From Sydney Morning Herald journalist Ruth Pollard on the scene.
This behaviour is best understood when you admit the true enemy is Islamism and NOT Islamic State the group. That is why the Turks support them. Even if there were no Kurds they would still support the Caliphate because Turkey is now run by Islamists.
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Reyhanli, Turkey: As Islamic State extremists raised their black flag in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane last year after a brutal three-week onslaught, the Turkish military - stationed just a kilometre away - turned their backs...
As we gathered journalists watched, hundreds of Turkish soldiers and a long line of tanks positioned along a nearby ridge ignored the thunder of IS shelling that was destroying the Kurdish town street by street, forcing 160,000 people to flee in a matter of days.
Instead, the soldiers focused their attention on the small bands of Kurdish protesters gathered on the hill next to the Mursitpinar border crossing to watch and worry about the plight of their loved ones still inside Kobane.
Each day the Turkish soldiers would fire up their tanks and Armoured Personnel Carriers and storm towards the crowd of civilians, shooting volley after volley of choking tear gas and water cannons straight at protesters and journalists, chasing us over the rocky hills and into the small village nearby, where we found shelter wherever we could.
It was agonising for the Kurds on the hill - with that much firepower, the Turks could have easily crossed into Kobane and helped the Kurdish YPG fighters who, in the end, with the backing of air strikes from the US-led coalition against IS, fought off the jihadists and reclaimed their ruined town.
Turkey is fighting AGAINST us kick them out of NATO
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[IsraelTimes] Leaked witness statement says Abdelhamid Abaaoud asked his cousin to hide him while he planned further strikes, Rooters reports.
The leader of the group of bully boyz who carried out the attacks that killed 130 people in Gay Paree two weeks ago also planned to strike at the French Jewish community, Rooters reported Friday, quoting a witness statement related to the investigation into the November 13 terror attacks. The report did not specify which Jewish targets were intended to be hit.
The bully boyz were also planning to disrupt the education and transportation systems in the French capital, Rooters said.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, aged 27, was killed on November 18 in a police raid on an apartment building in the Gay Paree suburb of Saint-Denis.
The Rooters report quoted the witness statement saying that Belgian national Abaaoud "also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe from Syria via Greece two months earlier, exploiting the confusion of the migrant crisis and the continent's passport-free Schengen system."
The quotes were apparently taken from a confidential police witness statement leaked this week to French magazine Valeurs Actuelles.
Two days after the Gay Paree bloodbath, Abaaoud asked his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen to hide him as he prepared more attacks, the witness statement reportedly said.
He told her "they would do worse (damage) in districts close to the Jews and would disrupt transport and schools," the witness statement said.
"Abaaoud said he would give Boulahcen 5,000 euros (about $5,000) to buy two suits and two pairs of shoes for him and an unidentified accomplice to 'look the part' in a planned attack on Gay Paree's commercial district La Defense," Rooters said.
Boulahcen was killed in the same raid as her cousin.
The Gay Paree prosecutor's office said Friday it would launch an investigation into how the confidential statement was leaked to the press, Rooters said.
Islamist bully boyz have targeted the French Jewish community on more than one occasion. In January, four people were rubbed out in an attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Gay Paree, two days after 12 people were killed in an attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... magazine in the French capital.
In March 2012, a rabbi, his two young children and another young girl were shot and killed by an Islamist gunman at a Jewish school in the city of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... .
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I thought the theater was a Jewish target?
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So he's got a lazy $5k for a couple of suits to look the part?
Follow the money.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Clown Price of Russian nationalism.
Ya know, I knew who said this from the headline; I didn't even have to look at the text of the story. In Russian politics, it's like having an only child:
[PJ Media] BLUF: Hoekstra criticized President Obama for believing the "power of his personality" would bring peace to the Middle East.
"This president, as he did in Egypt, as he's done in Iran, as he's done in Syria, has decided that in America's best interest he believes he can manage, work with, but most importantly he believed that because of the power of his personality the radical jihadist movement would fundamentally change their view of America and change their behavior," he said.
Hoekstra cited a quote from Obama in November 2007 during his first run for president.
"I truly believe that the day I'm inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently," Obama said at the time. "If I'm reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I've lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view."
According to Hoekstra, that statement demonstrates Obama thought every country in the Middle East would change their worldview and "national self-interest" after he entered the White House, which he argued has not happened.
Overall, Hoekstra said, the U.S. is worse off strategically than it was on Sept. 11, 2001.
"The threat to us and to our allies, to Western Europe, today is greater than what it was then," he said.
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weakest foreign policy president in living memory and that is saying something for those who remember the triangulations of william jefferson clinton
however the trade off for being insular is supposed to be a focus on domestic affairs. And have they improved? No. Last i checked the US was in the middle of a race war between young black thugs and cops
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Worst President ever! Narcissistic and congenital liar. The damage he has done to the economy/debt will never be repaired and the shredding of the constitution marks the beginnings of Imperial Presidencies unless God does something to save the Republic, cause the dems don't want to and the pubs are afraid to do what is necessary.
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...and there's just too much $$$ and power concentrated in the DC-NY axis. They're not going to give it up. It's cooked. You can stick a fork in it. There is no 'right' man/person who can fix it. Either you choose your Caesar or they'll choose theirs. It's as much a republic as the Roman's under their imperators. The Latin word imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic.
[Hot Air] Readers will recall that General Mike Flynn, then director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, warned Congress about the rise of ISIS in late 2013, warnings which prompted Barack Obama to compare ISIS to a "jayvee team" in an interview with the New Yorker. Flynn's DIA had warned the White House about ISIS even earlier than that, in an August 2012 memo issued shortly after Flynn assumed command of DIA and chair of the Military Intelligence Board. Now Obama expresses surprise over the rapid rise of ISIS and wants an investigation into CENTCOM and the alleged cooking of the evidence, but Flynn tells Megyn Kelly that the probe should start at the top -- and that Obama got plenty of warnings
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So what does shuttin down stores do for their cause? Besoeker is right , try that in Ga., see what that gets ya. I know around the Atl. Were I'm at, your own ppl would kick the shit out of you.
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Send Jesse Jackson a bill for all the damages. He 'led' the protest.
[AnNahar] Eight members of a criminal gang that pledged allegiance to 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.... jihadists were killed in a firefight with the military in the southern Philippines, officials said Friday.
The hour-long battle took place on Thursday in Palimbang, a remote town in the south -- home to the predominantly Catholic nation's Muslim minority and the scene of decades of conflict.
The bandidos were from Ansar al-Khalifa, a small group that declared its support for Islamic State in a video circulated on the Internet last year, regional military front man Major Filemon Tan said.
The military has said that support for Islamic State -- which controls vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq -- in the Philippines was limited to local bandidos claiming allegiance to the group.
But it has said there is no evidence showing that such gangs were receiving support from the jihadists.
The larger Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group, a United States-listed terrorist organization that is holding at least four foreign nationals hostage and has demanded millions of dollars in ransom, has likewise pledged allegiance to IS.
Tan told Agence La Belle France Presse that five black flags similar to those used by Islamic State fighters were recovered from the bandidos after the clash.
Criminal gangs operate kidnap for ransom and extortion activities alongside Muslim and communist separatist campaigns in the restive south.
While the relatively new Ansar al-Khalifa had extorted from businessmen and stolen cattle from farmers, it had no proven links with Islamic State -- also known by the acronym ISIS -- national military front man Colonel Restituto Padilla said.
"This group is trying to ride on the popularity of the ISIS, but they're not really ISIS," he told AFP. "We view them as mere criminal gangs."
Tan said the military was verifying intelligence reports that one of the eight killed was an Indonesian national.
Some three dozen others who involved in the encounter escaped after the fighting, he added.
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A 16-year-old teen from a village in the Galilee was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Friday night on allegations that he stabbed a Border Police officer earlier in the evening in Nahariya.
The youth confessed to the act, but said in his confession that he and the officer had argued before he stabbed him.
In hospital, the Border Police officer whose sustained what have now been classed as light wounds, said that the teen jumped him from behind and stabbed him, an account conflicting with the teen's version of events.
Police were still examining whether the attack had a criminal or nationalist motivation.
The attacker expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the assault, close to the city's central bus station and was apprehended by security forces some two hours after the incident.
Channel 2 television said that the 37-year-old policeman was stabbed twice in the back, and that security forces set up roadblocks in the area before the assailant was caught.
