[Manhattan Institute] This piece is the fourth installment of a guest-blog series by Heather Mac Donald for the Washington Post's The Volokh Conspiracy.
My advocacy of what I have called the "Ferguson Effect" has proved to be the most controversial and contested aspect of my new book, "The War on Cops." When I first proposed the theory in a May 2015 Wall Street Journal op-ed, the policy arm of the American Society of Criminology immediately sent out an alert seeking rebuttals to my hypothesis. The opposition has hardly abated since then.
Yet virtually every police officer working in an urban area in the post-Ferguson era tells the same tale: He or she is backing off of discretionary, proactive policing. Officers operate today under the presumption that they are racist, even homicidal; their stop and arrest activity is measured against population benchmarks, rather than crime benchmarks, and thus deemed racially biased; they worry that any use of force against a black civilian, no matter how justified, could be interpreted as a race-based assault and could put their career at risk.
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When I first proposed the theory in a May 2015 Wall Street Journal op-ed, the policy arm of the American Society of Criminology immediately sent out an alert seeking rebuttals to my hypothesis. The opposition has hardly abated since then.
[BBC] Shooting in a major shopping mall in the North of Munich. Several casualties reported. Doesn't matter who you kill, as long as you kill someone every day.
Terror hit home
Frank G. nearly simultaneously submitted the report from CNN on page 3:
Non-WOT until more info in
One person was killed and 10 people were injured in a shooting at a Munich shopping mall Friday, CNN affiliate NTV reported. Police say shooting is over
Gunfire rang out at a shopping mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, prompting a large law enforcement response to what one police spokesperson said was a "shooting spree." Watching the teevee coverage I heard (didn't see) AK-47 fire. How do you carry an AK-47 around the streets of a city like Munich? Why don't police shoot first and ask questions später? But we've already asked why they brought that big wooden horse into the country.
The shooting, reported about 6 p.m. local time at the Olympia shopping mall, is over, police spokeswoman Claudia Kvenzel said. There was no immediate information about injuries or deaths.
Lynn Stein, who said she works at the Jack Wolfskin store in the mall, told CNN that the shooter was inside the mall.
"I heard several shots," Stein said. "(I) was just going to buy something while my coworker was still in the shop.
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Police confirms several people killed, many wounded. Killer on the large, U-Bahn traffic in the area stopped, helicopters buzzing around everywhere.
I'm safe btw.
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U-Bahn traffic completely stopped now
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Police says several shooters
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We're getting unconfirmed reports about shootings on Munich's hub Stachus, that's VERY CLOSE to where I live. Police urges people to stay home, taxi drivers must not take passengers.
Note that close to the shopping mall there's a major festival going on.
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Authorities have confirmed three deaths after a shooting at a shopping mall in northern Munich in which three attackers appear to have been involved.
20.07: Police are giving more details on the attack on Facebook.
At 5.50 pm eyewitnesses started calling police. The shooting started in Hanauer Straße, then Riesstraße then Olympia Einkaufszentrum. Witnesses reported three people with firearms.
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All public transport stopped. Munich Central Station evacuated, no trains.
Oh great, the helicopter is back.
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How long will it take them to check the Mosque's for the shooters you think?
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Baraq Obama wants European style gun control for America.
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Anti terror unit GSG9 moving into Munich, hunt for killers is on, problem is they might have fled with other people into the high rise apartment buildings nearby, which makes opendoors problematic.
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Official wording is "Akute Terrorlage"
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Weapons are reported as "Langwaffen". Could be rifles but also AK-47
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European Conservative: Be safe. Keep your weapon hidden from police. They will be very on edge from seeing ANY weapon and will assume one with a weapon as a bad guy.
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ESPECIALLY through a window.
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6 dead confirmed now.
Don't worry Alaska Paul, I'm not stupid.
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Thanks for the best coverage on the internet. Stay safe.
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Rumor is that one of the attackers killed himself to avoid capture.
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Contrary to what is reported Munich police info has not been stellar.
It should have been quite easy to verify the situation in the center of Munich. No info was forthcoming.
There's a strange second video footage with a verbal altercation between an - obviously - Bavarian guy addressing one shooter from a balcony as "asshole" and the shooter replying "I'm German. I have been in treatment".
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I do like your Mauser, EC!
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I absolutely recommend it AK. Very versatile, absolutely reliable.
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Perfect for deer and wild boar hunting
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#5 Mr. B: "The Germans will NOT stand for this."
They have so far . . . . >:-(
EC - I'm glad you're OK. Thanks for the reports.
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Thank you for the link, Former European. Welcome to the conversation!
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I've analyzed the footage numerous times. At least the shooter on the parking lot doesn't sound like an Islamist.
He's insulted by an Bavarian from a balcony as a "Scheiss-Kanake" and replies he's born in Germany. We hear the word Hartz IV (stands for receiving social benefits). Also says he's been in treatment. Had to buy a weapon.
No eyewitness has reported Allahu akbars.
One man has been found dead 1 km away from the scene, maybe the only (?) shooter?
It's getting very murky.
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No eyewitness has reported Allahu akbars.
Not according to CNN, it appears the foreign media and US Fox news is suppressing this.
A woman named Lauretta told CNN she was in a McDonald's across the street from the mall when a man with a gun came out of a bathroom and began shooting.
"I come out of the toilet and I hear like an alarm, boom, boom, boom," she told CNN's Dugald McConnell. "He's killing the children (...) The children were sitting to eat. They can't run."
Loretta said the gunman was right behind her but had his back to her. She sd her 8-year-old son had been in the bathroom with the shooter, whom she described as heavyset and wearing dark clothing. She said the man yelled "Allahu akbar!"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/europe/germany-munich-shooting-live-updates/index.html
and another
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23.00: BR are reporting that ninth body which is male is probably that of a gunman. He reportedly has a red rucksack with him. Police are approaching with extreme caution as they don't know what is in bag
Also, now at least one gunman is being claimed as opposed to three, and only one site involved instead of three.
CNN quotes a witness at the McDonalds across from the mall who claimed to be Muslim and that she heard the gunaman say "Allahu Akhbar" when he came out of the bathroom and started shooting the children eating there.
At this point I await something more definitive. There are also insane Germans, murderous people on both the far right and far left
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Munich police would certainly want to contact that witness.
I may be wrong but currently things are pointing to only one - and now dead - deranged gunman with psychological problems.
But let's see what the night brings. Traffic is resuming in the inner city.
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I do start to wonder what authorities really know. I'm well connected but whenever "Islamist motivation" comes up I run against al wall.
and COWARD Merkel is nowhere to be seen and heard. She lets her chief of staff do the talking and NO journalist asks what she is doing.
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I'm most interested in the phenomena of fewer final shooters and fewer victims. No official source wants to say 'some got away'. I wonder how many single shooter scenarios there really are.
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OK Munich police just said there was only ONE shooter who killed himself on the run.
Given the circumstances this probably was not an Islamist attack (jury is still out on that one), but a seriously deranged person with a handgun (no AK47) shooting people in the head.
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Just in time for Hillary to announce her VP now.
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Or rather German-Algerian
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Oh, well, then. Must be a right-wing extremist.
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nope Iranian
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flash radicalization...
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Interesting. I met an Iranian in Germany in the early 1990s, sent there by her government to study at the university. She was one of many, she said, with many undefined. Apparently some married and stayed on.
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The Algerian was mistranslated by CNN, he has double nationality German and Iranian.
In the balcony scene he claims to have been born in Germany
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While the media doesn't differentiate, this would be the first Shiia terror attack in the West in recent years. Unless he was a Sunni convert or an Arab from Khuzestan or even a Kurd.
[Times Live] "We shot ourselves in the foot by toppling the apartheid government‚" residents of an Eastern Cape village said on Thursday.
Tsholomnqa villagers had been waiting for a tarred road and decent houses for decades‚ said community leader‚ Wele Ntshongola.
Premier Willies Mchunu announces a commission of inquiry will probe KwaZulu-Natal political killings #Election2016
He said the dawn of democracy had marked the beginning of the collapse of quality service delivery for the Eastern Cape rural area which is situated on the R72 outside East London.
Anna Madonsela is stabbed to death while putting up an election poster in KwaZulu-Natal:
"This village was in a good state under the Ciskei homeland led by LL Sebe. We used to have a tarred road... with workers who used to maintain it as well as free seed‚ crops and livestock." He said they celebrated when democracy dawned. "Little did we know that democracy would bring more oppression.
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"One total economic and military boycott of South Africa."
Same old Syrian, Libyan, Iraqi globalist regime changers at work yet today. Mucking around in the business of other people. Attempting to pick 'winners and losers' whilst lining their pockets in the process.
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Ditto P2k, and not to be confused with the enablers of fairness, equal opportunity, Global Warming, gender equality, white privilege, Wymn's Choice, Gay Rights, BLM, or Free Trade.
[Wash Times] The Justice Department is taking a Pennsylvania town to court over a municipal board’s denial of a zoning application for a mosque, accusing officials of discriminating against a local Muslim organization on the basis of religion.
The Bensalem Township violated the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act when its zoning board in 2014 rejected a zoning request that would have allowed the Bensalem Masjid to build a mosque in the town, Justice Department attorneys wrote in a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
"Our Constitution protects the rights of religious communities to build places of worship free from unlawful interference and unnecessary barriers," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "The Department of Justice will continue to challenge unjustified local zoning actions around the country when they encroach upon this important civil right."
