[NY Post] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told a crowd in Japan that he was once gay but "cured" himself of homosexuality when he married his first wife.
Duterte, 74, made the remarks on Thursday during a speech in Tokyo after he accused his political opponent and critic Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV of being gay.
"I said, ‘Are you sure?' They said, ‘You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they'll say he's gay.' No wonder. Good thing Trillanes and I are similar. But I cured myself," Duterte said, according to the Rappler news site.
"Duterte is gay. So I am gay, I don't care if I'm gay or not," the president later said.
The controversial leader has a history of making controversial remarks about the LGBT community.
In 2016, he called the US ambassador to his country a "gay son of a bitch" in a speech.
A year later, he said that under Philippine law marriage was only for a man and a woman but later backtracked to say he believes the law can be changed to allow same-sex marriage.
In Tokyo, Duterte said when he began a relationship with his ex-wife Elizabeth Zimmerman, "I became a man again."
The president also added that he was cured by "beautiful women" before he invited several women on stage and kissed them on the cheek.
Duterte and Zimmerman were married for nearly three decades before their marriage was annulled in 2000.
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The islamist attacks in his country, on his people gave not prompted the kind of response he showed to the drug gangs.
[Political Insider] Things got heated at a Fox News town hall in Iowa Sunday when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) used the platform to blame the network for allowing discussions of infanticide in debates about abortion and women’s reproductive rights.
When asked by a retired pediatric nurse named Susan about her stance on late-term abortions, Gillibrand pivoted to an attack on Fox News.
Gillibrand accused Fox of fueling what she called the infanticide "red herring" by devoting 6.5 hours of coverage to the debate, including comments from guests on the network.
"What we have created, unfortunately, is a false choice and a false narrative," Gillibrand said of the climate surrounding the issue. "And Chris, I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this because it’s a problem. I can tell you before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide."
"Infanticide doesn’t exist," she said ‐ at which point "Fox News Sunday" host and town hall moderator Chris Wallace cut her off.
"Senator, I just want to say, we’ve brought you here for an hour," Wallace said. "We’ve treated you very fairly. I understand that maybe to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News, you want to attack us. I’m not sure it’s frankly very polite when we’ve invited you to be here."
Gillibrand, who is polling at around one percent, according to most national and early voting state polls, has yet to secure the 65,000 individual donor campaign contributions necessary to qualify her for the late June and July primary debates and hoped to use her platform on Fox to bolster support.
"I’ll do it in a polite way," Gillibrand countered.
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She is still going to jail. Her husband was on the board for a pedophile tour group that was involved in the human trafficking of these kids. She received financial benefit from this crime. Her day will come...
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[Political Insider] Prayer fills scores of American churches on Sundays and countless other days, but an organized group of faith leaders has pledged to take part in a specially designated day of prayer for President Donald Trump on Sunday, June 2.
"We the undersigned are calling for June 2 to be a SPECIAL Day of Prayer for the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, that God would protect, strengthen, embolden, and direct him," the faith leaders have shared across the internet and with their followers and many other faithful," they wrote in their message, distributed widely online.
"We believe our nation is at a crossroads, at a dangerous precipice," they also said. "The only one who can fix our country’s problems is God Himself, and we pray that God will bless our president and our nation for His glory."
Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, came up with the idea several weeks ago while on a preaching tour in Vermont.
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There is a greater cosmic battle playing out and the world of men is just a manifestation of some of its effects. We must seek God to strengthen those that serve Him, the keepers of the flock. I believe Trump is a modern day Ahasuerus . A Nebuchadnezzar that though personally may not be very virtuous, is serving His people. Those that remain so in America.
Democrats are foolishly demanding a modern day Pickett’s charge into the teeth of an entrenched adversary who occupies the high ground. Unlike Lee, they must know that their loud, nonstop cannonade has missed the mark.
A group of overconfident Democrats, cheered on by their deranged base (and some tortured English from Mr. Mueller) are demanding the their colleagues advance the cause of impeachment. Their fawning followers in the Washington press are egging them on with their daily sniping of the duly elected President. Perhaps they believe that they can break the will of this President and his party to fight on.
They willfully ignore the facts. They seriously underestimate this President. They now confront a steely Attorney General in William Barr who has truth, the law and the Mueller Report on his side. Democrats are foolishly demanding a modern day Pickett’s charge into the teeth of an entrenched adversary who occupies the high ground. Unlike Lee, they must know that their loud, nonstop cannonade has missed the mark.
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Looking from Seminary Ridge, you don't see the difficulty of the terrain to your east. It looks pretty easy.
It isn't.
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If you want to see difficult terrain on an historic battlefield, go to Vienna, walk the battlefield (start at the heights, but it still takes days) and try to imagine the situation. When I first saw the Vienna imperial garrison from above, I was stricken by the design of the meat grinder it represented.
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(1) Seriously prosecute those that hire illegals.
(2) Companies stop hiring illegals.
(3) Word spreads to Latin America
(4) Illegal immigration drops to a trickle.
If they are not going after companies they are not serious.
ISIS claims it could buy its first nuclear weapon from #Pakistan within a year. 'We're looking to do something big, something truly epic' - Isis propaganda magazine Dabiq says ISIS is expanding so rapidly it could buy its first nuclear weapon within a year http://t.co/1unvmnXf7a
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they would have to overthrow the current Pakistan govt to do that
wait a minute, uh.. oh...
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Could have bought from russians and satellites a few years ago - what's new?
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Last year, the Home Secretary and Tory leadership candidate claimed in a TV interview there was no connection between the rise in crime and a fall in police numbers.
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I’m old enough to remember when there was an East Pakistan instead of Bangladesh. England is rapidly earning the West Pakistan nickname. Tragic cultural suicide by the mother country.
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I wonder how much of the daily is owned by the EU. This non conformity is more common than not. But lets not let the facts get in front of the hysteria.
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The Daily Mail does indeed like to become overexcited. Are these minor faults on an endless checklist or meaningful and dangerous?
[Washington Examiner] Roger Stone posted an Instagram story Sunday afternoon calling for former CIA Director John Brennan to be hung for treason.
"This psycho must be charged, tried, convicted" the provocateur and Republican operative wrote, below which he placed a photo of Brennan and then added, "and hung for treason,"
The post was removed by Instagram soon after it was posted, with the company saying it "violated our Community Guidelines."
Stone, 66, was arrested at his Florida home on Jan. 25 and charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with lying to Congress, obstructing justice, and witness tampering. He pleaded not guilty and was released on a $250,000 bond. Stone’s trial is set for Nov. 5.
He has come under fire for his social media posts. On another Instagram story, he posted a photo of U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s face next to an image of crosshairs. Jackson is the judge in Stone's case. He deleted the post and released a statement denying it "was meant to somehow threaten the Judge or disrespect [the] court."
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Well, it's hanged. Every guy would like to be hung but none want to be hanged.
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A wag pointed out to me years ago some idiomatic expressions just don't translate directly: In France, anyone would be happy to "vivez dans le grande maison." In the US, nobody wants to "live in the big house."
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Worked with foreign nationals to overthrow the elected government. Technically he may be correct.
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Worked with foreign nationals to overthrow the elected government. Technically he may be correct.
If not closely monitored, intelligence methodologies employed against foreign adversaries can become handy tools for domestic political exploitation or monetary gain, or both. A case for this type of treasonous abuse appears quite likely.
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In the US, nobody wants to "live in the big house."
Au contraire, mon frere. From the Creole:
They want to be good, but they won't,
Because they aspire when they're grown
To rise to high station
Upon the plantation: The big house! Then, later... they don't.
[NYP] The gunman who shot dead 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building had been facing disciplinary action for a violent fight at work, according to a report.
DeWayne Craddock, 40, was still employed as an engineer with the Department of Public Utilities when he went on his shooting rampage Friday, killing 12 and injuring several others, including a cop.
But he recently started showing serious behavioral problems and got into physical "scuffles" with other city workers, a source told The New York Times.
The source told the paper that the troubles had escalated in the week leading up to the mass shooting ‐ and Craddock was involved in what it called "a violent altercation on city grounds."
Craddock reportedly knew he was facing disciplinary action for the fight when he went into the municipal building with two .45-caliber handguns, at least one of which was equipped with a sound suppressor ‐ and both of which were purchased legally.
