The House Select Committee on Benghazi released Wednesday the March 4 subpoena for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, refuting her claim in a national TV interview that she was never subpoenaed.
The subpoena was issued directly to Mrs. Clinton after lawmakers became aware that she exclusively used personal email and an email server kept in her home for official business as America's top diplomat, which removed her correspondence form the custody of the State Department and shielded it form being accessed by congressional investigators or public requests under the Freedom of Information Act, according to the committee.
"The committee has issued several subpoenas, but I have not sought to make them public," said Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the committee. "I would not make this one public now, but after Secretary Clinton falsely claimed the committee did not subpoena her, I have no choice in order to correct the inaccuracy."
In an interview Tuesday with CNN, Mrs. Clinton insisted that she had not been subpoenaed for the email when she deleted more than 30,000 email she deemed personal and then wiped clean the server to prevent the email from being restored.
Mrs. Clinton turned over to the State Department about 55,000 pages of emails that she hand-picked to be reviewed and potentially released by agency.
"I've never had a subpoena," Mrs. Clinton said in the interview, which was her first national TV interview since entering the presidential race three months ago.
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At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between Arabs and Berbers in Algeria's desert town of Ghrdaia, with several businesses burned down, medical sources and state media said on Wednesday.
The violence broke out over the weekend, with security forces sending reinforcements in a bid to calm down the renewed clashes that first took place in late 2013. Clashes intensified on Monday and Tuesday night.
[AlAhram] Syria's parliament on Tuesday approved a deal with Iran under which Tehran will provide the government a new line of credit worth $1 billion, state media said.
The credit line will be the third that Tehran has extended to Damascus since the conflict in Syria erupted with anti-government protests in March 2011.
"The People's Council today approved a deal on a line of credit of $1 billion," which was signed on May 19 in Damascus by Syria's Commercial Bank and the Export Development Bank of Iran, the official SANA news agency said.
It said the credit would be used for "importing merchandise and carrying out projects," without giving further details.
Iran is the key regional ally of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's government, and has provided him with military and financial support through Syria's conflict.
In 2013, Tehran extended Damascus two lines of credit worth a total of $4.6 billion, with much of that devoted to the purchase of oil.
After more than four years of conflict that has left some 230,000 people dead, Syria's government has become increasingly dependent on credit and other aid from allies like Iran.
"It is one of the rare sources of currency that remains for the Syrian government," said Jihad Yazigi, director of the economic news website The Syria Report.
However, judging by the images, at least one looks like a Stinger. Possible sources: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, "black market" (Rotterdam, Peshawar, etc.) More likely from Egyptian military stock. Remote conjecture: Weapons given to Libyan rebels.
[Ynet] Southern Command's intelligence officer tells Ynet that isolation has led Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to cooperate with its rival as it lays the groundwork for its next campaign against Israel -- and that this was the motive for last week's assault on Egyptian troops.
A year after Operation Protective Edge, an IDF Southern Command's intelligence officer says the isolation of Hamas has led it to forge an alliance with its rivals -- such as an agreement between the rulers of Hamas and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's affiliate in the Sinai to create a smuggling route for rocket-building materials.
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BLUF: [PJ Media] "These new documents show that the Obama IRS scandal is also an Obama DOJ and FBI scandal," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "The FBI and Justice Department worked with Lois Lerner and the IRS to concoct some reason to put President Obama's opponents in jail before his reelection. And this abuse resulted in the FBI's illegally obtaining confidential taxpayer information. How can the Justice Department and FBI investigate the very scandal in which they are implicated?" Appears Lerner was indeed a 'Focal Point.' An amazing capability used to shape events and outcomes. A capability likely not limited to elections or the agencies as listed.
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You have to give the progressives credit for one thing; they stick together. No one folded yet or turned states evidence. Not sure who they could turn to if they wanted tell the truth; mainstream media and congress are part of the gang.
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Of course they did, the only real surprise is that they put something like that down on paper. I assumed it was simply informal discussions over a few glasses of wine by a few middle management types in each organization.
So now we'll probably find it was directed form above but there will be no proof connecting it to the White House. And if such proof appears it will be claimed as fabricated and racist.
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Last paragraph of the Gettyburg address states: It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people has been made a sham. Instead, the power of the government is used to prosecute the people? This will eventually result in the destruction of the Republic.
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Put Nixon/Democrats for Obama/Conservatives, and you'd have the press with charging the gates, calling for impeachment.
That's the problem - it isnt and so the mass of people are not informed, or worse they are informed completely opposite fo what is happening.
A democracy depends on a well informed populace, and this one is being actively and deliberately maliciously misinformed. Politicians are weasels and expected to go crooked. In the design of this republic, the press is not supposed to be an organ of the state of of a specific party or movement. Yet is has become just such a thing, even more surely than Pravda and Isvestia ever were, because the US press has voluntarily put on the yoke and the blinders.
When the republic falls, I hope the press are the first ones hung from trees, by their own entrails preferably - publishers and editors first.
[AP] SAN FRANCISCO - The gun used in the seemingly random slaying of a woman on a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity, said a police check of the weapon's serial number shows it belonged to a federal agent. The official declined to elaborate further.
The San Francisco Police Department, which is investigating the case, declined to comment.
The revelation was the latest dramatic twist in a tragic case that has become a new flashpoint in the country's debate over immigration policies.
The suspected gunman, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, has been deported to his native Mexico five times and is suspected of living in the United States illegally when Kathryn Steinle, 32, was gunned down last week while on an evening stroll with her father along San Francisco's popular waterfront area.
Federal officials transferred Sanchez to San Francisco's jail in March to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge after Sanchez completed his latest prison term for illegally entering the country.
The San Francisco sheriff, citing the city's "sanctuary city" policy, released Sanchez in April after prosecutors dropped the drug charge, despite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request to hold him for federal authorities so deportation proceedings could begin.
Sanchez pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder. A very interesting twist, which might explain the notable absence of regime anti-gun rhetoric that usually accompanies such shootings. Sanchez currently in good health is he ?
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Always vigilant JohnQC,
this has quite a few narrative no nos.
illegal not-white name hispanic mexican held and released from custody dreamer acquires federal agent's firearm and shoots daddy's girl in the back three times in sanctuary city gun free San Francisco.
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I wouldn't jam that tin-foil hat on too tightly.
It's a Progressive-run city. With Progressive-initiated, touted, and enforced policies - like "immigration sanctuaries." The shooter was released, thanks to those policies.
The shooting happened in a well-known and well-patronized tourist area. A significant percentage of the Progressive-run city's revenue is from tourism.
And now we have a murder weapon that "belonged to a Federal agent," in a Progressive-run city.
You need any other reasons for media and government silence?
[AnNahar] At least 25 people were killed when a kaboomdestroyed a packed government office in Zaria, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, in a suspected suicide kaboom likely to be blamed on 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 kaboom occurred at about 9:00 am (0800 GMT), as primary school teachers and public sector workers were queuing for identity checks, according to witnesses.
"I am sad to confirm that an IED (improvised bomb) most likely carried by a jacket wallahwent kaboom! in the Sabon Gari LG (local government district) and killed 25 people, including a two-year-old," Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai said. El-Rufai added in the statement posted on his Facebook account that 32 others were maimed and were being treated in hospital.
Zaria, a mainly Moslem city some 75 kilometers (47 miles) north of the state capital Kaduna city, is near the border with Katsina and Kano states.
On Monday night, a young girl believed to be aged just 13 was killed when explosives strapped to her body detonated near a major mosque in Kano city. That bombing followed a twin attack on a mosque and restaurant in the central city of Jos on Sunday, which left 44 people dead, and a suicide kaboom on a church in Potiskum that killed five.
Boko Haram has increased the intensity and frequency of its attacks on civilians since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power on May 29 vowing to crush the rebels.
Local government worker the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said public sector staff and primary school teachers were undergoing screening to identify potential ghost workers on the state payroll.
Another staff member who was waiting outside, Mohammed Abubakar, said: "We were taking turns going into the hall in batches for the screening and also to get our pay cheques.
"The first batch had gone in. There were almost 100 people there, including the staff, the screening committee and accountants from the banks.
"There was a huge kaboom inside the hall followed by billows of smoke and dust. Now the area has been cordoned off by coppers.
"I can't give you an exact toll but I believe that dozens must have died given the number of people inside and the sound of the kaboom."
Zaria has not been known as a stronghold of Boko Haram, which has been fighting for six years to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , but it has been attacked before.
[AnNahar] A female jacket wallah on Tuesday blew herself up near a military checkpoint in restive Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, killing four people, witnesses said.
"The woman ... alighted near a military check point in Sabon Gari where she blew herself up and killed four other people," witness Maikaho Abdu told AFP.
He said the attack happened at Sabon Gari village, along Gombe road, some 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Maiduguri, the state capital.
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[AlAhram] Up to 434 NGOs have been closed by court order so far, according to the Ahram Arabic news website
Social Solidarity Minister Ghada Waly dissolved 14 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on Tuesday in Minya, Beni Suef and Damietta for being associated with the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund group, the Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Twenty-one other NGOs in Qena, Fayoum and Daqahliya will have a new board of directors, so that they do not stop offering their social services.
The decision follows a 2013 court decision to ban the Brotherhood's activities and to seize the assets of Brotherhood-linked organizations, the minister said. On 23 September 2013, the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ordered a ban on Moslem Brüderbund activities, as well as the interim government's seizure of the group's assets and funds, with a panel to manage the frozen assets.
In November of the same year, Egypt outlawed the Moslem Brüderbund, labeling it a terrorist organization.
Waly said that the NGOs were dissolved after consulting the Union of Non-Governmental Organisations and Institutions. The decisions have not been applied yet, as an inventory is still being prepared of the concerned NGOs' assets.