Members of the local Muslim community sought to build a mosque after years of renting a local fire hall for worship services. In 2012, the Bensalem Masjid organization met with elected officials to discuss options for building a 17,000-square-foot mosque on land adjacent to the township.
But as plans moved forward and the group attended a series of meetings before the Bensalem Township Zoning Hearing Board, the complaint alleges that Bensalem Masjid was treated differently than other religious and non-religious groups that had sought similar zoning variances. The board, which ultimately rejected the application in a 4-0 vote, treated other groups "more favorably than it treated the Bensalem’s Masjid’s application throughout the variance process."
McDonald’s Corp.’s largest franchisee has had to stop selling the Big Mac in Venezuela as it can’t source the bread it needs to make the famous sandwich.
Buenos Aires-based Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc., which operates more than 2,000 McDonald’s restaurants throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, said on Thursday that the problem was temporary and that other menu options were available.
Gabriel Perales arrived in Caracas looking for a Big Mac because the McDonald’s in his town of Zaraza in Guarico state is always closed.
“This is wrong, like everything in Venezuela, because of shortages,” Perales, 36, said at the McDonald’s in the Ciudad Tamanaco shopping mall. “I just found out there are no Big Macs. They gave me the other burger. Now McDonald’s has problems with flour shortages. Who would have thought?”
Agence France-Presse first reported the sales suspension on July 20.
[Breitbart] During his July 21 speech at the Republican National Convention, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio described Donald Trump as a "law and order" candidate who "will build the wall" along the southern border to keep our nation secure.
Arpaio said:
We have criminals penetrating our weak border security system and committing serious crimes. I am supporting Donald Trump because he is a leader, he produces results, and is the only candidate for president ready to get tough in order to protect Americans. I have fought on the front lines to prevent illegal immigration and I know Donald Trump will stand with me and other proud Americans to secure our border.
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Trump has made the wall the corner stone of his campaign. If there is no progress on the wall after his first four years he will become a laughingstock and will not get a second four years.
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I'll bet he can find enough volunteers to get this done on-time and under-budget.
A concern I have, though, is that some folks will take pot shots at those putting the sections in place.
Do he means no more "Nation Building"? Then I'm all for it.
Donald Trump "humbly" accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday night, capping an historic and unlikely run to become the party's standard-bearer.
Trump's acceptance speech was well within his rhetorical repertoire, themed not on a promise of morning in America or on the prospects for a better world, but on a country gripped by violence in its streets and a relentless threat of terrorism from a specific type of foreigner.
Rattling off anecdotes of killings from Chicago to the country's southern border, from Missouri to France, Trump promised an end to the nation's apparent chaos should he assume its highest office.
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The OWG Globies aren't going to go away quickly, over + in addition to what troubles a POTUS Trump Admin is in for by virtue of his policy that US Allies should pay for US Security. NATIONALISTS WILL HAVE A FIGHT ON THIR HANDS WID THE ANTI-NATIONALISTS.
> China vs Japan = East China Sea.
> Taiwan.
> KSA vs Iran.
> Caliphate-happy ISIS vs Trump/US BFF the AFPAK-only Taliban.
[CBS] CHICAGO -- A Chicago police officer was wounded Thursday evening during a gun battle with a suspect in the South Loop, officials said, CBS Chicago reported.
The incident occurred around 8 p.m. at 18th and Calumet
The officer who was shot was on bicycle patrol with a partner when a citizen told them a man was behaving "erratically" at Fort Dearborn Park, Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson told reporters.
The officers approached a man who was talking on a cell phone and asked him to hang up so they could interview him. The man pulled a gun out of a backpack and began firing at the officers, striking one in the thigh, Johnson said.
[LI] Yesterday I asked the question, in light of the academic purge in Turkey, Will anti-Israel academic boycotters now also boycott Turkish universities?
As noted in that post, over 250 university presidents and major university associations have condemned the academic boycott of Israel. In particular, the December 2013 adoption of the academic boycott of Israel by the American Studies Association was condemned as violation of academic freedom.
Read the dozens and dozens of statements describing how the ASA has violated academic freedom here.
The American Association of University Professors, which has acted at the unofficial authority on academic freedom since the early 1900s, came out against the ASA’s academic boycott of Israel because it views any systematic academic boycott as destructive:
The Association recognizes the right of individual faculty members or groups of academics not to cooperate with other individual faculty members or academic institutions with whom or with which they disagree. We believe, however, that when such noncooperation takes the form of a systematic academic boycott, it threatens the principles of free expression and communication on which we collectively depend....
We understand that threats to or infringements of academic freedom may occasionally seem so dire as to require compromising basic precepts of academic freedom, but we resist the argument that extraordinary circumstances should be the basis for limiting our fundamental commitment to the free exchange of ideas and their free expression.
The ASA was unmoved. To the contrary, it doubled down on the academic boycott of Israel by threatening to bar representatives of Israeli academic institutions from attending its 2014 annual meeting in California. Only after threat of legal action under California’s anti-discrimination laws did ASA relent, and announced that even Bibi Netanyahu was welcome.
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hypocrisy: noun, plural hypocrisies.
1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
2. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
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grom. To answer your question; What's Yurp for, "Look! A squirrel!"
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This is a duplicate, please delete.
I've had to snip or delete some of my own posts for the same reason, Besoeker. We each file differently, and sometimes don't notice the thing on on page 2. ;-)
[Wash Times] Philadelphia’s police union is blasting Hillary Clinton for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain police officers.
John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was "shocked and saddened" by the planned choice of speakers at the convention, which opens Monday in Philadelphia.
"The Fraternal Order of Police is insulted and will not soon forget that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are excluding the widows and other family members of police officers killed in the line of duty who were victims of explicit and not implied racism," Mr. McNesby said in a statement.
He said it’s "sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country.
"Mrs. Clinton, you should be ashamed of yourself, if that is possible."
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Hillary Clinton is now moving into tertitory that is very dangerous territory. Hillary Clinton is now seizing on the evil movement of cop killing.
During her time in law school she corresponded with Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals".
He offered her a job but she turned it down because because she did not think he was radical enough. She was interning for a leftist law firm that represented the Black Panthers. She now sees the anti cop movement as the vehicle for tearing down society via violence that radicals like her have been looking for, for decades.
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At that young age she was extremely anti-military, hence why Benghazi went down like it did. Obama and Hillary are identical in that mindset.
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He said it’s "sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts,
Nor do they wish to know the facts. Emphasis added.
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Wow - I did not believe this was true. I just checked the DNC list of speakers and it looks like Tuesday is Bubba Clinton and BLM day at the convention.
Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson will be laid to rest on Monday...and Clinton works to reignite the BLM madness on Tuesday. And what pizzes me off is that somewhere, right now, a police officer is going about his business on the beat or at home with his family, not knowing that he will be shot in the back and his/her life taken later this week by a racist BLM thug...because of this agitprop. Clinton is complicit.
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Inviting this "demographic" to speak at the the DNC is an extension of 0bean's efforts to divide and sow chaos in the US. I would like to say that his latest rhetoric suggests he's sort of backing down from this stance, but given his megalomania, he's not the kind to learn anything in less than about six years, if ever. So maybe he's having her pick up the mantle.
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I went to see that d00d twice, seriously. Closed for repair. I suspect the old boy is carted off to the deep freeze during the fierce Russian Summer.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Clinton's campaign emptied its war chest in June on Trump only to see the Democratic candidate's standing in national polls rise and then drop
Clinton raised $40.5 million in June and spent all but a small portion of it - $39.8 million - before month's end
Roughly $9 million went toward commercials; Trump hasn't run a single ad since wrapping up the GOP primary and is only three points down
Allies of the presumptive Democratic nominee are confident she'll win in November despite the lag in national polling
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Because they're the ones who are going to count the votes?
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Yes, the push is on. Voter ID laws are being amended by Federal judges in Texas and Wisconsin as we speak. Pets will be authorized to vote in a week or two.
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Pets will be authorized to vote in a week or two.
Many of the K-9s I worked with were smarter than most Democrats (except the crazy Malinois that bit me!)
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Allies of the presumptive Democratic nominee are confident she'll win in November despite the lag in national polling
Yes, traditionally the Donk Media has their candidate ahead by at least 10 points in the polls at this time before the election, narrowing quickly in the week or two just before the vote. What happens when it's already narrowed this far out?
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I think the swing voters, the uncommitted know what they have in Hillary so no amount of advertising is going to change what they know or how they think. that percentage that keeps saying they are going to vote for her are the true believers. Not all of whom actually vote.
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I wonder what they spent the other $30 million on.
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White guilt is what I'm supposed to feel
Black lives matter, so goes the spiel
Funny that, never said otherwise
Never donned no bed sheets disguise
The time has come for da peeps to get real.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The minister of defense General Abdullah Habibi has visited eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province to discuss the launch of a major operation against the loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in this province.
The provincial government in a statement said Gen. Habibi met with the provincial officials to discuss the launch of the operation.
The statement further added Gen. Habibi also visited the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army and discussed the operation with the military officials in detail.
President Mohamad AShraf Ghani has given the task to 201st Silab Corps to eliminate the loyalists of the terror group rom Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan provinces.
Earlier President Ghani visited Nangarhar province to meet the provincial officials and assess the security situation of the province.