Also Friday, Israel Defense Forces troops surrounded a village in the Hebron region of the West Bank, where a car-ramming attack earlier in the day left six soldiers maimed, a source in Jerusalem said.
The move followed a cabinet decision Thursday night to allow the defense establishment to encircle entire communities in order for searches to be carried out, Army Radio reported.
Israeli security forces also clashed with Paleostinian protesters in both the West Bank and Gazoo Strip, Channel 2 reported.
Major disturbances were reported in several areas of the West Bank, with security forces deployed to the sites of the riots. Paleostinian reports said that at least 43 protesters were maimed by IDF fire during the festivities.
The Paleostinian Red Thingy said that in the West Bank, 16 people were maimed by live fire, and another two by rubber bullets, according to Channel 2.
In the Gazoo Strip, at least five Paleostinians were maimed in confrontations with IDF troops, the Paleostinian news agency Ma'an reported. In the southern Gazoo town of Khan Yunis, hundreds of Paleostinians took part in a demonstration to demand Israel return the bodies of bully boyz that it is still holding.
Earlier Friday, Paleostinians protested outside Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
[AnNahar] The Army Intelligence tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front member, Ali Ahmed al-Lakkis, who had executed soldier Mohammed Hamiyeh in the wake of the Arsal festivities in 2014, the LBCI said on Friday.
Lakkis, an expert at preparing explosives and close to the so-called emir of al-Nusra Front in Qalamoun Abu Malik al-Talli, was caught with a fake Syrian passport at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, LBCI added.
In September 2014, al-Nusra executed Hamiyeh who was held captive together with other soldiers and servicemen.
He was executed with "several bullets" according to a Nusra leader in Syria's Qalamun.
Hamiyeh was among nine Lebanese security personnel who featured in a video posted by the Front on August 23, 2014 in which he was the only one donning army fatigues as the rest appeared in Internal Security Forces uniforms.
The troops were kidnapped during deadly festivities in early August between the army and Nusra and 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.... gunnies in and around the northeastern border town of Arsal.
Nineteen troops were killed in the fighting as 35 soldiers and coppers were taken hostage. The Front later released seven security personnel who were in its custody while the IS has executed two army troops.
Moroccan security services have captured lately three people belonging to a militant cell having ties with the terrorist Islamic State group. The cell, which includes a woman who appears to be the first female suicide bomber, is the second of its kind to be dismantled in the North African country after the Paris attacks of November 13th.
According to Moroccan Home Department, the three members of this group were active in the cities of Fez and Casablanca (central Morocco) and the southern town of Oulad Taima. They were apparently planning to take hostages and launch attacks targeting security agents. They have all pledged allegiance to ISIS and had an apparent hatred for Morocco, its kingdom and its symbols.
The dismantling of this cell comes days after terror attack on a bus in Tunis, killing 12 people. Moroccan security and intelligence services have helped French police locate and identify the mastermind of the Paris barbaric attacks, disrupting other terror plots in Europe.
This proved the key role Morocco plays in the fight against terrorism, earning the North African Kingdom worldwide praise and recognition.
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back...
Moroccan intelligence services broke-up 140 terrorist cells since 2002. During the same period, 276 terrorist plots were foiled and 2,720 suspected terrorists were arrested. A recent study published by Spain’s Real Instituto Elcano showed that the number of terrorist attacks in the Maghreb soared between 2011 and 2014, except for Morocco which was hit by only one terrorist attack during this period.
Since the Marrakech bombing of 2011 targeting tourism, the Moroccan security and intelligences have doubled vigilance and deployed a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy that helped keep the country safe.
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A special court has sentenced a Syrian national to 19 years in jail for supporting Al-Qaeda and other terror-related activities.
The sentence includes three years for forgery, three years for information technology offenses and 18 months for violating border security regulations, according to a report in an online publication on Friday. The man was also found guilty on charges of declaring all Arab government officials non-believers, seeking to topple them and the Saudi government, and traveling to Somalia to take part in fighting there.
The court found that he had procured a forged residential permit to enter the Kingdom illegally after returning from Somalia, stored seditious material on his computer, including video clips and texts of speeches of Al-Qaeda leaders and members, and formulas for manufacturing explosives.
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Yemeni coup rebels have deployed scores of their militias and units from the Republican Guards loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh at the entrances of the capital Sanaa in anticipation of an attack by the national resistance.
The Saudi Arabic language daily Asharqalawsat quoted military sources in Sanaa as saying most of those units were deployed inside and around buildings rented by the Houthis and their allies at the entrances of Sanaa.
“It seems that they are bracing for an offensive by the national resistance in the Sanaa governorate…this resistance unit was created last week to support the national army and the Arab coalition in seizing Sanaa,” a military source told the paper.
The source said the deployment of those units came amidst a state of high alert in Sanaa following tensions between the Houthis and some of the Republican Guard units which refused to obey their orders.
[Gulf Today] Police on Wednesday said that heavily-armed members of the Maoist New People's Army ambushed and killed a soldier and injured five others including a junior officer in Northern Samar province in the Visayas in Central Philippines.
The troops were aboard a military vehicle when the militants fired at them along the national highway in the town of Catarman, Northern Samar on Tuesday afternoon. Authorities credited the driver for his presence of mind that prevented more military deaths. Police said, "Although wounded, the driver continued to drive even with a flat tire arising from the ambush until the vehicle conked out about five kilometres away from the scene where the civilians assisted and brought them to the nearest hospital."
The Obama administration is warning states that they cannot refuse to accept refugees fleeing war-torn Syria, saying that noncompliant states may be subject to penalties.
"The science is settled!"
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) said in a letter to state agencies on Wednesday that they cannot withhold services to refugees based on their country of origin or religion. The letter cited the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race or country or origin.
That certainly is one theory...
A theory that should be thoroughly tested in the courts. You know, just to be sure. Might take a couple years but we want to be certain the law is solid...
The House overwhelmingly passed a measure earlier this month to make it more difficult for Syrian refugees to enter the country, following the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris in which at least one assailant is suspected of entering the country posed as a migrant.
The ORR letter said refugees are subject to a rigorous screening process before they enter the country.
“It is the most robust screening process for any category of individuals seeking admissions into the United States,
...a terrifying thought, given the FBI have stated they are incapable of vetting these people...
The ORR is doing something that is a fine tradition amongst our politicians. It's called, "lying"...
and it is only after admission that ORR and our partners in resettlement begin our work,” the letter said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) slammed the Obama administration as “hypocritical” over the letter.
“While the United States has the most generous refugee system in the world,
Not quite, say the Germans and the Swedes...
the American people are rightly concerned about admitting Syrian refugees and the impact it would have on the safety of their families and neighbors,” Goodlatte said in a statement.
“It’s hypocritical for Obama Administration officials to threaten enforcement action against these states when they refuse to enforce the vast majority of our immigration laws, such as cracking down on sanctuary cities that openly defy federal law and endanger the American people,” he continued.
Obama has vowed to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. over the next fiscal year.
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In dumbest terms coming to my mind...
Let's say Oblabla and... well, any other Western politician not corrupted by Gazprom and similar Russian 'interests'... (Hollande appears a good example)... manage to convince Putler and that wannabe-Ayatollah Khamenei to get Assad out of Damascus...
...and Assad leaves, say, 5 minutes after the moment you've read this post of mine...
...what would that change on the battlefields of Syria?
Would the fighting end?
I strongly doubt this.
Hand at heart: the story about 'chaos without Assad', supposedly because of a break-down of 'civil order' in what was left of Syria under his control - as propagated by Oblabla - is nonsense. Syria (that is: the 30% of country still under supposed control of the regime) is already now a complete chaos. It is bankrupt since November 2011 and surviving only thanks to extensive financial support from Tehran.
Tehran has bankrupted itself 'thanks' to spending about US$50 billion in Syria of the last four years - and is currently surviving only thanks to loans from China, made possible by... surprise, surprise... Daesh advance into northern Iraq, in summer of last year....
Aw... I'm going off-topic now...
Anyway: Syria is ruined. Infra-structure is in tatters; most of major cities completely ruined. Industry is demolished. Agroculture sector ruined by war and successive draughts. There is already now no civil order, but 'organized chaos' run by various quasi-pro-Assad militias - foremost the IRGC-QF, which can't think about anything else but bolstering arsenals of Hezbollah/Lebanon and developing an even large force of Hezbollah/Syria, accompanied by construction of Shi'a religious schools and all the related indoctrination...
