[Jpost] Because of the approaching elections, most Israeli newspapers these days resemble election pamphlets, not always in the best of taste, more than they do channels of information ‐ with the result that they barely covered, for instance, this month’s important meeting in Moscow between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Vladimir Putin. As reported, the main topic on the agenda was Iran’s extensive activity in Syria. Given that Russia’s establishing itself in the region has become what looks like a permanent or at least long-term reality (where the czars and the Soviets failed, Putin succeeded), while America’s presence, like the face of the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland, is gradually disappearing ‐ Moscow is now a central player in any scenario in this respect.
...Diplomatic history is sure to mark Netanyahu’s act of balancing Israel’s fundamental relations with America ‐ with its pragmatic coordination with Russia on Syria, without the latter being perceived by Washington as negatively affecting its global interests ‐ as major diplomatic achievements. And Israel is acting wisely in operating with full transparency toward the US in this and other respects, keeping in mind that the US is Israel’s long-term strategic and value-based ally, while Russia is an important and practical partner in dealing with certain particular issues. If it weren't for the coup attempt, I'm sure Trump's administration would be moving in similar ways: it's ridiculous for the relations between Russia & USA - who need each other as allies against China, to be influenced by EU/USA deep state psychopaths.
[Powerline] Among the high former Obama administration officials who have most disgraced themselves by their public comments since leaving office, John Brennan deserves special recognition. Marc Thiessen has done us the favor of making the case in the Washington Post column “The Trump-Russia collusion hall of shame” (accessible via the link at Jewish World Review). Thiessen renders this damning judgment:
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Can we find a scummier scum bag than John Brennan? Allahu Akbar, John, you microbe.
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The solution to that is easy, when a CIA head retires, he'll be whisked away to a secure holding area in Yucca Mountain Nuclear repository. There he'll be given 10 boxes of National Geographics selected randomly from someone's basement, 10 years of life boat rations and access to water. He'll be perfectly safe, able to relax and read amongst the radioactive containers.
The German Bild paper published on Wednesday a scathing editorial accusing the country’s UN Ambassador Christoph Heusgen of betraying Chancellor Angela Merkel’s security pledge to Israel by comparing the Jewish state to the terrorist organization Hamas
The editorial authored by Filipp Piatov, in the country’s top-selling paper, took Heusgen to task for comparing Israel’s security measures against Palestinian terrorists with Hamas rocket attacks.
In response to Heusgen’s statement that "Civilians must live without fear of Palestinian rockets or Israeli bulldozers," the Bild journalist wrote: "After 130 missiles in a week, pure malice. Murderous rockets are not bulldozers, the Israeli government is not a terrorist militia."
[JPost] An assertive anti-Iranian regime policy by the US Ambassador to Germany and American sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran's economy caused a 9% decrease in German exports to Iran in 2018. Plus, Iran's own currency is losing value - fast
According to Ulrich Nußbaum, a State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, German exports plummeted from 3.15 billion Euro in 2017 to 2.7 billion Euro in 2018.
The German weekly Die Zeit first reported on the drop in German exports to Iran. The governments of Germany, France and the United Kingdom created a financial mechanism called Instex to circumvent US sanctions against Iran. Nußbaum said Instex is "at this time in the phase of being operationalized."
Major German banks such as Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank have declined to conduct business with Iran because of exposure to US sanctions. As a result, according to an early March article in the Hamburger Abendblatt, for companies in the German state of Lower Saxony this presents a "big challenge." The paper wrote "since November virtually no transfers of funds from Iran to the house banks of the Lower Saxony companies have taken place."
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The governments of Germany, France and the United Kingdom created a financial mechanism called Instex to circumvent US sanctions against Iran.
Well, that confirms that these three countries are no longer allies. Act accordingly.
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[Babylon Bee] CHICAGO, IL‐The NAACP has given Jussie Smollett a prestigious award for his important work creating much-needed jobs for Nigerian-American citizens.
The Association created the new "Nigerian-American Job Creation" award just for Smollett in honor of his important work for the black community.
"While a lot of people talk about job creation, Smollett put his money where his mouth is," said an NAACP spokesperson as Smollett received the award. "He created two good, high-paying jobs well above minimum wage for these brothers. $3500 to pretend to be Trump supporters and fake an attack on a celebrity? Easy money."
"If all the wealthy and powerful were to help out like this, we can eliminated joblessness among black adults," he added.
Smollett humbly accepted the award, saying he was just "doing his part" to bring racial unity to the country.
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When you hit the link, unsure if Babylon Bee shows up or not.
Maybe the Nigerian Playgirl Models have a compromising clientele.
IMHO the question was not if he would be let off, but how. Could be someone went over the heads of the local graft and procedure SOPs, undermining local authority pricing and stunting a few political careers. I'd be pissed if the neighbor came over and lectured me about me parenting wrong in front of my kids.
What I don't get is why the California syndicate is doing the high-five and nose rubbing thing instead of quietly shepherding their C-list agent into a hollywood hiatus. Arrogance? Our machine is bigger than your machine?
[Daily Caller] Far more than a failure of journalism, the Russia collusion narrative was, at its core, a monstrous failure of U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence. A monstrous failed disinformaton campaign, to be accurate.
All criticism of the news media aside for the moment, the bottom line is that professional journalists received fake intelligence information from U.S. government leakers whom they trusted.
The entire Russian collusion debacle shows that the American intelligence and counterintelligence processes have been subverted broken down.
Emphatic former CIA director John Brennan, a main engine behind spreading the Russia collusion story through the intelligence community and into the media, suddenly doesn’t sound so certain about himself. The day after Attorney General William Barr released the special prosecutor’s finding of no collusion, Brennan confessed to MSNBC, "I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected that there was more than there actually was."
This is a shocking admission from the man who was, at the time, the nation’s highest-ranking professional intelligence officer.
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...Just off the top of my head, the 'Intelligence Community' managed to miss:
*The Yom Kippur War
*The fall of the Shah
*The collapse of the Soviet Union
*The Iraqi attack on Kuwait
*The 9/11 attacks
I know the old saying that you never hear about the successes, just the failures - but I'll tell ya what; for me to have ANY more faith in the Community, I'm going to have to hear about some of those 'successes'.
If there are any.
Mike
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"Bad info" is a cover story for a corrupt, militarized culture.
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@ #2 -- I like to use the Berlin Wall as an example, either as a metaphor for the fall of the CCCP or simply on its own. I think cycle analysis is probably more accurate than what our intel apparatus can come up with. And remember, after 9/11, we added yet another monstrosity of an intel bureaucracy. Way to go, fellas!
[The Federalist] "Unplanned" is the true story of Abby Johnson, formerly one of America’s youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors. A vocal pro-choice advocate, she oversaw the abortion of around 22,000 babies in her time with the organization and was a rising star until she witnessed an ultrasound-guided abortion and everything changed.
"Unplanned" opens in theaters on March 29 and follows Johnson from her time in college, where she has two abortions and meets her first husband, through her time at Planned Parenthood, to her court fight with the abortion giant after her resignation. The film is based on her best-selling book and is distributed by the same company that released "God’s Not Dead" and "The Case for Christ."
RATINGS, THE MPAA, AND VIEWER DISCRETION
"Unplanned" received an R rating, causing quite a stir online. The distributor handling the movie is best known for movies that the whole family can see, so when a rating was released that will cut out large parts of families people were quick to worry that politics, not prudence, motivated it. Media bias against pro-life activists isn’t anything new, so it’s entirely fair for people to be concerned that "Unplanned" would be targeted.
Another pro-life movie was released last year and received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA. This movie was "Gosnell: the Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer." Subject to an incredible amount of media blackouts and censorship, it focused on the life and ill-deeds of an abortionist from Philadelphia. Having the two very different films to contrast, side by side, presents a very compelling picture of the abortion industry and the dangers women face in clinics.
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I've always thought we should demand ultrasounds before an abortion, and if you can see the baby in the ultrasound you can actually make an educated decision.
[American Thinker] Leftists in southern California have their knickers in a knot after a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece resurfaced of John Wayne’s Playboy interview of 1971. Most people only read the Times article about the interview, but I read the original, comprehensive interview. While Wayne had a dirty mouth, he was not the dumb cowboy depicted by his critics. He had many very thoughtful comments on America, but three or four comments got him in trouble -- 50 years later.
They were so bad, progressives want his name removed from the John Wayne Airport, the commercial airport serving Orange County, California. However, other progressives are tolerant of a black who said equally objectionable things who is to have an airport named for him.
