while the pro-Kurdish opposition says hundreds of civilians have also been killed.
The army said it killed 26 PKK fighters in the southeastern towns of Nusaybin, Sirnak and Yuksekova on Tuesday alone. It also destroyed explosives and seized weapons and ammunition.
On Tuesday, the PKK killed five members of Turkish security forces in three separate bomb attacks near the Syrian and Iranian borders, army and security sources said.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict since it began in 1984. The PKK, which says it is fighting for Kurdish autonomy, is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union.
In face of the surge in violence and the deadly attacks against Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey would use its entire military and intelligence might to battle “one of the biggest and bloodiest terrorist waves in its history”.
" The PKK's ideology was originally a fusion of revolutionary socialism and Kurdish nationalism, seeking the foundation of an independent, Marxist–Leninist state in the region, which was to be known as Kurdistan."
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[IsraelTimes] Chris Backemeyer seeks to convince skeptical companies to invest in Tehran amid fears of renewed sanctions
Two months after the implementation of last year’s landmark nuclear agreement, a US diplomat is on an unlikely mission -- promoting the Iran deal to firms that want to tap into its massive market but fear other sanctions, or that the next American president could scrap the deal.
It’s not an easy task for Chris Backemeyer or other Americans on the equivalent of a nuclear deal roadshow, especially as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard continues to fire off ballistic missiles and US Republican presidential candidates vow to tear up the pact if elected.
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Perhaps she should throw in a few shillings and see if they dig with more enthusiasm.
Dr Leander Starr Jameson speaking of Rhodes – “His favourite Sunday pastime was to go into the De Beers native compound, where he had built them a fine swimming bath, and throw in shillings for the natives to dive for. He knew enough of their languages to talk to them freely, and they looked up to him – indeed, fairly worshipped the great white man.”
[An Nahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has detained a Japanese citizen in the south of the country on suspicion of seeking to cross the border into Syria to join Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) jihadists, the Dogan news agency said on Wednesday.
The young man aged 24, named as M.M., was detained late on Tuesday in the Nizip district of the southern city of Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border.
According to Dogan, he had admitted to wanting to travel to Syria after getting to know an unnamed contact by telephone and then agreeing the cross the frontier.
He will be deported from Turkey back to Japan once the investigation is completed, the agency added.
It said he was detained during a routine check by the Turkish gendarmerie while being driven towards the border settlement of Karkamis.
The official Anatolia news agency said police had confirmed his contacts with jihadists by examining messages on his mobile phone.
Long accused of not doing enough to police its border with Syria, Turkey has in the last months tightened controls, detaining dozens of foreign jihadists.
The arrest of a Japanese citizen is hugely unusual, as most of those detained seeking to cross the border come from countries with large Muslim populations.
Images published by Dogan showed the bespectacled young man kneeling in the middle of the road with his hands above his head, guarded by an armed soldier.
Turkish officials said security forces on Tuesday incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 10 suspected Islamic State (IS) members at the Syrian border in the Gaziantep region, including a would-be jacket wallah. Their nationalities were not disclosed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Hezb-e-Islami party led by the notorious holy warriors leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... is seeking power-sharing with the Afghan government in exchange for peace deal, it has been reported.
The Afghan high peace council is busy negotiating peace deal with the delegation of Hezb-e-Islami party sent by Hekmatyar on 17th March.
According to the officials privy to the development, the party is seeking positions in the civil and security institutions of the country.
"At this stage, Hezb-e Islami is seeking to become a government partner by seeking positions in civil and security institutions," an Afghan official told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the ongoing talks.
The official further added that the government was "listening and evaluating the practicality of their demands," but that a final decision had not been made.
The Hezb-e-Islami was the first myrmidon group to show a green light towards calls for peace talks following the conclusion of the last Quadrilateral Coordination Group meeting which called on the myrmidon groups to start direct talks with the Afghan government.
