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We are a group of gay/bisexual men and women who have come to the conclusion that the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community; in essence, we ask that organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Lambda Legal and media outlets such as The Advocate, Out, Huff Post Gay Voices, etc., stop representing the transgender community as we feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men.
There are several areas in which the ideology of the trans community is at odds with or actively hostile to that of women and gay men; among the most important are: Doing to us what we did to the normals
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Justice Scalia's 'slippery slope' warning in Lawrence vs Texas comes to pass.
Remember all the arguments against the Equal Rights Amendment. They're coming true as SCOTUS implements that which was constitutionally rejected, because they know 'better'. There was a reason why the Founders demanded a super majority to constitutional changes. We are now reaping the consequences of ignoring that wisdom.
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Milo of Breitbart has suggested that gays are naturally conservative and only sided with the left until they got the gay marriage they wanted. He felt once that was over (and a brief honeymoon) they'd start voting Republican.
Somehow I doubt that but he no doubt knows more about gay opinions than I. This article reminds me of that.
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"Milo of Breitbart has suggested that gays are naturally conservative and only sided with the left until they got the gay marriage they wanted. He felt once that was over (and a brief honeymoon) they'd start voting Republican."
There is absolutely no way. 80% of them are ignorant leftist zombies. I did a study
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I know y'all caught My Name is Cait last night; total propaganda - Republicans H8T US, slander our name, yadda yadda yadda, Bruce kisses someone, they all go poop in public.
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[PJMedia] Nate Silver, whose predictions for the 2012 presidential race turned out to be spot-on, has some bad news for the Trump-bashers:
Donald Trump has had a good run of numbers lately. While his victory in New York this week was expected, he got 60 percent of the vote, more than the roughly 55 percent projected by the polls. He appears headed for victories in Maryland and Pennsylvania, which vote on Tuesday. He’s gained ground in California and is narrowly ahead of Ted Cruz in the first public polls of Indiana. He’s added about 2 percentage points over the past two weeks in our national polling average.
You could push back against some of these details. Some of the California polls come from pollsters that have had a Trump-leaning house effect or that used an unorthodox methodology. The Indiana polls have Trump leading, but with only about 39 percent of the vote, which might not be enough if the rest of the vote consolidates behind Cruz. The national poll gains are small and may just be statistical noise.
But with Trump’s path to 1,237 delegates on such a knife’s edge, every percentage point matters. And it’s possible that Trump has moved a few voters into his column with a series of process arguments that he’s been pressing recently. The more restrained version, as you can see in a recent op-ed published under Trump’s name in The Wall Street Journal, is that the candidate who gets the most votes should be the Republican nominee -- that delegates shouldn’t upend the people’s verdict. In public speeches, Trump has taken the argument a step further, describing the GOP’s nomination process as "rigged" and "crooked."
Polling suggests that a majority of Republicans agree with at least the milder version of Trump’s argument...
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Why would this be the end of the line? He either gets the nomination or he doesn't. Doesn't mean any principled conservative would vote for him in the general election.
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In the general election a principled conservative, like the rest of us, must vote according to his calculation of what will do the least harm to the nation for at least the next four years -- whether voting for the Democratic Party's candidate or the Republican Party's... or withholding his presidential vote and just casting his vote for Congresscritters and state and local candidates and issues. Sometimes it's about winning the war amd getting to march in the parades, sometimes it's just about being the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike -- cold, wet, terrifying, but stubbornly refusing to let the ocean flood in.
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I feel like I've been putting my finger in the dike for a while, while the water goes from my ankles to my knees to my 'nads, and I don't think Trump brand grout is going to work, nor do I have any good expectations for Hillary Brand Flooding.
Our planet is doomed, Doomed, to go Forward, Not Backward, Upward, not Forward, and Twirling, Twirling, twirling towards Freedom... oh well.
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TW - The reason that the Republican party is in such a sad state is that they have been able to sell us terrible candidates on the basis of their not being as bad as the alternative.
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Science, humanity’s greatest intellectual achievement, has always been vulnerable to infection by pseudoscience, which pretends to use the methods of science, but actually subverts them in pursuit of an obsession. Instead of evidence-based policymaking, pseudoscience specialises in policy-based evidence making. Today, this infection is spreading.
Two egregious examples show just how easy it is to subvert the scientific process. The campaign by Andrew Wakefield against the MMR vaccine, recently boosted by Robert De Niro’s support, is pseudoscience.
So is the campaign against glyphosate ("Roundup") weedkiller, which has now resulted in the European parliament recommending a ban on its use by gardeners.
[Telegraph] Two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipina held hostage for seven months in the southern Philippines could be beheaded on Monday by the Abu Sayyaf. The rebel group, which pledged allegiance first to al-Qaeda and now Daesh, has set a deadline of 3 p.m. for ransoms of £4.5 million to be paid for the three Westerners.
In videos, the three haggard-looking men plead with their families and governments to pay the money. One captor presses a machete to their necks, while other armed men stand behind them carrying assault weapons and the distinctive black flag of Daesh. One of the hostages, John Risdel, a Philippine-based Canadian businessman, said this was the "final absolute warning" from their captors.
Abu Sayyaf splinter groups have also seized 18 Indonesian and Malaysian sailors in raids on coal tugboats in the past month, as they intensify their attacks in some of the busiest waterways on earth. The surge in piracy prompted Indonesia's security chief to warn that the trading route could "become a new Somalia".
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[Huffpoo] Conservative billionaire Charles Koch called Donald Trump’s support of a registry for Muslims "reminiscent of Nazi Germany" in an interview that aired on Sunday.
Koch said Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the country is "antithetical to our approach," but he has a real problem with Trump’s support of using a database to track Muslims in the country. "Our approach".... meaning whom ?
"That’s reminiscent of Nazi Germany. I mean that’s monstrous, as I said at the time," the Koch Industries CEO told ABC News.
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....he has a real problem with Trump’s support of using a database to track Muslims in the country.
A helpful DoJ DB already exists. A simple MOD to the existing SW contract and the addition of a Counterterrorism category appears to be all that is needed.
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Personally, I'm in favor of implanting every Muslim in the world with a device monitoring noradrenaline level in their blood. Once the level passes a predetermined threshold, the device induces an artificial epileptic fit.
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You don't think someone these days has databases on all sorts of categories of people? If you do, you live in a fantasy land. You've been sliced and diced by data mining for all sorts of political and commercial IT outfits.
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Trump has refused numerous opportunities to clarify his position such as to include national origin or specific political ideology. Make no mistake. Trump's proposals are based solely on religious affilliation. Guess what - that is reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
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So... somehow making a government sponsored watch list of people based on Ideology aka Personal Belief, or rather your personal thought on a matter(Islam), is somehow acceptable? I remember when Rantburg was all up in arms about Militia's getting put on onto Terror-lists for being Pro Second-amendment.
And make no mistake, I am against Islam as a vast (Oh so VAST) majority of it's adherents practice it. But this opens the door to official lists of, say, Christians. Or Atheists. Or "Warming Deniers". It's all an ideology socialists could argue. And with the courts how they are, I'd rather not risk that.
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DG, replace "religion" with "ideology" and Trump's position is American as an apple-pie.
Ahhh, very convenient. But Trump's proposal is for "ALL Muslims". Again, even when given the chance, Trump didn't qualify his comments to distinguish between religion and ideolgy. But I suspect should Trump get the nomination his supporters will blindly give him a mulligan as he embarks on his "C'mon, You know what I meant" tour to explain away his foolish comments. And BTW, Koch's comparison wasn't between Travel bans and Death camps. It's about goverments restricting the populace (at any level) based solely on religion.
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But Trump's proposal is for "ALL Muslims"./em>
Yes, they all share Muslim ideology.
It's about gover[n]ments restricting the populace (at any level) based solely on religion.
(a) Would it really hurt you DepotGuy, to spell check your posts---you just ask your browser to do it?
(b) Sovereign governments have not just a right, but an obligation toward their subjects/citizens to restrict such access.
(c) You mean like Saudis not letting Christians in?
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One thing Koch has learned from the NAZIs is the Big Lie. You get everyone you can to keep repeating over and over again through every available media outlet that Donald Trump is a NAZI and people start believing it. It is, of course, a damn lie. It's also intellectual laziness. Koch doesn't bother with logical arguments, he just says NAZI and he thinks that covers it. Lazy and deceitful.
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The media has just been waiting for the results of the primary before using the Nazi card.
[Daily Caller] A plane now used by press corps following Hillary Clinton around was once boarded by a lot of neked wymn, a new report claims.
However, this isn’t the doing of Bill Clinton.
TMZ reports that the plane relegated to the press who follow Clinton around is registered to one of Dan Bilzerian’s companies Goat Airways LLC. JOBSITE WARNING
[Breitbart] ""[S]ean, the things perceived as real are real in their consequences," Buchanan said. "The American people are looking at this and they say, you know, whether we like Donald Trump or not, the guy went out and has won this thing. Now, if by poaching and pilfering delegates here and there, Cruz and Kasich can hold Trump off from the nomination on the first ballot -- then then they take it, it will be like the heavyweight champion there with his gloves over his head and the award going to the guy lying on the canvas."
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Now, if by poaching and pilfering delegates here and there, Cruz and Kasich can hold Trump off from the nomination on the first ballot
They'll hand WH to Hillary. Any bets on how long before she starts referring to herself as "Mother of The Nation" in her speeches---and starts punishing disobedient children?
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That's Paleoconservative Patrick Buchanan? When was the last time he was right about anything?
I wish everyone would shut up about who has already won and just let it play out. The fact is, Mr. Trump has not yet won, or he would have crossed the magic number of delegates, and would be crowing about it. This is just trash talk, trying to get everyone else to back away and hand him the prize without him having to fight for it, and is profoundly disrespectful of the voters.
[Breitbart] Three marijuana growing operations have been discovered near the houses where a family of 8 was murdered "execution style" in rural Ohio.
