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"Every pilot should fly a Spitfire at least once". AMEN!!!!!!
Spit Mark 11, Merlin engine, no armour plating, no guns, no ammo, LOTS of extra fuel and oil, cameras, climb high and go like blazes, fly all day. Damn but I was born too late (1944).
A charity group that helps homeless military veterans on Chicago's South Side says the city is trying to take control of the meager facility to make way for the restaurants, shops and other commercial venues that would complement the proposed Obama presidential library and museum.
Group leaders said the RTW Veterans Center is the last privately-owned property on a stretch of S. King Boulevard near the proposed Washington Park site for the Barack Obama Presidential Center and that city building inspectors unexpectedly arrived last April to find an overwhelming 32 code violations at the facility.
"We don't appreciate being muscled out and put in the situation of having to negotiate from a position of despair," facility center Director Jah Ranu Menab told FoxNews.com on Saturday.
Menab thinks the University of Chicago, which is working with the Obama Foundation to bring the presidential center to the South Side, is also part of an apparent effort to ultimately force the facility into receivership.
The fate of the veterans' facility -- which officials say serves more than 3,000 meals monthly -- may well be decided Tuesday, when officials return to Cook County Circuit Court for a hearing on the efforts to fix the building's problems.
Menab admits that the facility is in disrepair, with some violations related to a fire hazard, rats' nests and raw sewage flowing onto the basement floor.
However, he says the situation, which includes fines of $16,000 daily, looks like an attempted "land grab" and that the prestigious university, where Obama was a law professor, "exerts a tremendous amount of influence" over the city and its future.
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"We don't appreciate being muscled out and put in the situation of having to negotiate from a position of despair,"
SOP for this regime. You were somehow caught unawares ?
[AlAhram] A rebel onslaught on the town of Khan Touman near Aleppo last week delivered one of the biggest battlefield setbacks yet to the coalition of foreign Shia fighters waging war on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
Reports put the corpse count among the Iranian, Afghani and Lebanese faceless myrmidons as high as 80 in the attack spearheaded by the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. At least 17 of the dead were Iranians, seemingly the highest toll in a battle outside the Islamic Theocratic Republic's borders since the Iran-Iraq war.
"Pray for us, we can't move. There are 83 of us in one room. We're waiting for artillery backup so we can pull back," an Iranian fighter wrote in a WhatsApp message, quoted by state-run Iranian website Jaam-e-Jam. "God willing, we are martyred rather than taken prisoner."
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[EC Radio] The South African Navy has been brought in to help give chase to eight Chinese vessels believed to be fishing illegally in the country's waters.
The Department of Fisheries says a total of nine vessels were spotted around Durban, Port St Johns and Cape Recife over the past week.
Spokesperson Bomikazi Molapo says the vessels were traced yesterday after South African patrol ship, Victoria Mxenge was dispatched to search for them.
She says the Chinese fishing trawlers were then escorted to the Port of Saldanha Bay for inspection but things changed in the evening.
"Unfortunately, the vessels started dispersing in different directions, making it difficult for our patrol vessel to give chase to all of them. They gave chase to one of the vessels and have managed to capture it. They've boarded that particular vessel and are currently escorting that vessel to the ports of Cape Town where it should arrive tomorrow morning," she said.
Molapo says they can only confirm what sea species, if any, the vessels were possibly looking for once they have had a thorough look through the seized boat after it arrives at Cape Town Harbour.
Any similarity between the SA Gov't response to this incident and our Champ's response to border security and illegal immigration, are purely coincidental.
[Breitbart] The Daily Show tried to parody Donald Trump's rhetorical attacks with a new nickname, "Weak Donald." How much sadder does Trevor Noah's run have to get before Comedy Central mercifully pulls the plug?
Noah is yet another fatherless, self-proclaimed progressive [kommunis], and product of former BBC Executive Gray Hofmeyr.
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Reporters inquired of the Donald,
"On which rock-ribbed rogue are you modeled?"
He quipped, "Elephino!
There's one thing for sure, though...
I'll trumpet as if I were Ronald."
Since coal use is down so much the farmland in Illinois is getting low in sulfur (air pollution used to provide it) and may now need to be fertilized with sulfur based fertilizers.
Air pollution legislation to control fossil fuel emissions and the associated acid rain has worked - perhaps leading to the need for sulfur fertilizers for crop production. A University of Illinois study drawing from over 20 years of data shows that sulfur levels in Midwest watersheds and rivers have steadily declined, so much so that farmers may need to consider applying sulfur in the not too distant future.
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while this may be so, the article misstates the cause of acidic soil. Rain is naturally acidic in the absence of ash in the air. Ash gets in the air from burning fuel. 'Acid rain' only became a problem when at the behest of the EPA ash was removed from the air to reduce pollution by it. Fortunately acid soil or water is easily sweetened by application of lime, and acid rain is therefore not a significant problem anywhere.
Lack of sulfur in soil can probably be handled by application of some other compound.
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Yet another opportunity for farm subsidy. Evidently there are a few who are not yet Democrats. We must go after them to ensure they vote properly. See your extension office for details.
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No you can't replace sulfur with another compound. Sulfur is a plant nutrient. It was in my old horticulture texts that said that lack of sulfur was rare because of fossil fuel use. So most recommendations for fertilizer was say to use ammonium nitrate instead of ammonium sulfate since the soil had plenty of sulfur.
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Sent the story to a family farmer in Neb who have had their farm for >120 years. This year was the first time their soil ever needed sulfur added. 25lbs/acre. (+3000 acres)
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There are mountains of sulfur in Kazahkstan extracted from the sour oil so they can sell it. You can probably name your price if you come get it. Likewise, lots of sulfur removed from gas and oil in other places - come and get it. So much sulfur is available that the true sulfur mines have shut down as uneconomic.
[IsraelTimes] Molotov cocktail thrown at Mt. Scopus campus, causing blaze; earlier, police say fire near Jerusalem army base was arson attack
A fire outside the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Saturday evening was the result of a Molotov cocktail thrown at the university gates, police said.
No injuries were reported in the incident and firefighters had the blaze under control, according to authorities.
The incident is the second of the day Saturday and the fourth such incident in two days in the Mount Scopus area.
Earlier Saturday, police said a fire that broke out near the Ofrit military base and the Hadassah Hospital in Mount Scopus was an arson attack.
Police released footage showing a male figure disappearing for a few moments into some bushes near the base in the capital, before fleeing in the direction of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.
The footage aired on Channel 2 Saturday night, shows the bushes catching fire after the suspect leaves the area.
Four firefighting teams battled the blaze, preventing its spread to the base and to the Mount Scopus area. Dozens of acres were damaged in the fire, police said.
Channel 2 reported that Saturday’s fire near the base was the seventh suspected arson attack nationwide over the past week.
On Thursday, eight firefighting teams and four planes were deployed to battle a fire close to the entrance to Jerusalem. Due to weather conditions, the fire had spread quickly in the direction of the Ramot neighborhood of the capital.
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May she rot in hell.
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As minister of education ... she used her role to politicise the GDR’s state education system, saturating the curriculum with Marxist-Leninist propaganda
This really makes our current regime sound like a blast from the past. Is there anyone that thinks the progressives in the education system here objects to that?
It always happens that way: just when the Saudis need to borrow to maintain their standard of living, the interest rate goes up.
[IsraelTimes] Crash in the cost of crude means potential trouble for world’s largest exporter, US-based credit rating
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... ’s credit rating has been downgraded by Moody’s because of the long and deep slump in oil prices.
Moody’s Investors Service said Saturday that it also downgraded Gulf oil producers Bahrain and Oman. It left ratings unchanged for other Gulf states including Kuwait and 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... Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter. Moody’s cut the country’s long-term issuer rating one notch to A1 from Aa3 after a review that began in March.
Crude prices fell from more than $100 in mid-2014 to under $30 a barrel in February, although they have recovered into the mid-$40s. Benchmark international crude settled Friday at $47.83 a barrel.
"A combination of lower growth, higher debt levels and smaller domestic and external buffers leave the Kingdom less well positioned to weather future shocks," Moody’s said in a note.
Moody’s lowered Oman to Baa1 from A3 and Bahrain to Ba2 from Ba1. The ratings agency did not downgrade Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates or Abu Dhabi, but it assigned a negative outlook to each.
Oil prices slumped because of production that grew faster than demand. Surging production from shale operators in the United States contributed to the glut. So did the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which decided in November 2014, several months after prices began falling, to continue pumping rather than give up market share.
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Ah yes let's not revel in our friends misfortune, that would be RONG! Let join together as one in the spiritual sense and pray together for a higher price on war and an even.........
[AnNahar] Resentment over the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britannia and La Belle France that carved up the Middle East from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire remains, 100 years later, a major factor in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's foreign policy.
The May 1916 accord, signed by two British and French diplomats as defeat began to loom in World War I for Germany and its allies, created spheres of influence in the Ottoman-ruled Middle East which to a large extent helped define the borders of modern states including Syria, Leb, Iraq and Israel.
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Sykes-Picot, one of the less brilliant pages in European history.
Russia lost Poland, the Baltic States, and Finland, later to be reclaimed for nearly 50 years (and looking to do so again). Germany lost the Danzig Corridor, African and Pacific colonies. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up into several countries. Get over it.
[AlAhram] The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group snuffies in Iraq with 17 strikes on Friday and five in Syria, the US military said on Saturday.
Four of the strikes in Iraq were near Ar Rutbah, hitting an IS group tactical unit and staging facility.
In Syria, four strikes hit four IS tactical units near Mar'a.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It is the enemy within that a diminished Europe is facing now; the alienated sons and daughters of its former colonial subjects are being inspired by the enchanting sirens coming from the self-appointed high priests of sacred Islamist violence in the faraway former provinces of the empire, calling on them to wage a relentless war of terror to dismantle their societies, and to seek redemption and martyrdom in the thrill to kill.
