Last night, the House of Representatives snuck through a food bill that authorizes President Obama over a billion dollars to "promote global food security." Instead of allowing normal consideration and debate, this bill was rushed through with only a 40-minute debate with no possibility for amendments.
I opposed this bill, and I am disappointed that our leadership would schedule this expensive bill at a time when many Representatives were absent or did not have enough time to fully consider it. This process is a perfect example of the reason so many people in Colorado and around our nation are frustrated with Congress. Backdoor deals and sped-through legislation are not a responsible way to represent the American people. The elites keep doing everything they can to steal from us to line their pockets
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the House of Representatives - that would be the GOP controlled House of Cronies? Tell me again how it will all be fixed by getting the 'right man' in the position to influence this type of behavior.
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It starts at the top Procopius2k. Forcing a president on them that would veto this crap while replacing congressmen and senators during elections that keep voting for this crap is a start.
Term limits are another with a ban on congressmen becoming lobbyists another.
I really don't have much hope of it happening until the economy really come crashing down and half the country is voting to leave this train wreck... but I still try.
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The foxes are most definitely in the hen house. Modern day cons. In the old days these slickers were either run out of town or they knew when it was time to move on. Politicians don't have to move on.
Even weirder, they have no intention of actually suffering for their faith. Instead, they want to make you suffer. Al Gore can buy "green credits" like indulgences because he is worth close to a billion. That means he gets to live like a royal, enjoying your suffering as you try to work the new gas can. His mansion is lit up like Versailles, while you squint in the florescent haze of your eco-friendly CFL. It’s suffering by proxy, where they sacrifice their time to watch you suffer as a result of their policies.
What strikes me about it is the utter pointlessness of it. The endless posing and posturing has no end because it has no end point. A faithful Christian at least has the serenity of his communion with God. The Muslim, at the click of the detonator, knows he will be with Allah. Climate change fanatics have nothing but a hopeless misery. Even if all of their policies are enacted, nothing comes of it.
Don’t discount the smug satisfaction the eco-fascist takes in knowing he’s coerced entire cities to ban shopping bags, begin mandatory composting and in bankrupting entire industries, coupled with the Gnostic belief that he can see the world more clearly than those non-believers, whom he views as the equivalent of Holocaust deniers, if not something even worse. All that crony corporatism means he’s got his -- and all the new laws he’s passed are the equivalent of raising the drawbridge up behind him. Not to mention all the exciting cocktail parties with Leonardo, Al, Barry, and the rest of the (private) jet-set in Paris, Davos, (Hey, what do the Daleks have to do with any of this?)
and Bali. Sure it’s all nihilism -- but nobody said that nihilism couldn’t be awfully swank as well.
Analysis: True, given that EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy certainly never looks happy, despite having far too much influence over the American economy. It's basically an entire leaning tower of corruption and privilege, of the sort that Martin Luther and Adam Smith were both rebelling against, but the conservative commentariat is always quick to tell the displaced, dispossessed workers that they have to put up with this sort of thing, because of Ricardo, or because we demand too much equality-of-outcome.
I'm tired of reading 19th century free market platitudes while the Western equivalent of Milovan Dilas' New Class is trying to turn the Western world into a combination of Medieval China and post-closure-of-the-Grand-Council Venice.
[The Hill] Clinton is now viewed unfavorably by 55 percent of the electorate, according to the HuffPost Pollster average, which tracks findings from 42 different polling outfits. Only 40.2 percent of people view her favorably, according to that average.
An Associated Press/GfK poll released last week also found 55 percent giving Clinton an unfavorable rating. In the most recent Gallup poll, released late last month, her unfavorable number was 53 percent versus only 42 percent who saw her favorably.
Even Democrats acknowledge those findings are a problem.
"They’re pretty bad," said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, who connected the poor poll numbers to separate findings that show a broad number of Americans don’t trust Clinton.
"The No. 1 reason that her favorability is so bad is that you have large numbers of Americans who say they don’t trust her," he said. "I could make it sound more complicated than that, but that’s really what it is. Voters see her as the ultimate politician, who will do or say anything to get elected."
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Why? It's a race by both parties to alienate as many voters this year as possible. At the moment, this could turn out to create the lowest turn out of eligible voters in November in our history.
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Honestly, I wonder if the Establishment Media is absolutely determined to drag the rotting corpse of Hilary's campaign over the finish line - never mind the obstacles, never mind the truckloads of baggage, the unlikeability, the corruption, the sheer bloody incompetence that she has exhibited whenever she tried to do anything other than stand at Bill Clinton's elbow and look First Lady-ish ... how many news orgs and ageing celebs are in the tank for her, so far that they need a breathing apparatus and a dedicated crew to go on ...
Everyone hates the sourpuss who says the party is over. The next president will have to tell the American people that a reckoning is on the horizon--and that it is not going to be pretty.
...An adult president is going to have to tell the American people that a mandated equality-of-result economy is fossilized, entitlements are insolvent, the debt is unsustainable, interest rates are going up, the medical system is pure chaos, and people have to get over expecting to live off government, not because it is unethical, but because it is untenable.
h/t Instapundit
Why do the angry white poor and working class support the unlikely populist Donald Trump -- a spoiled bully who made and lost fortunes in part by gaming the system, who seems to take gratuitous rudeness and cruelty as a birthright, whose lifestyle is symptomatic of American excess, and who for the last half-century has embraced no ideology other than Trump, Inc.?
Perhaps it’s because Trump is a phantasm. He is not a flesh-and-blood candidate judged as crude or acceptable on the basis of the usual criteria. His attraction rests on about 100 sound bites over the last year that shattered taboos and attacked elite sacred cows, in a manner that no candidate has done in the past -- or is likely to do in the future. Trumpism is nihilism. A reckless Trump had no political career or social capital to lose, unless one thinks that The Apprentice discriminates against the outrageous and crass, or that the New York real-estate industry blackballs prevaricators.
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Trumps appeal lies in the fact that the politicians Republicans have sent to Washington for the past thirty years have been pretend conservatives, who've betrayed them as soon as they've unpacked at the Watergate.
Nobody really cares what Trump's politix are now. The important thing is that he's not a politician.
I don't think Republicans are getting happier watching the convolutions the establishment's going through opposing Trump.
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Maybe because no one has expressed the desire to be the voice and champion of a large group of people who've been abandoned by both parties in words and deeds. You are looking at fundamental tribal affiliations. You are looking at people who actually see they've been screwed over for everybody else's demands. They're not expressing it specifically, but they're testing the system to see if this still is a democracy (a government in the interest of the majority) or something else. These are the people you demand 'die on that hill' for your power and money. You'll find out you're the nihilist when they decide they're not going to make such sacrifices and everything starts to implode.
Also some of it is because Trump is not 'politically correct' and does not dance the tune the media loves to play them to.
People are tired of 2% of the population dictating that women have to share their restroom facilities with potential perverts and rapist simply because a minuscule number of people 'feel like they are women'. Or that 2% of the population can force people to participate in religious ceremonies which they find deeply offensive or lose their livelihood.
And anyone, anyone, who will stand against that kind of bullshit, even Trump, would seem appealing.
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I believe Trumps support comes from the fact that both parties pushed for free trade with the knowledge it would guy manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs but then did nothing serious to replace those jobs. Then redifined unemployment to hide the numbers.
Trump went from a joke to a serious candidate when he talked about protecting American jobs. The white poor heard beyond the wall and understood he was standing for them and love him for it.
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VDH could've saved a lot of effort and simply gone with this:
In sum, the white lower and middle classes are angry, and they are tired of being blamed for the unhappiness of other tribes. In our world, in which uncouth tribal leaders can say almost anything, these whites wanted their own Sharpton or Ramos, and finally got him with Donald J. Trump. As is true of most revolutionary movements, the aggrieved are not as angry at their perceived opponents as they are contemptuous at the enablers of them.
The irony is that it appeared in the National Review.
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I think it's less about free trade per se than people think. The average manufacturing business in the US is subject to a multitude of "backwards tariffs" starting with the various carbon taxes and going on from there, and then the displaced workers are told that it's because of Free Trade and their inferior competitive advantage, while Obama and now Hillary ran or are running on putting more entire industries out of business.
When you've sworn to put coal plants and coke plants out of business you've sworn to put what's left of the steel business out of business, and the knock-on effects put anyone who makes anything out of anything in this country at a severe disadvantage.
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It seems to me it's not so much that all those who claimed to be conservative got to Washington and threw off their masks, but that when they got there they were not a moajority even in their own party, and had to make compromises to get anything done. We are in a transition period, as the increased fiscal and somewhat social comservatism of most of the country works its way up from local and state political control to the federal level, which is why so many Republican politicians are so much younger than their Democratic counterparts. Note, this also means the older Democratic and more centrist Republican politicians have experience the conservative youngsters lack, and are therefore better at accomplishing their goals... for a while, at least.
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Trump is an idiot. His words prove it out. Anyone voting for or supporting him should be asking themselves why. I have a feeling most of the support is that they want a wrecking ball taken to DC and the eternal insiders there from both parties.
The problem is, supporting Trump is akin to throwing a tantrum, not thinking and acting rationally. Its a purely emotional response, all about your feelings, your anger.
Isnt this what people criticized Obama voters for - voting emotionally, failing to examine thoroughly the candidate and his obvious flaws? Doing things like doxxing delegates and sending the death threats because Trump's henchmen called them Gestapo?
If you support Trump, you are part of the problem. You're stuck on stupid. You need to examine the real stances fo the remaining candidates, the performance of these candidates in office, and on the campaign trail, and actually use your brain.
Don't do stupid things because you are so angry that it clouds your judgement.
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Fed, don't drag this place into the sewers of Trumpkin land. Do you truly support a man who likes political opponents to the Gestapo, who killed millions? Who consistently attracts and tacitly condones threats of violence against political opponents? Who whines about a delegate system whose rules were open for all to see - and then whines about being out thought and out hustled by his opponent when its Trumps own failure to do the same that cause him to lose delegates?
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Both parties are in revolt. This is a test, absolutely. It this was any other country but America there would be a violent revolution. For the moment, our revolution is through the democratic process. If the republican party is dumb enough to play with the rules and remove the guy who has the popular vote by the people and play the delegate game all bets are off. I am tired of being called the problem in America. I served this nation for almost 30 years. Payed all my taxes without shelters and other dodging crap. Now I'm a bigot because of the color of my skin and no matter what I do I can't change that. I also seem to need to pay reparations for slaves. Wake the hell up, I'll have no part of that. My Irish relative came to the USA as indentured servants, white slaves baby, where the men in my family served, fought and some died fighting in he Penn artillary, so I owe no one! My Republican Party has approved every Obama agenda item. They are traitors. They all need to go and the folks inside the beltway need to come visit those that are paying for their greed and corrupt deals. Yes I'm pissed and DC needs a full housecleaning, to include the staffs and the rest of those that don't seem to realize they are destroying our nation. Most third world countries have more integrity than the whole of DC combined. And all the 300 pound brains in DC need to realize I am a moderate out here in the flyover states. It will get very ugly if they play too many more games.
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#10 In short, Trump runs his compaign exactly as Dems do?
