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Persons of Color (POCs) fighting brutal injustice by acting like dipshits. Interesting that Avis doubled down. Hopefully, that rumbling sound in the distance is repercussions.
Any resemblance to the discrimination suffered by black folks in the previous century is purely coincidental.
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On FB: "We have investigated the denial of a rental that recently occurred in Manhattan. We have found that we have been inconsistent in applying our policies with respect to documentation requirements with this customer, who has rented from us in the past without providing a second form of identification. We are committed to providing an outstanding car rental experience to our customers and believe that we should have done better here. We have spoken with the customer and apologized for the misunderstanding that occurred as a result of this inconsistency in applying our documentation policy, and the customer has accepted our apology.
We reiterate our policy that we do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. We intend to take steps, including additional training, to improve the consistency in our application of documentation policies."
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I don't rent from Avis from a couple bad run ins a few years back. Lost reservations delaying trips, rude employees, trying to charge for things I declined, etc. Seems they haven't changed much.
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The Avis FB reply Frank G posts is considerably more reasonable than the one I saw this morning. It does not address the claim that a single photo ID - international drivers license or passport - from many countries was officially all that was required from a lot of countries, supposedly including Israel. I suspect Avis is not so much anti-Semetic as they are caught between threat of lawsuit by Israeli customer, loss of business to bad publicity, and threat of lawsuit by employees of protected demographic.
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Interesting - from linked-in she used to work at Bloomingdales, but from google search she has a lawsuit against them. Also on linkedin she mentions HIV walks and other stuff
Salah Abdeslam, Europe's most wanted man, was once again reportedly spotted by police but managed to escape capture and was thought to be heading towards the German border in a BMW.
Salah or a look-alike was spotted by Belgian police near the city of Liege around 7.30pm on Sunday evening but managed to evade officers, Dernier Heure reported.
The man then headed in the direction of Germany on the E40 motorway and again avoided a police checkpoint set up to intercept him. Bungling Belgians!
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It seems I bungled the spelling of the Belgian Dragnet. While Preview Is My Friend, I don't think it works for titles?
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"We consider where ISIS has gone --
Ma tisane, if you please, Miss Lemon!
Does he flee to ze East,
There to worship in peace?
I must ponder this clue, his Koran!"
/suchet
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I hope I don't get placed on some secret federal list for pointing out that this measure would violate the 2nd, 5th, and 14th amendments to the US constitution.
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To paraph MWC's great AL BUNDY = "WHAT A SHOCK [Not]"!
Leave it to the DemoLefties + aligned Special Interests to demand more Gun Control agz law-abiding US Citizens-Residents at a time when the ISIS/ISIL is threatening to attack CONUS + Washington + burn down the White House.
THE GLOBAL JIHAD IS "COMING TO AMERIKA", + UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS STILL LITTLE TO NO EVIDENCE THAT THE LEFTIES CAN CONTROL OR DEFEAT THE JIHAD, NOR THAT THEY WANT TO IFF IT MEANS LESS MARXISM-COMMIE-SOCIALISM IN OWG CO-SUPERPOWER AMERIKA, WHERE AMERIKA IS JUST ONE OF MANY PAR IN THE NEW OWG-NWO INCLUD CWO-SWO, + N-O-T THE LEADER = GLOBAL "SOLE" EL SUPREMO ANYMORE.
Bambi is letting everyone out. Pelton disclosed the Ivy Bells program, where US spy subs tapped Soviet underwater military communication cables. If you read Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, this was probably the most successful intel program ever. It took direct presidential authorization to execute each mission, and it directly led to the first SALT treaty. They should have locked him up forever and waterboarded him daily.
Chinese forces used a flamethrower to force more than 10 'terrorists' from a cave in the western Xinjiang region in the hunt for what Beijing has called foreign-led extremists. Uighurs
China said security forces had recently killed 28 members of a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in Aksu in September, the first official mention of the incident reported by Radio Free Asia about two months ago. I wonder how many are familiar with the task being undertaken in the photo ?
In its account, which could not be independently verified, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said armed police had tracked the attackers into the mountains 'like eagles discovering their prey'.
The PLA Daily said the special forces used flash grenades and tear gas to force the attackers out of hiding, but when those methods failed, a senior officer said: 'Use the flamethrower'.
After that, the newspaper said the attackers came out at the troops wielding knives and that they were then 'completely annihilated' Knife/Gunfight, etc.
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yup. When ISIS executed Chinese people in Mali, it became immediately their stupidest move
china is not hampered by human rights considerations and will retaliate against the ideology that means anybody spreading Islamofascism will get a bit of flamethrower action
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Bobby at #2. Yes, they did give the ruffian's their equivalent of Miranda Rights. They they toasted the ruffians, and all was a wrap.
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See also WORLD NEWS > ISIS EXECUTES CHINESE HOSTAGE, PICKS FIGHT WID LAST OF THE GREAT POWERS.
and
* TOPIX, WORLD MILITARY FORUM > GLOBAL TIMES EDITORIAL: CHINA CAN NO LONGER IGNORE, AVOID OR EVADE GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY AS A SUPERPOWER.
* BLOOMBERG > BANK OF AMERICA WARNS OF LOOMING "GREAT DIVORCE" BETWEEN CHINA + US.
If Guam's besieged Camel Rock = Not-the-Capsized-USN-Pearl Harbor-Battleship-USS Oklahoma thought it could go on reduced alert, vee US-vs-China [vs-Nuclear-Islam in Asia/East Asia-Pacific] THINK AGAIN - ITS JUST STARTING.
h/t Instapundit
America is in the grip of a crisis, namely a shortage of normal people. Evidence indicates that the population of kooks and freaks is rapidly increasing, and there are simply not enough sane people to keep the weirdos under control. Especially among the under-30 demographic, the United States is struggling to cope with the proliferation of dangerous perverts, drug addicts, psychotics and Ivy League liberal arts majors: And not just USA
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I am seeing the same thing. Perhaps I am older and can compare and contrast but change has occurred. The young and old and with most races but less so with Asians. Small towns to large cities you see the same changes. Drug use, prescribed, over the counter and illegal items. They will use anything for the high. 1/3 want help, 1/3 want high whatever the cost, 1/3 are borderline. Law enforcement see cocaine, meth, heroin party and advise next time they get complaint with photo information they have as prof with young children present they will be arrested. That's if you have police available.
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When you celebrate diversity and apotheosize it to a god, that is what you are going to get. Reinforcement of deviant behavior diversity of behavior in all forms will get you a bunch of weirdos straying from the norms.
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Intelligence is finite. There are just more people now.
[What do you expect from a social rewards system in which everyone gets a trophy for showing up? Darwinism may be cruel but it permits the species/group to survive.]
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The Mafia needs calm and order to run their rackets. Can't do that with Daesh causing havoc and getting more surveillance with the feds. So preventing terror is very much in both party's interests.
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Mafia offers protection sounds like a punchline.
"Hey, it would be a shame if someone were to burn down your nice city, know what I'm saying? Me and the boys can keep that from happening but, you know, it'll cost you."
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Hard to tell clearly what exact or particular advantage(s) the US La Cosa Nostra + Mafia Commission gets from the 9-11 + consequent Obama/US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO + Globalism, e.g. the "Sole" Superpower USA unilaterally devol or degarding itself into One-of-Many Par OWG Co-Superpowers wid Russia, China, + Iran, Other?, + in charge or not in charge of new NORAM-based OWG NAU but also simultan wid much-reduced, minimal, or no? influence in any or all other Regional, Continent-specific OWG Global Federal Union(s)???
THE MAHA-RUSHIAN LIMBAUGH QUESTIONNE' REMAINS THE SAME FOR OBAMA + OWG GLOBALISTS, ETAL. AS FOR THE US-WORLD MAFIAS - "WHAT IS THE END GAME"?
WHEN ALL IS SAID-N-DONE, WHAT KIND OF US-WORLD ARE YOU ULTIMATELY BUILDING OR INTEND???
Again, iff the OWG Globies + aligned miscalculate, instead of installing US-Global/World Marxist-Commmie-Socialist Secular Order + OWG, THEY INSTEAD GOT THE ANTI-SECULAR, THEO-SOCIALIST OWG NUCLEAR GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIAHDIST CALIPHATE, + WID A NUKE-ARMED "MUSLIM/ISLAMIC NAPOLEON [Muslim Hitler, etal. sobriquets] TO BOOT.
EYES WIDE OPEN, NOT EYES WIDE SHUT.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DEMAND OR ASK FOR - YOU GOT IT!
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I gotta quit tryin to read josephs post when I'm drunk. What the fuck u sayin man?
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chris pored over JOE fully loaded,
The CAPS and the slugs he decoded:
"I thought I heard singing...
Then clacking, bells ringing..."
And that's when his noggin exploded!
[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 16 strikes against 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 nine in Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
Five of the Iraq strikes hit around Ramadi, destroying weapons, tactical units and fighting positions, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Sunday. The coalition also struck targets in nine other Iraqi cities including Sinjar, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Tikrit.
The coalition said it used bomber, attack, ground-attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft against ISIL targets.
In Syria, five strikes near al Hasaka destroyed two Islamic State vehicles and three structures, and maimed an undisclosed number of holy warriors, it said. Three other strikes hit near al Hawl and one near Mar'a.
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[Dawn] QUETTA: Iranian border guards reportedly fired four mortar shells into the Pakistani territory on Saturday, Levies sources said.
The mortar shells fired by the Iranian border guards landed near Pak-Iran border district of Panjgur.
Levies sources said the mortar shells landed almost 120 metres inside Pakistani territory, however, no loss of life or property was reported but a sense of panic prevailed among the people living near the Pak-Iran border.
Frontier Corps, Levies and other law enforcement personnel reached the spot and security was tightened following the border violation by Iranian border forces.
Panjgur Deputy Commissioner Mujeeb Qambrani lodged serious protest with the Iranian border guards with regard to violation of the territory.
"The deputy commissioner dispatched a letter to his Iranian counterpart," a senior administration officer in Mekran Division told Dawn.com.
"Since 1756, the modern-state system has experienced four global wars; The Seven Years War, The French Revolutionary Wars, World War I, and World War II. The longest global peace came between 1815 and 1914, and it has now been seventy years since the last world war.
Every global war needs a spark. A conflict somewhere ignites the interest of more than one great power. World War I had the assassination of Franz Ferdinand; the Seven Years War had desultory fighting between the French and British along the Mississippi River. The combatants do not always appreciate that the sparks can lead to conflagrations.
But at some point things escalate. Other major nations become involved, and the initial cause of war becomes subsumed under great power competition. The goal of fighting becomes the establishment of a new global order, and with the increase in stakes comes an increase in the resources committed by the combatants, and the sacrifices that their people make."