While the drug trafficking has not been publicly singled out as a motive by authorities nor have they publicly mentioned cartels or organized crime, investigators have called the murders a "complex operation".
"This was a pre-planned execution of eight individuals, it was a sophisticated operation," said Ohio Attorney General Mike Devine in a televised interview aired by Fox News. "Those who carried it out did everything they could to hinder the investigation and their prosecution."
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They know who it is.
You can tell by the tarps over that trailer.
This is a bigger thing than a mass shooting
This is big gang stuff - American style.
You may catch the culprits - you will. But this is bigger than that Trailer.
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related murder story: it appears that at least 2 people that spoke out about the Flint MI water issue died of lead poisoning of the other kind; one of the water plant foreman and the woman that was the driving force behind he federal court action.
[Breitbart] TEL AVIV - The U.S. is cosponsoring an Israeli-invented tunnel detection system that could prevent drug smugglers and illegal migrants from cross-border passage with Mexico, ISRAEL 21 reported.
The technology, which is being heralded as the underground Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, was behind the IDF's recent discovery of a 1.5 mile-long Hamas terror tunnel from Gaza and into Israeli territory.
The U.S. has earmarked $120 million over the next three years to help develop the system, the Financial Times reported.
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$120 million in research grant seed money? Unless we can appropriate ten times that amount with flexible cost overrun language, we'll never get Lockheed Martin or Boeing to bite.
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An 'all of the above' systems approach is needed. The successful Aerostat program should be expanded, ground sensors, drones, foot and mounted patrols, U2, SAT downlinks, along with Anti-Tunnel technology should all be integrated.
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I am sure some people 'look the other way' when employing folks. But my employer has thousands of Spanish-speakers on their payroll and I assure you - every single one of them has the necessary ID required by the Feds.
I did overhear the Company side of a conversation about a fella who shared a Social Security number with his cousin.
We also need to find and prosecute those making a profit from importing illegal aliens.
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grom has a good point
E-verify, which was created by and is supported by the US Govt. is an effective system to identify which employees are legal. It is used by a lot of employers. Of course the system is not perfect (e.g., when people change their names after marriage).
However a lot of employers don't use it and in fact there are some barriers to its use. For example, California State Govt passed a low a few years ago prohibiting the use of E-verify in many cases. Illinois has fought tooth and nail against the use of E-verify/ The ACLU has also fought E-evirfy
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This all assumes the Regime wants to stop illegal immigration. Between future Dem voters and cheap labor for the Chamber of Commerce, our betters are getting what they want now
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At least twenty years ago the Pentagon was trumpeting the success of an anti-tunneling breakthrough that had virtually eliminated such activity between North and South Korea. Today, archaeologists use devices that penetrate rock to discover empty spaces. The fact that the science has existed for some time, doesn't this really demonstrate that the Obama administration has lacked the will to halt the drug and people-smugglers who cross our border? Just kick the can down the road for another three years?
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It is not a matter of technology. It is that the US political class does not have the willpower to apply it, and the population continues to re-elect them.
[DAWN] As the last rites of Sardar Soran Singh, a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... cabinet, were performed in Buner district on Saturday, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the killing.
TTP front man Muhammad Khurrasani issued a statement, saying that Mr Singh was a high-level government functionary.
Mr Singh, an MPA of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) and special assistant to the chief minister for minorities, was bumped off near his home on Friday evening.
Buner district police chief Khalid Hamdani told Dawn that some suspects were tossed into the calaboose during search operations and significant progress had been made in the investigation.
The final rites were performed at a crematorium in the Pir Baba area where Mr Singh was killed.
Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, KP Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar, ministers and people from all walks of life attended the last rites of Mr Singh in his ancestral village.
Mr Khattak visited the residence of Mr Singh where he offered his condolences to the bereaved family and elders of the Sikh community.
Talking to news hounds, he said Mr Singh’s killing was a great loss to his government, the PTI and the minority community of the province.
He said Mr Singh was a patriotic Pak and Pakhtun.
Replying to a question, the chief minister said police had credible clues that could help arrest the killers.
There are pockets of Sikh population in Buner, Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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. districts in KP and Khyber and Orakzai agencies in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
In Khyber, there were pockets of Sikh population in Bara and Tirah localities, but most of them have relocated to Peshawar and other areas after incidents of kidnapping for ransom.
Most of the Sikhs living in KP and Fata are bilingual and consider themselves Pakhtun.
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The Shoura Council of Mujahideen in Derna (SCMD) has accused the Libyan National Army (LNA) of airstrikes on the town today and killing civilians.
“Hafter wants to ruin Derna’s victory by trying to involve it in a new war after finally getting rid of IS terrorist organisation,” said Mohamed Al-Mansuri, the SCMD’s media spokesman, at a press conference this afternoon. He did not, however, say how many civilians had been killed or wounded although separate reports speak of three civilians killed in LNA airstrikes. There are unconfirmed claims of 12 airstrikes over the past couple of days.
Al-Mansuri also accused of the LNA of colluding with the so-called Islamic State (IS/Daesh) who were this week finally forced out of the Fataieh area south east of the town as well as the eastern suburb called District 400, and of allowing them to withdraw peacefully.
“Hafter warplanes allowed the runaway remnants of Daesh through the desert road, along 800 kilometres, without touching them. But in contrast, they attacked the civilians in the town,” said Mansuri.
The same allegation of the LNA allowing IS to withdraw was made yesterday in Ajdabiya by Ali Hassi, the spokesman for Ibrahim Jadhran.
Jadhran has long been firmly opposed to Hafter and he and Hassi have on more than one occasion accused Hafter and IS as being two sides of the same coin.
Responding to the bombing allegations, a top LNA air force official this evening denied that fighter planes were bombing Derna. “Our objective now is Sirte”, he said. LNA forces were outside Derna and increasing in number but it was not the immediate target.
However, the Beida office of the Libyan new agency LANA (which supports the LNA) have quoted Colonel Kamal Al-Jabali who heads the LNA’s Omar Mukhtar Operations Room saying that airstrikes against the Derna mujahideen would continue.
Accusing them of being linked to Al-Qaeda, he aid that the objective was to rid the town of all extremist militias.
The Omar Mukhtar Room covers the Derna area.
Both the LNA and the SCMD have claimed they alone were responsible for forcing IS to abandon Fataieh and District 400.
There are, however, photos of the LNA in Fataieh and today the Omar Mukhtar Operations Room announced that three of its soldiers had been killed as a result of a booby trap bomb left in a house there. Another soldier had been wounded disarming a mine in Fataieh.
Residents have been returning to both Fataieh and District 400 following the IS departure and there have been many deaths and injuries as a result of mines and booby traps. As many as 35 people are reported to have been killed and 11 injured in the past four days.
Abdulkarim Sabra, the operations’ room spokesman, also has meanwhile issued a warning to residents in the Fataieh area to evacuate it for their own safety.
[DAWN] SEVEN coppers were killed, allegedly by ’anti-vaccine myrmidons’, 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... on Wednesday. The vaccination team was attacked in Orangi Town, where much of the population is Pakhtun.
Data released by the government and their INGO partners suggests a decline in recorded polio
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A bomb-laden vehicle exploded on Sunday killing seven soldiers in Yemen's south, where government forces backed by air power from an Arab coalition have launched an offensive against Al Qaeda, military sources said.
The attack, which also wounded another 14 soldiers, targeted an army convoy as it entered militant stronghold Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, said the sources, blaming Al Qaeda for the bombing.
Forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi launched the Zinjibar offensive on Saturday, after similar assaults pushed the militants from other areas in the south.
The Saudi-led coalition that has been battling Iran-backed rebels across the country since March 2015 has deployed Apache helicopters to support the loyalist fighting on ground. The pro-Hadi forces "retreated from Zinjibar after they entered on Saturday night" from the city's southern gate, an officer in Abyan told AFP.
"The withdrawal was decided following information that Al Qaeda was preparing other car-bomb attacks against our troops," added the officer who requested anonymity.
Government forces also launched an offensive Saturday to drive the militants out of the neighbouring town of Jaar.
Fighting there killed 25 Al Qaeda fighters and four soldiers as loyalists seized Al Kud, five kilometres south of Zinjibar, military and medical sources said.
"After our withdrawal, Apache helicopters will target Al Qaeda positions to secure the town," said another officer, adding helicopters had foiled two attempts to carry out bombings against troops using vehicles in Al Kud.
Meanwhile, the Arab coalition carried out a series of air raids against Al Qaeda in Mukalla, a southeastern provincial capital the militants have controlled for the past year, military sources said.
Residents reported hearing heavy explosions as coalition jets struck Al Qaeda-held arms depots in the city.
"The air raids are in preparation for a ground operation as part of a major military offensive to chase Al Qaeda out of Mukalla and the entire Hadramawt province," an officer said. Coalition-backed forces have driven militants out of Aden, the southern city declared by Hadi as the country's temporary capital after the Houthi rebels overran Sanaa in September 2014.
And last week, government forces expelled militants of the militant network's local branch - Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - from Huta, the provincial capital of Lahj. The latest fighting comes as representatives of the government and the Iran-backed rebels continue with UN-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait, which began on Thursday.
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Rebel and regime bombardment in Syria's Aleppo on April 24 killed at least 14 civilians, emergency workers and a monitor said, on the third day of renewed violence in the battered city.
Rebel rocket fire on government-held parts of the northern city killed six civilians, including a woman and two children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
And a barrage of government air strikes that began around midday on April 24 left at least eight civilians dead. The strikes killed five people in a fruit and vegetable market in the neighbourhood of Sakhur, said a member of Aleppo's civil defence.
Regime aerial bombardment left two civilians dead in the district of Shaar and another in Bab al-Nayrab, the source added.
A coalition of rebel groups in Aleppo province on April 23 evening said if the regime did not halt its attacks, "we will fully disengage from the truce". The online statement, published in Arabic, said the international community had 24 hours to put pressure on Damascus before rebels would respond to the regime's "aggression".