He ordered the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army to completely root out the hard boyz from Nangarhar.
President Ghani further added that the difficult days in the country have gone but he cautioned that the enemies of
Afghanistan are still plotting destructive activities.
He also visited the residents of Kot district and hailed for their resistance and fight against the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group.
This comes as ISIS loyalists have been attempting to expand foothold in the country, an attempt that has forced the Afghan and US forces to step up strikes against them.
The US forces are regularly conducting drone strikes against the loyalists of the terror group in the restive parts of Nangarhar besides the Afghan forces conduct air and ground raids.
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SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. State Department said Thursday that it is looking into reports another American has been detained in Iran. State Department spokesman John Kirby would not comment further on the detention of Robin Shahini. What have we learned in 37 years ?
The girlfriend of the San Diego man said Shahini's sister told her Iranian authorities took him into custody July 11 while he was visiting family in his native Iran
There it is. He's a dual citizen, and thought the American citizenship would protect him.
and he has not been heard from since. She said she worries Shahini was detained because of his online comments criticizing Iran's human rights record.
No doubt. Or they just wanted another American hostage, and he was convenient.
At a news conference Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry declined to comment on the detention.
The Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force charged with protecting the Islamic Republic, increasingly has targeted those with Western ties since the nuclear deal in which Iran agreed to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Officials at the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Washington, D.C., could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Good thing we made that deal and lifted sanctions -- imagine the lack of good will we'd have otherwise...
A prisoner swap in January between Iran and the U.S. freed Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian-Americans.
Shahini, 46, graduated in May from San Diego State University with a degree in International Security and Conflict Resolution. He had been accepted to SDSU's graduate program in Homeland Security, but he has not registered for classes yet, according to university officials.
His girlfriend said he left for Iran on May 25 to see his mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The girlfriend said she communicated with Shahini on July 10 and was expecting to hear back the next day to help him get his paperwork to the university. She grew concerned after not hearing from him. She eventually reached his family, who told her Iranian intelligence officials came to their home in Gordon, Iran, and took him away. Authorities searched the home and took his personal belongings, she said. The family has not talked or seen him since. He had a plane ticket to return to San Diego on July 25 and had planned to start classes on Aug. 22, the girlfriend said.
"He's majoring in international security, so his passion involves peace and justice, human rights," the girlfriend said. "He's open about being a human rights advocate. But it's not only limited to Iran, he's also posted about other countries too."
She insisted to CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB-TV that Shahini hasn't done "anything wrong."
But terrorism expert Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer, told the station he's not surprised about the apparent detention.
"They don't need evidence to arrest American-Iranians," Baer said. "They simply suspect them of being American spies or dissidents. And if there's the slightest negative piece of information about them, they'll arrest them."
Baer said he doesn't expect U.S. officials to have much luck with Iranian authorities.
"They're a hard-headed bunch, Iranian intelligence, and vicious, to say the least. I don't have any hope that this is going to be settled anytime soon," he said.
Shahini left Iran in 1998 and has lived in San Diego for 16 years.
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Beating a long dead horse, but may I suggest we pause for a moment and remember how he got there, and the brave men whom, at all odds, attempted to prevent it.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announced that the country's security forces have discovered a secret tunnel in Eastern Iran that the murderous Moslems sought to use for sabotage operations.
"Two nights before, we discovered a 40-meter tunnel in the 20-meter depth of the earth in the Eastern parts of the country and they (the terrorists) intended to use it secretly in ripe conditions for conducting kaboom and other operations," Rahmani Fazli said, addressing a forum in Tehran on Thursday.
"40 people were incarcerated Please don't kill me! in this regard," he added, but declined to provide any further details.
In a relevant development, an informed source said on Wednesday that the Iranian security forces dismantled a terrorist cell in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, Fras news agency reported.
"Members of a team which sought to carry out sabotage acts and blow up different places in Khash were identified and arrested," the source said.
In the same region last month, the Iranian security forces arrested a member of Ansar al-Forqan terrorist group.
"During the Law Enforcement Police's festivities with members of a terrorist group in Khash in the last (Iranian) month (of Khordad - mid June), several people were killed but one of them was arrested alive and his confessions showed that these people were members of Ansar al-Forqan terrorist grouplet," said Mohammad Marziyeh, the general-prosecutor of Zahedan city.
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Bet it was the one they call Paleodin. Have Shovel, Will Travel
[Daily Excelsior] India today lashed out at Pakistain for "inciting and supporting" terrorism in Jammu and Kashmire and instead asked it to vacate its illegal occupation of Pakistain-occupied-Kashmire (PoK).
In a sharp reaction over anti-India rallies being held in Pakistain and other statements emanating from there over the situation in Kashmire, External Affairs Ministry said India strongly condemns encouragement and support to UN-designated bandidosforces of Evil and their activities from Pakistain.
Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup also said that in view of the threats of marches and protests at the High Commission of India in Islamabad, Pakistain should ensure full safety and security of Indian officials and their families there.
"We have seen reports about rallies, events and statements related to J&K in Pakistain and PoK over the last two days. We have also noted that the events were led by UN- designated terrorists, who had in the past protested the elimination of dreaded bandidosforces of Evil including the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... and Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in Pakistain.
"India strongly condemns the encouragement and support which such bandidosforces of Evil and their activities receive from Pakistain’s State.
"We once again ask Pakistain to stop inciting and supporting violence and terrorism in any part of our country and refrain from its deplorable meddling in our internal affairs in any manner," the Spokesperson said.
Asserting that the observance of ’Kashmire’s Accession to Pakistain Day’ exposes Pakistain’s longing for the territory of J&K, Swarup said,"India demands that Pakistain must fulfil the obligation to vacate its illegal occupation of PoK."
India also asked Pakistain to stop "misleading the international community and Kashmiris through meaningless exercises such as the so-called elections today in PoK which Pakistain ironically calls ’Azad’ (free).
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Police in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Thursday shot and killed two men they said were wanted fighters belonging to the Somali al Shabaab group, a senior officer said. The two, who had been under surveillance for two months, were killed after police raided their hideout in Mishomoroni area, deputy area police chief Walter Abondo said. Another man ran away escaped.
“We have identified the dead suspects…and the two have been linked to terrorism activities in Malindi and Lamu,” Abondo told reporters, referring to towns north of Mombasa that have witnessed attacks and heightened activity related to al Shabaab.
Police found greandes, bullets, explosive acid and compact discs that had bomb-assembling instructions in the hideout.
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A woman accused of funneling money to the al-Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab willingly admitted that she is an ardent supporter of the Somalia-based terrorist organization on the first day of her trial.
Her defense attorney, Paula Deutsch, has acknowledged that her client supports the jihadist group, arguing that does not prove that she provided financial aid to the al Shabaab terrorists. All her client did was “talk” about supporting al Shabaab without taking action, argues her public defender.
All we'll "talk" about doing is jugging her for 30 years...
In July 2014, Hinda Osman Dhirane, 44 years old and a mother of six, was arrested at her home in Kent, Washington, “on charges of providing material support to al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization that is conducting a violent insurgency campaign in Somalia,” reported the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Her trial, which is taking place at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, began on July 11.
Court records show Dhirane funneled small amounts of money to the terrorist group to avoid detection — as low as $50 or $100 at a time, for a total of less than $5,000.
Good enough for me. Guilty!
During the trial, Dhirane’s attorney said her client’s support for al Shabaab stems from Somalia’s history of corrupt and, at times, nonexistent government. Somalis “saw al-Shabaab as the hope to establish peace and order and a Sharia system of law,” declared Deutsch.
So stay in Somalia and fight with the Shaboobs. The moment you step on American soil you do things our way, and we don't support terrorist organizations.
Deutsch, began her opening statement Monday reading parts of a poem Dhirane had written as an ode to al-Shabab fighters.
Deutsch knows that she has a stinker of a case...
“We make no bones about the fact she was a supporter of al-Shabaab,” an al-Qaida affiliate centered in Somalia that claimed responsibility for the 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Kenya that killed 67 people, among other attacks, Deutsch said. “But it’s talk. It doesn’t prove that she necessarily provided substantial assistance to al-Shabaab.”
$5,000 is substantial.
However, prosecutors accuse Dhirane and her co-defendant Muna Osman Jama, 34, of more than talking about supporting the terrorist organization. Jama was arrested on the same day as Dhirane, only she was at her home in Reston, VA.
Although they were only supplying the group with relatively small amounts of U.S. dollars, prosecutors reportedly say it was enough to “provide significant buying power in Somalia for weapons and the like,” notes AP.
The Widows Ammunition Fund thanked her...
According to court records, defendants Muna Osman Jama and Hinda Osman Dhirane were the leaders of an al-Shabaab fundraising conspiracy operating in the United States, Kenya, the Netherlands, Somalia and elsewhere. Jama and Dhirane allegedly directed a network composed primarily of women who provided monthly payments that were coordinated, facilitated and tracked by the defendants to their conduits in Kenya and Somalia…
The defendants would refer to the money they sent overseas as “living expenses,” and they repeatedly used code words such as “orphans” and “brothers in the mountains” to refer to al-Shabaab fighters, and “camels” to refer to trucks needed by al-Shabaab.
They hid the money in remittances that Somalis regularly send back to their native country, reportedly noted prosecutor Danya Atiyeh in her opening statement during the July 11 trial. Atiyeh explained that the remittances “make an ideal cover for disguising money. ”
She quoted Jama as saying in 2012: “If you work with the women and pretend that you are supporting your family, can the infidels and the animals who work with them find out what is in your heart?”
