h/t Instapundit
The Environmental Protection Agency under former Administrator Scott Pruitt led the administration’s successful war on regulations, slashing enough to produce $350 million in savings and eliminate 300,000 hours of paperwork.
Jerusalem (CNN) The Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet that entered Israeli airspace on Tuesday afternoon, raising fears of further military escalation in the region.
The Sukhoi jet entered two kilometers into Israeli airspace when two Patriot missiles were launched to intercept the aircraft, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. The fighter jet was being monitored by Israel during its flight.
In the statement, the IDF said it had observed an increase in internal fighting in Syria adjacent to Israel, including increased activity from Syria's air force.
Syria claimed that its jet was flying inside Syrian airspace during an operation against "terrorist groups" when it was hit by Israeli fire, according to a state media report.
"The Israeli enemy targeted one of our warplanes while conducting air raids against these groups in the area of Saida on the outskirts of Wadi al-Yarmouk in the Syrian airspace," a Syrian state TV banner said, quoting a military source.
This is the first time since 2014 that Israel has shot down a Syrian plane.
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This is the first time since 2014 that Israel has shot down a Syrian plane.
[NYP] A federal judge in Virginia agreed Monday to grant immunity to five potential witnesses in Paul Manafort’s upcoming trial ‐ but, in a blow to special counsel Robert Mueller, said their identities would be made public.
Mueller’s team wanted the identities of their witnesses to remain confidential, saying in a filing last week that they haven’t been criminally charged and not naming them would avoid "undue harassment."
But Judge T.S. Ellis, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said they would be identified.
He also ordered Mueller’s office to provide a list of about 30 witnesses to Manafort’s lawyers.
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Immunized and Anonymous isn't what Justice is - it's a Star Chamber/Kangaroo Court, asshole. Is there any bigger sign this is a political hit job by Mueller?
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Anonymous Witnesses ... "Okhrana witnesses say you are guilty! Then Off to Siberia!"
[Feral Jundi] Over 100 combat missions, 24 years as a Green Beret‐Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam.
Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Muslim Green Beret.
Changiz served this country starting with Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, when he entered Tehran on a one-man mission to spy on Iranian soldiers guarding the US Embassy where 52 US diplomats were being held hostage. Three years later, he was in Beirut, Lebanon when a suicide car bomb exploded in front of the US Embassy killing 83 people. Weeks after that, he was shot by Hezbollah terrorists on a night mission.
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, he led a convoy that was ambushed on its way to Fallujah. He was clearing houses in Mogadishu, Somalia on October, 1993 when a US Black Hawk helicopter was shot down 50 feet away from him in the incident that inspired Black Hawk Down. In 2002, he dressed as a farmer and snuck into Eastern Afghanistan and located Osama Bin Laden for the CIA.
Along the way, Changiz earned numerous commendations, including the Special Forces Legion of Merit, Purple Hearts, and many others. Last year he was nominated for induction in Military Intelligence Hall of Fame and cited as "the finest noncommissioned officer to ever serve in Special Forces."
His story is an amazing tale of perseverance and courage, of combat and one man’s love of his adopted country.
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LinkedIn profile in his name
Interesting that he lists himself as fluent in both Dari and Farsi - as if they are 2 different languages. Most comment I have found on the internet conflates the 2 languages into a single language - Farsi.
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An interesting question, Anguper! They both seem to be dialects of Persian - Farsi in Iran and Dari in Afghanistan. Likely minor linquistic differences become important when trying to fit in with the locals. "You boys ain't from around here, is ya?"
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump came into office disparaging the United Nations and appointed politician Nikki Haley as the ambassador to carry out his disruptive agenda, but she has also shown Trump how the world body serves his purposes, specifically on North Korea.
Skipping down to the bottom line:
Haley said Trump asked her what she thought of the United Nations, then 17 months into her post and after the United States became the first country to quit the U.N. Human Rights Council. She said she rattled off a litany of complaints.
"Unbelievably bureaucratic, it wastes a lot of money, it has some real biases against Israel, against us at times, it ignores a lot that’s going on that needs attention."
Haley’s relay of their phone call illustrates how she guides the president who shuns the international forums and pacts the United States has helped build over decades. When Trump took office, he called the U.N. "just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time."
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"Unbelievably bureaucratic, it wastes a lot of money, it has some real biases against Israel, against us at times, it ignores a lot that’s going on that needs attention."
[FOX] In one of the more stunning revelations contained in the report compiled by the Justice Department’s watchdog, former FBI Director James Comey claimed he doesn’t remember the moment he decided ‐ and put down in writing -- that Hillary Clinton had committed crimes.
We know that on or about May 2, 2016, Comey composed a statement summarizing Clinton’s mishandling of classified documents, concluding that she was "grossly negligent." Those pivotal words have a distinct legal meaning, and are drawn directly from a federal statute, 18 U.S.C. 793(f), which makes it a felony to handle classified documents in a "grossly negligent" manner.
Comey used the exact phrase not once, but twice.
Based on Comey’s finding, Clinton should have faced a multiple-count criminal indictment, since the FBI discovered that she had stored 110 classified emails on her unauthorized, private computer server. Other people had been prosecuted for similar conduct that jeopardized national security in violation of the law. Yet, Comey ‐ despite characterizing Clinton’s actions with the clear language denoting violation of the law - saw to it that no charges were ever brought against Clinton.
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Now we understand what Obama meant by the following words: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” from a law-abiding country to a self-enrichment criminal enterprise.
Bush was right, they do come here for love.
[DallasNews] A Dallas man was arrested last week after police say he parked illegally near Trinity Groves and then introduced the arresting officer to his 15-year-old wife.
Jose Nahun Lopez-Cruz, 24, assured the cop, "It's OK, she is gonna be 16 soon," police records say.
It wasn't OK, and Lopez-Cruz was booked Sunday into the Dallas County jail, charged with sexual assault of a child.
Lopez was charged with the sex crime and drug possession. He's also suspected of being in the country illegally.
He remains in the Dallas County Jail with bail set at $25,500.
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To be fair, he lied about the wife bit. From the article, which needs to be read in its entirety for the enormity of his itter unfittingness to be north of the border to be properly appreciated:
Under further questioning with a translator present, the girl told investigators that she and Lopez-Cruz were dating and had been living together for two months
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to provide perspective, it was only within the past few years that Hawai'i raised the age of consent all the way up to 16... accompanied by much wailing and gnashing of teeth from certain local communities who claimed cultural imperialism was at work.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Danish prosecutors on Tuesday charged an imam with calling for the killing of Jews in the first case of its kind in the Nordic nation and which sparked political outrage.
Imam Mundhir Abdallah, who preaches in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Norrebro at the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque, which media have linked to radical Islam, is accused of citing a hadith or koranic narrative calling for Muslims to rise up against Jews.
"Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them," Abdallah said in a Facebook and YouTube video post in March.
"These are serious statements and I think it's right for the court to now have an opportunity to assess the case," public prosecutor Eva Ronne said in a statement.
This is the first time the prosecution has raised such charges under a criminal code introduced January 1 2017 on religious preaching.
Ronne said it's legal to quote religious books like the Koran and the Bible, but that inciting or welcoming the killings of people could be punishable by up to three years in prison.
"It has always been illegal to accept killings of a certain group of people, but it's new for us to target hate preachers," she added.
The case will be brought before the Copenhagen district court but no trial date has been set, the prosecution said.
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But he's just exercising the freedom to practice his religion as set forth in the Koran... There's that lovely passage near the end (so it's not supeseded by any peace and love stuff); Paraphrased:
And the day of Islam will not come until all the rocks and trees call out, 'O Muslim. there's a Jew hiding behind me. Come kill him'.
OK so it's not Sermon on the Mount but hey, gotta admire Mo's clarity.
[The Resurgent] We've got Soviets trying to win Congress. Putin is not an immediate concern.
According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 56% of Americans see Democratic candidates as out of step with the mainstream. This is far higher than in 2012 and 2016, neither of which got above 48%. The polling comes as other polls show most Americans really are not that concerned about the Russia story. And why should they be when we've got Soviets in America?
Bernie Sanders wants to turn Kansas red, which would be funny except he was probably serious. He's campaigning with a dimwitted socialist the left is turning into their poster child for revolution. Meanwhile, campus radicals are threatening violence against "Zionists," universities are being overrun with bat crap crazy campus revolutionaries who can't tolerate others' opinions. Women and Gender Studies professors are on the march because they cannot get jobs in the real world. And Democrats are suing to stop tax cuts while also denying that anyone is seeing any real benefit from the tax cuts.
