[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] At least 27 people have been killed inside a Texas church - including a two-year-old child - after a gunman dressed in full combat gear opened fire during the morning service before cops shot him dead. No word if it's a nut or an Islamist. Since it's a church, I'm leaning toward nut.
The shooting happened at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, where around 50 people usually attend service, according to local reports.
Wilson County Commissioner Albert Gamez Jr told CNN that at least 27 people have been killed in the shooting, but the corpse count is expected to climb.
'My heart is broken,' Gamez said. 'We never think where it can happen, and it does happen. It doesn't matter where you're at. In a small community, real quiet and everything, and look at this, what can happen.'
At least 24 others were maimed in the horrific shooting. Witnesses said a man 'in full gear' walked inside the church and opened fire just before 11.30am.
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Word is it's a guy named Chris Ward that killed his family before attacking the church. Apparently a local. Betcha either a divorace and/or taking something for mental issues that pushed him off the deep end.
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Hopefully they'll quit mentioning these peoples' names and showing their photos. They must know by now the bastards are just doing it for the fame.
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Kelley, 26, was a resident of New Braunfels, a suburb of San Antonio, according to public records. Kelley was married and his mother-in-law listed a P.O. box in Sutherland Springs as a mailing address.
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Does dishonourable discharge and court-martial remove rights to own firearms??
regardless, a Special and General courts martial conviction makes it a federal felony. Thus one convicted in such a court is a felon and not eligible to own guns. It's that felony thingy that the feds in Chicago are using to prosecute gun crimes there.
Today's mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was only halted after an armed Texan "engaged" the killer and put an end to the rampage, the Texas Rangers reported.
Freeman Martin, a major in the Texas Rangers and a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says the suspect dropped his rifle and fled after being confronted by a local man who had grabbed his rifle.
Freeman provided a timeline of the tragedy in a press briefing Sunday evening.
"At approximately 11:20 this morning a suspect was seen at a Valero gas station in Sutherland Springs, Texas," Martin said. "He was dressed in all black. That suspect crossed the street to the church, exited his vehicle and began firing at the church."
"That suspect then moved to the right side of the church and then continued to fire," he continued. "That suspect entered the church and continued to fire. As he exited the church, a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect. The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church."
"Our local citizen pursued the suspect at that time," Freeman went on. "A short time later as law enforcement responded that suspect right at the Wilson/Guadalupe County line crashed out and was found deceased in his vehicle. At this time we don’t know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident. We know he’s deceased in the vehicle. "
The suspected killer is being reported as Devin Patrick Kelley. However, Freeman would reported, "The suspect has not been completely identified. We believe he’s a young white male, maybe in his early 20s. He was dressed in all black, tactical type gear and was wearing a ballistic vest."
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Well, this'll have the "good guy with a gun is just a myth" brigade grinding their teeth:
Today's mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was only halted after an armed Texan "engaged" the killer and put an end to the rampage, the Texas Rangers reported.
Freeman Martin, a major in the Texas Rangers and a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says the suspect dropped his rifle and fled after being confronted by a local man who had grabbed his rifle.
Freeman provided a timeline of the tragedy in a press briefing Sunday evening.
"At approximately 11:20 this morning a suspect was seen at a Valero gas station in Sutherland Springs, Texas," Martin said. "He was dressed in all black. That suspect crossed the street to the church, exited his vehicle and began firing at the church."
"That suspect then moved to the right side of the church and then continued to fire," he continued. "That suspect entered the church and continued to fire. As he exited the church, a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect. The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church."
"Our local citizen pursued the suspect at that time," Freeman went on. "A short time later as law enforcement responded that suspect right at the Wilson/Guadalupe County line crashed out and was found deceased in his vehicle. At this time we don’t know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident. We know he’s deceased in the vehicle. "
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Sounds like the rifleman scored a solid hit. That is deer hunting area. Sounds like the rifle was a deer hunting rifle. Appears the rifleman knew he was pursuing a hit animal. Good job.
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Hopefully they'll quit mentioning these peoples' names and showing their photos. They must know by now the bastards are just doing it for the fame.
What? You expect the media to be responsible?
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Basque blood here - French side of Pyrenees. I don't see that side participating. Mostly an FU from ETA territory on Spanish side to twist the knife
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Frank, having known some 'Spanish Side' Basque nationalists who were friends of my Mom, I would agree that it's ankle biting.