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Nonsense. While Turkey needs to be taught a lesson---because they forgot the one taught to them in WWI---Russians are too pragmatic for a full scale war. I expect "PKK" to get some advanced AA weapons. Maybe an "unfortunate" encounter, or two, between Russian & Turkish warplanes over Syria.
As the article says, escalations happen without anyone really intending them.
And I wouldn't use the word 'pragmatic' to describe Erdogan.
Here's a scenario for you. Russian and Turkish planes clash. Russia sends naval forces through the Bosphorus to reinforce Assad. Turks try to stop them. Shooting ensues. Russian ship sunk. Russia takes down the 2 bridges over the Bosphorus in retaliation. Moves its Crimea naval forces south toward the virtually undefended north shore of European Turkey.
Russia has wanted unimpeded access to the Med for 200 years. Seems too good an opportunity to miss. And the Greeks will be on side.
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Even if the Greeks don't actively participate, they will give a big thumbs down to Nato to use their territory. And I doubt the Bulgarians will be be too cooperative either.
NATO needed Turkey to contain Russia during the Cold War. Since then they have been surplus to requirements.
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(Singing) We did it before, and we can do it again.
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I'll take what's behind curtain #1. Everybody in the middle east is shooting at somebody else already. Except Israel. One of those playas sensing that they're losing is going to go after the Big Prize and go for the Hail Mary and take a swing at her. Hillarity ensues.
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procopius the leftards still talk about the US imperialist empire as if it exists while ignoring the theocratic empire of the caliphate that is being brought back to life
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A Turkey Russia war would be interesting in that Greece is super-poor right now but would probably be happy to take a slightly damaged Constantinople off of Russian hands if asked nicely. That way the Russians can break things without worrying about occupation duties and still get what they want.
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Russians might be embarrassed if they have to fight Turkey. Escalation from there could get ugly.
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"Russians might be embarrassed if they have to fight Turkey. Escalation from there could get ugly."
I'll order more popcorn, Abu.
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Things are starting to resemble the Fourth Crusade ca. 1204 AD. Hat tip to those who mentioned "City of Fortune" here yesterday. I am reading it on my Overlook app.
A convoy of African Union (AU) convoy has been targeted by a romote-controlled roadside bomb as they drove along a strategic road in Mogadishu’s Deynile district, an Eyewitness confirmed. The witness told Radio Shabelle by phone that several AMISOM soldiers sustained injuries after a heavy roadside landmine targeted their convoy at Bar Jowhar in Suqa Holaha village on Saturday.
The landmine, which is believed to have been planted by the Al shabaab was targeted the AU Army vehicles escorting a lorry carrying AMISOM supplies headed to a nearby military camp within the area, reports said.
After the bomb attack, AU soldiers sealed off the area and conducted searches hunting the culprits who planted the IED hit their convoy on the road.
No group has yet claimed the responsibility of the attack, but al-Shabab has several times claimed or carried similar attacks against AMISOM and SNA.
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Ten Saudis fighting for the Daesh terrorist organization have been captured by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq during battle, an online newspaper reported on Sunday.
An adviser at the Iraqi President’s office was quoted as saying that the Kurdish government of Erbil might decide the fate of the Saudis. “They will either be tried there or sent to Baghdad.”
Thamer Al-Sabhan, the newly appointed Saudi ambassador to Iraq, said he had not yet received any information on the Saudis’ capture because “we are yet to start our work here.”
Meanwhile, the Peshmerga ministry had on Saturday announced that it had arrested three Daesh leaders — all Saudi nationals — in the northwest of Mosul. Quoting a German news agency, the online newspaper said Daesh’s Saudi leaders were arrested in Hardan town of Sinjar, 120 km northwest of Mosul, while they were trying to sneak into Sinjar.
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Heavily armed terrorists militants with Al shabaab attacked on Sunday afternoon an army base belonging to Puntland state forces near the coastal town of Bosaso, Bari regional capital, witnesses said. The terrorists militants began their attack with mortar shelling rained down on the military base in Af-Urun area located in the north of Bosaso, the commercial and economic hub of Puntland.
According to Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Musab, Al shabaab’s military operations spokesman Al shabaab terrorists fighters inflicted heavy losses on Puntland soldiers in the attacked base. He said the attack was carried out their terrorists fighters from their base in the Galgala mountains located near Bosaso town.
Meanwhile, Puntland officials were not immediately reachable for comment on the attack. It was unknown the exact figures of the casualties.
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[Rudaw] A bomb detonated Sunday near the Iraqi ministry of culture in Baghdad, but officials say the kaboom caused no casualties.
The incident at the ministry coincided with another Baghdad kaboom that security sources are reporting may have killed several people.
Ministry spokeswoman Zahra al-Jubouri told Rudaw officials believe the bomb was planted on a car inside a garage belonging to the ministry. "The bomb was linked to one of the ministry's cars and after entering the garage it exploded," she said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... the second, deadly boom-mobilekaboom occurred in Baghdad's Rasafa district, with an exact casualty figure still unknown.
Baghdad and outlying areas see near-daily bombings. Many of them are later claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which seized large parts of the country during a stunning 2014 blitz offensive.
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Can't have culture. That would be anti-Islamic.
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(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The leader of Albu Nimir tribe in Anbar province, Naim al-Gaood, announced on Saturday lifting the siege on 70 families that were besieged by the so-called “ISIS” in the area of TharThar north of the city of Ramadi.
Gaood said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A force from the tribe of Albu Nimir, supported by other clans, conducted a tactical operation and managed to free 70 families, including women, children and elders that were besieged by ISIS in the area of TharThar north of Ramadi,” adding that, “The operation was carried out in coordination with the commander of al-Jazeerah Operations, Maj. Gen. Ali Dabun, and the deputy commander of al-Jazeerah Operations, Brig. Gen. Musa al-Asadi.”
The statement added, “The tribal fighters were able to kill 35 terrorists from the organization, in addition to destroying five vehicles belonging to them.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Sunday, that ten people were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast north of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning near a popular restaurant in Sabaa al-Bour area north of Baghdad, resulting in the killing of two people and wounding eight others.”
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, added: “A security force rushed to the area of the incident and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while a raid and search operation was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province announced on Saturday, that 12 ISIS elements, including senior leaders, have been killed in an aerial bombardment by the international coalition southwest of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition bombed intensively ISIS sites in three villages in the district of Zab in Hawija District (65 km southwest of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of seven elements of the organization as well as the destruction of nine sites.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “Coalition warplanes also bombed the home of a top leader in central Hawija, killing five memebers of the organization, including senior leaders.”
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12 SIS Elements? Even Badanov refuses to call them Islamic!
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I bin watching BadMan, in my opinion he's kinda iffy. Course he's a tricky one, like most machinists.
CHAMAN: Levies team has arrested two accused involved in abduction of a woman during a crackdown on Sunday.
According to details, Levies team conducted an operation during which two kidnappers identified as Abdul Wadood and Baz Muhammad were arrested.
The detainees were stated to be heads of kidnapper’s gang and they had abducted a woman from Ismailzai Syedan area of Pishin some three month ago. Raids to rescue the abducted woman were underway.
The Royal Air Force will join an offensive to seal off Isil’s last international border and block foreign fighters from travelling to and from the group’s territory.
The US is planning intense air strikes against the “Manbij pocket”, a 60-mile stretch of Isil-controlled Syria along the frontier with Turkey. On its western flank, the so-called 'Marea line', the pocket is under attack by Western-backed Syrian rebel troops. To its east is territory around the town of Kobane, recaptured by Kurdish forces in June.
Denying Isil its only stretch of border will make it significantly harder for young Britons and other westerners to reach the terror group’s so-called state. It will also obstruct terrorists such as Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the leader of the Paris attacks, who travelled back from Isil territory to Paris.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Feridun Sinirlioglu, said his country and the US were about to launch a joint operation to “put an end to the control Isil is still exercising on a zone of our frontier”, adding: “Our operations will continue with more and more intensity. You will see this in the days to come.”
RAF Reaper drones flying over the area will provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for bombing raids by Turkish and American F-15 and F-16 jets, it is understood.
If MPs vote to back RAF bombing in Syria, British Tornado bombers will join the operation. The bombing will allow anti-Isil ground forces on both sides to advance, US officials say.
“As friendly forces push east from the Marea line, the idea is that they will link up with friendly forces that are on the other side of the Manbij pocket and seal that border off,” said Col Steve Warren, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
Attacks on the Manbij pocket have previously been prevented by Turkey’s unwillingness to see Kurdish groups taking more territory inside Syria. In the wake of the Paris attacks, however, some of the diplomatic obstacles have been resolved.
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What path does ISIS use to get oil out, and money, arms & other supplies in? If I was GB I'd open the valve letting my nut-cases into ISIS land, as long as it was a one-way valve, and did not let supplies in.
To win a war you need both the will and the means to do so. It isn't clear that Europe has the will to defeat the Islamists -- the elites certainly do not, but the average Euro citizen might be rallied. But without the means it won't matter. As this op-ed piece demonstrates, Europe doesn't have the means.
Odds are rising that France and other European nations could end up in a Middle East ground war. That’s worrisome in itself, but there are also concerns that years of cutbacks in European defense budgets could leave the continent’s militaries unprepared for a wily battlefield foe like the Islamic State terror group that recently killed 129 people in a spate of Paris attacks.
The 28 nations that comprise the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed last year that every member’s defense spending should total at least 2% of that nation’s GDP. But only five NATO members are likely to hit that threshold this year: The United States, United Kingdom, Greece, Estonia and Poland. A few of Europe’s biggest nations are far below that target. Germany spends just 1.2% of GDP on defense; Italy, 1%; Spain, a paltry 0.9%.
“These are countries that have enormous shared responsibility with the United States and their NATO partners,” says Jeff Rathke, deputy director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “We all agree they need to redress their low defense spending.”
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Welcome, Y'all, to OWG-NWO + Socialism.
At this rate, the US-West could very well end up relying on Nuclear Iran or even Pakistan = OWG Islamist Nuclear Caliphate for its security???
Lest we fergit, 1990's CLINTONISM = THE [Arrogant Fascist Male Brute Capitalist Imperialist, etc.] US-N-ONLY-THE-US "MUST BE RESTRAINED AND CONTROLLED", by One or More, Weird-N-Mysterious, but only PCorrect + Co-Incidental, It-That-Must-Not-be-Named Third-Party(s)???