Wayne stated, "I don't want somebody like Angela Davis inculcating an enemy doctrine in my kids' minds." The interviewer then declared that Davis claimed the reason that people wanted to revoke her teaching credentials was because she is black. I don’t suppose it could be her involvement with the Black Power Movement, her Communist Party membership, support for Fidel Castro, her support for the "Palestinians" and antagonism toward Israel, and her part in an aborted prison escape where four men were killed.
She was on the FBI Most Wanted List and spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial for her part in the attempted prison escape. She was tried and acquitted of all charges.
President Trump's 2020 presidential campaign is now selling "Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff" T-shirts, after Trump coined the new nickname at a rally in Michigan on Thursday.
The shirt, which is on sale for $28, shows Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) with a pencil for a neck as well as a clown nose.
"Little Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff. He spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking. He should be forced to resign from Congress! Everyone should buy a Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff shirt today!" the item's online description reads.
The merchandise appears to have been posted the day after Trump's comments targeting the House Intelligence chairman at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
"Little pencil neck Adam Schiff," Trump said. "He’s got the smallest, thinnest neck I’ve ever seen. He is not a long ball hitter."
Trump and other Republicans have been highly critical of Schiff in recent days after a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report found no coordination between Trump and Russia ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Earlier this week, Schiff said he still believes evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia "undoubtedly" exists and can be found by his committee.
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Lots of comments about how Melania would disapprove of Trump's treatment of Schiff. No comments about how Melania would disapprove of Schiff's treatment of Trump.
[The Hill] President Trump on Friday signed a presidential permit to jump-start construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline with a facility in Montana, a move seen as a way to circumvent previous court orders halting development.
The permit authorizes energy company TransCanada Corp. to "construct, connect, operate, and maintain" pipeline facilities between the U.S. and Canada.
The permit also allows for the maintenance of a pipeline facility at Phillips County, Montana, for importation of the oil to the U.S.
The order supersedes a March 2017 order. That permit was invalidated by a Montana federal judge in November. The ruling is being appealed in the 9th Circuit. Separately, a December lawsuit placed an injunction on most pre-construction activities.
"For the avoidance of doubt, I hereby revoke that March 23, 2017, permit," Trump wrote in Friday's order.
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One of my high school classmates, a real lefty, went out there a few years ago 'to express solidarity with my Indian brothers!' I told her - 'gimme a break; you're as pasty white as I am'. She then unfriended me on Facebook. How intolerant!
Jesus, Raj, you're not even an American Indian? Very disappointed I am...
He sups upon sausage and stodge,
Disdaining to dine at the Taj,
And his sun-blistered head
At mid-day don't turn Red!
Pays your taxes! Too honest to dodge!
Best beware this duplicitous Raj!
[Free Beacon] Multiple Democratic offices on Capitol Hill have replaced their flags memorializing prisoners of war with transgender pride flags, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The changes came at the urging of the National Center for Transgender Equality, which is delivering flags to congressional offices in advance of International Transgender Day of Visibility. Among the members to make the switch was Rep. Kim Schrier (D., Wash.), who replaced the POW flag she had displayed outside her office with a transgender pride flag.
Schrier's office told the Washington Free Beacon that the POWMIA flag has not been removed permanently.
"We were asked to fly the Transgender Equality flag by the National Center for Transgender Equality this week ahead of Transgender Visibility Day on Sunday," a spokesperson for the office said. "Our POWMIA flag has been in the Congresswoman's office this week. And will be back outside our office tomorrow."
Staffers from the office of Rep. Pete Aguilar (D., Calif.) were spotted attempting to pull their office's POW flag out of its stand on Wednesday. A source told the Washington Free Beacon that Aguilar's office initially tried to remove the POW flag, was unsuccessful, then managed to remove it soon after.
The picture below shows the pink, white, and blue transgender flag on the right side of the door of Aguilar's office.
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I have, I guess it would be called, a curiosity when it come to Agit-Prop, which this flag is.
So question: the LGBQWERTYBBQWTF community is represented by only girl pink and boy blue?
Shouldn't the flag be plaid or fractals or that shimmery stuff that changes color depending upon the angle one views it? This design is unattractive and ham fisted, lazy thinking design displayed for lazy thinking politicians.
[Breitbart] President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton has offered some words of assurances to the British people on the day the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, saying the United States is eager to do a bilateral trade deal and the UK remains at "top of the queue."
"People who worry about the UK ’crashing out’ of the European Union ‐ that’s the phrase they use ‐ they’re going to ’crash’ right into the United States," Mr Bolton told Sky News’s Cordelia Lynch from the White House on Friday.
"We’re standing here waiting to make a trade deal with a United Kingdom independent of the European Union," Mr Bolton continued, in an optimistic note.
"I don’t want to get into the specifics of what’s been going on in the House of Commons, but I can say unequivocally President Trump is eager for the will of the British people to be carried out and he is even more eager to do a trade deal," he said.
[FOX] Mar. 29, 2019 - 2:07 - The Red Cross says the Maduro regime is allowing it to distribute aid in Venezuela; State Department correspondent Rich Edson reports.
[Jpost] A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold nine large European banks liable for allegedly providing banking services to Iran that enabled holy warriors to conduct 55 attacks against US armed forces in neighboring Iraq.
In a decision on Thursday, US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said the banks' alleged misconduct was too far removed from the attacks, which occurred from 2003 to 2011, to support civil liability under federal anti-terrorism laws.
The US Department of State has designated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984.
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Laura Taylor Swain (born 1958) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was appointed to the bench by Bill Clinton in 2000 according to Wiki.
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[DW] Austrian authorities say an alleged Iraqi terror "cell" planned and carried out attacks on German train lines. Investigators now believe there may have been more than two attempts to derail trains.
...that would be the carefully unnamed father of five who was granted asylum in Germany Austria twenty years ago, after he had received military training under his beloved Saddam Hussein. He’d been working in Germany for a security company guarding soccer stadiums and supermarkets, and was caught when they traced the printer of the pro-ISIS notes he left at the derailment sites...
may have carried out more attacks than previously thought, Sherlocks said Friday.
The investigation into the alleged terror attacks is widening after the 42-year-old Iraqi and his wife
...who are also nameless, though The Local reports one is a man of 30 and the other is a woman of 27...
The main suspect in jug in Vienna is accused of placing steel wires across the tracks of the high-speed rail lines between Nuremberg and Munich in October and in Berlin in December. Nobody was injured in the attempts to derail the trains.
ADDITIONAL INCIDENTS UNDER INVESTIGATION
In a new development on Friday, authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria said they were now investigating two additional attempts to derail trains on the Nuremberg-Munich line around Allersberg using wood and steel wedges placed the tracks, dpa news agency reported.
"We assume that there were three incidents at different times at the same site," a spokesperson from the Bavarian state criminal office told dpa, referring to Allersberg.
The spokesperson said the attempts to derail the trains failed due to the faulty construction design of the wedges placed on the tracks.
Really, it’s quite mortifying to be told that no one noticed one’s terrifying terror attacks.
In a separate development, Der Spiegel magazine reported that Austrian authorities discovered night vision goggles and a drone at the Vienna residence of Iraqi man.
SUSPECTED TERROR CELL
The man detained in Vienna has admitted to carrying out the attacks, but has denied any terrorist motive. His wife has denied involvement.
Austrian authorities say an "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.... " flag and Arabic writings found near the scene of the attacks indicate a suspected terrorist motive.
Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said Thursday that the two suspects detained in Prague "formed a cell" with the man detained in Vienna. A Czech court has ordered the terror suspects to be extradited to Austria.
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...that would be the carefully unnamed father of five who was granted asylum in Germany twenty years ago, after he had received military training under his beloved Saddam Hussein.
He's a 'recognized refugee' in Austria, not in Germany. According to some initial reports he came to Austria 20 years ago. Newer reports indicate that he's lived in Austria only since 2012.
I wonder if he and his accomplices actually have acquired dozens of fake identities during Merkel's refugee flooding. They've had the opportunity in any case.
China's new YJ-18C disguised as an intermodal shipping container is going to compete with Russia. China has a bad habit of ripping them off about as much as.... well everyone else. https://t.co/G6MeAQOVmo
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Bill Gertz talked about the possibility of the Chicoms controlling the Panama Canal ports through Hutchinson Wampoa in November 2002. He also discussed the possibility of installing nuclear missiles in containers at Panama ports in other articles. And that was 16 years ago.
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A nightmarish development. Anyone for an EMP attack launched from merchant shipping off the eastern seaboard? If the tech exists, it is going available on the black market.