It is really hard to get worked up about a hostile foreign power when Democrats in 2018 seem more and more to be a hostile domestic power. Their social justice mobs are hounding people out of jobs, boycotting American businesses, and chasing their political opponents out of restaurants when not showing up at their houses.
Putin looks like a piker compared to American ANTIFA.
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The Russians are in no position to overturn the Constitution and install their puppets to rule. That is exactly what the Left is attempting to do in America. So, who's the bigger threat?
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That site seems a bit overexcited, Eohippus Dribble5682. Among other questions, why would an old KGB hand like Vladimir Putin out a fellow comrade? What current or future source would trust Russian if their president acted so?
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The brazenness of the left is amazing. For half of my life, the Russians/Soviets funded the American left and gave them their literal marching orders. Fer crissake, the anti-fracking movement is STILL largely a Russian-funded movement.
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Joe DiDenova is about as confidence-inspiring as Nunes, Gowdy, et al., ad nauseam.
[BBC] A day before Pakistan's 11th national election, the country's dream of undiluted democracy appears to be receding - again.
In its 70-year history, Pakistan has alternated between quasi-democracy and pure military rule. In the process it has become embroiled in international conflicts and morphed into a home base for Islamist militancy.
Over the past decade, Pakistanis have witnessed democracy at its most undiluted thus far, but it's now under threat from what some say appears to be a "democratic coup" of sorts.
And just as in the past, the country's powerful military establishment remains the chief suspect behind the fresh round of political manipulation.
In the past, the military used to either stage a direct coup or use special powers to sack an elected government and then manipulate elections to ensure it wasn't re-elected.
In 2008, those special powers were done away with, leading to a first in 2013: an elected government completing its five-year term.
[ABC7ny] PLAISTOW, New Hampshire -- A man who stripped naked before working out at a New Hampshire gym told police officers that he thought he was in a "Judgement Free Zone," before being arrested.
NECN reports 34-year-old Eric Stagno, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was charged with indecent exposure, lewdness and disorderly conduct on Sunday for taking off his clothes and exercising at a Plaistow Planet Fitness.
Police say he walked back and forth and started doing poses on a yoga mat. He allegedly referenced Planet Fitness' slogan that it is a "Judgement Free Zone."
Stagno is free on bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 21 in Plaistow District Court.
Stagno could not be reached for comment, and his attorney could not be immediately identified.
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I was working out at the gym ( no, really!) when a very attractive young woman came in. I asked the trainer which machine I should use to impress her. He said, "Th ATM machine in the lobby".
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Haverhill
A battle-ax yelps from Pentucket,
"This savage's scalp? Yes, I took it."
The Puritan captive
From Haverhill, adaptive
Survivor, sez, "Snowflakes, go suck it!"
Apologies to Indian 'Burgers. Story's holier than an old broken bucket.
[Daily Caller] Educational attainment might have more to do with genes than was previously thought, according to researchers who studied the link between schooling levels and genetic variants.
The study, published Monday in Nature Genetics, found a noteworthy relationship between certain genetic factors and levels of education attainment. The researchers conducted their study using a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identified 1,271 genetic factors that affect how much schooling participants attained.
The researchers gathered their results by analyzing 71 data sets, which included over a million participants from 15 different countries. The participants all had European ancestry and were 30 years or older.
"Even variants with the largest effects predict, on average, only about three more weeks of schooling in those who have those variants compared to those who don’t," said one of the study’s authors, Daniel Benjamin, according to USC News. Benjamin is also a University of Southern California (USC) associate professor for the Center for Economic and Social Research. "When we analyze the combined effects of many genetic variants ... they can predict the length of a person’s formal education as well as demographic factors."
By the study’s conclusion, the researchers had identified a number of genetic factors allowing them to explain between 11 and 13 percent of the variance in education attainment.
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Do veggies convey an advantage?
A savage who scavenges cabbage
Can ravage the average.
Add ramage and marriage
And carriage, and there is your Babbage!
Is there such a place? There's a California, Kentucky, but is there another in Illinois?
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^ Huh. Unincorporated community named "California" in Stockholm, Maine. Must check for "Florida, Washington" (and vice versa) sometime.
"A spooky blind boy of Aroostook,
Who liked the library acoustic,
Sat plinking, unblinking,"
Said Stephen King, winking,
"And crooned his way through the acroostic."
h/t Instapundit
[Powerline] The post immediately below addresses the fact that voters don’t care much about the Democrats’ Helsinki hysteria. Most voters, I think, are smart enough to understand that Donald Trump, unlike his predecessor, is unabashedly pro-America. Thus, the Left’s insane claim that he committed "treason" by not denouncing Vladimir Putin in a public forum convinces no one, especially since the news outlets promoting that attack cheered Barack Obama’s give-away-the-store approach enthusiastically. The average American may not be brilliant, but he isn’t that stupid.
That said, what do voters care about? Illegal immigration, for one thing. Here again, the Democrats have mostly misfired. Their "separated children" campaign‐which was exquisitely coordinated with virtually every newspaper and television network in America, I give them credit for that‐fell rather flat. Most people are much more concerned about the many adverse impacts of illegal immigration on our country.
Crimes by illegal immigrants are just one issue among several; lower wages for unskilled and semi-skilled Americans is another. But crime grabs headlines, so this Judicial Watch survey is highly relevant: "Busy Month for Illegal Immigrants Committing Heinous Crimes."
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So Khalil Cavil hasn't been fired nor banned for life from the Saltlick? I'll never eat at any Saltlick again. There is no reason to put up with this kind of racism. There are too many other good BBQ joints in TX.
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I take the above comment back. The article I read made mno mention of Cail's firing. A newer article says: Officials told the paper that Kavil is no longer employed at the steakhouse.
Kudos to the Saltlick. I apologize to them and guess I will partake of their establishment again. BTW, they have excellent and meaty ribs.
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Bright Pebbles - there are lots of folk with journalism degrees who can't get jobs. Esp alpha males. Perhaps retractions for poor research in reporting should include termination of the writer and the editor?
It's not like there is nobody out there to replace them.
[AnNahar] Malian troops killed 11 jihadists who had ambushed them in the centre of the country, in festivities that also left one soldier dead, the defence ministry said.
Armed Tuareg groups supporting the government also reported assailants executed more than 20 people on Friday in a village in the northeast.
The attacks highlighted the fragile security situation in the West African nation as it prepares to hold elections on July 29, in which President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is seeking a second term.
A army patrol was ambushed by "terrorists" on Sunday morning in a forest in the central region of Segou, the ministry said in a statement. The patrol suffered "one dead and one maimed. On the enemy side, we counted 11 dead".
In a separate incident on Friday, "gunnies" attacked the village of Tindinbawen, near the border with Niger, according to a joint statement from the Imghad and Allies Tuareg Self-Defence Force (Gatia) and the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA).
The two mainly Tuareg groups support the French and Malian forces.
The "attackers proceeded to summarily execute more than 20 people including elderly people and at the same time some members of the security post of the coalition", the statement said.
Mali's unrest stems from a 2012 ethnic Touareg separatist uprising, which was exploited by jihadists in order to take over key cities in the north. The gunnies were largely driven out in a French-led military operation launched in January 2013. But large stretches of the country remain outside of the control of the foreign and Malian forces, which are frequent targets of attacks, despite a peace accord signed with Tuareg leaders in 2015 aimed at isolating the jihadists.
The violence has also spilled over into both Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and Niger.
[AnNahar] Eight people were killed at a mosque in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... on Monday when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives, a civilian militia member and a local resident said.
The blast happened in the Mainari area of Konduga, in Borno state, said Ibrahim Liman, from the civilian militia force assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... "The male bomber walked into the mosque at about 5:15 am (0415 GMT) while prayers were on and went kaboom!, killing eight worshippers and injuring five others," he told AFP.
"Seven of the victims died in the mosque while another died on the way to (the Borno state capital) Maiduguri."
Suicide bombings against "soft" civilian targets such as mosques, markets and bus stations are the hallmark of the Boko Haram faction led by Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... Many of the bombers used are young women and girls. Liman said the latest attack appeared to be carried out by a man in his early 20s.
Umar Goni, who lives in Konduga, said he was on his way to the mosque when the blast occurred and he helped to rescue victims with members of the civilian volunteer force.