THE US-N-ONLY-THE-US IS "TOO STRONG/POWERFUL" PER THE ABOVE, ERGO BY THE TIME IT SINKS GUAM + OTHER KEY PACIFIC ISLANDS IN RIGHTEOUS OBAMA/US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO AND ANTI-CHINESE ANDOR ANTI-CALIPHATE "A2/AD" DENIAL + INDIGNATION, THE PROPAGANDA "WEAK-N-DECLINING" US WILL HAD DEVOL INTO THE DE FACTO "WEAK-N-DECLINING" US???
Where FRANCE may end up using + violating the mandate or charter of its legendary Foreign Legion by using same to defend domestic French soil from the Hard Boyz, instead of overseas as required by both the FFL Charter + French Law.
I'm more worried that some nut job will try to nuke Americca.
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...I've been saying for years that most of the continental NATO forces are no more than armed administrative units, mostly intended to show just enough activity to keep us from leaving. If a GOP contender wants my vote, address this - two percent of GDP every year, no excuses, or we come home.
Mike
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... and welcome to the world of 'cooked books'.
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Still not sure why the US didn't leave NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union. At the very least we should have stopped the military welfare state Bright Pebbles talks about. It *might* have had a point during the cold war (debatable) but clearly had none after the fall of the Soviet Union.
ERBIL – Iranian security forces have detained a number of suspects linked to the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) near the country’s western border with Iraq, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said on Sunday.
“The security forces were tracking down a militant group that intended to destabilize Iran’s security,” he told reporters in Tehran.
Jafari said that one of the terror group’s networks was identified and arrested in Kermanshah province in western Iran.
The Iranian official did not disclose how these ISIS-linked members have been arrested and the whereabouts of the operation.
“The remaining groups are now under surveillance,” Jafari said, stressing “they will be captured at the proper time.”
The IRGC head pointed out that “terrorists” employ “diverse logistic networks”.
Iran has been heavily engaged in the conflict in Syria and Iraq under the pretext of combatting ISIS. In Syria, Iran has made apparent efforts to bolster the faltering regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against moderate rebels. In Iraq, it has remarkably backed the mostly-Shiite government, building a major sectarian force there under the banner “Popular Mobilization Forces”.
Iran is known as the largest Shiite power in the Middle East. It has been supporting Shiite movements in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere against rival Sunni political and military forces.
Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been sent to Syria and Iraq at the invitation of both countries’ governments in order to back their military forces on ground against ISIS and opposition groups.
Jafari stressed that Iran has imposed strict security measures in order to avoid possible terror attacks by ISIS.
“Without security precautions by the government, ISIS could have launched terror attacks in Iran,” he said.
“They (ISIS) might carry out small attacks, but they cannot disturb stability in Iran as happened in other countries,” he argued.
On Saturday, the Iranian ministry of information said it killed members of “terrorist cells” who had planned to carry out bombings in two provinces in the country.
“The security forces captured members of a terrorist cell in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan, who had planned to launch terror attacks with the use of 150 kilograms of explosives.”
Belgian police have made 16 arrests in anti-terror raids but suspected Paris attacks gunman Salah Abdeslam remains at large, the authorities have said.
A total of 22 raids were carried out on Sunday across Brussels and Charleroi, Belgian prosecutor Eric van der Sypt told a news conference. No weapons or explosives were found during the searches on Sunday, Mr van der Sypt said.
Brussels will remain on the highest level of terror alert, Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel said. Universities, schools and the city's metro system will also remain shut.
Brussels has been on lockdown all weekend amid a manhunt for Abdeslam, who is suspected of being among the assailants who killed 130 people in Paris on Friday.
Mr Michel told reporters that authorities feared "an attack similar to the one in Paris, with several individuals who could also possibly launch several attacks at the same time in multiple locations".
Meanwhile, the BBC understands that another of the suspected attackers - pictured in a new French police appeal issued on Sunday - arrived in Greece under the name of M al-Mahmod. The BBC's Ed Thomas has matched the image released by French police with a photo on the arrival papers of a man who reached the Greek island of Leros on 3 October. French police have asked for more information about the man, whom they say was the third suicide bomber to strike the Stade de France on 13 November.
Earlier, Belgian Interior Minister Jan the Ham Jambon said the danger to Belgium was not tied to Abdeslam alone.
"The threat is broader than the one suspected terrorist," he told Flemish broadcaster VRT. It was not clear if Mr Jambon was referring to those involved in the Paris attacks, or others who might be planning attacks in Belgium.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is reportedly moving foreign fighters and family members out of its self-declared capital, Raqqa, as an intensified air campaign by coalition forces begins to bite. Militants in Isil’s so-called caliphate across Syria and Iraq have faced several setbacks over the past week with Kurdish forces splitting a key cross-border supply line, and a US-led military coalition targeting its oil smuggling network and killing dozens of militants.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said on Wednesday that Isil had started moving the family members of foreign fighters across the border to Mosul, apparently claiming that Raqqa was no longer safe for them.
That must be difficult for them -- weren't they recently moved from Mosul to Raqqa because Mosul had become unsafe?
David Thomson, a French journalist who monitors French nationals fighting in Syria, said that French jihadists had begun leaving the city in the days before the group's deadly attacks in Paris, citing Isil sources.
Isil maintains a tight stranglehold over the flow of information outside of territory it controls, and it was not possible to immediately verify the claims that foreign fighters or family members were moving to Mosul, a city that is regularly bombed by coalition forces.
Local activists say the increased bombardment, including last week’s assassination of the Isil executioner known as Jihadi John, has spread fear and paranoia through the militants’ ranks.
“It’s really affecting people, they are getting worried,” said Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi, a spokesman for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a group of anonymous media activists who risk their lives to smuggle information out of the city.
“If they are gathered together, the fighters will scatter in all directions when a drone or a war plane is seen overhead. They hide among the people, they run into houses,” he said.
Isil is facing increasing pressure across its so-called caliphate, after Kurdish and Yazidi forces recaptured the town of Sinjar last week in a two-day operation which faced little resistance. They are also being squeezed in northeastern Syria where a Western-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces are closing in on Isil-held territory. The terror group is now understood to be retrenching operations, moving heavy weaponry and oil supplies to Deir Ezzor, another Syrian stronghold.
“Heavy weaponry, oil facilities and the headquarters belonging to the group in Hasakah province have been relocated to Deir Ezzor using troop carriers and tank transporters,” reported Deir Ezzor 24, a local independent news outlet, on Wednesday. It said the process was being carried out in stages to avoid coalition airstrikes.
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Looking at a map Deir Ezzor is downriver from the big dam at Raqqa. Is it really a sound idea to relocate to a potential flood plain when Putin might just blow the dam?
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Of course the next dam downriver, if Raqqa's bursts is the shoddy one at Mosul. That chain reaction would pretty much take care of the Sunni Anbar province in Iraq.
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Sounds like the widows and orphans that Zero wants to let in here. Probably wants to bring their extended families too. They getting handed "Syrian Passports" too?
The terrorists behind Friday's assault on a hotel in Mali were actively hunting for an Air France crew who were staying there, security guards who witnessed the attack have claimed.
Kasim Haidara, who was on duty when the gunmen stormed the Radisson hotel in Bamako, told The Telegraph that they confronted a colleague and demanded to know which floor the Air France crew were staying on. The fellow guard deliberately directed them to the wrong floor, Mr Haidara said, for which he was later shot dead by the terrorists.
Mr Haidara's account would suggest that the group, who killed 19 people, was prioritising French citizens because of the country's two-year long military campaign against Islamists in northern Mali. It might also explain the Air France's decision to suspend its twice daily flights from Paris to Bamako shortly afterwards.
Speaking of the "shocking, frightening" attack, Mr Haidara, 28, said that his colleague, Moussa Tiema-Konate, had been on the fifth floor of the hotel at the time.
"When they got up there, the terrorists asked him: 'where are the staff of Air France?' He told them that they were on the seventh floor instead, and when they realised later that he had given them wrong information, they came back down and killed him."
Air France has not commented on whether its staff were deliberately targeted or not, although did not confirm that 12 crew - including two pilots - were safely evacuated.
Mr Haidara's claims emerged as a chef who worked in the hotel's kitchens said that one of the terrorists had calmly cooked himself a meal during the siege, which lasted nine hours. Ali Yazbeck, 30, who suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, told the New York Times that the gunman came into the kitchen, grilled some meat taken from a fridge, and then ate it before resuming combat.
Responsibility for the attack has been claimed by the Al-Murabitoun group, an Al-Qaeda affiliate led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Algerian militant behind the 2013 Amenas gas refinery attack in Algeria that killed 40 hostages, including six Britons.
Reports that the Mali attackers spoke in English with a Nigerian accent have raised speculation that the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram could also have been involved. However, security officials say they would have expected the group to have made a claim of responsibility by now.
Malian security forces say they are still hunting for "more than three" people who may have been involved in the attack, in which two of the gunmen were killed.
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A group of seven North Korean defectors hoping to start a new life in South Korea has been detained in Thailand.
Citing local media, Voice of America reported that Thai police arrested seven North Koreans on the northern side of the Mekong River. The group, which consisted of youngsters and the elderly, were traveling without passports. Thai authorities were told the group wanted to be taken to the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok.
So take them there and apply a nominal fine for crossing the border illegally...
A growing number of defectors from the reclusive state are being caught after traveling through China to a third country en route to South Korea. Those captured in China are often sent back to their Stalinist home country and face harsh punishments on return.
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A more normal refugee demographic, and arguably a more desperate circumstance than the Syrians.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Mesar, said on Sunday, that about 750 German citizens have joined the ranks of the “ISIS” in Iraq and Syria, while pointed out that 120 German nationals have been killed so far while fighting alongside the ISIS organization.
De Mesar said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “About 750 German nationals have joined the ranks of the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria, 20% of whom were women,” pointing out that, “120 people that hold German nationality were killed so far.”
The minister added, “80% of them did not exceed 30 years old and grew up in Germany, and most of them have another nationality,” noting that, “The intelligence available confirm that more than 70 jihadists had returned to Germany from Syria and Iraq.”
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And the Germans let them back in, why?
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Charge them with treason, make them dis-prove it in court.
The financial burden will break them.
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Gernan Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (that's his correct spelling) is actually proposing to strip persons of their German nationality if they join the IS (Islamic STATE).
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yes redneck jim -- Treason
but once you are charged with treason and have dual citizenship - deport and strip german citizenship!
NATO AfghanistanAmid deteriorating security situation across the country with the Taliban-led insurgency being rampant, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has decided to increase support for the Afghan national security forces.
According to reports, a classified document prepared for the upcoming NATO ministerial has been approved which will pave the way for the alliance to look into the possibility of sharing intelligence with the Afghan security forces.
Quoting diplomatic sources, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) International reported that the latest step by NATO could help prevent incidents such as recent Taliban attacks for which local authorities were unprepared.