The usual response to unimaginable awfulness is to close your eyes and pretend it will never happen. This actually works quite well until it finally does happen. At which point, you're boned.
Trump and other high-ranking defense officials are starting to make noise about hardening the power grid. I hope it happens sooner than later.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE) continued its operations against the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups in northern Aleppo this week.
Using their snipers and explosives team, the Afrin Liberation Forces unleashed a flurry of attacks against the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (TFSA) troops, prompting them to increase their alert levels around Afrin and Azaz.
"Our units carried out an operation against a terrorist called Mohamad Hamaden who led military police force founded by Ottoman Turkish invasion army in occupied Afrin and his driver called Mohamad Turki with rifles in. Ashrafiyyah district of Afrin on March 24. The driver was killed, the terrorist was maimed in the operation" the Afrin Liberation Forces claimed via their official media wing.
In another attack in northern Aleppo, the Afrin Liberation Forces targeted a Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter that was posted up in the town of Azaz near the Ottoman Turkish border.
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This is just clean up, O indignant Masdar journalist. Sweeping aside the rubble, you might say.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. Coalition carried out a fresh series of Arclight airstrikes over eastern Syria, today, targeting the last areas with an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) presence.
According to reports from the Deir Ezzor Governorate, the U.S. Coalition launched a number of airstrikes over the Islamic State’s positions on the Baghouz Mountain.
The Islamic State fighters that refused to surrender to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last week have since taken up positions in the Baghouz Mountain, where they are being targeted daily.
These airstrikes by the U.S. Coalition come just a week after U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... declared victory against the Islamic State.
The Islamic State will not be able to hold this site for long as they are likely short on provisions and manpower.
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[DAWN] Expressing dissatisfaction over Pakistain’s inadequate compliance with global commitments, the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) ‐ a regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ‐ has flashed contradictory situations and poor coordination among stakeholders fighting money laundering and terror financing as top takeaways of three-day mutual evaluation.
No official word was available from the APG or the government on the conclusion of the on-site mutual evaluation, but in background discussions officials involved in the process mostly shared pessimism.
Informed sources said the visiting delegation highlighted many contradictory positions. For example, the Pak side was confronted with the statement that mosques and religious institutions were not involved in terrorism, but data showed most of the punishments and fines imposed on those collecting donations and delivering speeches around mosques and related systems.
Yet, there was no indication, based on official account, that any of those punished had any link with Al Qaeda or organizations accused by India of cross-border terrorism or other proscribed organizations (POs). As such, it did not impress the APG inspectors as to what was the point for actions against such people.
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[DAWN] A Bangladesh court sentenced five men to death in absentia for atrocities perpetrated during the war in 1971, prosecutors said on Thursday.
A special court said the runaways were found guilty of serial abuses during the war. Critics say the so-called International Crimes Tribunal, which has no international oversight, is politically motivated and used to target the opposition.
"They were charged with murder, abduction, looting, arson and rape in Netrokona in 1971," prosecutor M.R. Badol said. Prosecutors said the four accused were connected to Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , the largest Islamist party in Bangladesh and one allied to the country’s main opposition party.
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[DAWN] The Shah Sadardin police tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 15 people, including the bridegroom and the father of underage bride, on Thursday for an underage marriage under vani.
The bride-to-be was 12 years old whereas the groom, Abbas, was 45. The police said the girl’s hand was being traded to compensate the crime committed by her brother. The police arrested bridegroom Abbas, father of girl Abdul Ghafar, and the nikah registrar. According to the first information report, the marriage was being held on the decision of a local jury as Qasim, brother of underage bride, had eloped sister-in-law of Abbas.
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[PRESSTV] Tunisia has locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... (UN) official charged with monitoring alleged violations of an international arms embargo on Libya on suspicion of "spying."
Tunisian authorities arrested Moncef Kartas, a member of the panel of experts of the UN’s Libya Sanctions Committee, after he arrived in the capital, Tunis, on Tuesday, a UN front man told AFP on Friday.
"We are in contact with the Tunisian authorities to know why he (Kartas) has been held for questioning," a UN statement said, noting that Kartas enjoys diplomatic immunity.
According to Tunisia website universnews, Kartas has dual Tunisian and German nationality.
The Tunisian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday that two Tunisian citizens, including Kartas, were tossed into the calaboose on suspicion of "spying for foreign parties."
"Confidential documents containing sensitive detailed data capable of harming national security were seized (from the suspects), along with technical equipment for jamming and intercepting communications that is banned in our country," the ministry said.
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[Breitbart] A man arrested for possession of illegal drugs found in his socks allegedly told police that the socks he was wearing weren’t his, according to reports.
Police in Austintown, Ohio, arrested Damien K. Clark Jr., 20, after the drugs were found in his socks during a traffic stop, according to Fox 13.
[ALMASDARNEWS] India’s air defence missile of Israeli-origin may have shot down its own Mi-17 V5 military chopper, following an alert on 27 February about 25 Pak fighter jets hovering over the border area that separates the two countries, reports the Indian daily The Economic Times.
The incident had occurred a day after the Indian Air Force (IAF) avenged the 14 February Pulwama Death Eater attack by a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) Death Eater along the Jammu ‐Kashmire Highway on a CRPF troop convoy in which over 40 personnel were killed and many others left maimed.
The Mi-17 V5 helicopter lifted off from Srinagar airfield at 10:00 a.m. local time for a routine mission. The helicopter crashed around 10:10 a.m. near Jammu and Kashmire’s Budgam district. All six Indian Air force (IAF) personnel on board were killed in the crash, a leading Indian daily reported on Friday citing the initial report.
The investigation’s focus is to determine "if multiple layers of safeguards meant to protect assets from friendly fire failed and how systems need to be improved to prevent any such incident in future", it reported.
The Indian authorities maintain that the IAF strike was carried out against suspected terror infrastructure operated by JeM, the Pakistain-based terrorist organization that grabbed credit for the Pulwama attack.
A day after the Indian side launched the air strike in Balakot (in Pakistain), the two nuclear-armed nations engaged in an air clash, a first in five decades. According to reports, at least 25 fighter jets from the Pakistain Air Force tried to breach the border for a strike on military targets.
A slow moving target like the Mi-17 V5 helicopter could be mistaken for a low flying armed UAV homing into an air base, said the media report citing sources.
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[Free Beacon] A cache of wiretaps originating in Turkey appear to show the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan aiding the passage of militant fighters tied to the ISIS terror group into and out of Syria, according to new reports that are raising questions about Turkey's commitment to its military alliance with Washington, D.C.
The wiretaps are said to show Erdogan's government working alongside ISIS fighters, despite its public rhetoric in support of the American campaign to decimate the Islamic terror group.
Turkey's alliance with the United States has been stressed for some time, as Erdogan continues his anti-Israel rhetoric and a series of policies that have strained relations between the Trump administration and Ankara.
The wiretaps shine light on what experts have described as Turkey's private efforts to aid ISIS and create further havoc in war-torn Syria.
"A review of hundreds of secret wiretap records obtained from confidential sources in the Turkish capital of Ankara reveals how the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has enabled‐and even facilitated‐the movement of foreign and Turkish militants across the Turkish border into Syria to fight alongside jihadists in the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant," according to a report published by the Investigative Journal, a long form reporting portal.
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What a guy. A reeeeaaaaalllll ally. We need to cut this snake loose. No disrespect to snakes.
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Move all troops and equipment out, and demolish anything we cant move.
Set it all up in Crete, with airbasea in Cyprus. And throw Turkey OUT of NATO, attack them in the UN for their illegal occupation of part of Cyprus.
Build other (staging/temporary) bases in the Kurdish areas in northern Iraq.
And if you are serious, start funding the Kurds inside of Turkey as long as they sign onto free and open elections once they liberate Kurdistan.
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We’ve known about this for years — a low level Turkish border official insisted on inspecting outgoing cargo for smuggling and caught the government delivering arms to the buggers, which mightily embarrassed Sultan Erdogan I “the much beloved”, the occasional report of an ISIS operative who’d been passed through Turkey on his way between the battlefields of Syria and Europe before being arrested by German or French or whatever police for jihadism in planning or action. But it is nice to have more than witnesses and the occasional photo
[PRESSTV] About one million people erupted into the streets of Algiers on Friday to demand the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... , coppers at the scene said, in the biggest demonstration since unrest erupted six weeks ago.
In at least one location, police opened fire with tear gas and rubber bullets, chasing and beating demonstrators, after youths hurled stones at them, a Rooters journalist said.