"The QCG member states invite all Taliban and other groups to participate through their authorized representatives in the first round of direct peace talks with the Afghan government expected to take place by the first week of March 2016," according to a joint statement by QCG.
The call by Hezb-e-Islami party to participate in peace talks and sending the party’s delegation to Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... for the talks was welcomed by the Afghan officials amid hopes that the move would encourage other myrmidon groups to join the talks.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the Talibs group rejected the offer and said the group will not participate in the peace talks, reiterating its preconditions for the talks which include the complete withdrawal of the foreign forces from the country.
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[FRANCE24] Najim Laachraoui, a Belgian wanted by authorities in connection with the November 13 Gay Paree attacks, has been named by police sources as one of three suspected bombers who killed at least 31 people and injured 270 in Brussels on Tuesday.
Belgian and international media cited police sources as saying that Laachraoui was the second bomber in the attack on Brussels airport.
Federal prosecutors earlier on Wednesday identified Ibrahim El-Bakraoui as one of the three suspects who targeted the airport, and his brother Khalid El-Bakraoui as the Maelbeek metro bombing suspect.
Belgian officials have not officially identified Laachraoui as one of the Brussels attackers so far. Doing so would establish a clear link between the string of deadly attacks in and around Gay Paree on November 13, 2015 and the March 22 attacks in Brussels.
Connection to Gay Paree attacks
Laachraoui, 24, is suspected of being one of the explosive experts and co-ordinators of the Gay Paree attacks, after his DNA was found on boom belts used in both the attack on the Bataclan concert hall and the Stade de La Belle France, suggesting he not only handled them but may also have built them.
Under the alias of "Soufiane Kayal" he rented a home in the town of Auvelais, in southern Belgium, which was used by the jihadists to prepare the November attacks. Investigators believe he was in phone contact with the hard boyz that night.
This was also the name he gave when he was stopped at the Austria-Hungary border with Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving participant of the Gay Paree attacks, and Mohammed Belkaïd, another suspected co-ordinator of the Gay Paree attacks, in September 2015.
Since he was travelling under a false identity, police were unaware that he was the subject of an international arrest warrant, issued in March 2014, for recruiting fighters for 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.
Laachraoui was only publicly identified as a Gay Paree attacks suspect on Monday.
Laachraoui went to Syria in February 2013 and reportedly returned to Europe posing as a refugee. In February he was tried in absentia for involvement in a recruiting network of Belgians who left for Syria, in which the prosecutor called for him to be handed a 15-year prison sentence.
Moroccan-born Laachraoui has Belgian nationality and was raised in the Schaerbeek neighbourhood of Brussels, where police conducted searches shortly after the city's airport and metro attacks. He is believed to have studied electromechanical engineering at a Catholic high school, the Institut de la Sainte-Famille d’Helmet.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Three senior Taliban capos were killed together with their eleven fighters during a shootout with the Afghan cops in the restive southeastern Ghazni province.
According to the local security officials the Taliban capos were identified as Zalmai, Fedayi and Ghulam Rasool who were killed after attacking the security posts in Gilan district.
Provincial police front man Fahim Amiri confirmed that the security forces repulsed the Taliban attack, leaving 13 dead, including the group’s 3 senior commanders.
He said six turbans were also maimed during the shootout together with a member of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the incident so far which comes as the group’s insurgency has been rampant during the past several months.
Ghazni is among the volatile provinces located in the southwest surrounded by other volatile provinces including the restive Wardak, Pashtun-infested Logar, and Zabul.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 33 holy warriors were killed and 16 others were maimed during the clearance operations conducted jointly by the Afghan national security forces.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the holy warriors were killed or maimed in the past 24 hours in various provinces of the country.
A statement by MoD said at least 21 of the holy warriors were killed during the operations in Gilan and Andar districts of Ghazni and Bakwa district of Farah province.