A diminished continent
It is a sign of these modern brittle times that three men laden with explosives and unfathomable hatreds can bring a European country, nay a continent to a standstill, while casually strolling into an airport and unloading their wrath. It may be too late for Europe to raise its drawbridges, man the ramparts and enlarge the moat; fortified Europe is a thing of the past. In the age of empire, rebellious subjects in distant provinces were subdued by expeditionary forces fighting them on their grounds. Now the enemy is within, living in small enclaves inside the city, and is familiar with Europe’s ways, habits and vulnerabilities. Instead of dispatching bands of would be Jihadists from Arab and Muslim lands to wreak havoc in the heart of Europe, the so-called Caliphate which has attracted tens of thousands of fighters, including a sizable number from Europe, can simply train them in the art of terror and send them back on a last visit to the countries they have abandoned, or just inspire from afar new recruits to attack the enemy from behind.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has slammed Western countries, saying they care more about gay and animal rights than the fate of conflict-stricken Syrians.
Addressing a large crowd Friday in northwest The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Erdogan also accused the West of possessing a mindset "remnant of slavery and colonialism."
His latest anti-Western outburst came amid a standoff with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... over its demand that Turkey amend its anti-terrorism laws to secure visa-free travel in Europe for Turks.
Erdogan said: "Shame on those who don’t show sensitivity ... to the women and kiddies who reach out to them for help."
He added: "Shame on those who deny the sensitivity they show to ... the whales, the seals and the turtles in the sea to 23 million Syrians."
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Last I checked, there were no Islamic polar bears.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Saturday, a security source in Salahuddin Province revealed, that an armed group kidnapped a police officer in Dujail District in southern the province.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Yesterday, unidentified gunmen kidnapped a lieutenant colonel in the local police in Dujail District in southern Salahuddin.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the incident area and carried out a raid to search for the kidnappers.”
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Maiduguri: 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... today claimed a suicide kaboom that killed two coppers in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , just days before a regional security summit on efforts to eradicate the Islamists.
The group, using the name Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP), said in a statement posted on social media that the bomber "was able to detonate his explosive vest in the area of Maiduguri".
It claimed "at least 15 apostates (non-believers)" were killed in the attack, which happened at about 12:00 pm (1100 GMT) at the Borno State Secretariat in the city.
But Nigerian Army front man Sani Usman said only two died and said the attacker blew up as security personnel stopped him from trying to get into the government offices.
"Unfortunately in the process of stopping him, he detonated the improvised bomb on his body, instantly killing himself, a policeman and critically injuring another policeman...
"Sadly, the injured policeman died later," Usman said in an emailed statement, adding that 18 people were maimed and taken for treatment.
Mohammed Kanar, regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency, and an accident and emergency front man for the Borno State Specialist Hospital, also confirmed just two deaths.
Between 19 and 24 people were maimed in the blast, they added.
Locals and street vendors earlier told AFP the kaboom initially appeared to come from a passing motorised rickshaw, which went up in flames and was gutted in the blast.
Boko Haram jacket wallahs have previously used public transport to travel to multiple targets in the northeast and wider north.
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[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] YAOUNDE, Cameroon The multinational forces fighting the Islamic forces of Evil of 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... have tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... five of the group's leaders and freed dozens of captive women and kiddies, Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... 's government announced Saturday.
The raids targeting Boko Haram bases in the northern Madawaya forest earlier this month freed 28 children and at least 18 women, government front man Issa Tchiroma said.
Boko Haram had set up camp in the forest after fleeing another military operation in neighboring Nigeria and had been training captive maidens of tender years and women as jacket wallahs, he said.
The news came as French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... joined several West African leaders at a summit in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, where they discussed progress in the fight against Boko Haram and how to resolve the humanitarian crisis it has created. The hard boy group has forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes, some across borders.
"We have to make sure they can get back to their homes," Hollande said after meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari before the summit, noting the need for "the right development policies." Marginalization and corruption has allowed the Islamic forces of Evil to flourish in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... Both leaders stressed the success of a multinational force of Nigeria and its neighbors -- helped by training, intelligence and information-sharing by La Belle France, Britannia and the United States -- that has recaptured territory where Boko Haram had declared an Islamic caliphate. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was at the summit along with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"Now our main problem is the rehabilitation of infrastructure destroyed -- educational, health, bridges blown, etc," Buhari said.
But many refugees say they will not return home until it is safe and there are doubts Nigeria's military can secure the vast rural areas where Boko Haram now roams. The forces of Evil have turned to using suicide bombers, often women and girls, to hit soft targets like mosques and marketplaces.
The nearly 7-year insurgency, which has spread beyond Nigeria's borders, has killed at least 20,000 people, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
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(IraqiNews.com) Babel – Babel Police chief, Ali Kowa, announced on Saturday the arrest of 51 wanted individuals, including three “terrorists,” during raid operations in different areas of the province.
Kowa said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “During the past 48 hours, police forces conducted raid and inspection operation in different areas of the province, resulting in the arrest of 51 wanted individuals on various criminal charges and violations,” noting that, “Three wanted [individuals] on charges of terrorism were among the detainees in the vicinity of Alexandria (50 km north of Babel) and Jubla (35 km northeast of Babel).”
Kowa added, “The operations were based on accurate intelligence,” pointing out that, “The detainees were transferred to a security center for interrogation.”
[ARA News] DEIR EZZOR – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Saturday launched a fierce offensive on headquarters of the Syrian regime’s army forces in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, killing and injuring dozens of soldiers.
ISIS fighters besieged Syrian army troops inside the al-Assad hospital building and the University Campus–both taken as headquarters by the Syrian army.
“Militants of the Islamic State then started bombing both locations with mortar fire. More than 30 Syrian army forces were killed and dozens more wounded,” local media activist Redwan Muayyad told ARA News in Deir ez-Zor.
Also on Saturday, ISIS fighters attacked the regime-held neighborhoods of Joura and Qusour in Deir ez-Zor city, using heavy machine guns.
” Subsequent to the attack, clashes broke out between ISIS and Syrian army troops in the vicinity of Qusour and Joura districts after an attempt by ISIS militants to expel the regime forces from those areas,” the source reported.
The clashes ended with ISIS withdrawal from the area. Casualties were reported on both sides.
A Syrian army officer told ARA News that the ISIS attempt to capture the Joura and Qusour has failed “after the army responded with heavy artillery bombardment on the group’s fighting positions”.
“We were eventually able to push ISIS back and repelled this fierce offensive,” the army officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Speaking to ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, spokesman of the the campaign ‘Deir ez-Zor Is Being Slaughtered Silently’ [DBSS] Ahmed Ramadan said: “The pro-Assad National Defense Force played a main role in repelling the ISIS-led attack on the regime-held districts of Joura and Qusour on Saturday.”
“However, the simultaneous attacks on the four major positions for the regime’s troops in Deir ez-Zor by ISIS fighters paralyzed those troops and caused them heavy losses in manpower and equipment, especially in the offensive on al-Assad hospital building and the University Campus, where nearly 33 regime forces were killed,” Ramadan told ARA News.
In the meantime, activists reported the death of the ISIS top commander Mustafa al-Haddawi, aka Abu Muhammad al-Ansari, during Saturday’s clashes in Deir ez-Zor.
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[ARA News] AFRIN – Syrian Islamist rebels on Saturday bombed the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria with a number of Grad rockets, hitting residential buildings and causing casualties among civilians, military sources and rights activists reported.
Islamist rebel factions stationed in Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo province hit Afrin city with at least five Grad rockets on Saturday evening.
“The bombardment caused mass destruction in residential buildings in central Afrin, where at least three Kurdish civilians were killed and a dozen more injured,” rights activist Salim Efrini told ARA News in Afrin.
The source added that local rescue teams have been looking for victims under the rubble until Saturday midnight.
“Some civilians are most likely stranded under the ruins of the destroyed buildings. Volunteers of the rescue teams are still searching, and the number of casualties could increase in the coming hours,” Efrini reported.
The city of Afrin is under the control of the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG)–that are in conflict with Islamist factions in northern Syria, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Speaking to ARA News, Kurdish politician and spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Union in Afrin Salam Hussein said: “Those radical Islamists are punishing civilians after failing to confront the YPG forces at the battlefront.”
Last week, Islamist factions, including Syria’s al-Qaeda branch of Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, bombed the Jinderis district in Afrin suburbs, killing and wounding a number of civilians, according to local sources.
Families of soldiers, who are allegedly surrounded by the Taliban in Baghlan, have called on government to do something to help the troops.
The families converged on Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan on Saturday, to seek help. They claim their sons have been under siege by the Taliban in Sorkh Kotal area of Pul-e-Khumri since Tuesday.
"This issue should be solved by12 noon today. We want our sons to be taken out of the siege," said the mother of a local policeman.
"The government doesn't listen to us....forces can go there, but they don't go. The government has aircraft, but don't use them," said a relative of one of the soldiers.
Families of the soldiers warned that a human disaster will take place, if government fails to take action to break the siege.
The collapse of several check posts to the Taliban in less than a week has also raised concerns of Baghlan provincial council members.
"They are close to the highway. The Sorkh Kotal base was located in an area to not let the Taliban come close to the highway," said Bismillah Atash, another member of the council.
"If they don't launch operations in Baghlan, like the ones that they have carried out in Knnduz and Helmand province, then we, the members of provincial council, along with people will launch a widespread protest and will block the highway," said Mohammad Zarif Zarif, a member of Baghlan provincial council.
As opposed to say, fighting the Taliban yourselves...
Police in Baghlan admitted that fighting is underway between Afghan forces and the Taliban, but rejected that soldiers are under siege.
Awaz Mohammad Naziri, Baghlan Police Chief, also rejected claims of the fall of check posts to the Taliban.
Fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban is underway in Baghlan-e-Markazi districts and outskirts of Pul-e-Khurmi over the past week.
Naziri said that in recent fighting nine Taliban militants have been killed and several others wounded.
The Turkish military said Saturday that its warplanes have carried out nine airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country and northern Iraq.
The state-run Anadolu Agency cited the military as saying the warplanes destroyed 98 targets Friday of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Militants of the party, also known as the PKK, have waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state in a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. A ceasefire between the two parties collapsed last summer.