But OK. Let's say Assad is gone and ask again: would that mean that various of his militias (usually called 'Syrian Arab Army' or 'Syrian Armed Forces' by our glorious media) would stop fighting?
I would say: no way.
Reasons (roughly, quite roughly):
- a) 30% of these militias are Alawis, who are not only sternously convinced they are better than all the others there, but have so much blood and terror on their hands (not only from 40 years of their dictatorship but also four years of war in which they have destroyed the country) that at least half of them would end on various courts for war criminals - if not right in front of some execution squad.
- b) 10% are Syrian Sunni Nazis (more specifically 'Syrian Socialist National Party'), who think of themselves in terms German Nazis thought of themselves in the 1930s and 1940s.
- c) 10% are Syrian Sunni Ba'athists (and, sigh, hope I need not explaining how Ba'athists think of themselves).
- d) 35% are various Iraqi Shi'a Jihadists recruited by the IRGC (i.e. 'Hezbollah/Iraq'), then the IRGC-recruited Hezbollah/Syria, and Hezbollah/Lebanon, plus mercenaries from Afghanistan, Pakistan and wherever else...
- e) 5% are Palestinians (predominantly Palestinian Christians), that is kids of Palestinian refugees that grew up in Syria and have little other choice but to side with Assad, and various foreign volunteers organized as the 'Arab National Guard';
- f) 5% are Syrian Christians who were dumb enough to side with Assad (well, there is no doubt that emergence of the JAN, Daesh and similar idiots helped them in this decision); and
- g) 5% are Syrian Druze, who were stupid enough to side with Assad (supposedly for their own interests, but actually in order to be used as Assad's show-fight against the Daesh, primarily in Dayr az-Zawr area).
What sane person thinks anybody could bring any semblance of an order into this chaos alone? Not even the IRGC can control all of this (not to talk about Assad), but somebody thinks some sort of 'international agreement' - could?
And, how can anybody think he/she could bring an order into a chaos of about 2,000 'registered' armed opposition groups fighting against the above-mentioned conglomerate?
And then - a question which is ah-so-overimportant for the West: what's with Daesh? How shall anybody bring them under control?
Even if, say, there is a multi-national coalition that launches an all-out invasion of that pseudo-state: what shall we do with all of these idiots once they are defeated? Slaughter them to the last combatant, wife and kid? Forcefully convert them...? or convince them to convert... and to what...?
I'm really sorry, and be sure: I really mean no offense to anybody.
But, my conclusion - which appears 'unavoidable' to me - is that anybody thinking some sort of 'diplomatic solution' to this conflict is possible, is daydreaming.
(Note: which shouldn't mean that I think that any kind of military solution is possible, either. It is simply too late. So, grab yourself a bag of popcorn, some beer, and watch - as long as you still can.)
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It is the most robust screening process for any category of individuals seeking admissions into the United States,
Shall we compare it with the vetting of the brides of service members trying to accompany their new spouses to the US?
You don't even try to stop the horde overwhelming our Southern border, but you'll put layers and layers of obstruction to people trying to follow the 'rules' even if they literally do have a sponsor.
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By all means, let's make Syrian ISIS/rebel refugees forced on the States and Black Lives Matters civil disruptions along with collegiate Speshul Snowflakes™ as campaign issues in 2016.
I welcome it
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3dc,
Bravo, sir. Would that our leaders had that kind of courageous insight.
Mike
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All that will become of the "refugees" is a handful of terrorist acts 10 years from now, and hundreds of them heading back to continue the war. Let them fight to the finish.
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The 1964 Civil Rights Act is over 50 years old, which means that it was mostly written by and voted on by Dead White Mens. I thought we had decided to ignore things like that.
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The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution was mostly written by and voted on by dead white men. Pesky Bill of Rights and federalism stuff, no big deal. So the Constitutional-Law-Professor-in-Chief has indeed decided to ignore it:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people.
The ORR is an executive branch agency that has no right to declare anything without authorization by Congress. Whose power to require states to accept refugees is itself questionable. But it'll take years to litigate, by which time the damage will be done.
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Oh, there you go, talking about the Constitution. I saw it in the National Archives a couple of weeks ago, and I can tell you it's pretty hard to read. For example, I couldn't make out the part permitting Executive Orders.
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Oh my. We have Two Really Good Lawyers discussing the issue. I'm going to sit here very quietly and happily absorb.
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I'm not a lawyer, but didn't the 14th amendment pretty much gut the 10th? Especially since every president from Lincoln to FDR and beyond have been pushing the Federal Government as THE authority?
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The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) said in a letter to state agencies on Wednesday that they cannot withhold services to refugees based on their country of origin or religion. The letter cited the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race or country or origin.
That certainly is one theory...
A theory that should be thoroughly tested in the courts. You know, just to be sure. Might take a couple years but we want to be certain the law is solid...
John Roberts will just say that it's all perfectly fine, and Obama will give him visitation rights to his balls.
#10 The 1964 Civil Rights Act is over 50 years old, which means that it was mostly written by and voted on by Dead White Mens
Agreed. We need to treat it like a living document per the fashion of the day. The Voting Rights Act, as well.
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Rambler, the 10th Amendment makes the principle of federalism explicit: states are sovereign and retain all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government. It's the "states' rights" amendment, as important as the 2nd amendment, neither of which have been considered much by the Supreme Court (and thereby eroded). It still means what it says.
The 10th amendment was part of the original Bill of Rights. The 14th amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and simply requires state governments to grant due process, as well as the federal government. Logical enough, and the two don't inherently conflict.
What Obozo's Executive Branch is saying to state governments here, is pure coercion and thuggery: heads we win, tails you lose.
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But the Supreme Black Robed Princes of the Land have already twisted the 14th all out of shape to force states to accept 'Gay Marriage'. To force them to accept this isn't out of range of their 'extending' it to cover something never intended - see Abortion, etc...
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Oh, I'm not saying a majority of Justices give a damn about the Constitution anymore. I'm just saying, there's strong federalism case to be made here. State AGs ought to band together and file suit, much as they did with respect to certain provisions of Obamacare.
A Syrian rebel commander who boasted of killing a Russian pilot after Turkey downed Russian jet on Tuesday appeared to be Turkish ultranationalist and a son of former mayor in one of Turkish provinces.
Could it be that the Turkemen are not actually a native Syrian rebel group, but rather an expression of now-President Erdogan's hatred of his former BFF President Assad?
Alparslan Celik, deputy commander of a Syrian Turkmen brigade turned out to be the son of a mayor of a Keban municipality in Turkey’s Elazig province. He also turned out to be the member of The Grey Wolves ultranationalist group, members of which have carried out scores of political murders since 1970s.
Fascinating. The Grey Wolves have been mentioned here once or several times.
Celik came under spotlight after he announced that as the two Russian pilots descended by parachute after the Su-24 jet was downed by Turkish military, both were shot dead by Turkmen forces on Tuesday.
A graphic video posted earlier on social media purported to show a Russian pilot lying on the ground surrounded by a group of armed militants.
At the time they were called Turkmen rebels. Now we have to consider the possibility they were actually Turkish Grey Wolves operating clandestinely on the far side of the border as an arm of the Turkish government.
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At the time they were called Turkmen rebels. Now we have to consider the possibility they were actually Turkish Grey Wolves operating clandestinely on the far side of the border as an arm of the Turkish government.
Members of Laghman provincial council on Friday reported that security threats have drastically increased along the key Kabul-Jalalabad highway in recent weeks, putting the lives of travelers at great risk.
Meanwhile, residents in Laghman province have said that unknown armed men apparently affiliated with insurgent groups frequently appear on the highway and sometimes open fire on vehicles, an issue which has created major concern among regular commuters.
As concerns over the volatility of the Kabul-Jalalabad highway grow, Laghman governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi on Friday said that the provincial government has been in contact with the central government in Kabul in an effort to push security institutions to come up with concrete measures to secure the road.
"Certain profiteers and armed opponents inflict harm on the people. We raised the issue with the leaderships of ministry of defense and interior. They have taken a number of steps in this regard. We will continue our engagements with them until security is restored completely," he said.
Insurgents frequently appear in Tangi, Mashala Kamar and Aziz Khan Kasai areas where they also search passengers and create problems for them, Laghman provincial council said.
Amid the growing security threats, passengers have called on the security institutions to take measures and ensure security of the highway.