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The source told the paper that the troubles had escalated in the week leading up to the mass shooting ‐ and Craddock was involved in what it called "a violent altercation on city grounds."
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I can’t help but notice that the MSM coverage of this has been far more muted than others with lesser death tolls. Curious unless you consider the demographics and the lack of narrative fit for their agenda. Bias will out is you only look critically.
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Down deep, the anti-gun crowd knows it's the person, not the gun. They just can't ever admit it. Personal responsibility and moral fiber are anathema to the prog-ject.
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And, to the speculations above, I'd add civil service (basically unfireable) and perhaps patronage hire, same thing.
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Shooter was African American who used handgun. They habitually skip reporting on that combination so why would this be different?
I was tempted to file this under 'Orbits'.
[Fox News] Rep. Eric Swalwell, the Democratic presidential hopeful, said in a town hall Sunday that CNN might have to consider moving its headquarters from Atlanta over Georgia’s new abortion law that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Swalwell, who has been working on separating himself from a crowded Democratic field, was greeted by applause during the CNN town hall when he said that women's reproductive rights would be a top priority as president. He said he would appoint justices who uphold the law and he would work to repeal the 1976 Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal Medicare funding for abortion services.
Jim Sciutto, the CNN moderator, asked about companies threatening to halt business in the state known as "Hollywood of the South" or "Y'allywood" due to its attractive tax incentives for production.
"Yeah, if that law goes into effect and CNN might have to move," he said. "There's a lot of young women who work at CNN who’ll be affected."
Swallwell, a vocal critic of President Trump, has had a challenging time attracting momentum early on in the 2020 contest.
Netflix blinked first and now other major Hollywood studios say they may reevaluate filming in Georgia if the state's abortion law goes into effect.
WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Walt Disney Co. followed the streaming service's lead last week with a deluge of statements, breaking a three-week silence from the big players in entertainment on the controversial law that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks.
"If the new law holds we will reconsider Georgia as the home to any new productions," read a statement from WarnerMedia Thursday.
The subsidiary of AT&T also oversees TBS, TNT and CNN. Translation: "We cannot afford the rent here anyway."
May I suggest St Louis, or maybe Detroit? I've heard that office rent in Baltimore is expectantly cheap there.
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Okay, both Comcast and AT&T have a strong Democratic Party slant.
That means that StarLink can't be any worse and with Seattle and LA corporate edges can't be any worse.
It will be fun watching 3 Democratic Party adjuncts eat each other up. StarLink will likely win all but the city canyons.
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Ajit Pai's move to shut down Net Neutrality looks smart now. When the GOP brings Net Neutrality back in a form that basically democratizes the infrastructure, all the lefties who whined before will be looking hypocritical. Well played.
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Maneuvering for a job. He definitely needs some money.
Eric Swalwell Is a Financial Mess
Despite $174k annual salary, Swalwell has failed to pay down student loans, built up credit card debt as congressman
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CNN should move to an airport terminal, to be closer to its core viewership.
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CNN likes to play such havoc with the health of their women employees, that they need abortions to keep their jobs ? How's this for equality and choice ?
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Corporate politics. They are not moving, the cost would force shareholders to lose money. More of CNN trying to run this nation, I vote for Chapter 11 for this group of thugs, or a Rico charge, either would work for me.
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They could probably get a lot of money for the CNN Center property, being as it's in downtown Atlanta next to Centennial Olympic Park. I suspect CNN could do with a cash infusion these days.
[Jpost] Uwe Becker, commissioner of the Hessian federal state government for Jewish life and the fight against antisemitism, announced in late May that pro-BDS charities and NGOs should not receive favorable tax reductions, demanding a public review of their nonprofit status.
In a statement sent to The Jerusalem Post titled, "Antisemitism must not be regarded as charitable: Hesse’s antisemitism commissioner demands review of associations," Becker said: "If associations in our country support the work of antisemitic organizations, then these may not be privileged fiscally."
Becker added that "For example, the association ’Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East’ is an official supporter of the antisemitic BDS movement and resolutely supports its goals."
The newly appointed commissioner, who served as the deputy mayor and treasurer for Frankfurt, said "The BDS movement supports the demand for boycotts, disinvestments and sanctions against Israel, and has been aggressively exerting pressure on artists, scientists and companies for years to prevent any cooperation with the Jewish state."
In April 2018, Becker told the Post that the Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... -based Bank for Social Economy was banned from conducting business with Frankfurt ‐ Germany’s financial capital ‐ because of the bank’s account with the pro-BDS group Jewish Voice.
The city of Frankfurt will, in the future, only work with banks that do not maintain business relations with the antisemitic BDS movement, and, accordingly, with BDS organizations," said Becker at the time.
Becker said in his statement as commissioner to combat antisemitism: "I am convinced that when an association joins forces with antisemites, it cannot be considered a privileged nonprofit organization. The association Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East does not only appear as a committed supporter of the antisemitic BDS movement, only recently the association has also supported the appearance of the convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh in Germany. Anyone who acts in this way must not be privileged by the state, which is why I am in favor of a restrictive examination of the privileged nonprofit status of such associations."
The removal of the favorable tax status of BDS groups could impact their fund-raising situation and cause banks to close BDS accounts. Germany’s federal parliament classified BDS as antisemitic in May.
Numerous Post queries to Harald Schmitz, CEO of the Bank for Social Economy, were not returned. The Simon Wiesenthal Center included the Bank for Social Economy in its 2018 top-10 list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism because the bank enables BDS.
The US and Israeli governments have repeatedly urged Schmitz to end the bank’s BDS business.
In 2018, the German branch of Keren Hayesod-UIA (United Israel Appeal) and the German LGBT organization Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation closed their accounts with the Bank for Social Economy to protest the bank’s BDS business.
In May, a front man for Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, commissioner for combating antisemitism in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia where the Bank for Social Economy has its headquarters, told the Post that she believes the bank should close the account of Jewish Voice.
The Post asked German organizations that claim to fight BDS ‐ Berlin’s Jewish community and the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany ‐ if they plan to follow the lead of the 27 US states and the French Jewish community that have divested their business from BDS entities.
Gideon Joffe, head of the Berlin Jewish community, declined to comment.
Aron Schuster, executive director of the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany (ZWST), a part-owner of the bank, also declined to comment. Schuster wrote an opinion article in December that ZWST plans to fight the bank’s BDS activities from within the financial organization. The Bank for Social Economy has repeatedly snubbed Schuster.
[Jpost] The IDF has begun to use a new system to alert troops to suspicious movements by Paleostinians in the West Bank, in an attempt to decrease the chance of troops being caught by surprise.
The system includes analytics and visual intelligence, which are all connected to one main system in an operations room. It was established as part of the project the military hopes will assist in foiling attacks in real time, and prevent manhunts of Death Eaters who get away following an attack.
The military has understood that many soldiers are slow to respond to surprise attacks, and that troops must decrease the time it takes them to act. Therefore in the coming months troops stationed in the West Bank will receive smartwatches that will alert them to approaching threats in an attempt to decrease surprise attacks.
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"We have a new intelligence system to combat surprises. We figured the most intelligent thing to do when a paleostinian was in sight, is to shoot 'im. Nothing as unsurprising as a dead 'un."
Jokes aside, it's always an education for India, when our friend Israel innovates, since we have the same problems. Eagerly awaiting results.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians hurl chairs, rocks at police following rare decision to let non-Moslems in on final days of Ramadan; security high around capital as Israel marks city’s reunification.
Clashes erupted between Paleostinian rioters and police on Sunday morning at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, as hundreds of Jews were allowed into the holy site to celebrate Jerusalem Day ‐ the 52nd anniversary of the unification of the capital in the Six Day War.
It was the first time in three decades that non-Moslems were let into the site during the final days of the month of Ramadan, which coincided this year with Jerusalem Day. Police had earlier announced the contested compound would be closed to Jews and tourists, with the High Court of Justice rejecting a petition against the closure and leaving the final decision up to police.
Police said in a statement that "a riot began that included the hurling of stones, chairs and various objects."
"Subsequently, Jerusalem District Commander Maj. Gen. Doron Yadid ordered police forces to enter the Temple Mount and deal with the rioters," it added.
Paleostinian reports said at least one person was detained and removed from the site.