This is the fifth time that NGOs have been dissolved for the same reasons this year, after 169 organizations were dissolved for the first time in February. Up to 434 NGOs have been closed by court order so far, according to Ahram Arabic.
In 2014, the government seized the assets of hundreds of charity groups and educational facilities suspected of association with the Brotherhood.
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Possibly this will turn out to be War on Terror related, but at this point there is no information about the miscreants, who may merely be safecrackers.
[AnNahar] At least 150 detonators and a stock of plastic explosives have been stolen from a military base in La Belle France, triggering immediate probes into a theft that has authorities on high alert.
Thieves broke into the vast army logistics base in Miramas near Marseille in southern La Belle France on Sunday night after cutting through a wire fence.
The facility, which houses some 200 soldiers, is used to stockpile weapons for foreign missions, such as those in Africa.
In a statement, the defense ministry said it had launched an internal probe into "the protection of all military sites stocking munitions" following the theft.
Another probe has been launched to determine whether anyone was responsible for security breaches, it added.
According to Europe 1 radio, around 40 grenades have also been stolen.
It said the base occupied an area measuring some 250 hectares and was surrounded by two rows of wire fencing, but had no security cameras.
La Belle France has been on high alert since a jihadist killing spree six months ago in Gay Paree that left 17 people dead, including 12 people bumped off in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... The country is high on the hit list of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
In the most recent attack, a 35-year-old found to have links to an IS fighter in Syria beheaded his boss at a gas factory in the southeastern city of Lyon and tried to blow up the premises.
It was as yet unclear what was behind the theft in Miramas, but this is not the first time that a large quantity of explosives has been stolen in La Belle France.
In July 2008, thieves took 28 kilos of explosives from a bomb disposal unit just outside Lyon.
Then interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie had blamed "faults in the site's security."
[AnNahar] La Belle France said on Tuesday its special forces in Mali killed an Al-Qaeda commander who had been released from prison in a swap for a French hostage.
The army said Ali Ag Wadossene, one of the "operational leaders" of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), died on Sunday in the northeastern town of Kidal, while two other "terrorists" were captured.
The operation "has dealt another heavy blow to armed terrorist groups in the Sahel", the army said, adding that it had destabilized AQIM's chain of command in that part of the lawless, arid region.
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that GPS chip implanted in the base of his brain worked well. Let's hope the rest don't dig theirs out with rusty knives!
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[AlAhram] Two deadly boom-mobiles hit the capital and a southern city in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Tuesday, state news agency Saba reported, a day after air strike and festivities killed almost 200 people nationwide.
One of the explosives-laden cars detonated near a hospital in downtown Sanaa, which the news agency controlled by Yemen's dominant Houthi
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Crime Investigation Agency claimed on Tuesday to have jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! two suspects allegedly linked with banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), involved in kidnap for ransom and recovered illegal weapons, along with Rs3 million in cash, from them.
According to a news release, a CIA team led by SP Umar Virk carried out raids on the information provided by intelligence agencies and nabbed the two suspects -- Mukarram and Moazzim -- of Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... while they were heading to the tribal area.
The suspects were brothers and had links with the TTP's Matiur Rehman group based in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the CIA police said. The group was allegedly also involved in an attack on Gen Musharraf.
The suspects during interrogation confessed to have committed several kidnappings for ransom. The suspects, after kidnapping their victims from different areas of the country, would shift them to their hideout in Miranshah.
They kidnapped Suhaib of Brandreth Road and Hameed of Liberty Market and took them to Miranshah and released them after receiving Rs110 million ransom.
The suspects also confessed to kidnapping Shahzaib from Rawalpindi, and Muhammad Tahir and Haseeb from Islamabad and later releasing them after receiving Rs450 million collectively. They also kidnapped Muhammad Asif of Dera Ismail Khan and received Rs60 million from him. They had been funding the bully boy group with the proceeds of crime.
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[Libya Herald] Nuri Abu Sahmain, the head of the continuing General National Congress, has approved plans to reorganise the Libyan army into 11 brigades located across the country. According to the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... offices of the Libyan news agency LANA, a resolution approving the reorganization was adopted by the GNC. It was then signed at a ceremony attended by Tripoli "prime minister" Khalifa Ghwell in his role as its defence minister.
As president of the GNC, Abu Sahmain is regarded by Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... and its supporters as supreme commander of the Libyan armed forces. At the session, he was quoted saying that the move would create a more effective army, allowing for it to be better trained and organised, and that its ranks would be open to the regular army and the revolutionaries.
The decision is, however, seen as largely meaningly gesture in the current fractured state of Libyan politics, given that the forces under Abu Sahmain's authority are only in the west and south, that it is a nominal authority in the best of cases and that, with the local reconciliation movement spreading in both areas, it also appears a diminishing authority.
It also indicates, however, that Abu Sahmain, the GNC and the Ghwell "government" are turning their backs on the UN-brokered Diloague process and the recent drafts provided by UNSMIL. In none of them are Congress's decisions viewed as legitimate once a Government of National Accord is established.
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[RUDAW.NET] 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.... , or ISIS, has blown up on Monday an historic Christian church in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... known as the Mother of Aid.
Saeed Mamuzini, media officer of the Mosul branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party(PDK), told Rudaw the jihadists also killed four children who were near the church at the time of its destruction.
Mamuzin said the church was located in central of Mosul dates back to thousands of years.
Mosul fell in early June after the rapid capitulation by the Iraqi military, whose members reportedly abandoned their posts as the jihadists advanced.
After one year of controlling Mosul, the Islamic State has blown up many mosques and churches. In early March, it was reported that ISIS murderous Moslems used explosives to demolish the much-loved 19th century Hamo mosque, deeming it sacrilegious.
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[RUDAW.NET] Spanish police on Tuesday tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a woman suspected of recruiting pre-teen girls and teenagers of both sexes to send to areas controlled by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gang in Syria.
An Interior Ministry statement said the woman, a Spaniard, was arrested in the city of Arrecife on the Canary Island of Lanzarote.
The ministry said the woman maintained contact with Islamic State forces of Evil in Syria.
It added that the operation was being conducted by the National Court in Madrid.
Spain has arrested dozens of suspected jihadi forces of Evil and recruiters in recent years.
On Monday, police arrested two men in Madrid for alleged collaboration with Kurdish groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The two are suspected of having being trained to use arms and explosives and fight guerrilla warfare. The ministry said their actions affected Spain's national interests.
The ministry said it hoped to dissuade other leftist forces of Evil from enlisting and possibly falling into the hands of the Islamic State group, which could use them for propaganda.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A suspected ringleader of robbers' gang succumbed to his bullet injuries early yesterday after being shot during a shootout with police in Bashbaria area of Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong.
Besides, seven coppers of Sitakunda cop shoppewere maimed during the shootout.
The dear departed was identified as Nazim Uddin, 35, son of Ishak Chowdhury, a resident of Kottabazar of Uttar Bashbaria area of Siakunda upazila, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) Iftekhar Hasan of Sitakunda cop shoppe.
Police locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Nazim's associate Md Didar, 25, and recovered a pistol, a Light Gun (LG) and 10 rounds of bullets from the scene.
The seven injured coppers, Sub-Inspectors Mizanur Rahaman, Rafiqul Islam Jaman, Dulal Hossen, Nayek Mozzamel Hossen, Constables Yasin, Kamrul and Shahdat, received primary treatment from Sitakunda Upazila Health Complex, said the OC.
Acting on a tip off, a team of police raided the area around 9pm on Monday night, he said.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of police, the robbers opened fire on law enforcers prompting police to retaliate, triggering a shootout.
After the shootout, police arrested bullet-hit Nazim and his cohort Didar along with arms and ammunition from the spot and sent Nazim to Chittagong Medical College Hospital. He later died in the early hours of the day.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A jacket wallah from Syria's al Qaeda offshoot the Nusra Front went kaboom! in a Syrian army outpost in a contested neighborhood in the divided northern city of Aleppo and killed at least 25 soldiers and allied militia and injured scores, a monitor said.
The UK based Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the violence across the country, said the kaboom from the blast was heard across the city where several Islamist-led groups recently launched an offensive to control the remaining western parts of the city in government hands.
Rebel websites said there was heavy bombardment of rebel-held portions of Jamiyat al Zahra district, where rebels had gained ground and brought them closer to the heart of government controlled parts of the city, which was before the 2011 civil war the country's main industrial and commercial hub.
Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the monitor group, said the Syrian army had responded with heavy firepower including aerial bombardment in an attempt to stem the offensive.
The al Qaeda-linked murderous Moslems posted on social media images of fighters from the Nusra Front heading towards the district, which the Syrian army has repeatedly said in recent days had not fallen into Death Eater hands.
Syrian television said the Syrian army had foiled an attempt by Sunni bully boyz to detonate an explosive-laden truck heading towards Jamiyat al Zahra and that it exploded before reaching its target.
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Are these the good guys being trained by USDS or the bad guys being trained by CIA?
[DAWN] ONE thought that the saga of the 35 punctures was over after the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) failed to provide any evidence to prove its allegations before the judicial commission. But trust an obdurate Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... not to give up, even though he admitted in a TV interview that the allegation against Punjab's former caretaker chief minister Najam Sethi was a political ploy. It seems that he is stuck in a groove from which he finds it hard to extricate himself.
Imran Khan's fixation with the puncture theory, pertaining to electoral rigging, has now become an embarrassment for many of his own supporters. It is a pity to see party stalwarts clumsily trying to defend the accusation that they themselves do not really believe. Many of them privately admit the silliness of the fabricated account of election-fixing. Yet no one would dare defy the great leader, a sad commentary on the party that promises to change the political culture of this country. A show of reason is certainly not acceptable.