"Gun shots are heard here on a daily basis. They [insurgents] do not care whether they are firing on security personnel or ordinary people," one motorist who uses the Kabul-Jalalabad highway Bashir Ahmad said.
"Looters exist in Surkhakan area near the square and also in Kasai," said another driver Bahar.
"Shootings on Kabul-Jalalabad and Laghman highway occur on a daily basis. Firings and attacks by armed groups on security check points have increased and this is very unfortunate," said a member of Laghman provincial council Zahir Hussainkhail.
"It is not only Laghman that has to deal with security threats where insurgents create issues for the people but the entire country is at war. We are trying to improve security in joint cooperation with the people," another member of the provincial council Abdul Rahimzai said.
Beijing plans to set up a naval facility in Djibouti, East Africa, to boost counter-piracy and peacekeeping efforts, officials say. The future Chinese installation will be near a US airbase reportedly used for the Pentagon’s drone operations.
Beijing is currently in talks with Djibouti’s government to build a naval facility to support the Chinese Navy’s counter-piracy and peacekeeping missions in the region, China’s top officials told media. They carefully avoided calling the installation a “military base” similar to those maintained by the US worldwide.
Spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry Hong Lei says the “support facilities” will provide “logistical support” to fuel, rest and re-supply Chinese Navy ships, addressing possible speculations the port will boost Beijing’s military expansion in the strategically vital Horn of Africa.
“The construction of the relevant facilities will help China’s navy and army further participate in UN peacekeeping operations, carry out escort missions in the waters near Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, and provide humanitarian assistance,” he told a daily news briefing on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Wu Qian also spoke at a monthly news conference, mainly repeating the Foreign Ministry’s comments, but he added an important detail: “China wanted to play a greater role in ensuring regional peace and stability.”
The announcement comes as Beijing prepares to play a greater role in the world by modernizing its military and navy, and making significant contributions to UN peacekeeping all over the globe. Currently, China is a major provider of peacekeeping troops to Africa, where it has huge economic interests, having invested some $40 billion in the continent over the last 15 years.
Beijing also faces public pressure to protect its citizens overseas, especially after four Chinese were killed by terrorist groups in Syria and Mali last week. It may also need to evacuate its nationals as it did in Libya in 2011 and Yemen in March.
At the same time, Beijing is pushing to build-up a so-called “blue-water navy” able to operate in oceanic waters with a global reach. Over the past few years, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has commissioned its first aircraft carrier, “Liaoning,” originally laid down in 1988 for the Soviet Navy. Similar naval programs to build state-of-the-art warships and nuclear submarines are also underway.
A former colony of France, Djibouti already hosts the United States’ only African permanent military base at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport. Called Camp Lemonnier, it accommodates the Pentagon’s African Command (AFRICOM) and is used for CIA drone operations.
Djibouti is a gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, and has been used by international navies – including China’s – as a base for anti-piracy from neighboring Somalia.
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Heh. It is gonna be just a giant listening post aimed squarely at the US operations.
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Hypothetially, a similar scenario could occur iff SHTF between the US + China in the SCS, ECS, + over Taiwan, etc. + concessions have to be made in order to avoid protractive or Nuclear conflict.
China could get the CNMI while the US keeps Guam, wid one or either side forced to accept a much-reduced mil presence.
As myself + Perts have said, HOW POTUS OBAMA RESPONDS TO CHINA IN EAST ASIA-PACIFI MAY ROVE MORE DANGEROUS TO US INTERESTS THAN WHAT HE DOES VEE RUSSIA + IRAN.
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FYI FREEREPUBLIC > [AFP] LARGE CHINESE Air = PLAAF] FLEET FLIES NEAR JAPAN ISLANDS: MEDIA.
Coming soon enuff to Guam's Camel Rock, like China's "White ships".
Lest we fergit, YEAR 2020 = BESIDES OKINAWA MARINES MOVING TO GUAM, IS ALSO THE BENHMARK OR SYMBOLIC YEAR CHINA IDEALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE US PULLOUT OR FALL BACK FROM EAST ASIA-WESTPAC TOWARDS HAWAII-EASTPAC + US WEST COAST, vee "SHARING THE PACIFIC" = 1/2 of the Pacific [WestPac]by 2020 NLT 20125.
CHINA = US HAS NO STATES WEST OF HAWAII IN EASTPAC, ERGO US HAS NO REAL INTERESTS IN WESTPAC + SHOULD GIVE UP ITS ISLAND TERRITORIES TO BEIJINNG.
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..the Chinese authorities probably won't agree because 1) the question becomes 'how come they can afford it and we can't' and 2) how come this sh!t isn't sold back home too?
#2 is real. Jackie Chan was doing a movie in New Mexico and in an interview said he like spending time in the home improvement big box stores cause they had stuff made back home but no one could find there.
ERBIL – Governor of Tal Afar in the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) was reportedly killed in an airstrike conducted by the U.S.-led coalition forces in the Iraqi province of Nineveh, local sources reported on Friday.
Speaking to ARA News in Tal Afar, an informed source said an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition targeted Friday the Tal Afar Castle downtown, killing Ali Hassan al-Afri, the ISIS’s governor of Tal Afar, along with a number if his escorts.
Another one bites the dust.
“On Thursday, another air raid targeted an ISIS convoy in the vicinity of the town of Badoush in the same region, killing more than a dozen gunmen from the terror group and wounding several others,” the source told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
“The airstrike led to the destruction of a number of ISIS-manned vehicles.”
Too far from the tunnels to escape injury and death? The poor dears.
In June 2014, ISIS seized control of Tel Afar city, where 200,000 people used to reside. This came subsequent to the group’s control of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul.
In Nov. 2014, Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, the group’s leader in Mosul, was killed with his driver when their car was hit in a raid west of the city.
Another senior official from the radical group was killed last Monday by an Iraqi rebel group known as Ahrar al-Mosul, Iraqi police reported.
“Gunmen of Ahrar al-Mosul group shot dead Farooq Ahmed al-Lahibi, Daesh’s intelligence official, along with a number of his escorts in a sheep market in western Mosul,” Nineveh police said in a press statement, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Also last week, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces deployed over the Mounts of Ishkaft, Muter and Sasan in northern Iraq, pounded headquarters belonging to the radical group in Tal Afar, northern the capital Baghdad, according to local sources.
Subsequently, ISIS militants evacuated their main headquarters in Tel Afar and have hidden in civilians’ houses to avoid Peshmerga bombardment.
In the past few months, several ISIS leaders and security officials have been killed in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and in operations carried out by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and anti-ISIS rebel groups, specifically in the city of Mosul and its environs.
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[Hurriyet] The Turkish army has suspended flights over Syria as part of an ongoing joint military campaign with the United States against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after it shot down a Russian jetfighter, sparking an unprecedented crisis between Ankara and Moscow.
The decision was taken following the eruption of the crisis with Russia in which a Turkish F-16 downed a Russian warplane early Nov. 24 after it allegedly violated Turkish airspace, according to diplomatic sources.
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Somali Govt troops repulsed Al shabaab after terrorists armed militants ambushed their convoy near Bardale town of Baay region, killing at least two terrorists fighters, an official said.
The governor Bay region Abdirashid Abdullah Mohamed, told Radio Shabelle that Govt army convoy travelled from Bardere came under ambush attack by terrorists Al shabaab near Awdinle area on Thursday. He said two Al shabaab terrorists fighters were killed in the counter-attack and seized their AK-47 weapons, a claim that Al shabaab denied.
Al shabaab for their part claimed a victory in the attack near Awdiinle village, saying they killed at least 15 Somali soldiers. Uneasy calm has returned to the area after the fighting.
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Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has directed the special military commission of Yemen's national army to announce the conditions and centres of recruitments to quickly enable the popular resistance fighters to join the national army officially, the official Yemen News Agency reported.
This came during the commission's meeting chaired by the commander of the fourth governorate in Aden, Major General Ahmed Saif Al Yafei.
Brigadier Nasser Mishabbab Al Otaibi, Commander of the UAE Taskforce in the Arab Coalition Forces in Aden, attended the meeting.
During the meeting, President Hadi urged the commission members to exert more efforts in cooperation with the Yemeni military and field commanders to identify those fit for serving in the national army and the security service charged with protecting the security and stability of Yemen's liberated governorates.
The legitimate Yemeni government forces are fighting the rebel Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in various areas of the country.
