At least 10 people were killed when an explosion ripped through the Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border on Monday, broadcaster NTV said, and a security official said at least 20 more people were wounded.
The Turkish security official, who declined to be identified, said that around 20 to 25 people were wounded in the blast.
On a warm September day in 2015, the United States Senate failed to override Obama's veto of the measure rejecting his Iranian nuclear agreement. Every one of the 54 Republicans voted against the agreement, which would deliver to the mullahs $150 billion, lift the conventional weapons embargo, and validate Iran's nuclear program in exchange for vague promises not to go nuclear for 10 years. Twelve Democrats, coincidentally the Democrats holding the 12 toughest seats, were allowed to vote against the bill. Because Congress had surrendered its treaty power, 67 votes were required to stop the agreement instead of the 67 required to enact a treaty under the increasingly irrelevant Constitution.
The promised money flowed into Iran and, as predicted, the money flowed out again to America's enemies â Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, the Houthis, and even the Taliban. Their services included a massive surge in advanced IED attacks on the dwindling U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Dozens of Americans died, hundreds were maimed.
The Iranians, from the beginning, cheated on a massive scale, and Benjamin Netanyahu's government immediately redoubled its efforts to ensure the Iranians could not cross the line from aspiring to actual nuclear power. Israeli cyber warriors worked to slow the program remotely, but the NSA â on President Obama's orders â assisted the Iranians in hardening their computer systems pursuant to the nuclear deal's notorious "sabotage" provisions.
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[NYT] CULIACĂN, Mexico -- When Jose Antonio Sevilla and his three brothers learned that the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo had escaped from prison, they jumped out of their chairs and shouted with glee.
"El Chapo got out! He's the greatest of them all," said Mr. Sevilla, 19, a self-professed fan of the drug kingpin, whose full name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera. "He was famous before, but now he's even more famous."
Mr. Sevilla, an auto mechanic, was so excited that he attended a march through the streets of Culiacán, the capital of Mr. Guzmán's home state, this week to celebrate. He carried a sign that a woman gave him, which read, "El Chapo is more of a president than Peña Nieto," a reference to Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
Here in Sinaloa State, where Mr. Guzmán was born, and even in other parts of Mexico, the drug trafficker's stunning escape through a hidden tunnel under what was supposed to be the country's most secure prison has enhanced his status as an outlaw folk hero.
Seaweed is widely considered to be a health food. Bacon, on the other hand ... well, bacon isn't. There may yet be hope for pork belly lovers around the world, however. Scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) have patented a lab-bred strain of dulce seaweed, that they claim has "a strong bacon flavor" when fried. How about smell, morons?
Regular varieties of dulce have been eaten by people for many years, mainly as a food additive or nutritional supplement. And where were their tastbuds, exactly?
The new form (Palmaria mollis) was developed by a team led by OSU's Prof. Chris Langdon, who has been growing it in tanks of cold seawater at the university over the past 15 years. Not only does it apparently taste like bacon, but its translucent crinkly red leaves even look a bit like it, too. When the science is finally understood, this will probably not be a coincidence.
Langdon's original goal was to develop a seaweed that could be used as a "super-food" to feed farmed abalone. The resulting dulce strain grows faster than its wild counterpart, and is said to be very high in minerals, vitamins and antioxidants, containing up to 16 percent protein by dry weight. Abalone did well on a diet of it, growing at rates "that exceeded those previously reported in the literature." So it's good for fast food?
The idea of exploring its use as human fodder came about when Chuck Toombs from OSU's College of Business was looking for business projects for his students, since the new dulce strain can be farmed. "Culinary research chef" Jason Ball got involved at that point and after some experimentation, the seaweed's unique bacon-like taste was discovered. Followed by exhultation from every Jew and liberal handwringing worldwide.
Langdon is currently able to grow 20-30 lb (9-14 kg) of dulce per week in his two tanks, but is planning on upping that amount to 100 lb (45 kg). Toomb's students, meanwhile, are preparing a marketing plan for the seaweed, and examining its commercial feasibility as a large-scale aquaculture crop. Try not to screw this one up or we'll give it to the kindergarteners to come up with a better marketing plan.
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Another (sea)weed to let free into the environment. What happens when this "super" strain competes with the seaweed in the normal environment? Does it take over and perhaps even beyond seaweeds normal environment? Kudzu anyone?
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Sing, seaweed, your siren song, "Bacon!"
Till shaken salts' ears are all achin',
And pepper your patter
With sizzle and spatter --
The Grecians will still think you're fakin'.
[Rooters] Lawmakers will examine possible shortcomings in law enforcement or intelligence in the case of a Tennessee shooting that killed five servicemen, a top Republican said on Sunday, adding that the case may be linked to Islamic State. Skipping to the closing paragraph.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Friday approved immediate steps to beef up protection of military sites. The Marine Corps closed all recruiting stations within 40 miles of the incident in Chattanooga, and told recruiters not to wear military uniforms, said Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright.
[SF Gate] The union representing San Francisco sheriff's deputies filed a formal complaint against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, linking the Pier 14 killing of Kathryn Steinle to a March order that barred them from communicating with federal immigration agents, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle.
The murder arrest of a man whom deputies had freed from jail despite a felony record and a history of deportations showed that Mirkarimi's policy "recklessly compromises the safety of sworn personnel, citizens, and those who merely come to visit the San Francisco area," the deputies wrote in the grievance.
The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association called for Mirkarimi to correct his "flawed philosophy" and rescind the March 13 memo prohibiting his staff from giving immigration agents information about detainees -- including their citizenship status, their booking and arrest documents, and their release dates.
[PJ Media] Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke told Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday that everything President Obama touches "turns to crap."
Appearing on Justice with Judge Jeanine to talk about the recent attack on the military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Clarke told Pirro, "One of the things that would help us that the Commander in Chief, President Obama, did not do-- or what he did do-- is he gutted the Department of Defense 1033 program." He said the program, which sent military surplus equipment to local communities, helped law enforcement respond to counterterrorism situations like the one in Chattanooga. "He gutted that."
"Everything that he does just comes up wrong. I've never seen a president like this--that everything he touches tends to turn to crap," he added.
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Well, this guy's obviously a raci...s.... waitaminute. Izzat his picture?
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Socialism. After you get past their tired denunciation of America for its failings of attaining perfection and becoming the Crystal City, you find what they have to really offer falls far shorter in delivery and offerings other than the whine of 'we meant well'.
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The Midas touch means that everything one touches turns to gold. Everything Obama touches turns to crap. Maybe we should call that the Obama touch.
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I tend to agree with the Sheriff. Of course, "O" and his supporters are celebrating what would be called his/their failures as huge successes, e.g. the bum Iran odious deal, Obamacare, etc.
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Everything progressives touch turns to crap. Then they keep having to force everyone to say it isn't crap so they don't have to face that reality. Thus re-education camps are born.
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The local police have no business using military equipment. They are not trained for it and in SOME cases are not the correct people to be using it.
I do not like a show of military force at events the government does not approve of.
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Unless you're dealing with a city of several million, the only 'para'-military force should be directly under the control of the state's National Guard, along with a state established rule of when, where, and how (ROE) that it is employed. Mother-may-I approval required by the state. Even then the municipal units should follow the same ROEs. The Mumbai attack, by you know who, where and for what purpose, means municipals need a shorter response time to implement action.
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What happens when it's guys like you and me protesting (peacefully) against the most recent violation of the constitution? Name that law enforcement shows up with an overwhelming show of force. You gonna put flowers in their guns?
This is all hypothetical of course.
[Tampa Tribute] TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Whenever members of the Judah P. Benjamin Camp of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans don their grey wool uniforms for a demonstration or re-enactment, Al McCray is there among his brothers.
He marches in the parades and flies the Confederate flag. He speaks out against the notion that the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of racism and defends "Southern heritage" causes.
Yet McCray is different from the rest of the camp.
While the other members are descendants of soldiers that fought for the south in the Civil War, McCray is an African-American "legionnaire" -- his ancestors were slaves on plantations near his hometown of Manning, South Carolina, just outside of Columbia.
"I understand the true nature of the war, and slavery was not the primary issue," McCray said. "It was an issue of northern aggression and northern imperialism."
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The flag is today's Rorschach test. A piece of cloth used by people to project their views of which not one is exclusive. It's all and it's none. One group has its definition of it while other groups have theirs. The real conflict is inherit to the groups, not the piece of cloth. It's all about POWER. There is a quick receding of tolerance and the growing demand of subservience and submission. The Left knows no limits other than power.
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When did it become de rigueur in our country to not be able to talk about anything without PC goons (liberals, politiicians, MSM) attempting to shut it down? All the more reason for a guy like Trump to talk and frame the issues and debate. The rest of the crowd running for office has been far too PC for fear of losing some possible votes. Trying to destroy a flag will just drive it underground.
Blacks fought for the Confederacy? Now there's a narrative the left does not want to be a part of history.
[Breitbart] Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz once promised "anywhere, anytime" access to Iran's nuclear sites, known and unknown. In the end, he and the rest of the crack Obama administration negotiating team gave up on that pledge. Instead, they accepted a limited inspections system that will allow Iran to delay disputed inspections by at least 24 days. On Sunday, Moniz made the rounds of the talk shows, claiming that 24 days would be sufficient to detect whatever traces were left of nuclear activity. That is partially true, but does not actually solve the problem.