For sure, the PTI deserves credit for forcing the government to agree to probe the vote-rigging charges. But the party should now wait for the judicial commission ruling instead of mindlessly harping on a fictitious theory. It is a pity to see the party pursuing a one-point agenda, completely ignoring other important national issues the country's main opposition was expected to take up. Its rejectionist approach and politics of perpetual agitation seems to have lost the party much credibility causing disillusionment in its ranks.
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[DAWN] MULTAN: Two nephews of PML-N MNA Abdul Ghaffar Dogar allegedly ransacked the office of a sub-divisional officer (SDO) of the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) and manhandled its staff on Monday.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the family members of the MNA, who is in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for Umrah these days, denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! saying the SDO had misbehaved with the consumers as well the MNA's nephews.
Mumtazabad EXEN Ghulam Husain Gujjar told Dawn a consumer went to the office of SDO Salman Wains and asked him to talk to Abid Dogar, the nephew of Mr Dogar, while dialing his number. The call got disconnected and the consumer left the office; however, after sometime he returned and again asked the SDO to talk to Abid Dogar.
During the call, the EXEN alleged, Abid Dogar started abusing the SDO and issued him threats of violence. He said Abid Dogar and his brother Amir Dogar, along their 25 supporters, came to the office and ransacked it while forcing the SDO to take shelter in the bathroom.
The EXEN said an FIR had been lodged with Mumtazabad police against both the brothers.
Abdul Jabbar Dogar, a family member of the MNA, said people contacted them often for resolving their issues as the Mepco authorities were least interested in resolving their problems without a reference.
He said Abid Dogar called the SDO to resolve the issue of a consumer who had got an inflated electricity bill, however, instead of resolving the issue, the SDO misbehaved with Abid on phone. He said to avoid any tension Amir, instead of Abid, went to the office of the SDO where only an exchange of harsh words took place.
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He said Abid Dogar called the SDO to resolve the issue of a consumer who had got an inflated electricity bill, however, instead of resolving the issue, the SDO misbehaved with Abid on phone
/Abu Bart Simpson:
"Moe's Tavern. Can I speak to a Homer? Homer...Sexual.....?
Is your refigerator running?"
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Tens of displaced families from ancient city of Palmyra have arrived Gaziantep, Turkish border city, fleeing ISIS-captured city and to escape daily barrel bombs attacks by Syrian regime, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday.
People who managed to escape Palmyra reported that Syrian regime had handed the city to ISIS last month without fighting.
Other sources mentioned that regime had left huge storage of arms and ISIS seized them, while in other areas, regime used to transfer all arms in advance from any area it withdrew from, or destroy them in that was not possible.
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.... had completely seized Palmyra in Homs countryside, while the regime mentioned that it had withdrew from the city after securing safe escape to most civilians.
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[ChinaDaily] China has developed and commissioned a fixed-wing, anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which will significantly boost the Chinese navy's operational capability, experts said.
The four-engine Gaoxin-6, which was developed and manufactured by Aviation Industry Corp of China based on the Y-8 transport plane, has been delivered to the Beihai - or North Sea - Fleet of the People's Liberation Army navy, about three years after the type was first revealed in late 2011, according to a recent report in IHS Jane's Defense Weekly, a United Kingdom-based weapon technology publication.
The aircraft can easily be distinguished from other Y-8 variants by its large sea-search radar, mounted below the cockpit, and the magnetic anomaly detector boom that looks like a metal tail.
It is China's first large aircraft specifically designed for anti-submarine warfare, making the country the sixth nation that has the development capability for such a sophisticated plane. The others are the United States, Russia, Japan, the UK and France.
The most-deployed anti-submarine aircraft is the US' Lockheed P-3C Orion, which often appears in naval confrontations between the US and China. Almost all US allies have P-3Cs as the backbone of their anti-submarine forces.
Earlier reports by Chinese media said the Gaoxin-6, with a crew of up to 10, is capable of flying 6,000 kilometers or staying in the air for more than eight hours. More @ link.
[DAWN] A large number of city localities plunged into darkness on Tuesday night as a major fault occurred in the transmission and distribution system of power distributor K-Electric (KE).
According to KE officials, a conductor on the main 220KV transmission line failed, causing the extra high tension line to trip. This caused a ripple effect and units at Bin Qasim power plant tripped in turn, plunging most parts of the city in darkness.
Calling from different parts of 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... , people said they faced the first power cut at around 9.00pm.
The power breakdown also affected commercial activities of the city with business centres and markets turned dark, and people facing difficulties making their way out of densely populated shopping malls.
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220 KV for a populace of 18 Million is already barely marginal, and with the heat wave....
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China needs to develop a long-range strategic bomber to strike adversaries farther away from its coast in the event of conflict, state media reported Tuesday, quoting defense experts.
The meeting agreed that a long-range strategic bomber would enable the air force to attack farther out into the Pacific Ocean, the paper quoted Kanwa Defense Review as reporting, as far as the "second island chain."
A capacity to strike the second island chain would hinder foreign militaries from intervening in "an emergency or conflict," the China Daily said, citing the report.
In May, China's State Council, or cabinet, said in a white paper that the country would project its military power further beyond its sea borders and more assertively in the air.
The Chinese military defines a long-range strategic bomber as one that can carry more than 10 tonnes of air-to-ground munitions and with a minimum range of 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) without refueling, the China Daily said.
Chinese defense technology magazine Aerospace Knowledge said in a series of articles last month that China needs a long-range stealth bomber, China Daily said.
"A medium-range bomber can't essentially fix the PLA air force's shortcomings in terms of strategic strike and strategic deterrence," it cited one of the reports as saying. "Thus the air force does need an intercontinental strategic bomber capable of penetrating an enemy's air defenses."
But the China Daily quoted the publication's deputy editor-in-chief Wang Yanan as saying such an aircraft would require "a state-of-the-art structure and aerodynamic configuration as well as a high-performance turbofan engine."
"All of these are major problems facing the Chinese aviation industry," he added. "I don't think these difficulties can be resolved within a short period of time."
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To clarify, ARTIC = the PLA = PLAAF needs a new LR strategic bomber capable of reaching the SEcond Island Chain, i.e. GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC + CAROLINES [CENTPAC].
Sniff, sniff, IS THERE NO END TO THE THREAT TO GUAM'S CAMEL ROCK???
Personally, IMO the Chinese andor Islamic threat to GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC, etal. is lessor to the threat agz same from Anti-US US OWG Globalist + aligned, espec vee US-N-Only-US unilateral or self "Retreat/Fallback is OWG + World Peace", where the US-N-Only-The-US must give up "Sole" Superpower Authority-n-Influence, etc. to OWG Co-Superpower-hood while somehow simultan NOT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED = ATTACKED BY ANYONE.
Besides SSSSHHH ...PCCCCCC helping future Co-SUperpower Siblings CHINA, PUTINIST RUSSIA, + IRAN, OTHER? to MilPol/Geopol rise to the detriment of the US' = US-West/Allies' own interests , the fact that the ISIS had repeatedly threatened to attack + destroy America = Amerika has absolutely positively categorically undeniably .... .... nothing to do wid anything.
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At last check, CHINA is snubbing the UNCLOS Arbitration panel, whilst the PHILIPPINES on its part is claiming the integrity of the UN + UNCLOS is at stake iff the latter fails to invalidate China's claims to nearly all of the SCS.
OTOH, CHINA = is offering to sit down wid the Philippines to discuss the matter outside of the UNCLOS.
* WORLD NEWS > [Business Insider] PHILIPINES WILL SPEND US$20.0BILYUHN ON ITS MILITARY TO GAIN "COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA".
Artic read, AFP "COVERAGE/MONITORING", BUT NOT NECESSARILY TO STOP CHINA???
* CHINA DAILY FORUM [old = repost] RUSSIAN MISSLE CRUISER "MOSKVA" [Ex-KIROV Battlecruiser?] IN SOUTH CHINA SEA FOR LIVE-FIRE DRILL AHEAD OF PUTIN'S VISIT TO BEIJING.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian Kurdish fighters have recaptured more than 10 villages seized by ISIS north of its de facto capital of Raqqa, aided by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, the activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday.
Fighters from the ultra-hardline Islamist group were, however, still in control of the town of Ain Issa, 50 km (30 miles), north of Raqqa city, which the jihadis seized from the YPG militia in an attack Monday, the Observatory reported.
That attack on YPG-held areas followed an intensification of Arclight airstrikes on Raqqa city over the weekend, which U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday were aimed at disrupting the Death Eaters' ability to respond to YPG advances north of Raqqa.
The YPG, a militia operating mostly in predominantly Kurdish areas of northern Syria towards the Turkish border, has emerged as the only significant partner in Syria for U.S.-led alliance fighting to tackle ISIS both there and in Iraq.
The Observatory, a British-based activist group reporting on Syria's four-year-old civil war, said the coalition had played an "effective role" in helping YPG forces recover 11 villages northeast of Ain Issa.
The YPG, backed by small Syrian rebel groups, has made significant gains against ISIS in Raqqa province in recent weeks, seizing Tal Abyad at the Turkish border on June 15 before advancing south to Ain Issa.
The YPG captured Ain Issa on June 23.
While the YPG has shown itself to be a potent force in the fight against ISIS, its effectiveness is seen to diminish beyond the predominantly Kurdish areas it was set up to defend in northern and northeastern Syria.
The United States aims to train and equip Syrian rebel fighters it deems politically moderate in order to fight ISIS in Syria. But the Pentagon said on June 18 the effort was moving more slowly than expected.
U.S. President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... said Monday the United States would do more to train and equip "the moderate opposition."
