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You can make one lighter by getting rid of the crew and the crew protection requirements. Something like the cut of the old Swedish S tank. Drone planes, drone tanks. Skynet smiles.
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Ayup, money is running low, the pressure is on release personnel (RIFT) and trying to stay alive in a PEER environment. There are some esoteric weapons in the R&D pipeline (foamed aluminum) but they are looking for "off the shelf" stuff to last them and hope the poop doesn't hit the fan before they can get a budget increase.
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Your mission is to design a AFV that can be deployed (safely!) by parachute and/or cargo helicopter, has accurate long-range direct firepower, and funnels military spending dollars into MY congressional district.
Only the last seems doable.
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Perhaps they can revive the old LAV-75 project, with the pop up turret and 75mm carousel magazine. A light tank able to hide hull down with high part commonality wouldn't be a bad thing I think.
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Assessing a lass through a lattice,
A smart-ass asked "where all the fat is?"
"The usual places,
If only in traces,
You fat-ass!" sassed Gladys from Addis.
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I posted a couple other articles but they didn't populate. so Gates invested $20 million in 2010 in this co and in 2012 they did their first trail in the Caymans. It is pretty clear that they had 3 sites, Malaysia, Brazil and the Caymans. But Brazil exploded.
I'll bet that $20million dollar investment is reaping huge cash return in the FDA contract awarded today with more forthcoming. Wait til they come home from Rio.
How much do the feds want to fight Zika? Talk about a cash cow industry and i'll bet every contractor and proponent is tied to gates foundation by one or two degrees.
IF they didn't cook it, they certainly have been banking on a mosquito based viral outbreak, see Decade of Vaccine founded 2010.
Tin foil hat off
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2014 oxitec builds a 400 sq' breeding facility in marathon to with the purpose of releasing 3-4 million male GM mosquitos on key haven fl for a 3-6 mo experiment as early as February 2015 pending fda approval.
2015 FL had a dengue fever outbreak.
This facility post dates the 2012 fox reference to existing usastorag and experiments and marathon is also the ready to go facility for March 2016 release of GM mosquitos to fight Zika in FL approved by fda
This is like a Michael Crichton novel.
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everything I have presented is sourced. simple key word searches will yield a wealth of reliable sources. see bleow FDA and oxitec in there own words. FDA approval process - genetically engineered animals 1 FDA approval process - genetically engineered animals 2
for the brazil link, a simple key word search again.
it may not scan, but from a no nothing africa virus to a possible world pandemic and oxitec is present doing testing at the epicenters is an awful strange coincidence.
go a step further
1 of 5 founding 2010 board members of gates foundation decade of vaccines dr. anthiony fauci
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/congress/Pages/default.aspx
scan down the article to the pahse 1 human trial mentioned my mr fauci in 2016 puerto rico where they want to introduce gm mosquitos
http://www.whistalkradio.com/syndicated-article/?id=204233
i'll stop posting links, people can do their own research and draw their own conlusions
Hard to believe, I know. HT to AOSHQ sidebar link
The Gaza head of the U.S.-based humanitarian aid organization World Vision funneled as much as $7 million a year over the past 10 years to the Widows Ammunition Fund Hamas's terror activities, Israel's domestic security agency said Thursday.
The Shin Bet said the aid group's Gaza director, Mohammed el-Halabi, is an active figure in Hamas's military wing. He was indicted by Israeli authorities Thursday, accused of diverting some 60 percent of World Vision's annual budget for Gaza to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that rules the coastal enclave. He was charged with transferring money and working with a terror group.
According to Israel, Halabi handed over roughly $1.5 million a year in cash to Hamas's combat units and used an $800,000 donation from the United Kingdom to help build a Hamas military base. The money was designated for civilian projects in the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities said. Hospital? Hamas Military Base? same thing in Gaza
World Vision is among the largest Christian sucker charities in the world and receives considerable funding from the United Nations and Western governments. Operating in more than 100 countries, it has a budget of $2.6 billion.
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[Sputnik] Eastern and Central European states have sold weapons worth $1.3 million to the Middle East, with some arms shipments ending in the hands of "Syrian mercenaries," including al-Nusra Front and Daesh, but these countries have refused to welcome refugees fleeing violence that they have helped to fuel, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) asserted. $ 1.3 Million? Amateurs! I've seen higher valued private collections
According to a report unveiled last week, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia and Romania sold weapons primarily to Saudi Arabia, but also to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey. Some of these armaments were then transferred to armed opposition and Islamist groups fighting in Syria and Yemen, two countries that have been ravaged by foreign-sponsored wars.
The research was conducted by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Their findings cover shipments made since 2012.
This business is so lucrative that Eastern and Central European states approved arms export licenses "despite ample evidence that weapons are being diverted to Syrian and other armed groups accused of widespread human rights abuses and atrocities," researchers observed.These licenses are supposed to guarantee where weapons end up and do not allow arms re-transfer to third parties. Yet this is exactly what has happened. Were funding transfers conducted via unmarked aircraft in the middle of the night ?
The arms shipments from Eastern and Central European countries to Syria rebels have only made matters worse in the country plagued by five and a half years of violence. They have "greatly contributed" to hundreds of thousands dying and millions fleeing to neighboring countries and Europe, DWN noted.
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No mention by Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten of German firms selling equipment to Iran's government that could be used to refine uranium and make nuclear weapons, oddly enough. But those weren't passed on to terrorist groups, to whom Iran only gives conventional missiles and such.
But anyway, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, and Turkey are considerd legitimate countries, the kind that are entitled to buy weaponry. If the article's targets were selling to international arms dealers or to agents of various terror groups that would be different.
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So are the Germans upset that they're not making money selling arms, or that the Eastern and Central European states, for the most part, aren't sharing in the "joys" of Merkel's immigration policy?
[Duran] The Iran-Contra scandal almost brought down Reagan’s second term. Essentially Oliver North and other senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.
The Reagan administration officials hoped to secure the release of several U.S. hostages, and then take proceeds from the arms sales to Iran, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
Sounds familiar?
In Obama's second term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton authorized the shipment of American-made arms to Qatar, a country beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood, and friendly to the Libyan rebels, in an effort to topple the Libyan/Gaddafi government, and then ship those arms to Syria in order to fund Al Qaeda, and topple Assad in Syria.
Clinton took the lead role in organizing the so-called "Friends of Syria" (aka Al Qaeda/ISIS) to back the CIA-led insurgency for regime change in Syria.
Under oath Hillary Clinton denied she knew about the weapons shipments during public testimony in early 2013 after the Benghazi terrorist attack.
In an interview with Democracy Now, Wikileaks; Julian Assange is now stating that 1,700 emails contained in the Clinton cache directly connect Hillary to Libya to Syria, and directly to Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Here is the transcript and the revelation by Assange...
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So the source on this story is duran.com. Who are they? People won't hear it until it's on ABCCBSNBCCNN and they'll never hear it there and that's why Clinton is up in the polls.
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What happened to all the emails about the Clinton Foundation and proof of links to her decisions at state and paid speeches for Bill and donations.
If the DNC leaks were a Russian display of their intercept holdings to convince Hilda of their ruthlessness and total collection of her emails, perhaps they made their point and she has signaled compliance. If we never see them, doesn't that seem every bit as troubling as if we do?
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None of this matters at all. The FIX is in.
The slow-moving trainwreck that is Trump is only guaranteeing her ascension to the highest office in the land. The Dems and HC&Co. must have been laughing the entire time Trump was securing his nomination. It's only made the media's job-- making sure she gets elected-- that much easier.
Unless Trump course corrects and fast, the election is over. Get ready for at least 4 years of the most corrupt politician to ever occupy the White House.
May God have mercy on our poor and miserable souls.
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Doom and gloom. Poor poor pitiful me. Lose the lousy media. Massive support for Trump is alive and well. The media is losing money big time. Let them drown in their own sewage.
[Guardian] An Egyptian airstrike has killed the head of the Islamic State affiliate behind scores of deadly attacks on security forces and the suspected of downing a Russian airliner, the army has said.
A posting on the Facebook page of the Egyptian military's chief spokesman, Brigadier General Mohammed Samir, said Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed in an operation south of the Egyptian coastal city of el-Arish.
Several senior aides and at least 45 other militants were killed in an operation carried out jointly by the air force and the anti-terrorism squad, according to Samir’s statement.
Since Egypt’s military overthrew the country’s Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013, jihadis have led an insurgency against the army and police involving daily attacks in north Sinai.
Most of the attacks, which have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers, have been claimed by "Sinai Province", the Egyptian branch of Isis. A military source said that Ansari was the group’s "number one" leader.
The name of Abu Duaa al-Ansari is not widely known and had not been previously mentioned as that of the leader of the Sunni militant group, which was known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, or Soldiers of Jerusalem, before it swore allegiance to the Isis group fighting in Syria and Iraq.
[Reuters] Ten people were arrested on Friday after protesters from the British arm of the "Black Lives Matter" movement blocked the main road to London's Heathrow Airport, police said.
Four people were in custody while the other six were being disentangled having locked themselves together across the five-lane slip road leading to the airport, causing traffic congestion at the Europe's busiest hub.
One lane of the road, a spur off a motorway which connects London to western England, remained closed at midday on Friday, police said, adding that the airport and road network were otherwise open and operating as normal.
Black Lives Matter started in the United States as a reaction to fatal shootings of black people by white U.S. police officers.
The British arm is protesting against what it says is a disproportionate number of black people among those who die in police custody in Britain.
"To be stuck in traffic is an irritation. To be denied justice for decades is a crisis," Black Lives Matter UK said on its Twitter feed.
Other demonstrations were being held in Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham on Friday to mark the anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police five years ago helped spark several days of rioting in Britain.
Munich killer Ali David Sonboly went on a weapons training holiday to Iran with his father before embarking on his killing spree, it is claimed today.
A fortnight after the 18-year-old lured young people to a McDonald's restaurant in Munich and killed nine of them before taking his own life it has emerged that the German-Iranian youth travelled with his father Masoud to Iran in December last year.
The news magazine Focus said that he underwent 'weapons training' while there which included firing guns, although it was not specified where.
Sonboly, who was obsessed by violent computer games and mass school shootings in both Germany and America, bought a 9mm Glock handgun from the 'dark web' for £80 to commit the murders.
The Munich prosecutor's office refused to comment on the report saying: 'We cannot make any comment on this aspect of the case due to the ongoing enquiry.'
His father Masoud did not mention the Iranian trip, or gun firing while there, in an interview last weekend with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
[Reuters] Clint Eastwood, the 86-year-old four-time Oscar winner, excoriated the current generation of Americans as weak and overly sensitive while backing Donald Trump even though the Republican presidential hopeful has "said a lot of dumb things."
Eastwood, a prominent celebrity supporter of the Republican Party who appeared at its 2012 U.S. presidential nominating convention, offered a harsh assessment of Americans in an interview with Esquire magazine published on Wednesday.
"He's onto something because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up," the acclaimed actor and director said of Trump. "That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells."
"We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist," Eastwood added.