The huge turnout came days after the military called for the long-serving leader's removal to end a growing political crisis.
State TV showed protests in several other cities as well.
The protests have been largely peaceful but have put pressure on the army to stabilize the country.
While many people are against Bouteflika and his shrinking inner circle, they also reject the army's intervention in civilian political life.
"Street pressure will continue until the system goes," said student Mohammed Djemai, 25, as hundreds of riot police kept an eye on the protests and helicopters flew overhead.
"We have only one word to say today, all the gang must go immediately, game over," said Ali, a merchant, as other protesters shouted "the people want the fall of the regime".
Families stood on balconies above the streets cheering the marchers -- Algerians of all social classes, including journalists, doctors, teachers and homeless people.
The crowds shared out dates and water and bought ice cream from street vendors.
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[DAWN] A man suspected of sexually assaulting and murdering a seven-year-old child in Khanpur, Haripur tehsil, was nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by police on Friday.
According to Haripur police spokesperson Hassan Attaur Rehman, the victim was a resident of Marchabad area of Khanpur and was a student of the first grade. His body was found earlier this morning from a pile of trash in a nearby village Jhogya by locals, who then informed the police. The victim's body was sent to Khanpur Hospital for his appointment with Doctor Quincy, which confirmed that the child had been sexually abused and later strangled to death with a piece of cloth.
A first information report of the incident has been registered. The district police officer of Haripur will reveal more details in a presser that will be held later today, Rehman added.
Child sexual abuse is highly prevalent both in the developing and the developed world. Last year, a report released by non-governmental organization Sahil had said that around nine children in Pakistain face sexual abuse daily, even though there is a scarcity of credible data.
In order to curb violence against children in the country, the Senate in 2016 criminalised child sexual abuse, child pornography and trafficking. Earlier, only rape was criminalised. Despite the tightening of laws, a significant number of child abuse cases go unreported.
A Senate committee was informed in January this year that 300 cases of child sexual abuse were registered in Islamabad over the last five years, while another 260 cases went unregistered.
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[DAWN] Three brothers, placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for allegedly raping their sister, were taken to Adiala jail on Thursday.
A senior police officer told Dawn one of the suspects is a religious scholar who also delivered sermons online. He is alleged to have raped the victim at a religious seminary on Friday. The other two suspects are labourers.
The officer said the victim is 15 years old, while the suspects are between the ages of 22 and 30. He said the suspects threatened the victim and told her to keep quiet in the name of the holy book.
Police say doctors and local elders confirmed the suspects had confessed
The officer said the family consists of five brothers and four sisters who are from Bannu and have been living in Golra for a couple of years. The victim, younger among the siblings, had been living with her brothers after her parents died.
Golra SHO Inspector Arshad Ali said the suspects were produced in court on Thursday and sent to Adiala on a judicial remand.
A civil court also ordered for the victim to be shifted to a protection centre until further orders, he said.
The SHO said the police were approached by a friend of the victim’s late father, a doctor.
The police then visited his clinic and took a statement from the victim.
Inspector Ali said doctors and local elders present at the clinic also told the police they had confronted the suspects with the victim’s allegation and they had confessed. A case was registered against the suspects and they were arrested soon after, he said.
The SHO said the suspects had also confessed during the three-day physical remand, and confirmed that they were sent to Adiala jail on Thursday after being produced in court.
According to the FIR, the victim was living with her brothers after their parents died. She was first raped by one of the suspects two years ago, who continued to assault her for two weeks afterwards.
She was then sexually assaulted three times by another suspect weeks later, and then by a third at a religious seminary.
The FIR said that at her request she was taken to a religious seminary, and when she returned to Golra she stayed at a shrine for four days and fell ill.
She visited her father’s friend for treatment, where she was asked about her disappearance, and told him about her ordeal.
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[DAWN] The first-ever centre for rehabilitation of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... -affected children started operations at the Paraplegic Centre, Hayatabad Township, here on Thursday.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Salim Jhagra inaugurated the facility where free medication and supportive stuff would be provided to those affected by poliomyelitis in the province, a blurb said.
The World Health Organisation has helped scores of children affected by polio to lead a normal life after treatment.
"It is an excellent facility for the people handicapped by the crippling ailment. It is an example that how our experts are working to provide services to the people who are destined to remain handicapped for the rest of their lives," the minister said.
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There has only been an effective vaccine against polio since 1956...
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What's 1956 in Islamic calendar years? Never mind it doesn't matter lol!
[DAWN] A medical examination of Lahore woman Asma Aziz ─ whose husband and his employees allegedly stripped her naked, beat her, and shaved her head over not dancing for them ‐ revealed on Friday that she had various injuries on her body.
The examination report stated that Aziz, 15-18 hours after she reportedly sustained her injuries, had multiple bruises on her left forearm, a cut on her finger, bruises and swelling on both cheeks near her ears, redness and watering in her left eye, and had experienced some dizziness and vomiting. The report at the bottom added that there is no possibility of fabrication of her injuries.
The report, acquired by DawnNewsTV from police sources, recommends x-rays of her head and hand, and getting the opinions of ENT, ortho, eye, and neuro specialists.
In the aftermath of Aziz's ordeal, Amnesia Amnesty International South Asia called for systemic change in Pakistain to protect women from violence.
Yesterday, Aziz's husband and one of his employees were handed over to police on four-day physical remand.
The two were taken into custody on Wednesday after a video of Aziz began circulating on social media. Aziz said her husband of four years had "always hit me a lot".
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[DAWN] A man in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Mathra area allegedly cut off his wife's hair and subjected her to physical torture after accusing her of not covering her head during a wedding ceremony, police said on Friday.
A first information report of the incident was registered on the woman's complaint at Mathra cop shoppe on March 27, an on-duty police official told DawnNewsTV.
The woman in her complaint to police stated that she had gone to the wedding of her husband's cousin earlier this month. While greeting relatives during the ceremony, she said her dupatta slipped off her head, which was seen by her husband.
She said her after she returned home, her husband ‐ who is a member of the Malakand Levies force ‐ first accosted her over not covering her head and then started beating her with punches and kicks.
"There was no one else in the room except my three-year-old child and so he continued beating me," the police official quoted the woman as saying. She claimed her husband later grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped off all of her hair.
She said she was filing a complaint of the incident with a delay because her husband had threatened to kill her if she spoke about it with anyone, and it was only now that she found the chance to approach police.
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"Go ahead, skin that smoke wagon and see what happens." [azcentraol] A Peoria police officer shot a man in the face when he reached for a gun in his lap during a traffic stop Wednesday night.
A sergeant pulled a car over near 83rd Avenue and West Cholla Street at 10:50 p.m. on Wednesday night for a suspected traffic violation, according to a Facebook post by the Peoria Police Department.
When the sergeant got to the car, the 23-year-old male driver reached for a gun in his lap, and the sergeant fired "at least one round at the subject," which struck the man in the face, the post stated.
The man was taken to a hospital and treated for his injuries, the post said. His identity will be released as soon as he is out of the hospital and booked into jail, the department said.
No one else was injured in the shooting.
Peoria Police Department said the sergeant was wearing a body camera, and it was activated, the post stated.
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"Can you identify the perp in these photos"
"That's him, right there"
"Sargent, that's a pound of ground round"
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Sounds to me like he had it on his lap to hand it to the officer. The wording "Reached" rather than "Pulled" or "drawn" seems to imply such. We'll see I suppose.
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[DAWN] In yet another incident of violence against women, the police incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a man for allegedly torturing his wife for not bringing money from her parents.
The North cantonment police made the arrest on the complaint of the victim in a raid on a house in Askari 10 area. Video clips of the tortured woman, Hajra Bibi, showed her face bleeding massively.
In an earlier incident, a man had been arrested for shaving off head of his wife in Defence area a couple of days back.
Hajra Bibi in her complaint alleged that her husband Umair Noorani and his brother Haris tied her hands and lashed her with rubber belts and rods.
She said the suspects beat her up inhumanly, damaging her nose tissues and causing massive bleeding. She said that as a result of brutal torture, she also suffered multiple wounds on her back and fainted because of unbearable pain.
Talking about the reasons, she said her greedy in-laws had been demanding money from her parents.
She said her parents had already given her in-laws a heavy dowry, including gold ornaments and costly furniture worth over Rs3 million at the time of her marriage some 10 years back. After lodging an FIR on the basis of her statement under sections 354 and 506 of the Pakistain Penal Code, the police raided the house and arrested Noorani.