The DOJ did not reveal the women’s immigration status or whether they were born in the United States.
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Unlike the wives of Mateen and Tsarnaev, Hinda either backed non-approved regime moderates, or rebuffed recruitment efforts.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces sweep mosque, Islamic library and two private homes in Argenteuil; unclear if operation related to Nice attack
French anti-terrorist forces are conducting raids on locations in the northwestern Gay Paree suburb of Argenteuil near a mosque and an Islamic library.
A top security official said both La Belle France’s top counter-terrorism organization, the DGSI, and the country’s elite police were involved in the Thursday raids that targeted two private residences.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was unauthorized to speak publicly on the matter, said she didn’t know if the raids had any links to last week’s truck attack in Nice that killed 84 people and couldn’t elaborate further.
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Reminds me of old dreams involving domestic ops by French elite forces including the Foreign Legion.
Not much of a UK Royal Navy anymore = BREXIT to back up the Frenchies + keep the Hard Boyz from crossing the Channel. May explain dream sequences/scenes where French troops were digging trenches on their own soil.
[RealClearDefense] A less-well known but vital outcome of NATO's Warsaw summit was the Alliances' decision to create an intelligence and security division from among its existing organizations. This move is long overdue. There is a plethora of threats facing Europe and the United States, and yet the West has a record of intelligence failures that has come to characterize its policy today. As media reports indicate, the Turkish coup caught virtually the entire US foreign policy establishment by surprise; analysts were writing up to the last moment that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's control over the military seemed secure.
Intelligence failures are always going to occur no matter how governments structure their intelligence networks, but this is only the latest in a series of policy failures in which governments have blamed their intelligence organizations. In this regard, the US record is stunning. We already know that the US government and intelligence services failed to grasp the planning for 9/11 or to understand the realities in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion, including the absence of nuclear weapons there. Additionally, as former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted, the Untied States failed to grasp the scope of China's military buildup, and did not realize that Russia would attack Georgia in 2008.
More significantly, the United States missed the full nature of changes underway in the Russian military after 2008. Although it was clear to many analysts that Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade if Ukraine signed an association agreement with the EU and launched a westernizing revolution, the Obama administration--despite warnings from its intelligence community--could not formulate a coherent assessment of what was happening. In fact, Ukrainian parliamentarians told me in October 2013 that they believed Putin would invade if Ukraine signed the accords with the EU; it is incomprehensible that the US Embassy did not know this. And if it did, the administration should have.
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Not really an intelligence failure because the last people that needed to know about it was the US.
Considering their lack of intelligence, and their infusion of failures, I would say save these MEN from the hands GOD did what they must before the whole state became a islamic bastard child from hell.
Well they tried.
They need to be saved from from Erdogon for the best and last try department of the now or never club.
What you missed was losing a Nation like Turkey was less important than losing the war against Daesh which you lost when you failed to keep Iraq and Her Citizens safe from the Saddam army that would ultimately plunge you ALL into hell.
Hence, I go back on my meds and watch you scramble because you could not do the simpelist things to keep this bullshit at bay in the easiest form.
Erdo needs to go, and if you cannot see that now... You should NOT HAVE A JOB IN INTELLIGENCE>
Only GOD and the AF Commander planned this. Tell the toad that.
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Wait a minute. With all the speculation this was a Reichstag fire, how do we know Obama wasn't in on it?
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The same question goes for Besoeker's mug shots.
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
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When you fill the intel community full of true believers and political operatives with an agenda and marching orders, what do you expect of intel that doesn't fit the narrative
If Trump is elected, he's going to have to literally gut Langley to get any kind of accurate and actionable intel.
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Consider that when you see what happens to careers that tell the leaders wheat they don't want to hear, however accurate, you stop telling them. Instead you keep your head down. And in time see them salting the entire system with their people in career management, so you move on and willing dupes backfill you. Then you get pretty stories that assure and calm everyone until an ooops and then you cover up and invent something. After all, Champ has read the world is less violent since he assumed the throne. And he wants us to know it.
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#2 Whe was the last time some event didn't caught Besoeker's Klingons by surprise?
They do seem to miss events at all scales; big ones like the collapse of the fUSSR and little ones like some building in the Balkans being a Chinese embassy.
In fairness, this may be selection bias - we don't hear about stuff they get right. My personal pet theory is they rely too much on SIGINT (aka technology) and too little HUMINT - actual people walking down the street. Understandable in a way, since humans are a lot messier to deal with.
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In fairness, this may be selection bias - we don't hear about stuff they get right. My personal pet theory is they rely too much on SIGINT (aka technology) and too little HUMINT
Very astute assessment. There are of course others, but two significant reasons:
1. Technology is where the $$ money $$ is at.
2. HUMINT is time consuming, painstaking, and very difficult.
To your comment about 'not hearing stuff they get right.' If I'm riding on the one with the engine fires in #2 and #3, I more or less ambivalent about Delta's superb safety record.
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I think they like to hold their precious way too closely. Being in on Double Rock Above Top Secret I think must be some kinda euphoric.
Don't go to church tomorrow sweetness.
Why not? After last night I need redemption!
Can't tell you, it's triple rock classified.
Don't go! Foreign Powers are going to be mean tomorrow.
How do you know this?
What color is your nightie?
Purple?
Exactly!
Tell no one.
[ENT.SITEINTELGROUP] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced the death of a prominent commander, Abu Khaythama (Ahmed Jabri), in a clash in Bouzeguène in Algeria's blood-stained Tizi Ouzou province.
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[Rappler] Following the death of Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, a expert on terrorism warned that members of his network may join the Abu Sayyaf. On Tuesday, Indonesian police said one of the two men they killed in a gunfight was Santoso, alias Abu Wardah, who has been called the "symbolic heart of the jihadi movement."
While the news was welcome, terrorism expert Al Chaidar warned this could mean Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT or East Indonesia Mujahideen) militants may choose to go to the Philippines. He said they could opt to join the Abu Sayyaf now that Indonesian police are familiar with their whereabouts in the jungles of Poso.
He said, "Like the MIT, Abu Sayyaf is also based in one place. Both share the same nature. Thus the remaining MIT followers may go to Abu Sayyaf, if they manage to get out of Poso."
The MIT came to the attention of authorities when they killed two police officers in 2011. It engaged in more deadly attacks against security forces in the following years and, as Santoso's reputation grew among jihadis, militants flocked to the training camps.
MIT has pledged allegiance to Daesh, as has the Abu Sayyaf.
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I got thrown out of the on-campus pub at MIT.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine marines raided a suspected Abu Sayyaf hideout on Thursday and captured three people and three speedboats in a daring operation near the Sabah border in the southern Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi. A shotgun and ammunition were also taken from the men, who are being interrogated to determine if they were involved in cross-border kidnappings.
The capture of the trio coincided with the arrest late Thursday afternoon of an Abu Sayyaf militant – Bads Adjam, alias Abu Jihad – in Zamboanga City. Adjam has been linked to the 2002 kidnappings of six Jehovah’s Witnesses in Patikul town in Sulu province and 21 mostly European holidaymakers in Sipadan Island off Sabah in 2000.
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Al Shabaab fighters have retaken Ali-Gadud mosque area in southern Somalia after Government troops pulled out of the town on Thursday, residents said.
The Somali troops who vacated the town have retreated back to Adalle, where reports say they are planning a new counter-attack to regain control of Ali-Gadud mosque area.
Why, so that they can give it back again?
Local residents said Al Shabaab fighters with fighting vehicles moved in the town on Thursday morning, seizing police station and the main administrative headquarters. Al Shabaab militants hoisted their flag on the top buildings and lectured residents to inform them their comeback, according to the anonymous resident.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – “An improvised explosive device exploded, at noon today, near shops in al-Shaab area northeast of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding six others,” informed a source in the Ministry of Interior today.
Adding further the source said, “Security forces transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the body of the deceased was taken to the forensic department. The entire areas was cordoned off and thoroughfare has been prohibited.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Defense informed that two persons were killed and two others were wounded in a fire that broke out in a southern Baghdad residence.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “A gas cylinder exploded at noon today inside a house in Jurf al-Nadaf in southern Baghdad. The blast resulted in a fire, which killed two persons and injured two others.”
“Fire trucks rushed to the area and managed to douse the fire. The injured were transferred to a nearby hospital and the dead bodies to the forensic department,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – “A blast in northern Baghdad, which was targeted on a police patrol, left four policemen injured while it killed one,” informed a source in the Ministry of Interior.
“An improvised explosive exploded this afternoon, while the police patrol was passing through al-Tarmiya area in northern Baghdad. Apart from the human casualties, the vehicle on which the policemen were travelling was also damaged badly,” the source further said, adding, “Ambulances rushed to the blast area and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the forensic department.”
[UPI] WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army delivered AN-TPQ-36 Firefinder radar systems to the Ukrainian military, the service's Security Assistance Command said Wednesday.
The delivery took place July 2, the Army said in a statement.
The Q-36 radar, with its early detection capability, will help defend against rocket, mortar and artillery attacks, "a constant and lethal threat to military personnel and civilian populations in eastern Ukraine," the Army said.
The delivery was part of the Fiscal 2016 Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, part of a larger package that includes communication and medical equipment, night vision devices, personal protection equipment and military training, a program that totals more than $200 million.