Since then, Turkey has witnessed a surge of violence in the southeast including PKK bombing attacks against police and military personnel as well as large-scale military operations to flush out Kurdish rebels.
Turkish warplanes periodically bomb PKK bases in northern Iraq.
State-run Anadolu Agency also said on Saturday that the Turkish military and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 45 ISIS militants in shelling and an air strike north of the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The Turkish border town of Kilis, which lies just across the frontier from ISIS-controlled territory in Syria, has been regularly struck by rockets in recent weeks.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday his country is gearing up to “clear” the Syrian side of its frontier in response to the cross-border fire ISIS.
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It never did. He said we ought to temporarily halt the import of any more refugees from war zones like Syria until we can properly vet them.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the country "never included every single Muslim," his campaign spokeswoman said on Friday.
Trump "has not backpedaled on his Muslim ban," Katrina Pierson said in an interview with US network CNN, responding to a claims that the tycoon-turned presumptive Republican nominee had softened his stance closer to the November election.
"He said he would back off of it in an instant if things have taken place where we can properly vet individuals," Pierson said.
Precisely. This is self-preservation 101.
Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US back in December, in response to a shooting spree by two radicalized Muslims in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, that killed 14 people.
In the Friday interview, Trump’s spokeswoman insisted that the ban was a "suggestion" and an "immigration policy."
"It never included American Muslims living overseas. It never included anyone other than those looking to immigrate into this country. So even that has been total media spin and completely false."
Media attention of Trump’s controversial proposal resurfaced after London’s newly-elected Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan had expressed worries that he would not be able to visit the United States were Trump elected in November.
Khan told Time magazine that "Trump's ignorant view of Islam could make both of our countries less safe -- it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of Lion of Islams."
Trump said in response, that "there will always be exceptions," to his proposed ban.
The shock proposal back in December was likely conceived in a "rushed fashion without any study," Khalil Jashan, a Paleostinian-American activist and pundit, told Al Arabiya English.
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Correct, but the Media/DNC/CAIR handwringers never let the truth get in the way
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What was the John Kerry excuse phrase the media used to use... NUANCE! Trump needs to use that good word. It is a real slinky of a word.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source in Kirkuk Province announced on Saturday, that the so-called ISIS attacked the headquarters of North Gas Company in western Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) with three Katyusha rockets, while emphasized that the attack didn’t cause any human losses or material damage.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS carried out an attack using three Katyusha rockets targeting the vicinity of the North Gas Company’s headquarters (25 km west of Kirkuk).”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “The attack did not cause any material damage or human losses.”
Noteworthy, ISIS is controlling the area south and west Kirkuk since June 2014.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province said on Saturday, that 17 ISIS elements had been killed in an aerial bombing by the Iraqi Air Force southwest of the province.
The source said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, Air Force targeted moving [vehicles] at positions east of Hamrin Mountains and destroyed five vehicles for ISIS, while also targeted [vehicles] in the village of al-Safra and the village of al-Zarka in the vicinity of al-Riyad (35 km southwest of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of 17 elements of the [ISIS].”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “The aerial strike was carried out based on accurate intelligence that led to the [ISIS] positions.”
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom rocked southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives near a police training center.
Provincial governor’s front man Omar Zwak confirmed that the incident took place at 9:00 am in Nad-e-Ali district.
In the meantime, a security official confirmed that 4 people were killed and over 10 others were maimed in the attack.
The provincial public health officials have said at least 10 maimed individuals have been taken to the hospital so far.
The Taliban group grabbed credit behind the incident and said the attack was carried out by a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED).
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[CNN] Indonesian hostages kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines returned home on Friday. The four sailors were taken hostage at sea on April 15. They arrived in Jakarta on a military aircraft and were greeted by Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.
At a news conference, Marsudi expressed Indonesia's gratitude to the Philippine authorities. The hostages, who were also at the news conference, said they were glad their ordeal was over.
Hostage Loren Petrus Romawi said, "The release process was long and tough but we faithfully believe it was our God who showed the way to our Indonesian government, and the army who bravely helped us in the process of releasing us."
This month, ten other Indonesian hostages held by groups with suspected links to Abu Sayyaf were released, after a month-long ordeal during which a kidnapped Canadian was beheaded after a ransom deadline had passed.
The Abu Sayyaf is still holding four Malaysian seamen as well as citizens from the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Norway and the Philippines.
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My efforts to increase Abu Sayyaf awareness are paying off, it seems.
... with an original score by Engelbert Humperdinck... [Khaama (Afghanistan)] A teenage girl was burnt alive allegedly by her brother’s wife in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, local officials said Saturday.
The incident took place in the 2nd police district of Jalalabad city, the thriving provincial capital of Nangarhar earlier today.
According to the police sources, the victim has been identified as Mursal who was around 15-year-old and was a student of 9th grade.
The sources further added that Mursal was thrown into the oven by her brother’s wife who used the opportunity as there was no one present in the house.
The alleged perpetrator has been nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and is in police custody for further investigation, police sources said, adding that the woman has not confessed to the horrific crime so far.
The horrific incident has sent shockwaves across the country which comes as violence against women has been rampant across the country.
Incidents involving violence against women are not new but such incidents involving a woman committing violence against another woman has rarely been reported.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in its report released late in November last year said "statistic of violence against women, obtained from the registered cases of violence against women during the first six months in 1394 exceeds 2579 cases."
The report further added that figure was reported 2403 cases during the six months in 1393 which shows 7.32 percent increase in 1394, the last solar year.
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[MIRROR.CO.UK] A group of 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.... Death Eaters armed with AK-47s attacked the headquarters of a Real Madrid supporters club - because 'they don't like football'.
Three gunnies opened fire around midnight at the Al Furat cafe in Balad, 50 miles north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
It is believed at least 16 people - mainly Real Madrid fans but also cafe staff and other customers - were killed more than 20 people injured.
Islamic State later grabbed credit, while gruesome pictures and video have emerged illustrating the aftermath of the bloodbath.
Bullet holes can be seen littering a room full of armchairs with an upturned chair in the centre - and blood smeared all over the floor with a trail leading out of what appears to be a main meeting room.
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must be fans of Barcelona.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said on Friday that the priority in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... is no longer to wage a war against the Houthis but to fight al-Qaeda.
In an interview in the French newspaper Le Figaro, Jubeir said Al-Qaeda and ISIS are two terrorist organizations and they need to be contained. Le Figaro said Jubeir’s statement is evidence of a change in the situation on the ground in Yemen.
Jubeir added: "Al-Qaeda and ISIS are terrorist organizations. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the Houthis are Yemenis and are our neighbors with whom one can hold talks."
He expressed optimism about the ongoing talks in Kuwait between the Houthis and the government.
In tweets from his official account, Jubeir said whether we disagree or agree with the Houthis, they remain a part of the social fabric of Yemen.
He also said in another tweet: "ISIS and al-Qaeda are terrorist organizations that should not be given the chance to exist neither in Yemen, nor in any other part of the world."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Senior Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine died in a "huge blast" near Damascus, the krazed killer group confirmed via statement published by their media mouthpiece Al Manar on Friday. Badreddine’s death marks a victory for those affected by his involvement in attacks dating back to the 80s, reportedly including the deadly suicide truck bombing attack that left over 200 US soldiers dead in Beirut in 1983 as well as the bombings targeting the French and US embassies in Kuwait the same year, according to the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Notably, initial reporting by Al-Mayadeen blamed Israel for the fatal attack, claiming that an Israeli Air Force (IAF) strike successfully targeted Badreddine’s position. But, curiously, that article was reportedly erased, raising two key questions: Was it simply factually incorrect and did some other party opposed to Hezbollah manage to kill Badreddine, securing an incredible success, or is Hezbollah attempting to distance itself from blaming Israel so that it is not faced with intense pressure to directly retaliate against the country?
It is possible that Israel saw a strategic opportunity to hit Badreddine and assessed that the likelihood such an operation would spark broader conflict remained low. Certainly, the losses Hezbollah has suffered in Syria and the bloodshed it has failed to prevent on its own soil in Leb has not put it in a favorable position to engage in direct conflict with Israel at this stage. If the krazed killer group formally and publicly blamed Israel, its supporters would likely intensify calls for a more spectacular attack on Israel than planting an IED on the country’s border.
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While Israel has predictably remained quiet about its operation or lack thereof, the US formally denied it had any involvement in the attack, with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirming that there were "no United States or coalition aircraft in the area" during the time of Badreddine’s death. If the Hezbollah commander did not die in an IAF attack and instead was killed by rival fighters on the ground, it would mark a rather humiliating and unremarkable end to a long, murderous career.
Hezbollah released a statement in the coming hours indicating that "takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups" were responsible for the kaboom which killed the military commander. Through this statement, the krazed killer group is demonstrating that it remains capable and willing to strike back against whichever party it believes killed Badreddine.
Interestingly, Hezbollah MP Nawar al-Saheli’s reportedly blamed Israel for the attack, noting that their culpability was certain and vowing that, "The resistance will carry out its duties at the appropriate time." It would be premature to assess Badreddine’s death ‐ despite his status and the loss it represents to the organization ‐ will provoke broader conflict with Israel in the immediate term.
According to the statement released by Hezbollah about Badreddine’s death, he himself recently said, "I won't come back from Syria unless as a martyr or a carrier of the banner of victory." Ultimately now, the banner of victory is being carried not by Badreddine but by the victims of his deadly attacks.
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Mustafa Badreddine died in a "huge blast"
Only Muzzies themselves do huge blasts to take out one man.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Kurdistan Democratic Party announced on Saturday, that 12 ISIS fighters were killed in an artillery shelling conducted by the Peshmerga forces in northern Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad), while emphasized the destruction of three vehicles belonging to ISIS members.
Kurdistan Democratic Party spokesman Saeed Mamouzini said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Peshmerga forces shelled, before noon today, a gathering of ISIS militants with artillery in Bahzani area in Bashiqah District (22 km north of Mosul), killing 12 ISIS militants.”