Police said later in the morning that festivities were renewed and that hundreds of rioters threw rocks and chairs at Israeli security personnel.
Left-wing NGO Ir Amin said the violence was renewed after police closed the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque, and worshipers attempted to gain entry.
Hundreds of Jewish activists showed up early Sunday morning at the Temple Mount entrance, demanding access to the site ‐ the holiest in Judaism and the third-holiest to Moslems, who refer to it as the Al Aqsa Mosque compound or the Noble Sanctuary. Following a security assessment, police decided to let them in after suppressing the Moslem demonstration.
The flashpoint site is always closed to non-Moslems on the last ten days of Ramadan, when large numbers of worshipers are at the site. The last time the Temple Mount was closed to Jews on Jerusalem Day was in 1988, when it also coincided with the end of Ramadan.
Under an arrangement in place since Israel’s victory in the 1967 war, non-Moslems are allowed to visit the Temple Mount but not to pray there. Jews are allowed to enter in small groups during limited hours, but are taken through a predetermined route, are closely watched and are prohibited from praying or displaying any religious or national symbols.
Last year, more than 2,000 Jews visited the site on Jerusalem Day, under close police supervision.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... thousands of Jews flocked Sunday to the nearby Western Wall ‐ the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray ‐ to mark the occasion.
Police were deployed in force and on heightened alert in Jerusalem Sunday, with tighter security inspections performed at checkpoints connecting the city to the West Bank in light of Friday morning’s stabbing terror attack in the capital’s Old City, in which two Israeli civilians were maimed ‐ one of them seriously.
The most sensitive event is expected to be a parade that will go through the streets of the Old City in the afternoon and is frequently marked by tension with local Paleostinians.
Many streets in the city center will be closed off between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. to accommodate the parade and other festivities.
The so-called Flag March, in which primarily religious teenagers march through the Old City decked in white and blue, has raised tensions over its route through the Moslem Quarter.
Paleostinian shopkeepers with stores along the route are forced to shutter their businesses during the parade, and residents of the Moslem Quarter are advised to stay indoors.
In previous years, the march has sparked sporadic incidents of violence between Paleostinians and Israeli revelers.
The High Court of Justice last month threw out a petition by a left-wing group that sought to change the route of the nationalist march.
Later in the day, the Jerusalem Day state ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. at Ammunition Hill, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in attendance.
Many celebrations and events will be held around the city in the evening and into the night, including a "White Night" concert at Sacher Park expected to be attended by thousands of students.
[DAWN] Sri Lanka's suspended police chief has petitioned the Supreme Court, accusing President Maithripala Sirisena of failing to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people.
In a 20-page complaint, Inspector General Pujith Jayasundara disclosed serious communication gaps between intelligence agencies and security arms of the government, all which fall under Sirisena.
In the petition submitted to court last week and seen by AFPon Sunday, Jayasundara said the country's premier spy agency, the State Intelligence Service (SIS), ordered him last year to stop ongoing police investigations into suspected Islamist krazed killers.
The SIS, which reports directly to Sirisena, wanted the police Terrorist Investigation Department to stop all inquiries into krazed killer factions, including the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ), which was blamed for the Easter Sunday bombings.
Jayasundara said the head of the SIS, Nilantha Jayawardena, did not take seriously the intelligence shared by neighbouring India which warned of an impending attack by the NTJ.
Jayasundara said despite the SIS not sharing information warnings with the police department, he had initiated action to alert his senior men, but he had no input from the main spy agency.
Sirisena suspended Jayasundara after he refused to accept responsibility for the deadly attacks. The Attorney General has asked for a full bench of the apex court to decide the case.
Jayasundara said he was offered a diplomatic post if he took the fall and stepped down, but he refused as he said he was not responsible for the catastrophic intelligence failure.
He said he had been sidelined by the president since a political rift between the President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe emerged in October.
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Of course, it's the govt's fault.
Yeah, India gave them intel three months in advance, of rapid mobilization and infiltration by IS modules into Srilanka home and civil admin. Even if they didn't want to listen to India, whom everybody considers a bigot and racist but secretly lauds for the check on islamist influence, they could at least have paid heed to their own local intelligence, and majority groups.
SriLanka should be a prime example of what happens when you leave the muslim communities in your country to govern themselves with their own laws and disregard the opinions of your own majority.
A democracy is supposed to be representation elected by the majority. If you do not consider your major electorate important, and appease the minority - you undermine your own mandate.
[Daily Excelsior] AMRITSAR: A big tragedy related to militancy was averted on Sunday, when the security forces found a bag containing two hand grenades in Raja Sansi area of this district.
Police administration had tightened the security across the district, to check any kind of violence during the ’Ghallughara Saptah,’ organised by the Sikh radicals, to mark the 35th anniversary of Operation Bluestar.
The security forces and the police had laid special nakas across the district, especially around the religious institutions and the main roads, leading to the city.
Police, during checking near the Nirnakari Bhawan at Raja Sansi, signalled two bike-borne youth to stop for checking, but they sped away, after throwing the bag they were carrying. Police recovered two hand grenades from the bag, after which a high alert had been sounded in the district.
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[ToloNews] Three IED blasts rocked Kabul city early on Sunday morning as the residents are witnessing an increase in violence over the past month.
The first blast targeted a bus carrying students of the education university and killed one shopkeeper and maimed at least 17 others, said Nusrat Rahimi, a front man for Ministry of Interior Affairs. Rahimi said the first blast occurred in Silo Road in Kabul's PD5 at around 7:50 am local time.
Eyewitnesses said most of the victims in the first blast were the passerby and university students. The person who was killed in the first blast was a young boy who newly joined a cycle of violence repair shop only four days ago.
Two journalists, one from Kilid Radio and a freelance news hound, were maimed in the first blast, eyewitnesses said.
Rahimi said that two other blasts also occurred in the same area and all three blasts were from magnetic IEDs.
Five security force members were maimed in the second blast which was due to an embedded IED bomb placed on a bike near the first blast's scene, Rahimi said. He said that the second blast happened almost 20 minutes after the first kaboom.
Wahidullah Mayar, a front man for Ministry of Public Health, said two people were killed and 24 others were maimed in the blasts.
Four kabooms struck the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least two people and wounding 27 others, officials said. Among the injured were two Afghan journalists, according to a local non-governmental media organization.
The first bomb hit a bus carrying university students in a residential area of western Kabul. It was followed 20 minutes later by two further detonations at the same location, said Nasrat Rahimi, a front man for the interior ministry.
Wahidullah Mayar, a front man for the public health ministry, said the three successive attacks injured 24 people, including four women. The first blast killed at least one person. Mayar added it was not immediately clear which kaboom had caused the second death.
A wave of attacks has rocked the Afghan capital in the last week, where both the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and Taliban ...Arabic for students... holy warriors are active.
Attacks by the Taliban have continued unabated despite peace talks with the United States as well as a fresh round of talks with Afghan notables last week in the Russian capital, Moscow. The Taliban have rejected repeated demands for a cease-fire in the decades-long civil war, demanding a US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troop withdraw from Afghanistan first.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the Islamic State group grabbed credit for three of Sunday’s attacks in Kabul. In a statement, the Sunni Death Eater group said it set off an improvised bomb on a bus allegedly transporting minority Shia Moslems.
After security forces and journalists had gathered at the site, the group detonated two additional devices, it added.
The secondary kabooms maimed seven people who had arrived after the initial attack, including five members of the security forces, Rahimi said.
Also maimed in the secondary kabooms were two Afghan journalists, Ahmad Jawed Kargar and Mohammad Faseh Mutawakil, according to Nai, a media organization that supports open media in Afghanistan.
Kargar, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency, confirmed he was injured in a video he posted to social media while being taken to the hospital. Epa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nai said the second journalist had been lightly maimed.
Late in the afternoon Sunday, a fourth blast maimed three people, said Rahimi. He said that a sticky bomb attached to a vehicle had went kaboom! in a southwestern neighborhood in Kabul. No one immediately claimed the last attack.
Islamic State group bombings have seemingly targeted journalists before. In April 2018, nine journalists were killed and half a dozen maimed in a double suicide kaboom in Kabul. In that attack, it appeared the journalists were intentionally targeted by a bomber who hid among members of the media rushing to cover the first kaboom. IS grabbed credit for the bombings, but didn’t say that journalists were specifically targeted.