These folks we knew didn't see themselves as being related in any way with the rest of the Iberian peninsula.
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If Catalonia does gain their Independence the Basques will be next.
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Which is why the Spanish govt via a minister publicly threatened them not to upset the apple cart and think of independence.
Also the application of art 155 of the Spanish constitution is a test run to do the same to the Basques should they get uppity again.
The French Basques would get slapped down real hard.
Valls- who's dad was Catalan, has pretty much drunk the Jacobin koolaid on Catalan. independence
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The Only separatist movement that has proved their case is Kurdistan and the whole piece3 of shit world turned their backs on them.
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No one in this idiot separatist movement has yet to tell me why it should be, at all.
In an incident that authorities are describing as a "mass casualty situation," between 12 and 15 people have reportedly been shot at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a small community south east of San Antonio. The people were presumably attending a Sunday church service when a gunman opened fire. Few details are available. The gunman is still "active" according to the latest police reports.
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At least 27 Christians entered eternal Paradise today, approximately 24 others injured. One loser in full combat gear was dispatched to hell by first responders.
The Kingdom of Bahrain urged its nationals residing in Lebanon to leave immediately and to "exercise caution.”
It also called on Bahrainis not to travel to this country.
The call came a day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation.
The Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement received by AFP that its call was "in the interest of its citizens’ safety and to avoid any risks they may be exposed due to the conditions and developments” that Lebanon is going through.
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Difficult for me to believe that after 10 years, neither the FBI nor the intelligence community had any knowledge of the Woodbridge, VA based Awan Bros. activities.
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Considering the investigations on fake news and mere innuendo missing this organized crime activity for so long has to be considered intentional by the bureau.
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Notice how the 'old saw' of... 'We had the Awan Bros. on our radar' is NOT being used.
We'll just implement the 'space-time continuum' and hope for the best. Well WTF, it works for the Clintons. If anything else bubbles up, we'll blame it on black helicopters.
h/t Instapundit
Feuding with Donald Trump is a bad idea. Too many people have wound up worse for the feud, the latest being Alec Baldwin.
It's not what President Trump does to them. It's just that karma kneecaps so many of them.
Oh, not everyone winds up worse, I suppose. But enough do that a wise man would ask, why risk it? The idea that he's as much smarter then them as they are smarter then their, true believer, supporters just doesn't occur.
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As was observed of a popular fictional character, 'He's smarter than you, he's luckier than you, and whatever it is you think is going to happen the exact opposite will happen.'
h/t instapundit
A new paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Bisschop, Kastoryano, and van der Klaauw looks at the opening and closing of prostitution zones (tippelzones) in 25 Dutch cities.
Our empirical results show that opening a tippelzone reduces sexual abuse and rape. These results are mainly driven by a 30‐40 percent reduction in the first two years after opening the tippelzone. For tippelzones with a licensing system, we additionally find long-term decreases in sexual assaults and a 25 percent decrease in drug-related crime, which persists in the medium to long run.
Cunningham and Shah studied decriminalization of indoor prostitution in Rhode Island and found very similar results.
We exploit the fact that a Rhode Island District Court judge unexpectedly decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003 to provide the first causal estimates of the impact of decriminalization on the composition of the sex market, rape offenses, and sexually transmitted infection outcomes. Not surprisingly, we find that decriminalization increased the size of the indoor market. However, we also find that decriminalization caused both forcible rape offenses and gonorrhea incidence to decline for the overall population. Our synthetic control model finds 824 fewer reported rape offenses (31 percent decrease) and 1,035 fewer cases of female gonorrhea (39 percent decrease) from 2004 to 2009.
[Johnathan Turley] This week we have been discussing Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent speech at Northwestern University Law School detailing the claim of President Barack Obama that he has the right to kill American citizens based on his inherent authority and the ongoing war on terror. I previously wrote a blog and a column on the issue. Those pieces noted that Holder limited his remarks by referring to targeted killing "abroad." However, I noted that the Administration’s past references to this power are not so limited. Indeed, the only limits stated by the Administration have been self-imposed standards and what Holder calls "due process" ‐ expressly excluding "judicial process." Now, FBI Director Robert Mueller has entered the fray. On Wednesday Mueller was asked in a congressional hearing whether the current policy would allow the killing of citizens in the United States. Mueller said that he simply did not know whether he could order such an assassination. It was the perfect moment to capture the dangerous ambiguity introduced into our system by this claim of inherent authority. I can understand Mueller deferring to the Attorney General on the meaning of his remarks, but the question was whether Mueller understands that the same power exists within the United States. One would hope that the FBI Director would have a handle on a few details guiding his responsibilities, including whether he can kill citizens without a charge or court order.