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Jeb Bush, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Baraq Obama, Lindsey Graham, Xi Jinping, Vicente Fox, Whoopi Goldberg and on and on and on.
He's pissing off all the right people. I can't think of any better reason to vote for the guy.
When I read to the bottom of the article there was a little pop up window in which the National Review says "We need your help." Sorry. I think I'll save the money for Rantburg!
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VDH's comparison of Trump and Sharpton is spot on - they're both obnoxious grievance hustlers. And the fact that both of their respective supporters care less about their irrational policies and more about their inflammatory comments is testament. Or maybe it's just because their both a couple of big goverment A-holes from NYC?
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Actually I am comfortably middle class (arguably upper middle class) and I like Trump a lot, simply because he likes America and wants to make it great again. Can the same be said of Crash and Bern?
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Varmint Poodle8489, your so called "adults" have been doing the work for several decades now. That's why we have $20 trillion federal debt, an epidemic of heroin addiction, a culture that thinks our Mexican border should be left undefended, political correctness that is really an effort to curb free speech, outsourcing, H1Bs, unemployment that is so high the government doesn't dare report it accurately, a Middle East in chaos, an Arab invasion of Europe, terror attacks in Europe, terror attacks in America. Your so called adults are killing us. When something is so obviously not working it's time to try something else.
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SG, so I'm stuck on stupid? My first comment is fuck you. But that would be inappropriate. So I am a 55 year old veteran, stuck on stupid. I raised a wonderful family, stuck on stupid, paid my bills, taxes, ran an orphanage, stuck on stupid. Served in three different combat zones, stuck on stupid. And what I want is my vote to count, not some prearranged rule designed to end run the voter who is stuck on stupid. I want my government to act responsibility, balance the budget, and provide for the defense of our great nation. But I guess I am stuck on stupid for choosing the only candidate that wants the same thing. Next time you decide to call me a fucking idiot you should get past your tantrum and emotions and understand who you are calling fucking stupid, you attitude IS the problem. Just because we disagree does not mean one of us is stupid, I don't know you, I disagree with you, but I would never be as arrogant to as to call you stuck on stupid
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TW, before I get the ok don note. I went and had a snickers bar and I feel better now. Sorry.
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Think you two are yelling at the same macro-bot. Except could not spell Fred correctly this time.
Fred, did you sell out to Mistress Peterson, you sunovabich!
Personally, I don't think it was either Trump or Cruz's group which snuck into the other's camp and doused the fire with gasoline..not initially at least. I think the establishment knew they would have to be even more obviously voting along D lines then now with either of these two fellows, so they tried to get them to knock each other out while a good ole boy was still in the race.
Don't laugh; did something like that out here Milton Wolf vs. Pat Roberts.
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49 Pan, "I want my government to act responsibility, balance the budget, and provide for the defense of our great nation. But I guess I am stuck on stupid for choosing the only candidate that wants the same thing."
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Rj, you might be right. Im not sure about Cruz. Might be just me. He seems to pander to the far right. Might be just a little to far for me. I like the tea party, but I'll admit I just can't pin what it is about him I don't like. If he were to win the convention with the popular vote supporting him I would support him. If he gets it without that I can not support him. America will be just like every other soviet nation. Vote how you want but we will tell you who to vote for and will change the rules to get what party leaders want in spite of the voters.
On the dem side I see the same thing. The deme are so tired of the clintons that they will support a socialist/communist. People are tired of business as usual in DC. Maybe 4 years of trump will get congress to realize our opinions matter.
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Isnt this what people criticized Obama voters for - voting emotionally, failing to examine thoroughly the candidate and his obvious flaws?
Obama has succeeded quite handsomely in his attempt to "fundamentally transform" America, thanks in no small part to that emotional support.
Perhaps the GOP rank and file has come to the conclusion that sweet reason and Marquess of Queensberry rules aren't the best way to fight back.
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went and had a snickers bar and I feel better now. Sorry.
Forgiven, dear 49 Pan. If it helps, swksvolFF correctly noted that Varmint Poodle8489 and Sheba Glirong2372 are the same person, and he is definitely trying to get your goat. I've been away from the computer, or I would have deleted his posts. But y'all have been chewing on him, so perhaps it's just as well.
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This is my humble, but semi scientific opinion, for what it is worth.
The whole election has evolved to Kabuki Theater. Donald Trump, whether you like him, disdain him, or hate him, superman or fraud, is the only person that is shaking up the establishment parties.
These parties dem and pub, want the status quo. They will maintain power and control of the money by ANY MEANS necessary. Whether to smear Trump, play their insane rules, fix the election, cancel the election, go after the threat with prejudice. Trump's candidacy is an existential threat to their position of power. We are talking TRILLIONS of dollars here.
On top of that NOBODY talks about the runaway government debt, and the existential threat it poses to our existence as a country. Many great nations and empires have collapsed just the same way. Axe Ask Louis XVI about how overbearing taxation worked out for him.
This country, with few exceptions, has transitioned power without bloodshed. Now you have an electorate that feels used, betrayed, and robbed. How polite for how long will they remain?
We have one last chance to do it right. If we do not, then all bets are off. The government will go bankrupt and collapse, but on the way they will do and take anything to keep the status quo---for them.
What will you do when that happens? Do you have a plan B? This country is in an existential crisis. The crisis will be resolved one way or another. It may or may not be to your liking.
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And my opinion as well AP, and my opinion as well.
[Daily Caller] Mixed martial artist fighter Joao Carvalho passed away Monday night only 48 hours after being knocked out during a bout in Ireland over the weekend.
According to Deadspin, the Portuguese fighter was examined by medical personnel following his third round TKO at the hands of Charlie Ward before being immediately transported to a nearby hospital.
[Reuters] Democrat Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will propose the creation of a new national Office of Immigrant Affairs should she win the White House in November, as she seeks to woo minority and immigrant voters in New York less than a week before the state's primary.
The office would coordinate policies and programs among federal agencies and with state and local governments, according to an aide.
In contrast, Republican candidates have largely called for stricter immigration rules. Republican front-runner Donald Trump has called for building a wall along the border with Mexico as well as a temporary ban on immigration by Muslims.
The New York primary on April 19 could either help former secretary of state Clinton consolidate her status as the Democratic front-runner, or hand a significant victory to rival Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking to defy expectations and win the party's nomination for the Nov. 8 election.
Both candidates are now campaigning across the state, looking to win over New York's diverse population, including voters who come from immigrant families. Around 19 percent of the state is Hispanic or Latino, according to the U.S. Census.
With 247 pledged delegates at stake, the state is among the most significant nominating contests left on the calendar before the July convention.
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Reuters (aka Rooters for Terrorists) - you can tell by the liberal use of 'Immigrant' to describe Illegal Aliens and border-jumpers.
I take this to mean that the so-called 'Immigrant Affairs' office will have nothing to do with actual Immigrants but everything to do with providing boodle, and forcing state and local governments to provide boodle to Illegal Aliens.
If it was run like the Indian Affairs or Veterans Affairs offices one might expect it to drive them to self-deport. But sadly I'm afraid it will be very good at what it is intended to do - shackle even more vote-slaves to the government teat.
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I wouldn't mind an immigration affairs office dedicated to promoting assimilation as the path to success in America. We've got enough worthless offices as is that we just rename one without having to hire anybody.
The rest of the worthless offices (Education department, HUD, etc) can be reassigned to the Illegal Immigrant Affairs office (that is Border Patrol) and secure that shit like every other nation in the world.
[Free Beacon] Inflation-adjusted federal tax revenues hit a record $1.48 trillion for the first half of fiscal year 2016, but the federal government still ran a $461 billion deficit during that time, according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement.
Treasury receipts include tax revenue from individual income taxes, corporate income taxes, social insurance and retirement taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and other miscellaneous items.
In the first half of fiscal 2016, which included the months of October, November, December, January, February, and March, the amount of taxes collected by the federal government outpaced the first half of all previous fiscal years, even after adjusting for inflation. The 2016 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2015, and runs through Sept. 30, 2016.
The federal government collected $1,476,218,000,000 in the first half of fiscal year 2016. Most of the $1.48 trillion came from individual income taxes, which comprised almost half of that total, totaling $675 billion.
One year ago, the government collected $1.42 trillion in inflation-adjusted revenues in the first half of fiscal year 2015. The Treasury Department has been tracking these data on its website since 1998. In that fiscal year, the federal government collected $1.11 trillion in inflation-adjusted revenue in the first half of that fiscal year. This means that since 1998, tax revenues have increased 33 percent.
Although the federal government brought in a record of approximately $1.48 trillion in revenue in the first half of fiscal 2016, according to the Treasury, it also spent approximately $1.94 trillion, leaving a deficit of approximately $461 billion.
[NYT] Last year, Hillary Clinton called the Rev. Al Sharpton to wish him a happy birthday, a bit of outreach that she did not tell reporters about, though Mr. Sharpton did.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton, still battling her way through a primary against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, will make a more high-profile connection with Mr. Sharpton, appearing at his National Action Network convention in Manhattan.
Mrs. Clinton has relied heavily on black voters to bolster her against Mr. Sanders in several nominating contests. And while she has known Mr. Sharpton for years, the firebrand reverend and MSNBC host is more closely aligned with President Obama than with the Clintons.
The visit always made sense as a practical matter. But it has taken on new contours as Mrs. Clinton tries to brush back social media-stirred outrage about a racially charged joke that Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York made in a skit that she appeared in at an event on Saturday.
A woman who tipped off French place about the hiding place of the mastermind of the Paris attacks has spoken out for the first time and says it is 'important that the world knows I am a Muslim myself'
The woman, who is hiding from other real Muslims now living under police protection, said she accompanied Hasna Aitboulahcen, the cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, to the latter's hiding place in a wooded area near Aubervilliers.
When she realised Abaaoud was planning a second terror attack, she tried to get Aitboulahcen drunk so she couldn't help him to carry it out. She then told police of his plans. Aren't Muslims supposed to avoid alcohol? Maybe martyrs are exempt?
The woman told The Washington Post that she was a surrogate mother to Aitboulahcen and felt guilty over her death.
"It's important that the world knows that I am Muslim myself," she said.
"It's important to me that people know what Abaaoud and the others did is not what Islam is teaching." she said from her safehouse.
Aitboulahcen stayed with the woman for three years but went through periods of drug and alcohol abuse and would disappear for weeks at a time.
Her behaviour apparently changed when she began to message someone in Syria - believed to be Abaaoud - and soon she had started wearing a niqab and talking about a potential marriage.
It is believed that she was unaware of Abaaoud's involvement in the Paris attacks until they met in the woods.
Abaaoud told Aitboulahcen to find accommodation for him and his associate and to buy them smart suits and shoes, which it is thought that he intended to use as a disguise for a second attack on Paris's business district.
Abaooud later called Aitboulahcen to say that he would kill her if she spoke to anyone about their meeting. It was then that the woman tried to get Aitboulahcen drunk. The next day she called emergency intelligence and explained everything that was said.
Later that week, French police raided the St Denis flat Aitboulahcen rented for Abaaoud. He was killed when Chakib Akrouh's suicide vest detonated, causing the ceiling to cave in and crush him to death.