[The Standard] An intelligence source said the Indonesian terrorist killed in an clash with security forces in Sultan Kudarat is one of ten jihadists with links to Daesh who are in the country for still unknown reasons. Sucipto Ibrahim Ali, a member of the Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, had slipped into the Philippines with nine other foreign jihadis and were not hiding in Mindanao, the source added.
Sucipto, he said, a core group member of Ansar Khilafa Philippines, along with five Malaysians, three Syrians and another Indonesian, who sought sanctuary among Islamists in Mindanao. He was also alleged to have received international funding for his operations in the region. Malaysian authorities have sought cooperation from their Philippine counterparts to interdict the five Malaysians linked to Daesh, who have recruited some of their citizens to fight in Syria and Iraq.
The source said Ansar Khilafa Philippines is composed of militants from the Abu Sayyaf, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, the Rayah Solaiman Movement, and jihadis who pledged allegiance to Daesh. The source further alleged that Daesh is trying to establish a regional cell in Southeast Asia as part of its plan to expand their operations worldwide.
Security adviser Cesar Garcia called Sucipto's killing as a significant victory in the global war on terropr, but the Philippine military on Friday dismissed the group as "lawless elements [who are just] professing ties with the terrorist organization Daesh."
Military spokesman Col. Restituto Padilla said they have received information relating to the three Syrian nationals but they have yet to confirm the report. The military said the terrorists killed were part of the AKP group seen in recently posted videos expressing their support to Daesh purportedly to gain attention.
Despite the killing of the Indonesian terrorist, Padilla ruled out a link between the group and ISIS.
Troops killed Sucipto and seven jihadists in an encounter reported Thursday. Western Mindanao Command spokesperson Felimon Tan Jr. said the eight killed were members of the Ansar Al Khalifa, a Daesh terror cell operating in Mindanao.
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[RT/RFL] Prosecutors in Bosnia are probing an explosion at a police station which officials say could have been an act of terrorism.
Attackers threw an explosive device on the roof of the building in the town of Zavidovic early on November 24, causing some minor damage but no injuries. A police spokesperson said that the "case has elements of the criminal act of terrorism."
The national prosecutor's office has taken over the case and created a special team to investigate.
The incident comes less than a week after two military men were killed on November 18 by a man who attacked them with automatic weapons near a barracks in Sarajevo before blowing himself up. Officials have said that the assailant had links to Islamists and that the attack was almost certainly a terrorist act.
Paging Bernie Sanders! [RT/RFL] Norway has deported around 30 Pakistanis seeking asylum in the country. The Norwegian Embassy in Islamabad said the Pakistani asylum seekers were deported in the past several weeks.
Torben Eskelund, a spokesman for immigration department at the embassy in Islamabad, said that the number of deportees might increase as more cases are processed. He said more than 400 Pakistanis had applied for asylum in the Scandinavian nation this year. He added that more than 300 had entered Norway through the Nordic route through Russia.
Norway has tightened its immigration laws as an unprecedented number of people seek asylum there.
Taliban insurgents have torched a number of houses belonging to police officers in Marja district of Helmand province, local officials said Friday.
Officials in the province said that these incidents took place after Taliban insurgents over ran Camp Bazar in Marja district a few days ago.
However, security forces have retaken Camp Bazar but some areas close to Marja district center are still under Taliban control.
"When the insurgents came here they set our houses on fire," a local police officer said.
Another policeman said: "We fight the Taliban like men but they commit such actions. They set fire to my brother's garden."
Marja district has been the scene of heavy clashes between security forces and insurgents over the past few days.
"In a bid to defend their area, residents of the Marja district have joined commander Mawollah (local police commander in Marja) and these residents are defending their district and their dignity," Hashim Alkozai a senator said.
However, clashes in Helmand in general have been ongoing for more than a month in some parts of the province.
Yes, yes, dear Reader, but he actually said it aloud and officially
. [IsraelTimes] A senior German police official says some of the migrants reaching Europe are 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.... snuffies planning terrorist attacks, but the refugee influx is not systemically used by holy warriors to bring members into the EU.
Really? When they announced they were doing so?
The Austria Press Agency cites German federal police chief Hans-Georg Maasen as saying that some who blend in with the migrants fought with IS and are planning a "combat mission" once they arrive in Europe. He says Thursday that his office knows of 7,900 Islamic snuffies in Germany who advocate violence to advance their goals, with some trying to win migrants to their cause.
He says German authorities receive one or two "fairly concrete tips" a week of planned terrorist activity. And he describes IS holy warriors as "combat-hardened professionals" more dangerous than those from al-Qaeda.
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A senior soon to be a retired German police official
Venezuela's government on Friday blasted the United States for linking an activist's murder to upcoming legislative elections and said it would sue an opposition leader who blamed the ruling Socialist Party.
The killing of Luis Diaz, a leader of opposition Democratic Action party in central Guarico state, has rocked Venezuela days before the vote for a new National Assembly, which the Socialists risk losing for the first time in 16 years. Diaz was shot dead at a campaign rally on Wednesday.
In the emotional aftermath, Henry Ramos, national head of Democratic Action, and Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and a witness to the shooting, blamed the ruling party. But President Nicolas Maduro said initial investigations pointed to a gang dispute. Officials accused the opposition of exploiting the case to discredit the Socialists before the Dec. 6 election.
"Trying to link a murder between criminal gangs with Venezuela's electoral process shows desperation and bad faith," Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said of a U.S. statement linking it to other aggression against opposition candidates.
Opposition leaders have for several weeks been denouncing hostility against their candidates, including several incidents of shooting in the air during marches.
But the head of the government's election campaign, Jorge Rodriguez, said Diaz had been part of a gang linked to extortion, murders and kidnapping, and named an alleged rival as his presumed killer. Rodriguez said he would bring a lawsuit against Democratic Action head Ramos for defamation of the Socialist Party.
The killing brought widespread international condemnation. The United Nations urged Venezuela on Friday to provide better safety for political opponents and rights defenders. Underlining a cooling of relations with Maduro, regional heavyweight Brazil also weighed in, expressing "dismay" at Diaz's death.
An explosion ripped through a bus carrying presidential security in central Tunis on Tuesday, prompting the Tunisian president to issue a state of emergency for the North African country.
NPR's Leila Fadel reports that a spokesman for Tunisia's Interior Ministry said at least 11 people were killed in the attack and 17 others were wounded. The state of emergency will last for 30 days and an overnight curfew is also in place until tomorrow morning local time.
The incident occurred on one of the largest thoroughfares in the city, Mohamed V Avenue, and went off at a time when the streets were busy with people commuting home from work.
Leila adds: "It's unclear exactly what caused the blast, but Tunis has been the target of extremist attacks."
The news service adds that Tunisia's president has declared "war" against terrorism and urged international cooperation in fighting it.
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[BBC] A suicide bomber has killed at least 21 people in an attack on a Shia procession in Nigeria's Kano state. The bomber ran into the crowd and detonated his bomb before he could be spotted. The attack happened shortly after a man was arrested in possession of a bomb, according to a witness.
The explosion took place in the village of Dakasoye, about 13 miles south of Kano, the provincial capital. Muhammad Turi from the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) said, "We lost 21 people and several others have been injured."
Police said they did not know who was behind the attack, but IMN organizers blamed Boko Haram.
The procession - an annual event lasting seven days - continued after the bombing. Turi said, "We are not surprised that we've been attacked because this is the situation all over the country. This will not deter us from our religious observance."
The procession travels from Kano to Zaria in neighbouring Kaduna state, where the IMN, the nation's biggest Shia organization, has its headquarters.
Security forces had been ordered away from the procession after several people were killed in clashes between pilgrims and the army last year, including three sons of its leader Sheikh el-Zakzaky.
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What appears to have been a row between Libyan and Tunisian fuel smugglers on the Libyan side of the border near Tatouine led to a Tunisian being shot in the neck.
The injured man is being treated for buck shot wounds in Tatouine regional hospital a security source told the Tunisian news agency TAP today. The victim is reportedly in a stable condition. No further details of the incident, which occurred on Wednesday night, have been given. It is not clear if the Tunisian smuggler is now under arrest.
The once-flourishing cross-border smuggling of heavily-subsidised Libya fuel is now seriously threatened by Tunisia’s heightened security measures, which include a ditch and berm being excavated along the entire frontier.
Earlier this month Germany agreed to instal an electronic surveillance system all the way along the border with Libya from Ras Jedir to Bori El-Khadra at the junction of the Algerian, Libyan and Tunisian frontiers.