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President Barack Obama that he has the right to kill American citizens based on his inherent authority and the ongoing war on terror.
How convenient that there always seems to be some fucking war going on.
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One would hope that the FBI Director would have a handle on a few details guiding his responsibilities, including whether he can kill citizens without a charge or court order.
Ambiguous about whether he can kill citizens in the U.S. That is a dangerous man.
Mr. Mueller should be reminded about an excerpt from our Declaration of Independence:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and happiness.
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On Wednesday Mueller was asked in a congressional hearing whether the current policy would allow the killing of citizens in the United States.
Waco? Ruby Ridge? It is already here, the only thing is that Mueller is too mealy mouthed to admit it.
[Zero Hedge] Perhaps the most shocking revelation contained in the excerpts from former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile’s book was, unsurprisingly, buried in a Washington Post overview of the various allegations (and frankly, we’re surprised the Post, given its status as a protector of the Washington establishment, deigned to publish it).
In the aftermath of Wikileaks’ decision to publish a cache of emails stolen from the DNC’s servers, Donna Brazile says she became increasingly paranoid about both possible Russian efforts to sway the election. Surprisingly, she says top Democrats initially instructed her not to discuss her concerns with others.
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That's the problem with murder, you can't take it back and it never goes away. May take a while, but given the amount of information in the public arena we will hear more about Rich.
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This from the comments in a fawning article about the event in SF Chronicle:
Subject: TURD...... LATEST FROM MENTAL HEALTH OFFICIALS
Do You Know Someone Suffering From Trump Unacceptance & Resistance Disorder (TURD)?
Know the signs, spot the symptoms, and save a life.
TURD is a pattern of pathologically dissociative and psychotic behavior, first observed in the late hours of November 8th 2016, and increasing in severity with passing time.
Sufferers of TURD often exhibit pronounced cognitive dissonance, sudden bouts of rage, rioting, and uncontrollable crying.
People with TURD are characterized by a persistent unwillingness to accept that Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again.
TURD Is caused by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America.
Research is ongoing, but TURD appears to correlate closely with the following environmental and behavioral factors:
· Membership in the Democratic Party
· Identifying as a Feminist
· Currently enrolled in college, and/or Possession of a Liberal Arts college degree
· Living in a densely populated metropolitan area
· Massive student debt
· Spotty or non-existent work history
Patients with TURD are very resistant to treatment, and dangerous in large groups. Any possibility of treatment requires that they be separated from their hive-mind support apparatus; they cannot begin the process of accepting reality in the presence of encouragement towards delusion and irrationality. Separation may require the assistance of law enforcement.
If you have a friend or loved one suffering from TURD, urge them to seek treatment. Together we can beat this scourge, and Make America Great Again.
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Story in the Seattle news featured many 'close up' photos - seldom showing that there was only about 70 protesters (and I'll bet more than half of them were journalists there to report on the 'massive uprising').
Epic Fail.
As someone commented "There were bigger turnouts at the DMV."
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Mind you, IMO, the serious ones are seriously studying terror tactics.
The fascists (antifascists) are most closely linked to the far left. The serious ones are like Bill Ayres and his ilk; they are basically domestic terrorists.
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Maybe this was a trail balloon. See what kind of response the other side would put up. Or maybe they are shouting 'wolf' a few times to take people of their guard.
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I sort of like them getting real time feedback on how out-of-the-mainstream their point of view is. Not that they are actually getting the message.
Let's don't get too complacent. The Brown Shirts were out-of-the-mainstream too but still very dangerous.
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Who plans a protest the weekend the new Call of Duty drops? They were all playing the game and mom probably forgot to remind them.
[Wash Times] A majority of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist, communist or fascist nation rather than a capitalistic one, according to a new poll.