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Classic obama shit move. We will be spending the next 50 years repairing the damage this walking turd has done to our country.
Q-36 is an old, not-quite-obsolete short range counter mortar radar from the 1980's. The Soviets russians know it well, and can easily jam it or simply out range it. Most of the arty the russians are using is much longer range & higher velocity than the Q-36 can easily track.
On top of those limitations, there are several additional pieces of equipment required to make a truly effective counter battery system. I strongly doubt that any of that gear was handed over with it.
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AN-TPQ-36 is adequate. The main threats are smaller caliber cannon, mortars, SPG-9 and RPGs. Guns and rockets 100mm and up were withdrawn from the front lines in 2015 and there have been attempts to withdraw guns under 100mm.
I'd like to know if any attempt been made to link the AN-TPQ-36 to Ukrainian guns for rapid counter battery fire.
[CNSNEWS] President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... said at the White House Summit on Global Development yesterday that "we are living in the most peaceful" era in human history and that "the world has never been less violent."
According to the White House schedule, the president used the summit to "bring together development leaders, public and private sector financing partners, civil society, diplomats, and entrepreneurs to mark our global progress and catalyze further development efforts."
"So it is worth reminding ourselves of how lucky we are to be living in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in human history," Obama said in the speech.
"Because the world has never been less violent, healthier, better educated, more tolerant, with more opportunity for more people, and more connected than it is today," he also said.
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Petulant whinging child. Have you noticed the people aged 40+ years old that suddenly discover that they are *OLD* now and all of their youthful fantasies will never come true. The good, mature people roll up their sleeves and prioritize what they think they can accomplish.
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Um, the Caliphate, the country that used to be Syria (along with the Christian genocide there), Iraq, the drug massacres on the US Mexican border, that ISIS thing in Europe...all beg to differ from the chump's bald faced lie.
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Are we sure this guy is NOT using drugs any more?
This kind of crap is straight from the Quaalude section of the peanut gallery
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Think about this, people.
Imagine his target audience - the Davoisie, the NPR-listening-pseudointellectual class, and the publicly employed.
All of those groups now have anxiety-free income streams, and get their "news" from outlets that black out any item or fact or story that might show the failures of leftist politicians and their policies.
So when he says this stuff, they swallow it hook, line and sinker. Because for them, things really ARE like that.
For the rest of us not so much.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 48 snuffies fighting for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during the operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the snuffies were killed during the operations conducted in the vicinity of Achin district.
MoD further added that the operations were jointly conducted by Afghan army and other security institutions including the Afghan Air Force.
Some weapons and ammunition belonging to the terror group were also destroyed during the raids, MoD said.
The loyalists of the terror group have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as defense minister Gen. Abdullah Habibi visited Nangarhar province on Wednesday to meet the provincial officials and discuss the launch of a major operation against ISIS terrorist group and other krazed killer groups in this province.
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have stepped up operations against the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group amid concerns that they are attempting to expand foothold in the country.
The US forces in Afghanistan are also conducted regular Arclight airstrikes against the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar province.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army and allies managed to repel a major terrorist attack on Mallah Farms in the province's northern countryside, inflicting heavy losses upon the murderous Moslems.
In Handarat camp where the gunnies of "Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki" slaughtered the Paleostinian child Abdullah Issa, the Syrian army shelled heavily with the terrorist groups.
The Syrian army units, backed by air force, on Thursday further continued carrying out counter-terrorism operations against terrorist organizations across the country, killing a number of Death Eaters and destroying their arms, dens and vehicles.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and popular committees managed on Thursday to repel an attack launched by the Saudi-led mercenaries on Haradh city in Hijja province near border with KSA.
The Saudi warplanes fruitlessly attempted to save the attackers by a large number of raids, as the Yemeni army and popular committees killed or injured scores of bully boyz and gunnies.
The Saudi-led escalation in the battlefield comes in the context of an attempt to thwart Kuwait negotiations which aim at reaching a peaceful solution for the Yemeni crisis.
The Yemeni army and popular committees also launched a ballistic missile on the Saudi National Guard post in Najran.
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... has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to runaway ex-president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to 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...
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a couple "stomachs roasting in a sea of fire" and they'd be eligible for an intern position at KCNA
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops have foiled an attack by a female hard boy on Supreme Court in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... city.
A security official has said the armed woman was looking to enter into the court compound but was rubbed out before she manage to go inside.
No group has so far grabbed credit behind the failed attack on the Supreme Court compound so far.
But the Talibs group earlier warned to carry out attacks on judiciary institutions and courts following the execution of a group of forces of Evil by the Afghan government.
Several Taliban, Haqqani network, and Al-Qaeda network forces of Evil were executed by the Afghan government after a major attack on VIP protection unit in Kabul.
The attack carried out in mid-April left at least 64 people dead and around 347 others maimed.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Gavin Eugene Long shot six coppers, killing three and wounding the others in an attack Sunday in Baton Rouge. He was killed by a police sniper.
According to a report by the Symbol Intelligence Group, a private intelligence contractor, Long was a "textbook spiritual seeker" who had joined several anti-government groups, including the Washitaw Nation, New Freedom Group, National of Islam, and Freedom from Covert Harassment and Surveillance.
Last year, Long changed his name to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra
...sounds like the name of a person tripping over the hem of his white muslin gown as he attempted to dance with the fairies in the moonlight...
and declared himself to be a Moor, part of the so-called Moorish Nation movement of African-Americans who regard themselves as descendants of Moors from Northwest Africa.
The name change symbolized giving up his "slave name" and taking an original Moorish name.
"Long’s new name has origins in ancient Egypt, which is consistent with Washitaw National beliefs that combine sovereign citizen ideas with Pan-African and Egyptian ideologies," the report said.
Ahistoric, romanticised, vicious nonsense.
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It's sounding more and more like deja vu with each passing day. Welcome to the Sixties!
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Not one part of that joke name is Egyptian. And I'm pretty sure "Cosmo" is a Greek word.
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Has anyone pointed out to these denizens of pond scum that northwest Africa is still there and they can go home to Moor land whenever they want?
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department police on Wednesday claimed to have killed two faceless myrmidons linked with the Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... who were involved in assassination'>assassination of members the Ahmedi and Shia communities.
[AlAhram] The US Treasury announced fresh sanctions Thursday targeting the arms and financial networks of the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... It added eight individuals and seven entities, some with links to Russia and China, to its sanctions blacklist, which aims to hamper their work by locking them out of the global financial system.
Those listed include Russia-based representatives of the Syrian firm Hesco Engineering and Construction, which the Treasury said operates energy production facilities in Syria.
The Treasury designated Yona Star International and T-Rubber for sanctions for their roles supplying the Syrian defense ministry, air force and other military bodies from their international offices. T-Rubber's China agents supplied aircraft tires to the air force, it said.
Several individuals and businesses involved in international money transfers were also cited for the blacklist.
The sanctions freeze any assets those listed might have in US jurisdictions, and ban US individuals and companies from doing business with them -- including non-American banks with a US presence, which includes most major banks around the world. That could make it harder for those blacklisted to make use of international financial networks.
"The Assad regime relentlessly engages in destabilizing behavior," said Adam Szubin, Treasury Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in a statement.
"Treasury will continue to act against those responsible for fueling the Assad regime's repressive actions and dangerous weapons proliferation."
[BusinessInsider] The US Navy just named the first carrier-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) the MQ-25A Stingray.
The Navy has been pursuing a carrier-based drone since 2006 -- first as a long-range stealthy bomber, then as a surveillance and strike craft, and finally as a flying tanker. Though air-to-air refueling is hardly a breakthrough, having a carrier-based tanker provides the Navy with a possible solution to one of their most pressing problems -- anti-access area denial (A2AD).
Both China and Russia have developed ranged platforms capable of locking US forces out of key locations in their respective areas, but the Stingray could increase the range of US carrier-based aircraft indefinitely, allowing them to burst enemy A2AD bubbles.
For instance, China's famous DF-21D "carrier killer" ballistic missile has a range of about 810 miles. The US's longest-range carrier-based aircraft only have a range of about 550 miles, which forces the US to either operate carrier-based aircraft outside of their effective range or risk bringing an entire carrier, with 6,000 sailors and about 70 aircraft, within range of the DF-21D.
The Stingray, once integrated into carrier fleets, will extend the range of US carrier's existing F-18s, allowing them to effectively operate from a safe distance.
Once fielded, the Navy will look to increase the role of the Stingray.
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Could have saved a double-armed buttload of money and just hung Buddy Stores on the (antiquated) Intruders as dedicated tankers. birds had just got new plastic wings and now they sit in Davis-Mothan....KA-6Ds and A-6Es co-existed for years on the flight decks until the damn Light Attack Mafia started to diversify....
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How much different is it between the deploymeny or basing of BMD/BMAADS-capable "Super-AEGIS" surface warfare vessels in Japan, wid China fitting out large ocean carriers wid DF-21/26 VLMS
What was the difference between a PERSHING INF capable of striking Moscow as easily as striking a Soviet tank division(s) attacking the Fulda Gap???
Submarines are "revenge" weapons, i.e. "third strike" + higher, NUCLEAR OR NON-NUCLEAR ARSENAL/FIRESHIPS are meant to confront the enemy from hour one of day one, i.e. "second strike" or lower.