The statement further added that 10 holy warriors were also maimed during the same operations, while 9 holy warriors were killed and 3 others were maimed during a separate operation in Sangin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Achin and Kot districts 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.
At least 3 holy warriors were killed and 3 others were detained during operations in Ghorian district of 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... and Gomal district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, MoD added.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
The Afghan national security forces have stepped up counter-terrorism operations amid deteriorating security situation across the country as the anti-government armed holy warrior groups have increased to their insurgency activities during the recent months.
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[An Nahar] A bag containing hand grenades was found Tuesday at a armory mosque in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , state-run National News Agency reported.
"Army troops discovered a bag containing several unarmed hand grenades at the al-Jihad Mosque in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh," NNA said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... Voice of Leb radio (100.5) said the finding coincided with strict security measures by the army in Tripoli.
"The army erected random checkpoints and staged armored patrols against the backdrop of the death of the father of the runaway Shadi al-Mawlawi," the radio station said.
Islamist holy warrior Mawlawi disappeared from Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh following the October 2014 fierce gunbattles between his followers and the army.
In early 2015, Mawlawi claimed that he left the southern Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole for an unknown destination.
Media reports said Mawlawi fled the camp disguised in women clothes and using fake identification papers, the same way he entered it in November 2014.
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The deputy governor of northern Mudug region Ahmed Muse Nur said Puntland troops have killed at least 10 Al Shabaab militants in the latest combats near the coastal villages under Garaged. Speaking to Radio Shabelle on Wednesday, he said that the ten Al-Shabaab fighters lost their lives in a fierce gun battle with Puntland forces in villages along the Indian Ocean coastlines of Mudug region.
Meanwhile, the deputy governor has confirmed that unspecified number of their army soldiers were killed in offensive operations against the Al shabaab militants.
Puntland information minister Mohamoud Hassan Soa’de revealed a day ago that the forces had captured more 100 of fighters alive in the latest operations against Al-Shabaab who attacked in Puntland coastal areas. Mr Soa’de added that "Italians""Germans""Minnesotans" foreign fighters were among those killed in the combat.
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[An Nahar] At least seven people were killed in festivities Wednesday west of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... between rustics and forces loyal to Libya's unrecognized government, an army officer said.
The violence in the village of Touebiya, 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital, stemmed from a failed burglary.
Tribesmen attacked the village and burnt down homes, said Colonel Abderrazaq al-Kharmani, an officer with forces that support the unrecognized government in Tripoli.
"We seized one of their vehicles, destroyed another and killed seven of their fighters," he told AFP.
Kharmani said the confrontation broke out a day after a member of the tribal forces had been beaten to death with a stick by a woman in Touebiya as he tried to rob her home.
The rustics had attacked the village seeking to avenge his death, according to the officer.
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Fighters loyal to the leader of the splinter group of the Taliban, Mullah Rasoul, in Badghis province, reportedly announced war against fighters of the Taliban faction led by Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor. The commander of the splinter group accused Mansoor of killing and detaining Taliban leaders and said the Pakistani spy agency and Mansoor have pushed Afghanistan towards destruction.
After several days of fighting between the two groups of the Taliban in Shindand district of western Herat province, fighters loyal to Mullah Rasoul hoisted the Taliban's flag under the name of the Taliban's High Council in Qads district of Badghis province and vowed to fight supporters of Akhtar Mansoor.
Commander of the splinter group in Badghis said that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Akhtar Mansoor have been involved in killing a number of Taliban leaders, particularly the group's supreme leader Mullah Omar.
"The reasons for our differences [with Akhtar Mansoor] were that Mullah Obaidullah has been martyred in prison, Mullah Beradar is in jail and Mullah Omar was killed by Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor. Akhtar Mansoor has created an office in Qatar and he along with the Pakistani spy agency has taken a number of decisions without coordinating them with the Taliban, which are not acceptable for us," said Mollah Ghafar Tofan, military commander of Mollah Rasoul's splinter group in Badghis. He added that Pakistan and other countries have pushed Afghanistan towards fratricide.