In the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s "Annual Report on US Attitudes toward Socialism," 58 percent of the up-and-coming generation opted for one of the three systems, compared to 42 percent who said they were in favor of capitalism.
The most popular socioeconomic order was socialism with 44 percent support. Communism and fascism received 7 percent support each.
Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, said the report shows millennials are "increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative."
"This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago," Mr. Smith said in a statement.
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Well, when you throw out history what do you expect? It is not just the historical charnel house of death and suffering from communism/socialism but the fact that so many of those of Euro ancestry can't figure out that their predecessors either were thrown out or left on their own accord. The Millennials need to be encouraged to do the latter if they find capitalism so abhorrent.
[PJ] In multiple embassies around the world, particularly those staffed entirely by career Foreign Service officers, no portrait of President Trump or Vice President Pence has been hung. Up until last week, the swamp had an excuse ‐ there was no official portrait and the swamp refused to go to the trouble to find unofficial ones.
But it’s not just the entrances to embassies where it seems the 2016 election never happened. All throughout the government, Obama holdovers who rabidly oppose President Trump and his policies still hold positions of extraordinary power. The swamp is alive and well.
Consider the National Security Council, where Fernando Cutz is enabling Trump’s most mortal enemies ‐ George Soros and the globalist Left ‐ to threaten to topple the pro-American government of one of America’s closest allies, Guatemala.
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There are Marines in every one of these places. Order them to post the Presidents picture immediately. and report any actions to remove or obscure it via military comma. Done.
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Oh, I see you still have Soetoro's picture in the hallway. Might as well leave it, we're closing the mission down in 30 days. The Swiss will be forwarding your mail. Please notify everyone by COB. Tell the Chief of Station he can 'move off on the economy', no problem.
OBTW, the Marine Security Guard (MSG) team will be flying out with me tomorrow morning. I had dinner with them last night, they were ecstatic to hear the news. Have a nice day.
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Since the official portraits of the Prez and Vice were not released till 31 Oct, color me surprised they're not up the next day around the world. I'll give them a week. However, the portrait of Obama should have come down on inauguration day.
[Townhall] President George H.W. Bush and his son President George W. Bush are remarkably candid in their distaste for their successor President Donald. J Trump in a new book, reports the New York Times.
Mark K. Updegrove’s new book, "The Last Republicans," details the dynastic power and influence the Bush family once had over the Republican party and their concern over the impact President Trump is having on the GOP.
The Times piece gives details into the forthcoming book, such as Bush senior calling Trump a "blow hard."
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Poor guys are having a tough time accepting the fact that the voters rejected their little clan when they put Jeb against Trump. Trump hasn't hurt the party. The party hurt itself by running milquetoast, RINO candidates like McCain, Romney and Jeb. Trump is trying to fix it.
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#2 What do they say about Obama? I can't think of anything they have said about Obama. George H.W. is reported to have voted for Hillary. George H.W. Bush has also been reported to say that "Slick Willy" is like a son to him. Must be an Arkansas connection.
I'm beginning to get buyer's remorse from the Bushes.
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Engineer by training, genetics, and disposition, JohnQC. I like it succinct and brief
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AlGore and John Kerry would have been better? I don't think so
Yeah, well, that was the problem, wasn't it?
I might have gone for a third party in 2004 as a protest vote but I couldn't bear the thought of Teresa Heinz-Kerry in the White House and her ugly mug in the TV news every night.
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The Bushes have always comported themselves according to the precepts of noblesse oblige.
They believe that they are worthy of rule and will not fight on behalf of the peons. They are most comfortable with those who also feel that they are true leaders. People like Hillary, Joe, Kerry, Bill are, for that reason, accepted.
[Townhall] The GOP tax plan, unveiled today, allows expectant parents to contribute to their unborn baby’s 529 college savings account.
"Nothing shall prevent an unborn child from being treated as a designated beneficiary," the plan says. It defines an unborn child as a "child in utero" which "means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb."
Abortion advocacy groups, including NARAL and Planned Parenthood, denounced the language in the tax reform bill.
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It defines an unborn child as a "child in utero" which "means a member of the species homo sapiens
Hopefully the science is settled on that one. Could have been a Pangolin 'in utero.' But then of course, Federal protections would have been immediately forthcoming.