Given the choice between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Trump in the Nov. 8 election, the celebrated star of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" said, "That's a tough one, isn't it? I'd have to go for Trump ... you know, 'cause she's declared that she's gonna follow in Obama's footsteps."
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Eastwood; another American treasure. "Trump says dumb things?" Hilda and Obummer also say very dumb things--it's just that the MSM ding trump incessantly but say little about Hilda and Obean. I've never, ever seen the Donks unload on anyone to the extent they are hammering Trump. They are firing everything.
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That would be the same CO that the Trunk establishment made sure they'd be #NeverTrump without asking the party base. Basically flipping the finger to the proles . Yep, that will enhance turnout.
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...did the same thing with Wolf vs. Roberts @ Senate, dang near lost them the general.
How bad? Wife asked if it was ok she didn't vote this year. I know in Kansas our vote does not really count, but I am sure there are swing state voters who feel the same.
Trump hits on the golf and weather channel show me just how rooted the crab grass is.
[Right Scoop] Mark Levin said tonight on his show that Hillary may end up winning by a landslide if something doesn’t change in the Trump campaign.
Responding to Giuliani, Levin said the American people don’t care if Trump is getting an intervention or if this is just an evolution of his campaign.
"Something better change," he said, "or this could be a landslide victory for the detestable leftist, the unindicted fraudster and felon Hillary Clinton!"
Levin noted that for a lot of people this election is very difficult, saying "in many ways it’s a choice between slitting your throat and cutting your arm off."
And yet many of us, Levin pointed out, are browbeaten and told every day to get in line and do what you’re supposed to do. But we have no control over how this campaign is being run:
"You have no control over this campaign. You have no control over what happens day to day with the candidate. You have no control over the leaks coming out of this campaign... It’s not your responsibility to run this campaign!
Levin said the responsibility of running it has been given to someone who has an obligation to run a professional campaign and advance the principles that most of us believe in and to make the case to everyone in the country, but it’s not happening.
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Sowing panic and discord in the enemy camp, they must be spreading lots of awards among the workers of the Massive Media Hillary Propaganda Campaign. The old themes of fear and loathing truly work.
Your candidate is a privileged unlikeable criminal? Remember the solution is always to shut the opponent up if you can't shout him down. Work on it.
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" Sowing panic and discord in the enemy camp, they must be spreading lots of awards among the workers of the Massive Media Hillary Propaganda Campaign. "
I can think of one democrat-for-most-of-his-life in particular who's earning the lifetime achievement award.
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Do the Pubs really want a boy scout going against the Mafia hit squad? They need a Lee Atwater with a little more ruthlessness since Trump is battling Obummer (Most-failed POTUS in history), Hillary (Most-failed Secretary of State in hiatory) and an hostile, corrupted MSM (Most in-the-tank for the Donks in history).
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Damn straight I blame the press. They've invented Trump's "gaffes" out of nothing, through selective editing and slanted wording.
Meanwhile, they ignore the blatant crimes and lust for tyrannical power of Hillary.
Damn straight I blame them...
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Angegum Sleresing7102: Anyone that voted Trump in the primaries while they still had a pile of better choices, that's who.
Who among the 17 defeated candidates actually won the primaries that I didn't hear about? So are the millions who put Trump in the position of candidate idiots too? Would you toss democracy out the window?
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Yes, that's the discovery of 2016, that so many of those on the 'right' have no use for democracy than those on the 'left'. It's dirty, messy. It can't be left up the unwashed masses.
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Trump is lying low this past week, anyone know why?
Hopefully preparing a TV ad blitz.
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So levin wants trump to act more like who? Rhomney? He killed the primary because he is not the status quo guy. He will win for the same reason. During the primary the dems attacked him, the GOP was ruthless and the press, all of it, called him a clown show. Now everyone has egg on their faces and are trying to save face by telling trump how to act. I don't care how he acts, the press, dems, and GOP will still attack.
Bottom line to all those that hate trump, better love Hillary, that is who you are supporting. The GOP would rather lose the election, lose the Supreme Court for the next 50 years, and concede the party before they will support the candidate that the people of the party overwealmingly chose.
Rome is burning folks. And the GOP is fighting over the ashes. The choice is done, pick trump or pick Hillary. There are no other option except to not vote. All the other options are dreams. If the GOP got in line behind trump and learned how to deal with him, instead of stabbing him in the back, this election would not even be close. But instead the GOP wants to snivel and bitch and act like hurt children. They need to grow the hell up and be part of the solution.
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49 Pan seems right. The RNC plan seems to be modeled upon the California Republican party. Win your sure thing districts but otherwise get comfortable as second fiddle. Let the Dems take any blame while getting rich feeding off the same trough. It's disgusting but it appears to be the game plan.
As in this operation dropped a pallet of $400 million in Euros, strapped in the bed of 5 F-150s along with 2 RINOs and Hillary. The Arc-light was successful. BDA however shows Hillary and the $400 missing before hitting the target. At this time we suspect Djinn involvement.
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If the GOP got in line behind trump and learned how to deal with him, instead of stabbing him in the back, this election would not even be close.
The GOP's only chance to prevent its own extinction is Trump. If they can't see that they are kaput. I'm done with them myself. Next time around I'll declare myself independent and most likely won't even vote anymore. It's pointless.
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Get the feeling they are just trying to get a house in the same fire district of Domus Aurea?
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This sounds like media overload. The public is not paying attention. Media revenues are falling like a rock. Trumps rallies are still huge. Why listen to losers. The weak will always be in a dither about any old thing. Pass the popcorn and watch the heads explode.
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Bunch of nonsense panicking now. Wait until September, see what happens then. That's when people actually start paying attention to the two candidates, at least those who aren't politically invested in one way or another. I'm still not convinced Hillary won't sink herself or get taken apart during a debate with Trump. Hell, she got beat in the debates by SANDERS.
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Hell, she got beat in the debates by SANDERS.
That's like losing a fistfight with Winnie the Pooh.
[LowVelder] SKUKUZA ‐ An award-winning Kruger National Park (KNP) regional ranger, Mr Rodney Landela, and a veterinarian technician of the Animal Health Directorate, Mr Kenneth Motshotso, were arrested on Wednesday in the KNP for rhino-poaching-related offences.
On Thursday they were being detained at Skukuza Police Station. Both appeared yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court in Bushbuckridge. They will be detained for seven days before they will be allowed to apply for bail.
Because of the seriousness of the crime, the case is being investigated by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).
Landela, who has been in the KNP’s service for 15 years, has received several KNP Achievement Awards, including an Individual Achievement Award in 2012. He is also highly regarded by the Game Rangers Association of which he is an executive member. He started out as a general worker in the KNP.
He was also recently trained to pilot a drone during anti-poaching operations. He was in charge of the Mopani North Region of the KNP. SANParks rangers were on a normal patrol in the Satara are
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If they would just allow these animals to be farmed and the horns sold on the open market, the price would go down. No $ = no poaching. I mean, would anyone poach a chicken?
WASHINGTON (AP) - An American security contractor is accusing two top-ranking Congolese officials of ordering his detention and torture, declaring in a lawsuit that they demanded he confess falsely to being part of a plot to overthrow the country's government.
Darryl Lewis, an Air Force veteran, said in an Associated Press interview this week that he was illegally held in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, for nearly six weeks and interrogated for as much as 16 hours a day by members of Congo's national intelligence agency.
Congo's intelligence chief, Kalev Mutond, and Congolese Justice Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, "acted in concert" to have him detained, tortured and "threatened with indefinite imprisonment on false charges," according to the lawsuit, filed July 29 in federal court in Washington.
"I feared for my life from the day they captured me," Lewis, 48, said. He said he never confessed.
Congo's ambassador, Francois Balumuene, said in a statement Thursday that Lewis was detained because he did not have the proper work permit. He denied Lewis had been mistreated and called his lawsuit "unsubstantiated allegations."
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Who hired him to work in the Congo? Who was paying for him? Who were his friends? What was he DOING being a "security Contractor". In the Congo,( of all places?)
There are plenty of security firms doing work there. Most of the work is related to the extractive industry. Other work focuses on ...solving regional problems. I personally know one guy who has done several rotation there.
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And thus we see the difference between the psuedo-literary stylings of that pest Hemingway and someone who actually knows whereof he speaks. That was Hemingway under his most recent anonymizer, Bankok Billy, who unlike you is not worth reading.
[Wash Times] Ibtihaj Muhammad, an Olympic fencer who is the first Team USA member to wear a hijab, said she fears for her safety in her own country. I have a plan and an easy solution to this heart breaking dilemma.
Speaking Thursday in Rio de Janeiro -- a city grappling with rising violent crime rates ahead of the Olympic games -- Ms. Muhammad said she feels unsafe "all the time" at home in New York City.
"I had someone follow me home from practice, trying to report me to the police. And that was right on 28th and 7th in New York City," Ms. Muhammad said, Yahoo Sports reported. "I’m very vocal about these things, especially on social media. Because I want people to know that I’m not an anomaly. I’m not special in any way. I’m a woman who wears hijab. These are my experiences."
The harassment has been hard on her, but her experiences don't "come even close to things we've seen like the shooting in North Carolina or the rhetoric around the Khan family at the DNC. It's ridiculous and we as a country have to change and I feel like this is our moment," Ms. Muhammad continued, the Daily Beast reported.
"I'm hoping just my presence on Team USA changes perceptions people have about the Muslim community. A lot of people have misconceptions about who Muslims are and what a Muslim woman even looks like. Who I am challenges and shatters those stereotypes," she said. "Our conversation about the Muslim community has to change. It's a slippery slope when you use hateful rhetoric. When you openly use bigoted comments against a group of people, and encourage violence. I hope it changes. I hope it changes fast."
Asked by the Daily Beast what she thought about Donald Trump's contribution to Islamic relations in the U.S., she joked: "Who? I'm sorry, what did you say? I don't know him."
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"Who I am challenges and shatters those stereotypes..." Quite to the contrary. You reinforce that stereotype and the belief that in the American melting pot Muslims don't melt.
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Has it considered where it lives is the problem? I wouldn't feel safe in Nazi land New York either. And I dont wear a sack and belong to the death cult of pedophilia and goat shagging
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Well you walk around deliberatly hiding your features so people can't see what kind of person you are or even your face - but openly declaring yourself aligned with a death cult which celebrates when someone dressed like you blows up a bunch of innocent civilians.
Prudence suggests that you be treated at a distance (preferable beyond blast radius).
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She also has a fashion design company. There is a picture of her at the link -- she doesn't seem to be a moving black object, nor wearing anything nonstandard for her sport except for covering her hair under the mask. But according to Wikipedia she is an African-American Muslim whose double major was African studies, so she is primed to see prejudice aimed in her direction.
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If I were a trainer or staff assigned to her, I would be so flattered I would walk off the job right now, so she wouldn't be so scared.
I had someone follow me home from practice, trying to report me to the police
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There was someone walking around in a hajib and carrying a sword?