The other suspect, nominated in the case, managed to escape from the house.
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We’ll see more of this sort of thing when President Trump is reelected, especially because Israeli polls are apparently now predicting that Bibi Netanyahu will come out of the election in two weeks with a few more Knesset seats than he went in with.
[IsraelTimes] The Arab world’s boycott of Israel decades ago was a ’very, very wrong decision,’ Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash says.
A senior United Arab Emirates minister on Wednesday called for a "strategic shift" in Israel-Arab ties, saying that Arab world’s decades-old decision to boycott the Jewish state had been a mistake.
"Many, many years ago, when there was an Arab decision not to have contact with Israel, that was a very, very wrong decision, looking back," UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash told the UAE-based newspaper The National in an interview. "Because clearly, you have to really dissect and divide between having a political issue and keeping your lines of communication open."
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A Muslim community leader in New Zealand dismissed claims by the head of the country’s biggest mosque that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the killing of 50 Muslims at two Christchurch mosques.
Mustafa Farouk, president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand, referred in his statement Thursday to remarks made on March 23 by Ahmed Bhamji, chairman of the Mt. Roskill Masjid E Umar mosque.
“Recent comments by an individual do not represent the views of the Muslims of New Zealand,” Farouk said.
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The camel’s nose is in your tent, New Zealand. More than you care to admit
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Used to be, they'd blame Mossad & CIA, but after Brennan..
[azcentral] WASHINGTON ‐ President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border as soon as next week if Mexico doesn't "immediately" step up its efforts to block immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.
"If they don't stop them, we will keep the border closed," Trump said during a stop in Florida, where he is touring Lake Okeechobee. "And we will keep it closed for a long time. I’m not playing games."
Similar threats in the past have raised questions over the authority of the president to seal the border, the logistics of such an endeavor, and the widespread consequences it would have on Americans’ ability to trade, travel and even eat.
Trump administration officials have sought to characterize the situation at the border as a crisis, even though apprehensions along the southern border are at historic lows.
Border staff: Border Patrol struggling to hire, keep agents
Migrant families: Border Patrol begins releasing migrant families in Arizona
Border Patrol routinely apprehended more than 1 million people a year ‐ peaking at 1.6 million in 2000 ‐ throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. In 2017, the agency apprehended just over 300,000. It 2018, it apprehended just under 400,000.
On the other hand, border officials have reported an increase in migrant families. The Trump administration this week began releasing families from custody because processing centers can't cope with the large increase.
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I really don't understand. A Foreign INVASION is occurring on our southern border. Send the military to do it's constitutional duty, hang for treason after conviction in a military court any wanna be black robed tyrant who thinks he can rule against the president carrying out his prime function under the Constitution.
[azcental] An international tourist died after he fell hundreds of feet into the Grand Canyon while trying to take photos on Thursday near the rim of Eagle Point, according to David Leibowitz, a spokesman for Grand Canyon West.
Leibowitz said a tour group from Hong Kong was visiting the Grand Canyon, and many of the tourists were taking photos very close to the rim of the canyon.
While attempting to snap a photo at Eagle Point, adjacent to the popular Skywalk attraction, a man from the group accidentally fell off the rim and into the canyon.
According to Leibowitz, a helicopter search located the 50-year-old man's body at the bottom of the canyon. His body will be transported by helicopter to the nearest hospital.
Grand Canyon West is an area of the canyon west of Grand Canyon National Park that is owned and operated by the Hualapai Indian Tribe. The tribal nation operates the popular Skywalk bridge and other attractions in that area, which is west of the National Park.
Holy shit, there might be hope
[KCRA] High-capacity gun magazines will remain legal in California under a ruling Friday by a federal judge who cited home invasions where a woman used the extra bullets in her weapon to kill an attacker while in two other cases women without additional ammunition ran out of bullets.
"Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts," San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote as he declared unconstitutional the law that would have banned possessing any magazines holding more than 10 bullets.
California law has prohibited buying or selling such magazines since 2000, but those who had them before then were allowed to keep them.
In 2016, the Legislature and voters approved a law removing that provision. The California arm of the National Rifle Association sued and Benitez sided with the group's argument that banning the magazines infringes on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Benitez had temporarily blocked the law from taking effect with a 2017 ruling.
Chuck Michel, an attorney for the NRA and the California Rifle & Pistol Association, said the judge's latest ruling may go much farther by striking down the entire ban, allowing individuals to legally acquire high-capacity magazines for the first time in nearly two decades.
"We're still digesting the opinion but it appears to us that he struck down both the latest ban on possessing by those who are grandfathered in, but also said that everyone has a right to acquire one," Michel said.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement that his office is "committed to defending California's common sense gun laws" and is reviewing the decision and evaluating its next steps. aka... Our boot on your throat is really good for your well being.
The goal of the California law is to deter mass-shootings, with Becerra previously listing as an example the terrorist assault that killed 14 and injured 22 in San Bernardino.
Benitez, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, called such shootings "exceedingly rare" while emphasizing the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he said might be countered with firearms.
The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, named after a former congresswoman who survived a mass shooting, is also still evaluating whether the decision applies more broadly, said staff attorney Ari Freilich.
But Freilich predicted the "extreme outlier decision" will be overturned on appeal and criticized a judge "so deeply out of touch that he believes mass shootings are a 'very small' problem in this country." Compared to the shootings in Oakland, Chicago and Baltimore... yes they are. By a fucking long shot
Becerra previously said similar Second Amendment challenges have been repeatedly rejected by other courts, with at least seven other states and 11 local governments already restricting the possession or sale of large-capacity magazines. The conflicting decisions may ultimately be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Benitez ruled that magazines holding more than 10 rounds are "arms" under the U.S. Constitution, and that the California law "burdens the core of the Second Amendment by criminalizing the acquisition and possession of these magazines that are commonly held by law-abiding citizens for defense of self, home, and state."
Benitez described three home invasions, two of which ended with the female victims running out of bullets.
In the third case, the pajama-clad woman with a high-capacity magazine took on three armed intruders, firing at them while simultaneously calling for help on her phone.
"She had no place to carry an extra magazine and no way to reload because her left hand held the phone with which she was still trying to call 911," the judge wrote, saying she killed one attacker while two escaped. You don't need more than 10 rounds to defend your home! - leftist excuse
Even if we didn't, which the above examples disprove, the 2nd amendment wasn't written so you could hunt or defend your home. It was written because the founding fathers thought there would be a time where you would need to stand toe to toe with a government paramilitary force.
The magazine ban was included in 2016 legislation that voters strengthened with their approval of Proposition 63, which was championed by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Gov. Newsom did not comment Friday. Progressive statists hardest hit
[DAWN] The UN Security Council ordered countries worldwide to step up the fight against terrorism financing on Thursday by ensuring they have laws that make it a serious crime to fund terrorist acts.
The council unanimously adopted a French-drafted resolution that was the first stand-alone measure dedicated specifically to countering the financing of terrorism. The resolution calls on all states to "ensure that their domestic laws and regulations establish serious criminal offences" to prosecute those who collect funds or provide economic resources to terrorist organizations.
The binding resolution was drafted under chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which means it can be enforced with sanctions.
UN counter-terror chief Vladimir Voronkov told the council that the measure "comes at a critical time" as recent attacks have shown that terror groups have access to financial flows through legal and illegal means.
The resolution urged countries to establish financial intelligence units to strengthen efforts to counter terrorism financing and to share information on their investigations.
Marshall Billingslea, president of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which combats money-laundering and terror financing, said less than a fifth of countries were applying laws that prosecute suspected terror financiers as criminals.
Billingslea said the resolution would also contribute to halting ransom payments for kidnappings by terror groups, which have become a major source of funding.
"States must not allow hostage-takers or bandidosforces of Evil to benefit from ransom payments," Billingslea told the council. "This is crucial, in particular as kidnapping for ransom has become the major funding source used by the remnants of ISIS around the world," he told the council, referring to the bully boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has unleashed another big assault in the Hama Governorate, today, after a brief exchange of hostilities last night.
Led by their 4th Division, the Syrian Arab Army began their assault by heavily targeting the Turkestan Islamic Party’s (TIP) positions inside the al-Ghaab Plain.
According to a military source in nearby al-Suqaylabiyeh, the Syrian Arab Army targeted the Turkestan Islamic Party’s positions after they observed the latter’s movements in the al-Ghaab Plain.
The Syrian Arab Army reportedly used both artillery shells and surface-to-surface missiles to strike the Turkestan Islamic Party’s positions this evening.