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The shadow provincial governor of the Taliban group was killed in a special military operation conducted by the Afghan cops in northern Jawzjan province.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the operation was conducted in Qazan Mazo village in Manjigak district.
A statement by MoI said the Taliban shadow judge was identified as Mullah Abdul Rahman who was killed together with his 5 companions.
The statement further added that Mullah Rahman was involved in desert trial of innocent civilians besides having active role in majority of bandidosbully boyz attacks.
According to the Ministry of Interior, the Afghan forces also confiscated a PK machine gun, 1 rocket launcher, 1 Ak-47 assault rifle and 1 cycle of violence belonging to the bad boys.
The Afghan cops and the local residents did not suffer any casualties during the operation, the ministry added.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Jawzjan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed bad boy groups are actively operating in a number of its districts and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeera Operation General Ali Ibrahim Daboun announced on Sunday, that the security forces liberated Zakhekhah Police Station west of Heet and raised the Iraqi flag over its building.
Daboun said in a press statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Today the security forces managed to liberate the police station in Zakhekhah village west of Heet near al-Dolab and raised the Iraqi flag over its building,” pointing out that, “7 ISIS terrorists were killed by an army’s strike in al-Dolab area.”
Daboun added, “The artillery of the army’s 7th brigade destroyed mortar detachment, ammunition cache and a motorcycle in Zakhekhah.”
Yesterday, official journalists with the Ministry of Defense announced starting the liberation operation of al-Dolab and Zakhekhah areas in Anbar Province from three axes.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Media officials with the Defense Ministry said on Sunday, that 14 ISIS members had been either killed or injured in an aerial bombing in the district of al-Rutba in western Anbar.
The officials said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Iraqi F-16 warplanes, in coordination with the General Directorate of Intelligence and Security, conducted an aerial strike on a cache of weapons, gear and explosive materials in the district of al-Rutba, resulting in the death of 10 terrorists and wounding 4 others.”
The statement added, “The information indicates that the cache is the main repository used by the ISIS terrorist gangs.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeera Operations Ali Ibrahim Daboun announced on Sunday, that the so-called ISIS Emir of al-Dolab area was killed in an air strike carried out by the Iraqi Army Aviation west of Ramadi.
Daboun said in a press statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Iraqi Army Aviation backed by the army’s 7th brigade managed to kill ISIS Emir of al-Dolab area Azzam Kaseb Farhan west of Heet (70 km west of Ramadi), while trying to escape from the area.”
Daboun added, “The terrorist was killed in al-Jaberiya village on the other bank of the Euphrates River.”
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[THEHILL] Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Donald Trump supporter,
Not an unbiased observer, then...
accused the Ted Cruz presidential campaign of reneging on a deal to support a "unity slate" of the state’s primary delegates, according to CNN.
"We reached a deal with Cruz's national campaign to put up a unity slate that would honor the wishes of the thousands of Mainers who voted at caucus," LePage said in a statement. "But Cruz's Northeast Political Director David Sawyer lied to us and broke the deal. Sawyer stabbed us in the back, reneged on the unity slate, and betrayed the people of Maine."
The Maine governor suggested the incident was part of a larger trend of deceit from the Cruz team.
"As we have seen throughout the country, Cruz's national campaign is run by greedy political hooligans," he said.
"I can't stand by and watch as Cruz and the Republican Establishment forcibly overrule the votes of Mainers who chose Trump and Kasich. I call on Senator Cruz to condemn Sawyer's disrespectful and dishonest tactics in Maine."
In Maine's GOP presidential caucus on March 5, Cruz came out on top with about 46 percent of the vote. He was allocated 12 delegates, leaving nine for Trump, now the Republican front-runner, and and two for rival John Kasich. The state's convention is underway this weekend to decide which delegates will head to the Republican National Convention in July.
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I've despaired of having anyone take my bet that Cruz will switch from Conservatism to Compassionate Conservatism the moment he crosses WH threshold.
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you're not looking very hard if thats the case. I'd take that bet. Cruz didnt wimp out in the senate, which is why the wimps in the senate hate him.
Also, the whole LePage story fo "backstab" has been shown to be a lie. Like most Trumpkins, he has an issue with making assumptions, and playing very fast and loose with facts.
[DAWN] Except for Senator Talha Mehmood of the JUI-F, none of the members of the upper house belonging to religious parties, including 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... (JI) chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... , owns a car or have any source of earning.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province said Sunday, that 17 ISIS elements had been killed by an artillery shelling south of Mosul.
The source, who requested anonymity, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The artillery [force] of the Iraqi army’s Fifteenth Division belonging to Nineveh Operations Command had shelled a convey for the ISIS in the village of al-Muhana in the district of Makhmour (80 km south of Mosul), resulting in the death of 17 [ISIS] elements.”
The source also added, “The shelling resulted in the complete destruction of the convey.”
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So the IA has - and knows how to use - artillery now? We really should get the Kurds comparably equipped and capable.
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Yep, in another few short months they will Elite again.
At which point, delighted with their new toys and skillset, they will descend back into tribalism and fall upon each other in the time-honored Arab tradition. Wash, rinse, repeat.
And doesn't he look like he got his job because he was so qualified!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top Taliban leader was killed during a special military operation conducted by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan.
"During a special operation of Afghan National Police, deputy Taliban so-called district governor for Shinwari district of Parwan province, named Alamuddin was killed," a statement by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.
The statement further added that the operation took place in Daraz Gard village, Shinwari district of Parwan province, yesterday evening.
"Alamuddin was involved in many terrorist and destructive activities in this district and other areas of Parwan province," the statement added.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Parwarn is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups are actively operating and often carry out insurgency activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... the Ministry of Interior said a mine planter was killed by his own explosives while placing a roadside kaboom in the main road of Bala Block district of Farah province, yesterday evening.
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Regional Kurdish security forces will keep territory taken from pro-Syrian government forces during a three-day outbreak of violence in northeastern Syria, a truce document announced on April 24 showed, with both sides to release prisoners taken during the clashes.
Fighting broke out between Kurdish Asayish forces and pro-Syrian government security forces on April 20 in Qamishli, near the Turkish border. A peace accord took effect at 3:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) on April 22 and the truce was holding on April 24. A Syrian Kurdish YPG official said this was the second biggest outbreak of fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's government and regional Kurdish forces since Syria's civil war began in 2011.
During the fighting, Asayish forces seized control of a number of government-controlled positions in the city of Qamishli in Hasaka province as well as its main prison.
The truce agreement said "the prevailing military situation will be maintained as it is," indicating territory taken from government control will not be returned.
Syrian Kurdish regional interior minister Canaan Barakat, speaking in Qamishli on April 24 to announce the terms of the truce, said 17 civilians, 7 Asayish members and 3 YPG members had been killed in the clashes.
The agreement also said: the structure of the pro-government national defence forces present in Qamishli will be reconsidered; prisoners and detainees taken by both sides will be released; compensation will be paid to civilians who lost relatives or suffered material damage during government shelling; and, the regime is to no longer interfere in the local society. The truce also stipulated the state of emergency in the city should be lifted. The Observatory said life is slowly returning to normal but the main market remains closed.
Qamishli, near the Turkish border, is mostly controlled by Kurdish security forces, though pro-Assad forces still hold a few areas in the city centre, and its airport. This co-existence is largely peaceful.
Syrian Kurdish forces now dominate wide areas of northern Syria and set up their own government there. Syria has become a patchwork of areas controlled by the government, an array of rebel groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, and Kurdish militia.
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Landlocked Uganda has announced it will build a major pipeline to export its oil through Tanzania.
Uganda had planned to send the pipeline through Kenya, which wanted a joint facility for oil from its own fields that are under development. The pipeline will now be routed further south, with concerns about possible attacks by Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamists said to be a factor. The group has attacked targets close to where the pipeline would have passed.
Just looking at a map, the pipeline will need to be considerably longer if routed through Tanzania. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do...
The 1,400km (800 miles) pipeline will connect Uganda’s western region near Hoima, where big oil reserves have been discovered, with Tanzania’s port of Tanga. The project is expected to cost about $4bn (£2.8bn) and create 15,000 jobs.
The discovered oil reserves in Uganda are estimated at some 6.5bn barrels, and the country expects to start production in 2018. France’s Total, China’s CNOOC and Britain’s Tullow hold most of the licences.
Kenya, which has also struck oil, had wanted the pipeline to pass through its territory. Uganda had initially signed such a deal, but Total later questioned the plan over security concerns, the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Kampala reports.
Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa said on Saturday that the cost was also a factor in choosing the project. Reports also suggest that Uganda backed the Tanzanian route because the country’s port of Tanga is already fully operational, while Kenya’s Lamu port is still being built.
Meanwhile, Kenya said it would build its own pipeline from Lokichar, in the north-east, to Lamu.
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Meanwhile, what the hell happened to the pipeline to connect South Sudan oil (which is already available) with Kenya? The Somali refugees have not only screwed up Minnesota, but Kenya as well.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak authorities have said two security personnel were maimed in mortar fire from Afghanistan, including a major and another security personal.
The security officials quoted by local media have said at least nine shells were fired on the Ziarat checkpost at around 4.30pm.
The officials further added that the injured personnel have been identified as Major Farrukh and Havaldar Imran Khan and said they had been taken to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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. by a helicopter.
This comes as festivities erupted among the Afghan and Pak border forces in Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
Local officials in Nangarhar said the clash erupted after the Afghan forces responded to heavy shelling by Pak military from across the Durand Line.
The officials said a soldier of the Afghan Border Police lost his life and two others were maimed during the clash which continued for several hours.
Clashes among the Afghan and Pak forces along the Durand Line have not been rare as numerous incidents have taken place in the past.
A similar incident took place in Goshta district earlier last month following Pak militia forces attack in Anarki area of Goshta district.
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Moral: don't provide security for Haqqani terrorists?