The report further added that the alliance could also deploy trainers in volatile regions of the country and will likely provide air support in the event of an emergency.
This comes as the situation in Afghanistan will be discussed during the NATO foreign ministerial in Brussels which is scheduled to be organized on 1st and 2nd December.
Currently, around 13,000 NATO troops are stationed in Afghanistan who are operating within the framework of Resolute Support (RS) mission and provide train, advise and assistance to the Afghan security forces.
The NATO-led Resolute Support mission was launched with the conclusion of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission last year.
Quoting NATO sources, DPA International reported that the report is less negative about the security situation in Afghanistan than recent Taliban attacks may suggest.
They noted that Afghan security forces are capable in many areas, such as the ability to carry out operations spanning several weeks.
[AnNahar] Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... has active criminal proceedings against 33 individuals over suspected ties to krazed killer Islamist groups, but only three people are currently in jug, the attorney general's office said Sunday.
Some of those cases have been opened in the last two to three months, but the most serious involves a cell of possible Islamist faceless myrmidons uncovered in the Canton of Schaffhausen last year, said Andry Marty, a front man for Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber.
"In total there are currently 33 ongoing criminal proceedings against suspected supporters and/or members of krazed killer Islamist organizations," Marty told AFP in an email, confirming details given by Lauber in an interview with the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper.
Local media have previously reported that the case in Schaffhausen, in Switzerland's far north on the German border, involved Iraqi nationals who may have been in Switzerland illegally and could have been preparing an attack.
Marty provided no details of the allegations, but confirmed that three people involved in the Schaffhausen case remained incarcerated.
Switzerland's Sunday papers were dominated by the rising anxiety that has spread across Europe in the wake of the Gay Paree attacks last week that killed 130 people, and an ongoing anti-terror lockdown in Brussels.
Local Geneva politician Vincent Maitre called for police to receive special terrorism response training.
He lamented that police in Geneva carry 9mm weapons, which he described as "water guns" compared to the "weapons of war used by terrorists", according to newspaper Le Matin Dimanche.
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A long-ago buddy had a .350 bolt action he used for White Tails, 'big varmints' and the like. Think he called it a 'Short Mag' or something similar. The round was fairly short and 'pudgy'.
Worked really well as a brush gun as I recall.
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[Inquirer] A town councilor and a policeman were injured on Friday after suspected New People's Army militants attacked a police patrol car that was heading for a remote village in Daraga, Albay. Injured in the attack were Daraga Municipal Councilor Mark Magalona and policeman John Mallorca, according to Albay provincial police director Marlo Meneses.
Meneses said a group of suspected militants attacked the police car . on Friday morning. The five policemen on board the patrol car were able to return fire but the councilor and Mallorca were hit in the gunfight. The NPA militants retreated when police reinforcements arrived.
Landmines planted by Houthi rebels in Yemen have slowed the advance of pro-government forces attempting to recapture the southwestern province of Taiz, military officials said on Sunday. Government forces backed by air and ground support from the Saudi-led coalition launched an all-out offensive on Monday to push the Iran-backed rebels out of Taiz and break the siege of loyalists in its provincial capital.
"We have advanced after having cleared and destroyed a large quantity of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines planted by the Houthi rebels and their allies" of renegade troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, said a military official.
Troops and allied Popular Resistance fighters had advanced towards Rahida, the province's second-largest city, on the road linking main southern city Aden with Taiz, the official said.
Four Houthis were killed and two others were wounded in an ambush by loyalists that targeted two rebel patrols south of Rahida, he said.
A Yemeni commander said mines were hampering the progress of government forces, adding that they had caused casualties among fighters, without providing any figures.
Breaking the siege of Taiz is seen as crucial for the recapture of other central provinces and opening the way to the rebel-held capital Sanaa farther north. It is also important for securing the south, where loyalists have retaken five provinces from the rebels since July, including Aden, where Hadi has set up base.
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Jordan's King Abdullah, a US ally, will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to tackle "terror groups" led by Daesh in Syria, an official source said.
Jordan reached an agreement with Moscow last month to ensure Russian bombing of targets in southern Syria, which borders the country, does not target Western backed rebels known as the Southern Front - a grouping it supports as a buffer against the spread of hardline groups.
The king is expected to raise concerns that any stepped-up Russian raids in southern Syria along Jordan's northern border could trigger a big wave of refugees into the already over-stretched kingdom which hosts over a million refugees fleeing the conflict, one official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Diplomats say the Russian air force has stepped up bombing in recent days of mainly civilian targets in rebel-controlled towns in southern Syria, including parts of rebel-held Deraa city that are run by moderate rebel groups backed by Jordan.
Jordan has not publicly commented but the king, who has close personal ties with Putin, recently publicly expressed enthusiasm about the intensive Russian military campaign in Syria, saying it offered a window of opportunity and that Moscow had a key role in defeating the ultra-hardline militants.
Diplomats says Moscow's expanding bombing raids in the south this week, however, showed the limitations of Jordan's leverage over the Russians who launched their air campaign on September 30 with the stated aim of hitting Daesh but mostly bombing other rebel groups in the west of the country.
They said there was also some disquiet in Washington about any closer security and military cooperation with Moscow.
Diplomats say Jordan's overt backing of Moscow's military campaign also risks putting it at odds with Saudi Arabia and Turkey that are very critical of Russia's campaign.
The King understands who the stronger horse is...
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Obozo doesn't seem to be the "go-to-guy" anywhere anymore. They have lost confidence in him. They view him much like the Greek columns at his inauguration way back in 2009. That's what happens when you let in too many illegal immigrants from Kenya, tee hee.
Police watched the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks being led by a woman into an apartment the evening before both died there in a raid by special forces, a police source said on Friday.
After a tip-off from Morocco that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of Islamic State's most high-profile European recruits, was in France, police honed in on Hasna Aitboulahcen, a woman already under surveillance who was known to have links to him. Police tapping her phone as part of a drugs investigation tracked her to the St. Denis suburb north of Paris, also home to the stadium where three suicide bombers blew themselves up during last Friday's attacks that killed 130 people.
They watched the 26-year-old woman take Abaaoud into the St. Denis building on Tuesday evening. In the early hours of Wednesday, police launched an assault that lasted seven hours. Abaaoud, 28, and Aitboulahcen, who may be his cousin, both died during the gun battle during which French police commandos fired more than 5,000 shots. A third person, who has yet to be identified, died with them.
Officials initially said Aitboulahcen had blown herself up, becoming Europe's first female suicide bomber, but a source close to the investigation said on Friday that a head blasted into the street by an explosive vest was not hers.
One of the police sources also said Abaaoud had been caught on camera at a suburban metro station, after the shootings and at cafes and restaurants in central Paris but while a massacre in the Bataclan concert hall was still underway. He was seen on closed circuit TV at the Croix de Chavaux station in Montreuil, not far from where one of the cars used in the attacks was found, the source said.
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[Hurriyet] Greece has done all the reforms in the a first package of measures agreed with eurozone creditors, which paves the way for Athens to get the next tranche of loans, the head of eurozone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Nov. 21.
With the hunt for ISIS jihadis ongoing and the migrant flows still flowing, now would be a dreadful time for Greece to be forced out of business, as it were,
Greece is getting very cheap loans form the eurozone bailout fund ESM under its third bailout agreement in exchange for putting its public finances in order and reforming the economy to make it more efficient and competitive.
Eurozone deputy finance ministers (EWG) reviewed on Nov. 21 the progress made by Athens in the reforms.
"On the basis of a final compliance notice... the EWG agreed that the Greek authorities have now completed the first set of milestones and the financial sector measures that are essential for a successful recapitalization process," Dijsselbloem said.
"The agreement paves the way for the formal approval by the ESM Board of Directors on Nov. 23 of disbursing the 2 billion euro sub-tranche linked to the first set of milestones," he said.
He said that it will also allow the ESM to make case by case decisions to transfer money to Greece for the recapitalization of the Greek banking sector.
The ESM already has 10 billion euro earmarked for this purpose and the capital needs of Greek banks from the eurozone are estimated at between six and nine billion, one eurozone official said on Nov. 20.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Badiya and al-Jazeera Operations in Anbar province announced on Sunday, that 35 ISIS elements were killed in a security operation west of the city of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
The commander of al-Badiya and al-Jazeera Operations Ali Ibrahim Dbon said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The security forces have carried out, at noon today, a proactive security operation targeting ISIS members in the village of Umm Dibs in Haditha District (170 km west of Ramadi), resulting in the killing of 35 elements of the organization and the bombing of five vehicles.”
Dbon added, “The operation also resulted in freeing 210 people; mostly women and children from the tribe of Albu Nimr.”
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[Hurriyet] A curfew has entered its tenth day in the southeastern district of Nusaybin on Nov. 22, while the curfew was ended in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.
If I were living in Europe, I'd give serious thought to prepping for at least a full month without access to shops. President Erdogan clearly has no problem with supplying a touch of decimation.
A curfew, which was declared on Nov. 13 in the Nusaybin district of the Mardin province, was ended briefly on Nov. 21 during the day so people could leave their house for food and other needs. The curfew was began again in the evening in 11 neighborhoods of Nusaybin, a border town with Syria. Locals said they had no electricity or water during the curfew and had difficulties due to food shortages.
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Mithat Sancar, Erol Dora, Ali Atalan and Gulser Yildirim continued their hunger strike in Nusaybin, which they started on Nov. 19.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... the curfew has ended in seven neighborhoods of Lice on Nov. 22, after security forces ended their operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) myrmidons, the city governor's office said in a statement.
Obama Administration officials: Waidaminnit! You can do that?!?
ISTANBUL – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) has issued a number of new rules and regulations for women who want to make jihadist operations against opponents, including detailed guidepost for those who “got the permission” of being suicide bombers.
An Arab woman asked the group for publishing the jihad guidelines, wondering how she could serve the mujahideen (jihadist fighters) if the war waged in ‘Bilad al-Haramain’ (in reference to Saudi Arabia).
The group responded to the female sympathizer by releasing a statement including basic guidelines for jihadi women.
“Women can make jihad to support the religion of God according to their capabilities, whether by nursing, sewing, or serving through cooking, washing and other things,” the ISIS-linked Zura Foundation quoted the group’s statement as saying.
The group pointed out if a woman is raided in her house, she may defend herself with weapons, detonating her suicide belt if needed. “She has the right to bomb it without the permission of others (apparently from the group),” the statement read.
“She also can fight without the permission of others, in case she was under attack by infidels,” said the group’s Foundation, adding: “Women are allowed to carry out martyrdom (suicidal) operations only if the Emir (ISIS leading member) orders it.”