Mamouzini added, “The shelling also resulted in the destruction of three vehicles belonging to ISIS members.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source in Nineveh Liberation Operations Command announced on Friday, that 40 ISIS members were killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition aviation south of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition aircraft bombed ISIS gathering in Haj Ali village in Qayyarah District (60 km south of Mosul) with six rockets, killing 40 ISIS members.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The dead ISIS members included foreign leaders in the organization.”
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Come Nineveh, Come Tyre!
Make hash outta all of 'Em
[ASHARQ AL-AWSAT] The US administration yesterday joined the European Union in imposing sanctions on the President of the Libyan House of Representatives Aguila Saleh who is accused of blocking the formation of a UN – backed government of national accord which is led by Fayez Al-Sarraj in the capital Tripoli. Meanwhile, it was confirmed yesterday that American, British and Italian special military forces (commandos) are participating in skirmishes between Misrata brigades loyal to Al-Sarraj’s government and ISIS in western Libya.
American soldiers revealed that special American commando forces have been present in two locations in Misrata and Benghazi in Libya for weeks and are coordinating with Libyan combatant groups hostile to ISIS as part of US military strategy that anticipates an increase in the number of ISIS fighters in Libya as a result of their increasing defeats in Syria and Iraq.
The chief spokesman for the Department of Defense Peter Cook said that he would not comment on the details of any military operations in Libya, but added “We continue to contact different Libyan groups in order to help them establish a secure and stable state system”.
In a statement issued by the US Department of the Treasury, it accused Saleh of disrupting the vote of confidence to recognise the authority of Al-Sarraj’s government and of opposing the political transition process in Libya. It also noted that the European Union recently imposed similar sanctions against Saleh, including travel restrictions and the freezing of assets.
Furthermore, Libyan military sources revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that a series of secret meetings between representatives of US and British forces and local leaders loyal to Al-Sarraj’s government were held at the Maitiqa base in order to coordinate them. The sources asserted that they also had information about the presence of British special forces that are fighting alongside the Misrata brigades against ISIS.
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It also noted that the European Union recently imposed similar sanctions against Saleh, including travel restrictions and the freezing of assets.
I see our Champ's efforts to scuttle the upcoming 23 June 'Brexit' vote are paying off. Regime change for me, but not for thee. Help us fix the world won't you ?
Sarcasm of course, but yet another Proverbs 26:11 moment. Can't say it's 'all about the oil' this time. We must be harvesting or covering up something else.
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Crinemble, your words are from the English dictionary, but I don't recognize the references or the sentence construction. You'll have to help us here if you want us to help you.
Crinemble was just another gym for our dumb-assed Hemingway wannabe. He's deleted, as he will be each and every time in the future.
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Fly-fishin' with Hemingway's funny;
He never would do it for money!
His tip about trollin'
Or dippin' your pole in:
"I catch more with acid than honey."
The Rada Special Deterrence Force (SDF), commanded by Abdel Rauf Kara, reported yesterday that it has successfully broken up and arrested an entire Tripoli-based IS cell.
Rada reported that the operation followed a period of surveillance and intelligence gathering in the Bu Sleem area of Tripoli. One of the cell’s main members, Rada spokesman Ahmed Ben Salem said, was a Tunisian national who was an expert in explosives. They confessed that they were planning a number of terror operations including on checkpoints in the capital in order to cause chaos and disrupt the political process, Ben Salem said.
He added that he believed that IS was now paralysed in Tripoli with 90 percent of its cells exposed and arrested.
Rada has been regularly involved in Tripoli operations against IS. In February this year it claimed to have arrested a Libyan man, and two companions, chosen by IS to be its new ‘’emir’’ of Sabratha named as Mohamed Saad Tajouri, aka Abu Sulaiman. He was were on his way to Sabratha from Sirte after being appointed by the IS leadership.
In the same month Rada arrested and expelled two groups of Tunisians suspected of being IS members. In December it released a video of a confession by an alleged IS member. That month it also reported that it had killed an IS commander.
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[DAWN] THE recent brutal murders of secular and atheist bloggers, gay rights activists, academics and writers in Bangladesh have shocked the world.
Outfits claiming to be affiliates of the Death EaterIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group have claimed the credit. In Pakistain, too, several civil society members who opposed fundamentalism have been murdered in broad daylight. In both countries, few of the perpetrators have been jugged
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States called on Iran Saturday to free seven leaders of the minority Baha’i faith serving 20-year prison sentences, urging Tehran to ensure religious and other freedoms.
The Baha’i leaders were tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! eight years ago and convicted of espionage, insulting religious sanctities and propaganda against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"We join the international community in condemning their continued imprisonment and calling upon the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran to release them immediately, along with all other prisoners of conscience in Iran," State Department front man John Kirby said in a statement.
"Furthermore, we call upon Iranian authorities to uphold their own laws and meet their international obligations that guarantee freedom of expression, religion, opinion and assembly for all citizens," he said.
Iran allows religious freedom for several minorities but targets the Baha’i faith, which believes in unity among religions and equality between men and women.
The Baha’i faith considers Bahaullah, an Iranian born in 1817, to be the latest prophet sent by God, a major divergence from Islamic orthodoxy.
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Tahir Hussain Minhas, alias Sain, the Safoora bus carnage criminal mastermind who has been awarded death sentence by a military court, disclosed that he had been active in militancy since the late 1990s when he went to Kashmire to get training for jihad and also met Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... and his then deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... later during his visit to Afghanistan, it emerged on Friday.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Iraqi refugees fleeing Nineveh asked to be allowed to cross to north of Iraq regions due to difficult humanitarian conditions in al-Haul camp in Hasaka province, local sources said.
Hundreds of Iraqi families suffer terrible conditions at al-Haul refugee camp in Hasaka eastern countryside especially after families keep coming to the camp. The number of families exceeded 500 while the camp has only a capacity of 200 family.
The locals have not been able to help the refugees who fled 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.
The locals returned to their homes this month after they were displaced by Kurdish Self-administration. The locals depend on Iraqi refugees in bringing medicine and food items from the Iraqi borders.
Hasaka Charity organization cooperates with self-administration to help the refugees.
The later provides water, food and medicine to the refuges coming to the camp.
Self-administration officials spoke of establishing 250 tents to host the refuges and they are trying to bring power through Rmaylan to the camp.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime forces have breached the partial ceasefire deal in Latakia province for the third day, storming rebel strongholds in Jabal al-Krad and Jabal al-Turkmen with heavy artillery and mortars, local activists said Saturday.
Abdul Rahman al-Lathqani said regime troops backed by aerial bombing have made slow advance near al-Hadada village.
The bombing has also targeted villages of Kabbana, Tuffahiya, Ein Hor in Jabal al-Akrad, and villages of Job Torous and Klaz in Jabal Turkmen.
Washington and Moscow agreed on fragile ceasefire deal in Damascus and Latakia on April 30 after the collapse of 'Cessation of Hostilities' deal that went into effect on February 27.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime and backed militias launched missile attack on the besieged town of Daraya near Damascus, field sources said Saturday.
Residents of Daraya said regime plans for major attack on the town after pounding the the southern neighborhood by surface to-surface early Saturday.
On Thursday, regime mortars hit crowds were waiting humanitarian medicine aid in Daraya west of Damascus, killing at least two people, local activists said Thursday after aid convoy denied entry.
Father and his son have been killed as dozen more have been maimed, activists reported.
The aid convoy was refused entry to Daraya, the Red Thingy and United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said, blocking what would have been the first supplies to its residents for more than three years.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The city police on Friday claimed to have tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two hit mans of a banned holy warrior outfit involved in murder of a serving lieutenant colonel of Pakistain Army.
Lt-Col Tariq Ghafoor was bumped off by unknown assailants on Ring Road area falling in the jurisdiction of Sarband cop shoppe on the outskirts of the 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. city.
ASP Hayatabad Hassan Afzal told news hounds that the city police and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) managed to arrest the hit mans in joint raids. He identified the accused as Imtiaz alias Farooq and Hussain Jan.
The police officer said Imtiaz was arrested from Alam Godar area of Bara, while Hussain Jan was nabbed from Achini area of the city.
He said the hit mans were tasked by a commander of a holy warrior outfit while they were serving their prison terms in Jalalabad jail in Afghanistan. He said when Imtiaz was at the end of his five-year term and Hussain his three years, the commander of the holy warrior outfit, who was also in jail, tasked them with murdering Lt-Col Ghafoor. They were promised Rs1 million for the kill.
ASP Afzal said the killers followed Ghafoor after coming to Peshawar following completing their prison terms, adding the two rubbed out the army officer while riding a cycle of violence.
The police officer said the accused were also involved in other incidents of assassination'>assassination across the province, adding they had been handed over to the CTD for investigations.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday, that ten people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, before noon today, near a popular market in Madain District in southern Baghdad, killing two people and injuring eight others,” indicating that, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a hospital to receive treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A raid was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday, that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in western Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded near shops in Iskan neighborhood in Mansour area in western Baghdad, killing two people and wounding seven others.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the area and prevented approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police said on Saturday, that two civilians had been injured in a bomb blast that took place south of the capital Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, an explosive device that was emplaced on the road side in the area of Albu Dshir, south of Baghdad, went off, resulting in the injury of two civilians,” adding that, “A security forces cordoned off the area of the blast, while an ambulance transferred the injured to a nearby hospital to receive the necessary medical treatment.”
[DAWN] An elderly Buddhist monk was found hacked to death Saturday in Bangladesh, police said, the latest in a spate of murders of religious minorities and secular activists in the Muslim-majority nation.
No group has yet grabbed credit, although the killing in the remote southeastern district of Bandarban appeared to bear a resemblance to several recent murders by suspected myrmidons.
A troubling rise in violence in the South Asian nation has now seen seven murders since the start of last month alone.
"Villagers found Bhante (monk) Maung Shue U Chak's dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple this morning. He was hacked to death," Jashim Uddin, deputy police chief of Bandarban, told AFP.