[PJ] If you believe the State Department that the four hundred million dollars in cash paid to the Iranian mullahs on the very day Iran released our servicemen was not a ransom, that we "never pay ransoms," well, I still have that bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan to sell you I've been trying to get rid of for sixty years.
(Unfortunately, if you believe anything from our State Department these days, I might have to offer you that same bridge.)
For those who live in the real world, however, the interesting question is not whether the four hundred mill was a ransom -- that couldn't be more obvious since the mullahs had Obama, yet again, over a barrel. What could be worse for him and his party in an election year than another Iranian hostage crisis? Everyone knows what happened after the last one. Goodbye, Democrat Carter. Hello, Republican Reagan.
Beyond that, it would raise the issue of Obama's absurd semi-existent Iran deal again. People might notice the Iranians never even signed it. How would that look for a second term president desperately worried about his legacy?
White House: Cash Airlift Wasn't Ransom for Hostages, Negotiators Just 'Succeeded'
So, as we say in Hollywood, "Pasadena!" On to the next. The interesting question isn't what but why? Why did the Iranians demand their payment in cold hard cash (evidently tendered in euros and Swiss francs, not dollars)?
Don't the Iranians trust us? After all, they know we're good for it, even if we have a national debt of 19 trillion. Of course, we do have a history of withholding payments from Iran, not that they don't deserve it. Or maybe they just wanted to stick it to Obama-Kerry at the last moment, show who's boss.
Well, they did that, but I suspect there is another reason - the great flexibility and usefulness of cash, something that can be distributed hand-to-hand without having to go through the banks and their nosey wire-transfer tracking. Like the Mafia, the mullahs are not keen on transparency. They like to keep to themselves how they use their money.
But as a public service, I offer a possible template for their use of Obama's (and U.S. taxpayers') $400 million. Revise as you wish:
$40 million off the top - Ayatollah Khamenei (Godfather always gets his cut)
$30 million - other mullahs as per rank
$85 million - Revolutionary Guard to be distributed to officials and used for "projects" across globe
$5 million - Basij, to keep the peasants happy and the city folks scared
$75 million - Hezbollah -- to be directed by the Revolutionary Guard and only for use against Israel, Kurds and whatever are left of U.S. Syrian allies
$5 million - personal to Hassan Nasrallah -- the Hezbollah leader has been having a tough time of late, got to keep him in line
$25 million - Hamas, to keep them in line, also finance tunnels and rockets into Israel
$15 million - al Qaeda... shush, you're not supposed to think they aid al Qaeda because they're Sunni but they do
$10 million - Boko Haram (Hillary's favorites), Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, plus miscellaneous terror groups you haven't even heard of.
$10 million - ISIS... how is it possible some of it will not end up in their hands despite the Sunni-Shiite rift?
Okay, by my count, that makes $300 million. $100 million left.... What to do? What to do?.... Oh, yes, that fella in Pakistan -- the one with the nuclear material. That's what we need, some of that, under the table. A down payment as well on some new technology from Germany or Sweden. Some of their companies must be willing to cooperate despite the sanctions no one believes in anyway -- especially for cash. That would eat the 100 quickly.
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They forgot to include the donations to the Clinton foundation and Obama's cut.
Chickenfeed for a couple of two-bit whores.
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Ransom is always paid in cash. But don't forget, Hillary and Obama will get their cut as well. Hillary through her foundation and I'm not sure where Obama is sending all his bribe money.
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I'm sure Obama is just chomping at the bit to establish his foundation too... Maybe Michelle or one of the kids have something going... hidden from view.
[LI] For years we have been documenting the efforts by anti-Israel activists to stoke racial hatred of Israel through the concept of "intersectionality" ‐ the notion that all revolutionary struggles, particularly against racism, are connected.
A good history also is in How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged.
No other country except Israel is used as pervasively as the connector for intersectionality. It’s a seedy tactic meant to exploit domestic U.S. racial tensions having nothing to do with Israel, and to turn those tensions into racial hatred of the supposedly "white" Israel. Underlying it all are anti-Semitic stereotypes of omnipresent Jewish manipulation, such as those spread by Oberlin College professor Joy Karega.
There have been successes at the campus level, such as at Oberlin, of inserting anti-Israel language into list of Demands from Black Lives Matter protesters.
Many of the leading Black Lives Matters leaders are also anti-Israel activists. They receive encouragement and support from people like Marc Lamont Hill for linking Israel to problems of black in the U.S.:
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Dream Defenders based in Florida was one of the 1st. The person who heads this up is 100% Soros funded. They've organized trips to Israel to train with the local leftists/Palestinians on the anti-police/security forces tactics they use.
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the concept of "intersectionality" ‐ the notion that all revolutionary struggles, particularly against racism, are connected.
Also known as Blair's Law - the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
[AnNahar] 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... 's elusive leader Abubakar Shekau broke his silence Thursday to insist he was "still around" following reports Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... had replaced him, but his message fueled talk of a split within the jihadist group.
[Bangkok Post] Eight people, including two senior officials, were wounded when a motorcycle bomb went off as their vehicle went passed on a local road in Narathiwat province around noon on Wednesday. The attack occurred on the road where Si Sa Khon district's defense volunteer outpost at Sakor village is located.
The armored pickup truck was carrying the district chief Kotchakorn Raksasorn, his assistant and five defense volunteers to the district office when a bomb, hidden in a motorcycle parked on the side of the road, exploded. The blast damaged the armored vehicle and a passing motorcycle. Mr Kotchakorn and the six others in the vehicle and a local resident were injured.
Officials blamed insurgents for the attack, which they believe was intended to cause disruption ahead of Sunday's referendum on the draft charter.
[Dhaka Tribune] After more than a month since Gulshan terror attack survivors Hasnat Reza Karim and Tahmid Hasib Khan were last seen by their families, police claimed they finally tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the two men on Wednesday for their "dubious role" during the incident. Both of them were later remanded in the case.
Members of the police’s Detective Branch arrested Hasnat from in front of Aarong in Gulshan around 8:30pm and Tahmid from Block G of Bashundhara residential area around 8:45pm on Wednesday, DMP Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman said on Thursday.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A security source in Diyala province informed on Thursday that a bomb blast in north of Baquba killed one al-HAshd al-Sha’abi member and injured three others.
Sharing details the source said, “A suicide bomber in car drove his car to a Shia milita checkpoint and exploded himself. One member dies on the spot and three others were seriously injured.”
“The explosion took place inside the administrative border of Salahuddin province and the car was heading towards al-Athim Dam. Security force carried the injured to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the forensic department,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
Yemeni forces backed by Ansarullah fighters have launched a volley of Katyusha rockets at a Saudi National Guard base in the kingdom’s southern Jizan region.
YemenThe Wednesday retaliatory attack followed a Yemeni missile strike on a separate base in the region.
According to reports, a Saudi tank and several armed vehicles were destroyed in the attack, Press TV said.
On Tuesday, two Saudi soldiers were killed in a series of retaliatory attacks by Ansarullah fighters and allies in Jizan, while on Monday, artillery fire launched from Yemen killed four people and injured three more in the border region.
Meanwhile, Saudi fighter jets have launched an attack on a village in Yemen’s Nihm district in the province of Sana'a.
[Inquirer] Three Philippine soldiers were injured in two separate ambush incidents in Basilan early Wednesday.
Eight special forces troops were on patrol when they were ambushed in Maluso at around 3:30 a.m. Two soldiers were injured in that incident. As the wounded soldiers were transported to the medical facility at around 3:50 a.m., they were ambushed again by armed men, which left one soldier injured.
Military spokesman Filemon Tan said, "The troops immediately returned fire. The firefight lasted for about two minutes."
The armed men behind the ambushes were not positively identified, but Tan said they were likely members of the Abu Sayyaf.
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AMMAN, Jordan — An assailant who killed five people in a June shooting attack on a branch of Jordan’s intelligence agency was sentenced to death Thursday, a defense lawyer said.
Amman’s state security court “sentenced the criminal Mahmud Masharfeh, 22, to death by hanging for his terrorist act against the intelligence agency,” Jordan’s Petra news agency said.
Masharfeh, a Jordanian national, was arrested hours after the June 6 attack in the Baqaa camp north of the capital.
The attack took place on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. It targeted a local intelligence agency branch near the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqaa, close to the capital of Amman.
The assailant walked into the building, opened fire and killed five staff members, including guards. He fled, but was arrested several hours later at a mosque in a different town.
No group claimed responsibility for the Baqaa shooting, which authorities said was “an individual and isolated act.”
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran has executed a group of 20 "terrorist" Sunni prisoners for committing several murders and undermining national security, state media reported on Thursday.
"These people had committed murder... killed women and kiddies, caused destructions and acted against the security and killed Sunni religious leaders in some Kurdish regions," IRIB television quoted Prosecutor General Mohammad Javad Montazeri.
He said all the executions happened on Tuesday.
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Amnesty International statement of indignation in 10...9...8...7...
[RUDAW.NET] There have been five attacks in Kirkuk’s western area of Dubz in the last six months.
Three of them were suicide kaboomers and two were boom-mobiles.Dubz’s police are confident that the attackers are coming from nearby Arab villages.
"Honestly those villages behind Peshmerga [outposts] are secured. But they make trouble for us sometimes," Major Ahmad Ali Qader, head of Dubz’s police told Rudaw. "Those who have been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! have relatives in Hawija. And some others are sleeper cells."
According to security forces, those who have been arrested were either from the Arab villages or received support from the villages.
The authorities of the city are now concerned about the friendships they have made with tribal leaders in the region.All the Arab villages are located behind Peshmerga outposts.
"Cooperation between the Arab villages and ISIS [ISIS] gunnies is a serious threat," Kamal Kirkuki, Peshmerga commander of Kirkuk front said.
"It is crucial that officials find a way to resolve the situation without violating human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ," he added.
The latest ISIS attacks on the Bai Hassan and AB2 oil fields are proof that ISIS sleeper cells get support from some Arab villagers, according to security officials.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that a currency exchange office owner was killed while another person was wounded in an armed attack at northeast of Baghdad.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “Unidentified gunmen driving an SVU and wearing military uniform open fired towards a vehicle of the owner of a currency exchange office in the banks area northeast of Baghdad, killing him on the spot and wounding his friend as well as stealing 120 thousand US dollars and 50 million Iraqi dinars.”
The source added, “Security forces rushed to the area of incident and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the forensic department.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Baghdad Operations Command on Thursday announced that it had seized a factory used for manufacturing Hell Cannons and dismantled over 300 IEDs.
The command, in a statement, said, “Field Engineering Brigade of The Rapid Intervention Force diffused 48 improvised explosive devices in Fallujah intersection, while forces from the 2nd regiment of the Rapid Intervention Force’s 1st brigade seized a factory used for the manufacturing Hell Cannons. The factory contained 150 rockets, materials and aluminum pieces.”
“Field Engineering Brigade also diffused 125 IEDs and 143 booby-trapped houses, as well as liberating a 5 km long road in Fallujah axis. Forces from the headquarters of the 51st brigade further diffused two booby-trapped vehicles, 162 IEDs and 150 booby-trapped houses,” the statement added.