There are aspects of the nuclear deal that have non-nuclear components. For example, Iran is supposed to limit its research into advanced centrifuges. Yet a centrifuge is simply a machine that separates lighter and heavier uranium isotopes. It is possible to conduct research on centrifuge technology far beyond what is allowed in the agreement, and without generating new isotopes. A mechanical lab could easily be dismantled and hidden in 24 days.
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Why all the complaining? After all inspections worked so well in North Korea..
... oh wait...
OK now riddle me this: How long between Iran telling is to tale a Flying F at a rolling doughnut and the site being obliterated? 24 years? It'll probably take 24 months for the sternly worded letter to be finalized.
[WIRED] The year was 1989. The Soviet Union was falling apart, and some of its military officers were busy selling off the pieces. By the time Guy arrived at the helipad, most of the goods had already been off-loaded from the chopper and spirited away. The crates he'd come for were all that was left. As he pried the lid off one to inspect the goods, he got a powerful whiff of pine. It was a box inside a box, and the space in between was packed with juniper needles. Guy figured the guys who packed it were used to handling cargo that had to get past drug-sniffing dogs, but it wasn't drugs he was there for.
Inside the crates were maps, thousands of them. In the top right corner of each one, printed in red, was the Russian word секрет. Secret.
The maps were part of one of the most ambitious cartographic enterprises ever undertaken. During the Cold War, the Soviet military mapped the entire world, parts of it down to the level of individual buildings. The Soviet maps of US and European cities have details that aren't on domestic maps made around the same time, things like the precise width of roads, the load-bearing capacity of bridges, and the types of factories. They're the kinds of things that would come in handy if you're planning a tank invasion. Or an occupation. Things that would be virtually impossible to find out without eyes on the ground.
Given the technology of the time, the Soviet maps are incredibly accurate. Even today, the US State Department uses them (among other sources) to place international boundary lines on official government maps. Lengthy, includes a map of Northern, Virginia and the Pentagon in Cyrillic.
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I heard or read somewhere, can't remember the source, that Soviets did not publish good maps of Russia because they didn't want potential adversaries (NATO) to have that kind of information.
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EU, I heard that too. The idea was that if you belonged there, you knew your way around. If you didn't belong there, you deserved to get lost.
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Worse, the maps for the masses were deliberately distorted with a special projection that introduced random variations. “The main goal was to crush the contents of maps so it would be impossible to recreate the real geography of a place from the map,” Postnikov tells me. Well-known landmarks like rivers and towns were depicted, but the coordinates, directions, and distances were all off, making them useless for navigation or military planning, should they fall into enemy hands. The cartographer who devised this devious scheme was awarded the State Prize by Stalin.
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When I worked for a digital mapping company in the 90s such a set of maps would have been very helpful. What my company did eventually was replaced by internet and smart phone maps but someone had to make the digital maps for the apps.
The Afghan Taliban overran an Afghan military base and paraded its troops through the bazaar in Kajaki in northern Helmand province, the jihadist group claimed.
The Taliban made the claim in a video produced by Al Emarah and released on Voice of Jihad, its official propaganda outlet. Images from the video were also compiled by a Taliban-linked Twitter account.
The release, entitled "Azm Operations in Helmand Province, Graveyard of the British Empire," shows a suicide bombing on an Afghan military checkpoint and a mortar attack on the base in the southern Afghan province. In one scene, several US-made Humvees are used by the Taliban. A Humvee and several weapons were taken as "spoils" from the battle.
After taking over the base, the jihadists then claimed to have taken over large portions of Kajaki. The release shows images of fighters parading through the district, including Kajaki's bazaar.
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Should set the age to match what Pelosi and company established as independent adults having to pay their own way not on their parents plans in Obamacare. What was that, 26?
The argument to lower it from 21 to 18 was because of the draft at the time inducting 18. 19, and 20 year olds for the war. It should have been limited to those individuals rather than the whole population if that was the rationale back then.
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Screw that, voting should be restricted only to those who actually pay taxes. If you are on any sort of federal assistance, no vote for you. No voting for free stuff
Publicly employed people are not net taxpayers at whatever level of government generates their magic check. Therefore, no vote for them at least at that level of government.
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My oldest granddaughter is 16. As much as I love her, I would not want to see her voting. She would probably vote for the lead singer from her favorite boy band.
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Just another example of Dems hoping to create another voting block that would be completely under their control. They've been trying this for decades and they will succeed eventually
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Perhaps make that 'Public Unionized Employees'.
No, you can't sit on both sides of the table - who do you think you are; Iran?
Personally I think you should have to re-register every 4 year - with Official photo ID proving you are a citizen; and proof that you have paid paying Fed Taxes for the previous year. Only exceptions to the Taxes requirement would be Vets with honorable discharge.
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If the voting age were a 16 year old intellectual equivalent, that would exclude most Pelosi voters.
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Personally I couldn't give a rats ass about Trump's hairpiece. Its' what's under the hairpiece that matters.
The fact that he's talking about some of the Politically Correct Sacred Cows and pissing a lot of people off in the left, media (but I repeat myself) and the right establishment and stirring up some of the crap from the bottom and sides of the political pot is a good thing.
He's going to make the debates interesting at least. That is if he doesn't get snubbed.
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Some magician guy (James Randi?) once said the easiest people to fool are smart people because they are convinced they can't be fooled. If you think you are the Smartest Guy in the Room(tm), no one can put one over on you, eh?
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[AnNahar] Five Czechs who disappeared Saturday in the Bekaa region were likely kidnapped in connection with the Czech Republic's recent arrest of a man suspected of having ties to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , a media report said Sunday.
Citing "intersecting security reports," MTV said the Lebanese driver who vanished with the Czechs, Saeb Taan, is "a brother of Ali Taan, also known as Ali Fayyad, who was apprehended in the Czech Republic during the recent wave of arrests that targeted Hizbullah security cadres in Europe."
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[AnNahar] Ten suspected Death Eaters were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Sunday evening in the northern Bekaa region, according to media reports.
"Army intelligence agents apprehended in the northern Bekaa town of al-Labweh ten individuals suspected on belonging to a terrorist organization," state-run National News Agency reported.
"They were on their way from the outskirts of (the border town of) Arsal to areas inside Leb," NNA said.
"They were referred to the relevant judicial authorities," it added.
LBCI television meanwhile said the ten men are all "Syrians who belong to terrorist groups."
It said they were heading to the North and Western Bekaa.
Al-Jadeed TV said the detainees are members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... krazed killer group, which has seized vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, adding that they were arrested in "several ambushes on al-Labweh road."
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Checking in on the soldiers captured by Al Nusra on Lebanon's Syrian border almost a year ago.
[AnNahar] The relatives of the servicemen kidnapped by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front were allowed to visit their loved ones over the Fitr holiday, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Saturday.
It said that 60 family members were allowed to visit on Saturday the 16 captives held on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The relatives told the daily that the hostages "are in good health and are being treated in the best possible way."
In addition, they revealed that the captors are demanding the release of Saja al-Dulaimi, a divorcee 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.... chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , and Joumana Hmayyed, who is affiliated with al-Qaeda-linked groups, from Roumieh Prison.
Another demand, made by Emir of al-Nusra Front in al-Qalamoun, Abou Malek al-Talli, is allowing the safe passage of Syrians in encampments to the Syrian town of Fleita, said the relatives.
The families of the captives accused the Lebanese state of neglecting the case of their loved ones, saying: "Some sides are practicing political spite."
The servicemen were kidnapped from Arsal in August in the wake of festivities with al-Nusra Front and Islamic State gunnies in the area.
A few of the captives have since been released, four were executed, while the rest remain held.
The families told al-Hayat that they are scheduled to meet with General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim on Tuesday to discuss the latest negotiation efforts in the case.
The official had recently visited 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... to that end.
[DAWN] Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate has offered to release three Lebanese soldiers in exchange for an ex-wife of the leader of the jihadist Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and four other female prisoners.
Al-Nusra Front, which along with IS has held 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers hostage for almost a year, issued the offer in a statement aired on Leb's MTV television on Saturday night.
"If five of our sisters leave prison... we will hand over three soldiers in exchange," said Abu Malek al-Shami, Al-Nusra's "emir" in the Syrian region of Qalamun bordering Leb.
Among the five hostages he named was Saja al-Dulaimi, who was jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Leb in December and is a former wife of IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , as well as a wife of an Al-Nusra leader.
Dulaimi's background is complicated as she reportedly belongs to a tribe that straddles Syria and Iraq and she was said to have been closer to Al-Nusra than her ex-husband's rival jihadists at the time of her arrest.
Shami's face was not shown in the interview, which MTV conducted as part of an arranged visit by family members to loved ones held by Al-Nusra in what it called "a cave in the Qalamun mountains".
The channel showed footage of the three-hour reunion between parents, spouses and even children of the hostages, many of them unable to hold back their tears.
The hostages, all with long beards, appeared in healthy condition inside a tent.
Sixteen of the 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers who were taken hostage near the border with Syria in August 2014 are in the hands of Al-Nusra.
The rest are held by Baghdadi's Islamic State group.
Since their capture, Al-Nusra and IS have repeatedly made demands for the soldiers' release, seeking the release of Islamist prisoners or the withdrawal of Leb's Hezbollah movement from the Syrian conflict.