[Breitbart] The inclusion of salacious gossip about Martin Luther King in the latest release of John F. Kennedy assassination documents serves as a headscratcher before it catalyzes an ah-ha moment.
The files allege wild orgies, prostitutes, fathering a love-child, drinking benders, and other activities unbecoming of a minister. Conspiracy theorists hopeful for any tidbit validating their belief in an establishment out to destroy King and Kennedy likely see the material as one would expect them to see it. But given that the collection of much of the dirt came about because Robert F. Kennedy, the attorney general, approved it surely puts a wrinkle in that narrative. The fact that his brother served as president during some of this unintelligent intelligence gathering complicates it further.
The pertinent question here, however, pertains not to the Kennedys empowering the FBI to perform as the National Enquirer of law enforcement. Here’s the real puzzle: Why did the federal government include these documents in the John F. Kennedy assassination materia
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So there was no shortage of slander back then. Documents would slide in to discredit and slander people back then. The report, I read some of it, only stopped short of saying the niggers danced nakid around a fire. Wait, remove the fire and the report said it, using negros instead...It read like bullshit to me. MLK might have been a lot of things, but not this and
s makes the Trump papers look tame...
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Remember, J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director at the time. He was a man widely reputed to collect this type of information about a lot of people so he could use it as leverage. He probably had a lot of information about the Kennedys that would be very interesting too. After all, Bobby let him stay on as Director, didn't he?
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In the rush to remove Hoover's collection of intel dirt from FBI headquarters after his death, sure, some stuff probably got "misfiled." Of course, some of that "misfiling" might not have been completely inadvertent.
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[Breitbart] The US special forces detachment ambushed in the Niger last month fought alone for hours after the local Nigerien forces they were accompanying fled in the first minutes of the engagement, retired and serving special forces officers with knowledge of events have said.
The trapped soldiers also made repeated efforts to convince French warplanes sent from neighbouring Mali to engage the enemy, attempting to "talk in" the pilots who refused to attack due to poor weather, rough terrain and an inability to differentiate friend from foe, the officers said.
Four US Green Berets and five Nigerien troops died in the incident, which has been the focus of an intense debate in Washington over the executive branch’s extensive powers to use military force abroad without congressional approval and with little oversight.
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Tempting as it may be, can't blame the French if no 'air-ground operations' coordination was established well prior to STARTEX and everything turning to kak.
It is my understanding the 'bad guys' set fire to brush which obscured visibility for ground attack aircraft. Obviously not their first rodeo.
[IsraelTimes] Attack in Deir Ezzor comes a day after Russian-backed regime forces took full control of the last jihadist bastion in the country
A boom-mobileing carried out 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 killed dozens of displaced people in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, a monitor said.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack targeted people displaced by fighting in the oil-rich province who had gathered on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, adding that dozens more were maimed.
The attack comes as Syrian and allied forces converged Saturday on holdout IS fighters in the border town of Albu Kamal, a day after Russian-backed regime forces took full control of the bustling provincial capital, also called Deir Ezzor, which was the last Syrian city where IS still had a presence.
"The Islamic State group targeted with a boom-mobile displaced people on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, killing dozens and wounding dozens of others," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
He said he could not immediately gave a specific toll of how many people were killed and maimed in the attack.
Abdel Rahman said the victims had fled battlegrounds in Deir Ezzor province, where the US-backed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance is also on the offensive against IS.
The SDF is attacking IS on the eastern bank of the Euphrates which cuts across the province, while Russian-backed Syrian forces are battling the jihadists on the western bank of the river.
The parallel offensives have sent thousands of civilians fleeing for their lives, some straight into the desert.
Sonia Khush, Syria director at the Save the Children charity, said an estimated 350,000 people have fled the recent fighting in Deir Ezzor province, half of them children.
"The situation in the city, and surrounding countryside, has been especially bleak with civilians trapped between the fighting and all too often caught in the crossfire," she said
The Euphrates Valley border area was the heart of the "caliphate" IS proclaimed in 2014 and is now its last redoubt, where a US-led coalition supporting the military effort said around 1,500 jihadist fighters remained.
Despite being driven out from large parts of Deir Ezzor, IS still controls 37 percent of the province and its fighters are deployed in the eastern side.
The blast happened in an area between the Conoco and Jafra energy fields controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and close to the city of Deir el-Zour, which last week was captured by Syrian regime forces 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.... " (IS) gang.