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It's encouraging to know some Muslims will step up. It's valuable for all of us to know some Muslims will step up.
It's also valuable for the terrs to think nobody will rat them out, so that they'll be careless on op sec.
And it would be a detriment if this woman, being known, were killed.
Not sure whether naming her was a net good.
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[Wash Times] Ahead of President Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia next week, the White House sidestepped questions Tuesday about whether the president supports declassifying 28 pages omitted from a joint commission’s report on the 9/11 terrorist attacks that reportedly implicate the Saudis.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Obama "certainly has confidence" that Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper will consider the documents for release as part of an ongoing declassification review. But he wouldn't say whether the president has read the secret pages, or whether Mr. Obama believes they should be made public. We'll be arriving Clapper Station in 3 minutes. Clapper Station just ahead. This is where truth gets off.
The president's spokesman said Mr. Obama is hopeful that the question will be resolved before he leaves office. He then added, "there is Classified, then there is Classified."
The 28 pages are believed to detail links between Saudi Arabian officials and the 9/11 hijackers -- 15 of 19 of whom were Saudi citizens. A CIA watchdog report last year found no evidence that the Saudi government "knowingly and willingly" supported al Qaeda's attack.
But many lawmakers who have read the 28 pages say they point to heavy Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Members of Congress are permitted to read the documents, alone, but aren’t allowed to copy them.
"I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn't speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of whom didn't have a high school education -- could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States," Sen. Bob Graham, Florida Democrat, told 60 Minutes on Sunday.
Reps. Walter Jones, North Carolina Republican, and Rep. Stephen Lynch, Massachusetts Democrat, are trying to have the documents declassified. If we could only find someone willing to email the documents to Secretary Clinton.
The president's visit to Saudi Arabia on April 21 will be focused on U.S. cooperation with the kingdom and other Gulf states in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Implementation of the administration's nuclear deal with Iran, which has angered the Saudis, is also likely to be on the agenda. The Saudi Money Trail
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AP reported last month that Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early as 1995 that several Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flight schools and at least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into federal buildings.
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If San Diego FBI agent Steven Butler had known what the CIA knew about possible terror attacks, he may have had the best chance to stop the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, investigators told ABCNEWS.
Special Agent Butler suffered a "punitive reassignment." He no longer works for the Bureau.
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What we do know is that the 28 pages are not damaging to the United States or they would have been released prior to the deal with Iran, the surrender to Cuba, passing of obamacare...
German counter-intelligence believes that at least 29 former soldiers from the country have left to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. An internal report also revealed that 65 active soldiers are being investigated for alleged jihadist sympathies.
How many of the 29 are named 'Hans' or 'Dieter'?
The report was undertaken by the German military counter intelligence service (MAD), which was seen by the DPA news agency. The documents show that at least 29 former German soldiers have fled to the Middle East to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
Social Democratic Party (SPD) MP Hans-Peter Bartels, who is responsible for oversight of the army, said on Tuesday that "Islamism isn't the main problem of the Bundeswehr (German Army), however, he did mention that "it represents a real danger that we have to take seriously."
As many as 22 soldiers have been identified within the Germany Army of being Islamists since 2007, with 17 being sacked. The remaining five had reached the end of their service without killing anyone when the investigation had been concluded.
According to DPA, MAD has investigated a total of 320 suspected cases of Islamism since 2007.
Alarmed by the revelations, the German Defense Ministry now wants MAD to take greater steps to ensure that jihadists are not infiltrating the German Army. This will include every prospective soldier being investigated for links to anti-Constitutional movements. However, this would need the law to be changed.
At present, only those joining sensitive areas of the military have had to undergo background checks, while ordinary soldiers have not had to go through any vetting process.
"Just like other fighting forces, the Bundeswehr can be attractive for Islamists who want to acquire weapons training," Bartels said. "But to my knowledge there is so far no systematic push by Islamist organizations to infiltrate the army."
German domestic intelligence has also warned that there is a threat of future attacks in German cities from newly arrived migrants, amid fears that newly-arrived migrants are being radicalized.
"We see the security situation as very serious, though we have no immediate intelligence on planned attacks in Germany," the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maassen, told Die Welt newspaper in a comprehensive interview released on Sunday. His office acts as Germany’s main counter-intelligence and homeland security agency reporting to the Interior Ministry.
"IS is willing to carry out attacks on Germany and German interests," he said, adding that in IS propaganda German cities are placed next to Paris, London and Brussels ‐ all previous targets of large terror attacks.
The homeland security chief said airports and railway stations, as well as large-scale public events such as open air fests, were the most likely targets for potential attacks. In addition, Maassen stressed that "we’ve seen many times that those [German nationals] who returned from Syria had links to planning attacks in Germany."
A recent study conducted by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and published on April 1 says that between 720 and 760 Germans are believed to have traveled to join IS.
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in the US, Islamists would be fairly easy to identify by the end of basic training
the problem is whether the military would have the stomach to discharge them
we already have the case of Maj Nidal Hasan who murdered a dozen in 2009 and PFC Naser Abdo who plotted to do a similar atrocity but was arrested before he could pull it off
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In Florida Donald Trump only got 45% of the vote but (because of Florida rules) Trump came away with 100% of the delegates.
This means that 55% of the voters in Florida did not vote for Trump but their votes ended up going to Trump anyway.
The voters don't even know who the delegates are that will be sent to represent them.
If you did not vote for Trump in Florida your vote now means nothing. You have neither a candidate nor a delegate that you selected.
I much prefer the Colorado system where the voters choose the delegates who will represent them. Even if your preferred candidate drops out (Like Rubio did during Arizona early voting) you still have your chosen delegate to represent you. So your vote is not wasted.
Contrary to what the media wants you to believe, Colorado delegates were not chosen by the GOP elite. There were 7 local elections and a State election. More than 65,000 people voted in Colorado to select their 34 preferred delegates.
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I think the whole problem is the Colorado Republican Party did a piss-poor job of getting out and explaining things to voters. Granted Trump has had since August of last year to get on top of this, or his "Best people" to get on top of this, or even SAY something. But the GOP in Colorado should still have done a better job of explaining.
For that matter this is nothing more than Trumps way of getting out votes for NY, if he truly gave a damn he would have attended the State Convention and railed against the party insiders to their faces. He didn't, he doesn't care, he's after NY and this will be forgotten in 2-4 weeks the same way Wisconsin has been forgotten.
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I think the whole problem is the Colorado Republican Party did a piss-poor job of getting out and explaining things to voters.
And Trump did a piss poor job of working the process, but now he wants to do a bang-up job of lying about it afterwards.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A signal controller at the center of an investigation into a German train crash that killed 11 people admitted on Tuesday to playing a game on his mobile phone while in charge on the day, the public prosecutor’s office said.
The man was detained on Tuesday after developments in the investigation into the head-on train collision in Bavaria in February, which was Germany’s biggest train crash since 1998. He faces possible charges of causing death through negligence.
The public prosecutor’s office in Traunstein, near the border with Austria, said investigations had found the man "turned on his mobile phone during his shift on the morning of the accident, started an online computer game and played actively... until just before the collision of the trains."
The man denied being distracted by the computer game. But the prosecutor’s office said the time period in which he was found to be playing the game meant it could be expected that he was not paying attention to a critical traffic intersection.
The controller gave the trains an incorrect signal and then hit the wrong buttons when issuing a distress signal, meaning it was not heard by the train conductors, the prosecutor’s office said.
The trains, carrying about 150 people in all, crashed at high speed on a 6-km (4-mile) stretch of track between the spa town of Bad Aibling and Kolbermoor, near the Austrian border.
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – On Tuesday, Diyala Police Command announced arresting two wanted people on charges of terrorism, while dismantled an improvised explosive device in Baqubah District.
Diyala police spokesman Colonel Galib al-Attiya said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A security force from the police’s emergency regiment carried out a raid in Balad Ruz District, and was able to arrest two wanted people on charges of terrorism,” pointing out that, “The detainees were transferred to a security center for interrogation.”
Attiya also pointed out, “An improvised explosive device emplaced on the agriculture road in Hamrin Basin was dismantled.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source in Nineveh Province announced on Tuesday, that the so-called ISIS executed a college student in front of his house south of Mosul for cooperating with the security forces.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS fighters executed a university student in Makhmur District south of Mosul for collaborating with the security forces.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “ISIS carried out the execution in front of the student’s house in the village of al-Haj Ali in Makhmur District, and in the presence of all the people in the village.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Operations Command announced, that the hospitals of Nineveh Province have received more than 500 bodies of ISIS fighters during the military operations taking place south of Mosul.
The commander of Nineveh Liberation Operations, Maj. Gen. Najm al-Jubouri, said in press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Nineveh hospitals received more than 500 bodies of ISIS fighters during the military operations south of the province, especially in Qayyarah,” noting that, “We will resume the military operations when more military troops arrive to sustain the momentum of the military operations, as well as securing the liberated areas.”
Jubouri added, “ISIS left dozens of bodies during the military operations in the liberated areas,” indicating that, “The international coalition aircraft backed the military operations and carried out more than 52 air strikes during the battles.”
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ERBIL – Leadership of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) has ordered its own Kurdish militants to either carry out suicide attacks against opponents or slaughter the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters captured by the group during confrontations in northern Iraq, Kurdish official sources reported on Tuesday.
The terror group aims at showing the Kurdish insurgents, while killing their peers from the Peshmerga forces, to send a strong message to the Kurds to comply with ISIS orders and help the group facilitate plotting attacks inside the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, according to Kurdish analysts.
Head of Relations and religious coexistence in the Ministry of Awqaf in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Mariwan Naqshbandi, said Tuesday: “The jihadi leaders have recently put two options before the group’s Kurdish members. They [Kurdish militants] must choose, either to carry out suicide operations against the Peshmerga forces in Iraq and Kurdish forces in Syria or slaughter the Peshmerga captives at the hands of ISIS.”
The source pointed out that the terror group demanded its own Kurdish militants to film slaughtering the hostagesــ apparently to send a message to the Kurdish people.
“This decision has led many of the militant Kurds to escape the group’s ranks and head to one the European countries in a bid to preserve their lives,” the Kurdish official reported, pointing out that the group’s behavior confirms its loss of confidence in its Kurdish members.
Naqshbandi told ARA News that nearly 50 Kurdish militants remained in the ranks of the hardline group, as many others have been executed on charges of ‘high treason’.
Speaking to ARA News, Kurdish writer Newzat Ibrahim said that ISIS clings to this move [ordering Kurdish members to either kill Kurdish hostages or carry out suicide operations] because it lost trust of its own Kurdish gunmen during the last few months.
“Although it has received painful blows in the last period by the US-led coalition forces and allied Kurdish Peshmerga forces, ISIS struggles to preserve its territory of control in both Syria and Iraq,” he argued.
Since the anti-ISIS military campaign began, around 300 Kurdish militants, who had already joined the ranks of the terror group, were killed by the Peshmerga forces and the US-led coalition airstrikes.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry dismisses the reports that Iran has received S-300 missiles from Russia.
They're holding out for the S-500's...