Earlier today, the Syrian Army also carried out a similar attack in northern Hama; however, this assault targeted the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s (FSA) Jaish al-Izza group at the towns of al-Latamnah and Kafr Zita.
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[DAWN] Five men were nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! on Thursday after Maltese armed forces took control of a tanker that was hijacked by migrants colonists off Libya and the ship docked in Malta.
The Palau-flagged tanker Elhiblu I had picked up 108 migrants colonists including women and kiddies on Tuesday evening and then headed back to 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... But six nautical miles from port the ship suddenly changed course and headed north toward Europe.
Italia’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the vessel had been hijacked and vowed that the migrants colonists would not be allowed to disembark in Italia.
The 52-metre (170-foot) tanker was about 30 nautical miles from Malta when the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) established communications with the captain.
"The captain repeatedly stated that he was not in control of the vessel and that he and his crew were being forced and threatened by a number of migrants colonists to proceed to Malta," the AFM said in a statement on Thursday morning.
"AFM Patrol Vessel P21 stopped the tanker from entering Maltese territorial waters.
"An AFM Special Operations Unit team was dispatched to board and secure the vessel in order to hand over control of the ship to the captain." Escorted by the Maltese navy, the tanker arrived in the port of Valletta around 8:30am.
Five men suspected of having been the leaders of the hijacking were arrested, handcuffed and taken away in a police van. should have been hung from a yardarm..
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[DAWN] A woman who had contracted a free-will marriage last year was rubbed out allegedly by her brother in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Saeedabad neighbourhood on Friday, police said. Her brother-in-law was killed as well.
The 30-year-old woman was travelling in a rickshaw with her 22-year-old brother-in-law when unidentified pillion riders opened fire on them at Pakistain Chowk in Dawood Goth.
The duo sustained critical bullet injuries and were transported to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival, according to police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed.
Editorial: Murder, not ’honour’
Both the suspects managed to escape the scene of the crime.
Station House Officer Irfan Asif told Dawn that the dear departed woman had married a man of her own free will in 2018. It was their love marriage and the woman's family did not approve of it.
The officer claimed that the woman's brother along with another suspect carried out the double murder.
The slain woman belonged to the Rind tribe while her husband hails from the Brohi tribe.
According to police, Sherlocks collected four spent bullet casings fired from 9mm and 30-bore pistols from the scene of the crime.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... Sindh Inspector General of Police Dr Syed Kaleem Imam took notice of the woman and her brother-in-law's murder and sought a detailed report from West SSP Shoukat Ali, a police spokesperson said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Saudi-led Coalition and their allied Yemeni forces scored a major advance in northern Yemen, today, seizing several points inside the Hajjah Governorate.
Backed by heavy Arclight airstrikes from the Saudi-led Coalition, the Yemeni National Army and their allies began their assault on Friday by breaking through the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... lines in the Abs District of the Hajjah Governorate.
According to a report from northern Yemen, the Yemeni National Army and their allies seized more than 200 square kilometers of territory, including many towns and villages near the Saudi border.
This is an important advance for the Yemeni National Army as they had been fighting the Houthi forces in the Abs District for several weeks.
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[JPost] The violence on Friday night comes as the IDF prepares for thousands of Palestinians to violently riot across the fence to mark "Land Day" A fake Paleo "sacred day" for their fake right of return.
An IDF tank struck a Hamas position in the northern Gaza Strip Friday night in retaliation for explosive devices thrown across the security fence during violent riots.
The strike came after violent night time riots broke out across the Gaza border which saw several Palestinians wounded by IDF gunfire. Loud explosions were also heard through the night in communities in southern Israel after explosive devices went off in the Strip.
[Ynet] Hurling pipe bombs and setting off firecrackers, "Night Disturbance Units" have become a new phenomenon on the Gazoo-Israel border in the run-up to the first anniversary of deadly border protests.
Organisers say the intention of the night-time events is to fray the nerves of Israeli military lookouts and to lower morale in Israeli villages along the 30-mile frontier.
With loudspeakers blaring patriotic music into the dark, the dusk-till-dawn demonstrations began small and escalated in recent days, ahead of a massive protest rally expected at sites along the frontier on Saturday.
#UPDATE: 40 mins ago IDF struck a second Hamas position in response to over 600 IED & grenade blasts along the Gaza border tonight, shots were also fired at the IDF soldiers, no casualties
[DAWN] An unborn baby died after a man shot at and critically maimed a heavily pregnant woman and later attempted suicide by shooting himself in New Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... area on Friday evening, police said.
Kashan Lodhi, 34, shot at and injured Iqra alias Javeria inside a flat located in Super Terrace, Sector 11-H near UP Mor area of Karachi. He later attempted to kill himself with the same weapon.
Both the man and the woman sustained critical bullet wounds and were transported to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
New Karachi Station House Officer Tahir Khan told Dawn that Iqra, a full-term pregnant woman, was due to give birth to her child on Saturday (tomorrow).
According to the officer, Iqra had obtained a divorce (khula) from her husband, who lives in Dubai, around three months ago. The two have a four-year-old son, who lives with his father.
After developing differences with her husband, Iqra started living with her friend, Irsa, at her flat in New Karachi for the last several months, the SHO revealed. Kashan is a brother of Irsa.
Regarding the possible motive behind the incident, the SHO quoted Irsa as saying that her brother had been involved in a 'love-affair' with the recently divorced 35-year-old woman and that he even wanted to marry her.
On Friday evening, Kashan took out a pistol "all of a sudden" and opened fire on Iqra, resulting in bullet injuries to her abdomen. Irsa said she tried to stop her brother but he also shot himself in the abdomen.
According to police, Irsa in her statement said she is unaware as to what actually transpired before her brother took the extreme step.
Police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn that the unborn baby was found to have expired because of the critical bullet injuries received by the woman on her abdomen.
He added that the maimed woman was shifted to the operation theatre where doctors were trying to save her life.
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[KhaamaPress] The acting minister of defense Asadullah Khalid has said that the 217th Corps of the army will be established in coming weeks.
Speaking during a security conference in RS compound in northern Balkh province, Khalid said considering the vast swathes of territory in the north and large population living in northern provinces, the leadership of the government and defense institutions have reached to a conclusion that the existing forces are not enough to provide proper security to people.
Khalid further added that the 217th Corps of the Afghan military will be inaugurated as per President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s order in coming weeks.
He also added that the leadership of the ministry of defense considers segregation of duties and changes should be incorporated in leadership and opinion to lead the war in the North.
In other parts of his speech, Khalid reiterated that the enemies have plans and programs for war and preparing to further intensify conflict to gain more privileges in peace talks.
Emphasizing that the current year will be a difficult year in terms of security, Khalid said the armed forces should not only suffice in preventing turbans to control more areas but the hideouts of the enemies should be eliminated in offensive operations.
[AnNahar] Islamist gunnies raided a military base in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , killing a policeman and a local resident, witnesses said Thursday.
Fighters in 13 vehicles late Wednesday attacked the base outside Miringa village, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the home of army chief Yusuf Tukur Buratai.
The jihadists, believed to be from the IS-affiliated 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.... West Africa Province (ISWAP), burnt the base along with an armoured vehicle and a primary school.
"They came around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) in 13 vehicles and attacked the military location just outside the village," Miringa resident Umar Sanda told AFP.
"The two sides fought for more than one hour while all the people in the village fled into the bush."
Fleeing residents later returned to their homes and "found the base, the lodging, an armoured personnel carrier and a section of a primary school burnt," said another resident, Abba Usman.
Usman said the bodies of a policeman and a resident who lived near the base were recovered.
"The soldiers were able to fight off the attack and prevented the bully boyz from entering the village," said civilian militia leader Mustapha Karimbe, from the nearby town of Biu.
The area around Miringa has been repeatedly targeted by bully boyz since Buratai became Nigeria's chief of army staff in 2015.
In January this year, six soldiers were killed and 14 were maimed when ISWAP sacked a base in nearby Kamuya village, stealing weapons and burning military vehicles.
Kamuya, the home village of Buratai's mother, was hit twice in December 2015, not long after he was named the army chief.
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 's decade-long conflict has killed more than 27,000 people and displaced another 1.8 million from their homes in northeast Nigeria alone.
Attacks have also been recorded in the wider Lake Chad area of neighbouring Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad and Niger, with particular concern in recent months about attacks from ISWAP.
The IS-backed faction has repeatedly targeted military installations and troops since mid-2018.
It may also have replaced its leader with a hardliner at a time of mounting concern about the spread of jihadism in the wider West African region.