Meanwhile, Badghis provincial council expressed its deep concerns over gathering of the Taliban in Qads district of the province and said that infighting between the Taliban will affect civilians. Mohammad Naser Nazari, a member of the council, said that the government should not allow militants to mobilize the public.
"People expect government to conduct airstrikes, wherever they organize gatherings. It should not allow the Taliban to organize gatherings," he added.
Badghis police chief, Abdul Rauf Taj, urged people not to allow the Taliban to organize gatherings in their villages.
"People should not allow the enemies to organize such sessions. The Taliban by such events want to weaken people's morale," he said. Fighting between fighters of Akhtar Mansoor and Mullah Rassoul in Zer Koh area of Shindand district of Herat left more than 200 people dead, including scores of civilians. The probability of infighting between Taliban in Badghis has raised concerns of people in Badghis.
FAISALABAD: As many as two mutilated bodies of unidentified men were found within the precincts of Saddar police in Faisalabad.
The police said the bodies were lying on a roadside in Chak No 204 when they were spotted by a passer-by. The police said one of the bodies had been beheaded while the other had been set on fire after killing.
The police shifted the bodies to a hospital for medico-legal formalities. The police said the motive behind the murder could not ascertained, however, investigation will be start after autopsy report.
[FRANCE24] One day after terror attacks in Brussels killed more than 30 people, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has renewed his calls for a Europe-wide database for tracking airline passengers.
Yesterday’s attacks, which targeted Brussels’s Zaventem airport and the Maelbeek metro station, have renewed the debate over a Passenger Name Record (PNR) system, which would allow airlines and security authorities across Europe to share vital information on airline passengers.
"It is urgent to adopt the European PNR," Valls said on Wednesday. "The European Parliament has waited too long to adopt this text. It must examine and adopt it in April; it's time."
La Belle France has pushed the European Parliament to adopt a PNR several times in recent years, saying such a system would help prevent further terror attacks.
"We are at war," Valls told French parliament on Tuesday. "I say in particular to the socialist and environmental groups in the European Parliament: Everyone should assume their responsibilities. We have lost enough time on this issue."
Left-leaning members of the parliament have opposed such a measure over worries about the use and security of personal data.
Although a PNR would not have prevented Tuesday’s airport attack, which targeted the departures area before security checkpoints, the idea has repeatedly been floated in the wake of new terror attacks in Europe.
How it would work
The PNR would store 19 pieces of information on each passenger, including flight dates, itineraries, information on the ticket, passenger contact information, the name of the booking agency, payment method, seat number and luggage data.
The goal of the PNR would be for airlines to send passenger data to security officials in each European country. The data could then be checked by national authorities against their own lists of wanted persons or terror suspects.
This does assume that said wanted persons and terror suspects flew unde their own names, spelt exactly as listed in the data base, amd didn't use, for example, a real or fake false Syrian passport with a different name.
The US, UK, Canada and Australia already use such databases.
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[Reuters] A mix-up by a Brussels taxi dispatcher may have prevented more carnage at the city's airport on Tuesday, Belgium's DH newspaper reported, saying the cab firm sent a smaller car to pick up the bombers than the one ordered.
When the driver turned up in a saloon [i.e. sedan], the three found they could not fit all four heavy holdalls into the trunk. They left one behind.
For want of a nail... Let us be grateful it was not a great deal worse.
After the taxi driver called police to relate the tale, they found a large nail bomb in the apartment in the borough of Schaerbeek and defused it. Police had no comment on the report.
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Could travel in smaller groups, but that allows more chicken-outs. Maybe IS needs four or more in a group to ensure group compliance.
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[FRANCE24] The warring parties in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have agreed to a cease-fire at midnight on April 10 ahead of a new round of peace talks starting April 18 in Kuwait, the UN envoy to Yemen announced on Wednesday.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed made the announcement following extensive consultations with the internationally recognized government and Houthi
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death penalty of banned murderous Moslem outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh activist Asaduzzaman Chowdhury alias Panir for killing eight people in a kaboom in Netrakona in 2005.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed an appeal filed by the convict.