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, gang, which includes prisoner released in Shalit deal, bumped off Malachy Rosenfeld in a drive-by shooting last month
Four members of a seven-strong Hamas cell behind a deadly terror attack in the West Bank last month have been detained by Israel, the Shin Bet security service said Sunday. Two others are being held by the Paleostinian Authority.
Malachy Rosenfeld was killed, and three others were maimed, when gunnies opened fire on their car near the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel, north of Ramallah, as they returned from a basketball game.
The cell also carried out an attack on an ambulance close to the settlement of Beit El on June 27, in which no one was maimed; they had attempted to carry out a separate attack on June 6.
The four men were detained in a joint operation between the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces, according to the Shin Bet. Two other cell members, including its operations leader, are being held by the Paleostinian Preventive Security Services.
The Shin Bet said Sunday that the seventh man, Ahmad Najjar, who orchestrated and funded the shooting attack from Jordan, was among the prisoners released by Israel for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. He has not been apprehended.
Maath Hammad, who allegedly pulled the trigger, and another suspect are being held by the Paleostinian Authority but questioned by the Shin Bet, the security service said.
Six members of the group are from the town of Silwad northeast of Ramallah. The seventh, who is also the father-in-law of one of the other suspects and not identified as a Hamas member, lives in nearby Kusra, the agency said.
Israeli news site Ynet reported that Najjar was previously imprisoned for several shooting attacks, including one that killed six Israelis during the Second Intifada.
The cell members admitted that they had intended to carry out additional shooting attacks in June.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon praised the security forces for apprehending the suspects.
He also accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... of hosting a Hamas big turban actively planning attacks.
Attempts to activate Hamas cells in the West Bank originate in "Hamas headquarters in Gazoo and Istanbul, from where Salah Aruri plans severe attacks against us by proxies in the West Bank and in neighboring countries," he said in a statement.
"Salah Aruri is acting from Turkey -- a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member, which at the same time allows a terror base on its territory," Ya'alon charged.
Ynet has photos and details about the individual miscreants here.
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the seventh man, Ahmad Najjar, who orchestrated and funded the shooting attack from Jordan, was among the prisoners released by Israel for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Cambodian property tycoon accused of assaulting a well-known actress has appeared in court after she posted a video of the attack online. Violence against women is commonplace in Cambodia but public exposure of this attack has sparked outrage.
CCTV footage emerged earlier this month of an assault on the actress Ek Socheata, better known as SaSa, at a restaurant in the capital Phnom Penh.
Sok Bun, 37, returned to Cambodia from Singapore, where he had fled. After his arrest at Phnom Penh's airport, Sok Bun faces charges of violence and intentionally causing injury.
On Thursday, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for Sok Bun's arrest.
"Don't think that because you have money you can escape,'' Hun Sen said. "What you have done is intolerable."
The footage shows SaSa being dragged off a chair and on to the floor at a Japanese restaurant. She is then kicked in the head, and when she tries to get up, she is punched and stamped on over the course of a minute.
At one point, a bodyguard draws a gun and points it at her head as the attack continues. It ends when a restaurant worker pulls the attacker away.
SaSa then obtained the video from the restaurant and posted it on her Facebook page. She has since given several interviews on national television and was still visibly badly bruised.
Earlier in the week, Sok Bun pleaded for forgiveness but a social media campaign called for his arrest.
"He pulled my hair and smashed my head against the floor," she told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named (AP) news agency. "I was in shock, I couldn't believe what was happening."
SaSa says she was protecting a friend from the advances of Mr Bun, who was at one point the head of Cambodia's estate agents' association.
Yin Sophy, Sok Bun's lawyer, was quoted in the Phnom Penh Post as saying his client had been keen to return to Cambodia to see the case resolved.
"My client has a real willingness to deal and take responsibility about this case," he said. "So he has come to solve these allegations with court directly."
If found guilty, Sok Bun could face up to five years in prison.
The newspaper reports that the bodyguard has been charged with attempted murder and remains on the lam. SaSa says he pulled the trigger of his gun only for it to fail to discharge.
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[The Nation] An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for a man from Pattani province allegedly involved in a deadly motorcycle bombing at a karaoke bar in Padang Besa, Songkhla province on July 10. Sulaiman Samoh is also accused of being the man who parked a car bomb at Songkhla's Hat Yai district police station last year.
Sulaiman was identified by one of the three injured victims (three people were killed) as the man who parked the motorcycle bomb at the scene. He faces charges of terrorism; attempted murder; conspiring to damage property; causing an blast that led to deaths, injuries and property damage; and having and using illegal explosives.
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army units killed increasing numbers of murderous Moslems as they continued operations in various areas, foiling several infiltration attempts.
Aleppo
In the northern Aleppo province, an army unit killed all members of a terrorist group that attempted to infiltrate from al-Khabieh market into al-Sweiqeh area in Old Aleppo in the city.
Army units also targeted terrorists' positions in several neighborhoods in Aleppo city, inflicting losses and casualties in their ranks.
The operations took place in the neighborhoods of Bani Zaid, al-Rashidin, al-Sukkari, Bab al-Nairab, al-Salihin, al-Jazmati roundabout and al-Lairamoun.
The military source also confirmed that gatherings and movements of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... murderous Moslems were targeted in the towns of Bianoun, Hayan and Ritian and in Hreitan city and Qal'et Najm village in the northern countryside of Aleppo province.
Several terrorists' hideouts and some vehicles equipped with machine guns were destroyed during army operations in the towns of Maer and Kafr Hamra and in Daret Ezza city in the northwestern countryside.
Army units also eliminated gatherings of ISIL murderous Moslems in the surroundings of the Air Force Academy, located on the highway leading to the northeastern Raqqa province.
Idleb
In the neighboring Idleb province, the army air force targeted gatherings of murderous Moslems and destroyed their vehicles that were equipped with heavy machineguns in Abu al-Duhour town and the villages of Um Jerin, al-Mjass, Qare' al-Ghazal and al-Tur'a in the eastern countryside of the northern Idleb province, a military source told SANA on Sunday.
In the southwestern countryside of Idleb province, the army air force hit gatherings of murderous Moslems and targeted their movements in the villages of Bzeit, Jannet al-Qura and Taoum to the southeast of Jisr al-Shughour city.
Tens of the terrorists' vehicles with all arms, ammunitions and equipment onboard were destroyed.
Quneitra
In southern Syria, An army unit killed a number of al-Nusra murderous Moslems and destroyed their arms in a special operation targeting their dens in the villages of Ufania and Abu Shattah near Jabata al-Khashab in the northern countryside of Quneitra province.
Another army unit targeted terrorists' hideouts in Um Batina village, 6km to the east of Quneitra city, inflicting heavy losses upon the murderous Moslems in personnel and equipment.
Homs
The army air force targeted in a series of strikes hideouts of ISIL murderous Moslems in Palmyra city and in the areas of Bir Abu Tawala, Rasm al-Tawil, al-Kadim, Marhajan, al-Bardeh, to the north of Wadi Abiyad dam, Shiha, Buraq al-Nashmi and to the north of Tal Nashma in Palmyra countryside in Homs province.
Many ISIL bad boyz were potted and their vehicles, which were equipped with machineguns, were destroyed in the air strikes.
Army units inflicted casualties upon ISIL murderous Moslems and losses upon their vehicles as they targeted their positions at the municipality's building and in the vicinity of the Justice Palace's building in Palmyra city.
The army air force also targeted hideouts and movements of ISIL murderous Moslems to the north of al-Shaer and Jazal oil fields, destroying vehicles equipped with machineguns and killing many terrorists.
More ISIL bad boyz were potted and their vehicles were destroyed in air strikes on their hideouts and gatherings in al-Shindakhiyeh al-Janoubiyeh, 70 km to the east of Homs.
Latakia
Many bad boyz were potted and their vehicles were destroyed in army air strikes that targeted their positions in Jeb al-Ahmar and Kabani in the northern countryside of Latakia province.
Hasaka
In the northeastern Hasaka province, an army unit clashed with ISIL murderous Moslems positioned in building blocks near the cemetery in the southeastern side of Ghweiran neighborhood in Hasaka city.
Field sources told SANA that the festivities left a number of murderous Moslems killed, while the rest were hemmed in separate sites in the surroundings of the cemetery.
Sporadic festivities also break out between the army units and the national backup forces on one hand and ISIL murderous Moslems on the other on the outskirts of the neighborhoods of al-Nashwa al-Gharbiyeh and al-Nashwa Villat and the youth housing compound.
The murderous Moslems suffered casualties during the festivities, according to the sources.
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[NATION.PK] Pakistain is the land of the pure. Quaid-e-Azam kept his nose to the grindstone to create a state where Moslems could live with peace and prosperity without fear of maltreatment by the Hindu majority. The dream was realized on the 14th of August, 1947 in the Holy month of Ramazan (Oh sorry it's Ramadan! My sincerest apologies). How fitting, right?
Fast forward to 2015. We have achieved a lot since the blessed day we got independence from the "Goras". However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the biggest achievement has got to be how we have managed to find the Kuffaar amongst us. It was a tough job to be honest. Impossible, if you ask me, but we did it. After all, we are Paks. We are capable of achieving anything. And achieving this one objective in particular is especially praiseworthy.