In a separate attack late Saturday in eastern Ghazni province, a Taliban jacket wallah was able to enter a police compound using a stolen Humvee packed with explosives. The blast killed at least seven police reserve unit personnel and maimed eight others, said Naser Ahmad Faqeri, head of Ghazni’s provincial council. Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid took responsibility for the attack in Ghazni.
In western Farah province, at least six members of the border security forces were killed Saturday night in an attack on their checkpoint by Taliban bad boys. Abdul Samad Salehi, a provincial council member, said eight other members of the security forces were maimed. The Taliban offered no comment on the attack in Farah.
The events started with the detonation of a sticky bomb -- a growing menace in Kabul, where insurgents and criminals slap magnetic bombs on the underside of vehicles.
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#BREAKING: Israeli PM Netanyahu: Iran gives Hezbollah $700 million annually, more than $100 million sent via Iranian Foreign Ministry "under diplomatic cover"
[AlAhram] At least 18 people were maimed in two boom-mobilekabooms that targeted a military unit in Libya's eastern coastal city of Derna, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky, a medical source and residents told Rooters early on Sunday.
Residents said the boom-mobiles targeted a military unit called Bulahati belonging to the eastern forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) in the city centre.
"We heard the first kaboom, but we thought it was fireworks, then we heard the second," one resident told Rooters by telephone.
"We found people around the Bulahati military unit and there was huge black smoke in the sky," another added. "We then discovered it was boom-mobiles."
Derna, once a jihadist bastion, is about 292 km (182 miles) distant from Libya's second city, Benghazi, and was declared to be under the complete control of Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's LNA in June 2018.
After the ouster of longtime ruler Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising in 2011, bad boy groups Al Qaeda 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.... have used the oil-rich country as a base for attacks, exploiting its chaos and lack of security.
[Rudaw] Nine French jihadists are now on death row in Iraq after a court sentenced two more to death on Sunday for joining the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, rejecting a claim of torture.
Fodil Tahar Aouidate and Vianney Ouraghi were among 11 French citizens and one Tunisian handed over to Iraqi authorities in January by a US-backed force fighting the jihadist group in Syria.
Described as violent and ready to die for the Death Eater IS ideology, Aouidate first appeared in court on May 27 but a judge delayed his trial and ordered a medical examination after the 32-year-old claimed he was tortured into confessing.
"The medical report shows that there are no signs of torture on his body," the judge told the court before handing down his sentence.
His trial was quickly followed by that of 28-year-old Ouraghi, who acknowledged in court that he "worked with" IS but said he did not participate in any fighting.
Baghdad has handed capital punishments to seven of the other French jihadists and the Tunisian over the past week.
Hearings for the last two suspected French IS members to be tried in Baghdad are set for Monday.
‘OUTSOURCING’ IS TRIALS
Ouraghi, who has Algerian roots, left La Belle France for Syria in 2013 and joined the al-Qaeda affiliate there before jumping to IS when the latter declared its "caliphate" in 2014.
"Yes, I worked with IS, but I did not participate in any combat in Syria or Iraq," Ouraghi said in classical Arabic, which he picked up in Egypt.
Sporting thick glasses and a light brown goatee, he pleaded that he was only an "IS administrative officer" in charge of "widows and families" of the jihadist group.
Aouidate showed no reaction when the judge handed down his death sentence, according to an AFP journalist at the trial.
He first went to Syria in 2013 and returned in 2014 with 22 members of his family to join IS, according to the French judiciary.
And what happened to them, pray tell?
Authorities also linked him to Belgium’s Salafist movement including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the presumed criminal mastermind of the 2015 Gay Paree attacks.
Interrogated for four months, he alleged during his first hearing that he was beaten to "confess" to the charges levelled against him.
Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Iraqi interrogators of "using a range of torture techniques... which would not leave lasting marks on the person’s body".
It also condemned La Belle France’s "outsourcing" of trials of IS suspects to "abusive justice systems" and criticised Iraq’s "routine failure... to credibly investigate torture allegations".
France convicted two of Aouidate's sisters for "financing terrorism" for sending 15,000 euros to relatives in Syria.
What generous souls the dear girls were, to be sure.
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Boo hoo. Oh, the humanity. Terrorists are humans too, after all. They should take classes to fit back into society, then they can babysit ... other people's kids.
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Iraq should make a profitable industry out of this. Really, we'd gladly pay. Let's call it Death Row Outsourcing. Every slow, deliberative judiciary shipping the ones on their death rows (pathetic) to this paragon of decisiveness.
[PRESSTV] Yemen’s Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi says the country has made great strides in the defense sector and will "surprise" Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and those of its allies that are waging a war on the impoverished nation.
Speaking at the committee on Yemen’s defense doctrine in the capital, Sana’a, on Saturday, Atifi said that the military had developed advanced weapons as well as technology that met the country’s need to defend its illusory sovereignty, unity, and independence.
He stressed that 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... had surprises in store for aggressor regimes.
"We have surprises for... [them] that they can never see coming," the Yemeni defense minister said.
Yemeni armed forces are moving forward with manufacturing missiles as well as armed and offensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), rockets, and other kinds of weapons, Atifi said.
The Yemenis are currently in the final stages of developing various air defenses, he added.
The Yemeni forces would free the whole country and defend its territorial integrity, he said, emphasizing that they are now capable of launching attacks deep inside Saudi Arabia and targeting its vital facilities.
Yemeni fighters regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi-led war, which began in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the former regime and eliminate the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement.
While those strikes often target Saudi Arabia’s border areas, a number of dronezaps were carried out deep inside Saudi territory on May 14. The drones used in the attacks flew undetected until they reached the designated target, namely two oil pumping stations, disrupting the flow.
Yemen has warned that it would carry out more such attacks.
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...I hope it's birthday cake. I LOVE birthday cake.
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So , since this is from Iran I supposed it means that the Houthi are in charge?
DEVELOPING: Yemen's Houthi rebels launch a drone attack on a military parade for Saudi-led coalition forces in the port city of Aden, the militant group's Al Masirah TV says pic.twitter.com/h0NL8U02lJ
“Even though there is no able man in Japan, it is pitiful that such a poor-grade being as weasel-faced Kono who always makes harebrained and loathsome words serves as foreign minister," the spokesperson said.
[AnNahar] Tens of Syrian families returned on Saturday to their hometowns in Syria through several border crossings, the latest group to return to Syria from its western neighbor, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.
The General Security pursued the process of helping tens of displaced Syrian nationals who wish to return to their Syrian towns and villages.
Dozens of Syrian families carrying their luggage arrived at border crossing points between Leb and Syria. Several buses carrying scores of people crossed the border into Syria in the early morning.
Names of the refugees were checked by the General Security in the presence of UNHCR's representatives.
Leb is home to some 1 million Syrian refugees, a large number for a country of 4.5 million people.
[Rudaw] Despite the removal of visa fees between both neighboring countries, the number of Iranian religious tourists to Iraq's southern holy cities has plummeted, concerning local vendors.
"Some 70-80 percent of tourists came from the neighboring Iran. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... due to the financial conditions in Iran and sanctions, the arrival of Iranian tourists to Najaf and Karbala has dramatically dropped, Khuzair Jabouri, the head of Najaf Provincial Council told Rudaw in late May.
Najaf, Karbala and Kufa are three holy cities in Iraq whose shrines and holy sites are visited by millions of Shiite every year.
Tourism is Iraq’s second largest source of income after oil exports.
Iran’s economy has been harmed by US sanctions on oil, energy, and trade under the administration of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Iran has increased efforts to keep its economic relations with Iraq. Several Iranian officials have visited Iraq recently, including President Hassan Rouhani.
Both governments have removed visa fees and Iran no longer stamps passports when entering from Iran, instead they stamp a slip of paper.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... efforts by Baghdad and Tehran have not yet helped the businesspeople in Iraq's holy cities who fear bankruptcy.
There are more than a thousand hotels in both Najaf and Karbala. They have halved prices due to the guest shortage, but to no avail.
According to Iraqi statistics, 4 million tourists visited Najaf and Karbala through Najaf International Airport in 2018, but that has dropped by 60 percent in the first five months of 2019.