"We pulled out seven dead bodies and six injured worshippers. One of the six injured died on the way to hospital," he added.
The bomber was disguised as a worshipper, he said, adding: "There was no way anybody could have known his mission."
The latest attack comes as Nigeria's government is encouraging people displaced by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency to return home.
But aid agencies providing food, healthcare, clean water and shelter across the conflict-ravaged region have warned that security has not improved.
Last week, at least six traders were killed when a convoy of lorries under military escort were ambushed in Borno state near the border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... There have also been a number of attacks on military convoys and bases in Borno and neighbouring Yobe state, with undisclosed casualties.
Soldiers and civilians have also been targeted in separate attacks in neighbouring Chad and Niger.
Actually the Obama Administration Depts of Treasury, State and Justice did a fair amount of work on identifying the funding sources of Boko Haram. They specifically identified BNP Paribas, an international French Bank. The bank's money laundering also funded terrorist groups elsewhere (and also groups opposing the mullahs in Iran). This bank is, I think, still in the process of paying off a large judgement against it.
Unfortunately, this isn't the only financial company doing this and many of these are harder to investigate. With the advent of crypt currency the investigations will be even more difficult.
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Part of the challenge is just how vast Sambisa is, covering parts of four Nigerian states. It's been called an ideal place for Boko Haram to hide because it's large, sparsely populated and has lots of tree cover that hampers aerial surveillance. It also has few roads and a rocky, hilly terrain, making access by land difficult to nearly impossible.
The Nigerian military has bombed the forest and succeeded in overrunning several Boko Haram camps, but the presence of kidnapped women and children remains a concern. Bakary says Boko Haram uses the captives as human shields. The forest, he said, is also infested with landmines.
So somewhat like finding marijuana farms hidden in America’s national parks in the western states.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Breitbart] Sunday on CBS’s "Face the Nation," Democratic nominee for New York State’s 14th congressional district November election Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Congress being "80 percent male" created "blind spots in our legislation." I guess little Alexandria been advised to zip it on the subject of economics. But feminism still works.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Breitbart] A new program from the American Association of University Professors called "One Faculty, One Resistance," seeks to shut down campus free speech legislation that is designed to prevent the censorship of invited speakers on public campuses.
"’Campus free-speech’ bills actually seek to suppress speech by creating a litigious environment and imposing minimum penalties on protesters," the group wrote in a bizarre document about new campus free speech laws.
The group is transparent in their anti-free speech stance. They write that they are concerned about new state laws that punish students who shut down guest speaker events. In some states, students could face expulsion or suspension up to one year for interfering with the free expression of others. If only all these students actually had to study...
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Disagree. Those born in lower classes can be smart, even brilliant. Why waste their intellectual talents because their parents can't afford to send them to college?
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The profs are right, their insane desire to suppress freedom should be punished by the government. I'm sure Russia would happily put them in a Gulag for a small cash payment.
[AlAhram] More than half of Germans think Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... can defend itself without military backing from the United States, a poll showed on Monday,
...quitting NATO makes sense in that scenario. But against whom might they be defending?
less than two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he could withdraw support. Only 37 percent of respondents said they believed Europe depended on U.S. military help, the Forsa poll showed.
The survey found no significant difference between eastern German regions and western areas, which have stronger historical ties to the United States. In the east, 60 percent thought Europe did not need Washington, and in the west, 55 percent.
Trump gave an ultimatum to European allies on July 12, warning a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... summit the United States could withdraw its support if Europe did not share more of what he called an unfair burden on U.S. taxpayers in funding the alliance.
In a rebuke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. , he also called Germany a "captive" of Moscow because, he said, Berlin supported a Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Russia.
About 84 percent of respondents said Trump's comments about Russia controlling Germany were "completely absurd", according to the poll which surveyed 1,004 Germans.
Even more - 92 percent - said they suspected that Trump's motive for making the comments was primarily to promote the sale of U.S. liquefied gas in Europe and Germany.
Two thirds said they supported the construction of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline because it would help provide Germany with a more reliable supply of natural gas.
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Good news, good news. More support for us to get the hell out of there. Close the bases and bring the troops home. Europeans can well afford to defend themselves.
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I'd say move a good chunk of them to Poland and bring the rest back to be deployed somewhere on the US / Mexican border with shoot to kill orders.
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Even more - 92 percent - said they suspected that Trump's motive for making the comments was primarily to promote the sale of U.S. liquefied gas in Europe and Germany.
We'd rather burn it at home. Better yet, ban the import of German cars and aircraft and they won't need so much Russian gas.
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We should make it clear to the people of Germany that in making this critical choice they understand that the people and nation of the USA will never pick up their pieces when they fuck it up again like they always do.
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Not to Poland, to the southern border. Why are we worried about thousands of miles away, when the first mile of our own territory is breached?
...quitting NATO makes sense in that scenario. But against whom might they be defending?
The Poles? I recall a Polish army reaching Vienna to deal with another Islamic invasion (BTW, seems the Bavarians and Austrians were in that one too dealing with the pillagers, looters and the like).
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Lessee... this would be the Bundeswehr? The German national army that had troops drilling with sticks a while back because they didn't have enough rifles? Of course, the sticks WERE painted black... that's gotta count for something.
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Can definitely see Germany and Russia divvying up Europe again and with the same tragic consequences.
German society is no longer in a conquering mindset — look at the current shortage of men and women willing to put on the uniform. Should the current invasion of Germany be successful, that will be a different story, but Russia would not be conniving to divide the continent with a caliphate. Russia would be allying with Poland and America to reconquer it.
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It's a BS question. Defend itself against what exactly?
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If what is not known then there is no reason for them to be in something like NATO because they obvious miss totally Mattis's point of: “be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet"
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See? Exactly. No enemies about. No enemies means you don't need a military. It's win-win for everyone!
USA out of NATO. Bring the troops home. Not to Poland, not to the Middle East. Home. Spend the savings on our own people, who badly need it.
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I'm serious. Should we expect a Russian invasion of Poland, with a march to the Rhine? Highly unlikely. Which means that NATO needs to redefine itself. The Russian threat is slow destabilization of Europe, not an open attack. The weapons against this are not the same.
NATO is much more likely to be a fast and mean intervention force to counter threats wherever they may arise. Much more likely North Africa and the Middle East.
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Threats in North Africa and the Middle East? What threats? Those aren't threats. Those are meddling opportunities.
NATO was formed to deal with Russia. Russia isn't a threat any more, get rid of NATO. End of story. Close the bases, bring the troops home, spend the money on ourselves instead. Why should we be paying for the defense of people who refuse to pay for themselves?
Oh, I get it. The Middle East and North Africa are threats to Europe, which need to be paid for by America. Yeah, fuck that noise. Pay for it yourselves, you ungrateful jerks.
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Really. Then why did the US invoke Chapter 5 in 2001? Why are German troops in Afghanistan? Defending Germany?
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If you let enemy #1 into your borders, give them big checks to live on and tolerate it when they rape your people defense; and by the bulk of your energy from enemy #2, it may be a bit too late anyway.
The real question is will we allow German refugees in when the time comes. I'm Kind of thinking if it gets to that, that they had their chance and Darwin selected them out.
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First of all, the German troops in Afghanistan have such restricted ROE as to be useless.
Second, we shouldn't be in Afghanistan at all. Trump tried to pull us out only to be blocked by the military industrial complex, which doesn't want their profitable war to stop.
Third, that's whataboutism that does not address the inexplicable American subsidies for wealthy First World nations.
Pay for your own defense. You can easily afford it.
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#18 I'm serious. Should we expect a Russian invasion of Poland, with a march to the Rhine?
h/t Gates of Vienna
[TheRebel] I was in London for most of last week, attending the legal appeal made by Tommy Robinson’s lawyers. (See all my reports at TommyTrial.com)
Before the trial go underway, I asked a clerk to check with a judge whether or not I could use my laptop in the court, and to "tweet" my comments live. And he said yes ‐ and so I set up my laptop, I sat right beside Tommy’s solicitor Jon Carson, and I typed as fast as I could for the appeal.
According to Twitter analytics, I wrote more than 150 tweets from court, that were seen 5.7 million times in 12 hours!
There were about half a dozen other media in the court. But their hatred for Tommy eclipses their love of the facts and the news.
They just plain lied about him.
For example, the political correspondent for the Guardian newspaper tweeted that Tommy is "only appealing against the sentence."