“Women may use a sniper rifle according to orders from the Emir,” the group argued.
The statement added that women are also invited to military training only if they were dressed according to Sharia and separated from men.
Last week, it was believed a woman, identified as Hasna Ait Boulachen, had blown herself up in Paris during a security raid that followed the deadly attacks in the French capital, during which 129 have been killed and more than 300 others wounded.
Regardless of their exact role within the group, regional and western governments are concerned about their female citizens who join the group and become radicalized.
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PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen on Sunday killed a TV journalist, police said, the second such murder this month in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Attackers riding a motorcycle fired on 42-year-old Hafeez ur Rehman near his home on the outskirts of Kohat district.
“He was hit by three bullets and died on the spot,” Fazal Naeem, a police spokesman in Kohat, said.
The killing came weeks after a similar attack, later reportedly claimed by Taliban militants, on Zaman Mehsud, a newspaper journalist in the nearby town of Tank.
Rehman, who had been working as a journalist for 12 years, was employed by the Neo TV network. He was also publisher of his own daily, Asia, until it folded earlier this year.
The motive behind the latest attack was unclear. Rehman had not previously reported any threats against him.
But journalists in the region are often targeted by militants, mainly the Taliban.
The militants have lately expressed unhappiness at the lack of coverage given to them by the Pakistani media.
The killing was the fifth attack on members of the media in the past three months.
A TV news technician and journalist were killed in separate incidents in the port city of Karachi in September, while a journalist was shot and injured in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
More than 70 Pakistani journalists and other media workers have lost their lives since 2001 while pursuing their duties, according to a UN report.
The report criticised a widespread culture of impunity and ranked Pakistan as the world’s fifth worst country in terms of the number of unresolved cases of violence against journalists.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency says the so-called district governor of Taliban for Deh Sabz District of Kabul province has been killed.
According to a statement released by NDS on Sunday, Qari Muzamil alias Hakimullah was killed along with four of his men in Behsood District of eastern Nangarhar province.
The statement does not specify whether the militants were killed in security operations or drone strike.
This story is subject to updates as more details come available.
[Rudaw] Coalition Arclight airstrikes pounded 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 (ISIS) on the Gwer front 30 kilometers south of Erbil on Sunday, destroying five armored vehicles and the bandidosDeath Eaters inside, security officials said.
"The Arclight airstrikes destroyed five ISIS armored vehicles and the people inside," said Karim Gharib, a Peshmerga officer.
He added that the attacks also demolished a cement factory in the village of Kanash that the bandidosDeath Eaters had been using as a military base.
The warplanes also targeted the nearby villages of Dwezat and Safina, Gharib said.
The numbers of ISIS casualties were not immediately known.
Coalition warplanes have been targeting ISIS on the Gwer-Makhmour front, hammering its military bases.
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[Rudaw] An Iraqi military official said Sunday that 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.... was using new approaches to send suicide kaboomers and that Iraqi forces had foiled two recent suicide attacks.
"During the past two days ISIS murderous Moslems attempted to use different techniques to send suicide attackers in Ramadi and instead of planting explosives and sending boom-mobiles they used cycle of violence suicide attacks to target security and the Iraqi army," Major General Ismail Mahalawi, the head of the Anbar operations command, said in a presser.
Mahalawi said the Iraqi army foiled two cycle of violence suicide attacks in southern Ramadi and killed three ISIS suicide attackers who aimed to detonate themselves at Iraqi army positions.
"ISIS is defeated in Ramadi and Anbar province completely, and is seeking several ways for Dire Revenge," Mahalawi added.
ISIS seized Ramadi on May 17, 2015 and has controlled most of Anbar--the largest province in Iraq--ever since its lightning assault across Iraq in 2014.
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A nine member Afghan family, reportedly trying to enter Turkey through Iran, said on Sunday that one of the mothers in their group was shot dead by Iranian border police on Saturday in the Iranian city of Oromia.
"My sister was killed while we were on our way to Turkey and now her three children are crying for her and no one is hearing our plight. We are extremely mistreated," the family's elder, Mohammad Alif, said.
"We are now in the Iranian border city of Oromia. They [Iranian police] intend to seize our passports and deport us by land to Afghanistan," he said.
This comes amid a mass exodus of Afghans through Iran to Turkey and on to Europe as they flee war-torn Afghanistan in search of a better life.
Three decades of violence in the country has reportedly left more than five million Afghans displaced. Thousands have fled to Europe alone in recent months.
Last week, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani said that in the past year 146,000 Afghans have fled to Europe.
However, an Afghan youth organization on Sunday launched an awareness campaign aimed at the youth, educating them on the negative consequences of illegal migration.
"We launched a campaign to provide awareness to the people not leave the country, because fleeing does not solve the problem," campaign organizer Edris Stanikzai said.
More than 20 bus passengers were kidnapped early Saturday morning while traveling along the Zabul-Kabul highway.
The hostages, from Zabul province, where reportedly taken off four different buses at a single point along the highway, said local officials.
Probably the kidnapees were Hazeras, who look vaguely Chinese and are Shiite rather than Sunni. In other words, fair game for various Lions of Islam.
Security forces and provincial officials have reportedly arrived at the scene and have cordoned off the area in a bid track the kidnappers and hostages.
According to TOLOnews journalist, Ahmad Wali Sarhadi, who was at the scene soon after the incident occurred, said the kidnapping happened between two police checkpoints – which were 3 km apart. In addition, security forces conduct 24 hour-a-day patrols along this highway.
An official source said the incident happened near Nawrak district about 35 kms from Qalat, the capital of Zabul.
Meanwhile the president's office has vowed to track down the kidnappers and ascertain the details surrounding the incident. Police also said Saturday they have launched an investigation into the matter.
This latest incident took place a mere 24 km away from the point where Daesh militants kidnapped 31 bus passengers in February. Following the release of most hostages, the last five were freed a week ago.
However, this comes close on the heels of the Zabul Seven incident, which saw the beheading of seven other hostages early this month after being kidnapped by Daesh almost two months ago.
The seven victims, including three women, were also kidnapped while traveling between Zabul and Ghazni provinces. They were beheaded earlier this month allegedly by Daesh members.
The incident sparked a massive demonstration through the streets of Kabul two weeks ago. About 20,000 demonstrators carried their bodies through the streets of the capital, calling for justice and an end to the kidnappings.
No group has however claimed responsibility for Saturday's incident.
Two Palestinians, including a teen, attacked Israelis with knives and a car in the West Bank Sunday and were killed when civilians and security forces intervened, the latest in a nearly two-month wave of violence.
Brought knives to a gunfight and got what they deserved. Though the progressives, Democrats and MSM (but I repeat myself) will not report what happened and instead just go on with their preferred narrative...
No Israelis were reported seriously wounded in the two attacks, which occurred after the violence had shown signs of subsiding last week before a new series of assaults began on Thursday.
Sunday's first attack saw a 16-year-old Palestinian girl who tried to stab an Israeli run over by a Jewish settler then shot dead by soldiers. The Israeli military said in a statement that the attack occurred at a junction south of Nablus, adding that "forces and a bystander responded to the immediate threat, shooting the attacker".
Palestinian security officials confirmed she had died of her wounds and identified her as Asheraqat Qatanani, from Askar refugee camp near Nablus. The attack occurred in an area known to Israelis as Samaria Junction and to Palestinians as Hawwara Junction.
A Jewish settler in the area, Gershon Mesika, said he hit the assailant with his car before a soldier shot her.
"I saw a terrorist running after a child... and I saw her holding a knife," he told army radio. "I broke to the right and hit her full-speed with the car. She fell and then a soldier came and finished the job."
The army did not confirm who the attacker was targeting.
Later, a Palestinian driving a taxi attempted to ram into civilians and charged at them with a knife before being shot dead, police said.
"A Palestinian man at Kfar Adumim junction in a Palestinian taxi tried to run over civilians," a statement said.
"When he failed he exited the car with a knife and attempted to stab. The terrorist was shot by a civilian and died of his wounds."
It provided no further details on the civilian. A hospital spokeswoman said a 51-year-old Israeli was lightly wounded by the car ramming.
A Paleostinian terrorist stabbed and killed Hadar Buchris, 21, as she stood at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank on Sunday afternoon.
It was the third such West Bank attack of the day and the second at the junction in the last four days.
The IDF has banned Paleostinian workers from entering the Gush Etzion settlements on Monday, a front man for the Gush Etzion Regional Council said.
IDF forces who responded to Sunday's attack immediately shot and killed the suspected stabber, who was identified as Atzam Tuabata, a 34-year-old resident of Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem in the West Bank.
According to the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Tuabata did not have a criminal record.
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"I saw a terrorist running after a child... and I saw her holding a knife," he told army radio. "I broke to the right and hit her full-speed with the car. She fell and then a soldier came and finished the job."
I think the sous-IP Nazi got me last night, and found that it is possibly more difficult to type when adults are watching the game than when the kids are tugging my shirt.
City of Fortune
Roger Crowley
Random House, 2012
This is Mr. Crowley's third book, preceded by 1453 - Holy War for Constantinople, and Empires of the Sea - The Siege of Malta, Battle for Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. By the material, City of Fortune occurs first covering over 500 years of history beginning at 1000 AD, in 375 pages. So it moves deliberately, emphasizing ports of call.
The conflicts, especially crucial military events, are well detailed, beginning with controlling the Adriatic and the Fourth Crusade which includes the sacking of Constantinople, as well as the War of Chioggia where Venice itself is nearly overrun by a coalition including the Hungarians and the rival Genoese, whom the Venetians conflict with throughout this time period. The War of Chioggia was unfamiliar to me, and Mr. Crowley writes in such a manner that even though I knew who would win, I was in doubt to the very end and through the next chapter; if it were a movie, I would doubt its authenticity.
Maps and color pictures in the hardback edition.
Before getting along much further:
What I found more interesting would be the politics and logistics covered.
"A larger merchant galley was evolved, principally a sailing vessel with increased cargo sizes and cut journey times. A galley that could carry 150 tons below-decks in the 1290s had enlarged to a carrier of 250 tons by the 1450s. This galea grosssa was heavy on manpower. It required a crew typically of over two hundred, including 180 oarsmen..."
(excellent Reference section)
Each Venetian rower was also a soldier, with his weapons stored under his bench ready to fight. Each ship. Just making the route.
One can see why some of the deadliest navy fights in history are in the Age of Oar.