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ADEN: A Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on the Al-Qaeda-held port of Mukalla in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 10 militants, medical sources and residents said, part of an offensive to recapture the city.
Mukalla, a shipping hub and provincial capital, is a stronghold of the powerful Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) which has taken advantage of Yemen’s year-long civil war to win control over parts of the south and east.
Residents said airstrikes hit a building that AQAP was using as its headquarters, as well as gatherings of the group elsewhere in Mukalla.
A Yemeni military source said the air strikes were being coordinated with troops on the ground. In recent days, residents and local officials have reported preparations for a pro-government ground offensive on Mukalla.
It comes as Yemen’s government meets with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Kuwait to try to find a solution to a conflict, which has killed more than 6,200 people and divided up control of the country.
Saudi Arabia and its mostly Arab coalition have carried out airstrikes in Yemen for the past year to support the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi against the Houthis.
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ERBIL – Iraqi Sunni tribes revealed a list with the names of hundreds of their own members who have joined the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, local sources reported on Sunday.
Over the past few days, local activists published online the names of hundreds of tribal members who pledged allegiance to ISIS in the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin in mid-2014.
“The names were completely mentioned in the list along with the jihadi names appointed by the terror group for each recruit,” local media activist Jamal Salman told ARA News.
The source pointed out that the names of the recruits were dubbed as jihadis and leaders.
“Recruits’ missions were included in the documents beside their names,” he reported.
Speaking to ARA News, Suleiman Khader, an Iraqi citizen based in Ramadi city, said that ISIS left behind dozens of electronic devices, computers, files and confidential documents after its withdrawal from the city.
“Iraqi intelligence has received a copy of the listed names who will be definitely prosecuted and held accountable by authorities,” Khader said.
But Abu Hadi, another resident of Ramadi, told ARA News that this is likely a kind of propaganda aimed at attacking certain tribes in the province of Anbar.
“It may be plotted by some parties to retaliate for political or tribal rifts,” he argued.
The Iraqi army had declared the liberation of Ramadi from ISIS earlier in December. However, the militant group fought back and regained several districts across the city after renewed clashes with Iraqi army troops, where dozens of fighters were reported dead on both sides. The US-led coalition forces have played a major role for pushing the group back in the last few months.
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Wow, so reformed
Much fedication
I want you and your saudi government to rot in eternal hell because you worship a child molester. It make me want the worst for all of you.
Happy family asking for the curse of the REAL LORD.
And you now have it.
I will make all of you desert sand urchins starve and die.
You heard it here first
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Yea, what did you expect? Iraq functioned because the Brits, clever bastards, set up a minority rule. And minority, no matter how violent, has to work out some sort of modus vivendi with majorities---unlike vice versa. Comes the great white father and transfers the rule to the Shia majority (one, incidentally, controlled by Iran). And the happily liberated Shia, start acting out that freedom means to them toward the Sunnis.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 19 holy warriors were killed in separate operations conducted in northern Jawzjan and southern Uruzgan provinces.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan National Security Forces on Saturday evening.
"Yesterday evening, Afghan National Security Forces conducted an anti-terrorism joint operation to clear some of the areas from holy warriors and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," a statement by MoI said.
The statement further added that the operation was conducted in Gogardak region, Shabarghan city capital of Jowzjan province, as a result 15 armed holy warriors were killed and 10 others were maimed.
The clearance operation still continues against armed bully boyz in Shabarghan City, MoI added.
"In a separate report, yesterday evening, Afghan National Police attacked Taliban’s sanctuaries in Nikroz village, Khas Oruzgan district of Oruzgan province, as a result four armed Taliban were killed and one was maimed," MoI said, adding that two Afghan National Policemen were maimed during the operation.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.
Both Jawzjan and Uruzgan provinces are among the relatively voalatile provinces where anti-government armed holy warriors are active in its remote districts.
The holy warriors frequently carry out insurgency activities which comes amid rampant Taliban-led insurgency as the group announced its spring offensive earlier this month.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A University teacher in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... has been locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by the security forces for being affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
Sources privy to the development have said the university Mawlavi Maroof was arrested for speaking spreading propaganda in favor of the terror group among the university students.
A front man for the Ministry of Higher Education Faisal Amin said Mawlaavi Maroof was a lecturer in Sharia faculty and is currently in jug of the security forces.
He did not provide further information regarding the circumstances surrounding his detention, saying they are only aware that the lecturer has been arrested.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the students in Kabul University said the lecturer was speaking against the government of Afghanistan and was calling it an un-Islamic system.
The loyalists of the Islamic State are attempting to gain and expand foothold in the country as the Afghan cops as well as the US forces have stepped up counter-terrorism operations against the terror group in Afghanistan.
This comes as a front man for the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan earlier said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has the potential to be an ’enormous’ threat in Afghanistan.
The chief of communications for the coalition, Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , has said the threat exists despite the group has received major setbacks during the recent months, pointing towards the growing US forces Arclight airstrikes against the loyalists of the terror group.
The concerns prompted B.O. regime to grant more authorities to the US forces in Afghanistan to increase Arclight airstrikes against the terror group with reports suggesting the US Air Force has dropped more than 250 bombs and missiles in January and February targeting ISIS loyalists.
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[NYTIMES] Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist, wrote a column last week critical of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , and his government’s growing crackdown on freedom of expression. She later took to Twitter, criticizing supporters of Mr. Erdogan and using a profanity.
On Saturday night, the police arrived at her summer home in Turkey and took her in for questioning for insulting Mr. Erdogan, a crime in Turkey. Ms. Umar was released from custody on Sunday, she said on Twitter, but was barred from leaving the country.
She is the latest on a growing list of journalists, academics, cartoonists and others -- nearly 2,000 cases have been filed in Turkish courts -- who have faced the Turkish justice system for insulting Mr. Erdogan. The crime carries a sentence of four years in prison. Ms. Umar was detained just as European leaders, including Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , the German chancellor, and Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, were wrapping up a visit to Turkey to highlight progress in its pact with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... over the migrant crisis.
Turkey’s clampdown on the news media has increasingly become intertwined with Europe’s attempts to cooperate with Turkey on the migrant issue. European leaders, especially Ms. Merkel, are facing criticism that they are betraying European values in a bid to win over Mr. Erdogan.
Turkey has seemed to extend its crackdown beyond its borders. Ms. Merkel, for instance, was highly criticized in her own country for allowing a case to proceed against a German comedian who read a profanity-laced, satirical poem about Mr. Erdogan on television. Turkey filed a formal complaint under a rarely used German law that prohibits insulting foreign leaders.
Late Friday, Ms. Merkel reacted for the first time to criticism of how she had handled the affair. She defended her decision to allow further investigation by prosecutors, but said she regretted saying she shared the view of the Turkish authorities that the poem was offensive. "Looking back, that was a mistake," she said. "The impression arose that freedom of opinion and freedom of the press were not important. They are important to me and will remain so."
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QAMISHLO – Kurdish officials suggest they will not withdraw from any places captured in the clashes last week with the Syrian regime despite the recently reached ceasefire in the northeastern city of Qamishlo.
“The regime forces consider themselves victorious after the Geneva peace talks and that’s why they tried to spread their authority over the people in Qamishlo (Qamishli),” Dr. Nasser Haji Mansur, a Kurdish official of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told ARA News, speaking about the clashes that started on 20 April and lasted until 23 April.
The Kurds say they will not make any concessions to the Syrian government.
“We will not return anything. Any area taken with the blood of martyrs is a red-line for us,” Hekem Xelo, a senior Kurdish official from the Hasakah province told ARA News about the areas captured by the Kurdish forces from the regime, such as the Alaya prison.
Syrian Kurdish regional interior minister Canaan Barakat on Sunday also confirmed they will not return any areas, after visiting the regime prison of Alaya which was taken from pro-Assad forces subsequent to heavy clashes.
“Our conditions for the ceasefire are to dissolve the [pro-Assad] National Defence Forces militia and take their weapons, and we will not return locations that we took,” Xelo added.
The Kurdish official also said that the regime should rehire locals that were fired from their government jobs for refusing to join the regime’s self-protection units.
The regime tried to push locals employed by the government in the Hasakah province to undergo militia training. The government is still one of the employers of civilians in the region.
“For two months they cut my salary for not joining the militia training,” a Kurdish government worker told ARA News, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Most Kurds didn’t join this militia,” he added.
Moreover, the Kurds want the regime to pay compensation for the damage done to civilian properties resulting from indiscriminate mortar fire, and to exchange all prisoners.
Wasfi Bave Dindar (55) told ARA News that mortar fire from the regime base destroyed his home.
“According to our information it came from the regime base, and thanks to God my children weren’t inside and left five minutes before the mortar hit the house,” he said. “I was the first person to witness the destruction after we returned.”
Moreover, the Kurds want Syrian government militias to not interfere with the work of the local administration or to stop vehicles of Kurdish security forces, nor trying to expand its control.
“This last agreement between us and the Syrian government means that the regime is weak,” Xelo concluded.
It is yet unclear whether the Syrian government will compensate civilians or dissolve the NDF militia.
Many Kurdish civilians fear that at one day the clashes with the regime could re-erupt.
The Kurdish security police said in a public statement on Saturday that at least 31 regime fighters were killed and 102 captured. Moreover, in total 13 fighters on the Kurdish side were killed in the fight with the Syrian regime forces. Video report at the link
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Sunday, a security source in Tuz District revealed, that violent clashes have broken out between the members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi and Peshmerga forces in the district, while pointed out that these clashes cut the road between Baghdad and Kirkuk.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Armed clashes broke out between the members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi and Peshmerga forces due to a dispute between them, and resulted in a number of injuries,” pointing out that, “These clashes cut the road linking between Baghdad and Kirkuk.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The citizens were banned from leaving their houses because of the explosions, gunshots and mortar shells.”