Pakistain is the Land of the pure? Nope. Sorry. Not the case. It is infested with infidels. Each and every one of us. People like you. People like me. We are all infidels. A person belonging to a particular sect hates the one belonging to a different one. Branding each other "Kaafir" is a new cool apparently among the religious chauvinists. Facebook pages are chock-full of disgusting content pertaining to different schools of thoughts. Search for a particular sect and you will more maligning pages for that particular sect than the ones promoting it. You can find comments oozing with abhorrence. The other sects have pages of their own, vilifying the patrons of the opposing sects. Facebook acts as a platform for the ignorant and the fools to carry out hate crimes.
On the streets, the pattern is the same. Clerics engage in hate speeches which often lead to barbaric acts. Recently, an anti-terrorism court tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a holy man for 10 years for making hate speech against another sect. This was just one holy man. There are millions of others with the same hidebound mentality. This begs the question, in a place where Moslems are not really safe, what's to become of the minorities?
I fail to comprehend the point in calling someone else, who doesn't follow your school of thought, a kaafir? Where is the tolerance that Islam preaches? Allah says in the Holy Koran "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256). Who are we to judge then? The holier-than-thou attitude must be phased out.
Then again you ask someone this question on the street and their most probable reply would be, "All these problems are being caused by an external force. We Paks don't indulge in such horrendous activities. Oh wait, I know! It's those Zionists at it again!"
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But was the terrorist being "advocated" Genghis Khan?
[AFP] Chinese police say that foreign tourists arrested and later deported from northern China "admitted" to watching videos advocating terrorism, Xinhua reported yesterday.
Police from Inner Mongolia region said the tourists "first watched a documentary in a hotel room. After some of them left, the rest proceeded to watch video clips advocating terrorism."
They added that police seized "similar" videos from a cellphone "belonging to Hoosain Ismail Jacobs, a South African national."
The report said that nine of the foreigners - five South Africans, three British and one Indian - were suspected of "organizing, leading or joining terrorist groups."
All of the nine "admitted to their illegal acts and repented" before police imposed the "lenient sentence" of deportation, it added.
A total of 20 visitors from South Africa, Britain and India were held at an Inner Mongolian airport on Friday last week, causing diplomatic concern. The group included doctors, executives and a former anti-apartheid activist, who were on a lengthy sight-seeing tour of China. They were arrested thirty days into their trip, before they were able to board a plane to the city of Xian.
A statement released on Friday by a spokesman for two of the tourists, Mr Hoosain Jacobs and his wife Tahira, said the detentions may have been made after an "unfortunate misunderstanding" concerning Genghis Khan. It said, "They watched a documentary on Genghis Khan to further their understanding of the region they were in at the time, and this may have mistakenly been deemed as 'propaganda' material'.
"It can only be assumed that junior officials who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia made a mistake, due to perhaps their unfamiliarity" with English, it added.
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"It can only be assumed that junior officials who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia made a mistake, due to perhaps their unfamiliarity" with English
Debatable whether they were unfamiliar with history.
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But was the terrorist being "advocated" Genghis Khan?
Actually, it was one of the original terrorist group, the cult of the assassins who sent agents to kill Möngke Khan that resulted in the expedition that laid waste to their domain, Persia, and Baghdad. Not a 'kinder gentler' campaign, but the terrorism ended, mainly because the Mongols could out do anyone else on 'terror'.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says at least 142 civilians have been killed 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... over the past 10 days, sending the total civilian corpse count in more than three months of violence above 1,600.
Air strikes and ground fighting have continued despite a U.N.-brokered truce between Iranian catspaws known as Houthis and Yemen's internationally backed exiled government and its allies.
Rupert Colville, a front man for the U.N. human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... office, said in Geneva that at least 142 non-combatants were killed between July 3 and Monday and another 224 were maimed. That included a total of 76 deaths and 38 injuries in a pair of Arclight airstrikes on markets July 6.
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[al-Alam] Iraqi security forces have tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! those linked with a deadly terrorist boom-mobileing that killed 120 people in Khan Bani Saad in the province of Diyala on Friday, a minister said; Al-Alam News Network reports.
Iraq's Interior Minister Muhammad al-Ghaban announced on Sunday that suspects linked with the suicide kaboom have been captured, according to Iraqi TV.
Back on Friday, at least 115 adults and children were killed when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! in a busy market in Khan Bani Saad, a mostly Shiite town about 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of Baghdad.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group grabbed credit on Twitter for the bombing.
People were celebrating the end of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when the explosive-laden vehicle went off, marking one of the single deadliest acts of terror the notorious group has claimed.
The blast brought down several buildings in the city.
By Saturday, the corpse count had risen to 120, according to Muthana al Tamimi, governor of Diyala province. But with 140 more maimed in the blast, the number may go up.
The suicide boom-mobileer was carrying around three tons of explosives in a truck, offering a discount for sale of ice as a trap to lure more people.
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[al-Alam] ISIS chief singer-songwriter has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, according to pro-ISIS social media accounts. Maher Meshaal died in the strategic city of Hasakah which has been bombed by both United States-led forces and the Syrian government.
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[AL] When the controversy over the Confederate flag erupted last month, the owner of a Huntsville flag company said her business would make the flags even if no one else would. And that's apparently what's happened. When the leftists try to delete an entire page in the country's history they may be resisted. Regardless of whether you identify with the blue or the gray, it still happened and the populace took it seriously enough to die for their beliefs. The tragedy of the war has always been the fact that there were admirable men on both sides, along with the bad guys and the nonentities. History didn't start with Selma. It didn't begin with WWII, regardless of what's usually playing on the History Channel.
"I'm not aware of another company in the United States making these flags," said Belinda Kennedy, owner of Alabama Flag & Banner, in an interview Thursday with AL.com. The flags aren't illegal -- yet.
So now you know why the website for the Governors Drive business near downtown Huntsville cautions visitors that all Confederate flag orders will take two to three weeks to be filled. It doesn't have anything to do with race. It has to do with not being told what to do. That's not government's place. The government's place is to build roads, regulate interstate commerce, and provide for national defense.
"We are getting absolutely swamped," Kennedy said. "It's let up a little but what we're finding is that people are still wanting the really pretty sewn, the ones that are more like a piece of art with the sewn stripes and the applique stars. Those are really labor intensive and it takes a long time. We're still being flooded with orders for those. We're getting tons of overseas orders. We're going as fast as we can." My wife and I took one of our granddaughters to a movie this afternoon. Before the movie started we were subjected to three anti-smoking commercials. I had a sudden vision of We the People storming the capital, flying Confederate flags and smoking cigarettes. By the way, Antman: The Motion Picture stinks.
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Try to ban something, especially if it is popular, only increases the demand.
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The government's place is to build roads, regulate interstate commerce, and provide for national defense.
It also used to be to maintain a common single stable currency. The roads are falling apart (just travel IL), they're strangling commerce with central planning and taxes, and they've dropped national defense to pre-1939 levels of proportional manning. So why shouldn't they screw up the currency as well. Bread and games for everyone!
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The founding fathers didn't think the federal government should build roads.
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..considering one of the first was started in 1811, I suspect more than just a couple of founding fathers were around for the say so. Those guys were a big audience for the history of antiquity and grasped the Roman practice of road building.
[Dhaka Tribune] Three brothers have been beaten and hacked to death following a dispute during a football match in the district's Sonaimuri upazila.
The dear departed are Md Kamal, 36, Md Harun, 32, Md Babul, 27, sons of Maksud Ullah, of Kazibari village under Nateswar union.
Victims' younger brother Md Morshed told the Dhaka Tribune: "My brothers went to watch a local friendly football match. During the match, they locked in an altercation with Golam Maula.
"At one stage of quarrel, a group of 10-12 criminals, led by Golam Maula, beat my brothers up and hacked, leaving them dead on the spot."
Of the attackers, seven are identified as Saddam, Anwar, Azim, Tawhid, Razu, Sharif and Rafiqul. They left the spot immediately after the incident.
Kazi Haniful Islam Bhuiyan, OC of Sonaimuri cop shoppe, said: "Being informed, police recovered the bodies from the spot. Drive is underway to capture the killers."
Nurul Amin Swapan, chairman of Nateswar Union Gay Pareehad, claimed that the victims were involved in drug peddling and many other illegal activities in the area and locals were frustrated with their activities.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... when asked, the OC said he did not have such information on the victims.
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[NATION.PK] In an embarrassing disclosure for Pakistain, Chinese official media today reported that the "spy" drone Mighty Pak Army shot down along the LoC, claiming it belonged to Indian security forces, was made in China.
The drone was "recognised in Beijing as the Chinese made DJI phantom 3," the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC)-run People's Daily said in a report on its website.
Quoting Shanghai-based Observer website, the report said that the Phantom 3 advanced drone represents the most intelligent, most powerful, and most accessible drone to date.
Observer says the drone sells for USD 1,200 each. DJI is a Chinese technology company founded in 2006 by Frank Wang and headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.
The firm manufactures commercial and recreational unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial photography and videography, it said.
The People's Daily report confirming the Chinese identity of the drone may put Pakistain military in a spot considering the close and strategic ties between Islamabad and Beijing.
The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) had already denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! Questioning the Pak allegations, foreign secretary S Jaishankar had said the "photograph of the drone in question indicates that it's not of Indian design, nor of any UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) category held in the inventory of the Indian armed forces.