[DAWN] Adviser to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister on merged districts, Ajmal Wazir, on Sunday announced he has formed a nine-member jirga to hold discussions on the Khar Qamar clash.
The advisor, during a visit to Miram Shah, met the tribal elders of North Wazoo and agreed to constitute a jirga to determine the way forward following the clash which took place a week ago between Army soldiers and a group of protestors in which three people were killed and 15 were maimed.
Wazir said that a meeting of the jirga is scheduled for Monday in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. . "Peace will be maintained in North Waziristan at each cost," he assured the jirga.
He added that he is aware of tribal customs and norms to settle disputes in the interest of erstwhile Fata, and that the tribal districts will be kept onboard for peace as well as development in the region.
The jirga comprises chief of Waziristan, Malak Nasraullah Khan; chief of Dawar tribe, Malak Khan Zeb Khan; Malak Shah Nawaz Khan Madakhel; Malak Khan Marjan Dardoni; Malak Habibullah Darpakhel; Malak Jan Faraz Khan Dardoni; Malak Mir Qadar Khan Darpakhel; Malak Ghulam Khan Madarkhel and Malak Peer Aqal Zaman Tapi Dawar.
The jirga also distributed compensation cheques to a few affected families, announced a day earlier by the provincial chief minister, Mahmood Khan.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces destroyed a large amount of Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosives components in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The informed military sources said the Afghan Special Forces destroyed a large amount of IEDs and explosive components during a raid in Helmand.
Furthermore, the 3rd Brigade of the 215th Corps conducted clearing operations along Highway 1 in Helmand.
The sources further added that the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade of 215th Corps defused 19 IEDs.
The soldiers of the 3rd Brigade also destroyed multiple Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... facilities during the same operation, the military sources added.
Talibs and other snuffies frequently use improvised bombs as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... in majority of such attacks ordinary civilians are targeted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... numerous incidents have also taken place in the past involving premature IED kabooms.
The premature IED kabooms have also inflicted casualties on Talibs who were manufacturing or planting bombs.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Four Iraqi army personnel were killed and maimed Sunday in festivities with members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... turban group in Anbar province, a security source was quoted as saying.
"An army force clashed with Lions of Islam of the Islamic State group in al-Husainiyat area, northeast of Ar-Rutbah, leaving an army officer killed and three others maimed," the source told Alsumaria News.
The source added that the shootout left heavy causalities among IS ranks as well.
A security force rushed to the site and carried the maimed into a nearby hospital for treatment, while the body was moved to the forensic medicine department, he pointed out.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist was enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Sunday in Kirkuk province over his involvement in several terrorist attacks.
The Security Media Cell said, in a press statement, that an intelligence force arrested an Islamic State member in Atshana village of Kirkuk.
The arrestee confessed to joining the Islamic State group and carrying out several terrorist attacks against civilians and security forces, the statement read.
Isolated cells believed to be linked to the Islamic State group remain active in some parts of the country. In recent weeks, suspected Islamic State holy warriors have carried out several attacks targeting security forces in the areas north-west of Kirkuk.
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[AnNahar] Tunisian authorities were on Saturday stopping 75 migrants colonists saved at sea from coming ashore, according to a rights group and the captain of the ship which rescued them.
The migrants colonists were adrift in international waters in a boat with a broken engine when an Egyptian tug boat brought them aboard, the captain said on condition of anonymity.
After notifying authorities in Italia and Malta, the crew headed for the southern Tunisian port of Zarzis where authorities refused to allow the ship to dock.
"We're in a critical situation, we're nearly 100 on board and we don't have more than two days of supplies of water and food," the captain told AFP by phone.
Tunisian rights organization FTDES said the regional governor demanded government support before accepting the migrants colonists, following an increase in new arrivals from neighboring Libya in recent months.
Tunisian authorities did not respond to AFP's requests for comment.
The crew of the tug boat rescued 64 Bangladeshis, nine Egyptians, one Moroccan and one Sudanese,
...none of whom could possibly be considered legitimate refugees...
who had departed from Zuwara in western Libya, according to FTDES.
Last month, around 60 migrants colonists, most from Bangladesh, drowned off the coast of Tunisia after leaving Libya on a boat bound for Europe.
There has been a significant reduction in rescue vessels operating in the Mediterranean Sea in recent months, with humanitarian boats facing legal woes as countries such as Italia impose a hardline migration policy.
[Al Jazeera] Washington is willing to speak with Iran "with no preconditions", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday, but Iran dismissed the offer as "word-play". "Jedi Mind Tricks!"
"We are prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions. We are ready to sit down with them," Pompeo told a joint news conference in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.
"The American effort to fundamentally reverse the malign activity of this Islamic Theocratic Republic, this revolutionary force, is going to continue," Pompeo added.
Iran's foreign ministry front man Abbas Mousavi responded by saying: "The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran does not pay attention to word-play and expression of hidden agenda in new forms."
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... Iran's President Hassan Rouhani presented the offer of talks with no pre-conditions as a sign of Iran's strength.
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[IsraelTimes] 22-year-old accused of traveling to war-torn country to die as a martyr for the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front out of krazed killer ideology.
The Shin Bet security service last month nabbed Please don't kill me! a 22-year-old Arab Israeli woman suspected of having joined the al-Nusra Front terror group in Syria in March 2018.
Rania Shenawi, of the Arab town of Makr, was arrested on May 7 upon her return to Israel from Syria, the Shin Bet said.
Last Friday, Shenawi was charged in a Haifa court with contacting a foreign agent, attempting to join a terror group, illegally leaving the country and theft. She was also charged with attacking a police officer while in jug.
According to the security service, Shenawi traveled to Syria last April, having crossed into the war-torn country from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... using a counterfeit identity card. In order to fund her trip, Shenawi stole approximately NIS 10,000 ($2,750) from her father, according to the indictment.
In Syria, she allegedly joined al-Nusra Front, which has been connected off and on over the years to both the al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror groups.
"The findings of the investigation of Shenawi show that she held an extreme ideological worldview, mostly in supporting the Islamic State terror group and in a deep hatred of Jews," the Shin Bet said.
According to the security service, she had made contact over the internet with a Syrian national who invited her to come to the country and join al-Nusra Front.
"Shenawi agreed to this offer out of a desire to die ’a martyr’s death,'" the Shin Bet said.
A month after arriving in Syria, she was arrested by al-Nusra Front officers on the suspicion that she was an Israeli spy. Shenawi was held in prison in Idlib until March. A month later, she was dropped off at the border with Turkey, where she was arrested by Ottoman Turkish security officers.
Shenawi was returned to Israel on May 7 and arrested at the airport.
While in police custody, on May 21, Shenawi attacked a police interrogator, stomping on his foot and kicking him repeatedly, according to the indictment.
The Shin Bet security service has in the past estimated that several dozen Israeli nationals had fought for Islamic State and other terror groups in Iraq and Syria. Most were either killed in action or returned to Israel, where they were arrested. Many willingly returned, despite knowing they would be indicted, due to the abysmal living conditions in the Islamist-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria.
[IsraelTimes] Official said to present details during talks on maritime border with Israel; report in Arab paper says this led to recent uptick in threats by terror group leader Nasrallah.
A senior US diplomat has shown Lebanese government officials photographs and maps of sites used by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group to store precision missiles, according to a report Sunday. Leb: "you missed a couple"
The London-based al-Hayat newspaper, owned by a Saudi prince, said that David Satterfield, US acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, told the Beirut officials that the US government could neither overlook the findings nor hold Israel back from acting to deal with them, and that it was up to the Lebanese government to resolve the situation.
The report also said that the passing on of that information explained the uptick in threats by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in comments he made late Friday night.
Appearing on a large screen to a crowd of supporters in the southern Beirut Dahiye district, Nasrallah acknowledged that his group had precision weapons but said it did not yet produce them.
"So far in Leb there are no factories for precision missiles," he said.
But he warned that if the US continued to focus on the organization’s precision missiles, he would establish factories to produce them.
Many shipments of advanced missiles are said to have been bombed by Israel on the way from Iran to Leb, mostly through Syria.
In April, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly conveyed to Leb a message from Israel warning Beirut of action by Iran and Hezbollah to covertly construct a new missile production facility in the country.
Pompeo visited Beirut after Israel, using the trip to highlight his concerns about Hezbollah, which is targeted by US sanctions as a terror group, but holds three cabinet posts in Leb.