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[RUDAW.NET] The media watchdog the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate (IJS) reported on Monday the execution by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , or ISIS, of a journalist in the occupied city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
According to the IJS, Islamic State fighters executed Suha Ahmed Radi in Mosul after days in bully boys' captivity. ISIS fighters reportedly raided her home located in the east of Mosul and detained her. After she was killed, her body was reportedly handed over to her relatives.
The jihadist group has been known to execute journalists in the areas of Iraq under ISIS control.
Radi worked as a news hound for a Mosul newspaper. It is unknown how long she was in ISIS captivity.
IJS said the sharia court of the Islamic State charged Radi with spying and she was sentenced to death in the Al-Daki neighborhood in the west of Mosul. There was no information about how she was executed.
According to the syndicate, 14 journalists have been executed in Mosul since ISIS took over the city in June 2014.
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The jihadist group has been known to execute journalists in the areas of Iraq under ISIS control.
[RUDAW.NET] A tribal leader in Anbar province said 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.... , or ISIS, is actively trying to lure local children into its ranks as jacket wallahs and has asked Baghdad to take action against the bad boy group.
"The Islamic State entered many areas of Anbar and started recruiting children from the local tribes of Anbar. They have camps in Raqqa and Hiit where they train them," Sheikh Khalid Awad al-Shabani told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"We ask the government to expedite the process of liberating the areas under ISIS control and destroy the camps that recruit children," he added.
The sheikh also stressed that the bad boys' radical interpretation of Sunni Islam was not welcomed in Sunni-majority Anbar province.
"We all know that bad boy ideology of ISIS is not related to Islam. They make up verses that do not exist in the Koran," he added,
According to the sheikh, ISIS brainwashes the newly recruited children in their camps in Rutbah and al-Qaem in Iraq and teaches them how to carry out suicide kabooms against military checkpoints and civilians.
"The government has the responsibility to direct the parents to prevent their children from joining ISIS. The government should use all its forces in order to prevent recruiting children," Shabani said
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The second-in-command of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliates in Afghanistan was killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Afghan Intelligence -- National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said Gul Zaman was ISIS group's No. 2, head of military operations who was killed in the raid in Achin district.
At least six others were also killed along with Gul Zaman in the Arclight airstrike which was apparently carried out on Monday, NDS added.
This comes as local officials sid Monday at least 49 murderous Moslems affiliated with ISIS terrorist group were killed in separate drone strikes in eastern Nangahar province.
The provincial government front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said the first Arclight airstrike was carried out around 12:00 pm local time, leaving at least 12 murderous Moslems dead.
He said at least 37 others who were apparently ISIS affiliates were killed in the second drone strike in the same area around 2:00 pm local time.
The Arclight airstrikes were carried out as the murderous Moslems had gathered for a meeting in Achin district, the local residents said, adding that several dead bodies were left in the area following the raids.
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FYI see TOPIX > [Daily Star] ISLAMIC STATE AFGHAN THREAT HIGH ON [Russia-held, SCO, BRICS] EURASIAN TALKS AGENDA.
and
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Russia Today] 2,200 JIHADISTS FROM RUSSIA FIGHT IN SYRIA, IRAQ - RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY.
Russian DepFM for Anti-Terrorism Oleg Syromolotov.
Russian Foreign Ministry to closely scrutinize Islamist MilTerr = Hard Boy "chatter" as per potential or imminent threat to Russia's Northern Caucasus + CENTASIA.
[FIRSTPOST] MOMBASA, Kenya Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... gunnies killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic turban group said had targeted Christians.
Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Thingy said. The raid, in the town of Mandera, mirrored one in the same county in December in which 36 quarry workers died.
Al-Shabaab has made a series of deadly incursions into Kenya, saying it will continue until Nairobi withdraws troops from an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force fighting the bully boyz in Somalia.
The group's military operations front man, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Rooters its gunnies killed more than 10 Kenyan Christians in Tuesday's raid. It has in the past singled out non-Moslems to be executed.
"The area ... is a plot where quarry workers live. They attacked at around 1 a.m. Most of those killed are workers from upcountry," Alex Nkoyo, commissioner for Mandera County, told Rooters by phone. He put the corpse count at 14, including a woman who had tried to plead with gunnies before being shot.
In a separate incident, al-Shabaab said it attacked a Kenyan military convoy between Mpeketoni and Lamu on the north coast, an area of previous attacks. It said it inflicted casualties.
The army could not immediately be reached for comment, while a police commander in the region said a convoy of five civilian buses with a security escort was attacked but no one was hurt.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] 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... Islamic movement on Tuesday has seized control of two checkpoint in Zabadani region, an advance came as Syrian regime army and its allied Hezbollah militia waging a major offensive on the border city with Leb started on Saturday.
In statement posted online, Ahrar al-Sham said it lauched a surprise attack on military bases situated on the enclaves of the embattled town of Zabadani which has been facing a fierce aerial and ground shelling for the fourth day.
The Islamist group said it had controlled al-Shallah and al-Qanater checkpoints, killing 10 army soldiers including two senior officers.
Also, Ahrar al-Sham said it had repelled an attack by Hezbollah near al-Zahra village, leaving 7 Hezbollah fighters killed, according ot the statement.
The regime army, backed by Hezbollah militia, has long sought to wrest control of Zabadani from the rebels who have held it since 2012, a year after the start of the Syrian revolution.
The offensive began on Saturday and was preceded by several days of aerial and artillery bombing of outposts held by a coalition of mainly Sunni Moslem jihadist fighters defending the city.
The Syrian army, aided by Hezbollah, last March captured the western mountains overlooking Zabadani but rebels who control the eastern hilltops have used rocket launchers to hit army and Hezbollah posts.
The latest offensive is part of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's effort to shore up his control over western Syria.
The capture of the city would secure a safe arms and troops corridor for Hezbollah, whose military role inside Syria has been growing steadily since the start of the conflict.
The area around the once popular resort city was part of a major supply route for weapons sent by Syria to Hezbollah before the 2011 outbreak of the Syrian conflict, which has killed more than 230,000 people.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Seven members of Ansarullah Bangla Team were involved in the murder of Avijit Roy, Sherlocks said, adding that two of them had been positively identified by the blogger's wife.
Two of the culprits directly carried out the attack on Avijit and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya, while the other five reportedly tracked the blogger's movement and helped the killers flee the scene. All the perpetrators have now been identified.
"We have not only identified the seven killers but also collected photos suspected to be of them," a bigwig of the Detective Branch of police told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
Requesting anonymity, the official added that they had sent the photos to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for verification, and Avijit's wife -- who was also injured in the attack -- has already identified two of the suspects as being at the scene of the murder.
On February 27, Avijit Roy was murdered near the TSC intersection while he was visiting the ongoing Ekushey Book Fair. His wife, Bonya, lost a finger in the attack.
The following day, Avijit's father Ajay Roy filed a case with Shahbag cop shoppe. Along with the DB police, the FBI also assisted in the investigation as Avijit was a US citizen.
"We have got all possible details of Avijit's killing and we are certain that all the killers belong to banned krazed killer outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team," said Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of DB police.
Monirul, however, said the location of the suspects are yet to be figured out. He also refused to disclose the identities of the killers as the investigation was still going on.
Another senior DB official, also wishing not to be named, told the Dhaka Tribune that the killers -- posing as fans -- collected information about the science writer from a friend of Bonya, before the blogger couple arrived in the country from the US on February 16.
"Actually, Bonya's friend had no idea about the killers' identities and she helped them unknowingly," the DB official added.
He added that detectives have also extracted some sensational information from nine bully boyz including three Ansarullah members who were tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... last month.
The seven killers were identified after verifying information provided by the arrestees, analysing phone call data, and going through video footage collected from 70 CCTV cameras installed at book fair premises, the official added.
Following Avijit's death, a Facebook page named Ansar Bangla Seven grabbed credit for the murder. Law enforcers have so far arrested only one youth named Shafiur Rahman Farabi on charges of instigating the murder of Avijit.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An ISIS-linked group on Sunday thwarted Nusra Front's assault on a town it controls south Syria, killing 24 Nusra fighters, source told Zaman al-Wasl.
Last few months, Shouhada al-Yarmouk Brigade that pledged allegiance to the ultra-hardline Islamist group has engaged in fierce fighting with al-Qaeda's Syria wing and other moderate rebels near the Occupied Golan Heights .
The recent fight between ISIS and Nusra took place east of Nafa'a town, source said where the Islamic Sate fighter were able to repel-Nusra fighters and inflicting painful defeat.
Shouhada al-Yarmouk seems a well equipped and trained as its fighters have been repelling many offensives on their stronghold lately.
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[Libya Herald] Staff at Benghazi Medical Centre are reported to have wept when the bodies of four brothers were brought to the hospital after a mortar attack in Bouhdima.
The Alorafee brothers, Salah, Tariq, Mansour and Hamza were among the eight people killed today in mortar assaults launched from parts of the city still controlled by the Benghazi. They were recognised as they were brought into the hospital's emergency room.
The other four who died were Waleed Ibrahim, Awad Ibrahim Alaclai and Khalid Mohammed Fakhri.
One of the mortar shells, which witnesses said appeared to be fired at random, landed right beside the city's children's hospital but there were no reports of casualties there.
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[DAWN] IN the wake of the Greek voters' fairly unequivocal verdict in Sunday's referendum, the decent way for Brussels to respond would be to cut Athens some slack and conclude a deal that leaves out some of the more toxic strictures on which the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) negotiators have thus far insisted.
Unfortunately, doing the decent thing does not come naturally to the eurocrats and politicians in charge. The initial reaction from Germany suggested it was pretty miffed with the Greek people for their stubborn refusal to endorse for an indefinite period the collective punishment that has been their lot for the past five years.
The July 5 referendum, called just eight days earlier, was something of a desperate gamble for the government led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. It was necessitated by a near-impossible situation after the troika -- the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF -- turned down a deal offered by Greece that was more or less tantamount to capitulation.