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I had a good question and assistance from Trailing Wife. The question was, does the galley crew include soldiers. It is a good question, not only were there pirates, but the Genoese who were just as competent seafarers and the two peoples hated each other, and had a series of wars where each others' shipping was targeted. A typical outfitting would only have a couple days worth of provisions, mainly water was an issue, so ships would hug the coastline making shipping fairly predictable, especially in The Black Sea where there were no islands to hop around. And the Venetians and Genoese both competed heavily in that arena as trade there bypassed the surging Ottoman Turks and Mamluks, cutting out a middleman:
What was different about the Venetians was the loyalty of the rowing crew. Crowley explains that helped the Venetian sea experience, even going so far as allowing them to store goods underneath their bench to trade at the next port. The Venetian rowers were expected to be the men at arms in a fight. Also, the design of their merchant vessels towered over the traditional oared ships at the time, further giving a Venetian merchant the advantage.
When a Venetian bought a ship, the company didn't so much as buy it, but rent it from the state, and the state required certain minimum standards before leaving port, which is the crossbowmen. In a war fleet, additional soldiers would be carried in stead of trade cargo. They even developed a ship with a drop down front where cavalry, the horses shipped strapped as hammocks, could exit straight onto the beach.
In the Age of Oar, even sailed vessels relied on the oarsman. There is a harrowing account of a ship which was becalmed (h/t TW) on how the food rots and the water becomes undrinkable, the people start to die from disease. A calm was as dangerous as a storm.
Towards the end of the Battle of Chioggia, an unpopular choice of City Commander nearly led to revolt, prompting the release of Captain Pisani, who had been imprisoned for a debacle which let the Genoese navy sail into the Adriatic.
Page 212, "You want us to go in the galleys," went up the cry in Saint Mark's Square, "give us our Captain Pisani!"
The Senate eventually acquiesces, and the next day the benches for volunteers into the navy were overwhelmed .
Now, I have to give credit to this book, and all of Mr. Crowley's books, for its excellent reference section - bibliography, index, notes which include the validity of quotes. Not such a big deal with the Venetians as he said they found some 40 miles of matriculate documents, as say in 1453 where whatever documents there were, were destroyed. Mr. Crowley had the humility to point out certain passages where the integrity of the source were suspect.
And about those standards before leaving port: everything was rated down to which ropes were of what quality and how they can be used, and shows how that paid off with an account of a ship which first survives a brutal storm and then is threatened to be blown into the rocks and is saved only by the quality of the ship, then the quality of the anchor rope.
I have been to St. Mark's square, that for me was easy to picture that scene. The storm at sea, he had me chewing my fingers.
There is an account, especially in 1453, of a handful of Venetian ships of this type trying to run the Ottoman blockade when the wind falters and they get surrounded by the Ottoman navy - and fight well enough long enough that the wind picks up again and they can escape. Mehmed was furious at his navy's inability to conquer these ship. Empires of the Sea further chronicles the Venetian seafaring and vessel construction during The Battle of Lapanto where the Venetians anchored the allied left with what would be nothing short of battleships of the age.
Each Venetian rower was also a soldier, with his weapons stored under his bench ready to fight.
On reflection, freeing the oarsmen is a last resort. The professional soldiers would be armored and equipped with pikes, an arquebus, so forth. The whip and the chain would be an oarsman's normal duty, but if it got down to all hands on deck, more often than not a Venetian captain could draw on his rowing crew to defend the ship. Captain's call I would guess. At Lapanto, both sides promised freedom for the rowers, some unshackled them, most stayed shackled, one Ottoman ship had the oarsmen slip from their chains and attack their former masters.
The Venetians were apparently good at winning the loyalty of the crew, likely from trade incentives and sailing skill, but as more and more ships took to the water, there was a strain on manpower and slaves more and more often took the oars, which would be a problem for the captain, especially if the slaves were from competing ideologies: Genoese, Orthodox, Muslim, Slav, Criminal.
Part of the challenge reviewing this book is that most of the passages can be steeped for five minutes and sipped on for fifteen.
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Snowy, it was that audio which turned me on to this series. The narrator, John Lee, IMHO reads with great emotion, hits the accents, and drew me in so tight I had to pause the player when driving in traffic.
I picked it up for a road trip, thinking, hey I've been to Malta, enjoyed the $5 gift store book, why not? Holy. Crap.
There was a time when I simply had no time to read: another good narrator, IMHO, is the series featuring Charlton Griffin - what I listened to was The Jewish War (Josephus), Julius Caesar, Hannibal (Harold Lamb), Charlemagne, Alexander the Great (Arrian), The March of the Ten Thousend (Xenophon), The Twelve Caesars (Seutonis), Tamerlane (Harold Lamb).
I thought he did a fine job with all of them, but found Hannibal absolutely engrossing.
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In the beginning there was much a common purpose..Venice!..and everyone grew up as neighbors in the wooden town sticking out of the ocean. You might enlist as a rower, and know that the chains and whip are part of the job, but there was probably not a total stranger on the ship.
This is just me talking, and Mr. Crowley does mention towards the end of the book that fissures had developed between the crews and oarsmen. As Venice acquired wealth and colonies, fewer poor were available for the brutal job - sitting on a plank, exposed to the elements, constant rowing, and if he was lucky enough to get enough food and water to relieve himself, it was there on the plank. That is a tough life, but as they traveled and traded, returned to Venice, raised a family, told their children stories and taught them trading skills, the 'poor' of Venice were significantly better off than their contemporaries, so those children would go off and try their luck in trade and there was a diminishing pool of oar labor being produced by Venice.
I would say an accelerator of that divide was the second taking of Constantinople, 1204, an event this books does get into detail about where 1453 just sort of mentions it; why if I could do it again I would start with this book. This time Constantinople is thoroughly ravaged and the wealth of the city is taken to Venice. But not just the bullion, the trade rights to both Constantinople and The Black Sea, as well as various islands is where the wealth was. Ships were built, businesses established, a massive increase in overall wealth in Venice and ventures needed ships built, everyone benefitted. Fewer rowers.
It occurred to me this morning that if I were to sail a fleet against the Genoese I would want Venetians on the oars. They may be exhausted from the journey, more so by battle maneuvers, unarmored, and unskilled with weapons, but they could reload, tend the wounded, and with pikes they could at least present a bristle of steel versus a boarding party.
The Battle of Chioggia, 1378, Venice had 30 ships in storage which were filled only after the release of Captain Pisani, who many believed was wrongfully jailed as a scapegoat of disaster, allegedly his subordinates ignored his order and charged the Genoese off the boot of Italy, right into a trap. Only a handful of the fleet survived.
Also, the passage of the storm at sea remarked the passengers heard the oarsmen rolling about on deck, which would imply they were unchained, which at some level the crew trusted the oarsmen to not mutiny after the danger had passed.
There is a ton of other information here: the various acts which received scorn from the Papacy, trade rules with the Mamluks or The Golden Hoard, dealings in Cyprus, the Battle of Negroponte, office appointments and conditions, the immense gathering of intelligence, and just day to day dealings.
For Rantburgers, it is a fairly easy and quick read, and with some imagination can really extract some understanding of the greatest trading nation on earth at the time, and the general mood of the Mediterranean at that point in history.
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The whip and the chain would be an oarsman's normal duty...
Were the oarsmen slaves? I know they weren't in the classical age, and I'd be surprised if they were any other time. OK -- not all that surprised if the Muslims used galley slaves.
Slaves have no motivation not to screw up, and when you're rowing like that, screwing up is easy. Throw off the rhythm, don't draw the oar in quickly enough, on and on...
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Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said.
Three Ebola cases emerged in Liberia on Friday. The first of the new patients was a 15-year-old boy called Nathan Gbotoe from Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia. Two other family members have since been confirmed as positive and they are all hospitalized.
"We have three confirmed cases and have listed 153 contacts, and we have labeled them as high, medium and low in terms of the risk," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh told Reuters late on Saturday.
The West African country has suffered the highest death toll in the worst known Ebola outbreak in history, losing more than 4,800 people. It has twice been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, once in May and again on Sept. 3, only for new cases to emerge.
It is not known how Gbotoe was infected and Kateh did not offer any explanation, saying that investigations were ongoing. Cross-border transmission seems unlikely since neighboring Guinea has zero cases while Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free this month after 42 days without a case.
In the Duport Road neighborhood of Paynesville, health officials went from house to house on Saturday delivering food and water to neighbors of the infected family, deemed at risk of catching the disease. Unlike in previous months, there were no barriers or soldiers to enforce quarantines.
The epidemic has crippled Liberia's economy and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says it will take two years to recover.
The previous resurgence of Ebola in Liberia is thought to have been via sexual transmission since the virus can exist in the semen of male survivors for at least nine months after infection, much longer than its incubation period in blood.
And much longer than we thought at the time...
It is also theoretically possible for an infected animal to trigger a fresh chain of transmission. The index case in the West African outbreak that has killed around 11,300 people was a child believed to have been infected by a bat.
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It has twice been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, once in May and again on Sept. 3, only for new cases to emerge.
[Bangkok Post] Thai security forces nabbed a murder suspect in a raid on a house in Songkhla province on Sunday morning.
The combined police and military team laid siege to the house in Sabayoi district and arrested Abdulloh Mabo, who was wanted for the murder of Ek-udom Sasutham, a military ranger. Ek-udom was found dead in a rubber plantation on November 19. He had been shot five times.
The suspect, who denied the allegations against him, was taken to the district police station for further questioning. Abdulloh was once charged along with 16 others with illegal assembly of armed elements in support of a separatist movement. He was acquitted of that charge in 2010.
[AnNahar] Eight people were killed Sunday when ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber detonated her explosives among women and kiddies arriving in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri seeking to escape 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... violence in the countryside.
Mohammed Kanar, a local coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the blast happened on Sunday morning as the group arrived from Dikwa, 90 kilometers (56 miles) to the northeast.
The restive city of Maiduguri has repeatedly been attacked by Boko Haram and the latest bloodshed again underlines the threat posed by the Islamist group, which has been launching guerrilla-style attacks since being pushed out of its captured territory and camps by a Nigerian army offensive.
Kanar said the bomber in Sunday's attack was aged about 20 and struck as the group reached a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maiduguri.
"The IDPs (internally displaced persons), mostly women and kiddies, were stopped for security checks at the checkpoint when the bomber, disguised as an IDP, sneaked in amongst them before setting off her explosives," he told AFP.
"Eight people were killed and seven others were maimed in the incident."
Army front man Colonel Sani Usman gave the same account and toll.
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Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Mohammad Ziauddin has said Bangladesh has become a brand name in the UN Peace Support Operations.
I'm sure the B-desh peacekeepers indeed have a reputation...
“Till now, 122,000 Bangladeshi troops have served in 54 missions in 25 war-ravaged countries. Of them, 119 valiant soldiers have laid down their lives for the cause of international peace and security,” he told a function in Washington DC.