“We are exercising great efforts to rectify the situation and prevent the escalation of tension in the district,” the source continued.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – A security source in Tuz District revealed on Sunday, that the Deputy Commander of the Peshmerga’s 5th brigade was killed during the armed clashed that broke out in the district.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The armed clashes that broke out between the members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi and Peshmerga forces led to the killing of the Deputy Commander of the Peshmerga’s 5th brigade Colonel Azad Sairwan Shaklawi,” pointing out that, “Seven members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi were wounded during the clashes.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The military troops and tanks are besieging a number of residential neighborhoods in the district,” indicating that, “The snipers were positioned above the buildings.”
Iraqi militia destroys 2 Kurd armor vehicles
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – An informed source announced on Sunday the killing of the commander of the Kurdish force that stormed Tuz District, while pointed out that al-Hashd al-Turkmani destructed two tanks belonging to the Peshmerga forces.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The forces from al-Hashd al-Turkmani targeted two tanks belonging to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Tuz District, and burned the two tanks completely,” pointing out that, “The commander of the Kurdish force that stormed Tuz Khurmatu was killed during the clashes.”
The statement added, “Military reinforcements from al-Hashd al-Shaabi arrived in the logistic support camp in Berawgla to protect it from any possible attack.”
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Sunday, Head of Salahuddin Provincial Council Ahmed Karim announced, that an agreement had been reached to order ceasefire in Tuz Khurmatu District.
Karim said in a brief statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The two parties agreed to [declare] ceasefire.”
Earlier today, Head of Salahuddin Provincial Council Ahmed Karim and the Police Chief General Damen al-Jubouri arrived in Tuz Khurmatu to defuse the situation in the district.
Kurdish peshmerga forces and Turkmen Shiite paramilitaries were Sunday engaged in clashes that have killed nine people in a flashpoint town and closed the highway to Baghdad, officials said.
Tuz Khurmatu, part of a swathe of territory claimed by both Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and Baghdad, has been divided between Turkmen and Kurds since fighting erupted between the two sides last year.
A peshmerga brigadier general and another fighter and two members of Turkmen forces were among the nine people killed, said Shallal Abdul Baban, the Kurdish official responsible for the area.
A colonel in the Tuz Khurmatu police gave the same toll, and said that the highway to Baghdad was closed by forces involved in the fighting.
The clashes between the peshmerga and the Turkmen, who belong to a militia umbrella organisation known as the Hashed al-Shaabi, began around midnight and continued into Sunday, officials said.
Karim Shukur, an official from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, said the trouble began when a member of the Hashed al-Shaabi threw a grenade at one of its headquarters in Tuz Khurmatu, wounding peshmerga fighters.
The Hashed al-Shaabi meanwhile blamed the Kurds for the unrest, saying in a statement that the clashes started after Kurdish forces targeted one of their headquarters in the town.
Both the peshmerga and the Turkmen fighters are battling the Islamic State jihadist group, which overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014.
But Kurdish forces and the Hashed al-Shaabi are vying for influence in some areas, a contest that has led to violence in Tuz Khurmatu.
The fighting last November began as a dispute at a checkpoint that escalated into clashes inside Tuz Khurmatu. Dozens of homes were burned, and the town has been split between Kurdish and Turkmen areas, with neighbourhood minority residents moving back across the ethnic divide.
Baghdad turned to the Hashed al-Shaabi, which is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias, to help stem the jihadists' 2014 advance and later push them back.
Kurdish forces also battled the jihadists in the north, but have largely fought independently of federal troops.
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McRaven is credited for organizing and overseeing the execution of Operation Neptune Spear, the special ops raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. CIA Director Leon Panetta delegated the raid to McRaven who has worked almost exclusively on counter-terrorism operations and strategy since 2001. [WIK]
On June 13 [2010], Bill McRaven replaced Stan McChrystal as JSOC commander. McRaven was a SEAL officer with a reputation as a deep thinker, based in part on his time at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California, where he designed -- and was the first graduate from - the special operations/low-intensity conflict curriculum. He turned his thesis into a book, SpecOps - Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice,in which he presented his own definition of special operations, one that paid homage to the direct action missions that were the forte of JSOC and the SEALs, but which ignored the unconventional warfare approach that was the specialty of Special Forces.
Admiral McRaven read both the tactical and political 'tea leaves.' Complicated by the Obama pull-out, the training of Islamic 'Host Nation' military forces had been costly and had not gained the necessary traction to attain victory.
Taliban and AQ [now ISIS] leadership and networks must be effectively dealt with. In spite of previous, highly publisized failures [Son Tay Raid and Desert One], vertical Envelopment operations such the highly successful 4 July 1976 Raid on Entebbe and the 4 May 1978 raid at Cassinga were re-examined and studied:
Direct Action (DA)
Either overt or covert action against an enemy force. Seize, damage, or destroy a target; capture or recover personnel or material in support of strategic/operational objectives or conventional forces.
Short-duration, small-scale offensive actions.
May require raids, ambushes, direct assault tactics; emplace mines and other munitions; conduct standoff attacks by firing from air, ground, or maritime platforms; designate or illuminate targets for precision-guided munitions; support for cover and deception operations; or conduct independent sabotage normally inside enemy-held territory.
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I liked him, a great officer. He is a tier one guy so it's not uncommon for them to focus on jsoc event and direct action over the special forces that truly shapes the environment prior to a DA mission. With that he would be an asset to any admin except for hillary's. She is a hack that will make make her decisions like her husband did, all based on public opinion polls.
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I want to say I heard it on the radio yat are not sure.
When you and a Secretary of State have an irrational boss, it could tend to make you closer in order for a better result is my take on it. I will look to see where I got that.
KOHAT: Security personnel destroyed more than 30 bunkers and caves during a search operation in an area between Darra Adamkhel and Orakzai Agency late on Saturday night.
According to officials of the tribal administration, the security forces carried out the day-long operation after getting a tip that militants had turned the region, known as Tora Cheena, into a sanctuary from where they carried out attacks on security forces.
And in Mohmand Agency, the security forces gunned down five suspected militants after fighting off an attack on a checkpost on Saturday.
In the search operation near Darra Adamkhel, the bunkers, caves and hideouts were demolished and a bomb disposal squad exploded the ammunition found there.
The sources said the militants moved between the Frontier Region of Kohat and Lower Orakzai from their camp in Tora Cheena and carried out terrorist activities.
The place was also used for training militants.
5 suspected militants gunned down in Mohmand Agency
The operation was conducted following the repatriation of over 15,000 displaced families to their homes in Orakzai Agency after eight years.
Fauzee Khan Mohmand adds from Ghalanai: At least five militants were killed as security personnel repulsed an attack on their post in Khwezai area of Mohmand Agency on Saturday night.
According to officials, militants attacked the Yaqobi post in the border area with heavy weapons.
Security personnel deployed at the post killed five attackers and injured several others. The other militants escaped.
SOLDIER KILLED: A soldier was killed and another injured after an improvised explosive device went off at Soran Darra, in Baizai area of Mohmand Agency.
According to security sources, personnel of the army’s bomb disposal squad were patrolling the area when the explosion killed Lance Naik Wazir Khan and injured Sepoy Khuram, who was airlifted to Peshawar.
Later security forces conducted a search operation in nearby areas, but made no arrests.
CURFEW: Owing to worsening law and order situation, authorities and security forces imposed a curfew in Dawezai and Sagai areas and banned motorcycle riding in the tribal region.
Announcements to this effect were made from mosques in various areas and bazaars.
(IraqiNews.com) Maysan Police chief, Brigadier General Nizar Mohi al-Saadi, announced on Sunday the arrest of 14 wanted individuals on various criminal charges in different areas of the province.
Saadi said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Maysan Police conducted a raid operation in different areas in the province, resulting in the arrest of 14 wanted individuals,” noting that, “The campaign was based on intelligence efforts as well as continuous follow-up of the implementation of judicial arrest warrants.”
Saadi added, “The detainees were involved in committing kidnaps, robberies, smuggling crimes,” adding that “They were transferred to a police station in order to take the necessary procedures against them.”
Bubble burst: Florida man using "hydropod" at sea rescued
Authorities say a Florida man bidding to reach Bermuda in an inflatable bubble has been voluntarily rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney said that long-distance runner Reza Baluchi
Oh? Most of the Baluchis we read about are shooting up The Army of the Pure.
was picked up Sunday off Florida and his "hydropod" was being towed to shore.
Barney says the man set out from Pompano Beach on Saturday despite receiving an April 15 letter from the Coast Guard warning him not to depart. The Coast Guard said it had reviewed Baluchi's plan and determined it to be unsafe.
Baluchi tried to make a similar attempt to reach Bermuda in 2014 and had to be rescued. He was picked up that time about 70 nautical miles east of St. Augustine.
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...Darwin calls to him, the siren song too great to resist. Who are we, mere mortals, to stop ol' Reza from answering the summons?
Mike
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[ALLAFRICA] Kaduna -- The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN), Mallam Nafiu Baba Ahmed, has said the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shiite poses greater danger to Nigeria than the 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... terrorists.
Ahmed stated this while testifying before the judicial commission of inquiry set up by the Kaduna State Government to investigate the December 12-14, 2015, festivities between the Nigerian Army and the Shiites in Zaria.
He said the failure of the government to deal decisively with the alleged excesses of the Shi'ites may be catastrophic for the country.
Ahmed also revealed that the late leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, had some relationship with the Shi'ites prior to forming his own group, adding that both Mohammed and the Shiite leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky had similar attitudes in holding onto their respective doctrines which, according to him, are contrary to Islamic principles.
He alleged that the Shi'ites had recently started adopting the Boko Haram strategy of intimidation and elimination of Ulamas who were opposed to their doctrines, saying that many have refrained from testifying before the commission for fear of the unknown.
Ahmed, who lamented the initial government handling of Boko Haram, noted that small fires become huge conflagrations if not tackled in an effective and timely manner, urging the government to learn from its experience with Boko Haram by dealing decisively with the Shi'ites.