The command further added, “Forces from the 3rd regiment of the 23rd brigade also diffused two IEDs at al-Obeid in southern Baghdad, while forces from the Federal Police’s 4th brigade diffused an adhesive bomb in Jurf al-Naddaf.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi announced on Thursday that 10 terrorists were killed in airstrikes to the east of Ramadi.
Mahlawi said in a press statement, said, “Iraqi Air Force today bombed a building in Zawiyat Albu Bali in Khalidiya Island, 23 km east of Ramadi. In the bombing, 10 terrorists were killed and the building was also destroyed.”
Adding further he said, “Further, Iraqi Air Force also bombed two ISIS vehicles that was carrying weapons. Apart fro killing its occupants, the vehicle was also destroyed in the bombing.”
It may be mentioned here that army troops, Federal Police and Anbar police are still cleansing several areas of Khalidiya Island after its liberation from ISIS a few days back.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – An elite military source in the Army’s 7th brigade in Anbar province informed that the international coalition aviation destroyed three armored vehicles of ISIS in western Anbar.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “The international coalition aviation in coordination with the Army’s 7th brigade bombed three armored vehicles of ISIS in west of Rawa. The vehicles were destroyed fully.”
The source added, “These vehicles were carrying ISIS members and all of them were all killed in the bombing.”
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan American police sergeant has been hailed as a ’Hero’ for his bravery by taking a suspicious device out of a crowded area in the city by putting his life on risk together with another fellow cop.
The incident took place on 20th July when police sergeant Hameed Armani was on duty together with Officer Peter Cybulski.
The suspicious device was tossed into the van by a man in a sport utility vehicle in Times Square.
Recalling the suspicious move by the man, Armani told Voice of America "I looked at Cybulski and at the device.The lights started flashing, and it started to make noise."
"Cybulski goes, ’Boss this is a bomb.’ I looked around. The first thing I saw was two little kids right in front of my van and looked to my left. The area was packed with people."
Armani decided to take the device and go as far as possible from the crowd. He said Cybulski was on board with the decision.
Cybulski held the device as Armani drove to a more deserted location on Sixth Avenue. They put the device on the ground and called the bomb squad.
The experts determined the object was a dud, but the heroism of the police was real.
New York City Police Commissioner at the time Bill Bratton said the two officers were NYPD heroes and the heroes of New York City.
Amani is the second Afghan man hailed for his bravery to save thousands of people from a possible attack.
A young Afghan refugee was also hailed as a ’champion’ following the Munich shooting that left at least 9 people dead, an attack that was carried out by a German-Iranian.
The 20-year-old Amir Najazada was hailed for saving nearly 200 people by shifting them to the underground of a shopping mall last month.
Najafzada was reportedly working as a security guard in the shopping mall and helped to shift around 200 people to the underground of the mall after hearing the gunshots that sparked panic among the people.
"All of a sudden around 150 to 200 people entered the mall as they were frightened," he told an online newspaper in Germany, adding that three kids aged beetween 9 to 12 years of age were also among them.
Najafzada further added "I took the children and all other people into the underground and gave them water."
He came out of the underground of the mall to inform the police regarding the incident and helped two injured people who were lying outside the mall by giving them water.
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[DAWN] GUJRAT: Samia Shahid -- a British citizen of Pak origin suspected of being a victim of honour killing -- did not die of natural causes, according to a forensic report.
Nabeela Ghazanfar, a spokesperson for Punjab’s inspector general of police, confirmed on Wednesday that the forensic report had described Ms Shahid’s death as unnatural as she had been "asphyxiated".
The spokesperson said the police inquiry team had carried out polygraph (lie-detector) tests on three main suspects. The reports of the tests had been attached to the forensic report, she added.
In the post-mortem report, Dr Sana of the district headquarters hospital, Jhelum, had mentioned that there was a bruise mark on the neck of the dear departed and a blood-stained froth was oozing from her mouth, which heightened suspicions that she might have been murdered.
Ms Shahid, who worked as a beauty therapist in Bradford, was previously married to her cousin Chaudhry Shakil, but she got a divorce and later married Syed Mukhtar Kazim of Taxila. The couple settled in Dubai.
Ms Shahid was asked by her mother to visit her ailing father, Chaudhry Shahid, in their native village of Pandoori, near Mangla in Jhelum district, where she arrived on July 14.
But on July 20 her father reported to the police that she had died of a heart attack. On July 23, her second husband filed a murder case with the Mangla police against five people -- her parents, her former husband, her sister and her cousin.
Later Ms Shahid’s father changed his statement and claimed that she had did away with himself.
Sources said that police had already detained the main suspects in the case -- Chaudhry Shahid, Chaudhry Shakil and Ms Shahid’s cousin Chaudhry Mobeen.
The remaining two nominated suspects, her mother Imtiaz Bibi and her sister Madeeha Shahid, are said to be in England and are yet to be interrogated.
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[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] One of the world’s largest humanitarian charities has been duped for years into funding the Hamas, , well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror organization, the Shin Bet security agency revealed on Thursday.
The World Vision group, a multi-billion dollar Christian charity with more than 45,000 employees, unknowingly funded the Hamas terror group in Gazoo for roughly a decade after a member of Hamas, Muhammad Halabi, infiltrated World Vision in 2005.
According to the Shin Bet’s report Thursday, Halabi funneled millions of dollars intended for humanitarian use towards the terrorist group.
By 2010, Halabi had reached a senior position within World Vision, leading its Gazoo branch, enabling him to divert more than $7 million annually from civilian needs to Hamas coffers.
In a joint operation of the Shin Bet, the IDF, and Israeli police, Halabi was apprehended for his work with the terror organization.
During interrogation, Halabi admitted he had worked within World Vision on behalf of Hamas’ military wing, and that he channeled funds and other resources towards the terror group.
The Shin Bet reported that the 38-year old civil engineer was captured in June while entering Israel at the Erez crossing along the Gazoo border.
During his tenure as local director, some 60% of the budget given to World Vision’s Gazoo branch was given over to Hamas’ military wing, enabling the group to build a base, expand its terror tunnel network, pay salaries to terrorists, and even purchase weapons.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province informed on Thursday that the ISIS executed 12 civilians from Hawija district southwest of the province after they tried to escape the district.
Sharing details the source said, “ISIS today executed 12 people by firing openly on the families who tried to flee Hawija, 55 km southwest of Kirkuk. They died on the spot.”
“Three thousand civilians, including women, men, children and elders tried to escape this afternoon from Hawija. ISIS members ambushed the civilians and prevented them from escaping,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
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[Ynet] The government of Trinidad and Tobago has reportedly confirmed that nine of its citizens will be deported from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... after being detained while trying to enter Syria or Iraq 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.... group.
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian said in an article published Wednesday that Attorney General Faris al-Rawi told it that the nine will be under surveillance and could face criminal charges for involvement with a terrorist group.
"At the end of the day, anybody in an alleged circumstance of terrorism has to face the courts. There is due process and it must be done fairly but at the same time you have to take an intelligence-based approach to this," al-Rawi was quoted as telling the newspaper.
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon said the Trinidad government was in touch with Turkey through diplomatic offices in London and Caracas, Venezuela, but had not yet confirmed whether any citizens were tossed into the calaboose or the circumstances.
"As to whether the individuals, if proven to be nationals and are deported back to Trinidad, will face charges on arrival, we shall have to examine all of the circumstances," Dillon told AP.
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[Ynet] Even before last month's coup attempt, Turkey's penal system was overstretched, with crowded prisons and backlogged courts. Now, it is struggling to cope with an influx of thousands who have been detained in the aftermath of the attempted putsch.
The government says the situation is under control, but pictures of some alleged coup plotters handcuffed, stripped to their underpants and detained in sweltering rooms have raised concern among rights groups. There are reports that some jails are so crowded that prisoners have to sleep in shifts.
There are now so many alleged putschists that the government says it doesn't have a courthouse big enough to try them all and will need to build new ones. Some 3,000 prosecutors and judges are among those who have been detained, making it even more difficult to find members of the judiciary to handle trials.
Because when your economy is more than a tad shaky, shutting down your most productive businesses is exactly the smart thing to do.
[Ynet] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Thursday to cut off the revenues of businesses linked to the US-based Turkish cleric he blames for masterminding a failed coup, describing his schools, businesses and charities as "nests of terrorism".
Business was the arena in which the network of Fethullah Gulen was still the strongest, Erdogan said in a speech at the presidential palace broadcast live on television, vowing to show no mercy in a crackdown on the cleric's
[IsraelTimes] Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has issued a formal warrant for the arrest of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Anadolu Agency says the Istanbul-based court issued the warrant Thursday, accusing Gulen of “ordering the July 15 coup attempt.”
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Erdy is certainly getting a lot of mileage out of his coup/purge. A suspicious person might be suspicious of the whole thing.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province informed on Wednesday that ten ISIS members were killed in an aerial bombing, which was targeted on a gathering of the outfit.
Sharing details the source said, “The attack was made on al-Brghaliya village and three headquarters in Hawija-55 km southwest of Kirkuk.”
“The bombing was carried out in coordination with the Iraqi intelligence security services and four tactical units of the outfit were also destroyed,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
It may be mentioned here that ISIS is still in control of a number of districts and areas in Kirkuk.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province informed on Thursday that five ISIS members were killed and six others injured as Pehmerga forces today foiled an attack of the outfit at al-Athchana village in Daquq district, situated some 30 km from Kirkuk.
“ISIS, through these attempts, is trying to prove that it is still able to attack the security forces in Kirkuk,” added the source seeking anonymity.
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[DailyMail] o Erick Jamal Hendricks, 35, was placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Charlotte, North Carolina
o FBI officials say he tried to recruit fighters 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.... o According to an affidavit, Hendricks communicated with the two men who carried out the Garland, Texas terror shooting
o Elton Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi were rubbed out by SWAT teams after opening fire and killing an off-duty cop at a conference center in 2015
o In April 2015, Hendricks told an undercover agent that he was in communication with ISIS leaders
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Memory fades and history is written by the victor(s). As I recall the Garland, TX event was stopped before it started by a single ODP, another ODP working event security was wounded in his ankle, treated and released. SWAT showed up in time to wrap the crime scene with tape.
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Skidmark Hendricks affidavit included some curious information.
-Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent.
“Tear up Texas,” the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.
“U know what happened in Paris,” Simpson responded. “So that goes without saying… No need to be direct.”
WTF...is the FBI doing? They knew about the Tsarnevs...Mateen...the Youtube video guy (Benghazi)...Simpson... They are as useless as the CIA...just collect actionable info, don't act on it, and then tsk, tsk that they knew it was gonna happen...and in this case actually encourage it with a "tear up Texas" text.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi embassy in Dhaka has warned Saudis against setting up any welfare projects in Bangladesh without the permission of the Bangladeshi government.
The embassy said the warning was within its concern for the safety and security of the Saudi visitors to the country.
It said the rules and regulations in Bangladesh would not allow any charity project to be established without the government’s prior permission.
The embassy asked the Saudi philanthropists to liaise with it or with the charity organizations in the Kingdom before venturing into any welfare activities in Bangladesh.