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Overlooked in this article is the Greek tendency to spend money and have other people pay the bills. This is nice work if you can get it.
The other thing overlooked is that the Greeks are spending more than they take in. All the Eurocrats have to do is NOTHING and the Greek economy will come to a screeching halt.
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Methinks the writer is overeducated on politics and shorted himself on economics.
[RUDAW.NET] In a speech at the Pentagon on Monday US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... said that progress has been made in the fight 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.... (ISIS), with coalition Arclight airstrikes and local forces on the ground.
"Altogether, ISIL has lost over a quarter of the populated areas it had seized in Iraq," said Obama. "ISIL's strategic weaknesses are real."
Obama said that local groups on the ground have proven effective in pushing back ISIS in many areas, mentioning Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam, Tikrit, and Kobani as examples.
"In the past year we've seen when we have effective partners on the ground, ISIL can be pushed back," Obama said.
Obama vowed that all elements of American power would be involved in fighting the krazed killer organization.
The US President said that ISIS is posing a threat to all countries in the region and therefore all nations need to do more in order to defeat the group militarily and ideologically.
"This is not simply a military effort," he said. "Ideologies are not defeated by guns. They're defeated with better ideas."
He added: "In order for us to defeat terrorist groups like ISIL and al-Qaeda, we must discredit their ideology. This broader challenge of countering violent extremism,"
Obama who said that the US is not in war with Islam, said that efforts should be made to stem the flow of imported muscle into Iraq and Syria.
"Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas. We will never be at war with Islam," he said.
Obama said that the US has stepped up its fight against ISIS' online recruitment efforts and he encouraged countries with large Moslem populations to increase economic opportunities for young people to prevent them from joining radical groups.
"This larger battle for hearts and minds is going to be a generational struggle," Obama said.
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I guess future historians will call us Civilization of the Shameless.
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Were they successes? Sort of, in a 'last man standing' sense. Did he have anything to do with them? Well, he was alive on the planet at the same time, and apparently all things flow from his selfness.
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"Ideologies are not defeated by guns" must be the new catchphrase. He says it twice in the six sentences quoted, and approaches the idea once, for a total of 50%. Perhaps this is a non-representative sample, but listening to that speech must have been excruciating.
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"Ideologies are not defeated by guns" - maybe not by guns alone, but if the opponent ideology is using guns your ideology had better be able to defend itself.
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Remember when the ISJV was about to overrun Kobani, and Team Obama started distancing itself from the impending capture and slaughter of its residents, "Oh, Kobani? Just a little crossroads town, to biggie."
Or, straight from the horse's mouth: Speaking tonight, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, suggested that preventing the fall of Kobani was not a strategic US objective. “As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,” he said.
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"We will never be at war wid Islam" > Wehell, To paraph "THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON"S CAPTAIN AMERICA = "RADICAL ISLAM IS AT WAR WID US"!
Speaking of "generational struggle" ...
* TOPIX > [RCP] OBAMA'S LONG-TERM STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING ISIS LEAVES PROBLEMS FOR [new/next]GENERATIONS.
* SAME > [USJCS Chair] DEMPSEY DESCRIBES ISIL STRATEGY, "UNCERTAIN GLOBAL SECURITY".
NUTSHELL, Dempsey says that, thus far, ...
> US-ALLIED Islamist Enemies are getting increasingly STRONGER.
> US ALLIES are increasingly reliant or dependent on US Materiel + Other DIRECT SUPPORT/MILAID for battlefield success + operations - widout it only God knows iff they can defeat the ISIS + Qaeda Boyz, etal. on their own.
> US-SPECIFIC COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES STEADILY DECREASING = MINIMIZED.
* TOPIX > OBAMA'S NEW IRAQ STRATEGY BOILS DOWN TO "DON'T LOSE" - BLOOMBERG VIEW.
Ditto as per agz CHINA in East-South China Seas???
* WORLD NEWS > [Business Insider] US STILL DOESN'T HAVE A STRATEGY THAT HAS CHANCE OF DEFEATING ISIS.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > ASHTON CARTER [admits]: US HAS TRAINED AN "AWFULLY SMALL NUMBER OF ["Moderate"]SYRIAN REBELS", far far below expected target of 5,400.
As per CNN AM, things got a little testy wid John Mccain on the subject while Carter was testifying in committee on the Hill - see below.
* RELATED DAILY STAR > MCCAIN SUGGESTS US "LOSING" AGZ ISIS [Calls Obama Admin's claims of success "DELUSIONAL/SELF-DELUSIONAL"].
* RELATED LUCIANNE > WHILE HOUSE ADMITS NOT ENOUGH SYRIAN REBELS TRAINED.
[DAWN] SINDH Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah is suddenly an angry man. The target of Mr Shah's ire are the FIA and NAB -- federal organizations that are, according to the Sindh government, busy conducting raids against the provincial authorities without the authorisation or support of Mr Shah's government. The Sindh chief minister has even vowed to take the matter of granting additional powers to the FIA under federal legislation to the superior courts. While the centre has claimed that new powers to detain suspects for 90 days have been granted to the FIA are applicable to all provinces and not just Sindh, Mr Shah made it clear that his government believes it has been singled out for punishment. Unsurprisingly, the MQM has come out in his support and is also concerned by the FIA and NAB investigations. As with virtually everything else in the growing conflict between the centre and Sindh, there is some truth in what both sides are claiming.
Clearly, for all the federal government's clarifications, there is something Sindh-specific about the FIA and NAB's recent crusades. Where are similar actions in the other provinces? Have provincial offices in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... or Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... been raided? Has Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... seen an uptick in investigations into financial fraud or corruption by provincial authorities? The answer is obvious from the media headlines alone: Sindh appears to be the inordinate focus of interest by federal Sherlocks in recent months. Add to that the fact that a city-specific operation is in place only for 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... and that the army leadership has expressed some very blunt opinions about the quality of politicianship in Sindh, and the reasons for the siege mentality of the Sindh government become clear. While the federal government has for the most part tried to suggest that the many facets of the Sindh crackdown are entirely coordinated and led by the PML-N, there are clear and worrying signs that much of what is happening is occurring at the behest of the security establishment behind the scenes. A Sindh government that is at odds with not just the federal government but the military is a dangerous development in an ostensibly democratic framework.
Yet, the Sindh government will win little sympathy from any quarter so long as it continues with its hapless ways. That there is epic corruption and mis-governance in the province is no longer questioned by even the most ardent of democrats. That the Sindh government has done nothing to stamp out corruption in its midst is also not seriously questioned by independent observers. That the province could take the lead and has the powers necessary to fight corruption and mis-governance is also quite clear. If Sindh won't put its own house in order, is it a surprise that the centre should be attempting to do so itself?
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Three jacket wallahs were killed in a failed attack, targeting a facility of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency -- in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... on Tuesday.
General Abdul Rahman Rahimi told news hounds at the site of the attack that the Lions of Islam planned to storm the NDS facility but their attack was suppressed by the security forces.
He said the attack begin with a suicide kaboom in front of the facility due to which one soldier who was guarding the gate embraced martyrdom. The suicide kaboomer used a Zaranj cycle of violence laden with explosives in this kaboom.
According to the police chief two other suicide bombers tried to enter to the NDS office following the blast but security forces gunned them down after identifying them.
No group had immediately grabbed credit for the attack in Kart-e-Naw area by the time of filing this report. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the responsibility for the first attack which took place in Shah Shahid area of Kabul city is claimed by two holy warrior groups, the Taliban and the Hizb-e-Islami.
According to Kabul police, two people -- one foreigner and another civilian, were maimed after a suicide bomber rammed in his explosives-laden vehicle into a vehicle of foreign forces around 11:30 am.
Today's attacks come about two weeks after Taliban attacked the Afghan parliament in Darul Aman area of the city.
Five people were killed, none of them politicians, and 31 others maimed in the attack.
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[DAWN] Pakistain and Norway signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for construction of three solar power plants to generate a total of 150MW of electricity, said a statement issued on Tuesday.
Prime Minister 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... and Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg witnessed the signing ceremony of a MoU between Scatec Solar of Norway and Nizam Energy of Pakistain to jointly develop the solar power plants on a build-own-operate basis.
The construction of three solar power plants to generate a total of 150 MW of electricity is expected to start in the first quarter of 2016.
The project would be completed in a year's time and will be located in Sindh province, with an initial investment of $300 million.
An additional 150 MW is planned to be developed in the second stage, bringing the total investment to nearly $600 million.
Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... and other members of the Pak delegation were also present on the occasion.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... directed National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to prepare a national counter-terrorism database in addition to the one on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the country.
During his visit to Nadra headquarters on Tuesday, Nisar took notice of the difficulties faced by people due to long queues at Nadra offices. He directed the Nadra chairman to put in place an online CNIC application system. This, he said, would not only benefit the citizens of the country but also overseas Paks.
Talking about long queues of people in front of Nadra offices, the interior minister said every effort should be made to provide people relief from standing in long queues.
He further ordered to ensure that all the processes involved in getting CNIC were completed within shortest possible time.
Discussing pay package and perks of Nadra employees, Chaudhry Nisar said Nadra employees should be given their due share from the profit the body earns.
In this regard, Nisar announced that every Nadra employee of grade 1 to 15 would be given Rs15,000 as Eid bonus.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Traders decided on Monday to gradually withdraw their savings from banks as a mark of protest against the recently imposed 0.6 per cent adjustable advance income tax on bank transactions, calling it exorbitant and an unjustified move by the government to bring non-filers into the tax net. Possibly the worst idea I've ever heard of, to include those that start with "hold my beer."
A key organization of 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... traders took the decision after a series of different moves in recent weeks which saw closure of different markets and commercial centres for a day one after another in protest against the tax.