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Yemen's government forces battled al Qaeda in the country's south on April 23, aiming to push back advances the militant group has made during a year-long civil war while peace talks take place in Kuwait. Twenty fighters loyal to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were killed in the clashes, residents and a military source said, while a drone strike killed two others further north.
AQAP has taken advantage of chaos in Yemen since its civil war began last year to win control over swathes of southern and eastern Yemen, creating a local government there and introducing services. The war pits a collection of local forces and army remnants backed by the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and a Saudi-led Arab coalition against the Houthi movement and troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Representatives gathered in Kuwait on April 21 to begin peace talks after agreeing a ceasefire across the country. The United Nations, which has convened the talks, says around 6,000 people have died in the conflict, half of them civilians. However, as talks moved into a third day disputes continued over both the agenda and accusations from the government that the Houthis and Saleh's forces had breached the truce in the city of Taiz, a source from Hadi's government said.
The government wants the Houthis and Saleh's forces to release prisoners, withdraw from cities and hand over weapons before discussing a solution to the political disagreements. The Houthis and its allies want coalition air missions to stop and a unity government to be formed before disarmament talks.
Did they argue over the shape of the table?
The government delegation on April 23 said it would only meet U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad and not sit directly with the Houthis, the source said. However, later on Saturday Ould Cheikh Ahmad said the sides had agreed to appoint delegates to oversee the ceasefire process, a small step forward.
What color is the tablecloth?
Ceasefire documents shown to Reuters by the Saudi-led coalition showed agreements for each of Yemen's provinces where fighting was taking place signed by representatives of each side, who had formed committees to monitor the truce.
The clashes on April 23 at al-Koud near Zinjibar in the southern Abyan Province were between AQAP and army forces of Yemen's internationally recognised government backed by local militias, referred to locally as the Popular Resistance.
In recent weeks Hadi's forces, backed by coalition air strikes, have pushed towards Zinjibar along the beach road from Aden. Al-Koud lies on that road only 5 km (3 miles) from Zinjibar, long considered an AQAP stronghold along with the town of Jaar about 15 km to the north.
Later, a suicide attack on a military post in al-Koud was thwarted when a bomb-laden car was fired on and destroyed, killing the driver, before it reached the sentries, the military source said.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] The Nigerian Army has restated that the 9pm -6am curfew imposed on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as a result of the 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... terrorists’ activities in the North East is still in force.
It said violators will face the music.
In a statement signed by Col Mustapha Anka, Deputy Director, Public Relations, the Army said, "It has come to the notice of Headquarters 7 Division Nigerian Army Operation LAFIYA DOLE that some members of the public violate orders on curfew imposed in Maiduguri and environs.
"Violations of curfew threaten the relative peace being enjoyed in Maiduguri town.
"Please be reminded that a legitimate curfew in Maiduguri imposed from 9pm to 6am is still in force.
"The Division wishes to inform the general public that despite the successes recorded against Boko Haram Death Eaters across the state, the fight against insurgency is not yet over.
"The Borno State Government and Headquarters Theatre Command will at the appropriate time review the curfew in line with prevailing security situation across the state.
"We wish to reiterate that anyone found flaunting the orders will be enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and prosecuted.
"All law abiding citizens and peace loving people of Borno State are hereby advised to report any suspicious person(s) to nearest military post, security agencies or Civilian Joint Task Force."
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[DAWN] SWAT: Police has jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) district councillor in connection with PTI politician Sardar Soran Singh's murder on Sunday.
The suspect, Baldev Kumar, was arrested from Barikot area of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... district. He has been shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for further interrogation, said police officials.
Two other suspects were arrested also arrested from Buner district.
It is pertinent to mention that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) had grabbed credit for the liquidation.
Sardar Soran Singh, a special assistant to chief minister KP on minorities’ affairs and an MPA, was bumped off in a assassination near Pir Baba in Buner district on Friday.
Soran Singh belonged to the Sikh community and joined Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf in 2011 after being associated with 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... . He held one of several seats reserved for religious minorities in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... provincial assembly.
Three years ago, another PTI provincial politician Fareed Khan was rubbed out by unknown gunnies in Hangu.
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"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown Barikot"
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Dave Kopel at the Volokh Conspiracy explains the rather startling conclusion: that permitting armed students and faculty on a college campus over 12 years leads to not one gun-related act of violence whatsoever.
And 26 acts of rape stopped in their tracks when the women pulled out their handguns.
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A pointed question...
"Professor, what sociable widget,
Positioned where coeds could reach it,
Blocks unwanted hookups
And town-on-gown stickups,
Promoting politeness collegiate?"
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Before todays 2nd Amendment "extremists", before there was a republic, and while the colonies were under the rule of the British Empire, those who wanted independence were labeled rebels and barbarians. They were opposed by the most powerful army in the l, armed colonial loyalists and German Hession troops. The odds the patriots were up against were far greater than Constitutionalists are today yet they succeeded.
And so can we.
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Well, Unelet, I hate to be the one to rain on your parade---but, IMHO, they were different breed of men.
"I'm tired, and my tuchus is blistery,"
Complained a great student of History.
"The thing that pursues me
To tailgate and bruise me,
Refuting my views, is a mystery."
The death toll from Ecuador’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has risen to 654 people, the country’s emergency management authority said on Saturday.
Last Saturday’s quake, the worst in nearly seven decades, injured around 16,600 people and left 58 missing along the country’s ravaged Pacific coast. One hundred and thirteen people were rescued from damaged buildings.
“These have been sad days for the homeland,” President Rafael Correa said during his weekly television broadcast earlier on Saturday. “The country is in crisis.”
Several strong tremors and more than 700 aftershocks have continued to shake the country since the major quake, sparking momentary panic but little additional damage. Tremors are expected to continue for several weeks.
With close to 7,000 buildings destroyed, more than 25,000 people were living in shelters. Some 14,000 security personnel were keeping order in quake-hit areas, with only sporadic looting reported.
Survivors in the quake zone were receiving food, water and medicine from the government and scores of foreign aid workers, although Correa has acknowledged that bad roads delayed aid reaching some communities.
Correa’s leftist government, facing mammoth rebuilding at a time of greatly reduced oil revenues for the OPEC country, has said it would temporarily increase some taxes, offer assets for sale and possibly issue bonds abroad to fund reconstruction. Congress will begin debate on the tax proposal on Tuesday.
Correa has estimated damage at $2 billion to $3 billion. Lower oil revenue has already left the country of 16 million people facing near-zero growth and lower investment.
The country’s private banking association said on Saturday its member banks would defer payments on credit cards, loans and mortgages for clients in the quake zone for three months, to help reconstruction efforts.
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"I'm weary," said Evelyn Nesbit,
"Of swinging," to friends in her bedsit.
"And feel a tad dizzy...
Okay, let's get busy!
I can't stand too much of a respite."
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I trust that these limericks elicit
(although I don't make it explicit)
Some feeling for ladies
Pulled down into Hades
(no matter how much they're complicit).
#3
Your opinions are indeed your own, Zenobia F., and always delightfully expressed.
Continuing the conversation from yesterday with newc, perhaps a bit cleaner language would make you feel better, dear, but your thoughts are wholesome.
#4
For what it may be worth, I enjoy reading your posts.
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There once was a poet from Rantburg
Whose musings put shame to Sandburg
At a time of self-doubt
In anguish did shout
But his fans put the kibosh on that urge.
For Whiskey Mike, the D2O from India uses (or did use, data is a few years old) a fractional distillation process, and is less pure and not considered 'Lab Grade' (electrolysis method).
CANDU system (Canadian process) is more refined and is closer to what you probably use.
Don't know what the Persians are producing that we would want to buy.
Hopefully that answers your question from the other day.
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I think the poetry adds a touch of class that you bums sorely need. And while newc occasionally over-froths, I see there are *no* squirrels on the lawn at Castle Rantburg.
Long piece from Tablet, found with the help of a regular Rantburg reader on Facebook. Just the lede here...
The New York Times recently published a long investigative report by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams, and Nicholas Confessore on how foreign countries buy political influence through Washington think tanks. Judging from Twitter and other leading journalistic indicators, the paper’s original reporting appears to have gone almost entirely unread by human beings anywhere on the planet. In part, that’s because the Times’ editors decided to gift their big investigative scoop with the dry-as-dust title “Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks,” which sounds like the headline for an article in a D.C. version of The Onion.
Except, buried deep in the Times’ epic snoozer was a world-class scoop related to one of the world’s biggest and most controversial stories—something so startling, and frankly so grotesque, that I have to bring it up again here: Martin Indyk, the man who ran John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, whose failure in turn set off this summer’s bloody Gaza War, cashed a $14.8 million check from Qatar. Yes, you heard that right: In his capacity as vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the prestigious Brookings Institution, Martin Indyk took an enormous sum of money from a foreign government that, in addition to its well-documented role as a funder of Sunni terror outfits throughout the Middle East, is the main patron of Hamas—which happens to be the mortal enemy of both the State of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.
But far from trumpeting its big scoop, the Times seems to have missed it entirely, even allowing Indyk to opine that the best way for foreign governments to shape policy is “scholarly, independent research, based on objective criteria.” Really? It is pretty hard to imagine what the words “independent” and “objective” mean coming from a man who while going from Brookings to public service and back to Brookings again pocketed $14.8 million in Qatari cash. At least the Times might have asked Indyk a few follow-up questions, like: Did he cash the check from Qatar before signing on to lead the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians? Did the check clear while he was in Jerusalem, or Ramallah? Or did the Qatari money land in the Brookings account only after Indyk gave interviews and speeches blaming the Israelis for his failure? We’ll never know now. But whichever way it happened looks pretty awful.