That was the original plan. But as Tommy’s lawyers learned that his treatment in court in Leeds violated many rules of criminal procedure, and that the judge had made many mistakes ‐ they decided to appeal the conviction totally.
And this was evident within the first five minutes of the appeal. It was 80 to 90 per cent of what was discussed throughout the day.
When all of these working class Tommy supporters pointed out to his highness at the Guardian that he was wrong about this central fact of the whole appeal, he grudgingly admitted it, but he couldn't stop being insulting:
...So this Guardian political editor, who was writing about the appeal, wasn’t actually in court for the appeal? Was it hard to find the court? I came all the way from Canada, not from across town.
Imagine what else the Guardian is lying about. But The Rebel is the "unsavoury" media outlet?
I'll show you more examples tonight, from Channel 4, a major broadcaster, and of course, on the BBC.
My friends, do you see why I went to London last week?
You just can’t trust a word the mainstream media says ‐ not here in Canada, and not there in the UK...
[IsraelTimes] Days after TIPH worker expelled from Israel for slapping Jewish child, another member of group flees country as police investigate his alleged actions
A member of the TIPH West Bank observer group is suspected of slashing the tires of an Israeli settler in Hebron, then fleeing the country when police sought to question him.
The monitor group was also in hot water recently after video showed a member slapping a child from the city’s community of Jewish settlers.
Hadashot TV news reported Monday that the latest incident began with a local resident filing a complaint with police after the tires of his car were slashed. An investigation was launched and police obtained security camera footage in which a uniformed member of TIPH (Temporary International Presence in Hebron) was seen passing by the car several times and crouching by its tires.
Police contacted TIPH, which said it would conduct an internal probe. When after several days police again contacted TIPH to say they wished to question the man, they were told he had left the country after the first call, the report said.
TIPH is an international civilian observer group tasked with "monitoring and reporting efforts to maintain normal life in the city of Hebron, thus creating a sense of security among the Paleostinians in Hebron." It also reports alleged human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses and violations of accords in the city between Israel and Paleostinians. Observers for the group come from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , Italia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... Earlier this month another TIPH member, a Swiss man, was expelled from the country after video emerged of him slapping a young Jewish boy across the face, sending his skullcap flying.
Following the airing of the footage, Switzerland’s ambassador to Israel apologized to leaders of the settlement community in Hebron.
[IsraelTimes] At least 14 people have been killed in Iraq, in two weeks of protests over corruption and lack of public services, a member of the state human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... commission says.
Demonstrations have rocked southern and central Iraq since erupting in the oil-rich port city of Basra on July 8, when security forces opened fire killing one person.
They have since waned, after security forces repeatedly used force to disperse demonstrators, although AFP news hounds cited protests in the south yesterday.
Rights commission official Fadel al-Gharrawi says 14 people died in Basra, Samawah, the Shiite shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala, and in the provinces of Diwaniyah and Babylon.
He did not specify whether those killed were protesters or members of the security services, but a Sunday toll compiled from medical sources put the number of dead at 11, all demonstrators.
Gharrawi says 275 protesters and 470 security personnel were maimed during thousands-strong demonstrations against corrupt officials.
[IsraelTimes] Russia agreed to keep Iranian forces in Syria 100 kilometers (62 miles) away from Israel’s northern border, a senior Israeli official says, moments after a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded in Jerusalem.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... Israel rejected that compromise and continues to demand that Iran not be allowed any military foothold in Syria, the official says. Israel furthermore demands that all long-range missiles be removed from the war-torn country and that any missile factories there be shut, the officials said.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of Syrian refugees are leaving Leb for their neighboring home country, an AFP news hound says, the latest such return coordinated between Beirut and Damascus.
In Leb’s eastern border town of Arsal, men, women and kiddies of all ages pile into cars, minivans and tractors. Security forces check the identity papers of those about to make the journey back to Syria with suitcases, boxes of food and even live poultry, an AFP photographer says.
"The voluntary repatriation of around 850 Syrian refugees started" on Monday morning, Leb’s state news agency NNA reports.
Seven years into Syria’s war, Leb hosts around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, compared with a local population of 4.5 million. Over the past few months, more than 800 Syrians have left Leb in similar operations organized by the governments of Beirut and Damascus.
[DailyMail] As China’s wealth has grown, so has its sophistication at currying favor in Washington and among the American elite.
Both the Chinese government and Chinese companies, often with close state ties, have retained lobbying and public-relations firms in the Beltway, in some cases hiring former U.S. officials as personal lobbyists.
Beijing has also learned how to harness its economic might by alternately opening its doors to companies who play by China’s rules, and slamming the door on companies that go against its red lines. In some cases, this grants Beijing powerful sway over foreign companies with business interests in China. This has raised concerns that current U.S. government officials may have an eye on their future prospects in China even before leaving office.
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Some are even helping China with lawfare against the US military to cut into their ability to do their job. Maybe that's why they buy "green" av fuel at $100 a gallon?
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Another report supporting the 'revolving door tax' pushed by the Instapundit. Work in the government, leave and lobby within 5 years, your income tax bracket just hit 50%.
[Independent] John Bolton has bolstered Donald Trump’s threat to Iran, saying the president would inflict a price "few countries have ever paid", if Tehran does anything negative.
In the latest piece of sabre-rattling as the US carries out a sustained propaganda campaign against Iran, Mr Trump’s national security adviser issued a statement saying he had spoken to the president in recent days.
"President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before," he said.
The words on Monday from Mr Bolton, who has long been a supporter of regime change in Iran, even though the US State Department denies that is official US policy, came after Mr Trump posted a late night tweet ‐ all in capital letters ‐ in which he warned Iran it would "suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before".
"We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death," he added. "Be cautious!"
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian leader says 'prisoners and deaders are stars in the skies of the Paleostinian struggle, and they have priority in everything'.
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How much do we give them through how many agencies?
Congress is trying to redefine Palestinian refugees to include only those who actually fled, not their friends, relations, and several generations of descendants. The State Department worked up those numbers a few years ago, but has steadfastly refused to divulge them ever since. And I seem to recall that Ambassador Nicki Haley is working to get the Palestinian refugees reassigned from the dedicated United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to the UN High Commision for Refugees (UNHCR), which has responsibility for all the other refugees in the world.
[MedicalNewsToday] Whether or not a divine power truly does exist might be a matter of opinion, but the neurophysiological effects of religious belief are scientific facts that can be accurately measured. Here, we take a look at some of these effects, as shown by the latest research.
Whether you are a staunch atheist, a reserved agnostic, or a devout believer, you are equally likely to find the effects of religion on human brains astonishing.
Religious belief can increase our lifespan and help us better cope with disease.
So what religions did the subjects in their test group subscribe to? Did the results apply to all tested religions the same?
And, research in the field of "neurotheology" ‐ or the neuroscience of theological belief ‐ has made some surprising discoveries that are bound to change how we think about spirituality.
For instance, some scientists suggest that religious experience activates the same brain circuits as sex and drugs.
Other research has suggested that damage to a certain brain region can make you feel as though someone's in the room when nobody's there. Such findings have intriguing implications for how religion affects health, and vice-versa.
Also, do the neurobiological underpinnings of religious experience mean that it could be artificially recreated? If a divine experience proves to be biologically predetermined, does having the right scientific information enable us to create the illusion of a god?
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Whether you are a staunch atheist, a reserved agnostic, or a devout believer, you are equally likely to find the effects of religion on human brains astonishing.
[KhaamaPress] A group of four Talibs involved in major terrorist related activities has been held by during an operation of the operatives of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), in Kandahar province.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the bully boyz tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! during the operation have been identified as Aminullah son of Esmatullah, Rahmatullah son of Shahabuddin, Abdul Malik son of Feroz Khan, and Noor Ali famous as Khan Mohammad.
The statement further added that the bully boyz were involved in major destructive and terrorist related activities in Kandahar city, Khakrez district, and Maiwand district.
According to the provincial government, the bully boyz were planting improvised bombs on the roadsides to target the government vehicles and were also carrying out coordinated attacks on the security posts.
The bully boyz were arrested during an operation conducted based on a tip off, the provincial government said, adding that the detained bully boyz have confessed to their crimes.
The anti-government armed turban groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
[ClearanceJobs.com] Our own 'Anomalous Sources' posted a ClearanceJobs.com piece late yesterday which provides a fairly definitive 'rules of the road' regarding the investigations, suspensions, and revocations of US Government Security Clearances. The article sites Executive Order (EO) 12968 and Executive Order (EO) 10865 as the governing process.