"This is not acceptable in any way," said Ateeq Mir of Karachi Tajir Ittehad -- a platform for nearly 300 markets and traders' associations.
"We held a lengthy meeting today [Monday] and finally decided to ask our members to withdraw their savings from banks gradually in instalments of Rs50,000 which is not taxable. It's a kind of protest we lodge against a 0.6pc tax."
He claimed that over the past couple of weeks traders had lost millions of rupees only on that account. He said banks charged each truncation of over Rs50,000 at the rate of 0.6pc and many traders were unaware of this new tax.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... the Gujrat Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pakistain Electric Fan Manufacturers Association, All Pakistain Pottery Manufacturers Association and other trade and industry organizations in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... as well as the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other trade bodies in KP have also rejected the 0.6pc tax on bank transactions.
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The government discovers it can piggyback ATM charges, but on over counter transactions. If it can be measured, it can be taxed.
[DAWN] Another key witness in Benazir murder case retracted his earlier statement during cross examination before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC).
Earlier, witnesses like former director general National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema and SSP Yasin Farooq had disowned the statements attributed to them by the prosecution.
ATC Judge Rai Mohammad Ayub Marth commenced hearing in the Benazir murder case in Adiala Jail when a prosecution witness, retired SSP Maj Imtiaz -- a key security official of Ms Bhutto -- withdrew his earlier statement.
Earlier, in a statement attributed to Maj Imtiaz it was claimed that Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... was killed due to inadequate security arrangements at Liaqat Bagh where former chairperson of Pakistain People's Party (PPP) had delivered his last speech. Major Imtiaz also alleged that the then city police officer Syed Saud Aziz and other high ups were not on duty when the attackers targeted Benazir.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Imtiaz told the ATC on Monday that foolproof security cover was provided to Ms Bhutto outside Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 the day she was killed in a gun-and-kaboom afte a public meeting.
He said that all the coppers including the then CPO Aziz were also present on the scene to provide security to Benazir Bhutto.
He added, "Had Benazir not appeared from sunroof of the vehicle, she might not have been killed," he said.
After the cross-examining, the ATC special Judge Rai Mohammad Ayub Marth adjourned further proceedings till July 8, 2015.
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[DefenseOne] In more than six years since taking office--longer if you count his 2008 campaign speeches--Obama has held firm on one principle for his U.S. foreign policy and global security: he set the bar for U.S. military intervention higher than it's been since 9/11, and kept it there. At least "intervention" as defined as the kind of large-scale U.S. ground forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan last decade.
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His foreign intervention bar is high because he thinks the enemy is America. His bar to intervene in the IRS, DOJ, Healthcare, Marriage, local police....Is very low.
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I'm surprised he hasn't invaded Mexico in the name of: (a) removing the Oligarchs who punish those poor people. (b) Bringing a ton of new Democratic voters into the nation in one swoop (c) Drastically reduce the USAs southern land border in one move (d) Stopping human trafficing and drugs crossing the border.
He does know the ruling class in Mexico are more or less white doesn't he?
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PCorrect-Deniable "Safe Politics" while also being MilPol/Geopol, poten even EXISTENTIALLY, dangerous to US interests at the same time.
THE POST-9-11 US = GLOBALIST AMERIKA IS THE "TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR" IN SETTING UP ANTI-US OWG-NWO.
I say again that as a OWG Globalist, the Bammer is doing things deliberately. UNTIL OWG-NWO IS PERMANENTLY EMPOWERED + ENTRENCHED, MAINSTREAM AMERIKA SHOULD EXPECT THINGS TO GET MUCH PROTRACTIVELY WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER.
The DemoLeft + aligned are using the GWOT to forcibly impose Secularist US-Global Socialist Order - howvere, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE OR WILL BE ABLE TO CONTROL, LET ALONE STOP, [Theo-socialist]RADICAL ISLAM + GLOBAL JIHAD, THE LATTER OF WHICH IS IRONICALLY GOING NUKULAAR WID US-WESTERN/ALLIED ASSENT OR ACQUIESCE.
In the name of OWG-NWO + Globalism, the US is helping its Geopol or Ideo Enemies + Protagonists, including NGOS, TO GET STRONGER VEE ITSELF.
DON'T FEAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST OBAMA - FEAR HIS ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST SUCCESSOR.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian Turkmen military and political officials, who are close to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , have been moving to form a unified army in northern Syria capable of confronting the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror group.
"Turkmen fighting groups in Syria have taken the decision to offer greater support to each other and work to create a Turkmen army if conditions permit," Syrian Turkmen Assembly chief Abdel Rahman Mustafa told Turkish Anadolu news on Monday.
The Turkmen official's comments came as the Syrian Turkmen Assembly held a meeting in southern Turkey's Gaziantep that brought together Turkmen representatives from Aleppo, Tal Abyad, Jarabulus, Latakia, Idlib, Raqqa and the Golan.
Alaraby Aljadeed reported that the Turkmen military and civilian officials in the meeting decided to form a military council that reports to the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, a pro-opposition group with ties to the Turkish government.
The decision to form the council comes after calls emerged from Turkmen military formations to fight both ISIS and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party that controls the YPG, the London-based daily added.
Syrian Turkmen have already armed themselves in a series of brigades throughout Syria that are loosely affiliated with each other and count on about 10,000 gunnies in total, with the largest fighting units operating in the Aleppo province.
Turkey's security institutions maintain close links with the Turkmen units in Syria, providing special forces training to the brigades, which are affiliated with the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... and have taken part in operations in Aleppo, Idlib and outside Latakia.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Seven Ansarullah Bangla Team members, who the Detective Branch of police claims killed science writer Avijit Roy, had also allegedly instigated the murder of secular activist Oyasiqur Rahman Babu.
"In our investigation, we have so far found that these seven people are not directly involved in Babu killing. But they motivated the killers to do it," DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
He also claimed that the two killers, caught just after killing Babu on March 30, did not belong to Ansarullah but were followers of its chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani who professed to kill atheists.
"We also suspect that some of these seven killers were present when Babu had been attacked [at Begunbari of Tejgaon]," said Monirul, also the chief of DB police, who are investigating both the cases.
On February 27, US citizen Avijit was murdered near the TSC intersection of Dhaka University after he came out of the Amar Ekushey Book Fair. His wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, lost a finger in the attack.
Babu, who was vocal to demand justice for Avijit murder, was killed while going to office. The two detained killers in interrogation earlier said they had seen Avijit's killers at a mess in Jatrabari area.
Monirul hopes that they will be able to solve mystery behind the killings after the arrest of the seven suspects. "Two of them launched the attack on the couple with machetes while the five others took position around the spot," he said.
"We have verified their identity and photos by analysing the evidence with technological help."
One of them is a medical student while the others are also highly educated. "Their age is below 30. They learnt about Avijit through Facebook."
The DB chief says all the members of the team were highly expert in making bombs, operating arms and other technical issues.
"We suspect that they belong to a single sleeper cell of Ansarullah and this is why a Twitter account named Ansar Bangla 7 took responsibility of the murder."
The DB official said the turbans had tried to kill Avijit several times after the couple came to Dhaka on February 16.
He said they had all necessary evidence to prove the case against the seven holy warriors. "We are now trying to trace their location. Their names can be fake too, but we have their photos." Asked about the involvement of Buet teacher Farseem Mannan Mohammedy, Monirul replied in the negative.
Earlier, Rapid Action Battalion members incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Shafiur Rahman Farabi, a leader of banned holy warrior outfit Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... , for instigating the murder of Avijit. He had been threatening to kill the writer, professionally a biomedical engineer, since 2012.
Asked about getting any feedback from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Monirul said: "We are yet to get the lab results of the evidence collected from the murder spot. But they have expressed contentment with our findings."
He said the DB contacts with Bonya through the FBI officials in the US.
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[DAWN] THE absence of large-scale sectarian violence in the last few weeks should be no cause for complacency. The menace of sectarianism is alive and well in Pakistain, as illustrated by the tragic assassination of two Hazara Shia brothers in Quetta on Monday, the latest among a series of such murders in the city since April. The men, both in their 20s, were outside a passport office when two assailants gunned them down and also killed a policeman who confronted them. While the operations being carried out by the military in the northern areas and by the Rangers and police in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... appear to have disrupted sectarian-jihadi networks to some extent, the massacre of Ismaili Shias on May 13 in Karachi shows that their capacity to unleash mass murder has certainly not been neutralised. That is even more so a cause for concern whenever a religiously significant event in the Moslem calendar -- such as Hazrat Ali's death anniversary which will fall tomorrow -- comes around and is commemorated with majalis and processions.
By their very definition, processions are relatively difficult to secure. A mass of people moving along a route with potentially multiple points of vulnerability are a security challenge of no mean proportions. And conversely, one that bandidossnuffies are tempted to exploit. In 2009, the bombing of an Ashura procession in Karachi killed around 50 people, while in early 2012, a similar attack on a Chehlum procession in Rahim Yar Khan left nearly 20 dead. Religious tensions also run high on such occasions: a communal clash in Rawalpindi two years ago, reportedly incited by provocative sermons from a mosque along an Ashura procession route, resulted in a number of deaths. For their part, the authorities have of late pulled out all the stops -- including recourse to aerial surveys -- to ensure that peace is maintained on these sensitive days. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... while Ashura and Chehlum processions/gatherings have been targeted most often, the authorities cannot afford to let down their guard on other similar commemorative occasions.
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THE absence of large-scale sectarian violence in the last few weeks should be no cause for complacency.
Too hot for Pakistanis to take the effort of killing each other?
The government is way more powerful and able to spy on us in ways unthinkable in 1775. And the publicly employed will now literally kill to keep the magic paychecks coming.