"It appears to be of Chinese design, and is commercially available off-the-shelf."
India's rebuttal came as tension escalated along the LoC, following firing and mortar shelling by Pak forces. Indian forces have responded to the Pak action.
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[BESTANEWS] YPG Press Office has reported that constant military operations conducted by joined forces of the People's Defense Units (YPG) and the Women's Defense Units (YPJ) continue to confront the ISIS gang group attempting occupation efforts near the city of Hesekê, Rojava.
Conducting operational forces in the east of Hesekê, the Defense Units last night advanced from Aziziyah neighborhood to the south of the city and from the Mt. Kezwan to the east, and reached each other -- in a substantial method to complete a sieging perimeter on Hesekê. In this way, all ISIS supply routes from rural districts to localities of Nashwa, Khweran and Panorama were cut off.
In west Hesekê, YPG/YPJ units last night progressed toward the Nashwa distric where sporadic festivities occurred between YPG/YPJ troops and ISIS gangs near the village of Um Hijra.
To rescue their beleaguered forces from the siege, ISIS gangs tried to carry out attacks from the town Hawl, eastern Hasakah, and the village of Malabiyah to the south of Hesekê. After an effective response, the two attempts were defeated; while there was no immediate word on ISIS attackers' possible dead or maimed.
The statement further reported that leading unceasing military campaigns, the Defense Units continue to attack ISIS gangs in far eastern/southern countryside of Kobanê.
In south Kobanê, security forces were informed last night that two suspected ISIS fighters have attempted to infiltrate in areas under YPG/YPJ Units' initiative. To capture these gang forces, YPG/YPJ troops began an operation and eventually killed the two gang operatives after a short time contact.
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So all of those leaflets are now wadding for artillery charges?
[ARABNEWS] Police on Sunday fired water canon at demonstrators rallying in the Indian capital against the failure to provide better safety for women after a teen was allegedly stabbed to death.
Dozens of angry protesters, mainly from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi tried to break through and jump over barricades erected around the police headquarters over the alleged murder of a 19-year-old girl last week.
The victim's family says she was stabbed to death in their central Delhi neighborhood after trying to avoid being harassed by two men late last Thursday. The eleventh grader was stabbed 35 times, according to local media.
The Delhi government has accused the police of abetting the killing by "inaction," saying they had never registered several complaints the victim filed against the perpetrators -- two brothers from the locality -- since 2013.
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... 's (MQM) Rabita Committee late on Sunday night appealed to Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... asking him to take back his decision regarding the hunger strike. From the looks of him, he could go six or seven months without eating and still wouldn't have his schoolboy figure back, assuming he ever had one.
Earlier, Altaf Hussain on Sunday released a statement in which he announced his decision to go on a hunger strike unto death in protest.
The MQM chief has decided to go on a hunger strike against what he calls 'illegal' detention of his party activists by security forces.
According to the statement given, preparations are being made for the hunger strike, and it will commence once permission is received from the local administration in London.
"I have promised the people that I will die rather than bow my head in front of tyrants," said Hussain on Sunday.
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[ABS-CBN] Four civilians, including a two-year-old boy, were injured after an improvised explosive device exploded in Jolo, Sulu Saturday night.
Col. Alan Arrojado said the IED was hidden by Abu Sayyaf militants on a parked motorcycle in front of a karaoke bar. Preliminary investigations showed that the black motorcycle, where the IED was hidden, was parked by the suspects in front of the bar about two hours before the explosion.
Arrojado, citing a "reliable source," said the attack was perpetrated by Abu Sayyaf members Alkam Udiaman and Almuktar Suddung, along with an unidentified trainee.
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[Inquirer] A 21-year-old woman was injured when an improvised bomb, thought to have been planted by communist militants, went off near a police station in Mabini, Compostela Valley, on Saturday. Witnesses said a motorcycle sped off moments after the blast near the vicinity of the town police station.
Saturday's attack came a day after five Philippine troops were injured in an ambush by New People's Army militants in nearby Pantukan municipality. Captain Alberto Caber said, "(Soldiers and militiamen) from the 101st Division Reconnaissance Company were on security patrol when fired upon by NPA rebels. A 30-minute firefight ensued, wounding a militiaman and four regular soldiers."
Last week, suspected communist hit men gunned down an unarmed Army ranger who was taking his son to school in San Antonio village, also in Mabini.
[Al Ahram] Addressing his congregation on the Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, Imam Mohammed Abdul-Azeez implored worshipers to combat Moslem extremism in the aftermath of a shooting rampage that killed five servicemen in Tennessee.
The suspect, a young Moslem who grew up in the Chattanooga area, also died in the shootout on Thursday, the last day of Islam's holy month of fasting.
It was the latest reminder to American Moslems of the need to find ways to keep teenagers and young adults from being drawn to ideologies promoted by such groups as 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.... , the turbans also known as ISIS who control part of Syria.
"When they talk about Syria, when they talk about Tennessee ... what will they say about the American Moslem community?" Azeez asked the 2,000 congregants at the rented hall in Sacramento, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, on Friday.
He went on to rail against bully boys, whom he said usurp the spirit of Allah for their own purposes.
The FBI is investigating the Chattanooga shooting as an act of terrorism, though law enforcement officials said it was premature to speculate on the gunman's motive.
Hours before the attack, the suspect, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, had texted his close friend a link to a long Islamic verse that included the line: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."
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I hope the U.S. Muslims can discourage the interest in radical Islam on the part of mostly young Muslims.
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At the start of World War 2 a number of Japanese joined the US military to prove they were not on the side of the enemy. This was despite real grevances as FDR and cronies grabbed up property owned by Japanese American families.
At the start of the War on Terror a number of Muslims joined the enemy while the rest stayed at home nit-picking and complaining about the injustice they faced during a war started by their co-religionists. Most (one might even say all) of the complaints turned out to be based on untruths.
[Al Ahram] Yemeni pro-government forces on Sunday sought to tighten their control of Aden as Iran-backed rebels mounted resistance in some districts, two days after the regime declared the city "liberated".
Backed by air support from Saudi-led warplanes and troops freshly trained in the kingdom, forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi have managed wrest back control of most of the port city.
Two ministers of the exiled government returned to Aden this weekend, shortly after Prime Minister Khaled Bahah heralded its "liberation", four months after the Shia 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 ... rebels entered the city.
On Sunday, fighters from the pro-Hadi Popular Resistance advanced towards the rebel-held district of Al-Tawahi, a military source said.
The neighbourhood is home to Aden's presidential residence, where Hadi had taken refuge when he escaped house arrest under the rebels in Sanaa in February, before being forced to flee for 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... Swathes of the southern city have been reduced to rubble by the four months of ferocious fighting.
Warplanes from a Saudi-led Arab coalition have kept up the air campaign launched in March in support of Hadi and against the Huthis and renegade troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... Around 15 air strikes targeted rebel positions in Al-Tawahi and on the northern outskirts of the city where rebels had brought reinforcements, military sources and witnesses said.
Fighting also went on in the district of Crater where some rebels remain holed up, according to pro-Hadi fighters.
Nine rebels were killed in a raid on Khormaksar neighbourhood, witnesses said.
The interior and transportation ministers headed a delegation of the exiled government that landed in Aden on Friday night. They took part in a meeting on Saturday aimed at securing the city.
The government-run news agency said the meeting looked into reopening the airport and the port to allow the flow of much-needed aid, as well as the restoration of electricity and water.
Loyalist forces had secured Aden airport shortly after they launched an assault on Tuesday against the rebels dubbed "Operation Golden Arrow".
Some displaced residents of Aden returned to assess the damage to their houses and neighbourhoods.
"There is no life! No hospitals, no electricity, nor water. If it was not for the two wells of the neighbourhood, people would have died of thirst," said Crater resident Moatez al-Mayssuri.
A rebel front man dismissed the government's claims on Saturday that it had seized control of Aden as "psychological warfare and an attempt to improve the crushed morale" of loyalist fighters.
On Sunday, a front man of the Huthis' Ansarullah movement said the rebels had "regained the lead and repelled several attacks by the mercenaries".
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Local fighters and army forces 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... have wrested two military bases from 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 ... forces overnight, residents and officials said, building on a week of gains against the country's dominant faction.
The advances come a day after Yemen's government in exile declared the key southern city of Aden "liberated," in their biggest victory yet in a Saudi-led air campaign and civil war that has raged almost four months and killed more than 3,500 people.
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces backed up by air strikes seized the Labuza army base in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province north of the port city and the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230km (145 miles) away.
Officials in the anti-Houthi forces say the offensive was planned for weeks and benefited from training and arms deliveries from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates.
The war in Yemen has pitted the Sunni Moslem Gulf states, which support the exiled government, against the Shi'ite Houthis allied to Iran, in a conflict that has further raised the stakes as the Middles East grapples with regional rivalries and sectarian strife.
But power struggles have simmered for years in the impoverished and conflict-wracked country, and fighters in Yemen's south -- the setting for most of the recent battles -- have long sought independence from the North, the Houthis' home.
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[Bangkok Post] A volunteer militiaman was gunned down in Narathiwat province on Sunday morning. The incident on a road in Cho Airong district. Chaisit Malai had been returning home on a motorcycle from a plantation when pillion rider on another motorcycle that had followed him for some time opened fire at him with an AK47, instantly killing him.