Hat tip to 'Anomalous Sources' for this informative contribution.
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Meanwhile, down in IT, when people quit, fired, or leave, by SOP you immediately suspend their access to the systems, escort them to their desk to collect personal item, then escort to HR for outprocessing, then to the door. Otherwise, you get what you deserve trying to clean the predicable mess afterwards. As the cops says putting the cuffs on you, 'This is for your and my protection'.
[IsraelTimes] Jihadist group announces death of Abu Jaafar al-Maqdesi, doesn't disclose circumstances of his death
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 says one of the leaders of its affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been killed.
The jihadist group’s Aamaq news agency issued an announcement late on Sunday about the death of Abu Jaafar al-Maqdesi, calling him a martyr.
A photo of a young bearded man accompanied the report. IS says he was killed earlier this month, but did not disclose where or under what circumstances.
In February, Egypt launched a massive operation against jihadists in Sinai as well as parts of the Nile Delta region and the Western Desert, along the mostly non-existent border with Libya.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi authorities announced on Monday that pro-government fighters had found a facility that was used by 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.... gunnies for making bombs in Anbar governorate.
"Acting upon accurate intelligence reports, a force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) seized an Islamic State laboratory that was used for manufacturing bombs in al-Karabilah district, in western Anbar," Almaalomah website quoted the Iraqi Security Media Center as saying in a statement.
"A huge amount of materials used for making explosives were found inside the lab," added the statement.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Two Iraqi civilians were wounded Monday as a bomb exploded in Al-Qa'im city near the Syrian borders, a security source was quoted as saying.
"An explosive charge believed to be planted by Islamic State went off while a number of civilians were passing by an agricultural land in Al-Karailah district in Al-Qa'im, in western Anbar," the source told Basnews website.
"The explosion left two civilians wounded as they were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment," the source said.
According to the source, security forces "rushed to the blast site and started to search for any explosives at the site."
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Babylon (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced a man to death over his involvement in killing 34 Iraqi, Iranian Shiites while heading for Karbala to celebrate a religious ceremony.
"The terrorist was sentenced by the Babylon Criminal Court to death after he was found implicated in killing 34 Iranian and Iraqi visitors while on their way to Kerbala, where they would commemorate Arabaeen, the 40th day of Imam Hussain’s Martyrdom," Abdul Sattar al-Biraqdar, the front man for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, told Baghdad Today on Monday.
"The convict admitted that he facilitated the entry of a dump truck driven by a jacket wallah into a patrol station on a highway near Al Shomali town in Babylon to target Iraqi and Iranian visitors, leaving about 34 of them dead," added the front man.
Idlib (Syria News) Three civilians, including a child, were killed by the Ottoman Turkish Gendarmerie General Command fire, while they were trying to cross from Darkoush area, in the countryside of Idlib, to the Ottoman Turkish territory.
Enab Baladi news reported, today, that the members of the Ottoman Turkish Gendarmerie shot three Syrian civilians, including a female 10-year old child, while they were trying to cross the borders to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... It added that the casualties were attacked near the area of Darkoush, north of Idlib, near the Ottoman Turkish city of Antakia.
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[IsraelTimes] A further nearly 400 people did not make it through, unable pass roads that were blocked by advancing Syrian forces on one side 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.... gunnies on the other
The call came on Saturday night. In the raging war zone that is southwestern Syria, with enemy forces on the march, the 98 White Helmets volunteers brought their spouses, children and a personal bag each. A total of 421 people massed at two collection points where they were to make their crossing to safety.
[Chicago Sun Times] Willie Wilson Perennial Chi-Town Politician/Huckster
said he handed out a whole lot of money Sunday at a South Side church - a couple hundred grand, in fact.
But he insists that's nothing new. And he said Sunday's event, attended by Gov. Bruce Rauner, had absolutely nothing to do with his run for mayor. However, it's already raised more than a few eyebrows on the campaign trail.
"I think people try to make political hay out of it because they don't got nothing else on me," Wilson said. Great bit of double-negative 'in-the-hood' wordplay there Willie, Freudian slip perhaps?
Republican state Rep. David McSweeney asked on Twitter, "How can Willie Wilson, a candidate for Mayor of Chicago, literally hand out CASH at a public event? This is so wrong!"
But when asked about allegations of vote buying, Mr. Didnadonuffin
Wilson said, "There's no truth to that at all." Ah yes, This is Chicago
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[AsiaTimes] Loansharks asking for incriminating photos or videos of students and threaten to make them public if money is not repaid.
Loansharks have been arrested in China after asking students to give them naked videos and photos of themselves as collateral on the money they borrowed.
The loansharks then threatened to post the incriminating photos and videos online if the money was not repaid. They targeted cash-strapped college students and charged them exorbitant interest.
The public security bureau in Shenzhen recently busted a syndicate which at its peak had ripped off more than 300 victims across the nation. Most were college students who spent the borrowed money on gambling, electronic gadgets and cosmetics. One woman reportedly ended up owing more than one million yuan (US$147,200).
[Small Wars Journal] How the US Could Lose the Next War - And How the Migrant Crisis Demonstrates This
Dash Radosti
The episode on the southern border highlights the vulnerability of US policy to public relation disasters that involve children. In future conflicts, it is likely that our adversaries will combine the use of human shields (especially children) with a strong disinformation campaign to galvanize US public opinion against intervention. US military and political leaders need to take active steps to both fight disinformation, as well as to educate the public about the use of human shields before a public relations tragedy occurs.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media reports IDF also shelled 2 Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", positions in central Gazoo; defense minister warns Israel ready to fight to stop arson attacks.
An Israeli drone shot at a group of Gazooks flying incendiary balloons into southern Israel from the northern Strip on Monday afternoon, according to Paleostinian media.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that one of its aircraft targeted a "terror cell" launching arson devices in northern Gazoo.
According to the Hamas-linked Shehab news outlet, the group was operating near the border, east of the city of Jabaliya.
There were no injuries immediately reported.
Moments later, Shehab reported that the IDF fired at two observation posts in central Gazoo belonging to the Hamas terror group, which rules the Strip.
The military would not immediately confirm the report.
The Arclight airstrike and reported shelling came amid a period of heightened tensions in the coastal enclave, with Israel demanding an end to the arson attacks and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman threatening a large military operation.
"Is the State of Israel interested in a war against Hamas in the Gazoo Strip? The answer is no. Are we deterred from [starting] a campaign in the Gazoo Strip? Here too, the answer is no," Liberman said during a meeting with the IDF’s top brass on Monday morning.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that security forces had arrested 23 members of Islamic State, including a senior leader, in Mosul city.
"Nineveh police forces arrested 23 Islamic State fighters, including a senior commander who was responsible for collecting Zakat from residents in southern Mosul," Iraqi website Baghdad Today quoted spokesman for the interior ministry Maj. Gen. Saad Maan as saying in a press statement.
"The terrorists were apprehended in al-Quds district in Mosul's eastern side," added the spokesman.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Three decayed bodies of civilians, executed by Islamic State, were found, west of Nineveh, a security source from the province said on Monday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "security troops found, in the evening, three decayed bodies of people executed by Islamic State during its control on Mosul city. The militants threw the bodies inside a wastewater station in west of Mosul."
"Security troops transferred the bodies to forensic medicine department," the source, who preferred anonymity, said without giving further details.
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Back in college, in a game of D&D, one of the players said, "Wait, what's the amulet of immortality doing in a tomb?"
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We just assume immortality means the living body lives on, could be the amulet allows the brain to lives on after death, leaving the corpse dreaming but unable to move forever.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Three 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.... members were killed in an infiltration attempt in Diyala by the pro-government paramilitary troops, a security source said on Monday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said "forces of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) managed to kill three Islamic State members who were trying to sneak into al-Udhaim region from the northern side."
PMFs, according to the source, "carry out operations every now and then to secure Udhaim road and the vast desert stretching between the mountains."
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[Khaama Press] At least two coppersbit the dust in an attack by unknown button men in capital Kabul, the security official said Monday.
The incident took place late on Sunday evening in the vicinity of the 7th police district of the city.
A source in Kabul Police Commandment said unknown button men opened fire on two coppers as they were patrolling in the area, leaving both of them critically maimed.
The source further added that both coppersbit the dust shortly after they were shifted to hospital.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the attack.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Internal security forces of Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Asayish, reportedly killed 2 of the three attackers who stormed the Erbil governorate building, and tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a third who was maimed, Baghdad Today quoted a security source saying.