Referring to the UN peacekeeping missions, the Ambassador said Bangladesh today is the number one troops contributing country to the UN peacekeeping operations with over 9,000 blue helmets in nine missions in nine countries, said a press release received here on Saturday night.
Not for gratis, however...
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These UN PK'ers may be needed back in their homeland soon as the ISIS/ISIL has repor begun operating from Bangla, IIRC formally as the "IS/ISIS in Bangladesh"???
Have threatened the US = White House + NYC, Japan, PH, Canada, and Bangla since Bataclan = Paris + France attacks.
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Sending one's troops overseas reduces their proclivity for coups, looting, raping or pillaging back home. Think of it as a 'jobs program' with foreigners covering the graft.
Iran has sentenced detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to an unspecified prison term following his conviction last month on charges that include espionage, Iranian state TV reported on Sunday.
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, the spokesman for Iran's judiciary, announced the punishment in a statement on the TV station's website.
"In brief, it is a prison sentence," he said. The verdict is "not finalised," he added, referring to an expected appeal.
Rezaian's lawyer, Leila Ahsan, said she had not been informed of the verdict - let alone details of the sentence.
"I have no information about details of the verdict," she said. "We were expecting the verdict some three months ago."
Rezaian was detained with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and two photojournalists on July 22, 2014. All were later released except Rezaian, a dual US-Iranian citizen. Rezaian went on trial in four closed-door court hearings at Tehran's Revolutionary Court over the past months. Last month, he was convicted of spying and other charges.
The Post has vigorously denied the accusations against its correspondent.
Rezaian, who has covered Iran for the Post since 2012, grew up in Marin County, California and spent most of his life in the United States. The Post, US officials and Rezaian's family have all called for his release. Iran does not recognise dual-nationality.
And they don't recognize him as being an American...
Iran's state media, citing the indictment, have said Rezaian collected information on Iranian and foreign individuals and companies circumventing sanctions and passed them on to the US government. Iranian state TV has repeatedly called Rezaian an "American spy."
Earlier this month, the intelligence department of the powerful elite Revolutionary Guard claimed in a report to parliament that Rezaian is an agent seeking to "overthrow" Iran's Islamic ruling system.
His incarceration and trial played out as Iran and five world powers, including the US, negotiated a landmark agreement in which the Islamic Republic agreed to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
Iranian media in August quoted officials discussing the possibility of swapping Americans detained in Iran for 19 Iranians held in the US. It's unclear, however, whether that's been seriously discussed between Iranian and US officials.
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[AnNahar] Afghan Talibs on Saturday kidnapped at least seven members of the minority Shiite Hazara community after a dispute over sheep, local authorities said.
Gunmen stopped three buses at dawn between Shah Joy and Qalat in the volatile Zabul province, first taking 17 hostages before releasing nine, local leader Wazir Mohammed Jawadi said.
Jawadi said the gunnies kept eight hostages, all from the Hazara ethnic group, Shiites who are known for their striking Central Asian features.
The local chief of police Mirwais Noorzai said that "seven Hazaras are being held hostage".
He said local Taliban leader Mullah Taqwa had ordered the kidnappings because Hazaras allegedly "stole sheep", adding that Taqwa would release the hostages "if the Hazaras give him back his sheep".
The "stealing" was no doubt that the Hazeras, being the legal owners of the sheep, thought they could keep them when the mullah's men demanded them, not understanding that they only held the sheep in trust for the Lions of Islam, the true owners as written in Koran and Hadiths.
A Taliban front man, Qari Yusef Ahmadi, told AFP that the group would "investigate" the incident.
Parts of Zabul province are under the control of the mainly Sunni Taliban and the area has been the scene of festivities between rival Taliban factions.
The three million-strong Afghan Hazara community has been persecuted for decades, with thousands killed in the late 1990s by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
In February, 31 people, mostly Hazara, were kidnapped in the region by fighters linked 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.... group, which has been trying to gain a foothold in Afghanistan.
A week ago thousands of people attended the burials of seven Hazaras after their decapitated bodies were found in Zabul. The victims were kidnapped in neighboring Jaghuri by unknown gunnies in October.
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Afghan Talibs on Saturday kidnapped at least seven members of the minority Shiite Hazara community after a dispute over sheep, local authorities said.
[AnNahar] Russia said Sunday its security forces had killed 14 fighters linked 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.... jihadist group in two special anti-terror operations in the volatile North Caucasus region.
Russia's national anti-terrorism committee said in a statement quoted by TASS news agency that 11 "bandidos" were killed in a first raid near the city of Nalchik. Three others died in a second operation in the same area later in the day.
"All of them were participants in an armed gang whose members swore loyalty to IS," it said.
The fighters opened fire on law enforcement officers and threw grenades after they were cornered in a wooded area outside Nalchik in the Kabardino-Balkaria region, the anti-terrorism committee said.
A police source told Interfax news agency that the new leader of a local IS cell and two deputies were among those killed, and that a "large cache" of munitions was seized.
Islamists in the North Caucasus have previously been united under a local Caucasus Emirate organization, but are now increasingly flocking to Islamic State, which in June declared it had established a franchise there.
Earlier this month, Russia said it had killed the supposed head of an IS-linked gang in Kabardino-Balkaria, saying he had vowed allegiance to IS and organized the murders of several officials, gunning down one in front of his son.
Kabardino-Balkaria is usually seen as one of the more peaceful parts of Russia's North Caucasus.
Moscow is conducting intensive air strikes targeting IS infrastructure in Syria and has been pushing for the creation of an international anti-IS coalition, which would include Russia, the West and some Middle Eastern states.
The jihadist group grabbed credit for the bombing of a Russian passenger jet last month that killed all 224 people on board, prompting Russia to step up its strikes against the group.
President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has estimated that there are between 5,000 and 7,000 people from former Soviet countries fighting with IS.
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An official says unknown drone has conducted a late night airstrike against an base belonging to Al shabaab militants in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia.
The district commissioner of Wanlawayn town Hajji Isack Ali Mamow confirmed the drone attack that was targeted an Al shabaab meeting in Beladul-amin area, 28Kms away from Wanlawayn.
“It was late night airstrike against Al shabaab base as leaders of militants were having a meeting. The attack was carried out by unidentified drone,” said Mr Mamow during an interview with Radio Shabelle.
Other sources from officials at Lower Shabelle region admin confirm that at least 10 Al shabaab militants, including commanders were killed in the aerial attack.
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Syrian government troops are advancing on "nearly every front" thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September, President Bashar Al Assad said in an interview with Chinese television released on Sunday.
Of course he says that. It might even be true.
The embattled president also said he favoured new peace talks to be hosted in Moscow, but stressed that the Syrian conflict could not be resolved with "defeating terrorism".
In the interview with China's Phoenix television, Assad said the situation in Syria had "improved in a very good way" since Russia began air strikes on September 30.
"Now I can say that the army is making advancement in nearly every front... in many different directions and areas on the Syrian ground," he said, speaking in English.
Russia is coordinating its air strikes with Damascus, unlike the US-led coalition fighting the Daesh group, which Assad and his government criticise as ineffectual. The army has made minimal progress on the ground, according to groups monitoring the war, though the Russian strikes have reportedly boosted morale among government troops and supporters.
Moscow has also sought a leading role in a political resolution to the conflict, participating in high-level talks in Vienna with other powers recently in a bid to create a framework for peace. Talks there earlier this month produced a framework for the creation of a transitional government, a new constitution and elections within 18 months.
But there was no agreement on the fate of Assad, whom the opposition and their backers want gone, but allies such as Iran and Russia say should be allowed to run in new elections if he wants.
Assad said it was "my right" to run in new elections but it was "too early" to say if he intended to.
"(It) depends on how my feeling is regarding the Syrian people. I mean, do they want me or not?"
"You cannot talk about something that's going to happen maybe in the next few years," he said.
Assad said he backed Moscow's efforts to organise new dialogue between the regime and opposition in a "Moscow 3" conference, but insisted a political solution could only be achieved with the defeat of "terrorism". The Syrian leader said it would take "maximum of two years" to produce a new constitution and hold a referendum on it.
Assad's government considers all those who oppose his regime "terrorists," and has framed the conflict that began with anti-government demonstrations in March 2011 as a "war on terror". He accuses the West and other backers of the opposition of sponsoring extremism, and also said the West had exploited a photograph of a young Syrian refugee child, Aylan Kurdi, found dead on a Turkish beach.
"That photo was used as propaganda by the West," he said, accusing opposition backers of driving Syrians abroad by sponsoring "terrorism" and levying sanctions on Syria.
"This boy and... other children suffered and died and are being killed because of the Western policies in this world, in this region," he said.
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A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Sunday, that ten people were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast north of Baghdad. The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning near a popular restaurant in Sabaa al-Bour area north of Baghdad, resulting in the killing of two people and wounding eight others.”
The source added: “A security force rushed to the area of the incident and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while a raid and search operation was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
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[Hurriyet] As the Russian bombardment to defend Bashar-al Assad's forces heats up in the Turkmen-dominated Bayirbucak region in northwest Syria, waves of locals have flooded to safe zones close to the Turkish border.
With Russian and Syrian air strikes in the region intensifying over the past two weeks, people who have already left their houses are currently struggling against the cold weather in forested areas.
"As of today, some 1,500 Turkmen brothers and sisters have come to our border," said Ercan Topaca, the governor of the Hatay province, on the Turkish side of the border.
"We have taken measures to meet their demands, such as tents, rapidly, blankets and food," Topaca said.
Some 575 tents, 4,200 blankets, medical equipment, 20,000 cans of food and 2,000 food kits were sent to the other side of the border on Nov. 21, he added.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... says it has taken in a total of 2.2 million refugees from Syria's four-year civil war and still maintains an "open door policy," while warning that its capacity to take more is limited.
Topaca said the authorities are now preparing for a possible new wave of migration from the affected area, which includes 15 mainly Turkmen villages and a total population of up to 35,000 people, including ethnic Arabs.
"Rocket were pouring on us," said Halil Ebu Ömer, who managed to reach a safe spot. "It was impossible to stay there."
The Turkish Health Ministry has founded a hospital at a site across from the Syrian village of Yamadi to treat maimed people from the other side of the border. Turkish aid groups have also launched campaigns for Turkmens.
The festivities between the Turkmen military units and the regime forces were continuing at other spots such as Burj El Keseb and Kizildag, with the Cebel Ekrad region under heavy artillery fire from regime forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Sultan Murat Brigade and the opposition Damascus Front recently entered the Turkmen villages of Harcele and Delha, which were retaken from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) thanks to air support by the U.S. and Turkey.