In a September 2018 speech at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed a map pinpointing the location of the Hezbollah missile sites near Beirut’s airport, and accused the terror group of "deliberately using the innocent people of Beirut as human shields."
Netanyahu later said that Hezbollah closed the facilities he had revealed to the United Nations.
Satterfield is in the region to mediate between Leb and Israel on the issue of demarcating the countries’ land and maritime borders.
The aim is to hold formal negotiations under United Nations auspices and US supervision.
The outcome of the talks will have important implications for the two countries’ offshore oil and gas exploration.
In late May, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said the two countries were close to establishing a framework for negotiations. Israel said it, too, is willing to engage in the talks. Israel and Leb each claim some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of sea as within their own exclusive economic zones.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have killed one of the dangerous group members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in 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.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the Special Forces of the Afghan Police killed a dangerous group member of ISIS during an operation.
The Special Conducted the operation in Chaparhar district of the province, the Ministry of Interior said.
The statement further added that the slain ISIS group member was involved in planning and conducting terrorist attacks in Nangarhar.
He was particularly involved behind some attacks in Jalalabad city, the bucolic provincial capital of Nangarhar province.
The anti-government armed elements including ISIS sympathizers have not commented regarding the killing of key ISIS group member so far.
This comes as the security situation in some districts of Nangarhar province has tanked during the recent years. Both Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS Lions of Islam are active in remote and restive areas of the province.
The anti-government armed elements often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities in Jalalabad city and other parts of Nangarhar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against both groups in this province.
The U.S. forces also conduct regular Arclight airstrikes in restive districts of Nangarhar to suppress ISIS, Taliban and other anti-government bully boys.
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[Rudaw] Around 800 Syrian women and kiddies will leave the overcrowded al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on Monday and be "taken to their families", officials from the Kurdish-led administration said Sunday.
Many of al-Hol’s residents are the wives and children 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.... (ISIS) fighters, placed in the camp when the jihadists’ last holdout of Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor province was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in March.
Among the camp’s 74,000 residents, an estimated 30,000 are Syrian. The rest are a mixture of Iraqis and other foreign nationals. Women and children make up around 90 percent of the camp population.
"It is the (Kurdish) administration’s duty to its people to play a role in the rehabilitation of these women and kiddies, and their reintegration into society," Abdul Hamid al-Mahbash, an official of the Autonomous Administration (AA) of North and East Syria, told a presser Sunday.
The move is part of an agreement between the Kurdish-led administration and local Arab tribes, reached on May 3 at a meeting called to bolster strained relations.
The Arab tribes requested that Syrian women and kiddies be allowed to return home and rehabilitate back into society.
This first group of women and kiddies consist of residents of Raqqa and Tabqa, both of which were once ISIS strongholds, now under the Autonomous Administration’s control.
Reducing the population of al-Hol will help ease the heavy strain on humanitarian services, particularly health facilities.
On May 30, the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy (SARC), the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) and the Norwegian Red Thingy announced a new field hospital will soon open in the camp.
"The camp expanded very rapidly, and this has made it challenging for humanitarians to keep up with the demand, particularly for medical services," said Philip Spoerri, head of ICRC’s delegation in Syria.
"Many people were maimed during the hostilities or on the road to the camp, and months later now they have still not been treated."
Dire conditions and fears the camp could become a hotbed for jihadist activity have motivated authorities to speed up rehabilitation efforts.
Another group of women and kiddies are expected to leave the camp after Eid, according to AFP.
The Kurdish administration in Syria on Sunday said it plans to hand 800 local women and children, including relatives of jihadists, to their families tomorrow in the first such transfer from an overcrowded camp.
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[Al Jazeera] Algeria's constitutional council has said it will be impossible for it to hold elections to choose a successor to ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... early next month as planned after the only two candidates were rejected.
The council said in a statement on Sunday that it rejected "the candidates' applications" and subsequently declared "the impossibility of holding presidential elections on July 4".
It did not set a new date for the presidential election, asking interim President Abdelkader Bensalah to organise a vote at a later date, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
The move will likely extend the rule of the interim president, who was meant to stay only until the vote to elect a new president after Bouteflika ended his 20-year rule in the wake of mass protests.
Bensalah, the former upper house speaker, had been appointed as interim leader until July 9.
Demonstrations have since continued, with protesters demanding Bensalah's resignation and an end to the dominance of the elite who have ruled Algeria since it won independence from La Belle France in 1962.
"Algerians have protested for 15 weeks, we are heading towards a sixteenth week of protests so the issue here is Bensalah has to listen to the protesters," said Mohammed Kirat, professor of media studies at 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... University.
"Because with the current government and Bensalah and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui still in power, there is no way that Algerians will go to vote for a new president," added Kirat.
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[PRESSTV] North Korea’s official news agency KCNA reported on Saturday that the country's leader visited several factories that were used to build ballistic missile launchers and other weapons. During the visit, Kim Jong-un reportedly ordered a “higher modernization plan” for North Korea's main ballistic missile factory.
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[Libya Observer] The commander of the naval frontline of "Volcano of Rage" Operation of the Libyan Army under the Presidential Council's command Rida Essa said they had tasked navy personnel to foil any attacks by Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces, in addition to doing their job regarding illegal immigration.
Rida Essa denied in a joint presser on Saturday with navy front man Ayoub Qassim that they had named the area from Sirte to Ras Ajdair a military operations' zone.
"We're not afraid of facing any assaults by Haftar's forces from the sea." He added.
"We have done over 70 search operations from Sirte's coast to Zuwara's, near the Tunisian border. We have intercepted foreign frigates smuggling off the Libyan coast. We have also intercepted over 1700 immigrants colonists since the start of the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... offensive." Essa indicated.
Navy front man Ayoub Qassim hailed the role of the forces thwarting Tripoli attacks and said the naval forces are well prepared in positions on the maritime frontline.
"We're doing our best to foil fuel smuggling in the sea despite lack of capabilities. Hence, these operations have been halted for now." Qassim said.
He added that the migrants colonists' route to Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... via Libya has become very difficult as Libyan coastguards are well-positioned off the coast shutting down the northern gate to Europe.
"We have rescued 2475 migrants colonists off the Libyan coast so far this year, thus making a great drop in illegal migration since July of last year." Qassim explained.
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[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's "the deal of the century" wants Paleostinian refugees to be naturalized and settled in several countries, including Leb, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, Israeli daily Haaretz reports.
Accepting the reality that’s been so since 1948? Good idea.
As the world marked the International Quds Day on Friday, politicians warned of mysterious aspects of the much-touted US plan and its ramifications for the future of Paleostinians.
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said one definite prospect is that the plan seeks to do away with the issue of returning 6 million refugees to their homeland.
"To realize this goal, America is about to arrange an economic deal and get its money from the miserable Persian Gulf countries," he said in Tehran.
Haaretz said Washington is thought to be pressing Leb to grant citizenship to Paleostinian refugees living in the country.
"In the process, this is seen as defusing the issue of a right of return of refugees to Israel, which has been a major obstacle to resolving the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict," the paper said.
In other words, Israel will never agree, which really gets in the way of those stupid juices surrendering as Allah requires.
According to UNRWA, the UN's Paleostinian refugee agency, about 450,000 Paleostinian refugees live in Leb.
Other reports have put the figure lower, prompting Lebanese groups to say that the census had been conducted under US pressure designed to underreport the real numbers because that way Leb could absorb a modest-sized population.
The Lebanese constitution, however, provides that the country's territory is indivisible and that refugees living there are not to receive citizenship.
The official reason for this is that the absorption of Paleostinian refugees would impair their claim to a right of return.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the US has sugarcoated the plan with a lifeline to extract Leb from its economic crisis, where the country's debt is estimated at more than $85 billion (about 155 percent of GDP), Haaretz said.
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5-@syriahr: Israeli strike on T-4 base killed "at least 5, including a Syrian regime soldier...number of dead expected to rise, given some wounded in critical condition, in addition to info on others killed."https://t.co/oen60MNLgn
At least five Syrians, including a soldier in the Syrian army, were killed in an alleged Israeli attack on the T4 airbase in the eastern Homs province on Sunday night, one day after limited clashes between the two foes, Kan news reported.