[Al Ahram] 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... troops said Sunday they had launched a new offensive against Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia, vowing to flush the bully boyz out of rural areas.
The African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, said "Operation Jubba Corridor" was launched on Friday in the Bay and Gedo regions south of the capital Mogadishu along with Somali government troops.
Officials and witnesses confirmed heavy fighting was raging near the Shabaab strongholds of Dinsor and Bardhere, and said the bandidosbully boyz hit back with a suicide car kaboom against a convoy of Æthiopian troops, who are leading the offensive.
"The operation will ensure that all the remaining areas in Somalia will be liberated and peace restored," AMISOM said in a statement.
A Somali military official in the region, Mohammed Osman, confirmed heavy fighting between AMISOM and Somali troops on one side and the Shabaab on the other.
"There are heavy festivities going on between our forces and Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... militia along the road that leads to Dinsor. The bandidosbully boyz ambushed a military convoy," he said.
Witnesses who live close to the battleground said a suicide kaboomer struck the convoy with a boom-mobile loaded with explosives. There were no immediate reports on casualties.
The offensive was launched days after Kenyan government reports that a US drone strike in the region killed at least 30 Shabaab rebels, among them several commanders.
It also comes several weeks after last month's Shabaab assault on a AMISOM base which left dozens of Burundian soldiers dead in one of the single deadliest incidents since AMISOM soldiers arrived in Somalia eight years ago.
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[AA.TR] Rolling rallies by Reclaim Australia group continue across country, with anti-racism protesters confronting the right wing Islamophobes. That's the actual blurb on the article from Andalou.
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nothing annoys me more. The protesters are not *right wing*. They are *nationalist* - a completely different thing.
Right wing = capitalist, free market fan, protects the individuals right to private property against the state
left wing = socialist, big government fan, promotes the idea that the state should confiscate the private property of individuals through taxation for redistribution
Reclaim Australia has no economic outlook, it is neither right nor left wing.
They are flag=draped nationalists, which for some bizarre reason ignoramus 18 year old know-nothing reporters describe as *right wing*.
Perhaps they confuse the flag draped nationalism with nazi nationalism - which was left wing I might add. The Nazis were socialists. Left wing, racist socialists.
That is also why Reclaim Australia get called racist even though there are black white and asian members of that group. They are actually against the rise of Islamofascism but just express themselves really badly like the rank amateurs they are. They drape themselves in the Aussie flag because they dont really know how to express what they really want - the protection of secular law against the Islamofascist political push. That is complicated. They dont form that thought they just know they hate sharia and halal certification. So they get an aussie flag and wear it like a superman cape and get called nazis.
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I wonder, what kind of a -phobe
Strokes a scimitar under his robe,
With a heart full of dread
That he might fail to spread
His insanity over the globe?
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Anon1 the confusion is natural because the left tends to hate their country (whichever that country is). So different groups that love their country (right wing or nationalist or whatever) are easily mixed up.
[ARABNEWS] The Council of Senior Scholars The Learned Elders of Islam...
praised the Saudi security forces for dismantling a cluster of terror cells linked to Daesh in the Kingdom and said that those linked to terrorism have drifted away from Islamic values.
The council condemned terrorism, saying the actions by deviant groups are only serving the agendas of the enemies of Islam and Muslims, local media reported.
It emphasized that all citizens, including students, preachers, teachers and media persons are responsible for uncovering such deviant and evil designs emitting from these terrorist groups.
The council also noted that families have a major role to play in keeping their children away from such evil ideas and thoughts.
Meanwhile, a man who threatened to kill Saudi satirist Nasser Al-Qasabi last month is among the 144 Daesh-linked suspects detained, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
Al-Qasabi’s sketch comedy show “Selfie” earned him death threats from Daesh after mocking the extremists. In one scene, a group of warriors at a “girl market” pick concubines from a line of chained women abducted from the battlefield.
In a response from a supporter of the militants, a Twitter user named Jalabeeb Al-Jizrawi wrote to Al-Qasabi: “I swear to God you will regret what you did, you apostate.”
“The holy warriors will not rest until they cut your head from your body, in just a few days hopefully,” he wrote in a post that was retweeted over 3,000 times.
It is now believed “Jalabeeb Al-Jizrawi” has been arrested as part of a crackdown.
“God is my protector. I’m an artist, and the artist’s essential role is to reveal society’s challenges even if he pays a price,” Al-Qasabi had said following the threat. “Warning the people about Daesh is the true jihad, because we’re fighting them with art not war,” he added.
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[ARABNEWS] A bombardment in Aden by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia and forces loyal to deposed President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... killed 43 people and injured 173 on Sunday, the Health Ministry said two days after the city was declared liberated.
More than 100 were maimed when the Dar Saad neighborhood in the north of the port city was targeted, local health chief Al-Khader Laswar said.
Clashes continued in the city's northern districts as local fighters backed by the Riyadh-based government and a Saudi-led Arab coalition pushed to seize remaining parts of Aden. Those fighters and Yemeni army forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi seized Aden's airport and other central areas in an assault dubbed "Operation Golden Arrow." Their advance was aided by Gulf efforts to train and equip Yemeni army forces loyal to Hadi and transport them to Aden.
The interior and transportation ministers took part in a meeting aimed at securing the city. The meeting looked into reopening the airport and the port to allow the flow of much-needed aid, as well as the restoration of electricity and water services.
"There is no life! No hospitals, no electricity, no water. If it was not for the two wells of the neighborhood, people would have died of thirst," said Crater resident Moatez Al-Mayssuri.
Elsewhere, firefighters managed to extinguish a huge blaze at a gas depot southwest of Taiz after Iran-backed rebels shelled it. On Sunday, fighters from the pro-Hadi Popular Resistance advanced toward the rebel-held district of Al-Tawahi, a military source said. The Popular Resistance captured Al-Anad Triangle located in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province.
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[al-Alam] Egypt's military front man says the corpse count from the Sinai Peninsula a day earlier has climbed to seven soldiers after a series of ISIS claimed attacks.
The statement from Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir on Sunday said the military killed 59 bully boyz during the day's operations, which involved air cover.
The front man initially said that a shell struck a single checkpoint Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding four. Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to speak to journalists, said bully boyz attacked two checkpoints.
In its daily radio broadcast, the ISIS group said its fighters attacked multiple checkpoints and military installations Saturday in North Sinai, naming at least two checkpoints and saying festivities took place near a local airport.
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[AA.TR] Despite having an estimated potential of 20 gigawatts of hydroelectric power, the second largest in Central Africa, half the population of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... does not have access to electricity throughout the day.
Electricity cuts "have become very common in Cameroon, (living in) darkness is what Cameroonians have in common," Carlos Alain Tetchang, a 19-year-old university student living in Douala, Cameroon's economic capital, told Anadolu Agency.
He recounted how he suffered to pass his high school exams: "Every evening, I had the same fear -- that the electricity will cut again. Every day I had to buy three candles in order to study."
Tetchang said he has grown accustomed to electricity cuts. "Cameroon has many dams but cannot use them wisely," he said.
Cameroon's electricity problem has two roots: low production capacity and dams being left unexploited.
Joel Nana Kontchou, CEO of Eneo, said: "The electricity rate is even lower in rural areas."
Eneo is a private Cameroonian energy company, which monopolizes electricity production in the Central African state.
"The annual electricity consumption per capita is about 165 kwh. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... it is 1,650 kwh in southern Africa," he said.
Out of the 22 million people living in Cameroon, only 976,000 are subscribers to Eneo.
"The energy supplied today is not stable and is frequently interrupted," Kontchou said. "The company plans to invest 447 billion CFA Francs ($810.9 million) over the next 10 years into its network."
According to Robert Soh Tangakou, an economist and lecturer at the University of Douala, "the huge hydroelectric potential available to Cameroon can significantly contribute to increasing the country's economic growth."
He believes that to satisfy Cameroon's electricity demand, Eneo must implement a series of measures.
"The state and the company in charge (Eneo) must complete the construction projects of current dams and diversify the production of energy, using solar in particular," Tangakou said.
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[ARABNEWS] Daesh fired chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq last month, Kurdish fighters and weapons experts have said.
The Conflict Armament Research (CAR) group and Sahan Research said in a statement Friday that Daesh targeted Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga with a projectile filled with a chemical agent on June 21 or 22.
The organizations also documented two such attacks against Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on June 28.
The YPG said the attacks targeted the Kurdish-held Salhiya district of Hasakeh city and Kurdish positions south of the town of Tel Brak.
"Upon impact, the projectiles released a yellow gas with a strong smell of rotten onions," the YPG said in a statement on Friday.
It added that the ground around the impact sites was stained with a liquid that was green at first but turned yellow on contact with sunlight.
"Our troops exposed to the gas experienced burning of the throat, eyes and nose, combined with severe headaches, muscle pain and impaired concentration and mobility. Prolonged exposure to the chemicals also caused vomiting."
The YPG reported no deaths in the attacks and said that exposed forces subsequently recovered from their symptoms.
They added that YPG fighters had captured industrial-grade gas masks from Daesh forces in recent weeks "confirming that they are prepared and equipped for chemical warfare along this sector of the front."
CAR and Sahan Research, who conducted research in coordination with Kurdish forces, said in a joint statement that seven projectiles were fired in the Hasakeh city attack, and 17 in the attack near Tal Brak.