Or maybe the editors decided that it was all on the level, and the money influenced neither Indyk’s government work on the peace process nor Brookings’ analysis of the Middle East. Or maybe journalists just don’t think it’s worth making a big fuss out of obvious conflicts of interest that may affect American foreign policy. Maybe Qatar’s $14.8 million doesn’t affect Brookings’ research projects or what the think tank’s scholars tell the media, including the New York Times, about subjects like Qatar, Hamas, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other related areas in which Qatar has key interests at stake. Maybe the think tank’s vaunted objectivity, and Indyk’s personal integrity and his pride in his career as a public servant, trump the large piles of vulgar Qatari natural gas money that keep the lights on and furnish the offices of Brookings scholars and pay their cell-phone bills and foreign travel.
Then again, maybe not...
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In fact, Qatar is a US protectorate. The close Qatar-U.S. relationship was noted when former Arab League Secy-General Amr Moussa acknowledged (11-2012) that Qatar's powerful Prince Hamad Bin Khalifa had offered to "pay in full" to ensure the U.S. military presence in Qatar. Moussa added, "When he thought of protection, [he] saw that Americans are the only ones willing to provide it." Sheikh Hamad "told Americans that he will ensure their expenses are paid in full, so now he enjoys security." (Al-Arabiya, November 30, 2012) Today, the Qatar base is the fulcrum of US policy in the Gulf. Qatar has not only paid off Indyk, but the Clinton family as wel..
[NYPOST] Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there. Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help.
The report from the state Board of Elections that accuses him and his team of "willful and flagrant" violations of campaign-finance laws immediately changes everything.
The veneer of business as usual is shredded. Never again can de Blasio wave off questions about the mushrooming investigations of his administration. As revelations pile up day after day, allies will desert him and the Putz will find himself a very lonely man.
There is no way to sugarcoat the facts: de Blasio is in trouble. Maybe very big trouble.
His City Hall is being depicted as the seat of a criminal enterprise. And so far, he offers nothing resembling a convincing denial.
As bad as it is, the election report covering the 2014 state Senate races is just the start. The endgame involves the more lethal issue of whether de Blasio sold government favors to donors. That is what federal prosecutors are looking for, and I believe they will find a mother lode.
Yet if the election report were all there is, it would still be a problem. It calls one of the campaign violations a possible felony and refers its findings to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. for prosecution. That explains why Vance recently partnered up with US Attorney Preet Bharara in the multipronged probe, effectively doubling the number of prosecutors and Sherlocks.
And that gets to the heart of de Blasio’s vulnerability. His 2014 Senate effort wasn’t unique. It is just one example of how he has done business since the day he won the election in 2013.
Think of it as de Blasio’s Big Idea. While denouncing income inequality, he was determined to harvest big bucks from unions and private firms that had business before the city, and then to use that money to carry out his "progressive agenda."
He raised as much as $40 million and deposited it in various slush funds he formed, including the Campaign for One New York, which he started before he even took the oath of office.
The money would be managed by a small team of insiders. Some were on the city payroll, but most were in favored law firms, public relations and consultant shops. In effect, de Blasio outsourced a permanent political operation to be the vanguard of his administration.
If that sounds familiar, it's because it is...
The money would come from real-estate developers, yellow-taxi medallion owners, teachers unions and anybody else willing to play ball in hopes the mayor would return the favors.
Oh, and one more thing: de Blasio would do much of the fund-raising himself, meeting with donors in large groups or one-on-one.
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He raised as much as $40 million and deposited it in various slush funds he formed, including the Campaign for One New York, which he started before he even took the oath of office.
Failing to use legitimate structures such as the cover for actionClinton Foundation obviously has it's downside. Simply an example mind you, simply an example.
[NEWS24] Kaduna - Suspected 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... gunnies on horseback killed at least 11 people in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... this week, two civilian vigilantes assisting the military told AFP on Thursday.
The attack on Zango village, in the Gulani district around 150 km south of the Yobo state capital, Damaturu, happened overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, said Aisami Mamman.
It came two weeks after a similar attack on two nearby villages left at least 20 dead, he added.
"They [Boko Haram] came around midnight [23:00 GMT Tuesday] and started firing gunshots in the village. This prompted residents to flee into the bush," said Mamman.
"They pursued them, shooting at them while others set fire to the whole village. The whole village was burnt. Eleven people were killed and several others were maimed, six of them critically.
"They were brought here to Damaturu where they are receiving treatment for gunshot wounds."
The motive for the attack was not immediately clear but previous strikes have seen Boko Haram steal cattle or foodstuffs.
The hit-and-run attack has been a trademark of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group affiliate but such incidents have become rarer because of a concerted military counter-offensive in the northeast.
Troops have over the last year wrested back territory lost to the snuffies in 2014, scattering fighters and cutting off their supply lines.
Sacked
Boko Haram fighters have conducted a number of attacks on remote villages after arriving on horseback and even bicycles because of a shortage of fuel for vehicles or cycle of violences.
Mamman suggested the attackers in Zango came from the Sambisa Forest area of neighbouring Borno, where Boko Haram has long had camps.
"Exactly two weeks ago there was a similar attack on two villages nearby. They attacked Gurum and Dokshi villages," he said in an account of both incidents supported by another militia member.
"They burnt them completely and killed more than 20 residents."
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[AnNahar] Several dozen migrants colonists managed to illegally cross from Greece into Macedonia on Saturday -- a border that has been shut since February, an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer reported.
The photographer saw the group in the Macedonian town of Gevgelija, across from Idomeni in Greece where more than 10,000 migrants colonists have been stuck for weeks in grim conditions after a series of border closures on the Balkan migrant route.
The photographer, who was travelling with a group of journalists, saw a person "jump out of the bush" in front of his vehicle.
"Then I saw two or three others, then around 50 resting in the bush," he said, estimating there were "many others" following this group.
The migrants colonists would have made a three-hour journey from Idomeni including the crossing of a river.
The group, including "many women, children, even a woman carrying a cat," then disappeared from the journalists' sight, the photographer said, adding that they "looked scared" and "tired".
In the Macedonian capital Skopje, police denied any knowledge of the incident.
"I have no such information," police front man Toni Angelovski told AFP.
But he added: "We have these kind of illegal attempts to cross (into the country) on a daily basis, and police are taking measures to protect the border."
Some 54,000 people, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, have been stranded on Greek territory since the closure of the migrant route through the Balkans in February. More than 10,000 are in the overcrowded camp in Idomeni, separated from Macedonia with a double barbed wire fence.
Groups have intermittently tried to cross the border, where they face the Macedonian police and army.
Two weeks ago some 260 refugees were maimed when Macedonian police fired tear gas in a bid to prevent a large group from storming the border.
Last month, three Afghans drowned trying to wade through the river and cross into Macedonia, while another 1,500 or so who followed them made it across the border -- only to be rounded up and sent back by troops.
Describing the refugees, the photographer said he was struck by the tension on their faces, but added they did not seem to be concerned in being spotted by the journalists. They continued their journey without saying where they were going, but were probably heading north towards Serbia, the photographer added.
Last month a Macedonian army front man told AFP that the police and military "daily discover 50 to 300 illegal migrants colonists who are trying to enter into the country or break the fence" and send them back to Greece.
Macedonia, a non-EU and non-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... country of two million people, has deployed its army at the border since August last year to control the influx of refugees and other migrants colonists hoping to start new lives in northern Europe.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] If the past administration took the 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... for granted, making the disaster a justification for grand public treasury theft and even in service of a refusal to correct perception of tacit support for the group in conspiracy theories promoted to gullible and polarised citizens, the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, despite its controversial handling of the economy, clearly takes its predecessors as a bad model for conflict management.
A prominent politician once told me that the war on terror failed under former President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau.Other than that he's pretty useless as the Boko Haram debacle shows.. because, aside from our popular ridiculing of the man as uncharismatic and clueless, he was "afraid of his service chiefs." This is interesting considering the involvement of heads of our security institutions in one of the biggest heists in the history of Nigeria, diverting funds voted for counterterrorism to their private causes and personal accounts. The region was thus allowed to be destroyed by the Boko Haram because the evil benefits these morally irresponsible public officers.
Quite unfortunate was the politicisation of counterterrorism, with the President even seeking to make it a Muslim agenda against his Presidency while conspiracy theorists in the north, indoctrinated by former Governor Murtala Nyako and even Malam Nasir El-Rufai, portrayed the spate of killings as a covert operation of some Christian organizations or personalities eager to decimate the dominating north and its politically overpowered Muslims.
I have always seen Boko Haram as a real conflict that emerged from our cultural flaws and thrived on our institutional lapses. It's not a conspiracy, it's a reality to which many of us are firsthand witnesses.
I campaigned against Jonathan possessed by rage over his deliberate refusal to serve as a unifying figure at that critical point of our polarisation and distrust, for even making policy statements as he jumped from one pulpit to another, home and Israel.
I don't think the past administration sponsored the Boko Haram, they just let it happen because of the billions allocated to our security agencies by the tricked and paranoid dispensation. Yet, the past few days, with the liberations of many towns previously sacked or occupied by the holy warriors as announced by the Nigerian troops, internally displaced persons have been reunited with the only place they call homes, giving another chance for them to breathe freedom again, and rebuild their lives.
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[DAWN] The US State Department has publicly acknowledged that after last week’s massive boom-mobileing in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... it asked Pakistain to take concrete action against the Haqqani network.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack outside a building of the National Directorate for Security in Kabul on Tuesday that killed 64 people and injured more than 300 others.
Pakistain had condemned the attack hours after it took place. We condemn thee, we condemn thee, we condemn thee. There, that should do it.
"We extend our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to those who have lost their loved ones and pray for early recovery of the injured," the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Commenting on Afghan government’s claim that Pakistain supported the group that carried out the attack, the director of the State Department’s Press Office, Elizabeth Trudeau, suggested on Friday evening that Islamabad continued to allow bully boyz to use its soil.
"We have consistently expressed our concerns at the highest level of the government of Pakistain about their continued tolerance for Afghan Taliban groups such as the Haqqani network operating from Pak soil," she told a news briefing in Washington. Obviously Trudeau has never visited a game farm. Hunting within the Tribal areas must be strictly controlled with price points which attact only the high-end, most discriminating customer.