Tunisia’s Defence Minister Farhat Horchani also said that Germany would be training security personnel and providing equipment, the nature of which he did not specify.
An "Oh, sh*t" moment...
Taliban insurgents this week shot down an Afghan National Army (ANA) helicopter in Faryab province, killing three and taking the remaining 15 on board hostage, officials said Friday.
According to officials the incident took place in Pashtoonkot district in Faryab. Early reports indicate it was a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) that brought down the chopper.
The ministry of defense has not yet commented but local Faryab officials report that 18 ANA personnel were on board at the time of the incident. They said efforts are underway to secure the safe release of the hostages.
Video footage received by TOLOnews shows Taliban insurgents taking the personnel hostage. The footage also shows that some ANA officers sustained burn wounds during the crash.
According to local officials, three of the 18 crew member on board the chopper were killed in the incident.
"Indirect contact is being made with the Taliban but I do not have direct contact with them. However, efforts by the members of the peace council, tribal elders including some charity organizations which operate here are underway to release the hostages. So far the Taliban has not made any demands for their release," Faryab governor Sayed Anwar Sadaat said.
"It is the responsibility of the government to take firm steps and ensure the release of the hostages from the Taliban so that they can be reunited with their families," a member of Faryab provincial council Sibaghatollah Selab said.
Despite persistent calls to the ministry of defense, no comment was provided. Click to link to see video report
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Little known fact, Lt. Gen. Thomas Jackson, late of The Army of Northern Virginia, (Peace and fresh beef be upon them), was in favor initially of executing POWs, thinking the horror would bring a faster conclusion to the war and save lives. The Northers did it slowly at Camp Douglas, we all did it a bit quicker at Andersonville. Meh? Sigh.
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday announced the arrest of the suspected killer of three members of a polio team in Mansehra.
Two lady health workers and a police guard were shot dead in the mountainous Danna area of Mansehra District in March 2015. The polio team had been vaccinating children on the second day of a three-day anti-polio drive in the district when they were attacked. CTD officials claimed the arrest of Siraj alias Amir Sahab on Friday from the village of Tanda in Mansehra. The official said the accused had confessed to attacking the polio team in Mansehra along with his accomplice, Shahid Omer, during an initial interrogation with the CTD.
The “militant” is suspected of affiliation with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Polio workers have long been targeted due to rumours that the polio immunisation drive is a front for espionage or a conspiracy to sterilise Muslims. The rumours have made inhabitants of lesser-developed parts of the country more wary of allowing immunisation. These claims were propagated by the TTP, who stepped up attacks targeting polio immunisation teams after Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to set up a hepatitis immunisation drive as part of efforts to track down al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.
Earlier this week, the KP CTD in a summary report claimed it had arrested 567 militants during 876 targeted operations conducted in various parts of the province over the last 10 months. A woman and her three children were killed in Karak’s Kundi area following a gas leak explosion on Friday. The woman, wife of Rahim Gul, and her three children, aged 1 to 4-years-old, were asleep when the blast took place.
QUETTA: Security forces on Friday arrested 13 suspected militants said to be associated with a "banned militant organisation" during different search operations in Balochistan's Kech and Dera Bugti districts.
Spokesman for Frontier Corps (FC), a para-military force, said one of the accused, who had opposed apprehension, was injured during an exchange of fire with the security forces.
"A search operation was conducted in Tump Tehsil and we recovered one RPG-7 grenade, one sub-machine gun (SMG) and other weapons from the militants' possession in Kech district," said the spokesperson from the FC.
"Hate materials against the state were also recovered during the operation," he added.
The FC spokesperson said three of the alleged terrorists were apprehended in Balochistan's Pat Feeder area of Dera Bugti district.
All the arrested individuals were being interrogated with regards to bombings and other subversive activities in Balochistan, added the spokesperson.
Pakistan's largest province — which borders Iran and Afghanistan — is riven by sectarian strife and millitant violence.
Its roughly seven million inhabitants have long complained they do not receive a fair share of its gas and mineral wealth.
Baloch separatists demanding more autonomy and control over gas and mineral resources have frequently targeted security forces and police for years.
ALEPPO – At least four civilians were killed and several others wounded after the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded a Kurdish-populated town southeast of Aleppo in northern Syria, local activists reported on Friday.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, media activist Akram Khalil said that the terror group targeted the town of Tell Aran with home-made rockets and mortars, some of them hit an elementary school along with a number of residential buildings, causing casualties among civilians. Tell Aran is a Kurdish-majority town administratively linked to the al-Safira District of Aleppo province.
ISIS militants imposed a siege on the town after the withdrawal of the Syrian army last month.
“The attack led to the death of four civilians, including a child, and the injury of several others,” the source said, pointing out “the attack destroyed a number of residential buildings”.
Subsequent to the withdrawal of the regime’s army and allied groups, ISIS has been bombing Tell Aran and its suburbs for weeks. The town is currently protected by locals, eyewitnesses told ARA News.
Tell Aran had a population of 17,770 according to official statistics before the war. It is famous for its grapes, vineyards and gardens. However, the town is currently suffering a sharp shortage of food and medical supplies under ISIS siege. Hundreds of civilians are now stranded in the town, after the displacement of most of its residents.
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[IsraelTimes] Alarms, tunnels, smaller oil tankers and less pressure on civilians -- Islamic State adaps to life under bombardment
In 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's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, sirens ring out whenever a warplane approaches as jihadists flee their posts and vehicles to hide, activists say.
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A Libyan photographer Mohamed Al-Naili who works for the Chinese news agency Xinhua has been released. He arrived at his home in Abu Selim district yesterday evening reportedly in good health after being kidnapped for almost a month.
Naili’s could not be reached on his mobile today. However, friends reported that his family paid a large ransom for his release.
It was not possible to contact Xinhua for a comment.
[Daily Telegraph] A Muslim man on trial in Sydney for attempted murder wore a mask at a public debate on sharia law to threaten that "mujahideen" will someday bring jihad to Australia.
In the video played in court yesterday, Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai approached the microphone wearing an abeya and asked a debater opposed to sharia law, "What are you going to do the day the mujahideen decide to jihad here, whether by air, on train or foot?"
Police intelligence on Al-Ahmadzai was made public yesterday when a former counter-terrorism officer gave evidence on a two-year-long surveillance operation during a preliminary hearing for his trial at Parramatta District Court.
Al-Ahmadzai’s extremism has already been on display with his continuing refusal to stand for the presiding judge on the grounds that it is against Islam. But he may soon be forced to stand, after NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton said yesterday she would consider strengthening the law to make it easier to prosecute people for contempt of court.
The police officer told the hearing he was one of three officers who listened to 20,000 phone calls involving Al-Ahmadzai between December 2009, and September 2011, when the accused was making and answering around 100 calls a day.
The court heard numerous phone conversations alleged to be between Al-Ahmadzai and Daesh sympathizers, including Ali Al-Talebi, who is accused of sending money to Daesh, and Hamze Alqudsi, who is defending charges he recruited people for jihad.
One of the people Al-Ahmadzai called was a man identified as Tolga Cifci, who was later convicted over the whipping of a Muslim convert. Cifci tells Al-Ahmadzai, "They aren’t going to do sh*t. If our boys come down it is going to be a punch-up."
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Who cares? The present day Western "cognitive elites" are a bunch of morons incapable of anything, even remotely, resembling analytical thought. Whether is due to pot, or---my favorite theory---because modern educational system---starting with kindergartens---is a school of conformism, "what to do about them?" is the question---not, "what made them this way?"
PARACHINAR: Security forces and political administration averted a possible bid of terrorism by recovering a bomb from the area of Ahamd Zai check post, vicinity of the city.
According to political sources, the locals saw a bomb that was planted by unknown miscreants in the bushy area near Ahmad Zai Check Post. After receiving the information vis-à-vis presence of a bomb, security forces rushed to the spot and retrieved the device.
The bomb was later defused. Political administration has started investigations to arrest the elements involved.
Former head of the Algerian counter-terrorism agency General Hassan was handed a five-year prison sentence by a military court in a behind closed doors trial. Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, known as General Hassan, was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of destroying documents and disobeying military orders.
Refused an order to whack a political opponent of the boss? Or simply another potential challenger to the comfy chair?
Gen. Hassan headed successfully the Algerian counter-terrorism department and helped save the country during the bloodbath period when Algeria was haunted by terrorist organizations. He was dismissed from his position in 2013, put under house arrest and then arrested in August 2015.