Later Kurdish media reports said later, however, that all of the three assailants were killed.
Earlier, Iraqi Alforat news website quoted Nebez Abdul-Hamid, mayor of Erbil, saying that three 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.... snuffies attacked the Erbil governorate building in Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
Abdul-Hamid said the trio shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is greatest ) while storming the facility.
Reports quoted deputy governor Taher Abdullah saying that the button menmaimed two security officers.
Alghad Press quoted Halan Hormoz, board secretary at the governorate’s office, saying that the attackers stormed the building before the start of the working shifts, assuring that they had held no hostages. But some reports say one employee was freed from the attacker’s grip.
Mawazin News quoted a security source saying that the maimed attacker was transferred to hospital, adding that the group had possibly sneaked into the province from Kirkuk with internal help.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Having secured almost the entire west Daraa countryside, the Syrian Army turned attention to 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.... -held chunk of territories in the far western countryside of the province.
The government offensive is heavily backed by the sweeping power of the Russian Air Force, and spearheaded by the SAA’s elite Tiger Forces.
Raw footage posted online shows heavy artillery and rocket shelling, targeting ISIS positions, hideouts and fortifications in Tall Jumu` hilltop located north of ISIS-controlled towns of Taseel and Adwan.
The Syrian forces succeeded in recapturing the area two days ago but had to retreat following a massive counterattack by the Death Eater jihadists.
The hilltop enjoys a strategic importance since it overlooks several ISIS-held towns; which will be under the government’s fire control once the hill is recaptured.
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[Khaama Press] The shadow governor of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group for Kapisa province was killed along with another senior Taliban leader in Northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan.
The Security Chief of Kapisa province Mohammad Hakim Azimi confiremd that the shadow governor of the group Nasim Mushfiq was killed during an Arclight airstrike conducted in Tagab district earlier today.
He said the shadow district governor of Tagab Ehsanullah was also killed in the airstrike conducted based on intelligence tip off.
Azimi further added that the two senior Taliban leaders had participated in a meeting of the Talibs when they came under airstrike.
According to Azimi, the foreign forces based in Afghanistan had also participated in the operation.
Several other Talibs were also killed during the airstrike, Azimi said. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he did not disclose further information regarding the exact number of the turbans killed in the airstrike.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Kapisa is among the relatively calm provinces in Northeastern parts of the country but the security situation of the province has started to deteriorate recently amid ongoing efforts by the turbans to expand their insurgency.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is preparing to launch a new offensive in northwest Syria after a successful campaign in the southern provinces of al-Quneitra and Daraa, a military source told al-Masdar News this evening.
According to the military source, the elite Tiger Forces will head towards the Idlib Governorate axis in the next few weeks, claiming that they will concentrate on retaking the al-Ghaab Plain and Jisr al-Shughour District.
The source added that the Tiger Forces will move towards the Idlib Governorate once they have fully defeated the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in the Yarmouk Basin region of southwest Daraa.
At the same time, the Syrian Elite Republican Guard and 4th Armored Division will be heading to the Jabal Turkmen and Jabal al-Akrad regions in northern Latakia.
The Elite Republican Guard and 4th Division will be tasked with retaking these aforementioned regions in northern Latakia, while also securing the Ottoman Turkish border.
These offensives will arguably be the most difficult battles this year for the Syrian Army, as the jihadist rebels in this region of Idlib and Latakia are well-armed and well-trained.
Furthermore, the jihadist rebels in southwest Idlib and northern Latakia have a large number of foreign combatants, which will make these battles all the more important for the Russian and Syrian forces.
Perhaps the Syrian Army’s largest obstacle during this offensive will be the Ottoman Turkish military, who has setup observation posts in this region of northwest Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish military’s observation posts have often blocked the Syrian Army from advancing towards the jihadist-held areas, while also proving to be launching points for hard-line groups like Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkestan Islamic Party.
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[IsraelTimes] Fate of one David's Sling interceptor rocket unclear, second self-destructs over Golan, army finds, after false alarm sparked by fighting in Syria
The targets of the first known operational launch of the David’s Sling air defense system on Monday were a pair of Syrian surface-to-surface missiles carrying approximately a half ton of explosives, according to the military’s initial investigation.
Israeli authorities said they initially feared the missiles were headed for Israel. But ultimately the two Syrian SS-21 short-range ballistic missiles ‐ which were fired as part of the country’s internal fighting and not deliberately aimed at Israel ‐ did not clear the border and landed one kilometer inside Syria.
The two David’s Sling interceptor missiles were launched as a precautionary measure when the system calculated that the Syrian projectiles might be on track to strike northern Israel.
After a period of time, however, the air defense battery’s computers determined that the Syrian missiles were going to fall short and did not pose a danger to Israel. At that point, one of the interceptor missiles was ordered to self-destruct, doing so over northern Israel, in the southern Golan Heights.
The army’s initial investigation has yet to determine what happened to the second interceptor ‐ if it successfully intercepted one of the Syrian missiles, if it landed intact inside Syria, or if it successfully self-destructed over Syria.
There were concerns in the military that if the David’s Sling interceptor missile landed intact in Syria, it could be taken by the Syrian military and used to gather intelligence about the air defense system’s capabilities. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... this was not seen as a likely scenario.
The military’s air defense systems that detect and track incoming missiles and rockets are less accurate immediately after a projectile is launched, as they have less information on its trajectory. As the missile or rocket flies, the systems can better predict where it is likely to land.
As a "better safe than sorry" measure, the military occasionally launches interceptor missiles even when the exact target of the incoming projectile is unclear. This appears to have been the case on Monday morning.
The Soviet-era SS-21 ballistic missile, also known as the Tochka, which was launched in Syria on Monday, has an operational range of approximately 100 kilometers and can carry approximately 500 kilograms of explosives. It has long been in the arsenal of the Syrian Armed Forces and has seen extensive use throughout the country’s civil war.
Monday’s incident, which ultimately turned out to have been a false alarm, was the first known operational use of the David’s Sling system, which was declared operational last year.
The Syrian surface-to-surface missiles triggered sirens throughout northern Israel on Monday morning, sending thousands of Israelis into bomb shelters.
The sirens were first heard in the northern city of Safed and in the Galilee region at 10:05 a.m., according to the Israel Defense Forces. Three minutes later, additional alarms sounded in communities on the Golan Heights, including the city of Katzrin. Sirens blared again throughout the Galilee and Golan regions at approximately 10:20 a.m., the military said.
"The alarms that were heard in northern Israel were the result of launches that were carried out as part of the internal fighting in Syria," the army said.
The David’s Sling makes up the middle tier of Israel’s multi-layered anti-missile defense network.
The lowest tier is the Iron Dome system, capable of intercepting short-range rockets, small unmanned aerial vehicles and mortar shells like those that have been fired at Israel from the Gazoo Strip or from southern Leb. At the top are the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems, which are intended to engage long-range ballistic missiles.
David’s Sling is aimed at filling the gap between these systems, against missiles like the Iranian Fateh 110 and its Syrian equivalent, the M600, both of which have seen extensive use in the Syrian civil war and are known to be in the Hezbollah terrorist group’s arsenal.
These are key PLA officers responsible for preparing for use of force against Taiwan (and, by extension, the US). From 2011-2015, MG Yin Hongwen (尹洪文) led Base 311, a political warfare command HQ'd in Fuzhou. He Ping and Yang Hui previously served in senior intel positions. pic.twitter.com/hu7clC7UFx
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Curious that we've seen muslim terror events against the US in many parts of the world but not really any secondary effect attacks on satellite states.
Why has Taiwan(Formosa) not been victimized by Chinese Muslims(Hui or Uyghur) as a statement against the US?
[DAWN] The District Bar Association of Rawalpindi on Monday distanced itself from Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui's speech in which he accused a security agency of meddling in judicial affairs.
Separately, the Office of the Chief Justice of Pakistain sought answers from the IHC chief justice on the allegations raised by Justice Siddiqui, and directed him to collect all evidence available for review.
While addressing the Rawalpindi bar on Saturday, the IHC judge had claimed that personnel of the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) were manipulating judicial proceedings.
Amidst chants of "shame!" from members of the bar and other attendees, he had claimed that the spy agency had approached IHC Chief Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi and said: "'We do not want to let Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... and his daughter come out [of the prison] until elections; do not include Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on the bench [hearing the Sharifs' appeals]'."