Knish's ideas are good ones but we are truly up against a leviathan that will force us to choose between our faith, family, possessions, wealth, and liberty.......or death.
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We need a president willing to not only roll back a few things but prosecute the illegal things going on (government agencies targeting based on politics for example).
[WASHINGTONPOST] Representatives of the Taliban were meeting with an Afghan government delegation Tuesday in the Pak capital of Islamabad, in what Afghan officials hope will be a step toward negotiating a peace deal with the Lion of Islam group and ending the country's protracted war, according to Afghan and Pak officials. I thought this might happen, with the Islamic State rearing its ugly turban in Nangarhar. Now they've got a common enemy.
The gathering, under discussion for several weeks, is not the first time both sides have met to discuss a cease-fire. Several other meetings between Taliban representatives and Afghan officials have taken place in recent months in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , China and Norway.
But the meeting in Islamabad carries more significance because of Pakistain's long-standing ties to the Taliban, as well as Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's efforts to persuade Pakistain to play a significant role in convincing the Taliban to come to the negotiating table. It would mark the first time that such a senior-level delegation was meeting face-to-face with the Taliban.
"We have always had a pretty clear view of what Pakistain can and cannot do in terms of delivering the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table," a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss the peace efforts, said in a recent interview. "But we see, at this point, a sustained effort by the Paks to support President Ghani's effort."
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Goose?
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I vote swan.
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wait til the "Assless Chaps" pic comes out
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It's because she's obviously destined to become Queen Hillary, and leave the throne to Chelsea.
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She's only inevitable if the GOP establishment pushes a candidate on the platform of pro-illegal, pro-crony capitalism, pro-Obamacare (we'll just make some tweeks and changes), and stupid trade policies (we get nothing but trinkets and they get all the business).
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Wehell, iff my childhood dreams/visions, 1960's-1970's Guam Taotamonas , + of course Madonna Vids prove true, + usually do, DITTO AS PER JEB BUSH ALA 2020 CAMPAIGN YEAR.
The U.S. has begun training only 60 fighters to take on the Islamic State in Syria, Defense Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged in a heated hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday morning. And not only is the number “much smaller than [the 15,000] we hoped for at this point” — three months into the program — but the U.S. has not yet determined what it will do when those fighters are attacked by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Carter said.
“I can look at your faces and you have the same reaction I do, which is that’s an awfully small number,” the defense secretary told the senators. It will, he said, “get larger over time.”
Some 7,000 volunteers are awaiting approval to begin the training, Carter said. The defense secretary explained that U.S. law sets a high bar for the vetting, which includes counterintelligence screenings to ensure trainees won’t “pose a green-on-blue-threat to trainers.” Potential fighters must also pass a background check for atrocities and display a willingness to abide by the laws of armed conflict.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., is generally deferential to Carter but hostile toward Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, who testified with him. Yet on Wednesday, McCain did little to hide his frustration about the effort to train and equip moderate Syrians to fight the Islamic State.
The train-and-equip program is meant to enable Syrians to fight the Islamic State, as an alternative to inserting American and coalition forces into the country. Such an intervention is opposed by Assad, who is battling both the Islamic State and rebels amid a four-year civil war believed to have killed more than 200,000 people. The Obama administration’s stated position is that Assad does not have a role in Syria’s future, but it has been ambiguous on its strategy to achieve that end.
“We know from our history in the region that putting U.S. combat troops on the ground as a substitute for local forces will not produce enduring results,” Carter said in his opening statement Tuesday.
Carter, who had promised in his February confirmation hearing before the committee to give unvarnished military advice, later added, “I wanted to tell the truth and I did tell the truth. We expect that number [of Syrian fighters being trained] to improve, but you deserve to know where things stand.”
Carter said the military is way behind its interim goal of training 3,000 fighters by year’s end, 5,400 by May 2016. But even if the military meets its ultimate goal of training more than 15,000 fighters over three years, few expect this strategy to defeat the Islamic State and lead to a political solution that would remove Assad and restore a stable Syria. The revelation that a mere 60 fighters are being trained did little to assuage concerned lawmakers who, after some debate, approved the $500 million train-and-equip program last September.
Carter said Wednesday that a similar effort is also struggling in Iraq, which is the main theater of the U.S. fight against the Islamic State because of Baghdad’s request for help.
Some 3,550 American personnel at six locations across Iraq are working to build the capacity of Iraqi forces and advise and assist them. But that effort too is suffering from a lack of trainees, Carter said. As of June 30, the coalition has received enough volunteers to train roughly 8,800 Iraqi Army soldiers and Peshmerga fighters, along with 2,000 counterterrorism service personnel. Another 4,000 are undergoing training.
Carter and Dempsey’s appearance on Capitol Hill followed a rare visit from President Obama to the Pentagon Monday to meet with his national security team and receive a briefing on the Islamic State fight. In brief comments, the president defended the strategy and again urged patience.
“This will not be quick,” Obama said. “This is a long-term campaign.”
Wednesday’s hearing is likely to be one of Dempsey’s last before he retires this summer. Last week, in releasing a new National Military Strategy, he warned, “We are more likely to face prolonged campaigns than conflicts that are resolved quickly.”
Obama’s pick to replace Dempsey, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford, will receive his confirmation hearing before the Armed Services Committee on Thursday. Dunford’s nomination is expected to be the first of several shakeups to top brass with a year and a half left in Obama’s term and nearly a year into the Islamic State fight.
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Dempsey: “We are more likely to face prolonged campaigns than conflicts that are resolved quickly.”
Back when our great Nation finally escaped the yoke of the BushHitler regime, our New President said we had to shift away from a permanent war footing. I guess that statement is no longer operative.
[DAWN] Two brothers belonging to the Shia Hazara community and a policeman were bumped off here on Monday.
Three other people, a woman among them, were maimed when a group of men fired indiscriminately on them near the passport office in the Joint Road area.
Police said at least one attacker was injured when the policeman who had been hit by a bullet and later died, fired back. The constable was identified as Kala Khan. He was going to the offices of a private TV channel where he had been deployed for security duty.
"Four members of a family belonging to the Shia Hazara community and other people were standing outside the passport office when they came under attack," Capital City Police officer Abdul Razzak Cheema said.
Another police official said the masked assailants used advanced weapons.
Police and Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... personnel and rescue teams took the dead and the injured to the Civil Hospital where doctors said that the dear departed had been hit in the head.
Those who had suffered serious injuries were transferred to the Combined Military Hospital where they were in the Intensive Care Unit.
The dear departed brothers were identified as Hassan Hazara and Shabbir Hazara and the injured as Naimatullah, Khuda-e-Dost and Fatima Bibi.
Soon after the incident, shops in the area downed their shutters.
Law-enforcement agencies cordoned off the area to look for the assailants.
Police termed it a sectarian attack and said that a "sectarian group may be behind the incident".
Later, a large number of people took the bodies to the IG Police Office and held a sit-in. They shouted slogans against police and other law-enforcement agencies for their failure to provide security and protection to the Hazara community.
The Hazara Democratic Party, the Anjuman Wahdatul Moslemeen, the Shia Ulema Council and other organizations and members of the civil society condemned the killings and demanded immediate arrest of the killers.
AFP adds: The brothers were entering the passport office along with their parents when the waiting gunnies opened fire.
"The boys, in their twenties, were killed in the shooting while their parents were maimed and a policeman who was passing by the site was also killed after he shot and maimed one attacker," CPO Abdul Razzak Cheema said.
He added that two gunnies were involved in the shooting but they had others to assist them in escaping the scene.
Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani confirmed the casualties.
Police later said they had locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! the maimed suspect who claimed that he was not with the attacker but just a passerby.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the shooting.
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[RUDAW.NET] Thousands of supporters of the al-Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebel group demonstrated in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Monday in protest of the continuing war and humanitarian crisis in the country.
The protest came during a visit by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... envoy to Yemen for talks with the Houthis and other leaders in a bid to forge a truce in the war-ravaged country.
The demonstration condemned the position of the UN towards the Yemenis and blamed the envoy for not doing enough to stop the war and lift the siege imposed by the Arab coalition.
"We condemn the international weakness. The United Nations has failed to achieve anything except for what was reached in Geneva. Beyond that it has done nothing to make Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... stop the bombing," said Ibrahim al-Obeidi, a Houthi commander in the Ansar Allah militia.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq says the salaries and perks paid to Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... MNAs for the period they had been staging sit-in would be recovered if the motion seeking their disqualification is passed by the House.
"A motion seeking disqualification of PTI MNAs has been submitted to the National Assembly secretariat...and if the motion gets passed by the House all the amount paid to them as salaries and other perks will be retrieved from them," Mr Sadiq said while inaugurating an infrastructure development project in his constituency here on Monday.
The PTI politicians had boycotted parliament's proceedings during their 126-day Islamabad sit-in without submitting their formal leave applications. Under the National Assembly rules of business a politician absenting himself/herself for consecutive 40 sittings without approval of the House may be disqualified to be a member if a motion to that effect is adopted by it.
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[DAWN] Global powers wrestling for a historic nuclear deal with Iran gave themselves yet more time Tuesday after foreign ministers failed to bridge what one diplomat called "very, very, very tough" remaining issues.
Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Russia, China, La Belle France, Britannia and Germany -- effectively gave themselves until Friday to agree a deal by extending the terms of a 2013 interim accord under which Iran has been curtailing its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.
"Removing the remaining brackets (in the text of the agreement), this seems to be very, very, very tough," the senior diplomat said as an 11th day of talks stretched late into the night in Vienna.
But the envoy insisted the negotiations are "not an open-ended process".
"We've given ourselves a couple more days because we think it can be done."
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as of tonight, the Congressional deliberation period for the agreement goes from 30 days to 60 days
of course the real key is whether Obama can persuade 34 Senators, presumably Dems, to back him in voting to support an appeasement.