The largest city in eastern Syria, Deir el-Zour is a center for the country's oil extracting industry.
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There is a power change going on. This is how its done in monarchies. Nothing new or shattering. The new guy is very western in thought. If he lives through it, soddi will change dramatically over the next ten years.
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Well ... let's just say I won't be praying in the Great Sept of Baelor any time soon ...
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It's early yet, but it hasn't exactly seemed to dismay the financial community very much. OTOH, some stipend recipients in the Beltway Zone and somewhere in Texas may be sweating a bit...
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When your major exports are oil and terrorism sooner or later heads must roll (literally).
[Khaama] The Afghan government approved in principle the budget for the fiscal year 1397 consisting 357.6 billion Afghanis for the development and ordinary budgets.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the budget was approved during a meeting of the cabinet of ministers chaired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Briefing the meeting, the minister of finance Eklil Hakimi, said the budget draft for the 1397 fiscal year include 357,691,493,000 for the development and ordinary expenditures of the government for the upcoming fiscal year.
He said the budget include 267,076,932,000 for ordinary budget and 906,145,610,000 for the development budget with 35,653,209,000 being arbitrary development budget while 54,961,352,000 being the non-arbitrary development budget for the year.
Hakimi further added that the budget will comprise around 20.3 billion Afghanis from the domestic income while another 20.7 billion Afghanis will come from the foreig sources.
The Office of the President said the meeting participants had an in-depth discussio regardin the budget and approved in principle.
The statement by ARG Palace further added that the ministry of finance was given necessary instructions regarding the budget for the 1397 by bringing some amendments and represent it to the next meeting of the cabinet.
[Khaama] Pakistain has returned nine helicopters provided by the United States to monitor the Durand Line, it has been reported.
According to the local media reports, the helicopters were given to Pakistain in 2002 and were used by the ministry of interior of Pakistain.
Pak officials have told local media outlets that the helicopters were also used during the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... operation and different anti-narcotics operations.
According to the officials, the helicopters also assisted the ministry in counter-terrorism operations and their return will affect all operations, including the monitoring of the Pakistain-Afghanistan border.
The main reason behind the return of the helicopters has not been announced by the Pak officials so far which comes as the relations between Islamabad and Washington strained due to the presence of the terror groups and their safe havens in the country.
The relations between the two countries is at an all time low since the US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced his administration’s strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia.
While announcing the US strategy late in August, the US President Donald Trump strongly criticized Pakistain regarding the terror sanctuaries, saying "For its part, Pakistain often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror. The threat is worse because Pakistain and India are two nuclear-armed states whose tense relations threaten to spiral into conflict. And that could happen."
[Khaama] Several Talibs were killed or maimed in the latest counter-terrorism operations of the Afghan national defense and security forces in the northern parts of the country.
According to the Afghan military, the operations were conducted in the past 24 hours in the vicinity of Kunduz and Faryab provinces.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in the North said at least two senior commanders of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group were among those killed.
A statement by Shaheen Corps said at least six Taliban murderous Moslems were killed during the operations in Esa Khel village located in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz.
The statement further added that two senior commanders of the group identified as Mullah Tufan and Qari Zahir were among those killed.
At least thirteen Taliban murderous Moslems were also maimed during the operations and ten different types of landmines were confiscated during the operations, Shaheen Corps added.
In the meantime, Shaheen Corps of the Afghan army said at least eight Taliban murderous Moslems were killed and twelve others were maimed during the Arclight airstrikes in northern Faryab province.
The Arclight airstrikes were conduted in Sherin Islam Qalam, Zaqoom, and Tapa-e-Qeshlaq vilages located in Khwajah Sabs Posh and Sherin Tagab districts, the statement said.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including the Taliban murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the report so far.
[Khaama] The Afghan cops conducted and air and artillery strikes on Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... positions in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, leaving several holy warriors dead.
The provincial government media office in a statement said at least eleven Taliban hard boyz were killed during the operations.
The statement further added that the artillery units of the Afghan army pounded the hideouts of the Taliban group in Greshk district of Helmand, leaving at least six hard boyz dead.
At least two cycle of violences belonging to the Taliban hard boyz were also confiscated by the security forces during the operation, the statement said.