The ministry's spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said the media quotes from him a day earlier were "imprecise" in making claims to that effect, ISNA news agency reported Apr. 12.
On Monday, Ansari told a press conference that the first phase of a series of agreements between Tehran and Moscow to deliver the missiles had been accomplished. Iranian media, however, quoted him as saying the country had received the first consignment of the missiles.
Iran signed a deal for the purchase of the missiles from Russia in 2007. Moscow has been refraining from delivering the arms so far, although Iran has already paid for them.
Suckers...
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"We renamed them to,..um,..er.., S-301.
Yeah, that's the ticket!"
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QUETTA: At least three alleged terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in the Rindgarh area on Sunday.
Security forces conducted a raid at a hideout on a tip-off and killed three terrorists during an exchange of fire. A huge cache of arms and ammunitions were also recovered from their possession. The terrorists were wanted in various cases including kidnapping for ransom, target killing and notorious crimes.
Aden is in part al-Qaeda territory
A suicide bomber suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda terrorist group killed five Yemeni soldiers when he detonated his explosive belt Tuesday among army recruits in Aden, a security official said.
The man mixed in with a group of recruits as they headed to their base in the southern city which serves as a temporary capital for the government, the official said.
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MINGORA: Unidentified gunmen killed Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Shangla Muhammad Ilyas and injured two of the police officer's' guards in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat district on Tuesday.
The assailants opened fire on the DSP's vehicle in Mingora's Sabzi Mandi area, where he was on a visit, leaving him and two of his guards seriously injured, police said. The gunmen fled the scene of the attack.
The DSP and his guards were taken to a nearby hospital where the senior police official was declared dead by doctors.
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Muhammad Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack in an email sent to journalists but police and law enforcers are yet to identify the culprits.
The attack comes as Operation Zarb-i-Azb is two months into its final phase. Inter-Services Public Relations claims at least 252 militants have been killed and 160 severely injured as security forces clear militancy-hit areas in Shawal Valley and North Waziristan Agency.
At least five major counter-terrorism military operations were carried out in Swat and Shangla from 2007 to 2009. Operations Rah-i-Haq I, II and III targeted militancy in both Swat and Shangla, Operation Rah-i-Rast took place in Swat, and Operation Black Thunderstorm took on militancy in Buner, Lower Dir and Shangla.
[Ymet] The United States and its allies stages 13 strikes on Monday 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 in the coalition's latest daily attack against the bad boy group, a US military statement said on Tuesday.
Nine strikes hit near four Iraqi cities - Hit, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Qayyarah and Sinjar - destroying 21 of the bad boys' fighting positions and three tactical units, among other targets, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
In Syria, four strikes near Manbij and Mar'a hit four Islamic State tactical units, four fighting positions, an improvised bomb and other targets, the statement said.
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[FRANCE24] Dozens of Mexican prisons are overcrowded and run by inmates, with many sneaking televisions, cellphones and weapons into their cells, a human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... body said Tuesday.
The governmental National Human Rights Commission said in a report that 71 state and six federal penitentiaries -- out of more than 150 prisons -- are too crowded.
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Could be a model for breaking the California Corrections Officers' Union
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Where is the MCLU when you need them? Just think how crowded it will be when trump builds a wall.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the regional intelligence agencies and terrorist groups are imposing on the Afghan nation and have a critical role in the ongoing violence in the country.
A statement by MoD said the snuffies are deployed to Afghanistan with full financial and military support under the name of holy war.
MoD in its statement further added that Chechens, Punjabis, Arabs, Uzbeks, Uyghur and other foreign snuffies are actively participating in the war in Afghanistan and are continuously killing innocent Afghan civilians.
The statement also added that incidents like 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.. attack and various other terrorist attacks shows that the hard boy groups are the enemies of Islam and Afghanistan as they have no mercy on children, women and elders.
The ministry strongly condemned the suicide kaboom in Nangarhar province and said the leadership of the ministry offers their condolences to the families of the victims and promised that the Afghan forces will remain firm in defending the country and maintain peace and stability.
No further details were given on claims regarding the regional intelligence agencies and terror groups role in the Afghan war.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for harboring the Afghan hard boy groups as they receive full support from Pakistain’s military intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
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Pashtuns carrying Pakistani passports are merely locals living in the other side of an artificial line.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan police have tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! two men appearing in a documentary film about the sexual abuse of children in Afghanistan, local officials in Balkh said.
The two men appeared in a documentary prepared by a Russian TV Channel about Bacha Bazi, sexual abuse of children.
Provincial police chief Syed Kamal Sadat said the two men, Jabar and Jamil, who are also famous as Raees, have been arrested after they appeared in the documentary film.
He said the men were arrested after appearing in the film that is harming the national identity of the Afghan people.
The documentary released last month focuses on the stigma of Bacha Baazi in Afghanistan which continues in parts of the country despite the act has been outlawed by the government.
According to documentary, the young boys are normally recruited by influential individuals, taking advantage of their poverty and other social issues the young boys face, including the enormous amount of money needed for the marriage.
The documentary findings shows the boys are receiving the cost of their wedding from their owners after they reach the age adolescence.
One of the men who has been allegedly arrested says the boys should be about 12, 13, or 15 years old to be recruited as a Bacha ‐ a term usually used to call the children recruited for dancing and other sexual abuse.
He said the business owners "support" their boys until their "sell-by-date" expires, at about 25. "When a boy is older, we make their life better. We buy the bacha clothes, pay for their wedding when they’re no longer wanted. We feed them well, we prepare all their food for them. We do everything!" he says in all honesty."
The documentary also reveals the sexual abuse the young children are subjected to, including painful sexual offense at the hands of their owners. "At first, I didn’t know much about it, I thought it was just a game," he told RT, adding that "sex can hurt badly too, but money is important," said one of the boys who was first offered to become a bach in the age of 12.
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[SHANGHAIDAILY] Maiduguri, the capital city of Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno and the birthplace of Islamist group 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... , is enjoying relative peace, the Borno state governor said.
Kashim Shettima on Tuesday said Maiduguri, termed by him as Boko Haram's "headquarters", has become a "relatively safe haven" in the whole of the state.
Maiduguri has in the past suffered several deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram. Multiple suicide kabooms in January and March this year in areas near Maiduguri killed at least 91 people.
It is expected that by the end of this year, most internally displaced persons in other parts of the state could return to their homes in Maiduguri, Shettima said.
The governor said ten months ago that "one could not travel for 10 km without encountering murderous Moslems (Boko Haram bully boys)" in Borno state.
"But now Boko Haram has been so decimated," he said on Tuesday but added it did not mean Boko Haram had been annihilated in the restive state.
Boko Haram was founded in Maiduguri in 2002. It launched its campaign of violence in 2009 and has since killed more than 10,000 people mostly in northeastern Nigeria.
The Nigerian army has in the past year retaken large areas previously under Boko Haram control and freed hundreds of its hostages.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Russian military pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed near the central Syrian city of Homs, the defense ministry said on Tuesday, adding that the aircraft had not been under fire.
"Two crew members died," the defense ministry said in a statement.
The crash of the Mi-28 attack helicopter happened in the early hours of Tuesday, the ministry said, adding the bodies had been recovered and brought to Russia's Hmeimim air base.
"According to a report from the crash site, the helicopter was not fired at," the defense ministry added, saying experts were looking into the reasons of the accident.
The crash takes Russia's official combat corpse count in Syria to seven.
Moscow says that five Russian servicemen perished while on combat duty in Syria, including the pilot of a warplane shot down by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and a special operations officer who called an air strike on himself after being surrounded by ISIS bully boyz near Palmyra.
Another serviceman did away with himself while on duty in Syria, the defense ministry said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish artillery units on Tuesday shelled ISIS targets across the border in Syria, officials said, hours after rockets fired from Syria struck a Turkish border town, wounding eight people.
Two rockets hit the town of Kilis early in the day in the third such cross-border incident at the town in the past five days.
One rocket struck a guesthouse while the second landed on an empty field near a bus terminal, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. The Kilis governor’s office said eight people were hurt and two of them were at death's door.
Authorities evacuated children from a nearby youth center that has been turned into a temporary school for Syrian refugees, the report said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s military routinely retaliates to rockets or shells that land on Turkish territory. On Tuesday, artillery units fired at ISIS targets around the town of Azaz, in northern Syria, Anadolu reported.
The agency, citing unidentified security sources, said the targeted ISIS positions were located around the villages of Sawran, Dabiq, Akhtarin and Ehtemlat and added that the "intensive shelling" was continuing.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the Turkish military had responded to rockets "immediately in line with the rules of engagement."
"We are determined to take every step that is necessary," Davutoglu said.
The wider province of Kilis borders areas in Syria that are controlled by ISIS, Syrian Kurdish militia or anti-government Syrian rebels.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province said on Tuesday, that four elements of the Peshmerga were wounded in a mortar shell attack south of the province.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A mortar shell launched by ISIS had fallen on the village of Tal Maghaz in the district of Daquq (35 km south of Kirkuk), resulting in the injury of four elements of the Peshmerga,” adding that, “A force from the Peshmerga transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.”
[Rudaw] At least 26 people were arrested over the course of the last 12 days near Kirkuk province, a security official told Rudaw on Tuesday.
“12 of those who are arrested were previously wanted for links to terrorism,” Smko Mohammed, the spokesman of Kirkuk security forces (Asayesh), said in a press conference.
“A band of 8 people were also arrested on the charge of drug trafficking,” Mohammed added.
Mohammad added that another four were arrested for stealing $24,000 and gold from a house.
Two other people were also arrested on charge of spreading violent activities.
Kirkuk's police have already broken up several Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells which have carried out terror attacks and abducted civilians.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces and police maintain miles of defensive lines south of Kirkuk and have successfully foiled several ISIS attempts to attack the city.
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DIYARBAKIR: Six Turkish soldiers and 30 Kurdish militants have been killed in the past 24 hours in attacks and clashes across Turkey’s turbulent southeast region, security sources and the army said on Tuesday.
An estimated 57 people, including eight civilians, were wounded in the attacks, they said.
Thousands of militants and hundreds of civilians and soldiers have been killed since the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) resumed its insurgency last summer following a 2-1/2-year cease-fire and peace process.
The government has ruled out any return to the negotiating table and has vowed to crush the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
The security sources said operations in Sirnak province and in neighboring Iraq and Syria had been stepped up and that gunfire and explosions could be heard in the area where earlier one soldier was killed and three others wounded.
A soldier was also killed and four wounded in an explosion in Daglica, a village in Hakkari province near the Iranian border, during clashes with the PKK, the army said.
Two soldiers were also killed during clashes with the PKK in the border town of Nusaybin near Syria, the army said in a statement later on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu put the death toll from a car bomb attack overnight that targeted a Turkish gendarmerie base in the town of Hani at two. The army said 47 people, including eight civilians, had been wounded in that attack.
LAHORE: Security forces carrying out a joint operation in the riverine area of Rajanpur got a final nod on Tuesday for air strikes to hit the gangsters hiding in a 10km-long piece of tract surrounded by water.