Uddin said the monk, 75, appeared to have been attacked by at least four people at the Buddhist temple in Baishari, some 350 kilometres southeast of Dhaka early Saturday morning.
"We saw human footprints in the temple and found that four to five people entered the compound," he added.
He said U Chak was living alone in the hillside temple after having recently left farming to become a full-time monk.
A top Bangladeshi human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... lawyer who is close to the country's Buddhist community told AFP that U Chak had received anonymous death threats.
"He became a monk just one and a half years ago. He had received death threats, but nobody took it seriously," lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua said.
Bandarban is largely Buddhist, home to indigenous peoples who adopted the religion centuries ago.
Police district sub-inspector Anisur Rahman, who was at the scene, said that officers had not yet established a motive for the killing but that "it appeared the monk did not have any personal enemies".
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 15 turbans were killed and 20 others were maimed in two separate Arclight airstrikes in southern Kandahar and western Ghor province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Arclight airstrike in Ghor province was carried out in Pasaband district, leaving at least 7 turbans dead and 5 others maimed.
MoD further added that 8 turbans were killed and 15 others were maimed during the air raid in Arghandab district of Kandahar.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups including the Taliban bandidos myrmidons have not commented regarding the reports so far.
The Afghan cops have stepped up counter-terrorism operations as the terror groups attempt to increase insurgency activities by launching their spring offensive.
The Afghan forces have started the new fighting season with increased capabilities, specifically with improved air power by receiving more equipment and aircraft from allies.
The Afghan Air Force A-29 Super Tucano pilots have alone flown more than 260 sorties since January when they received the first batch of the light attack aircraft from the United States.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... the Afghan defense officials said last month that the Afghan Air Force carried out the most missions in mid-April by flying 83 missions over a period of 24 hours.
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[IsraelTimes] Intelligence tip-off leads to arrest at Mishor Adumim checkpoint of 36-year-old said planning terror attack
Israeli security forces on Saturday afternoon thwarted a terror attack when they incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a Paleostinian suspect in possession of an Israel Police uniform, police said in a statement.
The 36-year-old suspect from the West Bank city of Bethlehem was arrested by Border Police officers as he attempted to cross the Jerusalem-area Mishor Adumin checkpoint in a taxi. He was taken into custody for questioning.
Police said the suspect was on his way to carry out a terror attack against Israelis when he was arrested. An intelligence tip-off led authorities to his whereabouts, the statement said.
The would-be attacker was identified as the suspect by the forces patrolling the checkpoint, and was found to be concealing an Israel Police uniform that police said he planned to use in his attack.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Clashes renewed Friday between a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia and 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.... fighters in the southern countryside of Hasaka province, local sources said as 300 families fled to the Iraqi border escaping International Coalition air strikes.
The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces backed the U.S. warplanes took parts of a supply route links al-Shadadi town with Markada, last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka, residents said.
ISIS fighters have also retreated from al Fadghami village near Habur river.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... about 300 families have fled al Zayanat village to border district with Iraq amid difficult humanitarian situation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] There are signs that Nigeria’s 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... turbans are sending fighters to join ISIS in Libya,
...they won't enjoy being second class citizens in the Arab world, which no doubt will be a useful learning experience...
and of increased cooperation between the two groups, a senior US official said on Friday.
Nigeria has asked the United States to sell it aircraft to fight Boko Haram, which has been waging a seven-year insurgency in the north and last year pledged loyalty to ISIS, which is active in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sales of Zim-bob-wean 100 trillion-dollar notes ‐ now long defunct as real currency ‐ have been fetching some speculators returns of 1,500 percent.
Back in 2009, as massive hyperinflation in the impoverished African country hit a peak, one of the massive notes would have barely bought a bus fare.
But now, single 100 trillion-dollar bills are fetching up to $57 on auction site Ebay, the UK-based Guardian reported on Saturday.
Zim-bob-we has since abandoned its currency altogether for the US dollar, South African rand and several other foreign currencies.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the notes live on as souvenirs of a time gone by ‐ and a lucrative investment.
John Wolstencroft, a UK-based private investor interviewed by the Guardian, originally bought the novelty notes as gifts before realizing they would soon become a collector’s item.
The notes soon became popular with financial advisors hoping to persuade clients that cash, as with all things, does not hold its value forever.
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Paid much less than that for mine. Have it framed as a reminder of what governments are really about.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Saturday, Anbar Provincial Council announced, that 20 members of the security forces were either killed or wounded in suicide attacks carried out by ISIS members on the residential area in Amiriya in southern Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad).
The security committee member in Anbar Province Raji’ Barakat al-Eissawi said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS suicide attacks that targeted the residential area in Amiriya vicinity (19 km south of Fallujah) had resulted in the killing of five members of the security forces, including a first lieutenant, as well as wounding 15 members of the police and al-Hashed al-Asha’ri.”
Eissawi added, “The security situation in Ameriya is completely under control and there is no fear of other terrorist attacks,” indicating that, “The suicide bombers who targeted the residential compound in Amiriya vicinity in southern Fallujah came from the areas of Zowbaa and Numaniya in southern Fallujah.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday, that the Iraqi security forces had managed to kill 4 “terrorists” during a security operation west of Ramadi.
The ministry said in a brief statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The heroic security forces were able to kill 4 terrorists west of Ramadi,” pointing out that, “The terrorists were besieged inside a house in the area of Albu Ziyab west of Ramadi.”
“They were immediately killed after leaving the [house],” the statement added.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeerah Operations, Maj. Gen. Ali Ibrahim Dboun, announced on Saturday, that the security forces backed by clan fighters had managed to liberate the village of al-Wardiya located between the vicinity of al-Baghdadi and the district of Haditha west of Ramadi.
Dboun said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Security forces belonging to the army, police and clan fighters had managed to liberate the village of al-Wardiya, located between the district of Haditha and the vicinity of al-Baghdadi, during an extensive military operation,” noting that, “The security forces raised the Iraqi flag over one of the buildings in the village.”
He also added, “The operation came after a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt tried to target the security troops.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Saturday, Anbar Provincial Council announced, that the Iraqi security forces had foiled the suicide attack that was launched by nine ISIS suicide bombers on the residential compound in Amiriya vicinity in southern Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad).
The security committee member in Anbar Province Raji’ Barakat al-Eissawi said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Armed clash broke out between the joint security forces and nine ISIS suicide bombers wearing explosive belts, using light and medium weapons, while trying to attack the residential compound in Amiriya vicinity (18 km south of Fallujah),” pointing out that, “The suicide bombers were killed, while the losses among the security forces were not identified.”
Eissawi added, “The security forces started to reinforce its troops in the entrances of the vicinity in anticipation of any other attacks.”
[PREMIUMTIMESNG] The Nigerian Army says its troops have captured a wanted 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... leader, Sulaiman Umaru.
The acting Director Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, said in a statement released on Saturday that the wanted terrorist, Mr. Umaru, was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! at about 1.35pm on Friday, deep inside Sambisa forest, by troops from 143 Battalion.
The army said Mr. Umaru’s photograph was on the poster containing the photographs of the 100 Boko Haram gunnies declared wanted by the military.
The captured Boko Haram leader has been moved to 28 Task Force Brigade Headquarters investigation, the army said.
The army also disclosed that N1.9 million was found on an Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Abacha Bulama, in Borno State, when troops from 22 Task Force Brigade Garrison, in conjunction with 112 Task Force Battalion, intercepted and screened 31 IDPs, including women and kiddies coming from Sunabaya, Gumule, Garno and Mane-Gana villages.
The army said Mr. Bulama’s claim of being a businessman couldn’t remove the suspicion on why he carried about such a huge amount of money.
He has been detained for further investigation, while other IDPs have been handed over to Dikwa IDP Camp Manager for screening and further humanitarian assistance, the army said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... the army said the troops from 22 Task Force Brigade Garrison ran into an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Antul, a village south east of Dikwa.
Seven soldiers were said to have been injured in the incident, while four fighters from the Civilian JTF who accompanied the troops also sustained injuries.
The injured soldiers and their civilian counterparts have been evacuated to 7 Division Hospital and Medical Services, Maiduguri, the army said.
The army said the troops killed two Boko Haram terrorists, and recovered two AK-47 rifles from them.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a judge in terrorism court in Damascus referred prominent Syrian opposition figure Mohammed Saleh to the criminal court on charges of "funding terrorism in Syria" and that when he helped a family in besieged al-Waer neighborhood by regime in Homs with 100 Euros, according to the source.
Air Force Intelligence branch in Homs by orders of Jameel al-Hasan the chief of the Air Force Intelligence in Syria tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... on October 23, 2015 the prominent leader in the peaceful Syrian uprising after storming his house in al-Shammas neighborhood in Homs. They confiscated his lap top and all communication devices in his house.
He was transferred to Air Force Administration and after two months of interrogation, he was referred to terrorism court on December 30, 2015 where he was taken to Adra, central prison in Damascus.
Opposition figure and journalist Mohammed Deebu told Zaman al-Wasl that Mohammed Saleh is one of the fiercest opponents of Assad regime and one who was clear about his stand against tyranny.
He added that Mohammed Saleh decided to remain in Homs until his arrest and he was doing what he could to help the displaced people in Homs and locals of Homs.
Deebu confirmed that Mohammed Saleh remained a peaceful fighter against tyranny until the last minute and that is what scares the regime. The regime then fabricated a charge against him of funding terrorism when he was only offering help to those in need.
Mohammed Saleh was exposed to many uncomfortable situations during the times he was helping during to his religious background, but he choose to continue to do what he believed he should be doing until his arrest, Deebu added.
Arrest opposition figure Mohammed Saleh said in front of the judge who refused to release him that I admit that I did all i could to stop the bloodshed of Syrians. I wished I could put an end to each pain and suffering of Syrians and that s why I connected with all who helped me to do that, according to activists.
He added in his defense that if it was a crime, I admit then my crime and I will continue to work wishing that one day the law would rule instead of the rule of force. He concluded thanking those who still have a conscious.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights demanded UN envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura the immediate release of Mohammed Saleh and all prisoners of conscious in regime prisons and detentions who are estimated to be 200 thousand detainees.