An unnamed military source was quoted by SANA as saying that regime air defenses “confronted an Israeli aggression and destroyed two rockets targeting the T4 airport,” adding that the other Israeli rockets caused the death of one soldier and injured two others.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights later reported that at least five Syrians were killed, including a soldier in the Syrian army, Kan news reported. Kan added that severe injuries were also reported and that the number of fatalities may rise.
An ammunition depot was destroyed in the strike and there was material damage to other buildings. According to reports multiple explosions were heard inside the airbase during the strike.
Iran has been moving its assets from areas repeatedly struck by Israel to locations closer to the border with Iraq, specifically the T4 Airbase strategically located between Homs and Palmyra and just yesterday a Fars Air jumbo jet returned to Iran from a possible arms delivery flight at T4.
With a large presence of Iranian-backed troops in the area, both civilian and cargo airlines are used by the IRGC as a front for military transport flights bringing in soldiers and weaponry to bolster Iran’s military presence in Syria.
The strike came just hours after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not tolerate missile attacks on its territory and would "respond forcefully to any aggression against it."
“Yesterday, two missiles were fired toward Israel from Syrian territory,” Netanyahu said. “One struck inside Syria and the other hit our territory on the Golan Heights. I held security consultations following the attack, and I ordered the IDF to take strong action, which it did, striking several targets.”
The Israel Air Force struck several Syrian military positions in southwestern Damascus and Quneitra, killing seven “foreign fighters” and three Syrian Armed Force (SAF) soldiers, and injuring seven others, in retaliation for the rockets fired earlier into northern Israel.
The IDF confirmed that jets and attack helicopters struck a number of military targets in Syria in retaliation for the rocket fire, including two artillery batteries, a number of observation posts near the border, and an SA-2 air defense battery, in retaliation for the SAF rocket fire.
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Several Many of our fine soldiers martyred themselves to protect others by jumping on the grenade airstrikes
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(IraqiNews) Two kabooms shook the Syrian city of Raqqa, yesterday, killing more than 10 persons.
a local source informed that the two kabooms took place near Dawar al-Naeem in the city center. An improvised bomb went off first followed by a booby-trapped vehicle kaboom, he added.
Security forces cordoned off the area and started a to investigate the incident, while transferred the bodies to the forensic medicine department.
The kabooms took place after the General Command of the Interior Forces in northern and eastern Syria announced a security plan for Eid al-Fitr, including a curfew on private and public transport from June 3 to 6 June 2019.
The kaboom claimed the lives of five civilians and five soldiers of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by Washington which wrested the city from IS in October 2017, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The attack, for which no one has grabbed credit, was preceded by a bomb kaboom that left several people maimed in another part of the city frequently targeted by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, said the SOHR.
"The car kaboom was targeting an SDF position," SOHR director Rami Abdel Rahmane told AFP. The kaboom took place at the al-Naim square where IS had carried out beheadings when it was in control of the city.
[Libya Observer] Libyan army forces under the Presidential Council's (PC) command said Sunday dawn it had shot down a UAE-made surveillance drone on al-Swani frontline in southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The bumped off drone was seen in photos circulated on social media with "Made in UAE" inscribed on its wings.
The UAE is accused of backing up Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... in his war on Tripoli with the PC being blamed for not calling it out.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... A source at the "Volcano of Rage" Operation said they had combed through the areas they seized on Saturday and that the fierce festivities had come to relative calm, with only intermittent fighting in Ain Zara and Wadi Rabea.
The PC-commanded operation said earlier that its forces had started the offensive phase - the last stage of the battle, to end the presence of Haftar's forces in southern Tripoli.
Major General Ahmed Abu Shahma - commander of field operations room - said coordination among all fighting frontlines began Saturday and the forces had advanced remarkably on different axes.
"Over the last hours, the fighting was very intense but now clam has prevailed with preparations for the next operation underway." Abu Shahma added, saying supplies are coming regularly to frontlines and that the forces are preparing a fiercer attack on Haftar's forces.
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[Yahoo] In a report out Friday, the Homeland Security inspector general has found “dangerous overcrowding” and unsanitary conditions at a Customs and Border Protection facility in El Paso, Texas, where hundreds more migrants were being housed than the center was designed to hold.
“Border Patrol agents told us some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks,” the office of inspector general wrote.
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America is full you idiots. NO ONE on the planet can take in a Million Migrants a Quarter. Talk to the GODDAMNED Cursed worthless democrats about all of this. Those fucking pieces of shit are masters and commanders of all this bullshit.
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Don't like being over crowded, stop coming. We're under no obligation to provide nice housing for invaders.
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POW camps should be erected and guarded to take in the invaders. I'm sure there are some old mothballed bases and camps that have not transitioned to productive civilian uses, that can be employed.
(IraqiNews) The US-led international coalition announced killing over 1300 civilians unintentionally by air strikes in Iraq and Syria, since starting its operations against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in 2014.
The coalition said in a statement that it carried out 34502 air strikes between August 2014 and end of April 2019.
During this period and based on the available information, it is likely that at least 1,302 civilians were unintentionally killed as a result of coalition air strikes, the statement added.
So that’s a rate of 3.8% of total strikes...
It further explained that there are still 111 reports of civilian deaths being considered.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that more than 3,800 civilians, including about 1,000 children, have been killed in raids by the international coalition in Syria only. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the international coalition affirmed taking the necessary measures to reduce the risk to the lives of civilians.
The US-led international coalition, which include more than 70 countries, started its mission against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria in the summer of 2014.
...or 0.5% per country since we got involved. One doesn’t really calculate it that way, but it does put the whole thing into perspective.
In Iraq, the coalition provided air coverage to government forces, while backed the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria.
It is noteworthy that the International coalition, in a statement on Friday evening, referred to seven reports about the killing of civilians in raids on Baguoz between 11 and 24 March. The statement described the reports as "unreliable".
Unreliable? Yes, that would be a bit of an issue when affixing blame, or even determining how much blame there is to affix.
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It's called war sweetheart. It's not a 'police action'. People die.
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In an air campaign lasting 56 months, the coalition has killed a maximum of 1,413 civilians (assuming all 111 are counted). That comes to 25 people a month, or less than 1 a day. Spread out over two countries.
The Germans during WWII would have been overjoyed at that kind of bombing.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have thwarted the murderous Moslems bid to detonate a bomb in Kabul city.
According to a statement released by Kabul Police Headquarters, the security forces discovered and defused an improvised bomb during an operation in Kabul city.
The security forces conducted the operation in Bot Khak area in 12th district of the city at around 8 pm local time on Saturday night.
The Kabul Police Headquarters further added that the murderous Moslems had covered the improvised bomb with watermelon peel.
The anti-government armed snuffies have been attempting to carry out attacks in key cities and provinces of the country.
An kaboomdestroyed the vehicle of Education University in 5th district of Kabul city earlier today.
Officials in the Ministry of Interior say the blast killed one person and maimed ten others.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and north-western Badghis province killing or wounding at least nine holy warriors.
According to informed military sources, the security forces carried out an airstrike in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province in the past 24 hours.
The sources further added that the airstrike killed at one Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighter.
The security forces also conducted an airstrike in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province killing at least 6 Taliban fighters.
The airstrike also maimed two Taliban fighters and destroyed one vehicle, the sources added.
Both Badghis and Helmand are among the relatively volatile provinces in north-western and southern parts of Afghanistan. Talibs are active in some remote and restive areas of the two provinces.
The anti-government armed elements often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities in the two provinces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against both groups in the two provinces.
Similarly, the U.S. forces also conduct regular airstrikes in restive districts of the two provinces to suppress Taliban and other anti-government holy warriors.
[DAWN] Appointment of a Lahore College for Women University’s assistant professor, who happens to be the sister of Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul, in the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) has generated a debate about meritocracy of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) government.
Shabnam Gul, a BPS-18, was serving as assistant professor in the International Relations Department of the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) and was appointed as director (BPS-19) in Nacta, Islamabad, on deputation for three years.
According to a notification of Nacta, "The services of Ms Shabnam Gul, Assistant Professor, Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) are required for her posting against an available vacant post of Director (BS-19) in NACTA in Islamabad on a deputation basis".