They said urine samples taken from those affected in the Tal Brak attack tested positive for a compound that is commonly found in agricultural pesticides.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... Daesh executed an Iraqi journalist in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on charges of spying, local officials and colleagues said Saturday. Jala Al-Abadi was taken from his home with his phone and laptop on June 4 and executed on Wednesday by firing squad after being sentenced by a Daesh court.
A former senior security officer in the area and a medical source in Mosul confirmed the young journalist's death.
The father of two was born in 1988 and had worked as a cameraman for a local channel before Daesh took over Iraq's second city in June 2014.
He left his city then but, according to a someone who was close to the journalist, he returned to Mosul for personal reasons. He did not elaborate.
Abadi was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! when he tried to leave again and charged by Daesh, which has run the city since June 10 last year, with "leaking information" about the group to the national press.
Mohammed Al-Bayati, the head of the Nineveh Media Network, condemned the latest execution and urged the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to support the families of murdered journalists.
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[Al Ahram] Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza appears set to win a controversial third consecutive term in elections on Tuesday, a hollow victory that will leave him ruling over a violently divided nation.
The opposition and civil society groups have denounced his candidacy as unconstitutional and a violation of a peace deal that brought an end to a dozen years of civil war and ethnic massacres in 2006. And then it'll be all over but the shootin'.
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[Al Ahram] Syrian regime air raids on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the capital on Saturday killed 12 civilians, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported five people killed in regime barrel bomb raids in the Aleppo region in the north, taking to 82 the civilian corpse count in such attacks in the province this week.
Around the capital, the air force carried out five raids on Arbin in Eastern Ghouta, killing the 12 who included three women and two children, and wounding dozens, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
It also said helicopters dropped 28 barrel bombs in the Zabadani area, the last rebel bastion near the border with Leb.
Two people were killed in four air raids on the town, the Observatory said, adding that three rebels were killed trying to infiltrate the nearby town of Douma.
Syrian government forces backed by fighters from Leb's Shiite Hezbollah militia have been on the attack in the Zabadani area for the past week.
Zabadani, 47 kilometres (29 miles) northwest of Damascus on the road to Beirut, is strategic to Hezbollah and rebels have been under siege there for more than two years.
Many residents have left as stocks of food and medicines dried up because of the siege, but activists say there are still a few thousand civilians there, mostly in eastern districts.
In Aleppo province, the Observatory said regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Aysheh village near Al-Bab, killing five people including a woman and a baby.
For more than a week government forces have been targeting Al-Bab which is controlled by the jihadist 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.
Al-Bab is strategically important because it is one of IS's closest positions to regime-held parts of Aleppo.
The Observatory said 82 civilians -- among them 12 children and 15 women -- have now been killed in regime raids on the northeastern region of Aleppo since July 11, mainly in Al-Bab.
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[RUDAW.NET] A US-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital 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 Syria, promising those below that "freedom will come" to the region, activists said Sunday.
An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the leaflets had drawings showing dead forces of Evil and their flag turned upside down. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, with two words in Arab below: "Freedom will come."
The latest leaflet drop comes as YPG fighters have been advancing in northern Syria as close as 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Raqqa.
Coalition warplanes have dropped such leaflets in the past. One previous had a cartoon showing masked Islamic State forces of Evil at a "hiring office" feeding people into a meat grinder.
Also Sunday, the forces of Evil gave Internet cafes in Raqaa four days to stop offering wireless Internet connections to nearby homes, the Observatory and Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered said. The move comes two weeks after forces of Evil released a video purporting to show the killing of two Syrian men in Raqqa, allegedly for spying.
The Islamic State group holds about a third of Syria and neighboring Iraq in its self-declared "caliphate."
On Friday, a truck bombing by the group in Iraq's eastern Diyala province killed 115 people at a crowded market. Authorities there have fired the local police chief and three officers, while two others are being investigated, said senior Iraqi police officials speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Sunday as they weren't authorized to talk to journalists.
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That alleviated the toilet paper shortage for the day.
[ARABNEWS] A British man who was last year sentenced by a US court to 12-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to running a website that supported the Taliban, has been released, his family said on Sunday.
Babar Ahmad's sentence included 10 years he had already served. US prosecutors had said his crimes included recruiting fighters for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington.
But the judge who sentenced Ahmad said she had not given him the maximum penalty of 25 years as she did not believe he had been directly involved with Al-Qaeda and was not at risk of being involved in future crimes.
"We, the family of Babar Ahmad, are delighted to announce that ... Babar has returned home to us after 11 years in prison," his family said in a statement.
Ahmad was extradited from Britannia in 2012 along with a second man, Syed Talha Ahsan. Both were charged in Connecticut as authorities argued they used an Internet service provider in the state to run at least one of their websites.
Ahmad's lawyers had argued that while he tried to help Moslems under attack in Bosnia and Chechnya through his publications in the 1990s, he regretted supporting the Taliban and condemned the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Eleven years of solitary confinement and isolation in ten different prisons has been an experience too profound to sum up in a few words here and now," Ahmad said. "In time, I look forward to sharing reflections on my experience to help inform others."
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[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Salahuddin Rabbani said on Sunday that in dealing with the country's security situation, the Mujahideen and religious leaders in Badakhshan must not be ignored.
Rabbani, who visited Badakhshan on Sunday, said: "The absence of the Mujahideen in government and within security forces is an issue that the Afghanistan government needs to address. The presence of the Mujahideen is effective and efficient."
"They have fought for 30 years in the name of religion and honesty in terms of defending the country. They have fought for freedom without a salary. They are again ready to serve their people and their country and they must not be ignored."
He went on to say that "neighboring countries are trying to make Badakhshan a Daesh base. "Big powers, a neighboring country including Daesh, al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks, even foeigners, are trying to position Badkhshan in the heart of north Wazoo," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... provincial council and civil society members are concerned about the province's insecurity and say if government ignores the security issue, the insecurity in Badakhshan will have a detrimental effect on the entire security situation of the northern parts of the country.
"In some districts of this province we noted that Lions of Islam have better equipment compared to security forces; unfortunately there is no strong will within the government to equip and strengthen the security forces in Afghanistan, especially in Badakhshan," civil society member Sayed Omer Baher said.
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Amazon and Walmart are really providing a master class in why monopolies are so dangerous. And Amazon, with its ruthless grip over book sales, has now moved on to overt censorship.
This latest target was a book by Civil War author Michael Dreese. Dreese has written a number of books, including two about battle flags. The one about Union battle flags is titled, "Never Desert the Flag". The one about Confederate flags is titled, "This Flag Never Goes Down."
Amazon, which still sells Hitler's Mein Kampf, decided to ban the second book. More at the link
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While Amazon does dominate a giant chunk of the book market, the Gettysburg Museum of History chose to respond by advertising the book as "Banned by Amazon."
I wonder if the Gettysburg Museum does on-line orders? Why, yes! They do!
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Banning a book? Shades of Nazism, Talibanism, and radical Islam. That will increase sales. Everyone will clamor for the book to see what they are missing. Banning of books or anything is a confused policy in the U.S. Confused in that things which are far more objectionable are not banned.
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Regarding Daniel Greenfield, he writes an excellent blog called Sultan Knish. I shared an posting with my wife recently and we both were impressed with the writing.
[Al Ahram] Authorities in Bahrain said an kaboom on Sunday as a police patrol passed by in the Shia-majority village of Ekr was a "terrorist act", adding that nobody was injured.
The interior ministry said on Twitter that an investigation was under way into the second such incident in 24 hours.
On Saturday, another police patrol was targeted in Krana, another village near the capital Manama, it said.
The ministry on Wednesday said a man was killed while trying to plant a bomb in Ekr. It did not identify him.
Shia-led protests since 2011 demanding reforms in the minority Sunni-ruled kingdom have sparked festivities with security forces in which at least 89 people have been killed, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups say.
Since an Arab Spring-inspired uprising was crushed four years ago, protesters have clashed frequently with security forces in Shia villages outside Manama.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] UNHCR: Some 10,500 new arrivals to 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... have been recorded since the start of the conflict on 26th March, latest UNHCR figures reveal. Since the start of the year, over 37,000 refugees and migrants have arrived by sea, the majority from Æthiopia as well as Somalis and other nationalities.
Many are tricked into making the journey by smugglers who tell them that the conflict is over and all is safe in Yemen. The usual risks associated with such sea crossings of abduction, attacks, drowning, exploitation and sexual assault still exist. Due to the ongoing conflict and reduced access, UNHCR and partners are unable to bring arrivals to urban centres in order to receive full assistance.
Mass information campaigns are planned for Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... and Somaliland and other points of departure to discourage crossings. At the same time, over 51,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti, Somalia, Oman, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Sudan.
- See more at: http://yemenonline.info/special-reports/631#sthash.djxLflwD.dpuf
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[ARABNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's security forces detained nearly 500 people attempting to cross the border from war-torn Syria on Saturday, the army announced.
"A total of 488 people were detained by the land forces command border units while trying to cross into Turkey from Syria and 26 while attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey," the army said on Sunday in a statement posted on its website.
The army statement did not reveal the nationalities of those detained.