The ISIL holy warriors left heavy arms including rocket launchers in these villages.
More than 70 ISIL holy warriors were reportedly killed in the Bayirbucak region during the operation.
Syria Turkmen Assembly Chairman Abdurrahman Mustafa demanded anti-aircraft weapons from Turkey and the U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition, saying it was very hard to "fight against Russian jets making strikes to support Assad forces."
The target of the Syrian military is to take over the control of the whole "Turkmen Mountain," Mustafa said.
Some 200 Turkmens have crossed over to the Turkish side of the border so far, he added.
Ankara has expressed its anger over the bombing campaign by Russian and Syrian regime jets in the region, summoning Moscow's ambassador to the Foreign Ministry last week to protest.
[AlAhram] Authorities on Yemen's Socotra island burnt two tonnes of the mild narcotic drug qat on Saturday, a shipment seized from smugglers trying to defy last week's ban by the archipelago's governor, local officials said.
Yemenis have chewed qat for centuries and although widespread, its use is seen as a social ill by some, sapping productivity and finances.
Non-qat users are aware of this. Users... what? *green dribble*
Sessions begin in the afternoon and can last long into the night.
The national pastime has survived the last few years of turmoil in the impoverished Arab country, including the war that began last year involving air and ground troops from an Arab coalition led by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . It is not uncommon to see Yemeni fighters and soldiers with a wad of qat leaves in their cheeks.
But last week the governor of Socotra, a sparsely populated island renowned for its exotic wildlife, sought to stamp out the habit by banning the import or chewing of qat.
According to Yemeni media, Saeed Ba Huqaiba introduced to the ban due to the health risks and financial consequences of qat use.
Local officials said on Saturday they had intercepted and burnt a shipment of two tonnes of qat smuggled from the Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... province on the Yemeni mainland.
Qat is classified by the World Health Organization as a "drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence". Its physical symptoms can include hallucinations, depression and tooth decay.
Past surveys in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... suggest at least 80 percent of men, about 60 percent of women and increasing numbers of children under 10 - settle down most afternoons to chew.
Mark Twain once said there are lies, damned lies and statistics. We saw all of these from the Obama administration this week as it desperately tried to defend its foolhardy plan to bring Syrian refugees into the United States without adequately vetting them for ISIS terrorists.
To counter demands by Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates that President Obama drop his plan to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, the Obama administration issued statistics and other information to the press this week to reassure the American people that ISIS cannot use this route to infiltrate the U.S. because these refugees will be carefully screened.
Just under 2,200 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the U.S. since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011. Most were admitted over the last year. The Obama administration told reporters this week that roughly half of all Syrian refugees admitted to date have been children. It claims around 25% are adults over 60 and only 2% have been single males of "combat age." Not surprisingly, the mainstream media published these statistics without questioning them.
Obama officials also said there is a robust vetting process for these refugees that includes biometrics, background checks by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and interviews.
So where did the statistics come from? A U.S. government report? Congressional testimony? No, these numbers were given to the press in a private briefing by three unnamed senior officials. This means there's no way to check the accuracy of this data or to hold these officials accountable for their claims.
The Obama administration doubled down on its Syrian refugee statistics on Thursday by tweeting a chart that said 23,092 Syrian refugees have been referred by the UN to the U.S. since 2011; 7,014 were interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security; 2,034 have been admitted into the U.S. and zero of those admitted have been arrested or removed on terrorism charges.
It is impossible to evaluate these Syrian refugee statistics without seeing all of the data. For example, what percentage of Syrian refugees applying for admittance to the U.S. were men of military age? And if it is true that only 2% of military-age men were admitted over the last year, are there others still being processed? How many were arrested or deported for non-terrorism charges?
We also should assume that the set of refugees admitted over the last year is different from the recent refugee surge, about 72% of which have been men of military age. How will the composition of this new set of refugees change the future number of Syrian military-age men admitted as refugees?
The administration's claims about the refugees screening process are also hard to believe. House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul has called the president's plan to bring in Syrian refugees a "federally sanctioned welcome party" to potential terrorists because the screening process is so inadequate. FBI Director James Comey has said the federal government does not have the ability to conduct thorough background checks on Syrian refugees.
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As I pointed out to Mrs. Bobby yesterday when she said the refugees would be vetted - the French wacked three terrorists last week in the apartment siege and they still don't know who two of them are. So those two (late) terrorists could've passed any vetting. They could've been from Mars and no one would have known.
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Obama lies about Syrian refugees? Who would have known?
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Tell you what. We'll use the process they employ to vet Syrian/Middle East refugees as the same process DoJ will now accept for vetting police recruits in Ferguson et al.
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First vetted by the UNHCR, whose head was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp established in 1948, background checks aren't possible. Biometric tracking apparently isn't possible if we lose track of legal immigrants whose visas expire or are waived. Besides full benefits and housing on the taxpayers dime, refugees cannot be removed until a functioning government exists to return to. What could possibly go wrong?
The Yemeni army and popular committees stormed on Saturday the Saudi-led militants' sites in the area of al-Kawfal in Maareb province, controlling al-Ashkari mountain and inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists.
The Saudi warplanes continued striking the various Yemeni provinces, hitting different targets.
Politically, the Yemeni national forces sent a delegation to Oman Sultanate in order to tackle the UN initiative to end the crisis in Yemen.
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"degraded and contained" - No, not ISIS and Al Qaeda...
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Amerikans might as well stay back + get beheaded in the security of their own homes.
Espec since our mighty Unitarian Govt. wants to protect agz the Jihad by taking away all of our Guns + not mobilizing our Armed Forces, Police, or Econ, etc. for war.
OWG + US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER, NOT NATIONAL OR GEOPOL OR WORLD SECURITY.
Goodbye, Bondo-Faced Evita II
Argentines elected pro-market leader Mauricio Macri as their new president on Sunday, early official results showed, breaking with 12 years of leftist rule in Latin America's third-biggest economy.
Partial official results with just over 10 percent of ballots counted gave Macri 54.29 percent of the votes with 45.71 percent for his leftist rival Daniel Scioli, echoing exit polls released earlier.
Confirmed by the BBC: almost all the votes are in now.
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ALEPPO – Backed by U.S. and Turkish fighter jets, the Syrian rebel group of the Levant Front raised up Sunday its movements on the borderline with Turkey northern Syria to help establish a possible “safe zone” with the support of Turkey, military sources reported.
Turkey aims to declare the area stretching from Jarablus to Azaz in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo province, northern Syria, as a “safe zone” following the expulsion of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) form the key towns in that area.
The Levant Front rebels started to dismantle land-mines planted by ISIS in several areas of northern Aleppo. The explosion of mines has earlier led to the death of a number of civilians in the province.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo suburbs, spokesman of the Levant Front Saleh Zein confirmed that their rebels in cooperation with the mostly-Turkmen group of Sultan Murad have intensified their military operations against ISIS in northern Aleppo, amid a large-scale air support by the Turkish air force to the rebels in the area.
On Saturday, the rebel groups were able to expel ISIS militants from the towns Dalha and Harjala north of Aleppo.
Zein pointed out that Turkey has officially started with the initial steps of establishing the safe zone in northern Syria, after intensifying its military support to the Turkmen rebel group of Sultan Murad under the pretext of combatting ISIS on the outskirts of Jarablus, Marea and Azaz.
In the meantime, the engineering unit in the Levant Front was able to dismantle more than 300 land-mines planted by ISIS in the vicinity of Dalha and Harjala villages ــfollowing the death of four civilians due to the explosion of mines on Saturday.
The hardline group had been in control of Dalha and Harjala (5 km from the Syrian-Turkish border) since a year and a half before being expelled by the Turkey-backed forces.
Belgian security forces were patrolling several neighborhoods in Brussels on Sunday and notified citizens to keep away, following the prime minister's announcement that Brussels will be facing at least one more day under a special state of emergency. The city remained on its highest state of alert for terrorist attacks and local media reported a raid is underway in the center of the city.
According to unconfirmed reports, a central street in the capital is on lockdown due to a terrorist threat. Eyewitnesses in nearby restaurants told RTL that police instructed patrons to finish their dinners and wait for a sign to vacate the premises. Residents in the street reported that police told them to stay away from the windows.
Belgian police reportedly asked locals and the media not to tweet about the operation in central Brussels.
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Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13.
According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, five Syrian nationals presented themselves at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge. A family consisting of a man, woman and child, and two other men were taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection -- a standard procedure.
The statement reads that CBP "checked their identities against numerous law enforcement and national security related databases. Records checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals. CBP turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further processing and placement in an ICE facility."
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Records checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals. CBP turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further processing and placement in an ICE facility."
Glad to see Chief Inspector Clouseau is on it and checking these databases. I am reassured.
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This group has about the typical demographic for the Syrian refugees - 60% fighting-age males. That is highly anomalous relative to historical refugee populations.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN / KHAR: Three security personnel were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Warghara area of Tiarza tehsil in South Waziristan tribal region on Sunday.
Intelligence sources said the personnel were patrolling the area when an improvised explosive device placed by the road exploded. One soldier died on the spot and three others suffered critical injuries.
The injured were rushed to a field hospital in FR Jandullah where two of them died.
Mehsud Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The group’s spokesman, Azam Tariq Mehsud, said its members carried out the attack in which eight security personnel lost their lives.
Also on Sunday, two security men were injured in a roadside blast in Kaman Gara area of Bajaur Agency.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Anti-Terrorism National Committee in Russia announced on Sunday, that 11 members of the “ISIS” were killed during raids on their hideout north of Caucasus.
The committee said in a brief press statement quoted by “Arab Sky News” and followed by IraqiNews.com: “The hideout of gunmen belonging to the ISIS was raided north of Caucasus, resulting in killing 11 members of them in an exchange of fire.”
The statement adde, “The raid took place in a forested area on the outskirts of the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic.”
QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen killed a man near his house in Mach area of Bolan district on late Saturday night.
According to Levies sources, the victim identified as Tanveer Ahmad was standing near his house when armed assailants opened fire at him killing him on the spot and fled away.
The body of the deceased was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities.
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.
Chinese forces used a flamethrower to force more than 10 'terrorists' from a cave in the western Xinjiang region in the hunt for what Beijing has called foreign-led extremists.
The Royal Air Force will join an offensive to seal off Isil’s last international border and block foreign fighters from travelling to and from the group’s territory.
[Inquirer] A town councilor and a policeman were injured on Friday after suspected New People's Army militants attacked a police patrol car that was heading for a remote village in Daraga, Albay. Injured in the attack were Daraga Municipal Councilor Mark Magalona and policeman John Mallorca, according to Albay provincial police director Marlo Meneses.
Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