Responding to criticism in the mainstream as well as social media, Federal Information and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry defended the appointment. In a tweet, he said Ms Gul held a PhD in terrorism and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and she was selected for the Nacta post after an interview.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the media reports claimed that Ms Gul had yet to complete her PhD.
LCWU Vice Chancellor Dr Farkhanda Manzoor confirmed to Dawn that Nacta had requisitioned that the services of Ms Gul be placed at its disposal.
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[DAWN] After a delay of about seven months, Pakistain has finally decided to implement the recommendations of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) on polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... to eradicate the virus of the crippling disease for good.
The IMB’s 16th report, released in October 2018, stated that the Pakistain Polio Programme was fooling itself into thinking that it had made any progress at all since 2017 and suggested to eradicate the virus in the sewage because it (virus) could bounce back any time.
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OK, sic the IRS on her "non-profit"
[Daily Caller] Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' wife is breaking the law by not revealing financial disclosures about her nonprofit, an uninvolved legal expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings runs a nonprofit called the Center for Global Policy Solutions that is closely intertwined with a for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC. The nonprofit has received millions of dollars from groups with interests before the congressman's committee, potentially buying them favorable treatment, according to a complaint filed with the IRS by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).
At least three different groups have requested the forms, and to each, Rockeymoore Cummings has refused, even when told that the law requires it. She refused on the phone to NLPC, and did not answer formal requests to view the forms from the Washington Examiner and TheDCNF.
"Wow. That's illegal," Sally Wagenmaker, a Chicago attorney who specializes in nonprofit tax law, told TheDCNF. "It's interesting and sad. You have the right to get them. The organization absolutely is required to provide the information, so to not do so would appear to be flaunting the law."
"As a family member of an elected official, we'd expect high-road, integrity and compliance. If anyone should be responding promptly, it should be her. He should be above approach."
Rockeymoore Cummings did not provide any reasoning for her refusal. The congressman later launched ad hominem attacks at the requesters, saying the Examiner and the NLPC leaned conservative, without explaining how that would negate any potential legal issues.
Nonprofits must publicly disclose information about their operations in exchange for being exempt from taxes, and the IRS form on which they disclose the information is called a Form 990.
"One of the policy reasons for disclosure is to be able to to illuminate conflict of interest, and the media's role is to help illuminate that: is she trying to hide information, is she being secretive, does she think she's above the law? And one of the ways that happens is through the required disclosure of 990s," Wagenmaker said.
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[WSJ] MOSCOW‐Russia has withdrawn key defense advisers from Venezuela, an embarrassment for President Nicolás Maduro. These are contract employees, not official Russian government or military personnel. However, the withdrawal of several hundred personnel is significant. Maybe Russia thinks Maduro is now secure or maybe they think it is cheaper to protect Maduro with Cuban or maybe they think he is a lost cause or maybe some combination.
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[Al Jazeera] At least two people have been killed and 10 maimed in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum when shots were fired near the site of a protest sit-in, a doctors' committee close to demonstrators said.
"After regular forces opened fire, there were casualties on Nile Street near the sit-in site," the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said in a statement following the incident on Saturday.
The committee did not specify which forces opened fire or identify those killed or maimed. A man died "who was hit with live rounds in the head", the committee said.
Thousands of demonstrators in Sudan have attempted to stop security forces from closing down the main street outside the military headquarters in Khartoum.
Sounds of live gunfire were heard at around 2pm local time (12:00 GMT), which lasted for about four hours, witnesses told Al Jazeera.
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[Daily Excelsior] Militants today made an abortive bid to blow up the house of senior National Conference leader in Pulwama district of South Kashmire.
Militants hurled grenade at the residence of Mohi-ud-Din, NC leader from Murran village of Pulwama district. The grenade went kaboom! outside the compound wall. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... no loss was reported.
The police men guarding the residence fired in air and the bandidosgunnies fled away.
A youth Mehraan Banday son of Mehraj Din Banday of Solina, Srinagar, who had suffered serious pellet injuries in his head during festivities at Nowhatta, Srinagar, last month departed this vale of tears today. His dead body was taken to Nowhatta where his funeral prayers were held.
Security forces this afternoon launched cordon and search operation in Bonpora Hassanpora area of Bijbehara in Southern Kashmire.
On specific inputs about the presence of murderous Moslems, joint team of security forces including Army’s Ist RR, Special Operation Group of police and CRPF cordoned off Hassanpora Bijbehara area this afternoon. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the operation was later called off.
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[DAWN] Two police officials were martyred and four others injured on Sunday during an exchange of fire between suspected bandidos and police in the Shah Belo area of Sukkur.
A heavy contingent of police launched an operation against outlaws in Shah Belo, a kacha area, which has seen repeat operations in the last 20 years to clear it from criminals and outlaws. The forest in the area is regarded as a sanctuary for a number of known gangs and outlaws.
Sukkur Additional Inspector General (AIG) Dr Jameel Ahmed said that police were conducting an operation in Shah Belo in the jurisdiction of the Bachal Bhewo cop shoppe when hidden outlaws began firing at an armoured police van. Police then retaliated.
During the exchange of fire, Lakhi Ghulam Shah Station House Officer (SHO) Ghulam Murtaza Mirani and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Zulfikar Ali Panhwar were martyred, while ASI Shahzaib, Saddam Dayo, Ghulam Rasool and Saddam Marfani were maimed, the Sukkur AIG said. Following the incident, the person or persons unknown fled the site of the operation.
Upon receiving reports of the incident, a large contingent of police reached the site of the operation and began a search for the suspects, due to which another encounter between both parties is expected, the AIG added.
The bodies of the martyred coppers and the injured have been shifted to a private hospital in Sukkur, where AIG Ahmed visited them and ordered the provision of the best treatment for them.
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[AlAhram] At least two migrants colonists died and around 25 others were missing after their inflatable boat capsized off the western Libyan coast, a front man for the coastguard said on Sunday.
A total of 73 migrants colonists were picked up by a coastguard patrol about 14 miles off Qarabulli town, some 49 km (30.5 miles) east of the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , front man Ayoub Qassem said.
The bodies of a woman and a child were recovered, he added.
The migrants colonists included 40 men, 25 women and eight children from Sudan, Kenya, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
"A wrecked and inflatable boat was found without an engine and the illegal migrants colonists were found clinging to it," Qassem said.
According to the UN migration agency IOM, 2,297 migrants colonists died or went missing in the Mediterranean last year out of a total of 116,959 people who reached Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by sea.
Libya's western coast has become a main departure point for migrants colonists as smugglers exploit the county's chaos since the toppling of Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... in 2011.
But since July 2017, smuggling networks inside Libya have been disrupted under an Italian-backed deal with local authorities in a former smuggling hub of Sabratha town in western Libya.
The coasties has stepped up patrols after receiving new boats from Italia as part of efforts by the right-wing government there to stop migrants colonists reaching Italian shores from Africa.
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Libya's western coast has become a main departure point for migrants colonists as smugglers exploit the county's chaos since the toppling of Muammar Qadaffy in 2011. Thanks, Nick!
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NY Post] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told a crowd in Japan that he was once gay but "cured" himself of homosexuality when he married his first wife.
[NYP] The gunman who shot dead 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building had been facing disciplinary action for a violent fight at work, according to a report.
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...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...
[Rudaw] Despite the removal of visa fees between both neighboring countries, the number of Iranian religious tourists to Iraq's southern holy cities has plummeted, concerning local vendors.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Washington is willing to speak with Iran "with no preconditions", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday, but Iran dismissed the offer as "word-play".
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
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...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[PRESSTV] North Korea’s official news agency KCNA reported on Saturday that the country's leader visited several factories that were used to build ballistic missile launchers and other weapons. During the visit, Kim Jong-un reportedly ordered a “higher modernization plan” for North Korea's main ballistic missile factory.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[DAWN] Appointment of a Lahore College for Women University’s assistant professor, who happens to be the sister of Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul, in the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) has generated a debate about meritocracy of the Pakistain .jpg)
"Above the law" on a screaming crotch rocket, I-285 Atlanta, occasionally has it's own penalties or eternal rewards. 
[WSJ] MOSCOW‐Russia has withdrawn key defense advisers from Venezuela, an embarrassment for President Nicolás Maduro.
Militants today made an abortive bid to blow up the house of senior National Conference leader in Pulwama district of South 
[AlAhram] At least two 