Panir had filed the appeal challenging a High Court verdict that had upheld his death sentence awarded by a trial court in 2008 for the attacks on Udichi and Shatadal Shilpi Goshthi offices.
After yesterday’s verdict, Deputy Attorney General Shashanka Shekhar Sarker told news hounds that Panir, who is now at the Dhaka Central Jail, would be able to seek review of the verdict. "Otherwise, the jail authorities will take steps for executing the death sentence after receiving the full text of verdict," he added.
According to the case, JMB men carried out the attacks on December 8, 2005, leaving eight people dead and 40 others injured. The victims are Khawja Haider, Sudipta Paul Shelly, Rani Begum, Joynal, Raisuddin, Yadev Das, Jahanara and Shawkat. One Arid alias Kafi made the explosives.
On February 17, 2008, Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal 2 sentenced to death three JMB activists -- Panir, Salahuddin alias Salehin and Yunus Ali -- for the deaths. Another accused Fahima alias Farzana alias Rokeya was acquitted. Salehin and Yunus are on the run.
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Yemeni army and Popular Committees managed to liberate strategic hills in al-Dabab front, west of the southern province of Taiz.
Field sources told al-Manar that fierce clashes took place in hills near al-Montazah area between the allied forces and Saudi-led mercenaries.
Dozens of mercenaries were killed, including at least three Sudanese officers, according to the sources.Popular committees in Yemen
The full control of these hills means that the army and the committees cut off supply route of the Saudi-led coalition forces from the western part of Taiz, the sources said, adding that the allied forces will go ahead with fight till the liberation of Taiz.
Elsewhere in other provinces, security apparatus seized and dismantled three explosive devices in Sanaa and Ibb.
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Radovan Karadzic, the Serbs' leader in Bosnia during the 1990s civil war, has been found responsible for genocide in Srebrenica as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes, a U.N. war crimes tribunal announced Thursday. He will be sentenced to 40 years in prison, RT News reports.
A hastily written will by one of the suspected Brussels bombers has given some insight into the lives the extremists were living before their devastating attacks on Brussels' airport and a metro station on Tuesday, Newsweek reports.
A 12-year-old girl was arrested and booked into juvenile detention after she allegedly pinched a boy’s butt in school during what she described as a popular game at her Florida school.
Radar software being tested for the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp is not stable enough, Pentagon officials said in a written statement at a U.S. House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
After the heady excitement of seeing President Barack Obama shatter decades of US-Cuba hostility, Cubans woke up Wednesday wondering how much will really change on the communist island.
Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility in the wake of deadly attacks by the Islamic State group in Brussels and Paris.
[PJ] Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country’s ability to gather intelligence.
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[Free Beacon] The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Five members of the
HOMS ــ Pro-regime warplanes conducted several airstrikes in Syria’s Hama province, causing casualties among civilians and destruction in residential buildings, local sources reported on Wednesday.
A Turkish state-run agency says authorities detained three men, including two foreigners, suspected of planning another attack in Istanbul.
[ORLANDOSENTINEL] A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat.
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Kenyan Defense Forces warplanes have separately bombed several Al Shabaab targets in Lower and Middle Juba regions in south of Somalia, residents said. Local residents who asked not to be named told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu that strikes hit areas controlling by Al Shabaab near towns of Jilib and Badhadhe in the region.
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[BLOGS.SPECTATOR.CO.UK] Well at least we all know the form by now. This morning Islamist suicide-bombers struck one of the few European capitals they haven’t previously hit in a mass-casualty terrorist attack.
[Dhaka Tribune] Belgium’s chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Dae’sh 
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[An Nahar] A bag containing hand grenades was found Tuesday at a 