The observatory said quoting a source inside security detentions that at least 60 thousand detainees were martyred under torture and the observatory documented the martyr of 14 thousand until this moment.
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[DAWN] THANK GOD for small mercies! David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... forgot to include Pakistain among his "fantastically corrupt" countries. Nevertheless, the Panama Papers may prove to be the proverbial last straw that breaks the camel’s back of leadership corruption in Pakistain. Or it may not.
The COAS has pronounced on the issue and taken action in his military backyard. He avoided meeting the prime minister until recently and then, reportedly, only to warn him to quickly clean up his own mess. The ’united opposition’ has formulated several questions for the prime minister to answer if and when he comes to parliament. So far he has chosen to ’fight fire with fire’ in a transparent effort to avoid accountability. One of the opposition parties is possibly even more corrupt than the ruling party. This, of course, should provide no cover to a sitting prime minister.
An anti-corruption summit has been held in London. Did our prime minister fear he would cut too pathetic and ridiculous a figure if he attended? He has not been too busy battling the demons of corruption at home. Or was he too disgusted by Cameron’s proposal to ban foreign ’dirty money’ from acquiring properties in the UK by requiring upfront the names of the ’beneficial owners’ of these properties?
Some of our print and media pundits suggest we should accept the ’fantastic corruption’ of our elected leaders as the political norm from which there is no escape. So like the Biblical ’Gideon swine’, are we supposed to rush towards the cliffs of political extinction?
Mid-century, 2050, is less than 34 years away. The population of Pakistain by then will be between 350 and 400 million. We already face a calamitous convergence of several lethal trends. Apart from the population bomb, these relate to climate, pollution, disease, water, food insecurity, law and order, education, basic rights, essential entitlements, family supporting jobs, nuclear doctrines and deployments, no-war no-peace and zero-sum regional strategies, obsolete budgetary allocations, medieval and nihilist mindsets interpreting divine injunctions, etc.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS on Saturday killed 20 members of pro-regime forces in an attack on a Syrian hospital in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitoring group said after the holy warrior group declared a state of emergency in its stronghold city in the conflict-torn country.
"ISIS attacked Al-Assad hospital at the city’s eastern entrance, killing at least 20 soldiers and allied fighters," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
He said the attack sparked festivities in which six gunnies were also killed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... a US military official has seen reports of ISIS declaring a state of emergency in Raqqa, its self-declared capital in Syria.
"We have seen this declaration of emergency in Raqqa, whatever that means," Col. Steve Warren, the front man for the US-led anti-ISIS coalition, was cited by CNN as saying on Friday.
"We know this enemy feels threatened, as they should."
It is believed that the holy warrior group feels it may soon come under siege in Raqqa through air strikes and ground attacks.
"They see the Syrian Democratic Forces, along with the Syrian Arab Coalition, maneuver both to their east and to their west," Warren said.
"Both of these areas becoming increasingly secure, and the Syrian Democratic Forces increasingly able to generate their own combat power in those areas."
ISIS is reportedly "|moving personnel around the city and trying to put up covers in certain areas" as part of the state of emergency declaration, according to CNN.
"We've had reports of ISIS repositioning both their combat capabilities, I guess what they think may be coming next," Warren said, using another acronym for ISIS.
"And we've seen reports of them repositioning personnel ... either within the city or even out of the city."
CNN quoted a US defense official as saying that ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi "remains extremely careful" about his personal security.
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Badin District and Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Khoso on Friday set free 30 men, women and kiddies who were forced into bonded labour by a landowner in Chak-43 of Golarchi for many months.
Complainant Mallah Mohammed had filed his application in the court stating that his family members and relatives had been forced into bonded labour by their employer, Malik Akhtar Awan, on his lands. He stated that they were neither being given their due share in crop nor were they allowed a free movement as per the Tenancy Act.
The judge ordered the Golarchi police to carry out a raid on the specified place and rescue the bonded labourers and their families if found there.
The police found seven men, 10 women and 13 children kept at the raided place and brought them to the court.
After recording the victims’ statements, the judge set all of them at freedom.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 30 snuffies and 7 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces bit the dust in the latest wave of violence across the country.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said at least 30 snuffies were also maimed and 3 others were jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! during the operations in the past 24 hours.
A statement by MoD said the snuffies were killed in Kandahar, Ghor, Laghman, 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.. , Maidan Wardak, Khost, and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... provinces.
MoD in its statement further added that the operations were supported by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) and artillery units of the Afghan army.
A commander of the snuffies identified as Fazal Rabi was also among those killed during the operations, MoD added.
According to MoD, at least 7 soldiers were also martyred in the past 24 hours as they were suppressing the anti-government armed krazed killers.
"The Afghan National Army (ANA) forces are prepared for all kinds of devotion and with all force to maintain security and comfort for the people of Afghanistan," a statement by MoD said, adding that 7 Afghan soldiers were martyred during counter-terrorism operations against the internal and foreign terrorists.
There has been a sharp rise in the casualties of the Afghan national security forces since they took full control of the security responsibilities from the coalition forces at the start of last year.
According to the earlier estimates by security officials, the Afghan army deaths stood at 4 service members daily on average which is mainly caused due to improvised bomb (IED) attacks.
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HYDERABAD: Activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) came to blows in several localities of Hyderabad late on Thursday evening causing tension across the city. Several activists sustained club and brick injuries in the ensuing intermittent clashes that continued into the morning. Firing into the air by rival activists was reported from some localities but no one was reported hit with bullets. Police said they also had to fire into the air to scare away the embattled activists and create a buffer zone between the two sides.
In the early hours of Friday, when the violence had almost died down, the MQM unit office in the Pinjra Pole area near the Gul Shah Bukhari shrine caught fire and the party claimed it was an arson attack. The furniture inside the office was destroyed.
It all began when a PSP ceremony was in progress in the Hali Road area, a locality where PSP leader Anis Qaimkhani’s house is located. A group of MQM workers and supporters gathered at the venue which triggered a heated bout of sloganeering.
The situation grew tense when they chanted slogans against each other’s leaders, Altaf Hussain and Mustafa Kamal. Consequently, some of them came to blows. No one was, however, physically hurt and the situation was brought under control by their respective leaders and police.
Shortly after the PSP ceremony, a group of activists gathered outside the nearby office of the MQM and raised slogans against MQM chief apparently in retaliation to the disturbance at the ceremony. MQM activists responded with pro-Altaf slogans turning the situation tense again. One of the PSP activists, later identified by a police source as Imran, came very close to MQM lawmaker Rashid Khilji during the acrimony and was saved by police from being beaten up. However, it caused a clash between the rival activists who attacked each other with stones. At least eight activists from both sides were injured.
Police intervened to disperse them and create a buffer zone between the two sides pushing PSP activists towards the Bhai Khan ki Chari area and the MQM activists towards their office, according to a source in the City police station.
Unknown activists also fired shots but no one was wounded. Police called in reinforcement to prevent the unrest from spreading to other areas. However, charged MQM activists from different areas reached their office and tried to proceed to the nearby house of a PSP activst, Mr Iftikhar, but police foiled their attempt.
Incidents of firing were also reported from the Do Qabar and Pucca Qila areas soon after MQM deputy convener Amir Khan left the party office for Karachi. He was there to chair a workers’ meeting. MPA Khilji, speaking at an emergency press conference in the small hours of Friday, claimed that seven MQM activists were injured in the clashes. He said that a PSP activist, Hunain Safdar, was also injured. He alleged that 15 to 20 PSP supporters including Kamran Khanzada, Tariq Bhoora, Asghar, Tariq Shah and Iftikhar Lamba along with three to four policemen, including Haroon, attacked the MQM zonal office.
Police had reportedly picked up a PSP supporter, Kamran, who is the brother of Mr Iftikhar.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Security forces in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan said Saturday they have tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... a member of the opposition on extremism charges after he was quoted as expressing support for ISIS.
The arrest of self-styled religious leader Nurlan Motuyev late Friday follows a wave of opposition arrests in the Central Asian state.
A press officer for the GKNB security organ told AFP that Motuyev had been arrested for "calling Kyrgyzstanis to fight in Syria on the side of banned krazed killer organizations, and live according to Sharia law" during an opposition meeting on Thursday.
Local media also reported Motuyev as saying that firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... "would have torn the heads off" the Canadian operators of a controversial gold mine in the country of six million that has faced nationalisation calls.
Motuyev was speaking at a forum of the People’s Parliament group that has called for President Almazbek Atambayev’s immediate resignation and the creation of a new government.
Atambayev on Saturday blasted the group as well as Western-funded NGOs for trying to "destabilise the country" in a speech to mark the Mothers’ Day holiday held over from the Soviet era.
Three other members of the opposition group formed in April and viewed as a marginal political force were arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the government earlier this week.
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[ARA News] QAMISHLO – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) revealed that in the near future operations will start to liberate Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (ISIS).
According to the media office of the People’s Protection Units (YPG)–leading member of the SDF alliance–preparations are taking place, and the battle for Raqqa will start in the upcoming days.
A source close to the YPG stressed that families that escaped the ISIS-held Raqqa province in northeastern Syria demanded the liberation of their areas.
“The Raqqa campaign will begin very soon,” the press office of the SDF said in a statement.
Speaking to ARA News in an exclusive interview, official spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Talal Silo said that the battle for Raqqa “is going to be difficult”, and that they might start it by carrying out an operation to liberate parts of the Raqqa countryside.
“Because it [Raqqa] is a stronghold for the ISIS, whenever we have liberated territories the Arab tribes would join us, and now there is preparation to form a military council for Raqqa, as what we did for Manbij city,” Silo said.
Kurdish officials told ARA News that Raqqa could either join the future federal region for northern Syria and Rojava, or could have an independent local administration, similar to the local canton administrations that are now running the Kurdish areas of Syria.
According to US-led coalition sources, the Islamic State radical group has recently declared a state of emergency in Raqqa.