Journalists were barred from attending the trial. One of the defendant’s lawyers Mokrane Ait Larbi regretted the court did not allow Gen. Toufik to speak in favor of his client. Khaled Bourayou, another defense lawyer, deemed the trial “a vengeance” saying that the court ignored the exceptional work done by his client in combatting terrorism. He also regretted that the court disregarded his client’s age and health condition.
“If he is condemned, what signal will Algeria be sending to all those who – here and worldwide – are waging a relentless battle against internal and transnational terrorism, which has increased in ferocity in recent years?”
President Bouteflika has lately embarked on eliminating his former military comrades he deemed challenging his rule.
Aside from Gen. Hassan several other military high ranking officers including high profile Gen. Toufik, who headed for 25 years Algerian powerful DRS intelligence agency, have been side-lined or arrested.
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[Hurriyet] Turkish police seized 120 tons of ammonium nitrate, a common explosive used in making improvised bombs, in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Nov. 27, while four suspected members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were detained in Istanbul.
Police raided an iron and steel depot at the KÜSGET industrial site in Gaziantep, where they found 120 tons of ammonium nitrate, Anadolu Agency reported. The police sent the seized material to the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry.
The raid came on the same day Istanbul police detained four suspects linked to ISIL in early-morning raids.
According to security sources, Istanbul police squads mounted simultaneous raids on a several addresses in the city's Bagcilar district, accompanied by special operations teams.
The operation was conducted to catch five suspects who allegedly helped both Turkish and foreign nationals travel to Iraq and Syria, the police said.
There was an ongoing operation to catch a final suspect, the police added.
Officers also seized five mobile phones, a laptop and two tablet computers as well as 18 hard disks at the addresses.
Images from the scene showed at least one squad of masked and armed officers going through a ground-floor entrance.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's General Staff said in a written statement that 509 people were captured while attempting to enter Turkey from Syria on Nov. 26.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... a local court in southeastern Diyarbakir province ruled for the arrests of five ISIL suspects on Nov. 27.
In September, tons of kaboom was seized near the Turkish-Syrian border.
As much as 6.5 tons of plastic kaboom was seized after coppers in Sanliurfa stopped and searched a long-haul truck full of onions in the Pekmezli neighborhood of Sanliurfa's Akcakale district on Sept. 9.
In another incident in the southeastern province of Mardin on Sept. 10, 20 tons of ammonium nitrate was seized after gendarmerie forces searched a cottage on a road connecting Mardin to Diyarbakir upon intelligence which claimed material used to make bombs was in the cottage on land owned by a private driving course.
PESHAWAR: At least 21 suspected terrorists were killed on Friday in air strikes in Khyber Agency’s Tirah Valley, security sources said.
Pakistan Air Force jets targeted militant hideouts in Koki Khel area of Tirah, killing at least 21 suspected terrorists and razing several hideouts. Khyber Agency is one of seven semi-autonomous tribal districts where forces have traditionally had little control and militant groups thrive. Pakistan Army launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb, a grand operation in the North Waziristan tribal region, following a Taliban attack on the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi in June 2014. Since the beginning of Zarb-e-Azb, militants have fled to other tribal regions, including Khyber and its Tirah Valley and Shawal, all of which border Afghanistan.
Benghazi and parts of the east of the country are facing yet more power cuts after the last remaining power station in the city was hit by rockets.
The missiles, fired from inside Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council lines, struck the Benghazi North power station today. State electricity company GECOL said extensive power cuts were inevitable. The generating plant, which has a design capacity of 1200MW, is understood to have lost 500MW of output in the rocket attack.
There were unconfirmed claims this evening that the missiles that caused the damage were made in Misrata. Fragments said to have been recovered from the power station were alleged to show markings that could be traced to Misrata.
GECOL has pointed out that this is not the first time that Benghazi North power station has been targeted. It added that its engineers were working to fix the damage but warned the task could take some time, possibly because new parts may need to be imported. In the past the power plant’s output has been curtailed by shortages of its gas feedstock, thanks to interruptions to the supply via Zuetina.
A shootout at an abortion clinic in Colorado Springs ends with the shooter in police custody, but not until several had been wounded. I can hear the screams this time, only not as loud as before. It is hard to gauge why an individual would go somewhere and shoot another individual who posed no existential threat, but whoever it was, they did. And slowly by degrees the right to keep and bear arms continues to be whittled away with every emotionally charged talking point.
This brings to mind a discussion that Mike Vanderboegh had a few weeks ago when he posed the question: Would you kill an infant knowing that infant would grow up to be Hitler. To me the answer is obvious. An infant/child has not made all the decisions he/she needs to turn into a socialist who wants to murder to advance a social agenda, plus even if those decisions were set in stone (which I do not believe they can be), there's no threat.
Also, killing to prevent a "greater tragedy" is a tool of the tyrant, in this case a petty tyrant who wants to do the world a favor by committing mayhem on people who have done no specific wrong.
And for the other end of that specific issue, Director General of the European Jewish Association (EJA), Rabbi Menachem Margolin wants to petition the European Union for permission to carry firearms.
There's your problem: asking permission of a government (any government) that, as with all other governments, sees greater benefit to them having a monopoly on guns and violence than that you have any other means of protection. By the way: in case you haven't heard, government is recursive. Everything it does protects itself first and only. You'll get nothing and like it.
Oh, to be an arms smuggler! Not for the profits, but for the final result: armed joooos. Heavily armed juice. In these times, its cool to be a gun criminal. Ask the mooslims who have murder in their heart.
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The head of the Tripoli office of the religious endowments ministry, Mohamed Atkitek, has been released by the capital’s Rada (deterrence) forces according to a ministry statement. It said that he was freed at 4am this morning and was in good health.
He was grabbed from his office two days ago and questioning about his organisation’s relationship with the Islamic State (IS) organisation. The arrest served to fracture even further the various factions in the city, with Sheikh Sadik Ghariani labelling those who arrested Atkitek as criminals and demanding Rada sack them.
Itself seen as a strongly Islamist organisation, Rada is investigating possible support to IS from the ministry.
[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine security forces on Friday captured an Abu Sayyaf militant whose group has been linked to the kidnappings of two Malaysians – one of them killed – and a Korean man in the southern Philippines.
Saddam Jailani, a follower of Abu Sayyaf leader Alhabsi Misaya, was arrested in the Port of Jolo. No other details about Jailani were made available, except his group was behind the brutal beheading of Malaysian national Bernard Then who was kidnapped in May this year along with Thien Nyuk Fun who was freed by the militants.
The capture of Jailani came a day after troops seized sex Abu Sayyaf automatic rifles in Bonbon village in Patikul town. Civilians alerted the military to the weapons hidden by militants under Radulan Sahiron.
Security forces also captured two members, Menu Maganaka and Rex Bacana, of the insurgent group Pentagon in Kabacan town in North Cotabato province.
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[AnNahar] Two coppers and four alleged members of a radical Islamist group have been killed in a shootout during a raid in Azerbaijan, the interior ministry said Thursday.
The suspects opened fire when police attempted to arrest "leaders of an unregistered radical Islamist group," the ministry said in a statement.
The group, called the Movement for Muslim Unity, "resisted the coppers, who were attacked with a grenade and automatic fire," the statement said, without specifying when the incident in the village of Nardaran north of Baku took place.
"As a result, four group members were liquidated and several more injured. Two coppers died in the clash." Fourteen people were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , including the leader of the group Tale Bagirzade, authorities said.
The raid on the organization was ordered following an "investigation" which showed that "this group is planning provocations, mass unrest and acts of terror in order to disrupt the socio-political stability in the country."
The ministry said the group's goal was to establish a sharia state in Azerbaijan, a majority Shia Muslim but secular country headed by strongman President Ilham Aliyev.
Another Iranian finger stirring things up rather than ISIS or Al Qaeda?
The Movement for Muslim Unity earlier this month organized a protest near Baku against the detention of another group leader Elchin Gasymov. Police arrested but later released several people.
[IsraelTimes] IDF holds first operational test of 'Barak 8,' aimed to deflect Hezbollah weapons, as all eyes turn to more powerful RussianS-400
The Israel Navy has carried out its first successful launch of a new maritime missile defense system under battlefield conditions, a senior naval official announced on Thursday.
News of the "Barak 8" missile defense system's successful test came as the eyes of the world turn to the Russian S-400, an anti-aircraft system deployed in Syria on Thursday, which operates at a substantially greater distance.