Tourists’ complaints
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received a total of 720 complaints from Saudi tourists abroad between June 6 and July 31, the ministry’s front man Osama Al-Nuqali has said.
He said most of the complaints were about thefts and the Saudi diplomatic missions were currently following up the cases.
The front man said the ministry has also received on its website more than 280 requests for help.
He said all the complaints were redirected to the concerned Saudi diplomatic or consular mission for necessary action.
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[DAWN] A Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan’s Pashtun-infested Logar province where Taliban turbans took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
DawnNews reported the helicopter had seven people onboard at the time of the incident, and was on its way for maintenance to Uzbekistan.
Afghanistan’s TOLO News, however, reported the helicopter belonged to Pakistain military.
Quoting front man for Pashtun-infested Logar province’s governor, it said that the helicopter crashed in the Mati area of Azra district.
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On a charted "Sh*tholes of the World" tour package
A group of foreign tourists were attacked in the western Herat province of Afghanistan earlier today with preliminary reports suggesting at least four of them were wounded.
There are no reports regarding the identity of the foreigners who were on a tour in Herat province.
An official in the Ministry of Interior (MoI) confirmed that the incident took place Chesht-e-Sharif district of Herat province earlier today.
The official further added that the tourists were on their way to Herat from the central Bamyan province when their vehicle was ambushed by unknown gunmen.
However an official in the 207th Corps of the Afghan National Army said at least six people were wounded in the attack.
No group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
The Taliban militants and insurgents belonging to the other militant groups are actively operating in a number of the remote districts of Herat province, including Chesht-e-Sharif district.
Both Bamyan and the western Herat province are hosting scores of foreign tourists as the two provinces are among the historical sites of the country.
The Bamyan province is home to some of the oldest sites including the world’s largest Buddha statue which was destroyed by the Taliban in early 2001 while Herat is home to the oldest structures and monuments of the world.
In a video released on Thursday by the Taliban, the insurgent group claim that at least 20 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers surrendered to them in the Nad Ali district of the southern province of Helmand.
This comes amid ongoing heavy clashes between security forces and the Taliban in the area.
However, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has rejected these claims.
The news of the soldiers surrendering to the Taliban has meanwhile drawn strong reaction from Helmand MPs - with some blasting government for the poor leadership of the war against the militants and its failure to tackle the problem.
In the video one of the soldiers appears to be wouded. He has his head bandaged and is on a drip.
"When you are at war, or you get wounded or killed or taken captive, this is totally different from surrendering, we reject it," MoD spokesman Dawlat Waziri said.
This latest development comes at a time that embattled Afghan security forces continue their military campaign against the Taliban on multiple fronts in Helmand, Badakhshan, Sar-e-Pul, Jawzjan, Kunduz, Nangarhar, Kunar, Ghazni and Zabul provinces.
"Both the US and our own leaders including the Resolute Support mission have failed to deliver on their promises, therefore Afghanistan is at war and the enemy has infiltrated in all regions of the country," said military expert Atiqullah Amarkhail.
The scale of violence and the Taliban insurgency increased dramatically in Afghanistan over the past two years.
"They (soldiers) were not delivered equipment and weapons and reinforcements on time, some of the soldiers were forced to surrender including their weapons," said senator Hashim Akokozai.
"The war has dramatically increased over the past two years since the national unity government was formed, we have contacts in Helmand and soldiers were saying we are fighting, but weapons were not sent to them," said MP Ghulam Hussain Nasiri.
It is said that the Taliban currently control ten districts across the nation with another 116 districts under serious threat - while 91 district are under what is considered medium threat.
[Libya Observer] Two civilians were maimed and two houses were destroyed due to Arclight airstrikes carried out by the warplanes of Dignity Operation militias led by Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... on the western entrance of Derna.
Sources said a young man and a six-year old were maimed and sent to Al-Harish Hospital due to the bombing in Sayda Khadija neighborhood, where two houses were considerable damaged along with the houses next to them, while other sources said one house was completely destroyed, let alone the damage done to the nearby mosque.
Derna has been suffering from a crippling siege by Haftar’s militias coupled with the undivided bombing since the revolutionaries freed the city from IS Death Eaters, knowing that most of the targets of the Dignity warplanes are usually civilian locations and people.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said it had identified 102 members or supporters of a terrorist group in the western province of Kordestan.
Iran flagIn a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry said that the identified individuals belong to the so-called Tawhid and Jihad Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group.
It added that some of the Lions of Islam were also killed and locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during festivities with police and security forces.
Among those arrested, some were convicted and sentenced to death and life in prison, according to the statement.
The ministry also said that 20 people were killed and 40 others injured as a result of the group’s activities during the past seven years.
The statement listed the groups' activities, including the liquidation of local officials and armed robbery, in the historic provincial capital city of Sanandaj over the past years.
Mohammad Sheikholeslam, the representative of Kordestan province in Iran’s Assembly of Experts, and Borhan Ali, a renowned Sunni holy man, were among those who have fallen victim to the group’s terrorist activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... the provincial justice department in the city of Sanandaj said in a statement that those members of the Takfiri terrorist group who were sentenced to death were executed early on Tuesday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... said Thursday that ISIS appears to be shifting its tactics to "high profile" attacks on tourists in cities around the world as it loses ground in its homeland of Iraq and Syria.
"None of ISIS’s leaders are safe," Obama said, adding: "We're going to keep going after them."
Speaking after a meeting with US security chiefs at the Pentagon, he expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about Russia's military action in support of the Syrian regime, and urged Moscow to cooperate with Washington to find a way out of the crisis.
He added: "The US remains prepared to work with Russia to try to reduce the violence and strengthen our efforts against ISIS (ISIS), Al-Qaeda and Syria. But Russia has failed to take the necessary steps. Given the deteriorating situation, it is time for Russia to show it is serious about pursuing these objectives."
But Obama also blamed the Assad regime in Syria for its civilian crisis. "It is deplorable," he said.
On Libya he said the strikes had been requested by the Government of National Accord, which is attempting to expel ISIS and consolidate control of the war-torn country. ISIS bandidosmurderous Moslems are under assault in Sirte, their seafront stronghold. Earlier this week, US warplanes destroyed tanks, military vehicles and earth-moving equipment he said.
And he said ISIS had ’not had a successful operation in Iraq or Syria in a year’, Obama said.
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They seem pretty safe to me.
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ISIS had ’not had a successful operation in Iraq or Syria in a year’, Obama said.
However, the ISIS JV team has had successful ops in:
- Orlando
- France
- Germany
- Turkey
- Caliphate still stands
This president lives in fantasyland. The blowhards security detail better be on their toes...with this kind of talk, ISIS will return the favor and eventually take a shot at our leadership like AQ did Massoud in Afghanistan.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two suspected bad boys, including one of the Sholakia attackers, were shot and killed in an alleged shootout on Thursday when other holy warriors reportedly tried to snatch them away from RAB custody in Mymensingh’s Nandail.
One of the holy warriors killed was Shafiul Islam Sohan alias Abu Muktadil, the Sholakia suspect, Nandail Model cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Ataur Rahman confirmed to our Mymensingh Correspondent Ashrafuddin Seizel.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the OC could not name the other bad boy who was killed.
Three members of Rapid Action Battalion 14 were also shot and maimed during the shootout, said RAB legal and media wing Deputy Director Raisul Azam Moni.
The Nandail OC told the Dhaka Tribune that Shafiul was being transferred from the Mymensingh Medical College Hospital to the custody of Kishoreganj police when other holy warriors suddenly attacked the law enforcers near a place called Dangri.
A shootout ensued, leading to the death of the two bad boys.
From the scene of the shootout, RAB found and seized two cycle of violences, explosives, arms and ammunition. The elite force was carrying out a drive in the nearby areas when the report was filed at midnight.
Shafiul Islam Sohan alias Abu Muktadil was one of the suspects who attacked coppers near the Sholakia Eid congregation last month. He was also an accused in four murders including the killing of two Hindu community members in Gaibandha and Panchagarh.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] A British-educated ISIS operative has revealed that ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group planned simultaneous attacks in England, La Belle France and Germany.
Harry Sarfo, who was born in Germany but grew up in the UK, told how he travelled to Syria to fight alongside ISISforces of Evil but was told to return to Europe in order to take part in terrorist attacks.Harry Sarfo
In an interview with The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Sarfo, who is serving a prison sentence in Germany, said that ISIS commanders want to organize "loads of attacks at the same time" in different European countries.
His disclosures about the operation of the terror group comes after a wave of attacks in La Belle France and Germany that have alarmed intelligence authorities across the continent.
Sarfo said that after his arrival in Syria, ISIS chiefs instructed him to return to Europe.
"They said, ’Would you mind to go back to Germany, because that’s what we need at the moment,’" he said.
"And they always said they wanted to have something that is occurring in the same time: They want to have loads of attacks at the same time in England and Germany and La Belle France."
He said that ISIS has had recruits in England and Germany but that many of them have "chickened out" before taking part in attacks.
He said: "They told me that there aren’t many people in Germany who are willing to do the job. They said they had some in the beginning. But one after another, you could say, they chickened out, because they got scared -- cold feet. Same in England."
Sarfo told the newspaper that he studied construction at Newham College in London.
He also revealed that ISIS like to recruit men who have previously been convicted of crimes in western Europe.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A relatively heavy kaboom rocked Mehtarlam city the lovely provincial capital of eastern Laghman province of Afghanistan earlier today.
The blast targeted the provincial council chief who was maimed in the attack along with several others.
Provincial governor’s front man Sarhadi Zwak confirmed one person was killed and nine others were maimed in the kaboom.
He said the incident took place after the vehicle of the provincial council chief Tawos Adil hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Zwak further added a bodyguard of Mr. Adil lost his life in the kaboom and nine others including the provincial council chief was maimed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A former top leader of the Taliban group Agha Jan Mutasim has said the group is optimistic about grinding of the peace processor with the Afghan government.
Mutasim was serving as the minister of finance during the Taliban regime and political head of Taliban’s Quetta Council.
The remarks by Mutasim come as the group rejected the earlier calls by Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) consisting of Afghanistan, Pakistain, US and China to participate in peace talks.
"Taliban are optimistic about the grinding of the peace processor and they believe China could play a key role," former Taliban minister Agha Jan Mutasim told The Express Tribune.
The latest remark by Mutasim comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the group announced its spring offensive in mid-April this year.
The Afghan government was expecting to participate in direct peace talks with the Taliban group earlier in March this year but the group responded the Afghan government call with deadly attacks.
Afghanistan was forced to stop peace efforts following a series of deadly attacks in the country, including a major attack on VIP protection unit 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.... that left at least 64 dead and 347 others maimed.
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I am optimistic about regaining enough eyesight to hit a good sinker.
[Ynet] Cyprus will deport a "radicalised" Austrian man suspected of being a security risk by Interpol, authorities said on Thursday. The 28-year-old man was detained on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the capital Nicosia in an area straddling a ceasefire line dividing the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.