“We know this enemy feels threatened, as they should,” Operation Inherent Resolve spokesperson Col. Steve Warren said on Thursday. “They see the Syrian Democratic Forces along with the Syrian Arab Coalition maneuver both to their east at Shaddadi [in Hasakah province] and to their west at the Tishrin Dam [northeastern Aleppo]. Both of these areas are becoming increasingly secure. And the Syrian Democratic Forces are increasingly able to generate their own combat power in those areas,” he said in a press conference.
“So, certainly we are seeing some reactions to this. We’ve had reports of ISIL [ISIS] repositioning both their combat capabilities, I guess what they think may be coming next. And we’ve seen reports of them repositioning personnel to various other — either within the city [Raqqa] or even out of the city,” Warren added.
The coalition official says eventually the ISIS-led Caliphate announced in June 2014 “will eventually collapse”.
“So, rightfully, ISIL understands that their days are increasingly numbered. We are going to continue to keep this pressure on them, and we expect to see them collapse eventually,” Col. Warren concluded.
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Begin, in the near future, to start planning and bringing forth lethal supplies of all sorts, planning and preparing the points of supply, fire, honor and recreation. Bringing together the best minds on siege and assault warfare, and considering practice of above from time to time. War is imminent when you see the rising of the massive combat Souk.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian Observatory: Opposition groups deny involvement in Mustafa Badreddine’s death, claim no recent shelling on airport where he was killed
A Syrian watchdog group refuted claims made earlier Saturday by Hezbollah that a top commander in Syria was killed last week as a result of shelling by Islamic Lion of Islams.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that Syrian opposition groups denied involvement in the death of Mustafa Badreddine, adding that sources in the Syrian military also said that no projectile was launched on the Damascus international airport recently.
"There was no shelling... in recent days. The Syrian opposition has no connection to the death," said the group’s head Rami Abed a-Rahman.
Earlier Saturday, Hezbollah announced that Badreddine was killed by Islamist rebel groups.
"An investigation has shown that the blast that targeted one of our positions near the Damascus international airport that led to the martyrdom of the brother commander Mustafa Badreddine was caused by artillery bombardment carried out by takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... (Sunni Lion of Islam) groups present in that region," a Hezbollah statement said.
Hezbollah did not name any particular group and there has been no claim of responsibility for the attack. But in its statement the group vowed not to let up in its war against those it described as "criminal gangs" in Syria.
"The result of the investigation will only increase our determination and will to pursue the fight against those criminal gangs until they are defeated," the statement said. "It is the same battle against the American-Zionist scheme in the region, which the bandidosholy warriors are spearheading."
The announcement contradicted a flurry of earlier Arab media reports claiming an advanced nation, possibly Israel, was behind the big shot’s death.
Earlier in the day a Lebanese newspaper with ties to the group claimed Badreddine was killed by a guided missile only possessed by advanced nations. Al-Akhbar reported that Badreddine had just concluded a meeting with other commanders near the Damascus airport on Thursday night when the kaboom occurred. The weapon used to kill him, the paper said, was a highly advanced one.
The newspaper claimed a guided missile went kaboom! several meters from Badreddine. It said the majority of his injuries were internal, caused by the blast shockwave, and that only tiny amounts of shrapnel were found in his body.
Meanwhile Kuwaiti paper Al-Rai claimed Saturday that Israel was behind the killing, saying an Israeli Air Force jet had fired the missile that hit Badreddine.
The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, which is close to Hezbollah, initially said Badreddine was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike but later removed the report. There was no comment from Israel.
Al-Akhbar noted that the group would seek retribution for the top commander’s killing not only to avenge his death, but also to send a strong message that it will not allow the targeting of high-ranking officials to go unpunished.
[DAWN] Key members of Congress are not prepared to support military aid to Pakistain without some specific actions and the B.O. regime has to follow their decision, says the US State Department.
At a Thursday afternoon news briefing in Washington, a State Department official, Elizabeth Trudeau, pointed out that the US administration also wanted Pakistain to act against the Haqqani network.
"Key members of Congress have been clear they’re not prepared to support US military aid to Pakistain absent some specific actions," she said.
Ms Trudeau said the United States had clearly conveyed its views to Pakistain on the activities of the Haqqani network and Islamabad knew what to do.
"Pakistain has spoken that they will not discriminate against [militant] groups. We could encourage them to continue to live up to that," she said when asked if the State Department was willing to certify that Pakistain had taken the ’specific actions’ needed to justify releasing military funds to the country.
The statement coincided with a debate in the Pak parliament where Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... conceded that relations with the US had been under stress for the past three months.
Last week, a US congressional panel endorsed a move to block $450 million of military aid to Pakistain for failing to take action against the Haqqani network. And late last month, US senators stopped the administration from using foreign military financing for subsidising sale of eight F-16s to Pakistain.
Responding to another question, Ms Trudeau said that while only Congress could explain its position on the issue, the administration was "committed to working with Congress to deliver security assistance to our partners and allies".
Doing so, she added, "furthers US goals by building capacity to meet shared security challenges".
When asked if the B.O. regime and Congress were on the same page on the matter, Ms Trudeau said: "We continue to work with Congress," making it clear that the administration on its own could not release the funds.
After improving a bit, relations between Pakistain and the US began to deteriorate again early this year when Pakistain’s efforts to persuade Taliban to join Afghan reconciliation talks failed.
Some analysts say that Pakistain does not have enough influence on the Taliban to persuade them to accept a peace deal. They argue that the turbans will only join peace talks if they realise that they cannot win the war.
The Americans argue that Pakistain can play an effective role in making the Taliban realise their own vulnerability by taking direct military action against those who are hiding inside its borders.
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The bin Laden payments must have ended. What else do you have ?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] There were hardly any Syrian migrants colonists among the 800 people rescued off Sicily, contrary to earlier reports from Italia’s coastguard, the UN and the International Organization for Migration have confirmed.
The coastguard had said Thursday that half of the 342 migrants colonists they had picked up were Syrians, sparking concern that the flow of Syrians previously attempting to cross into Europe via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Greece was shifting to Italian shores.
Around 50,000 Syrians
"A coupla mooks from Algeria stole my passport, but I am Syrian -- from Aleppo. Really. President Assad is my fourth cousin, five times removed. There were a couple of Nigerian slave girls in my ancestry, that's why I don't look Arab."
arrived in Italia between mid-2013 and early 2014, after which Greece became the route of choice, the IOM said.
While only 26 people from the war-torn country have landed in Italia this year, a deal between Turkey and the EU to close down that route and return those attempting to cross has raised fears Syrians would begin once more to set out for Sicily.
Of the 800 arrivals, only two people were believed to be Syrians.
"The information was incorrect," Carlotta Sami, Italia spokeswoman for the UN’s Refugee Agency, told AFP after UNHCR humanitarian workers spoke to the newly-arrived migrants colonists on Friday after they were brought to various ports on the Italian island.
"There are a lot of different nationalities: Yemenis, Somalis, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... ns, South Sudanese", she said, while IOM front man Flavio di Giacomo said there were also many Egyptians and a high number of unaccompanied minors.
The IOM said what was notable was the rise in the number of people setting off from Egypt rather than Libya.
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[DAWN] The video of a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) taking oath went viral on Friday. Hoot, mon!
Humza Yousaf, MSP for Glasgow Pollok from the Scottish National Party (SNP), first took the oath of allegiance in English and then in Urdu, as other members gave their oath in Doric, Gaelic and Scots as well as English. O, wad some pow'r the giftie gie us to hear oursel's as others see us...
Yousaf proudly paid homage to his roots with his outfit as well as his language, pairing a traditional Scottish kilt with a sherwani jacket.
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p.s. what's the difference between Gaelic and Scots?
[DAWN] WHILE yesterday’s meeting between the Afghan ambassador and the army chief resulted in the reopening of the Torkham crossing after nearly four days of closure, a more permanent solution is needed to end border concerns between Afghanistan and Pakistain. Following the Bacha Khan University attack in Charsadda in January, the security establishment here decided to try and finally tackle the Torkham problem. The legendary, and also infamous, border crossing has long been a source of problems for both the Afghan and Pak states -- mixing with the mass of humanity that uses the border crossing each day is believed to be a significant holy warrior element, such as the one that the security establishment says was involved in the university attack. Aware that the Afghan state, which does not recognise the Durand Line and fiercely resists anything resembling border fencing, may not have reacted positively to Pak requests for cooperation, a unilateral plan was developed. At the official border crossing itself, valid paperwork would be eventually required for all those seeking to enter Pakistain. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... to prevent illegal crossings from nearby areas, a fence would be constructed inside Pak territory on either side of the Torkham crossing.
The Pak plan appears reasonable and can create a template to monitor cross-border human traffic. But all plans must be implemented in a manner that minimises on-ground tensions. The Afghan response, while predictably hostile, may also have been exacerbated by the unilateral actions that Pakistain has taken. Instead of immediately attempting to erect a fence, perhaps the Pak state should have first used the full spectrum of its diplomatic and military contacts to explain the situation to Afghan officials. Through diplomacy and military-to-military contacts a picture could have been painted of how Pakistain’s proposal would serve the interests of both the Afghan and Pak states and people, and that it is militancy and criminality that would be most affected. As for the Afghan concern that the transit rights of local populations might be curbed through the new measures, an awareness campaign could go some way towards encouraging Afghan nationals to acquire passports or other necessary travel documents.
What is unacceptable, however, is the escalation of military tensions along the border as was evident in the last few days. The brinkmanship that the Afghan and Pak security establishments find all too easy to indulge in must stop. The Torkham crossing also has a significant humanitarian dimension, with many Afghans relying on it for access to healthcare and for family reasons. Given that the very reason for the Pak attempt to institute new measures at Torkham was to ensure legitimate traffic, it is wrong to punish the people who have relied on the crossing for genuine needs. Moreover, Afghanistan and Pakistain have enough troubles of late to deal with for yet another issue to be added to the mix. Such tensions should not be allowed to recur.