[KhaamaPress] At least 12 Talibs were killed or maimed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... provinces.
According to informed military sources, an airstrike in Bermal district of Paktika province left 2 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters dead.
The sources further added that the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Nahr-e Saraj districtof Helmand province killing 8 Taliban fighters.
An airstrike in Musa Qal’ah district of Helmand province killed 1 Taliban fighter while another krazed killer was maimed, the sources added.
The anti-government armed gunnies including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] A key Taliban ...Arabic for students... group member who was involved in facilitation of weapons and terrorist attacks was killed during the operation of the Afghan armed forces in southeastern Ghazni province.
"Khadim, a Taliban weapons controller was killed during an Afghan cops raid in Zanahkan district March 23, 2019. Khadim was responsible for numerous attacks in southeast Afghanistan targeting civilians and babus government employees," informed military sources said Thursday.
The sources further added that Afghan cops have killed over 45 Taliban fighters in Ghazni province this month.
The anti-government armed gunnies including Taliban have not commented regarding the killing of Khadim so far.
Ghazni is among the relatively volatile provinces in southeastern parts of Afghanistan.
Taliban are active in some of the districts of Ghazni and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
[ToloNews] At least nine members of Ghazni police bit the dust in a sudden attack by the Talibs in the central Ghazni province, the provincial police confirmed.
The attack happened at around 1am early on Friday on a police outpost in the Police District 3 (PD3) of Ghazni city, the provincial police said in a statement.
Mujib Mahmoudi, the head of the PD3 Police Headquarters, was also killed in the attack, the statement added.
According to the statement, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... also suffered losses in the attack but an exact figure has not been released so far.
One member of Ghazni Provincial Council said on condition of anonymity that the attack has left 15 police force members dead.
[AnNahar] A French man who rented his flat to the ringleader of the 2015 Gay Paree attacks during a massive police manhunt was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for "hiding terrorists."
...the nattily dressed and bespectacled acquirer of abandoned slum apartments that he was in the habit of renting out to black-souled scoundrels, unremarked by his gentle, niqab-clad neighbours...
was convicted on appeal of hiding 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.... jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud and his accomplice Chakib Akrouh, who holed up after the November 13 attacks in Bendaoud's apartment in the Gay Paree suburb of Saint-Denis.
Bendaoud was the first person to be tried in La Belle France over the synchronized shooting and suicide kabooms on the Bataclan concert hall, national stadium and several cafes in which a total of 130 people were killed.
The attacks were the worst in La Belle France since World War II.
Five days later, police tracked Abaaoud down to Bendaoud's flat and launched a dramatic raid, in which Abaaoud, Akrouh and a female cousin of Abaaoud's were killed.
Bendaoud, a 31-year-old drug pusher, became a national laughing stock after declaring in an infamous TV interview that he had detected nothing suspicious about his lodgers.
At his first trial, the court found insufficient evidence that he knew the men were part of the November attacks cell.
Bendaoud presented himself as a cocaine-sniffing womanizer who was in the habit of renting out his flat to gangsters without asking questions.
The prosecution appealed the verdict, which was overturned on Friday.
Abaaoud's cousin Youssef Ait Boulahcen, a 26-year-old ambulance driver who was tried alongside him, was also sentenced to a four-year custodial sentence on Friday for "failing to report a terrorist crime."
In a separate case earlier this week, Abaaoud was given a one-year sentence for issuing death threats against one of the survivors of the Gay Paree attacks.
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If the courts won't defend their native people by passing stricter sentences, why can't people form a vigilante collective to kill these bastards ? They could even do them in jail.
How do we defend our cities, our nations against this slime ? If not us, who ? If not now , when ?
One day we shall look back and rue these days when we let liberal legislators, soft judges and useless cops lead us into hell.
[NBCNEWS] While North Korea's Kim sought to praise the president and sideline his envoys, U.S. officials and allies worked to keep him from cutting a lopsided deal.
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[Washington Examiner] Criticized that he is privately complaining about giving too much aid to Puerto Rico, President Trump Thursday afternoon claimed that he has done more for the U.S. island territory than any of his predecessors.
"I’ve taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man ever," the president told reporters gathered on the South Lawn of the White House.
Trump highlighted what he said was $91 billion in disaster relief that his administration is sending to Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. The island territory is still recovering from the damage caused by the storm.
Other estimates put the amount of relief to Puerto Rico at closer to $40 million. Trump appeared to be confusing the amount for Puerto Rico with total disaster assistance appropriated by Congress, most of which was spent on destruction caused by hurricanes in Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida.
"Puerto Rico has been taken care of better by Donald Trump than by any living human being," the president said, in a characteristic third-person reference to himself. "And I think the people of Puerto Rico understand it."
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Let ‘em think about who has done a better job, and what doing better entails. And then they can talk to the president about doing those things, instead of wasting their time sneering at him. Though wasting their time on this does keep them from concentrating on other things. Like his stupid tweets, they’re paying attention to the waving hand, not the working hand.
The Epoch Times has a cute table of key resignations and demotions at the FBI and DOJ since President Trumo took office, most of which got very little attention at the time, and none since.
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Time for Puerto Rico to go their own way. They don't want to be part of America, they want to leach off the system. If you want to be a state, say so and we'll look into that. If you want to be independent, make it so. Just make a freaking decision.
[PRESSTV] Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, the former co-chair of the Conservative Party and Britannia’s first Moslem to serve in cabinet, has said she is fearful of the idea of Michael Gove becoming prime minister. Some view Gove as an "Islamophobe" due to his anti-Moslem views.
In an interview with The Guardian on Friday, Warsi, a member of the House of Lords, said she and other senior members of the Conservative Party are concerned about Gove’s views on British Moslems.
On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced she was prepared to step down before the next phase of Brexit negotiations. Gove, the secretary of environment, is among the leading candidates to replace May.
Lady Warsi said any party that elected Gove as a leader "has got major problems."
Asked what she thought about the idea of Gove replacing the current prime minister, she said, "I just don’t even want to imagine it. I’ve sat in too many meetings, I’ve done everything from rolling my eyes, to thinking, gosh, thank God he’s not prime minister."
Warsi said there were other senior Conservative politicians who also had serious concerns about him. "I’m not the only one to raise concerns about Michael. Ken Clarke has spoken about it, even his friends close to him. Even David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... has spoken about concerns about the way he views the world and the way he views certain communities."
Following the 2005 London tube and bus bombings, Gove wrote a highly controversial book, Celsius 7/7, in which he railed against Moslems. He stated that "a sizeable minority" of Britannia’s 1.8 million Moslems held "rejectionist Islamist views."
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He's not an Islamophobe. But he's also not an islamophile.
The UK is seriously fucked anyway. With islamists and sharia-pushers in both right and left parties.
[AnNahar] Leb’s position on the US decision to recognize Israel's illusory sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights was not limited to resentment, but also raised fears that this decision would include the Lebanese occupied territories of Shebaa Farms, which Israel considers as part of Golan, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Friday.
Shebaa Farms are located on the border between Leb and the occupied part of Golan. It has a strategic geographical location as it links northern Israeli settlements and occupied Golan.
Lebanese concerns stem from the fact that when Leb claimed its right to get back Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shuba following the Israeli army’s withdrawal from southern Leb in 2000, the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... replied that it was a land linked to Golan, reported the daily.
Israel occupied these farms in 1967. But prior to 2000, there was a Lebanese-Syrian dispute over whether the farms belonged to Leb or Syria due to overlapping land and lack of official delineation between the two countries.
But after the liberation of southern Leb and the Israeli withdrawal, Syria declared without formal documentation that Shebaa Farms belongs to Leb. Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... said in January 2006 that Shebaa Farms were Lebanese, but stressed that "the demarcation of the border will be after Israel withdraws from this area."
After Trump’s recognition of Israel's illusory sovereignty over the Golan, Lebanese officials issued a series of opposing positions, most notably President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary 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... ... who described the day when the US decided to give Israel that right as the "Black Day.".
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Lebanese officials did not see any reason to consider the recent US decision to include Leb’s occupied territory, said the daily.
A Lebanese official told Asharq al-Awsat on condition of anonymity: "No one mentioned our land to declare its annexation to Israel. Therefore, the official Lebanese positions were limited to criticizing the move because it affects Syria and its lands. Our occupied territories were never part of Golan."
On the other hand, Head of Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis -Inegma Riad Kahwaji told Asharq al-Awsat: "As long as Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the village of Ghajar are for Israel a territory belonging to Golan, most of which were occupied in 1967, the American recognition of its illusory sovereignty over Golan automatically means its illusory sovereignty over its territories including occupied Lebanese territories."