The man, whom police sources said was travelling alone, was crossing from the Turkish to the Greek side when he was stopped by Greek Cypriot police for a routine passport check.
[Ynet] Security agencies in Paris have circulated a photo of an Afghan asylum seeker on suspicion that he might be plotting an attack on the capital, a police source said on Thursday. Police did not have a name for the Afghan, the source said, and no active manhunt was underway. Metronews reported that the man had been in France for the past two months.
[AnNahar] Austrian authorities said they carried out searches at several police stations and other locations on Thursday after receiving emailed "terror threats" but found nothing. The interior ministry said that the anonymous email, in bad English, was sent to several police stations on Thursday morning and mentioned Islamic extremism. Security measures were increased and searches conducted at the police stations and at Vienna's airport and main train station but "nothing untoward" was found, the ministry said later.
The email came from an encrypted email address that has been used "several times in the past" for previous threats but this time mentioned specific places and times on Thursday morning. Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said that the additional security measures were "gradually" being wound down. Investigations into who sent the email were continuing.
Hopefully this time it won't turn out they were mistaken.
[AlAhram] Egyptian armed forces announced Thursday the killing of holy warrior group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis leader Abu Doaa Al-Ansari and a number of his associates in air strikes against the group's strongholds south and south-west of Al-Arish in Sinai, the army front man said.
In a statement on his official Facebook page, the army front man announced that the operation, which was undertaken by anti-terrorist forces in cooperation with the air force, also killed 45 members of the Sinai-based group, injured dozens and destroyed weapons, ammunition and explosives storage facilities.
The group, which originated in Sinai, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria and its leader, Abu Bakr El-Baghdadi, in November.
Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis has grabbed credit for most of the attacks against security personnel and installations in the restive North Sinai.
The army recently announced the killing of hundreds of the bandidosbully boyz in a military operation entitled Martyr's Right.
[DAWN] An 'objective assessment' of Pakistain's foreign relations since the PML-N government came to power "does not support the view projected in sections of the media that Pakistain is being isolated and its foreign policy lacks direction", Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said at the concluding session of the envoys' conference held at the Foreign Office on Wednesday.
Flanked by 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... , who also addressed conference participants during the session, Aziz said Pakistain's "monumental achievements" over the past three years are illustrated by the undertaking of the China Pakistain Economic Corridor and a strategic partnership with China.
Pakistain's second greatest foreign policy achievement since the PML-N came to power is enhanced cooperation with Central Asian republics in the form of the Casa-1000 power project and the Tapi gas pipeline ─ construction on which began in May 2016 and December 2015 respectively ─ and restoration of air links with C. Asian countries, Aziz said.
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[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports 4 trucks hit, no injuries in attack near Maarba north of Damascus; IDF declines to comment
The Shiite terror group Hezbollah said Israeli Air Force warplanes struck a convoy of four trucks carrying weapons near Maarba, north of Damascus, the Lebanese website Mulhak reported Thursday.
No one was killed in the Wednesday night air strike, according to the report.
An IDF spokesperson said Thursday night that the army "will not comment" on the reports of a strike in Syria.
Syrian opposition websites said that the IAF "the Israeli air force carried out a number of strikes against Hezbollah positions close to the Syria-Leb border," Israel National News reported.
"According to reports from the field, the air strike was carried out as a Hezbollah convoy departed from the area, apparently [further] into Leb," INN quoted the opposition as saying.
Since the start of the Syrian civil war five years ago, a number of Arclight airstrikes in Syria or close to the border with Leb have been attributed to Israel.
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An IDF spokesperson snickered and said Thursday night that the army "will not comment" on the reports of a strike in Syria.
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Usually the IDF spokesmen laugh out loud and slap their knees at questions like this. Such an obvious answer to an obvious question is really a great source of humor.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian government forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week in attacks that amounted to war crimes, a US-based rights group said on Wednesday.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said it was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the Aleppo region since the beginning of Syria's five-year conflict, which has killed more than 250,000 people.
The medical facilities were hit between July 23 and 31, the New York-based group said.
The city and province of Aleppo have been among the areas hardest hit by intensifying violence as peace efforts earlier this year failed and a fragile ceasefire crumbled.
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[Ynet] PORTLAND- A Norwegian man charged with making threats against coppers via email and Twitter will face his first court appearance.
Twenty-eight-year-old Espen Brungodt of Norway will be in US District Court in Portland on Thursday. He was jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! on Wednesday and charged with making threatening interstate communications.
The Portland Press Herald reported Wednesday that it received a threatening email that came from someone who said it was "time for more police to die." The email sender threatened to "shoot and kill" officers.
[Libya Herald] The appearance of a black Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) flag on a housing block on Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ’s Airport Road resulted in shooting this afternoon between supporters of the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB/Benghazi Saraya) and forces under the control of Abu Sleem warlord Abdul Ghani Kikli (better known as Ghneiwa), according to security sources in the city.
Some of the unfinished housing blocks along the road near Abu Sleem had been taken over by refugees from Kikla. These were more recently joined by families of fighters belonging to the Benghazi Revolutionary Shoura Council who had fled the city for Tripoli. They now support the BDB. Earlier today, some put up the black flag used by both IS and Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... on one of the buildings. It resulted in Ghneiwa’s fighters then shooting at it. The residents of the building managed to escape and there have been no injuries, the Libya Herald was told.
Formerly a supporter of Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... but now allegedly willing to support anyone who will pay him, Ghneiwa runs the area as a personal fiefdom. He currently is seen as deeply opposed to Misratan forces in the city. Yesterday, his forces joined in festivities at the Waha Bank in Ghut Shaal, an area he is trying to extend his influence over.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UN special envoy to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... said Thursday he plans to suspend peace talks between the country’s warring parties at the weekend but that negotiations will resume later.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been mediating the talks between President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government and the Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels and their allies in Kuwait since April 21, without a major breakthrough.
"We plan to hold the final session (of the talks) on Saturday," the Mauritanian diplomat said in an interview on state-run Kuwait TV.
"We are working on issuing a communique that will emphasise on the main points we have achieved."
The talks would resume later, he said, without providing a specific date or the location but he added that they could return to Kuwait.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he offered delegates a peace plan a few days ago, and thanked the government for its positive response while adding that the rebels had some reservations.
The envoy said all difficult issues were discussed and some achievements were made during the negotiations.
"We wanted to have a sustainable and lasting peace agreement," said Ould Cheikh Ahmed who on Wednesday briefed the UN Security Council about the talks.
The peace plan calls for the rebels to withdraw from territories they occupied in September 2014 including the capital Sanaa and hand over heavy weapons, said Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
The government delegation which left Kuwait this week returned to the emirate late Thursday to attend the final session, its front man Mohammed al-Emrani told AFP.
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[DAWN] Pakistain has welcomed a United States decision to place Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), splinter group of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), on a list of specially designated global terrorists.
"Pakistain has long pleaded concrete action against the TTP and their like who operate in Afghanistan, and they have planned and launched a number of attacks in Pakistain while operating from there," Foreign Office front man Nafees Zakaria said at a weekly briefing on Thursday.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) is an offshoot of the TTP based in the Pak-Afghan border region. The group, founded by a former TTP leader in August 2014, has staged multiple attacks in the region targeting civilians, religious minorities, military personnel and law enforcement agencies.
The US State Department announced that the designation automatically imposed on the group and its leaders all sanctions that applied to foreign persons and groups determined to have committed, or posing a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism.
As a result of these designations, all property subject to US jurisdiction in which Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has any interest is blocked and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with the group.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was responsible for the killing of two Pak employees of the US Consulate in 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. in March. Later in that month, it carried out a suicide assault at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal amusement park in Lahore that killed more than 70 people -- nearly half of them women and kiddies -- and injured hundreds more. The Easter Sunday attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistain since December 2014.
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We've been in WWIII since 1683 so you might say WWI is actually WWII and WWII is actually WWIII, with our continuous war with the Mohammedans being the longest on going war EVER, something like 333 years...the defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683 was on September 11.
[DAWN] The interior ministers of both Pakistain and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries run high in the aftermath of weeks-long violence in India-held Kashmire.
In his address to the Saarc interior ministers’ conference, India’s home minister made a direct jibe aimed at the Pak government for its strong condemnation of the killing of Kashmiri separatist leader Burhan Wani by Indian forces.
"There are no good snuffies or bad terrorists," said Rajnath Singh in his address, referring to earlier criticism the Indian state has levelled against Pakistain. "There should be no glorification or eulogising of snuffies as deaders."
Singh called for "strongest action not only against snuffies or organizations but also against those individuals, organizations and nations which support terror."
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... , in response, lambasted the "use of excessive force" to suppress protests in held Kashmire, without naming the Indian government.
"Using torture against innocent children and violence against civilians qualifies as terrorism," said the minister, adding that there was a need to end an "extremist" mindset and instead try to solve regional issues with dialogue.
Nisar said like the attacks in Pathankot, 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.... , Mumbai and Dhaka, Pakistain too has lost many innocent lives due to terrorism. "The use of blame game has not benefited anyone for the past six decades."
No bilateral meeting between the Indian home minister and his Pak counterpart took place on the sidelines of the ministerial conference that ended Thursday.
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Frank were you a speaker at that conference? If not, why not and did you see Tu?
[DAWN] The Pentagon will not pay Pakistain $300 million in military reimbursements after US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter decided not to tell Congress that Pakistain was taking adequate action against the Haqqani network, a US official said.
Relations between the two countries have been frayed over the past decade, with US officials frustrated by what they term Islamabad's unwillingness to act against Islamist groups such as the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network.
"The funds could not be released to the Government of Pakistain at this time because the Secretary has not yet certified that Pakistain has taken sufficient action against the Haqqani network," Pentagon front man Adam Stump said on Wednesday.
The $300 million comes under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a US Defense Department program to reimburse allies that have incurred costs in supporting counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations. Pakistain is the largest recipient.
"This decision does not reduce the significance of the sacrifices that the Pak military has undertaken over the last two years," Stump added.
According to Pentagon data, about $14 billion has already been paid to Pakistain under the CSF since 2002.
The decision by the Pentagon is a sign that while it sees some progress by Pakistain in its military operations in North Wazoo, much work remains.
Pakistain rejects harbouring gunnies but says there are limits to how much it can do as it is already fighting multiple Lion of Islam groups and is wary of a "blowback" in the form of more terror attacks on its soil.
"(The) Coalition Support Fund is one of the many cooperative arrangements between Pakistain and the United States to pursue common objectives," said Nadeem Hotiana, a front man for the Pak embassy in Washington.
Relations between the United States and Pakistain were tested in May by a US drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour on Pak soil.
There has been growing resistance in the US Congress to sending money to Pakistain. Many politicians have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about its nuclear program, commitment to fighting terrorist organizations and cooperation in the Afghanistan grinding of the peace processor.
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"According to Pentagon data, about $14 billion has already been paid to Pakistain under the CSF since 2002." This equals a billion a year in payola to the corrupt Pak military which already makes a billion a year as middlemen in movement of Afghan opium.