Rajanpur police requested Punjab IG Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera to provide them two military helicopters for the strikes. The forces also offered the gangsters to surrender before the air strikes.
A senior police official privy to the development told Dawn that law enforcement agencies had halted the ground operation against the hardened criminals for the time being to avoid collateral damage.
“The forces have made last announcements asking women, children and other people to evacuate the island,” he said, adding that hundreds of people, mostly families of the gangsters, had been living in the island bordering Sindh and Balochistan for decades.
The official said police, Rangers, Elite Force commandos and Counter-Terrorism Department personnel were taking part in the operation, codenamed Zarb-i-Ahan.
Mushtaq Sukhera, the Punjab police chief, visited frontline checkposts on Tuesday to review the operational strategy. He was accompanied by police officers from Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan, DPOs and senior officials of Rangers.
“The mortar attack by Rangers has given a visible support to police against the gangsters,” the IG said.
According to a handout, he said the fight against the ‘evil elements’ of society had entered a final phase and security forces would eliminate them soon.
A hand grenade exploded inside courtroom in Karachi's Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) after a judge asked a police constable if he knew how grenades worked. The constable, instead of explaining his expertise in weapons and grenade handling to the judge, opted to demonstrate practically by promptly pulling out the pin from the grenade.
"One! Two! Five!"
This resulted in a loud explosion, injuring three including the constable and a court clerk.
The blast took place while hearing of a case was underway in courtroom-III. Two policemen and a court clerk were among injured and taken to a nearby hospital for first aid. Court's proceeding was briefly suspended as a result.
According to media reports, the grenade in question was the holy hand grenade of Antioch a locally developed bomb which was brought to the courtroom by Investigation Officer Abid Ali as evidence. The bomb was, reportedly, not defused before production in the court.
The police and paramilitary forces in the vicinity immediately surrounded the area after the explosion fearing a terrorist attack and the security forces were put on high alert.
It is safe to say that now the whole court knows how grenades work, including the curious judge.
According to authorities, the constable who apparently knows how grenades work will be punished severely after he recovers from his injuries.
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Evidence Tampering
Suicide by Ignorance
Failure to Follow Civil Rules & Procedures
But then again, this IS a third world court toom.
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[Iran Press TV] The Dutch security forces have partially evacuated Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport following reports of a suspicious package.
"Police have evacuated part of the airport plaza and the adjacent Sheraton Hotel and placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! one person amid a suspicious situation" late on Tuesday, said airport spokeswoman Danielle Timmer, without giving the identity of the suspect.
The heavily-armed masked security forces cordoned off the area and the baggage of the detained man was examined in the presence of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, a special unit of the Dutch Armed Forces tasked with diffusing bombs.
Police said that it also conducted a search operation at a bus stop outside the airport's main terminal.
"Part of Schiphol is not accessible due to an incident... For now, air traffic has not been affected," the airport said on its official Twitter account.
The alert reportedly triggered pandemonium as many stranded passengers started to run to safety.
Much of Europe remains on high alert following last month’s terror attacks in Brussels that claimed dozens of lives.
Military police front man Alfred Ellwanger told AFP that "around 9:45 pm (1945 GMT) a man was nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on the square in front of the main entrance to the airport’s plaza".
"The bomb disposal squad is also on the scene and they are checking the man’s luggage," he said.
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ALEPPO – Syrian rebel groups on Tuesday launched a major offensive on positions for the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) and were able to recapture key areas in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo, local and military sources reported.
Subsequent to the rebel-led attack, fierce fighting broke out between the two sides accompanied by artillery shelling by the Turkish army on ISIS positions in Aleppo’s northern suburbs.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, rebel spokesman Saleh Zain confirmed that the rebel groups, including the Sham Corps fighters, the Sultan Murad Brigade and Ahrar al-Sharqiya group were able to carry out a surprise attack against ISIS in the northern suburbs of Aleppo and were able to control the key town of ash-Shabaniya and the surrounding farms after heavy fighting, during which a number of jihadis were killed and some others injured.
“Supported by Turkish fierce shelling on ISIS’s locations in al-Raee and Qara Kopri villages, our fighters [rebels] regained key areas from the terror group,” Zain said. “We aim at taking over the ISIS-held strategic town of al-Raee [35 km to the west of Jarablus].
The Turkish shelling caused ISIS losses in manpower and equipment, according to the spokesman.
“Meanwhile, the US-led coalition forces conducted two air raids on locations for Daesh in the towns of Kadrish and az-Ziyadiya,” a local source told ARA News, using an acronym for ISIS.
ARA News has no precise information about the death toll in ISIS ranks.
Syrian rebel groups have been now on the outskirts of the town of al-Raee, which fell to ISIS two days ago, locals reported.
On Monday, ISIS captured several towns and villages in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo, including Tel Ahmar, ar-Raghibiya, ash-Shabaniya, Shaheen farms and Tel Shaeer west of the al-Raee town subsequent to fierce battles with Syrian rebel fighters from the al-Sham Corps, the First Regiment and the Sultan Murad Brigade, according to military sources.
Last Thursday, Syrian rebel groups, including Islamist factions, announced the expulsion of ISIS extremists from the town of al-Raee in northern Aleppo. However, sporadic clashes continue between the two sides along the borderline with Turkey, according to locals.
The radical group tries to maintain control over some key areas extending from al-Bab city to the bordering city of Jarablus–major pocket for the group in northern Syria.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! on Tuesday in Leb’s southern port city of Sidon, killing at least one person identified as a Paleostinian official, a security source said.
The source said the blast killed Fathi Zeidan, who headed the Fatah movement in the Miye Miye Paleostinian refugee camp near Sidon.
"His identification card was found near the car which went kaboom!, which was also his," the source told AFP, adding it was unclear if Zeidan had been in the car at the time.
The army’s forensics unit arrived at the scene of the blast and cleared away scorched body parts lying near a car in flames, said an AFP correspondent at the scene.
More than 450,000 Paleostinians are registered in Leb with the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, and most live in squalid conditions in 12 official refugee camps.
The camps are administered by Paleostinian officials and security forces, rather than the Lebanese authorities.
In recent years, tensions have risen between Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’s Fatah movement and the Jund al-Sham Islamist group, especially in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, which is also near Sidon.
The rival factions in Ain al-Hilweh have clashed several times in the past year, with each side accusing each other of liquidation attempts.
Ain al-Hilweh has become the scene of score-settling between several factions, and a breeding ground for Death Eater groups that have flourished on the back of the poverty afflicting the camp.
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[Ynet] According to sources in Syria, ISIS controls 90% of the Yarmouk Paleostinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus.
The camp is a major base for the PFLP-GC, a Paleostinian terror group with close ties to the Assad regime.
Reports say that a truce has been declared in the camp between ISIS and regime fighters, but festivities are still ongoing in the camp between al-Qaeda and ISIS.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) has reportedly managed to takeover most of the Yarmouk Paleostinian refugee camp in Syria's capital Damascus.
"[ISIS] began attacking positions of its former ally [Jabhat] Al-Nusra and took control of 60 percent of the camp,"
It's the same order of magnitude as 90%...
the Paleostinie Liberation Organization's (PLO) chief in Damascus, Anwar Abdel Hadi told AFP.
"Some Nusra fighters joined [ISIS's] ranks," he added. "ISIS then besieged the remaining Nusra positions and demanded that they leave the camp."
Yarmouk was once home to 160,000 Paleostinians and Syrians. The ongoing war in Syria has devastated it and forced most of its inhabitants to leave. A mere 6,000 civilians remain in the devastated area along with as many as 3,000 ISIS bully boys.
ISIS had previously overrun large parts of the camp in April 2015, in coordination with Nusra, but were pushed back by armed Paleostinians and forces loyal to the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites....
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[IsraelTimes] Computer files reveal Islamic State directed Gay Paree-Brussels snuffies changed tack as police net closed in.
The Islamist gunnies who carried out terror attacks in Gay Paree and Brussels had originally planned to target the European soccer championships due to take place across La Belle France this summer, according to a French newspaper.
The opening match and final are to be held at the French capital’s Stade de La Belle France, one of three targets hit during the Gay Paree attacks in November, along with a concert hall and nearby nightspots.
The cell changed direction after the arrest last month of Salah Abdeslam, suspected as a key figure in the Gay Paree attacks, during which 130 people were killed and hundreds more injured, Liberation reported Sunday.
Abdeslam is suspected of playing at least a logistical role in the Gay Paree attacks but escaped and fled back to Brussels, eluding a vast police dragnet for four months.
Liberation said the claims about targeting Euro 2016, due to held from June 10-July 10, were made by Mohammad Abrini during interrogation by Belgian Sherlocks.
Abrini, incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! on Friday, had already been indicted over the Gay Paree attacks and has been charged with "terrorist murders" in connection with last month’s carnage in Brussels, Belgium’s federal prosecutor said on Sunday.
Suspected of having left a bag of explosives at Brussels airport, Abrini reportedly confessed to being "the man in the hat" caught on an airport video. Three jacket wallahs went kaboom! themselves at the airport and metro station, killing 32.
The group’s objective was to strike La Belle France again, the Belgian federal prosecutor revealed, but the speed of the police investigation prompted them to "decide hastily" to hit Brussels.
A source in the French police told the newspaper, "It’s not a scoop to learn that snuffies want to strike during the Euro." Security forces were constantly developing attack scenarios and determining how to respond, said the source. "If Abrini’s statements are correct, it just confirms that Belgium is an operational rear base to watch even more intensely," the source said. "Networks and jihadi cells have been meeting there and regrouping constantly over the past ten years."
Having discovered Abrini’s address from the taxi driver who ferried him to Brussels airport, along with the suicide bombers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Mohammed Najim Laachraoui, police found not only a huge cache of explosives, Liberation reported, but a computer belonging to the El Bakraoui brothers in a nearby trash can that was evidently intended to be picked up by an accomplice.
The computer revealed the contents of a discussion apparently between El Bakraoui and an as-yet unidentified individual in Syria. "It’s a real brainstorming session," an anti-terrorist source told Liberation. "They openly plan operations, discuss when they should hit, where, if all the commandos will need to die together..."
The material provided clear evidence, the source continued, "that this cell continued to maintain links with Syria, to be advised and directed by the Caliphate [Islamic State]," and that was in spite of the death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud -- said to have played a key role in Gay Paree and considered by many to be the head of the group.
Another file on the computer mentioned possible attacks in La Defense, a business district in Gay Paree, and against the radical Catholic group Civitas, the source added.
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Here's the complete Euro 2016 schedule. Marseilles being the worst fucking Islamist armpit there is in France, I'm going with an attack there, late group stage match (June 21, Ukraine v. Poland) or the quarterfinal match (June 30) for maximum effect. Honorable mention goes to any matches in Toulouse.
Just because they've managed to ID one cell planning an attack does not mean other cells aren't considering the same thing.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are stepping up efforts to help communities in Somaliland and Puntland cope with a severe drought worsened by El Nino conditions, a UN spokesman said here Monday.
And they never seem to get anywhere...
“UNICEF said that these communities have lived through four successive poor rainy seasons and their ability to cope with the drought has been stretched to the limit,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.