Why should the US put ALCMS on 747's but China can't put anti-CVN ASCMS on same???
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Head of Khalidiya District Council, Ali Dawood, in a statement issued to the press has said that military reinforcements from Baghdad have arrived in eastern Ramadi and are all set to close in on Khalidiya island and press for the island’s liberation from ISIS control.
“Military reinforcements including army troops, Federal Police, Shields regiments and tanks have arrived at Khalidiya, 20 km in eastern Ramadi. Supported by international coalition, the reinforcements will storm into the island in the next few hours,” Dawood added in the statement.
“Apart from evacuating the civilians to safer places, the military reinforcements also intend to raise the Iraqi flag at one of the government buildings of the island,” Dawood concluded.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... gave interview to Cuba’s official state news agency Prensa Latina in which he said the Turks, 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... is and Saudis lost most of their cards on the battlefields in Syria and that Aleppo battle is their last card, affirming that there is strong harmony between Syria and Latin America, especially Cuba, on the political and historical levels and that hard work is needed in order to invigorate the different sectors of this relation, SANA reported.
Cuba is an awfully weak reed these days, but beggars can't be choosers.
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[AnNahar] Nigeria's military says it has rescued 80 children and women held captive by the 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... Lion of Islam group in a remote northeastern village.
Army front man Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman says they were freed Tuesday by troops who attacked a gathering of the Islamic fighters at Gangere village in Borno state.
He says 42 gunnies were killed and troops released 42 children and 38 women.
The military has reported freeing as many as 10,000 Boko Haram captives this year but none of the 219 girls from Chibok school. That mass abduction in April 2014 shocked people around the world and brought global attention to the seven-year Islamic insurgency that has spread across Nigeria's borders.
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[Hurriyet] French military intelligence estimates that about 100 foreigners continue to enter Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... each week to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), French daily Le Figaro reported on July 20.
"According to the Direction for Military Intelligence [DRM] in Gay Paree, each week, about 100 foreigners continue to cross Turkey into Syria to join Islamic State [ISIS]," Le Figaro reported, citing sources on July 20.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on July 17 that questions needed to be asked on whether Turkey was a viable partner in the fight against ISIS in Syria and would raise the issue in a coalition meeting in Washington this week.
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[DAWN] A committee comprising politicians from both the lower and upper houses of the parliament unanimously approved two bills on Thursday aimed at tackling honour killings and boosting rape convictions -- meaning they could be voted on within weeks.
Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid announced that the bills would soon be voted on by the parliament, days after social media star Qandeel Baloch was murdered by her brother.
Rights groups and politicians have for years called for tougher laws to tackle perpetrators of violence against women in Pakistain and the move follows a slew of high-profile killings in the country.
The perpetrators of honour killings ‐ in which the victim, normally a woman, is killed by a relative ‐ often walk free because they can seek forgiveness for the crime from another family member.
Rape conviction rates meanwhile are close to zero percent, largely due to the law's reliance on circumstantial evidence and a lack of forensic testing.
Hamid, who chaired the committee, said: "We have plugged all loopholes in the anti-honour killing legislation, which will be put up for approval at a joint sitting of parliament soon."
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We have plugged all loopholes in the anti-honour killing legislation
We'll see about that. I suspect the law will be largely ignored and that there will be nothing penalizing this.
Speaking only for myself, that's not the worst news I've ever heard. Contact me at grurkka@gmail for a time and an address, and plate carriers optional. BYOA
A? For American?
Ammo
(IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD – Al-Salam Brigades, the revitalized form of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, announced on Wednesday its insistence on targeting American troops that Washington plans to send to Iraq and said that its members ‘are thirsty for the blood of Americans’.
The spokesman for Salam Brigades, Alaa Abboud in a press statement, said, “The Iraqi army and Al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces are capable of freeing Mosul. The resistance factions have experience in urban warfare, while al-Hashed forces don’t have any experience on the ground. ”
Abboud added that, “Al- Salam Brigades are ready to cleanse ISIS from Mosul with the support of ten thousand fighters if US forces do not intervene, and if they do then we will target them. We are thirsty for Americans’ blood.”
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced on July 11, 2016, that the US would send about 560 extra troops to Iraq for helping the Iraqi forces in their battle to liberate Mosul from the ISIS grip.
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Bwah! Ha! Ha! Sadr's shit buddies..a million strong, were badly beaten by neckbeards monkeys of Daesh, all 800 of them...backed up by the Turks of Erdogan, of course...
[Bangkok Post] A passenger van driver was found hanged in a police cell on Tuesday, three days after he was detained for "innocently" delivering a parcel bomb to a defense volunteer unit. Somjit Jara-ae had been held at an interrogation center in Yala since last Saturday night. He was found dead with a shower hose around his neck in a sitting position near the door of his cell late on Tuesday night, Dusadee Chusangkit, chief investigator for the Southern Border Provinces Police Operations Center , told a press briefing in Yala province.
Did he also tie his hands behind his back?
Somjit, from Songkhla province, was detained after the supervisor at the van terminal where he worked gave him a parcel to deliver to a local unit of defense volunteers on July 5. The package was addressed to the unit. Authorities later discovered it contained a bomb inside a metal box, and safely defused the explosive.
Somjit told interrogators he did not know what was inside the parcel, or who sent it. He just followed his supervisor's order to deliver it.
Dusadee said that Somjit committed suicide due to stress after his son visited him on Tuesday and they had an argument. The family did not dispute the cause of the death, and so no autopsy was performed, Dusadee said.
Yala police commander Itthiphol Achariyapradit said Somjit had provided useful information and more people would be investigated.
[ENT.SITEINTELGROUP] The Levantine Front and Faylaq al-Sham, Syrian rebel groups participating in the activities of Fath Halab Operations Room, reported clashes around Aleppo.
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[FREEBEACON] Former Texas governor Rick Perry said President B.O. has "corroded our military" in remarks at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.
Perry devoted his speech at an event hosted by FRC Action and the Susan B. Anthony List to veterans’ issues, saying he trusts Republican nominee Donald Trump to put veterans first if he is elected president.
"Today I don’t think we are where we need to be," Perry said. "We’re not where we need to be with those active-duty military men and women. The current administration has corroded our military."
"They corroded them from the standpoint of the financial side, from the leadership side, and they’ve corroded it with rules of engagement that send the message to those young men and women, ’Listen, we may put your life in jeopardy so that we can be politically correct,’" he said. "It is time to send a powerful message and say, ’No more.’"
Perry, who served five years as an Air Force pilot, said restoring a strong military that "projects our power" is the number one issue facing the country.
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[DAWN] India on Thursday alleged that the protests in India-held Kashmire during observance of ’Kashmire’s Accession to Pakistain Day’ and ’Black Day’ were led by UN-designated terrorists.
In a statement issued by Indian Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi said: "We have seen reports about rallies, events and statements related to Jammu and Kashmire over the last two days. We have also noted that the events were led by UN-designated terrorists.
It went on to state that the groups which led the protests in India-held Kashmire were the same which had in the past "protested the elimination of dreaded turbans including the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... and Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in Pakistain".
India strongly condemns the encouragement and support which such turbans and their activities receive from Pakistain, it read.
"We once again ask Pakistain to stop inciting and supporting violence and terrorism in any part of our country and refrain from its deplorable meddling in our internal affairs in any manner."
The India foreign ministry maintained that the observance of "Kashmire’s Accession to Pakistain Day" exposes Pakistain’s longing for the territory of Jammu and Kashmire.
New Delhi urged Islamabad to stop "misleading" the international community and Kashmiris through meaningless exercises.
"In view of the threats of marches and protests at the High Commission of India in Islamabad, we ask the Government of Pakistain to ensure full safety and security of the High Commission, all its officials and their families in Pakistain," the statement concluded.
Indian security forces on Wednesday had removed dozens of black and Pak flags in India-held Kashmire hoisted by residents observing "black day" on the call of Pakistain government to protest the killing of a top pro-independence hard boy leader.
Indian administration feared fresh trouble in the tense region after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... called for observing a "black day" to express solidarity with "Kashmiris facing atrocities at the hands of Indian forces".
In a statement, Nawaz had said, "India should realise that when people decide to do something, the weapons cannot stop their way."
Rubbishing Indian claim of Kashmire being its internal matter, Nawaz said: "Kashmire cannot be accepted as an internal matter of India as it has been declared a disputed territory by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... ."
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[TOWNHALL] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s failed coup, combined with the disastrous disunity and polarization in the United States thanks to Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... , have gotten people talking about whether it could happen here. For example, part-time law professor and full-time Instapundit Glenn Reynold has recently taken some serious looks at the issue of coups within the context of the American system of checks and balances. So what if next January Obama and his barely post-puberty band of juice box screw-ups in the West Wing decide they don’t want to leave? And the issue is even more pressing with Donald Trump sneaking up in the polls ‐ Nate Silver gives him a 34% chance of winning, which is up from the approximately 0% chance a whole bunch of people gave him a year ago, your author included. If a couple more disgruntled cop haters with totally obvious unknown motives and a few more [OMITTED] bully boyz go on kill sprees, Trump might well be our next president.
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True.
When fundraisers and political allies are the only ones appointed to actual REAL WORLD POSITIONS, there is no way you could have even come close to this.
Glad he has no movement at all in international order or dis-order now other than wasting taxpayer money on egghead idiot communist bombthrowers.