Though the Russian missile system is effective at a greater range, the Barak 8 can be installed on naval ships as well as on the ground, giving it a decided advantage in its mobility.
The system, made up of a radar array and missile launcher, successfully detected and shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle "that was very fast and very small," in order to simulate a real-life enemy aircraft or missiles, the naval officer said.
The system, which was developed jointly by Israel and India, had been installed on one of Israel's Sa'ar 5-class warships. In previous tests, the missiles had been fired from land.
The radar acquiring targets for the Barak 8 system is code-named Adir (Hebrew for "Tremendous"), or MF-STAR (Multi Function Surveillance And Threat Alert Radar).
This newest iteration ("8") is intended to defend against advanced weaponry believed to be in the hands of Hezbollah, including the Russian-made Yakhont P-800 anti-ship missile.
"The Barak/Adir systems will be able to deal with the Yakhont," the senior officer boasted. "It is the bread and butter of this system."
The system is intended to be mounted either on naval vessels or on the ground, in a battery formation. It can identify and destroy airborne threats like UAVs, jets, missiles and rockets -- including projectiles launched simultaneously.
Though the senior officer said he could not reveal the maximum range of the Barak 8 system, an executive vice president of Israel Aerospace Industries, which helped develop the defense system, revealed to Jane's Defense News earlier this summer that some of the missiles being used can shoot down targets at a range of 150 kilometers (93 miles).
The system is also intended to defend the coastline and reportedly can tackle missiles larger than those within the capabilities of the Iron Dome system.
[AFP] Officials from China's ruling Chinese Communist Party have supported violent attacks in Xinjiang, a top regional official said in comments highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.
The homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority is often hit by deadly unrest. China blames the violence on Islamist separatists but rights groups point to Beijing's actions.
Xu Hairong, the region's top anti-graft official, accused some local CCP members of participating in the unrest. Xu said, "Some communist cadres ... even support or take part in violent terrorist attacks."
He gave few details but added that some officials were "wavering on the big issues of opposing anti-separatism and maintaining ethnic unity."
The statement published on Tuesday came days after Chinese police killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in Xinjiang, in the bloodiest such operation in months. It also came after the editor of the Xinjiang Daily, the regional party mouthpiece, was dismissed for what anti-graft officials said were offenses, including publicly criticizing party policies.
Officials launched a "strike hard" campaign after a bomb shook the main train station in the regional capital Urumqi last year as Chinese chief Xi Jinping was wrapping up a visit to the city.
The CCP is officially atheist and bans all of its officials — including Uighurs — from religious faith. But Xu said officials persist in religious beliefs despite the policy. He said, "Some waver in their ideals, are confused in their beliefs, not believing in Marxism-Leninism but believing in ghosts, and lack loyalty to the party."
ALEPPO – Syrian regime’s army forces, supported with a Russian air cover, launched Friday a large-scale military operation in an attempt to retake the villages and towns held by opposition fighters in the southern countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, military sources reported.
The regime mobilized its troops several days ago in the southern fighting front of Aleppo. The opposition had been able to repel the army’s advance so far, inflicting it with painful losses in soldiers and equipment.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, Mustafa Suleiman, a spokesman for Aleppo’s rebels, said the pro-regime forces set up fierce attacks on several locations of the armed opposition in the southern countryside of Aleppo.
“The regime’s broad operation was preceded with heavy rocket bombardment on headquarters of the rebel fighters in the towns of Khalsa, al-Hamira and al-Iss,” he added, pointing out “Fierce clashes broke out between the Sultan Murad Brigade, Thuwar al-Sham and the Army of Conquest on the one hand, and the regime’s army and allied troops on the other hand.”
“Our fighters were able to destroy the regime’s missile base of Kornet at the hill of al-Iss,” Suleiman told ARA News.
The rebels have also destroyed a machine gun (23 caliber mm) along with a tank on the fighting front of al-Hamira with TOW missiles, according to the same source.
The source confirmed that the pro-regime helicopters dropped four barrel bombs on the towns of Khan Toman and Zirba in the southern countryside of Aleppo. No reports of civilians casualties.
Over the past two days, several villages and towns fell to the rebels in Aleppo’s southern suburbs, but the Syrian army forces are trying to cut off the opposition’s supply routes in a bid to regain control of the points lost in the region.
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Two Palestinians rammed vehicles into Israeli soldiers in separate attacks in the occupied West Bank on Friday and were then shot dead, Israeli police and military said.
A wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence that began more than eight weeks ago has shown no end in sight. It is the worst unrest since last year's Gaza war and has prompted talk of a new Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, against Israel.
They keep talking about it, as if talk could make it real.
Near the city of Hebron, a Palestinian slammed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers wounding six,
"Three bruises, a torn sleeve, a split lip, and Avi was hit by a thrown rock, sir!"
"Carry Avi down to the ambulances, Corporal, they can't come up past this mess."
before being shot dead, a military spokesman said.
A few hours earlier another Palestinian rammed his car into Israeli soldiers at a bus stop near a Jewish settlement, police said. He was shot dead by a civilian
...note that the civilian must have been carrying, which is likely to be a permanent change in Israeli law and culture...
and two Israeli soldiers were injured. Police and the Palestinian Health Ministry said the driver was the brother of a man who on Sunday had been shot dead in a similar incident nearby.
If they keep this up, that's one family name that will have deliberately erased itself from history -- a heckuva sacrifice for the unachievable.
Almost-daily Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings, have killed 19 Israelis and one US citizen since October 1 and Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians,
...the typical ratio for such activities in that part of the world nowadays...
some of whom were carrying out assaults and others in clashes with police and troops. Many of those killed have been teenagers.
In every generation they must relearn the lesson.
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A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the Daesh group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed at least eight people, including five children, Syrian opposition groups said on Friday.
It wasn't immediately clear who carried out the latest airstrikes. The city in northeastern Syria is the group's de facto capital and has become the focus of international airstrikes in the wake of the Paris terror attacks and the bombing of a Russian jetliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Daesh has said it was behind both the Paris attacks and the downing of the Russian passenger plane.
A Raqqa-based activist group that reports on Daesh, known as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said on Friday that most of the casualties in the latest aerial bombardment occurred when warplanes targeted the city's Heten School. The school, like others in Raqqa, has been taken over by Daesh.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 12, including the five children. Conflicting casualty figures are common in the chaos of Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year.
Russia and a US-led coalition that includes France have been pounding Raqqa.
A Daesh-affiliated agency, Aamaq, published a video purporting to show nighttime explosions that lit up the Raqqa sky. The video showed a building and several cars on fire, and a man crouching over the bodies of five children. The agency claimed the casualties and destruction were caused by Russian airstrikes that targeted civilian areas.
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[Rudaw] SHINGAL, Kurdistan Region -- Iraq's Nineveh Plains are a long way from the jungles of Mynamar, but for Joseph, a Myanmarese medic with the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), treating a mortar wound is the same. It's just that with no trees here, mortars here do damage over greater distances.
"In the jungle, even if a mortar lands near, it's no problem," says Joseph, who like many ethnic Karen, has no surname. But on Shingal, "it's pretty different."
Joseph belongs to a clandestine non-governmental group that has been described as "Doctors Without Borders with guns," that operates in the ethnic states of Myanmar. Now the group are in Iraq and they've been helping the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State
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[Gulf Today] Police on Wednesday said that heavily-armed members of the Maoist New People's Army ambushed and killed a soldier and injured five others including a junior officer in Northern Samar province in the Visayas in Central Philippines.
[RT/RFL] Norway has deported around 30 Pakistanis seeking asylum in the country. The Norwegian Embassy in Islamabad said the Pakistani asylum seekers were deported in the past several weeks.
[BBC] A suicide bomber has killed at least 21 people in an attack on a Shia procession in Nigeria's Kano state. The bomber ran into the crowd and detonated his bomb before he could be spotted. The attack happened shortly after a man was arrested in possession of a bomb, according to a witness.
[Daily Telegraph] A Muslim man on trial in Sydney for attempted murder wore a mask at a public debate on sharia law to threaten that "mujahideen" will someday bring jihad to Australia.
Brain cells, who needs'em ? 
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[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine security forces on Friday captured an Abu Sayyaf militant whose group has been linked to the kidnappings of two Malaysians – one of them killed – and a Korean man in the southern Philippines.
[AFP] Officials from China's ruling Chinese Communist Party have supported violent attacks in Xinjiang, a top regional official said in comments highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.