[Libya Herald] Clearly angered by claims by Dar Al-Ifta head Sadek Al-Ghariani that it is involved in an arbitrary crackdown on revolutionaries from Benghazi, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ’s RADA (Deterrence) forces have issued video confession of one of their prisoners which they say both proves that they are fighting forces of Evil and indicates links between members of the Benghazi Defence Brigades and the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS).
In the video, a man named as Mohammed Barghathi from Benghazi, says he had been a fighter with militia leader Wissam Ben Hamid. Last year he was maimed and sent to Tripoli for treatment. After being released from hospital, he says he stayed in the capital and became involved in kidnapping. He mentions one wealthy Benghazi man who was seized and a ransom of €4 million demanded. He was then caught be RADA and imprisoned at Mitiga.
However he adds, Ben Hamid, who had himself fled Benghazi for Tripoli, used his influence to convince RADA to free him. After being released, he stayed in Tripoli but was then in contact with bigwigs in IS from Sirte. They asked for details about the layout of the Mitiga prison which he provided. This, he says, was used in the IS suicide kaboom on the prison last September.
He then tried to make his way to Sirte after the attack but was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Zliten. Since then he had been held again in Mitiga.
There is no independent evidence to verify the apparent confession, nor is it known if it were forced. It is likely, though, to convince many in Tripoli that RADA is dealing with real terrorists.
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[Libya Herald] In a rare demonstration of similar thinking, arch enemies Sadek Al-Ghariani and Khalifa Hafter have both come out firmly against Monday’s US air attack on the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Sirte.
Describing it as "illegal" at a presser yesterday, Ahmed Mismari, the front man for Hafter’s Libyan National Army’s, claimed that the air raid had been carried out for US electoral purposes to help Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... . It would be the LNA that liberated Sirte, he insisted.
For his part, Dar Al-Ifta head Sadek Al-Ghariani, who leads the hardline Islamist alliance against both Hafter in the east and the Presidency Council in the west, likewise called it illegitimate, coming his closest to endorsing the so-called Islamic State. Asked on his Tanasah TV station why international intervention was acceptable in 2011 but not in the fight against IS, he said that non-Moslem military help against Qadaffy in 2011was legitimate because he was not a true Moslem and not following the Sunna (the Way) of the Prophet. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... raids now were illegal because what was happing in Libya was a conflict between local people who were all Moslems.
This comes despite his previous backing for the Misratan-led Bunyan Marsous operation against IS and its welcoming of the American attacks.
In his TV statement yesterday, Ghariani also again attacked Abdul Raouf Kara, the leader of the RADA (Deterrence) forces in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Members of Kara’s RADA forces were carrying out crimes against revolutionaries from Benghazi, he alleged, seizing and arresting them. Kara, he said, had to clarify his position on this. If he did not, people in Tripoli would rise against him, he suggested.
Ghariani’s latest attack on Kara, whom a week ago he ordered to release jihadists held at Mitiga airbase, reflects the deepening division in Tripoli between the hardline Islamist grouping for which he acts as the symbolic figurehead and the alliance of forces around the Presidency Council which includes Misrata and the Bunyan Marsous Operations Room.
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UNITED NATIONS,: Yemen’s Houthi rebels used civilians as human shields, Daesh militants in the country received an influx of cash and Al-Qaeda has improved its roadside bombs, according to a confidential report by United Nations experts monitoring sanctions on Yemen.
The 105-page report, seen by Reuters on Thursday, on the implementation of an arms embargo and targeted sanctions on ousted Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh and four Houthi leaders has been submitted to the 15-member UN Security Council sanctions committee.
[ARA News] ALEPPO – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made more advances against ISIS extremist group in the Syrian border city of Manbij, and now control over 80 per cent of the city.
“The Syrian Democratic Forces made progress in Manbij over the last several days, seeing gains toward the center of the city on the eastern and southern flanks,” spokesman of the US-led coalition Colonel Christopher Garver said. “More than half [of Manbij] has been recovered.”
“We’ve also seen several hundred civilians fleeing Manbij make it safely out of the city,” the spokesman said. “This remains a very tough and deliberate fight, as the SDF clears the city house by house and room by room, while working to avoid civilian casualties.”
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was able to liberate the al-Hal market and the Sinaa district in the city on Thursday, and moved towards the al-Thor school and al-Tal district–which were taken from ISIS after heavy clashes.
The al-Thor school was previously used by the SDF senior commander Faysal Abu Layla who was killed in the beginning of June in the fighting against ISIS. Also, the house of the SDF spokesman Sharvan Darwish in al Tal district in Manbij was recaptured from ISIS militants on Thursday.
Furthermore, the SDF-led Manbij Military Council was able to free nearly 1,500 civilians from ISIS.
“I left Manbij together with my children, my father and my brothers and headed to Kobane three years ago, escaping oppression of terrorism,” said Sharvan Darwish. “Ethnic cleansing and forced displacement was imposed on us.”
“The memories of my neighborhood and house, where I spent my life, resisting tyranny and terrorism, have never left me,” he said. “But we did not lose our spirit to return victorious over evil,” he said. Abu Layla Faysal, who was killed in June, told Darwish that one day they would return to Manbij with their children. “Building a nation ensuring our children’s safety and peace was our biggest dream, and finally we were able to see my house and neighbourhood again.”
In the meanwhile, heavy fighting is continuing inside the city of Manbij.
“Daesh has mounted several localized counter attacks both in the city fighting outward, and outside the [SDF] forces isolating Manbij fighting inward,” Garver said, using another acronym for ISIS.
“Those attacks have been repeatedly blunted by the SDF forces. We also continue to see Daesh’s tactics of snipers in the Minarets of mosques, machine guns and IEDs used as counter-mobility mines,” the US spokesman said.
The US-led coalition has carried out a total of 602 airstrikes in support of the Manbij operation. “We will continue to do what we can to maintain that momentum,” Garver said.
[IsraelTimes] A German rapper who became an Islamic State jihadist apparently survived an October airstrike in Syria that the US military previously claimed had killed him, the Pentagon acknowledges. Denis Cuspert, also known by his artist name Deso Dogg, used to rap in Berlin and became one of the most famous Western fighters for the IS extremist group. He appeared in numerous IS propaganda videos, including one that US officials said pictured him showing a man’s severed head.
The Pentagon last year declared Cuspert dead following an October 16 strike near the jihadists’ stronghold of Raqa.
“At the time, our assessment was the strike was successful. It now appears that assessment was incorrect and Denis Cuspert survived the airstrike,” Pentagon spokesman Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway says in a statement sent to AFP on Thursday.
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[RUDAW.NET] Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have made significant advances as Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... defences in Manbij "degrade" in the face of the Kurdish-led SDF’s steady progress.
On Wednesday, Brett McGurk tweeted, "Significant #SDF advances towards city center in #Manbij today as #ISIS defenses degrade in what had been a citadel for foreign terrorists."
Islamic State gunnies have been pushed and split into three areas in the city centre and the SDF are in control of a major road through the city.
After seizing the road through Manbij, the SDF now control about 350 kilometres of a main route stretching across northern Syria, from the Syria-Iraq border in the al-Hasakah countryside to al-Arima village, 18 kilometres west of Manbij, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
In an emotional victory, SDF forces retook the Manbij home of their official spokesperson Shervan Derwish.
In a rare personal post on his Facebook page, Derwish shared his thoughts on the war and the liberation of his home, which he and his family fled three years ago.
"I will never forget what my hometown and my home were like before the terrorists," he said. "So I will always fight terrorists."
"I cannot talk about my childhood dreams, but I pledge to build a country where children can live in peace and reach their dreams," he continued.
"But I want to say that I am a fighter. I am not looking for any position. All I want to be is a fighter and fight oppression."
The SDF have had the city encircled for months after beginning their offensive against ISIS gunnies in that region in late May. Seizing Manbij from ISIS will further isolate the group’s main stronghold in Syria, the city of Raqqa.
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Of course with a dossier of over 100 testimonials from prisoners that's he's helped with American History classes, music, etc., he wants to get out sooner. I'd shave off 4 years of the 14 - you still got to maintain a deterrent.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Somali-Norwegian teenager went on a knife rampage through London’s Russell Square, a hub for students and tourists, fatally stabbing an American woman from Florida and wounding five other people.
Police said Thursday that it wasn’t terrorism - but in a city on edge after a summer of attacks elsewhere in Europe, both authorities and London residents initially responded as if it were. Police flooded the streets with extra officers and mobilized counterterror detectives before saying the shocking burst of violence appeared to have been "triggered by mental-health issues."
Police officers used a stun gun to subdue the 19-year-old suspect at the scene of the stabbings late Wednesday, among busy streets lined with hotels close to the British Museum.
"Terror in London" ran the headline in the Mail Online, one of several media outlets to speculate that the attack was an act of terrorism. Police initially said terrorism was "one line of inquiry being explored."
But hours later Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said "we have found no evidence of radicalization or anything that would suggest the man in our custody was in any way motivated by terrorism."
He said detectives from the force’s murder and terrorism squads had interviewed the suspect, his family and witnesses and searched properties.
"We believe this was a spontaneous attack and the victims were selected at random," Rowley said.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said "there is no evidence at all that this man was motivated by ISIS" - another name for ISIS - or similar organizations.
Rowley said the suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, is a Norwegian of Somali ancestry - though police don’t consider that "relevant to the motivation for his actions." Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service said he had left the Scandinavian country in 2002, when he was a small child.
Florida State University said the dead woman was married to psychology professor Richard Wagner, who had been teaching summer classes in London. The university didn’t give her name, but Florida Gov. Rick Scott named her in a tweet as Darlene Horton.
"There are no words to express our heartache over this terrible tragedy," Florida State University president John Thrasher said in a statement. "We are shocked that such senseless violence has touched our own FSU family."
Two Australians, an Israeli, an American and a British citizen were maimed, none with life-threatening injuries.
Police said a British man with a stab wound to his stomach remains hospitalized. The four others were treated and released Thursday.
While knife crime is a regular occurrence in London - there have been two other blade killings this week - the scale and randomness of the rampage rattled nerves. It came just days after authorities warned the British public to be vigilant in light of attacks inspired by the ISIS group elsewhere in Europe.
The Daily Mail names the killer as Zakaria Bulhan, and after a great many words quotes a high school and college study partner who said:
A couple of months ago, he ran into Bulhan at the college in Morden where they were both studying a BTEC in IT.
‘He was just a regular guy doing the same course as me at college,’ he said. ‘I’d consider him an acquaintance – I’d stop him in the street to say hello and I’d be happy to go out with him socially.
‘We’d talk about the coursework. He came to me and said that he wanted help because he wanted to do well in his course and at the college. He was actively looking to improve, so it’s not like he was doing nothing with his life.
‘He came to ask me for help – he wasn’t a waster.’
His mental health issues must have appeared very suddenly...
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from the Daily Mail,
"...Online postings show a man named Zak Bulhan is interested in Islamic study, and in another he pledges support to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg..."
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Muslim mother - she wore a full ninja woman gear.
This coward brutally, intimately murders a defenseless, innocent elderly woman...and that Muslim PC mayor establishes the killers defense stating that he was clearly mentally ill... The incompetent police can't find apparent evidence of radicalization, but the Daily Mail can.