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Control yoke: Check. Raised canopy that closes vertically: Check. P-38 in the background: Check. Possibility that she's sitting in a P-38: Pretty Good. Why could't it have been me instead of her???????
[ARA News] QAMISHLO – The Syrian Kurdish news website Welati shut down its website on 8 May after facing financial difficulties. This comes just two weeks after an independent radio station ARTA-FM was burned in the town of Amude city in northeastern Syria by anonymous gunmen.
“The main reason we are closed is that we don’t have sufficient financial resources and enough manpower to continue our work,” Zara Misto, a Welati editor from Kobane told ARA News.
“When we started Welati in 2011, we aimed at covering news in Rojava [Syrian Kurdish region] independently,” said Him Omar, the founder of the website.
“Our goal was to work independent from political parties and the website was financed privately by its owner,” he told ARA News. “We wanted to report on the differences between the Kurdish parties and report about sensitive subjects in a constructive way.”
However, the news website faced several challenges. “Our website was hacked several times and we lost our archive. Moreover, we had financial problems and we tried to find financial support from international organizations that support free media, but we failed,” he said. “Slowly our work became impossible.”
For local reporters in the Kurdish areas of Syria it’s difficult to work due to security challenges and the increasing polarization between the dominant Kurdish parties such as the Kurdish National Council (KNC) backed by Masoud Barzani, and the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) backed by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The two sides signed an agreement in Duhok in October 2014, but failed to implement it and share power on the ground.
Currently, a local administration dominated by TEV-DEM and it’s Christian, Arab and Kurdish allies is ruling large parts of northern Syria.
There are several Kurdish TV-stations covering the current situation in the Kurdish areas of Syria but most of them are either affiliated with TEV-DEM such as Ronahi or Rojava TV, or funded by Iraqi Kurdish parties such as Zagros and Rudaw, affiliated to Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). As a result, most Kurdish media is used as instruments by Kurdish parties to attack each other.
“The KDP-S [Syrian branch of the Iraqi KDP] have Rudaw and Zagros, the PYD [TEV-DEM member] have Ronahi and Rojava TV. Amid this, independent Kurds are left with less options,” Mustafa Mashaikh, a member of the Kurdish Democratic Unity party, told ARA News.
“The media is more dominated by politics,” a TEV-DEM official said.
As a result, the local Kurdish media in Syria is often forced to choose sides due to the lack of financing.
“The war in Syria is becoming more bloody and you are forced to support a party and cannot have different opinions,” Omar said.
“We [Welatî] wanted to be active in Rojava and other parts of Kurdistan and needed more reporters and financial support, we tried several times to get international support since we knew we would loose our independence if we would receive backing from local parties,” Omar told ARA News. “We rejected proposals to finance our website from Kurdish organizations, because we wanted to maintain our independence.”
“That’s why we took the painful decision to stop the website and have no new plans to start again,” he said.
“Welatî was an example of moderate media within the Kurdish society. It could prove neutrality and moderation when published events and crises reports,the website was away from parties and political groups influence,” Idris Nassan, a former Kurdish official in the Kobane administration told ARA News.
“It’s team could not gain financial help from its supporters as they did not seek for politicians’ approval, so it came to an end, and in this way the Kurdish media lost one of it’s media outlets to publish the reality and truth in a neutral way,” Nassan added.
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – On Saturday, Diyala Police Command announced finding a strategic explosives cache belonging to ISIS sleeper cells near Baqubah, while pointed out that the cache was supplying ISIS with improvised explosive devices and belts to launch terrorist attacks in Baqubah.
Diyala Police Chief Major General Jassim al-Saadi said in a press statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A joint security force carried out an operation in al-Bardiya village in al-Maradiya south of Baqubah,” pointing out that, “The security force managed to seize a strategic explosives cache belonging to ISIS sleeper cells.”
Saadi added, “The cache was hidden underground and contained two explosive belts, 79 adhesive explosive devices, 30 improvised explosive devices and 28 TNT explosives,” indicating that, “The cache was providing ISIS sleeper cells with explosive devices and belts to target Baqubah.”
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran nuclear chief Salehi hails technological progress, says Iran establishing itself as an exporter of nuclear products
Iran is enhancing its nuclear activities, and has improved its capacity to enrich uranium, Iran’s nuclear chief told a gathering of his country’s diplomats in Tehran on Saturday.
"We are enhancing the industrial section of Iran’s nuclear activities technologically with modern systems and machines," said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran who was a key figure in the negotiation of last year’s nuclear deal between Iran and the US-led P5+1 world powers.
Salehi spoke of advances in enrichment capability, asserting that the quality of process of uranium enrichment in Iran is also progressing, according to the Tehran Times.
Iran’s IRNA state news agency reported: "Salehi said that Iran’s nuclear program is on the right path naturally and compatible with the strategic plans of the country in a transparent way based on international factors."
He also told the envoys, at a conference that focused on the nuclear deal, that Iran is establishing itself as an exporter of nuclear products, including heavy water. "We have improved the country’s situation in the field of the civilian nuclear energy," Salehi said, according to Iran’s Fars news agency.
Salehi said earlier this week that Iran was negotiating with Russia to sell 40 tons of its excess heavy water.
The nuclear deal was designed to freeze and inspect Iran’s rogue nuclear program, in return for sanctions relief for the Tehran regime. Critics, notably including Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have warned that, far from blocking Iran’s path to the bomb, it paves the way to an Iranian nuclear arsenal.
Even as the deal is being implemented, Iran’s leaders have kept up a barrage of aggressive rhetoric against the United States and Israel. Earlier this month, for instance, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the United States is the Middle East’s main enemy, with the "Zionist regime" a close second.
Speaking at a meeting in Tehran with the head of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group, Khamenei said that looking at the turmoil in the region in a "macro" sense, the US was clearly to blame, with Israel following closely behind.
Iran has also been testing ballistic missiles. In March, it tested what it said were missiles with a 2,000-kilometer range, capable of reaching Israel, inscribed with the words, "Israel must be wiped out."
The B.O. regime, which championed the Iran deal, has been under fire at home in recent days after a top presidential adviser, Ben Rhodes, reportedly told the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... he created an "echo chamber" of supportive experts in an effort to persuade politicians to back the deal. The article also claims Obama misrepresented the timeline of the negotiations in an effort to create a story line that bolstered the administration’s case.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghanistan High Peace Council (AHPC) officials have said peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... will likely complete on Sunday.
Deputy High Peace Council Chief 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.... , Ata-ur-Rehman has told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the deal could be completed after two years of negotiations on Sunday.
A Hezb-e-Islami party representative Amin Karim has also said he expected President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. to approve the final version of the agreement on Sunday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... reports emerged last week suggesting that the leader of the party Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will visit Kabul to sign the agreement with the Afghan government.
Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, international relations adviser to Afghanistan High Peace Coucil, confired Hekmatyar is expected to visit Kabul to sign the agreement.
Citing the representatives of Hezb-e-Islami, Qasimyar said Hekmatyar is based in Afghanistan and the delegation is not prepared to disclose the location until he arrives in Kabul for formal meeting with the Afghan officials.
The delegation of Hezb-e-Islami arrived for peace talks to capital Kabul in mid March and shortly after the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) called on holy warrior groups to participate in direct peace talks with the Afghan government.
Hekmatyar is considered is a notorious warlord for his involvement in the devastating civil war and insurgency following activities following the fall of the Taliban group.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran is staging an international cartoon contest on the Holocaust, saying it is not a denial of the Nazi massacre.
Masuod Shojai-Tabatabai, the secretary of the contest, said Saturday, that they have no interest in denying the Holocaust or "ridiculing its victims."
He added that the world was witnessing a similar massacre "by the Zionist regime in Gazoo and Paleostine."
Some 150 works from 50 countries are on display. The works mainly criticize what they consider the use of the Holocaust by Israel to distract from the Paleostine issue.
Cartoonists from various countries, including La Belle France, are competing in the contest which is organized by non-governmental bodies with strong support from Iran’s hard-liners.
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[DAWN] WHEN the Sharifs were first sent queries on the Panama Papers towards the turn of the year by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), they demonstrably received very poor counsel.
There are suggestions that every effort was made to have Ms Maryam Nawaz’s name removed from the list. Those trying to get this done had little idea how organizations such as the ICIJ work.
Nonetheless, the thinking behind these efforts reflected the division of labour (for want of a better expression) in the first family where the prime minister’s sons have taken over and run his part of the business empire mostly from abroad as they have considerable interests overseas.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Saturday, Anbar Provincial Council announced, that the Iraqi security forces had foiled the suicide attack that was launched by nine ISIS suicide bombers on the residential compound in Amiriya vicinity in southern Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad).
The security committee member in Anbar Province Raji’ Barakat al-Eissawi said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Armed clash broke out between the joint security forces and nine ISIS suicide bombers wearing explosive belts, using light and medium weapons, while trying to attack the residential compound in Amiriya vicinity (18 km south of Fallujah),” pointing out that, “The suicide bombers were killed, while the losses among the security forces were not identified.”
Eissawi added, “The security forces started to reinforce its troops in the entrances of the vicinity in anticipation of any other attacks.”
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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.
A charity group that helps homeless military veterans on Chicago's South Side says the city is trying to take control of the meager facility to make way for the restaurants, shops and other commercial venues that would complement the proposed Obama presidential library and museum.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – On Saturday, a security source in Salahuddin Province revealed, that an armed group kidnapped a police officer in Dujail District in southern the province.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A teenage girl was burnt alive allegedly by her brother’s wife in eastern 
[ASHARQ AL-AWSAT] The US administration yesterday joined the European Union in imposing sanctions on the President of the Libyan House of Representatives Aguila Saleh who is accused of blocking the formation of a UN – backed government of national accord which is led by Fayez Al-Sarraj in the capital Tripoli. Meanwhile, it was confirmed yesterday that American, British and Italian special military forces (commandos) are participating in skirmishes between Misrata brigades loyal to Al-Sarraj’s government and ISIS in western Libya.
Zawahiri
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 15 
David Cameron
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 30 
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[DAWN] The video of a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) taking oath went viral on Friday.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