The two agencies are providing an integrated package of life-saving humanitarian assistance to halt the deteriorating food security and rising malnutrition in the affected areas of Somaliland and Puntland, where 385,000 need immediate assistance, while another 1.3 million are on the brink of slipping into a deeper crisis if rains continue to fall and aid is too slow to come.
“The communities have lived through four successive poor rainy seasons, and their ability to cope with the drought has been stretched to the limit,” said the UNICEF representative for Somalia, Steven Lauwerier.
“Our concerted efforts are needed now to save the lives of tens of thousands of children and their families. Any delay from the international community will put their lives further at risk of hunger and disease,” he said.
In addition to increased malnutrition cases and enrolment in nutrition programmes in the most affected areas, malnutrition-related deaths have been reported in areas such as Awdal region bordering Ethiopia.
In response, UNICEF is strengthening services at community level, deploying joint mobile health and nutrition teams to reach pastoral and other hard-to-reach groups. UNICEF is also providing 50,000 households with access to safe water via vouchers in the affected areas, and have repaired seven boreholes.
For its part, the WFP has provided food assistance and nutrition support for 147,000 vulnerable people in the areas worst affected by the drought, and the WFP continues to provide food or cash-based assistance to help families make it through the dry season.
“The people of Somalia know all too well the dangers of drought, but a drought does not have to mean a disaster — the world must recognize that we can save lives if we act in time,” said WFP Country Director Laurent Bukera. “It is absolutely critical that we are able to sustain assistance to the people affected by this crisis, so we can stem the damage of undernutrition for mothers and children before it has lifelong consequences.”
Are the people suspending their support for the crazy cousins who join the Shaboobs, ISIS and al-Qaeda? Let me know when they do.
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[AnNahar] Austria sparked consternation in Rome on Tuesday with preliminary construction work at the Brenner pass in the Alps to prepare for a possible new influx of migrants colonists coming north from Italia.
A police front man in Tyrol state told Agence La Belle France Presse that work started Tuesday on concrete foundations for a planned control area in a layby off the northbound motorway at the border.
"What is however not being built are additional border management elements, in other words a fence. There is no timeframe for when that will happen," Stefan Eder said.
Vienna is concerned that following the closure earlier this year of the Balkan trail from Greece towards Austria, a new route across the sea from Libya to Italia and then northwards will open up.
Austria's government, which wants to slash numbers claiming asylum in the country this year to 37,500 from last year's 90,000, says it is planning additional measures at several border crossings from June 1.
Brenner is one of the main transport corridors between northern and southern Europe, with some 5,550 lorries passing through on a daily basis, and also has considerable symbolic importance.
"The construction of a barrier is a grave error which violates European rules," Sandro Gozzi, Italia's state secretary for European affairs and one of several senior Italian figures to have spoken out in recent days, said late Monday.
Arno Kompatscher, governor of the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol, told the Repubblica daily that the Brenner is "a symbol of European unification, of social and economic well-being".
Germany, which took in one million migrants colonists last year, has also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... . Deputy foreign minister Michael Roth last week warned against EU members taking "individual national measures".
Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, on a visit to Rome last Friday, said she would "do everything" to avoid having to close the Brenner pass.
"But steps must be taken. Amongst other things the Italian government has to ensure that all migrants colonists are registered in hotspots and housed nearby," Mikl-Leitner said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U2 lead singer Bono joined diplomats and aid experts on Tuesday to appeal for US Senate support for a “Marshall Plan” to provide aid to the Middle East much like the massive relief the United States provided for Europe after World War Two. Ohfergawdsake.
“Aid in 2016 is not charity; it is national security,” the rock star, who is also an active anti-poverty campaigner, testified to the Senate subcommittee that oversees foreign aid. The Muddle East? The place they keep all that oil?
“It could be the best bulwark we have against violent extremism,” Bono said. And we should listen to a musician precisely why?
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , the chairman of the Senate panel, and a few other lawmakers, have called for a multibillion-dollar aid program to address the crisis in the Middle East and the need for aid for millions of refugees fleeing violence in Syria, Iraq and other countries. Does the idea of "running out of money" never occur to these pinbrains?
They argued that defeating ISIS and other militant groups, and preventing the rise of new ones, will require humanitarian aid and economic development, including trade and loan programs. Somebody can worry about that after the expenditure of a lot of high explosives.
“I’m a pretty hawkish fellow, but I learned a long time ago... that you are not going to win this war by killing terrorists,” Graham said. Peshmergas are doing pretty well at it.
“We have a moment now that we haven't had in decades” in terms of political attention to the issue, said Kelly Clements, the Deputy High Commissioner from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Senator Patrick Leahy, the top subcommittee Democrat, said he would work with Graham on a plan. ... since like clings to like...
The hearing took place days before the Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to release a new spending plan including cuts in international aid. Congress has also been unable to agree on a relief package to fight the Zika virus currently threatening parts of Latin America.
Graham will have a difficult time winning over his fellow Republicans, who tend to be skeptical about international organizations like the United Nations and generally want tight controls on spending.
For example, Republican Senator Steven Daines said he was concerned about being effective for the American taxpayer. Another Republican, John Boozman, discussed a role for partnerships with private companies.
Bono, who co-founded the ONE international aid organization, has lobbied in Washington and other world capitals for a variety of causes including debt relief, alleviating world poverty and fighting AIDS.
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How much of Bono's money did he offer to pony up?
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To fully implement a traditional 'Marshall Plan' in the ME, we would have to bomb the crap out of it first.
Having Faith in Their future would be racist like Koreans, Germans, or Japanese.
Expecting less is Racist so pull out right naway and let them do whatever they want.
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...George Catlett Marshall was one of the hardest cases to ever serve this nation, and we were blessed to have him. It says volumes about his intelligence, generosity, and decency that the term 'Marshall Plan' has become a synonym for a plan to rescue entire regions of the world.
SteveS speaks wisdom, though - we'd have turned the place into a damned parking lot long before we ever spoke of rebuilding it.
Mike
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AND we'd have to have several hundred thousands of troops in place administering the whole thing.
Students at Ohio State University who attempted to occupy the area outside of president Michael V. Drake’s office late Wednesday night experienced a surprise — and a taste of the cruel, real world — when a senior administrator coolly advised them that they would be arrested and expelled if they didn’t retreat from their “occupied space.”
The protest began — as such protests often do these days — with a set of demands and the promise to remain firmly ensconced at Bricker Hall, Ohio State’s main administration building, until school officials capitulated to the demands.
The occupiers’ motley list of #ReclaimOSU demands includes “complete, comprehensive and detailed access to the Ohio State budget and investments immediately,” divestment from Caterpillar Inc. and Hewlett Packard because of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and increased purchases of organic, locally-grown food.
At around 3:30 p.m., about 100 students representing #ReclaimOSU and other campus groups (including OSU Coalition for Black Lives) set up an “open mic” protest near Drake’s second-floor office inside Bricker Hall, reports The Columbus Dispatch. (A few faculty members also reportedly turned up.)
The assorted campus dissidents complained for several hours that no one listens to their complaints. They also claimed — in public, outside the president’s office — that Ohio State wants to silence them. Though most of the protesters skipped out of the event by around dinner time, a hardcore group of about two dozen demonstrators stayed until after midnight. They sang. They chanted.
Eventually, Ohio State senior vice president for administration Jay Kasey appeared to inform the radicals that the time had come to decamp from the taxpayer-funded building. Protesters asked what Kasey would happen if they chose to stay.
“Our police officers will physically pick you up and take you to a paddy wagon, and take you to be arrested,” he explained.
“If you are here at five o’clock, our current philosophy is we are going to take you out — escort you out of the building and arrest you. You will be discharged from school also.”
Kasey then confirmed to a demonstrator’s query that “discharged” means expelled.
“I want you to make good decisions. You’re smart kids,” he said. “We simply tell you the truth and you live with your actions.”
School officials concluded that they had the authority to order the protesters to leave — and to arrest and expel them if necessary — because their presence was disruptive and was not authorized.
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“Our police officers will physically pick you up and take you to a paddy wagon, and take you to be arrested,” he explained.
Bad, bad words there! It was banned in Boston about six years ago because of the 'negative stereotypes' the phrase invokes.
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divestment from Caterpillar Inc. and Hewlett Packard because of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and increased purchases of organic, locally-grown food.
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Build a protest area, something like a Rodeo except open on opposite ends.
They're halfway there with the Horseshoe.
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Don't be fooled R-burgers. This Prick makes is nearly impossible for kids who residents of Ohio to get in to OSU because they prefer the foreign students. My kid got a 30 on his ACT and can't get into OSU. Fuck him and the butt head he rode in.
[IsraelTimes] Under Erdan’s initiative, every former IDF combat soldier would be automatically eligible for an arms license
A pack, not a herd...
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan reportedly announced Tuesday a bid to further relax conditions for gun license eligibility so that all former IDF combat soldiers will be entitled to carry a firearm.
Erdan announced his intention to relax gun permit restrictions at the Israel Security Conference, held in Yad Binyamin in central Israel, Ynet reported.
According to Erdan, former combat soldiers should naturally be entitled to bear arms as civilians due to the dangers surrounding day-to-day life in Israel.
"It makes no sense to take away the firearms of those who serve in reserve units their whole life," he was quoted as saying at the convention. "The intention is that they will carry a firearm [outside the army as well]."
The initiative reflects Erdan’s policy on easing gun permit restrictions.
In October 2015, after Israeli police submitted its professional opinion, he expanded gun permit eligibility so that graduates of elite combat units, as well as all IDF officers above the rank of 2nd lieutenant and non-commissioned officers from the rank of first sergeant and up can obtain a permit, even if they hold those ranks in the reserves. Parallel ranks in the police and other security services may do the same.
Erdan also ordered gun permits be granted to graduates of certain elite units in the security services, as well as certain government security courses, including those that train the security details of ministers and government institutions.
If Erdan’s current initiative to grant permits to all combat soldiers -- even those who didn’t serve in elite units -- is approved, the number of civilians who will be eligible for gun permits will rise to hundreds of thousands, the report said.
Erdan spoke at the convention of a need to balance between gun control policy and the possibility of fast response in event of a terror attack.
"I decided to switch to a balancing policy. It’s a matter of public interest: When a trained and armed individual is at the scene of a terror attack, we can see the difference. [Easing restrictions on gun permits] saves human lives."
Erdan’s initiative would have to be approved by the Finance Ministry to accommodate the budget and staffing requirements it will incur.
Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich also commented on the matter in the convention, underlining the complexity inherent to the easing of gun control.
"When we debated the question of whether or not easing restrictions on gun permits will bolster security, we also had to question if doing so will be an asset or a burden to Israeli society," Alsheich told the crowd.
"Guns can potentially be stolen, and Israeli police are in a constant struggle against this issue. On the other hand, [gun permits] make a difference in terror attacks. It’s not an easy decision to make."
[Iran Press TV] Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement has accused Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and its mercenaries of constantly violating a truce agreement across the country, saying the Saudis have almost no regard for the UN-sponsored deal less than a week before peace talks.
The Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said on Tuesday that pro-Saudi faceless myrmidons have targeted numerous positions of Houthis as well as civilians while Saudi fighter jets continued pounding positions across Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... despite the truce which came into effect at midnight between Sunday and Monday.