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[DAWN] President Donald Trump on Sunday warned Iran of consequences “the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered,” if it threatens the United States (US).
“NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,” he said on Twitter, writing the entire message in capital letters.
“WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!” Trump said, in a direct message to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
The response came after Rouhani earlier Sunday issued his own warning to the US leader not to “play with the lion's tail,” saying that conflict with Iran would be the “mother of all wars”.
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It will be interesting to see what happens the next time an Iranian ship screws with the US Navy.
[DAWN] A retired soldier allegedly shot and killed six people and injured six others ’out of frustration’ before taking his own life in Talagang tehsil of Chakwal district, Dawn reported.
The incident happened in the Darot village of Talagang tehsil on Monday evening when 50-year-old Mohammad Saeed opened indiscriminate fire on people near his house.
District Police Officer Adil Memon told Dawn that Saeed was a retired soldier who had married four times. He had divorced his first three wives and was in the midst of a civil litigation with a former wife who filed a maintenance suit in Attock after getting divorced. Memon said Saeed was depressed because of the ongoing litigation.
"Saeed did not have any animosity with anyone and carried out the shooting out of frustration," the police official said.
According to police and eyewitnesses, Saeed opened indiscriminate fire at people sitting in front of shops and a hotel at a local market near his home. Resultantly, six people went titzup while another six were maimed. Saeed then shot himself.
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Because killing others when your life doesn't play out the way you wanted it to do is such a MATURE ADULT response.
[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Monday booked a presiding officer over charges of impersonation, forgery and cheating on the orders of a judge of City Courts, said City Zone SSP Dr Samiullah Soomro.
Police have invoked Sections 419, 420, 468, 471 and 34 of the Pakistain Penal Code against DMC West Zone official Waheedullah, who was appointed as the presiding officer of PS-93 and PS-95 in Korangi district.
Sharing details of the case, SSP Soomro said that Waheedullah did not appear for his election training and instead sent someone else in his place.
Another polling officer present there brought the matter to the judge’s notice, upon which the judge called Waheedullah and informed police about the matter.
Subsequently, police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Waheedullah over charges of impersonation, forgery and cheating.
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[DAWN] Ten suspected Al Qaeda jihadists and two soldiers fighting for Yemen’s government have been killed in festivities and a dronezap, local officials and security sources said on Sunday.
The US military is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen.
Officials in Marab loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognised government said a drone on Sunday targeted a house used by Al Qaeda in the central province, killing four jihadists. Separately, six Al Qaeda members and two pro-government soldiers were killed in festivities on Friday following an attack on a jihadist site in southern Shabwa province, security sources said.
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[DAWN] A gunman opened fire in central Toronto on Sunday night, killing one and injuring 13 people including a child before being rubbed out, police reported.
Toronto Police said they had responded to a call at around 10:00 pm (0200 GMT Monday) in the city's Greektown district.
"One female adult has died. One maiden of tender yearsat death's door," Toronto police said on Twitter, adding that all 14 victims were shot with a handgun.
Global News quoted a Toronto police source as saying the suspect is believed to have shot up police before killing himself.
Toronto police front man Mark Pugash said it was too early to say whether the shooting was terrorism.
Toronto Councillor Paula Fletcher told CP24 she heard that the gunman was emotionally disturbed.
"It's not gang related. It looks like someone who is very disturbed," Fletcher said.
Councillor Mary Fragedakis also said she heard the gunman was disturbed.
The shooter was caught on camera prior to opening fire.
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fine Canadian name
Could somebody maybe explain
Why we rubberstamp FISA for Jane
As we needle John Doe --
Please, I'm needin' to know! --
Not "Canadian neighbor" Hussain?
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they can attempt to dilute the advantages that nuclear weapons confer—advantages which would otherwise accrue to a set of states that did not wish them well
[DAWN] A mob lynched a woman in India after rumours circulated on WhatsApp about child kidnappers, police said on Monday, days after the messaging firm said it was curbing the forwarding of messages.
More than 20 people have been killed in similar incidents in the past two months, leaving both the Indian authorities and Facebook-owned WhatsApp scrambling to find a solution in its biggest market.
Police said nine people have been tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and more are being sought after they found the middle-aged woman's mutilated body near a forest area in the Singrauli district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
The accused men told police they caught hold of the woman late Saturday after finding her moving suspiciously and seeing a flurry of WhatsApp messages about gangs of child kidnappers in the area, local police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP.
"We are trying to identify the victim and have circulated her picture to all the cop shoppes," Singrauli police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP.
Last Thursday the Indian government threatened WhatsApp with legal action, saying the "medium" for spreading malicious rumours "cannot evade responsibility and accountability".
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[DAWN] Additional district coordinator for the national programme, Shama Gulani and four other government employees, Khalid Zahoor Baig, Arbab Zadi, Kalsoom and Jamna, were arrested after they were booked on the allegations of marking postal ballot in favour of a Pakistan Peoples Party candidate on Sunday.
The FIR was registered at the Shahdadpur police station on the complaint of the mukhtiarkar concerned.
The Sanghar deputy commissioner had held an inquiry on Tuesday into the allegations made by an independent candidate Hussain Bux Khaskheli, who had claimed that the suspects had marked the postal ballot papers of government employees at Shahdadpur Institute of medical sciences. He submitted certain evidence to substantiate his claim.
Meanwhile, in the wake of the alleged misappropriation and destruction of postal ballot papers in Khipro, the district returning officer concerned on Sunday suspended two court employees.
Ghulam Murtaza Channa, the reader at the court of the additional sessions judge of Khipro, and Muneer Tehlani, a clerk at the same court, were suspended over alleged misappropriation of the postal ballot papers pertaining to NA-216 Sanghar-II.
While an inquiry into the matter was underway, the returning officer concerned has claimed that he had issued 930 ballot papers, and not close to 1,200 as was alleged. He said he possessed complete record of the ballot papers he had issued so far.
Similar complaints were received from the Jam Nawaz Ali area and an inquiry was reported to have been ordered.
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[theconservativetreehouse] Connecting the Wolfe indictment to the recently released Carter Page FISA application it becomes obvious in March 2017 Senate Staffer James Wolfe sent reporter Ali Watkins a copy of the 82-page FISA Title-1 origination application. Here’s how we know:
On/around March 16th, 2017, the Senate Intelligence Committee requested a copy of the FISA application used against Carter Page. How do we know this? Because a part of the indictment against James Wolfe tells us what took place.
Page #5 of the Wolfe indictment (unsealed in June 2018) describes Reporter #2 Ali Watkins.
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Wolfe did the same thing that Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and others have done; leaked and lied about it. Wolfe got some loving with a lefty journalist honeytrap in the process.
[ALMASDARNEWS] During the Syrian conflict, the activists of the White Helmets non-governmental organization have been involved in "the most odious provocations" and their evacuation from the Middle Eastern country has revealed their true nature and hypocrisy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
"It is well known that the White Helmets has been involved in the most odious provocations during the Syrian conflict. It was carrying out activities only on the territories controlled by Islamic radicals. It was preparing blatant fakes, which were then used as a pretext for making accusations against the Syrian authorities," the ministry said in a commentary.
"It is symbolic that the White Helmets activists have opted to flee Syria with foreign support thus revealing their true nature and exposing their hypocrisy to the whole world," it added.
The foreign ministry also stressed that the United States had done nothing to separate Syria’s so-called moderate opposition forces from terrorist groups. "Presently, Syrian forces with support of Russia are restoring law and order in southwestern Syria creating conditions for restoring a peaceful life," the ministry added.
On Sunday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced that the Israeli authorities had evacuated the White Helmets activists along with their families from Syria to a "neighboring country" at the request of Canada, European countries and the United States. According to local media, about 800 NGO members have been transported through Israel to Jordan.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has condemned the evacuation of the White Helmets’ personnel from the country, slamming it as a "criminal operation" conducted by Israel, whereas Washington has welcomed the transfer of the NGO’s members, calling them "brave volunteers, who have saved thousands of lives."
The White Helmets, also called the Syrian Civil Defense, declares the rescue of civilians in war zones as its fundamental aim. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the non-governmental organization has been repeatedly accused of establishing links to jihadists as well as disseminating Western-sponsored propaganda.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Four rebel fighters, including a top field commander, were instantly killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom on Mastouma-Ariha highway, south Idlib countryside.
The slain gunnies belong to Syrian Liberation Front; a merger of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement.