He is a waste of skin and bones. And just wait!
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin will be the closest he hears of it.
Some news, much creation of the myths that will be taught to schoolchildren about the Great Man and the evil men who dared oppose him.
Suspended Sentence to Turkish Officers who Fled to Greece after Coup Bid
[An Nahar] A Greek court on Thursday sentenced eight Turkish military officers who fled last week's failed coup to suspended two-month prison terms, an AFP reporter said. The officers, sought by Turkey to face a military trial at home, have requested asylum in Greece and will remain in police custody until their cases on that issue are heard early in August. The prison sentence for illegal entry was suspended for a three-year period, the court in the northern city of Alexandroupoli said, taking into account that the men felt threatened.
Names and some details of four of the military men accused of leading the "coup".
Turkish Parliament rubber stamps state of emergency bill
[Hurriyet] Parliament approved a bill to introduce a three-month state of emergency in Turkey on July 21, a day after the government declared a three-month long state of emergency throughout the country. Some 346 deputies voted in favor of the bill while 115 deputies voted against it.
At least that's what Hurriyet claims. There are tanks and people in uniform to be seen in the video at the link. Who, when, at what they are firing I would not dare say.
President Erdoğan’s chief aide admits 'mistakes' but denies link to coup, Gülenists
[Hurriyet] President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief aide-de-camp, who was arrested as part of the wide-scale investigations into the July 15 failed coup attempt, has reportedly accepted that he made “wrong choices” on the night, but denied charges that he was involved in the coup attempt.
Gülenists within Turkish Armed Forces defied orders from PM, HQ: Military
[Hurriyet] The TSK received intel from National Intelligence Service (MİT) at around 4 p.m. on July 15 regarding a planned coup attempt and asked for measures to be taken, but the orders were not carried out by followers of Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based Islamic scholar said to be behind the plot, the statement said.
More orders at 19:26 p.m., 19:56 p.m., 20:31 p.m., and 21:45 p.m., which suggests careful documentation by someone concerned about being questioned later.
AKP deputy describes attack on Erdoğan’s hotel during failed coup attempt
[Hurriyet] A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy, who was with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 15 during the attack on his hotel in the Marmaris district of the southern province of Muğla amid the failed coup attempt, has described the night of the attack, saying Erdoğan left the hotel 45 minutes before the coup plotters arrived.
During his interview, Öztürk said Erdoğan “never considered going to the Greek island of Rhodes,” despite it being only around 15 minutes from his hotel.
“We didn’t even talk about going there. He didn’t say, ‘I could go to Rhodes and be safe.’ I’m proud of myself for doing politics with this kind of leader,” he added.
Suspensions, detentions, arrests continue after coup attempt in Turkey
[Hurriyet] A total of 29 personnel from Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) were suspended from duty on July 21 as a part of the ongoing and extensive probe into the failed coup attempt of July 15, which has resulting in thousands of suspensions, detentions and arrests across the country.
According to a statement issued by the body, 29 personnel working in various positions at the media watchdog were suspended as part of an investigation into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization/Parallel State Structure (FETÖ/PDY).
Meanwhile, the authorities of 14 top military judges detained in the wake of the July 15 failed coup were revoked on July 21 by Turkey’s top military disciplinary body.
The High Disciplinary Committee revoked the authorities of seven members of Turkey’s High Military Administrative Court – including two colonels – who were detained after the attempted coup.
Separately, the committee also decided to revoke the authorities of seven Military Supreme Court judge colonels who were detained.
Detentions and arrests against thousands for alleged links to the coup attempt and the FETÖ/PDY, which is suspected of masterminding the attempt, have continued. The July 15 coup attempt by a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) failed but caused the death of at least 246 people, including members of the security forces and civilians.
Meanwhile, Istanbul’s Criminal Court of Peace remanded 32 out of 86 detained judges and prosecutors, judicial sources said early on July 21.
The 86 suspects had been initially charged with attempting to overthrow the government, sources said.
In the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir, 13 out of 17 detained judges and prosecutors were arrested, while in the western province of Aydın 27 people, including four judges and two prosecutors, were remanded in custody.
Two of the suspects were charged with gathering money for “benevolence” and sending it to U.S. schools allegedly affiliated with the Gülen movement.
In the southeastern province of Şırnak, 387 soldiers, six prosecutors, six judges and four police officers were also arrested, while authorities in the Mediterranean province of Antalya arrested 29 judges and prosecutors over alleged links to the FETÖ/PDY.
In his first interview since declaring a state of emergency following the abortive coup, Erdogan said a new coup attempt was possible but would not be easy, saying "we are more vigilant".
"It is very clear that there were significant gaps and deficiencies in our intelligence, there is no point trying to hide it or deny it. I told it to the head of national intelligence," Erdogan told.
The purge will continue, new Gulen dossier to be sent to U.S.
[Hurriyet] The efforts to cleanse state bodies of Gulen sympathizers will continue, and those with even the slightest link to the organization will be removed from their positions, Kurtulmus said, while stressing that they will be very careful to not punish the innocent.
Although thousands of soldiers and high-ranking officers have been detained, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) will not suffer personnel shortages as the Supreme Military Council (YAS) will convene to decide appointments and retirements in early August as planned, the deputy prime minister also stated.
On the extradition of shady Pennsylvania-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen from the United States, Kurtulmus said a new dossier on Gulen’s role in the attempted coup would be sent to the U.S. authorities within 10 or 15 days.
"Law, friendship and our strategic relationship requires immediate extradition of this person. We definitely want him from the United States," he said, while also complaining about a "lack of empathy" on the U.S. side
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Got Yips ADC? How long before the revolution goes into auto-nosh mode?
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What a bunch of crap...The Daesh/Isis is an Erdogan creature...the so-called "coup" was organized by Erdogan and he has now a bunch of hydrogen bombs in Incirlik...His "hunting" of Gulen os fake as a three dollar bill...He really is after secularists(non-muslims) of the Ataturk kind and try not to offend secularist Europe.
These nukes will soon be aimed at Moscow, Paris and London.
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[Hurriyet] Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed a verdict on July 20 to approve the protocol that the Turkish military has been allocated to manage buildings and structures in the country's military town.
The protocol says Azerbaijan government has allocated buildings and structures in Gizil Sherg military town, and one terminal building located in the airfield in Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev settlement for the use of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Azerbaijani and Turkish governments signed the relevant protocol on July 3, 2016.
[DAWN] The Senate was provided on Wednesday details of commercial entities being run by various wings of the armed forces in the country.
In a written reply to a question asked by Senator Farhatullah Babar of the Pakistain Peoples Party, Defence Minister Khwaja Asif informed the house that there were nearly 50 "projects, units and housing colonies" functioning in the country under the administrative control of Fauji Foundation, Shaheen Foundation, Bahria Foundation, Army Welfare Trust (AWT) and Defence Housing Authorities (DHAs).
According to the details provided in the reply, eight DHAs were established in major cities. These DHAs -- mostly created through ordinances -- are in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Lahore, Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Multan, Gujranwala, Bahawalpur, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta.
Besides, there are 16 "projects/units" functioning under the AWT, 15 under the Fauji Foundation and 11 under the Shaheen Foundation.
The house was informed that Bahria Foundation was not administrating any housing colony in Pakistain, "however, an offshore tolling type LNG project is under its consideration".
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50? Ha!
Been to a gas station or a dry cleaners lately?
Cash washing businesses.
[DAWN] A two-member Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) fact-finding mission on Wednesday blamed flawed investigation for the rise in ’honour’ killings and other crimes against women.
"Flawed investigations encourage crimes against women and this is one of the reasons that honour killings are on the rise; where the accused finds much sympathy amongst those involved in the criminal justice system at the subordinate judiciary," deplored the mission, consisting of two former SCBA presidents, Asma Jahangir and Kamran Murtaza.
SCBA President Barrister Ali Zafar constituted the mission soon after the death of 19-year-old schoolteacher Maria Sadaqat from Murree, who died from burn injuries at the Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad on June 1 for allegedly refusing a marriage proposal.
The mission was set up to assess whether an independent and neutral investigation was being conducted into the crime or not. This step was taken in the backdrop of media reports that indicated a rise in the number of crimes against women, particularly killings in the name of ’honour’.
The mission was also supposed to form an opinion over whether the killing of a woman follows a pattern where the victim’s character is vilified, the family is put under pressure and the investigation suffers because of external influences.
Police investigations, however, concluded that Maria’s death was a case of suicide and not murder, and later declared the main accused innocent, after which he was also granted bail.
On Wednesday, Ali Zafar, Asma Jahangir and Kamran Murtaza brushed aside police reports that claimed the victim had did away with himself, saying she was murdered since her entire body, except her hands, feet and face, were burnt.
Speaking to news hounds outside the Supreme Court building, the mission, which visited UC Dewal in Murree, they said they met local government chairman Ejaz Abbasi, who was also the victim’s neighbour. Mr Abbasi explained that the first part of the human body to be burnt in a self-immolation attempt would be the hands. The victim’s statement that she had been held to the ground by four men seemed to be the explanation for her hands, feet and face being saved from burning.
In the 40 hours that the victim was alive, she consistently accused Master Shaukat and his accomplices of setting her on fire, the mission noted.
"We have recommended that the SCBA president nominate a competent trial lawyer to follow the case on behalf of the victim’s family and that the case should be pursued to the end," Ms Jahangir maintained.