The report said Saudi mercenaries had launched rocket attacks on residential places in Jawf, Marib and Sa’ada provinces, all of them north of Yemen. Similar attacks were also carried out in central province of Ta’izz in the east.
It said Saudi warplanes attacked positions in the same provinces plus Sana’a, Amran and al-Hudaydah in the north while a health center in Lahij in southern Yemen came under fire.
Houthis on Monday recorded 39 violations of truce by Saudis and allies, including attacks in Ta’izz and the central province of Baida. They said Saudi warplanes also flew sorties over several areas of Yemen.
Saudi officials responded by describing the breaches as "minor", accusing the Houthis of carrying out attacks on forces loyal to Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, Yemen’s resigned president who enjoys support from Riyadh.
Officials in the UN admitted cases of violations ahead of peace talks scheduled in Kuwait on April 18. UN front man Stephane Dujarric said there were "some pockets of violence" but said that "the cessation of hostilities seems to be largely holding."
Houthi front man Mohammed Abdulsalam warned in a statement on Facebook that "continued military action endangers the grinding of the peace processor and reduce the chances of holding the forthcoming dialogue".
Ansarullah says around 9,500 people have been killed in more than a year of Saudi aggression against Yemen while hundreds of thousands have been displaced across the country. The UN estimates show that fighting in Yemen has put more than 80 percent of the population on the brink of famine.
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[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, speaking at the Peace and Prosperity seminar on Tuesday, said Indian intelligence agency RAW is actively involved in destabilising Pakistan. “Hostile intelligence agencies are averse to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),” said the chief of army staff.
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[FRANCE24] Belgian police tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! three people in a Brussels suburb on Tuesday during a new raid linked to the investigation into the November terror attacks on Gay Paree, federal prosecutors said.
"Three people were arrested and held for questioning," a statement said, adding the raid took place in the Belgian capital's southern suburb of Uccle.
It said the raid was carried out "in the context of the investigation that the federal prosecutor opened following the attacks in Gay Paree on November 13" which left 130 people dead and hundreds maimed.
The investigating judge will decide Wednesday whether to continue holding the three, it said, without giving any further details.
The prosecutor's office announced earlier that Belgium had charged two new suspects over the March 22 Brussels airport and metro bombings that left 32 people dead and hundreds maimed.
Gay Paree-Brussels links
Investigators have uncovered extensive links between the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks, both of which were claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The DNA of Brussels airport jacket wallah Najim Laachraoui was, for example, found on a boom jacket recovered at the Bataclan concert hall in Gay Paree where 90 people died on November 13.
On Friday, police netted another key Gay Paree suspect, Mohammed Abrini, dubbed "the man in the hat" after he was seen in CCTV footage at Brussels airport shortly before the two bombers struck there.
Belgium’s prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that the Brussels attackers had originally planned another assault in La Belle France but the arrest of Gay Paree suspect Salah Abdeslam on March 18, coupled with a massive series of police raids, made them change plans and target Belgium instead.
Belgian media identified Tuesday’s suspects as brothers Smail and Ibrahim Farisi who were said to have "cleaned" the Etterbeek apartment the day after the attacks.
It was not clear when the two men were tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... There is considerable speculation in Belgium that despite recent police successes, there could be more suspects still on the run.
The federal prosecutor gave no further details of the suspects, citing the need for secrecy in the investigation "which is continuing actively, day and night."
Update from The Times of Israel at 9:40 a.m. ET: The three arrested yesterday were released without being charged. There's been an awful lot of that since the Paris attack -- I suspect the police are taking the opportunity to get fingerprints, photos, and DNA on file, and examine cell phones and computers for contact information, getting a headstart on the next attack.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key hard boy involved in the liquidation of government officials has been enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the hard boy was arrested by the Afghan intelligence operatives and has been identified as Abdul Ghani.
The officials further added that the hard boy was involved in killing key government officials in Kandahar province, including the killing of a female police officer in 13th police district of the city.
The detained hard boy has confessed he has carried out numerous attacks on babus government employees and officials in this province.
The local officials have said the Afghan intelligence operatives intervened amid growing attacks on government officials that led to the capture of Abdul Ghani.
The anti-government armed hard boy groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
The female police officer was working with the provincial passport department when she was rubbed out by the hard boy in Kandahar city last month.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai has said he will resign if the control of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province falls to Talibs.
The remarks by Stanikzai comes as the Taliban group has intensified offensive in this province during the past several months in a bid to capture the province.
According to the earlier reports, the Taliban group is eying to turn the province in its strategic leadership base and the Taliban leaders are even keen to shift the group’s council to Helmand.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Stanikzai said the province will not fall to Taliban control. "It will not fall. If it falls, there is no doubt I will resign, but it will not fall," he told CNN.
Stanikzai further added "It is not a rosy picture in Helmand. It’s a difficult fight and there are many fighters coming from across the (Pakistain) border, there is no doubt about that."
He blamed the Taliban’s recent advances on Pak assistance, an oft-repeated charge by Afghan officials.
"Why are we ignoring this fact? Go to Quetta, go 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. . What the hell are those (militant) bases doing there? How are they moving there? How are they communicating there?" he added.
This comes as the Taliban group announced their summer offensive today and vowed to continue fight as the group’s armed insurgency enters to its 15th year.
The Afghan security officials had earlier predicted that the group will continue to pursue violence with the full support of Pakistain’s ISI despite efforts by the Afghan government and its partners to encourage the group to participate in peace talks.
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Unknown military have launched a deadly airstrike in Gedo region, south west of Somalia on Monday, killing herds of goats and innocent civilians, according to residents.
Mohamud Mukhtar, an elder has confirmed the aerial bombardment, saying the jets struck Basul village, and other residential areas near Garbaharey town, the regional capital of Gedo.
The local residents in southern Somalia have blamed Kenya and U.S. air force jets for killing their wimminchildrenfluffy bunnies livestock in the increasing indiscriminate airstrikes in the Al shabaab controlled areas.
U.S. military carried out in Somalia air-raids that killed several Al shabaab commanders, including the leader of the group Ahmed Godane who died in drone attack near Barawe town in 1st September, 2014.
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News from an alternate universe. Maybe.
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[AlAhram] Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... America was set to sign off Tuesday after a costly and failed effort to break into the US cable news market.
The channel launched in 2013 by the global media group based in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... won praise for its news coverage, but fell far short of viewership and advertising goals.
The shutdown, announced in January, was set to be complete with the airing of a three-hour special Tuesday evening showcasing the channel's coverage since the launch.
"We have been privileged to cover stories of people who epitomize the strength and resilience of the human spirit. Individuals who have fought for good, who have tackled adversity, whose stories and voices deserve coverage," the group said in a statement.
"There are so many more people across America whose stories remain untold. Those stories need to be heard."
Al-Jazeera, which operates one of the largest global news operations and is controlled by Qatar's royal family, paid some $500 million to launch the US channel known as AJAM.
The outlet, which competed against CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel, did not release viewership data but some reports said its audience was only around 30,000 for the key prime-time hours.
In mid-2013, the channel went live after hiring some 850 staff and opening 12 bureaus across the United States and a state-of-the art studio in New York.
It faced a series of problems in addition to low viewership: lawsuits alleged an unhospitable work environment and the channel faced criticism for its report linking NFL star Peyton Manning to a banned growth hormone.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... AJAM was recognized for its reporting, including winning Emmy and Peabody awards.
Some analysts said the launch came at a time when viewers were moving away from traditional cable news to Internet-based news from organizations like Vice Media, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post.
Al Jazeera said in a statement it intends to expand its digital services to "broaden its multi-platform presence into the US later this year."
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Al J Arabic probably loses a few tens of millions a year and their other ventures are also probably net money losers also. The Al J's attempt to establish a channel in the USA probably cost the Qatar Govt (who owns the company) more than all their other ventures combined.
Of course the Qatari govt has money to burn and the station has enormous influence in the Arab world, in the arab speaking populations of Europe and it has also become a major influence of non arab journalism in Europe. Much of the anti semitism, anti USA, etc. attitudes of the Euro journalists (or 'journalists') comes from association with the Al J folk.
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It actually wasn't a bad news station. Interesting that their spin on Mideast news items was so different from AJ-Arabic.
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As a media type, I thought Al Jizz America was rather good old school journalism (as opposed to so much political advocacy and infotainment that the MSM is today), at least when I dealt with them.
But because of their reputation elsewhere, you couldn't take them seriously and would not cooperate with them, even when the subject matter was legit.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven coppers were killed in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan in a suspected insider attack, local officials said Tuesday.
The incident has taken place in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar late on Monday night near the Durand Line.
A local security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the coppers were rubbed out by one of their comrades who has managed to flee the area following the attack.
The Taliban group has grabbed credit behind the incident and said the coppers were killed in an attack on a security post.
The group also claimed that the attack was carried out as part of the summer offensive launched by the group under the name of Omari Operations.
This comes as at least 7 coppers serving with the Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces were rubbed out by their comrades in this province late last month.
Kandahar is the birth place of the Taliban forces of Evil however the Afghan cops have managed to maintain security and stability in this province during the past several months.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems have been trying to expand their insurgency activities in this province lately amid deteriorating security situation in the south.
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[DAWN] AS the judges, lawyers and others who work at the Anti-Terrorism Court-II in Clifton, 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... , go to work in the coming days, they might be forgiven for thinking privately that no matter what their work environment, there, but by the grace of God, could have lain a scene of destruction.
Thankfully, given that everyone on the premises remained mostly unharmed, and the damage to infrastructure was not significant either, it is possible to make light of an incident that could so easily have turned into a tragedy. As things stand, the story belongs to the genre of comedic fiction.
On Monday, a lawyer and a policeman got into an argument. The former insisted that the latter did not have the expertise to understand how a hand grenade, allegedly recovered from his client, functioned.
The policeman stiffened, informing the court that he was a retired soldier, and, when further goaded by the lawyer about how a detonator worked, proceeded to pull the pin out and set off the charge. It seems the policeman was under the impression that the detonator had been defused.
Obviously, he was proved wrong as the roomful of people who were left cowering in the courtroom would confirm.
Having said that, pause to think of what could have ensued had the part involved not been a detonator but the grenade itself.
It is sobering indeed to think of such explosives in the hands of obviously untrained persons; and worse, those who by the very nature of their jobs are expected to have at least basic working knowledge of dangerous materials.
This is a country that has spent more than a decade fighting on the front line of terror and militancy; moreover, the incident occurred in a city where the rates of violent crime are such that the police force should have by now been honed into a lean, mean force. Clearly, such expectations are wishful thinking.
Citizens can legitimately wonder, what real chances are there of winning this war?
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I'm a thinking the Armenians should leave embedded remote controlled high explosives in frontline areas they could potentially lose control over. Sort of a prelude to recapture.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Hashed al-Shaabi in Anbar Province announced on Tuesday, that the liberation operations of Fallujah will start soon,
"How soon?"
"Sometime between now and never, Effendi."
while revealed that the operation will be carried out with the participation of more than four thousand fighters.