I'm glad you checked the article, lord garth. The Daily Mail updated since I posted the link last night. No doubt they will update again as more information comes in (and add even more photos of the pretty Israeli girl).
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Nope. Just riding the bus with a knife, needed to stab grandma and company. She must have taken his seat from her. Should have known her place. Her fault.
It is along the lines of what I was trying to get at yesterday with the d!ldo protest - to control and conquer a people two pillars must be knocked down: language and religion (identity).
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s foreign ministry sharply criticized US behavior in Syria on Thursday, accusing Washington of backing rebels who use poison gas against civilians and of killing hundreds in air strikes.
The ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, referred to rebels supported by Washington as "animals" and said Washington and its allies were recklessly carrying out air attacks leading to numerous civilian deaths.
Zakharova’s strong comments, in a statement posted to social media, underscored the serious divisions between Moscow and Washington over Syria where they are united in their opposition to ISIS but so far little else.
Moscow backs Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... and his forces, while Washington supports rebel groups fighting both his government and ISIS bully boys. While the two countries argue over a possible peace plan, a battle for eastern Aleppo has erupted.
Zakharova spoke out as the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said the United States and Russia were in intensive discussions to shore up Syria’s collapsed nationwide truce with their military experts trying to agree a cooperation plan "that would unlock the entire solution."
Zakharova criticized the United States over an incident the Russian military said occurred on Aug. 2 in eastern Aleppo when rebels used poison gas, killing at least seven people.
She blamed the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s Nour al Din al-Zinki group for what she said was a crime. The same group, which has received US military backing, said last month it was investigating the beheading of a young child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man whom activists identified as a member of the group.
"The United States is supporting these animals who used poison gas against the civilian population," Zakharova wrote.
"Unfortunately it’s not the only tragedy which the ’moderates’ backed by Washington stand behind."
She accused the US air force of carelessly bombing inhabited parts of Manbij in northern Syria where US-backed forces - the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) - are taking on ISIS bully boys.
"The United States and the SDF are not taking any steps to warn people to avoid deaths," she said, saying that US and coalition aircraft had killed hundreds and maimed thousands of civilians according to "conservative estimates."
She also referenced an incident on July 28 in which she said US-led coalition air strikes had killed 28, including seven children, in attacks on the village of al Ghandour in the countryside north of Manbij city.
The US military said last month it was investigating that episode.
"If our Western colleagues and above all Washington do everything again not to notice these facts then any of their talk about an end to bloodshed in Syria will simply become preposterous," wrote Zakharova.
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NYT Memory Hole - August, 2006. But that was a bad war:
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If a citizen places a "Strafanzeige" prosecution is bound by law to investigate it.
But he can drop the matter very quickly, if he thinks there is no ground for it.
Actually I've heard from police that balcony man probably derailed the shooter's plan to use the ammunition left in his backpack for another shooting spree by confusing him.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is planning to split its spy service into separate units for foreign and domestic intelligence after the organization was vehemently criticized for shortcomings over the failed coup, a report said Tuesday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has been scathing about the failure of the National Intelligence Service (MIT) to warn him in a timely manner about the coup, complaining he found out when his brother-in-law called up.
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Monday said a restructuring of Turkey's intelligence operations was "on the agenda" after the coup, just as with the military.
According to the Hurriyet daily, the move will involve splitting the MIT so that foreign espionage and domestic counter-intelligence work are in the future handled by different entities.
This would bring Turkey in line with the system in Britannia, where foreign intelligence is handled by MI6 and domestic intelligence by MI5.
It said domestic intelligence would largely be handled by the police and the gendarmerie, which --- under separate reforms agreed after the coup -- will in future report to the interior ministry and not the military.
In a major shake-up of the security services, the authorities have sought to reassert civilian influence and also emphasize the presidency's control so a coup never happens again.
The foreign intelligence entity will report directly to the Turkish presidency, which will also have a unit in charge of coordination between the two sections, it added.
But this unit will not just conduct coordination but will also do its own intelligence analysis, the report said.
There has been huge pressure on the MIT's powerful chief Hakan Fidan in the wake of the coup, particularly following reports he found out about the planned putsch hours before the government was informed.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... so far he has kept his job.
"We are all mortal," Kurtulmus said on Monday.
"Let's create such a system that no-one can make a coup again. Let's create such an intelligence system that gives Turkey the highest level of intelligence," he said.
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Malala and Lily Singh are two gals that want to fight terrorism by using love and understanding.
Not too difficult to pretend to do that in Canada (where Lily lives). A bit more difficult but still possible to do that in Britain where Malala lives.
But to do that in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi arabia, etc. would be a short livetime job. Wonder why that is.
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Where one of their comrades in technique just got murdered by her brother.
[Ynet] The Israel Prison Service raided cells of Hamas members on Thursday and found messages related to planned attacks along with other contraband; the raids were precipitated by increased prisoner insubordination.
Israel Prison Service officers raided prison cells holding Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, prisoners Thursday morning, and found messages and orders for Hamas attacks outside of the prison, along with a lot of other intelligence information.
Cell phones and sim cards were also found in the raid.
The Israel Prison Service said that "following intelligence received, and insubordinate behavior by the security prisoner in the Nafha Prison and Eshel Prison, IPS officers raided the cells."
The raids took place in Hamas sections of the prison. In Nafha prison there was an increase in the insubordination of the prisoners including not standing in line, not agreeing to leave the prison yard and return to their cells. Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... there was intelligence that the prisoners had forbidden items in their cells.
The IPS therefore decided to carry out raids on the Hamas prisoners' cells. The Hamas prisoners in Eshel Prison were temporarily moved to Ohalei Kider prison, while the IPS officers carried out a thorough inspection of the cells. The officers found orders and plans for Hamas attacks outside of the prison. The Hamas commanders who were sent to be with their subordinates in the wing have since been moved to different areas of the prison.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... two hunger strikes have been started over the last several days amongst the Paleostinian prisoners in Israel. The first hunger strike was started by only a few dozen prisoners who are expressing solidarity with Bilal Kaid of Nablus who is hunger striking to protest his administrative detention. One of the leaders of the strike is Ahmed Sa'adat, the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) terror group. Kaid himself is a member of the PFLP.
The second one was started by Hamas in the Nafha and Eshel prisons to protest their conditions including the fact that they are separated from the rest of the prison population, amongst other reasons. It started as a direct response to several Hamas members being sent to other prisons. There is no connection between the PFLP hunger strike and the Hamas hunger strike.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Media officials in the Ministry of Defense announced that ISIS Sharia Court and an explosives factory have been destroyed in Mosul.
The officials, in a statement, said, “Iraqi Air Force carried out an airstrike against ISIS, destroying ISIS Sharia Court in Mosul.”
“The airstrike was carried out based on accurate intelligence information and it also destroyed an explosives factory,” the statement added.
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The country's central bank only has $11.9 billion in reserves, down sharply from $30 billion in 2011. A few large debt payments are coming due soon. Starting in October, Venezuela owes a total of $4.7 billion in a series of payments.
Venezuela is in the midst of a deep economic, political and humanitarian crisis. Its citizens are suffering from massive food shortages and hospitals lack basic medicine and equipment.
Experts say Venezuela has prioritized paying the debt over dealing with the shortages.
"Within a year they're going to run out of money," says Russ Dallen, an expert on Venezuela's debt and managing partner at Caracas Capital, an investing firm in Miami. Dallen pointed out that the country has been almost "suicidal" in its focus on making debt payments.
Experts agree that at this rate, Venezuela does not have enough reserves to make all its payments for the next two years.
Much of Venezuela's reserves are in gold, some of which the country has shipped to Switzerland this year to help repay its debts. As of May, Venezuela had $7.4 billion of its reserves in gold. However, it sent more gold in June, Swiss data shows.
"It doesn't seem that Venezuela is going to be able to make all payments for next year," says Mauro Roca, a Latin American economist at Goldman Sachs (GS). "The probability for default is much higher for next year than this year."
It is a dire situation and ironic for a country that sits on the world's largest oil reserves. It's true that oil prices have dropped dramatically and Venezuela hasn't been able to earn enough money for its oil. But whatever money Venezuela earns from its oil is going to pay down its debts to lenders like China, bondholders, oil drilling companies and importers.
Even oil drilling companies are starting to cut business in Venezuela. For instance, in April, Schlumberger said it would reduce operations in Venezuela due to unpaid bills. It's also one of the key reasons why the country's oil production has plunged to 13-year lows.
According to Bank of America (BAC), Venezuela's imports -- which include food and medicine -- declined between 40% and 45% in the first five months this year compared to the same time a year ago. (There isn't reliable government data on imports).
"It's a dramatic cut...they're making a big effort to pay the debt," says Sebastian Rondeau, an economist at Bank of America. He estimates that Venezuela can make debt payments until April of next year. "Then the second half of next year is going to be very complicated."
There is still a chance that Venezuela could default this year. Venezuelan officials are currently working with bondholders of the country's state-run oil company, PDVSA, to exchange short-term debt, which is due in October and November, with longer-term debt. If bondholders don't agree, it could be a problem.
"It would just kick the can further down the road...we still think the government is highly likely to default over the next two years, if not in the next six months," says Edward Glossop, an economist at Capital Economics, a research firm.
But China may be coming to Venezuela's rescue. China is reportedly in talks to give Venezuela a one-year grace period on repaying its debt and only make interest payments. Since 2007, China has loaned Venezuela $65 billion and Venezuela has been slowly repaying that via oil shipments.
Last year, Venezuela shipped 579,000 barrels of oil per day on average to China, an audited financial statement from the country's oil company shows. It appears China may now cut Venezuela some slack, so it can sell oil to bring in some money.
Regardless of a new debt deal or temporary relief from China, experts say Venezuela's current path isn't sustainable.
"It's like saying how long can you hold your breath under water?" says Dallen.
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The ultimate for the Free Stuff Brigade. It's all free, because they ran out of all the stuff.
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.
[Guardian] An Egyptian airstrike has killed the head of the Islamic State affiliate behind scores of deadly attacks on security forces and the suspected of downing a Russian airliner, the army has said.
WASHINGTON (AP) - An American security contractor is accusing two top-ranking Congolese officials of ordering his detention and torture, declaring in a lawsuit that they demanded he confess falsely to being part of a plot to overthrow the country's government.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan American police sergeant has been hailed as a ’Hero’ for his bravery by taking a suspicious device out of a crowded area in the city by putting his life on risk together with another fellow cop.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: Samia Shahid -- a British citizen of Pak origin suspected of being a victim of honour killing -- did not die of natural causes, according to a forensic report.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A relatively heavy 
[AlAhram] Egyptian armed forces announced Thursday the killing of
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[DAWN] The interior ministers of both Pakistain and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries run high in the aftermath of weeks-long violence in India-held 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
Hillary Clinton
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
A MAN who famously stood up to the Munich shooter after he killed nine people is facing being charged by a prosecutor for insulting the killer.
Venezuela is running out of money and time.