According to source, the assassinated commander (Picture below) was the chief of security office for the SLF in Ariha.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A group of Kurdish fighters in Afrin ambushed a rebel commander fighting for the Ottoman Turkish-backed military campaign in northern Syria.
Muhammad Ali, aka Abu Dujana, was killed when YPG fighters shot up his vehicle somewhere on the road linking Midan Akbos and Qara Baba towns in Rajo district of Afrin region.
The assailants filmed the slain commander before seizing his weapons and eventually retreating from the area.
This took place on July 22 under the wider Operation Olive Wrath aiming at liquidating senior FSA commanders .
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has backed FSA-linked groups taking over Afrin region on March 2018 after ousting YPG fighters.
Ever since, the Kurdish hard boyz have taken refuge in the nearby mountains, taking advantage of the myriad caves and tunnels to carry out hit-and-run attacks against rival rebel groups.
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[DAWN] Shangla police on Monday arrested three suspects, including an official of Pakistan Post, over charges of stealing postal ballots, DawnNewsTV reported.
Police recovered the ballots from a vehicle and arrested the local PML-N leader and his relative who were allegedly trying to steal the postal ballots from the post office in Alpuri, said SHO Sadiq Khan.
“Case has been registered against the accused under Section 169 and 170 of the Election Act, 2017,” the police official said.
A sack containing postal ballots was recovered from the possession of PML-N leader Muhammad Afzal and his cousin Bakht Sher, police said. Moreover, police also arrested Pakistan Post official Bashirullah who was a resident of the area.
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[DAWN] More than 50 people, including the son of PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi and a former MPA, were booked by Civil Lines police for rioting and property damage in the district courts after the Control of Narcotics Substance (CNS) court sentenced Abbasi to life in prison in the ephedrine case.
The case was registered with the police on the application of CNS court official Chaudhry Mohammad Qadeer. No arrests have been made in the case so far.
The case has been registered against Abbasi’s son Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", Abbasi, former PML-N MPA Ziaullah Shah, Suhail Ahmed, Shaukat Abbasi, Faizan Shah, Asif Shah, Abid Abbasi, Nawaz, Sajid and between 40 and 50 unknown individuals.
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h/t Instapundit
Canadian authorities identified the gunman who killed two people and injured 13 others in a lively Toronto neighborhood Sunday night as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain, whose family claimed had suffered from "severe mental health challenges."
The Special Investigations Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police said a member of Hussain's immediate family and a "family representative" confirmed the gunman's identity.
Moments after Hussain's identity was released, his family issued a statement to multiple media outlets saying he had been "struggling with psychosis and depression his entire life." Had it ready in advance, eh?
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There's a way to end these 'severe mental health challenges' to make sure he never harms other people again, but this is Canada we're talking about.
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My thoughts, too, Gorb. Assuming he was actually a nutter and the family isn't just laying down smoke, who wound this guy up and pointed him at a soft target?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hundreds of rebel fighters who had earlier reconciled in Daraa, joined the Syrian Army ranks in its final assault 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 west Daraa countryside.
The move has significantly enraged other faceless myrmidons who rejected reconciliation and were later evacuated to the country’s north; accusing their former ’brothers of arms ’ of betraying the cause of the ’revolution’.
The majority of former rebel bastions across the southern province has fallen to the Syrian Army by means of reconciliation deals, by which faceless myrmidons hand over their weapons and embed with the government troops in exchange of having their legal status settled.
The battles have now shifted to the far western countryside of Daraa where the Islamic State control a swath of land near the borders with the Occupied Golan Heights.
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What?! I thought there was an article just a couple of days back about how the rebels were handing over Syrian cities.
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1) You should see some of his draft pictures back in 2000 - 2001; amazed he was drafted at all.
2) The same yahoos that are 'shaming' Tom will be rubbing his balls by October when they go 4-0.
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TW_ will you send an email to my wife stating that?
Dear Mrs. Mercutio,
Your husband is always a perfect gentleman when he visits Rantburg. Were he ever to have acted otherwise, I was long ago given a lovely cluebat (decorated with the most charming periwinkle ribbons to match my highlight colour) with which to drive out those who misbehave. I should be delighted if you would join me for tea one day, and see for yourself.
And she is not afraid to use it when she feels it is necessary. She also has a periwinkle flamethrower, too, which she uses quite expertly. If your husband has never shown up at home black and blue and/or missing his eyebrows, please take that as a good sign.
[DAWN] Zim-bob-we’s former leader Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... has been forced out but he’s hardly faded away. Ahead of this month’s historic election, dozens of people in T-shirts with his image danced to anti-government songs while vowing Dire Revenge.
The 94-year-old Mugabe, who led this southern African nation through 37 turbulent years before his dramatic, military-backed resignation in November, has emerged as a player ahead of the July 30 vote on the side of the opposition.
A visit by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named to the largely rural province of Masvingo found that anger over Mugabe’s removal has been channelled into supporting candidates who challenge the ruling ZANU-PF party that he long controlled.
"They removed Comrade Mugabe using military force. We should show them that the ballot box is supreme to the gun," thundered Phionah Riekert, a 31-year-old loyalist of Mugabe and his wife, Grace. Youths and elderly women punctuated her campaign speech with song, dance and the beating of drums.
Riekert seeks a parliamentary seat as a candidate with the National Patriotic Front, which was formed with Mugabe’s backing in March by members of a youthful faction loyal to him called the G-40. They had been purged from the government and ruling party by new President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s military-backed administration.
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That's stupid
Is there a reason you should live, Mugabe? I ask you?
[IsraelTimes] Army says soldiers were attacked with IEDs, Molotov cocktails and stones during raid in Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem; incident under investigation
A Paleostinian teen was killed during festivities with Israeli forces in a West Bank refugee camp outside of Bethlehem early Monday morning, according to Paleostinian reports.
The military said riots broke out while troops were conducting an arrest raid in the the Deheishe refugee camp, with residents "throwing improvised bombs, Molotov cocktails and stones" at the soldiers.
An army spokesperson said the troops responded with live fire and other riot control methods, including 0.22-caliber Ruger rounds, which are meant to be less lethal at close range.
The teenager was identified by the official Paleostinian news service Wafa as Thaer Mazhar, 15, from Deheishe.
According to An Nahar, the Palestinian health ministry named him as Arkan Mizher, 15. Very probably both those names are true, and more, besides.
It said two others were maimed during the fighting.
Two Paleostinian suspects were locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in the raids in Deheishe. The Israel Defense Forces said a lathe used to make guns was also found in the camp.
A video posted online showed the teen lying on the ground and being carried away.
According to Wafa, the Paleostinian teenager was shot in the chest and taken to the hospital in nearby Beit Jala, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! The military said it was aware of the reports that a Paleostinian was killed.
"An investigation has been opened," the army spokesperson said.
Six other Paleostinian suspects were arrested in raids across the West Bank in the predawn hours of Monday morning, according to the IDF.
The suspects were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
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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Jerusalem (CNN) The Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet that entered Israeli airspace on Tuesday afternoon, raising fears of further military escalation in the region.
[NYP] A federal judge in Virginia agreed Monday to grant immunity to five potential witnesses in Paul Manafort’s upcoming trial ‐ but, in a blow to special counsel Robert Mueller, said their identities would be made public.
[Feral Jundi] Over 100 combat missions, 24 years as a Green Beret‐Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Danish prosecutors on Tuesday charged an imam with calling for the killing of Jews in the first case of its kind in the Nordic nation and which sparked political outrage.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
North Korea appears to have begun dismantling part of a key rocket launch site in the country's north-west.
As China’s wealth has grown, so has its sophistication at currying favor in Washington and among the American elite.
[Independent] John Bolton has bolstered Donald Trump’s threat to Iran, saying the president would inflict a price "few countries have ever paid", if Tehran does anything negative.
[IsraelTimes] Jihadist group announces death of Abu Jaafar al-Maqdesi, doesn't disclose circumstances of his death
Loansharks asking for incriminating photos or videos of students and threaten to make them public if money is not repaid.
[IsraelTimes] Fate of one David's Sling interceptor rocket unclear, second self-destructs over Golan, army finds, after false alarm sparked by fighting in Syria
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
[DAWN] President Donald Trump on Sunday warned Iran of consequences “the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered,” if it threatens the United States (US).
[ALMASDARNEWS] Four rebel fighters, including a top field commander, were instantly killed when their vehicle was hit by a 