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Anybody think that even if Champ gets his 'legacy' that the Mad Mullahs would abide by even their interpretation of the 'agreement'?
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See also TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > "NEVER THREATEN AN IRANIAN": NUKE TALKS TURN FEISTY IN VIENNA.
After being openly criticized by a major EU Big Boss/Vienna Rep as being a "destabilizing influence" + aggressor in the ME, Iran in retaliation openly threatens to take EU to UN + World Court for supporting Saddam Hussein during 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The terrorist group of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... or Daesh has kidnapped more than 100 school children from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city of Iraq for training them to become terrorists.
Local media reports suggest that the school kids aging between 10-15 years were recently collected from different schools of Mosul city.
Sayed Mamuzini, front man for Iraq's Kurdistan Democrat Party says that the 111 school children have been transferred to the Daesh educational and military training centers for brainwashing and giving them the training of terrorist activities.
According to the Kurdish official, Daesh has kidnapped 1,420 children since the capture of the country's second city over a year ago and forcefully trained them for terrorist operations.
Mamuzini also said that Daesh recently had militarily-trained children execute 15 of the group's fighters who were allegedly the reason of a defeat in Bashiqa town northeast of Mosul
The group had earlier kidnapped up to 500 school children from Al-Anbar and Diyala province.
According to reports and photos released by Daesh, the terrorist group has setup several military training centers in Iraq and Syria for training children to become terrorists.
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in the USA, about 8 million students will be going to Kindergarten next fall and many, perhaps most, will be indoctrinated with Enviro, and Socialist propaganda.
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A four-year-old boy who had been kidnapped for a ransom of Rs100 million was recovered by the police on Monday and reunited with his parents after a 65-day ordeal.
The kidnappers had reportedly taken the boy to Afghanistan and demanded that police release some members of their family in police custody, in exchange for the child's release.
City Police Officer Israr Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn the boy was in Afghanistan and had been recovered. He said that no ransom was paid to the kidnappers and no accused had to be released by the police.
No further information was shared by the officer who said that the boy and his parents were on their way to Rawalpindi on Monday night, accompanied by a police party, led by Inspector Nadeem Zafar of Banni police.
He did reveal that Afghan law enforcement agencies helped the Pak police in recovering the boy and arresting the kidnappers.
"We also used informal channels to ensure the boy's return," he said.
Four-year-old Hashir Jawad was kidnapped on May 2, 2015 from his home in Asghar Mall, when five men broke into the house, held the family members hostage and took the boy with them. Later, the kidnappers contacted the family and demanded a ransom of Rs100 million.
The local police locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! three people, including a woman, from Rawalpindi for their involvement in the kidnapping. The police claimed that the gang involved did not have links with Taliban or other holy warrior groups and were operating on their own.
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Surprised he wasn't festooned with kaboom-stuff. Hope he recovers from his ordeal quickly and completely.
[Libya Herald] There have again been heavy festivities in Benghazi during the past two days particularly in the downtown area, in Suq Al-Hout and neighbouring Sabri, where there has been direct fighting. In Hawari and other affected districts, the festivities have been more a case random but nevertheless deadly missile fire.
At last 12 people were reported died today -- four soldiers killed in action, although the Libya National Army (LNA) has not said where, and eight as a result of random rocket attacks. Mostly civilians, the latter were killed in and around Buhdeima and include four brothers, in their 20s, named as Tariq, Salah, Mansour and Hamza Ramadan Al-Arafi, from the city's Hay Al-Zawia (previously known as Hay Al-Fatah).
The others have been named as Walid Ibrahim, Khaled al-Fikhri (an off-duty member of Saiqa forces), Zaki Al-Barani and Awad Ibrahim Al-Awkali.
Random rockets have also landed in Salmani, Ard Zuwawa, Fuwayhat and Hadaiq. They are believed to have been fired mainly from Hawari. Very early this morning a rocket landed near the Children's Hospital, opposite the Benghazi Medical Cenntre.
Meanwhile LNA aircraft today targeted myrmidons' positions in the city centre and Leithi.
Yesterday, it was reported that three residents -- two young women and an older man -- had been killed in Beirut Street in central Benghazi as a result of random shelling and 20 ther injured. Jalaa Hospital has denied their deaths saying the three were maimed.
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[Libya Herald] A car went kaboom! in Derna yesterday afternoon in what is seen as a Dire Revenge attack 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.... (IS).
A homemade explosive, thought to be a "gelatina" bomb, was placed under the vehicle in the town centre's Shara Al-Maghar. The car, which was burned out, is said to belong to a local supporter of IS who has disappeared.
There have been a number of similar attacks on vehicles and properties belonging to IS supporters since the group was forced out of the town last month.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... speaking on Nabaa TV, a front man for the Shoura Council of the Mujahideen in Derna, Hafed Al-Daba, confirmed that the six members of IS condemned to death for killings and bombings had been executed.
He also said that the council was getting no money from either Beida or Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... but was being funded by a number of individual Libyans as well as from people in Derna.
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[DAWN] MQM chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... on Tuesday asked Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and all members of the Sindh Assembly to pass a bill to "send back the oppressive Rangers."
Talking to party office bearers via telephone from London, Hussain said:
"We will hold a sit-in at the Chief Minister House against the repressive actions, arbitrary arrests, torture, and extra-judicial killings by Rangers. If they open fire on the participants of the sit-in, the Rangers and their 'captain' will be responsible for the consequences."
Interestingly, this demand by Hussain comes a day before Rangers' special powers in Sindh are due to expire. While the duration of these special powers has been extended multiple times in the past, it is not clear whether the provincial government will go ahead with the move this time around.
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Looks like Alfat is going to sit around the Chief Ministers house.
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[Libya Herald] Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... and Libyan National Army (LNA) fighters traded missile fire yesterday after the latter tried to take control of a remaining part of Ajilat district known as the Suq and which is still controlled by the former.
After LNA support forces -- mainly Warshafani and Zintani fighters --launched the bid, Dawn fighters based in Sabratha, less than ten kilometres away, started firing grad missiles, according to a LNA source. A child whose family had been evacuated from elsewhere is said to have been killed and members of another family injured when missiles hit their homes.
After they had pulled out, the LNA support forces then started targeting Sabratha with missiles, causing damage on a local resident's house, but no known casualties.
Last night, according to the source, the LNA reinforced its positions in Ajilat, expecting a counter attack from Libya Dawn. This, however, did not occur.
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[RUDAW.NET] Saudi authorities say they have tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! three brothers in connection with last month's deadly attack on a Shiite mosque in neighboring Kuwait.
The official Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that one of the men was arrested in Kuwait and handed over to the kingdom.
Another was detained in the western Saudi city of Taif, and a third was apprehended following a shootout that maimed two members of the Saudi security forces near the Kuwaiti border.
The men were not identified. The report says a fourth brother is a member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lion of Islam group in Syria.
In late June, a Saudi man went kaboom! inside the Kuwait City mosque, killing 27 worshippers and wounding more than 200. The ISIS group grabbed credit.
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[RUDAW.NET] Former Thai kickboxing world champion turned ISIS recruiter Valdet Gashi has reportedly been killed among ISIS Lions of Islam in Syria, Gashi's immediate family said Tuesday.
A German of Albanian ancestry, Gashi was a two-time champion in world mixed martial arts and was from the German state of Bavaria. He became a jihadist and joined ISIS in Syria in July 2014.
Swiss TV channel SRF cited Gashi's brother, who said his brother was killed last Saturday under vague circumstances in Syria.
According to the source, the 29-year-old Gashi was married with two children. He previously in a phone interview with Swiss media announced that he joined jihadists in Syria to "help and seek answers."
In the interview Gashi said he was working for ISIS by patrolling the Euphrates River near the Turkish border and looking for smugglers bringing in illegal goods like cigarettes, alcohol or drugs.
Gashi travelled to Syria with three other Thai kickboxers. One of them was known to be a Kurdish Moslem named Hajan who was killed in a battle with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the Rojava Kurdish region of Syria.
The four friends reportedly carried out many brutal punishments while serving in the jihadist ranks.
In May, the UN reported that some 20,000-22,000 imported muscle had joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday submitted a report containing details of 150 mega corruption cases before the Supreme Court of Pakistain.
A three-member bench, headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, was hearing a case filed by Manzoor Ahmed Ghauri against chairman NAB and other officials. The case, initiated earlier this year, pertains to scrutiny of the anti-corruption body.
The list include cases against high profile figures, including incumbent Prime Minister 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... , his brother and Chief Minister Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , former premiers, ministers and top babus bureaucrats.
The document also lists 50 cases each of monitory irregularities, misuse of powers and land scams.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The House Select Committee on Benghazi released Wednesday the March 4 subpoena for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, refuting her claim in a national TV interview that she was never subpoenaed.
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
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[Dhaka Tribune] A suspected ringleader of robbers' gang succumbed to his bullet injuries early yesterday after being shot during a 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The second-in-command of the 
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[DefenseOne] In more than six years since taking office--longer if you count his 2008 campaign speeches--Obama has held firm on one principle for his U.S. foreign policy and global security: he set the bar for U.S. military intervention higher than it's been since 9/11, and kept it there. At least "intervention" as defined as the kind of large-scale U.S. ground forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan last decade.
'Intervention' of another sort. 
[DAWN] Two brothers belonging to the Shia Hazara community and a policeman were 
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[DAWN] Global powers wrestling for a historic nuclear deal with Iran gave themselves yet more time Tuesday after foreign ministers failed to bridge what one diplomat called "very, very, very tough" remaining issues.
[DAWN] MQM chief 
[RUDAW.NET] Former Thai kickboxing world champion turned ISIS recruiter Valdet Gashi has reportedly been killed among ISIS 