Kahwaji added: "What makes things worse is the absence of clear documents and maps that determine where Golan begins and where it ends. The Syrians have always wanted to keep things ambiguous. There was an oral position by Assad that Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shuba Hills are Lebanese territory, but the Syrian government refused to submit anything in writing accompanied by maps and documents."
He told the daily that "Lebanese maps prove that Shebaa Farms are Lebanese lands occupied by the Syrians in the 1950s, and when Israel occupied the Golan Heights and that part of land the file turned into a Syrian-Israeli file and Israel is dealing with these territories as occupied Syria."
Kahwaji did not rule out the possibility of a military reaction, saying: "If they decide to open the Golan front, there will be a great Israeli reaction. We do not rule out the fact that the American-Israeli move was meant to drive this reaction as a prelude to a military action," he said "Let us wait and see how things develop."
[BBC] Hollywood actor George Clooney is calling for a boycott of nine luxury hotels with links to Brunei, after the country said gay sex and adultery would soon be punishable by death.
He said Dorchester Collection hotels in the US, UK, France and Italy, which are owned by the Brunei Investment Agency, should be avoided by those who oppose the measures.
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A bold and principled stand, George. But are you prepared to go down that rabbit hole? Brunei's new laws, the ones you decry as human rights violations, are based on Sharia - the foundation of Islam. Not some weird offshoot of Islam, basic meat and potatoes Islam. So the question becomes, is your outrage limited to luxury hotels?
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I am curious what Clooney's position is regrading other nations with Sharia law. Like did he support Obamas friendship with Iran? Does he work on movies that might have Saudi money?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Vasily Nebenzya said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighters were allegedly planning for another staged chemical attack on Syrian soil with the help of Syria Civil Defence (SCD), popularly known as the White Helmets.
Nebenzya made the remarks at a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York City on Wednesday.
Nebenzya also fired back at the US over "its double standards" in misrepresenting the situation in al-Hol refugee Camp and that of Baghouz, recently proclaimed liberated from self-proclaimed 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, formerly ISIS/ISIS) by the US-backed coalition.
"The civilian population is dying as the result of the coalition strike on Baghouz in Deir ez-Zor. We never heard anyone say let us freeze the situation in that area despite the fact that is what led people to go to al-Hol."
Permanent Representative of the US to United Nations Jonathan Cohen had earlier expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in al-Hol camp asking for Russia’s aid in facilitating the delivery of aid to Syrian people.
The Security Council meeting was called upon by Syria to discuss the US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s recognition of Israeli illusory sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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...Syrian/Russian chem attack in three, two, one...
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BREAKING: AG Barr says he anticipates the release of a redacted version of the nearly 400-page Mueller report "by mid-April, if not sooner." pic.twitter.com/foZZLxcCof
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And yet, the Dallas Morning News has an article about this in this mornings paper, noting the Dems are complaining it must be sooner. Sooner! Now!
I didn't read anything more than the headline. Didn't need to.
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Delay it a little while longer just to make 'em crazy.
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Two weeks is perfect. Let them rage and look like fools and then release the thing and make them look the fool while its all still fresh in everyones minds.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Shia militias killed on Friday a prominent 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.... leader, who was tasked with recruiting children for the Death Eater group and plotting terrorist attacks in the country.
"Mohammed Entikhab, one of the most dangerous Islamic State military leaders in Iraq, was killed along with four of his aides during a security operation in Samarra city in Salahuddin province," Shafaq News quoted the Shia Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades) as saying in a statement.
Enikhab, according to the statement, "was responsible for recruiting children for the Islamic State group and preparing jacket wallahs to carry out terrorist attacks" in Iraq.
Saraya al-Salam is an Iraqi gang linked to Iraq’s Shia community. It is a 2014 revival of the Mahdi Army that was created by Iraqi Shia holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008.
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[Jpost] Israeli troops shot and maimed seven Paleostinians on the Gazoo border on Friday, Gazoo medical officials said, the day before a mass rally called to mark the first anniversary of weekly protests in which around 200 Paleostinians have been killed.
Despite a decision by Gazoo protest organizers not to hold a big demonstration on Friday some Paleostinians turned out, although in smaller numbers than usual. Humanitarian officials urged restraint for Saturday's anniversary to avoid any further bloodshed.
The Israeli military said its troops faced around 800 demonstrators along the fortified frontier on Friday and that they had used riot dispersal measures to defend the border.
There were also sporadic festivities in the West Bank, where Paleostinian youths threw petrol bombs in Hebron, and 150 demonstrators hurled stones at Israeli troops, who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Paleostinian media also reported the IDF attacked Paleostinians who attempted to blow balloons carrying bombs towards Israel.
Ha’aretz bumps it up to eight wounded — somewhere I saw it claimed one of them was shot in his dangly bits, but Ha’aretz has no interest in such specific geography:
Eight Palestinians were wounded by live fire during protests at the fence separating Israel from the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Gaza Health Ministry said. One of the wounded was hit in the stomach and was in serious condition, according to the ministry.
in addition on twitter:
#UPDATE: #Hamas in #Gaza in a statement said that if any rioters are killed tommorow they will declare war on #Israel. -Gage
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Haaretz: tens of thousands gather. One goes on the permanent disabled list
"A 17-year-old Palestinian demonstrator died after he was hit in the face by a bullet, Gaza's Health Ministry said. He has been identified as Adham Amara."
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I don't think the Joooos want it with the current Paleo assholes inhabitants
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War is a method of solving conflicts without any rules. And if you lose, you can lose everything—-it means losing freedom, treasure, territory, everything. It just depends on the victor.
Hamas depends on idiots believing their propaganda and raising a fuss. That is wearing thin. There is nothing like victory to solve a problem like Hamas.
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There is nothing like victory to solve a problem like Hamas.
The kind of victory that Condoleezza Rice doesn't get in the way of, that is.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The US State Department says the administration is preparing to redraw all government maps of Israel and the surrounding region to include the Golan Heights as a part of Israel, a department spokesperson told VOA Persian on Thursday.
The new maps will be "consistent" with the recent change in US policy, which recognises the occupied Syrian territory of the Golan Heights as a part of the state of Israel, the spokesperson said.
This was confirmed by Brian Hook, the US special representative for Iran, who also said the State Department would "redraw" the maps and publish them "as soon as they are ready", The Times of Israel reports.
At the time of publication, the US State Department world map, which is said to be updated on a "daily basis," still shows the Golan Heights as part of Syria. The CIA Factbook map of Israel, published on the Library of Congress website, is also yet to be updated.
Israel captured the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War, officially annexing the area in 1981. The US did not officially recognise the annexation at the time but turned a blind eye to the move. On Monday, Trump signed a presidential proclamation unilaterally recognising the contested territory as a part of Israel, sparking condemnation from the UN, and from the Security Council in particular.
At a Security Council session Wednesday, most speakers denounced the move, pointing towards a UN resolution that called the Israeli annexation of the region "null and void and without international legal effect."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Powerline] Among the high former Obama administration officials who have most disgraced themselves by their public comments since leaving office, John Brennan deserves special recognition. Marc Thiessen has done us the favor of making the case in the Washington Post column “The Trump-Russia collusion hall of shame” (accessible via the link at Jewish World Review). Thiessen renders this damning judgment:
[Babylon Bee] CHICAGO, IL‐The NAACP has given Jussie Smollett a prestigious award for his important work creating much-needed jobs for Nigerian-American citizens.
[Daily Caller] Far more than a failure of journalism, the Russia collusion narrative was, at its core, a monstrous failure of U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence.
[Free Beacon] Multiple Democratic offices on Capitol Hill have replaced their flags memorializing prisoners of war with transgender pride flags, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
[DAWN] The Shah Sadardin police 
[Breitbart] A man arrested for possession of illegal drugs found in his socks allegedly told police that the socks he was wearing weren’t his, according to reports.
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...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
[DAWN] In yet another incident of violence against women, the police 
[IsraelTimes] The Arab world’s boycott of Israel decades ago was a ’very, very wrong decision,’ Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash says.
[azcentral] WASHINGTON ‐ President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border as soon as next week if Mexico doesn't "immediately" step up its efforts to block immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[AnNahar] A French man who rented his flat to the ringleader of the 2015 
[Washington Examiner] Criticized that he is privately complaining about giving too much aid to Puerto Rico, President Trump Thursday afternoon claimed that he has done more for the U.S. island territory than any of his predecessors.
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