"And we did again -- after this week’s attack, we have pressed the government of Pakistain to follow up on its expressed commitment not to discriminate between terror groups regardless of their agenda or their affiliation by undertaking concrete action against the Haqqanis," she added.
Within hours of the attack, Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. vowed "vengeance for each drop of blood spilled", while his chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , cancelled a May 2 visit to Pakistain, citing the findings of a preliminary investigation.
On Friday, the Voice of America radio quoted Afghanistan’s deputy presidential front man Dawa Khan Menapal as claiming that Pakistain supported and armed the Haqqani network that carried out the attack.
"Attacks such as this clearly undermine US, Afghan and Pak efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan," Ms Trudeau said. But you must understand, business is slow, very slow. Without the attacks, there are no cheques! We had only one UBL, you have taken him away, so we have nothing left but attacks.
The US official, however, disagreed with a journalist who suggested that the United States allowed Pakistain to continue supporting the Death Eaters by avoiding criticising its policies publicly.
Ms Trudeau said that Pakistain had reiterated that it would not discriminate between terrorist groups "and we continue to call on them to live up to that commitment".
When asked if "words match Pakistain’s actions", the official said: "I think words matter and we continue to encourage them to have their actions match those words."
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] One of the "most horrific movements in the history of the world" is strengthening its links with Isis, officials have warned.
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... , a Nigerian terrorist group waging a bloody insurgency across parts of Africa, swore allegiance to the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... last year and co-operation between the two organizations is increasing.
Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, commander of US special operations in Africa, said the groups clearly share "tactics, techniques and procedures," from the way they conduct complex ambushes and set improvised bombs, to how they launch high-profile attacks on hotels.
A "large cache of different types of weapons" including machine guns intercepted by Chadian authorities on its way to Boko Haram from Libya.
"You can, I think, draw a conclusion," Brig Gen Bolduc said, suggesting the weapons may have been sent by Isis from its strongholds along Libya’s coastline.
He called the Lake Chad Basic region where Boko Haram is launching its insurgency as "ground zero" the fight against extremism in Africa.
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US President Barack Obama said Sunday he was not supportive of establishing the so-called safe zones in Syria as it would need a bulk of military contribution, Sputnik reported.
"As a practical matter, sadly, it is very difficult to see how it would operate short of us essentially being willing to militarily take over a chunk of that country," Obama stated at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, broadcast by the TRT World news channel.
The comment comes a day after Merkel urged to create security zones in Syria where displaced people could be guaranteed safety.
Anytime Ms. Merkel wants to commit German military forces to create the security zones she's welcome to do so.
White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said on Friday that securing a safe zone in Syria would be complicated to implement and would not be in line with Washington's national security interests.
And it might create another red line...
In February, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the administration was considering establishing a safe zone in Syria in the border area with Turkey, but also noted that such a feat would require additional troops and was 'complicated.'
We elect you guys to do the complicated things...
Did someone say 'Buffer or Safe Zone?' UNDOF Zone, the Golan Heights, est around 1973: The buffer zone is about 80 km long, and between 0.5 to 10 km wide, forming an area of 235 km². The zone straddles the Purple Line, separating the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights and the rest of Syria, where the west line is known as "Alpha", and the east line as "Bravo". The zone also borders the Lebanon Blue Line to the north and forms a border of less than 1 km with Jordan to the south.
Not sure how many refugees you can pack into the Zone but it wouldn't hurt to try...
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Ah. Then the Muslim invasion of the West must continue. In the 8th year of Hussein's Presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood is more than satisfied with such historic progress.
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Creating ‘safe zones’ in Syria impractical - Obama - or red lines.
An officials says at least seven suicide blasts happened at an Al shabaab base near the strategic town of Baidoa in Somalia’s southern Bay region on Sunday morning, killing six Al shabaab members.
Burhakabo district commissioner Mohamed Abdi Mohamed, told Radio Shabelle that south west state of Somalia forces backed by AMISOM foiled an imminent bomb attack by Al shabaab members at Raydable village. He said the allied troops laid a siege on a house, and killed at least six Al shabaab fighters who were planning an attack in Baidoa city following a tip-off from local residents.
Burhakabo DC also said the south west state forces have managed to capture three Al shabaab militants alive before they commit the suicide during the raid on the house.
Raydable, is a key village located between Baidoa and Burhakabo towns in Bay region. The area has been under Al shabab control for years before the coalition forces retook on Sunday.
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[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 28 strikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Combined Joint Task Force said four strikes near two cities in Syria hit three tactical units and destroyed two fighting positions, an anti-air artillery system and a vehicle borne improvised bomb.
In Iraq, 24 strikes near 11 cities hit a weapons facility, a headquarters and a modular facility and destroyed trench systems, supply caches, assembly areas and a generator, among other targets, the statement said.
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A total of 16 people, including children, were wounded when two rocket projectiles fired from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in northern Syria hit the border province of Kilis on April 24.
One of the two rocket projectiles fired from the ISIL-controlled region in Syria hit the roof of a house in the Okçular neighborhood while the other hit the backyard of another house. Medical personnel and police were immediately deployed to the scene following the incident while security measures were also taken in the area.
The 16 wounded individuals, six of whom were Syrian citizens, were reported to be in good condition and under treatment at Kilis State Hospital, a statement from the Kilis Governor’s Office read.
The Turkish military shelled ISIL-controlled positions in the Bab region in northern Syria following the incident.
Recently, three people were killed and six others were wounded when rocket projectiles fired from Syria hit Kilis on April 22, as the border province continued to be the target of attacks originating from Syria.
The total death toll in rocket landings in the border province has reached 15 since January.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A clash erupted among the Afghan and Pak border forces in Goshta district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, local officials said Sunday.
The incident took place after the Pak forces started shelling Goshta district, forcing the Afghan forces to respond.
The officials further added that festivities continued for several hours, claiming the life of border police force and leaving two others maimed.
There are no reports regarding the casualties of the Pak border forces.
This comes as a similar incident took place in Goshta district earlier last month following Pak militia forces attack in Anarki area of Goshta district.
The Pak military has stepped up cross-border incursions during the recent months which comes after considerable reduction in indiscriminate shelling during the past one year.
The Pak air force helicopters also violated the Afghan air space by entering the Afghan soil and dropping several bombs in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan earlier last month.
The cross-border incursions by Pak forces sparked furor among the Afghan officials with the Afghan officials saying such violations harms the national illusory sovereignty of Afghanistan.
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HAMA – Islamist fighters of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front on Sunday bombed a Christian town in Syria’s central province of Hama, killing and wounding a number of civilians.
Local sources reported the death of at least four civilians and the injury of nine others in the town of Sqelbiya in Hama province.
“Nusra fighters, backed by rebels of the Ahrar al-Sham, shelled Sqelbiya with at least 14 mortars on Sunday,” media activist Abboud Sarkis told ARA News in the embattled town.
“The offensive targeted residential neighborhoods in Sqelbiya, causing the death and injury of more than fifteen civilians,” the source reported.
“Also, the bombardment has caused mass destruction in residential buildings, and rescue teams are still looking for victims under the rubble,” Sarkis added.
Sqelbiya town, where Christians constitute a majority, is under the control of the Syrian regime forces. The town has earlier been exposed to several attacks by Islamist factions that have been struggling to take over the strategic town for months.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Sunday, a police source revealed, that two civilians were wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, an improvised explosive device emplaced on the roadside in Abu Dsheir area in southern Baghdad exploded, wounding two civilians with different injuries.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “A security force cordoned off the explosion area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive the needed treatment.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Sunday, that 10 people have been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast that took place in the district of al-Tarmiyah north of Baghdad.
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, an explosive device went off near a popular market in the district of al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, resulting in the death of one person and wounding nine others.”
“A security force rushed to the area of the incident and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine authority,” the source added.
After a short-lived ceasefire gradually collapsed, bombs have started falling heavily on Aleppo, leaving people there with no choice but to think again about whether it is time to get out of a city at the epicenter of the Syrian war.
The brief normalcy brought by a truce has vanished, emptying, again, the parks and streets of the war-torn country. Residents count the explosions and the dead across the frontlines of a city divided between the government and rebels.
Hope does not loom on the horizon, especially with the government talking about a new attack against the areas of Aleppo under anti-government forces control. Such a campaign would likely aim to close up the last route into rebel-held areas. Air strikes on rebel-held areas have resumed.
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[Daily Caller] A plane now used by press corps following Hillary Clinton around was once boarded by a lot of neked wymn, a new report claims.
The Shoura Council of Mujahideen in Derna (SCMD) has accused the Libyan National Army (LNA) of airstrikes on the town today and killing civilians.
A bomb-laden vehicle exploded on Sunday killing seven soldiers in Yemen's south, where government forces backed by air power from an Arab coalition have launched an offensive against Al Qaeda, military sources said.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province said Sunday, that 17 ISIS elements had been killed by an artillery shelling south of Mosul.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak authorities have said two security personnel 
ADEN: A Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on the Al-Qaeda-held port of Mukalla in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 10 militants, medical sources and residents said, part of an offensive to recapture the city.
ERBIL – Iraqi Sunni tribes revealed a list with the names of hundreds of their own members who have joined the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, local sources reported on Sunday.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 19 
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[DAWN] The US State Department has publicly acknowledged that after last week’s massive 
US President Barack Obama said Sunday he was not supportive of establishing the so-called safe zones in Syria as it would need a bulk of military contribution, Sputnik reported.
An officials says at least seven suicide blasts happened at an Al shabaab base near the strategic town of Baidoa in Somalia’s southern Bay region on Sunday morning, killing six Al shabaab members.
A total of 16 people, including children, were wounded when two rocket projectiles fired from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in northern Syria hit the border province of Kilis on April 24.