The mission noted that the pattern of suicides committed by women was completely different; nobody would burn themselves to death, adding that there were easier ways to commit suicide.
They were also dismayed by the deep division in society: though the women are in full sympathy with the victims, the men are either justifying the crime or denying it totally, Ms Jahangir deplored, adding there was a concerted effort to paint the incident as a suicide rather than a murder.
The mission noted a character liquidation campaign against the victim and her family, saying there were credible reports that the family was being threatened and induced to accept a reward for their silence.
The team also expressed disappointment over the role of the doctors who did not discharge their duty in taking down the victim’s statement and gave no statement to the police corroborating her claim, Ms Jahangir added.
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The president of the federal republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has today met with top U.S. military experts at a secret base in Lower Shabelle region, reports said.
In the closed-door meeting, Somali president and U.S. military officials discussed on a range of issues related to the fight against Al Shabaab, and training Somali commandos units. Both sides have agreed to boost the war on Al Shabaab as Somalia is preparing to hold general elections later this year.
Unites States military is helping African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali federal government in the fight against Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militants.
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U.S. prosecutors have linked the prime minister of Malaysia, a key American ally in Asia, to hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from one of the country's economic development funds, according to a civil lawsuit seeking the seizure of more than $1 billion of assets from other people connected to him.
The move sets up a rare confrontation between U.S. prosecutors and an important partner in the fight against terrorism. The moderate Muslim nation is also a counterpoint to China's rising ambitions in Asia.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: A suspected hit man who shot and injured son of an Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... ’s general councillor was tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in the limits of Yakatoot cop shoppe on Wednesday.
Police told Dawn that the local people managed to grab one of the attackers and handed him over to police, while the other one beat feet from the scene. The injured was identified as Mir Zaman, son of Zargarabad neighborhood council nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... Mosam Khan.
Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. SSP operations Abbas Majeed Marwat confirmed that one of the alleged attackers was in the police custody. He said that they were interrogating him.
A local resident told Dawn that the incident took place at around 11:00am on Wednesday when two motorcyclists opened fire on a group of people in Beri Bagh area of the city, located outside Zargarabad.
He said that the attackers were wearing masks and one of them was grabbed by locals and handed over to Yakatoot police. The police have registered an FIR and started investigations.
Separately, a 15-year-old girl allegedly did away with himself in a hotel in Namakmandi area here on Wednesday.
A police official told Dawn that the family belonging to Bannu was in the city for medical treatment for the past two days. He said that mother of the girl told police that the teenager went to washroom in the morning and did not come out for long. She said that they broke the door and found her hanging from shower. The official said that they were investigating the incident.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Philadelphia’s police union is blasting Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward ... for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain coppers.
John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was "shocked and saddened" by the planned choice of speakers at the convention, which opens Monday in Philadelphia.
"The Fraternal Order of Police is insulted and will not soon forget that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are excluding the widows and other family members of coppers killed in the line of duty who were victims of explicit and not implied racism," Mr. McNesby said in a statement.
He said it’s "sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country.
"Mrs. Clinton, you should be ashamed of yourself, if that is possible."
The Clinton campaign has scheduled former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... to speak Tuesday night with members of Mothers of the Movement, a group that includes relatives of black men killed by police such as Eric Garner of New York
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] "Nour al-Din al-Zenki" terrorist group announced in a statement that slaying the Paleostinian Child is accounted for an individual incident which defies the hierarchal orders, marking a major lie refuted by clear-cut evidence.
According to accurate repots, after the "Nour al-Din al-Zenki" commander's brother was killed, the murderer brought the Paleostinian child from one of the hospitals and slaughtered him for vengeance.
The group's commander in Aleppo Omar Salkho is the one who commander the slaughter according to the video posted by the "Nour al-Din al-Zenki" movement.
Salkho also commanded the group's Death Eaters to capture a "selfie" photo with the Paleostinian child who had suffered from Thalassemia.
Asked by Salkho about his last wish, Abdullah Issa, the 12-year-old child, murmured: "I wish to be rubbed out," pointing at his head as shown by the photo.
"You will not be rubbed out. We are worse than ISIS," Salkho answered Issa.
"Nour al-Din al-Zenki" movement had slaughtered in Handarat camp in Aleppo on Tuesday the Paleostinian child Abdullah Issa, who was also injured during the festivities in the same area.
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"A small group of extremists trying to highjack a great religion."
[AnNahar] French truck attacker Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had long plotted the carnage that killed 84 people, with the assistance of five suspects who are in jug, prosecutor Francois Molins said Thursday.
A week after Bouhlel rammed a truck into a crowd which had been enjoying a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing 84 people, Molins said photos on his phone showed he had likely already staked out the event in 2015.
It also emerged that one of the five suspects in jug, a Tunisian named Mohammed Oualid G., had filmed the scene of the crime the day after the carnage, as it crawled with paramedics and journalists.
The five suspects will be presented to anti-terrorism judges later Thursday and Molins said prosecutors had requested they be charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, among other crimes. They are 22-year-old Franco-Tunisian Ramzi A., 37-year-old Tunisian Chokri C., 40-year-old Tunisian Mohammed Oualid G., 38-year-old Albanian Artan H., and his wife Enkeledja Z. who holds both French and Albanian nationality.
None of the suspects was known to intelligence services, and only Ramzi A., who was born in Nice, had a criminal record for robbery and drug offenses. This suspect led police to discover a Kalashnikov and a bag of ammunition on Thursday.
More than 400 Sherlocks have been poring over evidence since the grisly attack, the third in La Belle France in 18 months, and it was analyses of Bouhlel's telephone that led them to the five suspects.
While 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 claimed the attack, describing him as a "soldier", Sherlocks have not found direct proof of his allegiance to the jihadists.
Initial details of the investigation reveal his fascination with jihad has been around for a while. On May 26 last year, he took a photo of an article about the drug Captagon, an amphetamine used by jihadists in Syria. In July 2015 he took photos of the crowd at the Bastille Day fireworks display, as well as another crowd watching a concert on the Promenade Des Anglais three days later. On April 4 this year, Chokri C. sent Bouhlel a Facebook message reading: "Load the truck with 2,000 tonnes of iron... release the brakes my friend and I will watch."
Molins said the two Mohammeds contacted each other 1,278 times between July 2015 and July 2016.
- 'I am not Charlie' -
Investigators also found a text message in Bouhlel's phone from Mohammed Oualid on January 10 2015 -- roughly a year after attacks on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... weekly which spawned the hashtag "I am Charlie" in support of those killed.
The message read: "I am not Charlie ... I am happy they have brought soldiers of Allah to finish the job."
Analyses of his computer and cellphone showed a wide-range of images and internet searches showing a fascination with violence and jihadist movements such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
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On Thursday, parliament finalized adoption of a bill extending the emergency laws for a fourth time, after it was toughened up by the right-dominated Senate. The final version bans gatherings where sufficient security cannot be provided and makes it easier to shut places of worship where preachers incite hate or violence.
Since November the authorities have had emergency powers to carry out searches by day or night and place people under house arrest.
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2,000 tones, must be some Kenworth Fusion Kustom
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.
Or rather German-Algerian
"One total economic and military boycott of South Africa."
Ditto P2k, and not to be confused with the enablers of fairness, equal opportunity, Global Warming, gender equality, white privilege, Wymn's Choice, Gay Rights, BLM, or Free Trade. 
Sorry, I left off one key enabler. 
Snopes categorically denies reports, but on occasion, they have been wrong. 
SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. State Department said Thursday that it is looking into reports another American has been detained in Iran. State Department spokesman John Kirby would not comment further on the detention of Robin Shahini.
Beating a long dead horse, but may I suggest we pause for a moment and remember how he got there, and the brave men whom, at all odds, attempted to prevent it.
Additional "intelligence failures." 
[Rappler] Following the death of Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, a expert on terrorism warned that members of his network may join the Abu Sayyaf. On Tuesday, Indonesian police said one of the two men they killed in a gunfight was Santoso, alias Abu Wardah, who has been called the "symbolic heart of the jihadi movement."
[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine marines raided a suspected Abu Sayyaf hideout on Thursday and captured three people and three speedboats in a daring operation near the Sabah border in the southern Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi. A shotgun and ammunition were also taken from the men, who are being interrogated to determine if they were involved in cross-border kidnappings.
Al Shabaab fighters have retaken Ali-Gadud mosque area in southern Somalia after Government troops pulled out of the town on Thursday, residents said.
[CNSNEWS] President 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Bangkok Post] A passenger van driver was found hanged in a police cell on Tuesday, three days after he was detained for "innocently" delivering a parcel bomb to a defense volunteer unit. Somjit Jara-ae had been held at an interrogation center in Yala since last Saturday night. He was found dead with a shower hose around his neck in a sitting position near the door of his cell late on Tuesday night, Dusadee Chusangkit, chief investigator for the Southern Border Provinces Police Operations Center , told a press briefing in Yala province. 
[FREEBEACON] Former Texas governor Rick Perry said 
[TOWNHALL] 
[DAWN] The Senate was provided on Wednesday details of commercial entities being run by various wings of the armed forces in the country.
Hillary Clinton
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] "Nour al-Din al-Zenki" terrorist group announced in a statement that slaying the Paleostinian Child is accounted for an individual incident which defies the hierarchal orders, marking a major lie refuted by clear-cut evidence.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