Turkey has often boasted of an "open-door" policy championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and taken in 1.8 million refugees since the Syrian conflict started in 2011 but has repeatedly complained that it has been left to shoulder an unfair burden.
Several hundred thousand refugees are sheltered in camps along the border with Syria but the vast majority of them are scattered throughout the country including the mega city Istanbul.
Turkey has long been under international pressure to tighten the security of its volatile 911-km border with Syria to cut the flow of faceless myrmidons who try to join the ranks of Daesh.
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[IsraelTimes] Dual-purpose materials essential for the terrorist group's activity are being smuggled into the Gazoo Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing
The Moslem holy month of Ramadan ended on Friday, signaling the start of Eid al-Fitr celebrations for Gazoo's inhabitants. The faithful fasted from dawn to dusk each day for a month in the heat of June and July, not knowing what the future held for the Gazoo Strip.
The members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, did the same. They have received only a few hundred shekels instead of their full salaries for the past four months because of Hamas's financial hardship. Full salaries are supposed to be paid out this month due to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's decision to resume transferring grants from Iran in light of his agreement with the P5+1.
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[Ynet] US-led forces targeted Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holy warriors with 16 air strikes in Iraq and nine in Syria on Saturday, the US military said.
The air strikes hit or destroyed tactical units, tunnels, buildings and weaponry in six Iraqi cities, with the most strikes - six - centered on Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement Sunday.
In Syria, the coalition said eight air strikes around Hasakah - where Islamic State holy warriors launched an offensive last month - hit six fighting positions, three vehicles, two weapons caches and a bunker system. The ninth strike was near the Death Eater stronghold if Raqqa, it said.
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Six fighting positions, three vehicles, two weapons caches, one bunker system and a partridge in a pear tree.
General Curtis LeMay has to be rolling his eyes at the daintiness of it all.
[Al Ahram] Italiatossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! three Egyptian men who are suspected to have piloted a boat carrying more than 300 migrants to Italia from Egypt, including a 10-year-old Syrian girl whose father said she died during the sea crossing, according to Italian media.
A Syrian man who was brought to Sicily on Wednesday after being rescued told an Italian prosecutor in that his daughter had fallen into a diabetic coma during the voyage and died.
Italian media said Egyptian people smugglers, to whom he had paid several thousand dollars for the trip, took a small backpack containing his daughter's insulin and threw it into the sea just as the boat was pulling out of port.
Without the medicine the girl did not survive the long trip and, at the urging of the other passengers on the crowded boat, her father buried her at sea, Italian media reported citing the prosecutor in Syracuse who took his testimony.
Police said they arrested the three men for people trafficking, not homicide, since the girl's father had said the men arrested were not the men who threw away the girl's medicine, Italian media reported on Saturday.
Italia is one of the main entry points, along with Greece, for migrants and refugees seeking to enter Europe from North Africa and the government estimates as many as 200,000 may come this year.
Tensions have risen in recent days with Italians increasingly protesting the opening of new shelters near their homes. Italia is housing more than 84,000 migrants in shelters across the country, the Interior Ministry says.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least 11 soldiers have been killed in an attack by myrmidon myrmidongunnies west of Algeria's capital.
The ambush took place on Thursday night at the start of celebrations marking the end of Ramadan.
Armed groups were active in the region, Ain Defla, in the 1990s.
Correspondents say although Algeria is now much more stable, gunnies with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL operate in parts of the country, mostly in remote mountain areas.
Thursday night's attack took place in a forest in Ain Defla, 240km (150 miles) from Algiers, a police commander told News Agency that Dare Not be Named - speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... as an official statement has not yet been released.
The attack was also reported by a security source and the local media, although they gave few other details.
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[RUDAW.NET] -Two police officials in Iraq's eastern Diyala province say authorities are restructuring a town's police department after an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -claimed truck bombing there killed 115 people.
The officials say the police chief in Khan Beni Saad and three officers have been fired in the wake of the attack on a crowded market as residents began to mark the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. They say two other officers are being investigated. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to talk to journalists.
At least 115 people, including women and kiddies, were killed in Friday night's attack in the mostly Shiite town and more than 170 were maimed. It was one of the deadliest attacks to strike Iraq since US troops left in 2011.
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[RFE/RL] The sharing of baby and toddler photos is a disturbing new trend among Daesh recruits who've come from Russia and the Central Asia region. That Daesh militants are having babies in Syria is not surprising, as foreign fighters are are encouraged to marry. Many others brought their children with them to Daesh-controlled territory.
But these babies are now being used by their fathers to prove they are "good" jihadis. Militants are sharing pictures of themselves holding their babies or toddlers and calling them "future mujahedin."
The trend is particularly fashionable among North Caucasian militants from the Chechen-led Daesh faction Katibat al-Aqsa. One Chechen militant, Mansur Shishani, was photographed in May posing with a toddler named Askhab. Both Mansur and the toddler are holding guns. Another Katibat al-Aqsa militant, Zakaria Kureish, posted an image of his two babies with the caption, "My children are growing up in the caliphate."
But it is not only rank-and-file terrorists who have posted such photos. The notorious Tajik militant Nusrat Nazarov (alias Abu Kholidi Kurobi) had a photograph of himself taken wearing military fatigues and a black beret with a Daesh logo, while holding a baby. Nazarov was reported killed in Syria earlier this month. The leader of Katibat al-Aqsa, a Chechen named Abu Umar Grozny, has photographed himself holding his baby daughter dressed in a camouflage-patterned head scarf.
These photographs are being used for recruitment purposes. The message is clear, in Daesh-controlled territory, even toddlers are taking up arms and are therefore more "manly" than those who stay at home and refuse to fight.
The future for the youngsters shown off in the photographs is bleak. Unless they are killed in fighting, or unless Daesh is dislodged, the male babies will undergo military training and ideological indoctrination from an early age. Unless Daesh is defeated before they are tweens, it will likely recruit them as "caliphate cubs." Daesh continues to use children under 18 as front-line fighters, and even as suicide bombers and to carry out execution-style killings.
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How long before these Islamic State babies are all starving in famine and we are asked to feed them.
some primitive civilisations we should have just denied access to technology. Never sold them weapons or anything tech. Just let them trade their caravans and smile and shake hands and take all our goods with us when we left. Not trade with them, not sell to them.
they would still now be fighting with swords and riding camels.
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perhaps we should cut off the flow of education to the Islamist world. That means saudi arabia, pakistan, any islamist or proto=jihadi is barred from western university education no matter how much money is waved. No Western contractor should go to Saudi to work or train or educate the local rubes.
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If I read a book about ISIS back in the 80s there is no way I'd have believed this nonsense. Too over the top. Now I wonder if the fine folks we helped fight the Soviets in Afghanistan were more of the same or if we've now developed a newer, sicker brand of Islamist.
I think ISIS is the least tayiqa using brand of Islamist. I think that is one thing that has made their recruitment efforts far more effective than AlQ or the Taliban, etc.
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Militants are sharing pictures of themselves holding their babies or toddlers and calling them "future mujahedin."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops thwarted a plot by the murderous Moslem groups to carry out an attack 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.... by detonating a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED).
Officials in Kabul police department said the VBIED was confiscated by police forces from the vicinity of 15th police district.
The officials further added that the murderous Moslems were looking to carry out an attack during the Eid days using the vehicle packed with explosives.
Some weapons including Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers were also confiscated by the police forces, the officials added.
This comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the group announced its summer offensive earlier this year and since then launched numerous attacks across the country including capital Kabul.
The Talibs launched coordinated suicide kaboom on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops convoy and the Afghan intelligence compound in capital Kabul nearly two weeks ago.
According to the security officials at least three people were maimed in the attack on NATO troops convoy while a security guard of the NDS compound was killed along with three jacket wallahs in the second attack on the intelligence compound.
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[AA.TR] The Nigerien army announced Sunday that it killed 31 members of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in a military operation it carried out during the middle of the week.
"The armed forces launched a military operation against Boko Haram, following an attack carried out by the latter on one of the towns in the country, during the middle of last week, which led to the deaths of 15 people and four other being injured," military front man Colonel Moustapha Ledru said in a statement.
Ledru said that 31 Boko Haram forces of Evil were killed in the operation, which also led to the arrest of a high-ranking official in the group.
Boko Haram launched a number of assaults on Niger last June, which led to more than 50 casualties.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tampa Tribute] TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Whenever members of the 
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army units killed increasing numbers of 
[NATION.PK] Pakistain is the land of the pure. Quaid-e-Azam kept his nose to the grindstone to create a state where 
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The 
[al-Alam] ISIS chief singer-songwriter has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, according to pro-ISIS social media accounts. Maher Meshaal died in the strategic city of Hasakah which has been bombed by both United States-led forces and the Syrian government.
[AL] When the controversy over the Confederate flag erupted last month, the owner of a Huntsville flag company said her business would make the flags even if no one else would. And that's apparently what's happened.
[NATION.PK] In an embarrassing disclosure for Pakistain, Chinese official media today reported that the "spy" drone 
[DAWN] 
[Inquirer] A 21-year-old woman was injured when an improvised bomb, thought to have been planted by communist militants, went off near a police station in Mabini, Compostela Valley, on Saturday. Witnesses said a motorcycle sped off moments after the blast near the vicinity of the town police station.
[AA.TR] Turkish professor on international relations says nuclear deal will not fundamentally change Iranian policy
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