The commander of Karmat Fallujah brigade in al-Hashed al-Shaabi, Colonel Juma Fazaa Jumaili said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The final preparations for the cleansing operation of Fallujah are ongoing,” noting that, “More than four thousand fighters will join the storming of the city, backed by the international coalition aviation.”
Jumaili added, “The security forces from the army, police and al-Hashed al-Shaabi fighters will also join the cleansing operations backed by the Federal Police regiments and artillery units,” pointing out that, “The coming few days will witness the start of the cleansing operations in the city, after the collapse of ISIS in Ramadi and Heet.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi, announced on Tuesday the killing of four ISIS elements, including a suicide bomber, in the district of Heet west of Ramadi.
Mahalawi said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A force from the Third Regiment of the army’s 16th Division had managed to destroy a booby-trapped vehicle driven by a suicide bomber in the center of Heet City (70 km west of Ramadi),” adding that, “[Another] force from the Third Regiment of the army’s 16th Division was able to destroy a boat belonging to the ISIS and kill three ISIS elements northeast of Heet.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Tuesday, Heet District Council in Anbar Province announced the cleansing of Heet Teaching Hospital and al-Jamayia neighborhood in Heet District in western Anbar, while pointed out that the operations resulted in the killing of 40 ISIS fighters.
The Head of Heet Council, Mohammed Mohannad al-Hiti, said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces managed to cleanse Heet Hospital and al-Jamayia neighborhood in central Heet, after fierce battles against ISIS fighters. ”
Hiti added, “The cleansing battles resulted in the killing of 40 ISIS members, in addition to destructing nine vehicles,” noting that, “The security forces are advancing in al-Zohor neighborhood.”
“The next few hours will witness the liberation of the remaining areas of Heet, as well as raising the Iraqi flag over its government buildings,” Hiti continued.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs have brutally murdered two public uprising forces in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan by gouging their eyes and slitting their nose and ears.
The incident took place late on Monday night in the restive Burka district where the anti-government armed bully boyz are actively operating.
A member of the public uprising forces said the Talibs are preventing the local residents to remove the dead bodies of the two deceased men.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Incident involving mutilation of security personnel, babus government employees and civilians accused of working for the government is not rare in Afghanistan.
The Talibs frequently target the security personnel and babus government employees as well as the ordinary civilians by accusing them of working for the government.
Such incidents normally take place on highways where the Taliban bully boyz are kidnapping the victims and murder them in horrific way.
Baghlan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed krazed killer groups are actively operating in a number of its districts and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
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[Iran Press TV] More than a third of Americans now say they are worried "a great deal" about race relations in the US, which is higher than at any time since 2001, a new poll has found.
The percentage of respondents who are worried a great deal rose seven points to 35 percent in the past year and has more than doubled in the past two years, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Concern about race relations has risen during an 18-month period marked by a series of deaths of unarmed African Americans at the hands of coppers.
These deaths sparked major, sometimes violent, protests and fueled the nationwide rise of the "Black Lives Matter" movement, which campaigns against violence toward black people.
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If BLM is so concerned about violence against "black people" then perhaps they can take their concerns to the young urban businessmen in the recreational pharmacuticals trade who seem to be the cause of most of it
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Angry with self this PM [shakes apple fritter]. Having been horribly distracted through the whole BLM business, I'd taken it for granted that all the good stuff was used up long ago... but non-google suggests that these may not yet be things:
#BlackYadaYada
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Unhangar the Super Cub! I shall putter around the Burg in a cloud of delirium. On second thought, lemme try something different for a change.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, that seven people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, a bomb exploded near a lake in Sateeh village in Madain District in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding five others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while carried out a raid to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
[UPI] MOSCOW, April 12 (UPI) -- Russian Helicopters Holding Company says it is equipping five models of its military aircraft with a new on-board system to defend against MANPAD missiles and air-to-air missiles.
The defensive system is called President-S, which features a laser illumination detector, an ultraviolet missile approach warning system, an electro-optical electronic warfare system, decoy flares, and a control system.
The design of the President-S also includes a number of units, or stations, which can be placed within the helicopter airframe and on external attachment, the company said.
"Russian Helicopters is working to improve its aircraft by continuously upgrading and equipping them with next-generation onboard systems," said Alexander Mikheev, the director general of Russian Helicopters. "The new President-S will protect helicopters against hostile MANPADs and ensure high flight safety."
The system will be used on the company's Mi-171Sh and Mi-17-V5 multi-functional helicopters, Mi-26T2 heavy transport helicopter, and Mi-28NE and Ka-52 strike helicopters.
Russian Helicopters said 12 helicopters for foreign customers will be equipped with President-S this year; the onboard system is planned to be installed on the Mi-28NE Night Hunter and Ka-52 Alligator in 2017.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two students bit the dust and four others sustained injuries after a rocket landed on a school in Mehtarlam city in eastern Laghman province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Education (MoD) said the rocket landed in the vicinity of Shahid Mawlavi Habib-ur-Rehman high school this morning.
A statement by MoE said the dear departed students have been identified as third grade student Mohammad Shakir and eight grade student Mohammad Zakir.
The statement further added that four others studying in second and third grades were maimed in the attack.
The ministry strongly condemned the attack on the school and urged the security personnel to take immediate steps in arresting the perpetrators of the incident.
No group including the Talibs has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
Laghman is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed hard boy groups including the Taliban bully boyz are active in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
This comes as a roadside kaboom targeted a vehicle carrying the Ministry of Education employees 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.... earlier this week, leaving two dead and five others maimed.
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[Ynet] The Afghan Taliban have announced the start of their warm-weather fighting season, an annual declaration marking the launch of a violent summer.
In an email to media organizations Tuesday, the turbans said the so-called "spring offensive" had begun at 5am
The campaign, expected this year to be long and bloody, is called "Operation Omari" in honor of Taliban founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar, who died three years ago, the announcement says.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Intelligence operatives have thwarted a coordinated attack plot by the notorious Haqqani terrorist network on Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... International Airport.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said a weapons and explosives cache belonging to the terrorist network was seized from Deh Sabz district of 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.... .
A statement by NDS said the cache included 2 RPG-7 rocket launchers with 4 rockets, 11 magentic bombs, 17 explosives capsules, kabooms, 3 mine testers, and 6 Nokia mobile phones.
The statement further added that the target of the attack was Hamid Karzai International Airport which was successfully thwarted.
No further details were given regarding the detention of any suspect in connection to the attack plot.
The Haqqani terrorist network was found in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani ...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit... and is accused of staging numerous cross-border attacks from their base in North Wazoo, including the 19-hour siege at the US Embassy in Kabul in September 2011.
The network is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region and was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization on September 7, 2012 by the US Department of State.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bangladeshi police said on Tuesday they suspect a domestic Islamist turban group of being behind the brutal murder of a secular activist in Dhaka, days after a branch of Al-Qaeda grabbed credit.
Nazimuddin Samad, a law student who criticized Islamism in Facebook posts, was killed last week near his university in the capital by attackers carrying machetes, the latest in a string of deadly assaults on secular activists.
Ansar al-Islam, a Bangladesh branch of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), said on Friday it was behind the 26-year-old's murder, according to the US monitoring group SITE.
But Dhaka Metropolitan Police officers said they believe it was the work of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a homegrown turban outfit that has been blamed in similar cases.
"We suspect Ansarullah Bangla Team has carried out the murder," Maruf Hossain Sorder, a front man for the force, told AFP.
"There were some similarities between the latest murder and the previous killings of bloggers," he added.
Bangladesh authorities have consistently denied that international Islamist networks such as Al-Qaeda or ISIS are active in the country.
"Al-Qaeda or ISIS do not exist in Bangladesh," Sorder said.
Samad was the seventh secular activist -- the sixth in the past 15 months -- to have been murdered by suspected Islamist Lions of Islam over their writings.
Police have previously locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! several suspected members of ABT in connection with at least three of these murders.
Eight ABT members, including a top holy man said to have founded the group, were convicted late last year for the murder of atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February 2013.
The murders have sparked outrage at home and abroad, with international groups demanding that the secular government protect freedom of speech in the Muslim-majority country.
Hundreds of secular activists last week held a days-long protest in Dhaka and Samad's home-town of Sylhet to demand action over his death.
AQIS previously grabbed credit for the murder of an American atheist blogger who was hacked to death on the streets of Dhaka in February 2015.
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[Iran Press TV] Iraqi army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have retaken several areas from the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorist group in the strategic city of Hit, military sources say.
Three neighborhoods in a district of Hit, located in the western province of Anbar, were recaptured by the army, Major General Sami Kazim al-Ardi, a commander in the Counter-Terrorist Bureau, told Iraq's al-Sumaria News on Tuesday.
Only some areas in three districts of Hit's northeastern part are to be liberated.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... Major General Abdul-Ghani al-Assadi, another commander in the Counter-Terrorist Bureau, announced that the Iraqi forces have thwarted a ISIS attack on Hit city center.
ISIS is on the verge of total defeat in Hit as many of its elements were killed on Monday, the commander added.
On April 4, Iraqi forces entered Hit, located 31 miles (50 kilometers) from Anbar’s capital city of Ramadi. The advance came a week after the beginning of an operation by the army to take full control of the city.
It was the latest in a string of gains by the Iraqi military and allied volunteer fighters against ISIS in the conflict-ridden Arab country.
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[FRANCE24] The Progressive Party, allied with the government of Brazil's embattled President Dilma Rousseff, has decided to pull out, and most of its 47 lawmakers will vote for her to be impeached, an official said Tuesday.
"The party decided to withdraw from the base alliance, by majority decision," a spokeswoman for the party told AFP, ahead of an impeachment vote on Sunday.
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The US's diplomatic thaw with Kooba will turn out to be all about Deeeeelma could get Crest Ultimate Whitening toothpaste and Aquanet hairspray when she is exiled retires there.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Congressman Doug Lamborn:
German counter-intelligence believes that at least 29 former soldiers from the country have left to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. An internal report also revealed that 65 active soldiers are being investigated for alleged jihadist sympathies. 
Iran's Foreign Ministry dismisses the reports that Iran has received S-300 missiles from Russia.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan police have 
A hand grenade exploded inside courtroom in Karachi's Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) after a judge asked a police constable if he knew how grenades worked. The constable, instead of explaining his expertise in weapons and grenade handling to the judge, opted to demonstrate practically by promptly pulling out the pin from the grenade.
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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are stepping up efforts to help communities in Somaliland and Puntland cope with a severe drought worsened by El Nino conditions, a UN spokesman said here Monday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U2 lead singer Bono joined diplomats and aid experts on Tuesday to appeal for US Senate support for a “Marshall Plan” to provide aid to the Middle East much like the massive relief the United States provided for Europe after World War Two.
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... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
The outlet, which competed against CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel, did not release viewership data but some reports said its audience was only around 30,000 for the key prime-time hours.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs have brutally murdered two public uprising forces in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan by gouging their eyes and slitting their nose and ears.
[Iran Press TV] More than a third of Americans now say they are worried "a great deal" about race relations in the US, which is higher than at any time since 2001, a new poll has found.
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