In the meantime, the Afghan Air Force conducted Arclight airstrikes in Spin Jumat, Bashran of Lashkargah, and Chah Engineer area of Nad-e-Ali, leaving at least five holy warriors dead.
According to the provincial government, a vehicle and cycle of violence along with some light and heavy weaponry of the Taliban hard boyz were also destroyed during the operations.
The Afghan cops in separate operations confiscated at least 95 different types of improvised bombs from different parts of the province, the provincial government added.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including the Taliban hard boyz have not commented regarding the report so far.
[Khaama] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz have brutally murdered an elderly woman on charges of cooperating with the government and security institutions in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the elderly woman who was around 85-year-old, was initially kidnapped and was later murdered in a brutal way in Garamsir district.
The provincial governor’s front man Omar Zwak confirmed the incident and said the woman was murdered by the Taliban bully boyz few days ago.
He told BBC’s Afghanistan service that the forces of Evil initially chopped off the limbs of the elderly woman before murdering her on charges of cooperating and supporting the government.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including the Taliban bully boyz have not commented regarding the report so far.
Helmand remains one of the most volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 where terrorist related incidents are frequently reported from its various districts.
The execution of civilians by the Taliban bully boyz on charges of working or cooperating with the government is not a rare incident.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... this is the first time the forces of Evil of the group have killed an elderly woman on charges of supporting the government.
[Khaama] The Afghan Air Force carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes on the hideouts of the foreign forces of Evil in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said Saturday.
The Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Marwara district of Kunar, leaving at least three foreign gunnies dead.
The 201 Silab Corps officials in the East said the Afghan Air Force A-29 fighter planes pounded the hideouts of the forces of Evil and as a result at least one hideout and a heavy machine gun of the forces of Evil were also destroyed.
The anti-government armed turban groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
Kunar, located in eastern parts of Afghanistan, borders the tribal regions of Pakistain and is home to several terrorist groups.
The Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... gunnies as well as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group’s offshoot, ISIS Khorasan, operate in some of the restive districts of the province.
At least twelve people were killed or maimed during a clash between the Afghan cops and the ISIS Lions of Islam in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in the East said late last month that the incident took place late on Saturday night in the vicinity of Kunar Bain area.
A statement by the Silab Corps said at least eight ISIS Lions of Islam were killed and four others were maimed during the festivities.
The statement further added that two weapons, eight magazines of ammunition, 2 rocket launcher missiles, 1 communication device set, and 3 mobile phones together with the dead bodies of the two Lions of Islam were left in the area in the aftermath of the festivities.
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"...the Pashtun equivalent of men..."
Good one TW. Sums up my limited experience with some of the Pashtun.
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I don't get credit fort that bit of cleverness, Woodrow dear, much as I would like to. That comes from Fred's automatic translation engine, so originally it was one of his observations. I just highlighted the text, as usual, and clicked on Translate. Those inlines have the typewriter font and Post-It Note yellow highlight -- my comments are highlighted in periwinkle.
[Dawn] The state-run human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... commission in India-held Kashmire, on information from a human rights group, has told the government to investigate at least 2,080 unmarked mass graves discovered in border areas of the restive region, reported Al Jazeera on Friday.
According to the Doha-based media network, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a human rights group in Kashmire, told the commission there were 3,844 unmarked graves ‐ 2,717 in Poonch and 1,127 in Rajouri ‐ along the contentious Line of Control (LoC) dividing the disputed territory between Pakistain and India.
The commission acknowledged the presence of the 2,080 unmarked graves, Al Jazeera reported, asking the government for a comprehensive investigation to be completed in six months, including DNA tests of the bodies to compare it with family members of the disappeared.
According to APDP, 8,000 people have disappeared in the decades-old conflict between the two neighbouring countries. The association accused government forces of staging shootouts to cover up killings, said the Al Jazeera report.
"We have been demanding that there be an independent commission to do a credible probe on the mass graves," Khurram Parvez from APDP told Al Jazeera. "We have done a study of 53 cases for a report where the bodies were exhumed from unknown graves. It was found that 49 bodies in the graves were of civilians and one was a local bad boy, three bodies were unknown. These people were dubbed as foreign Lions of Islam by the government."
In 2011, the Jammu Kashmire State Human Rights Commission had confirmed that thousands of bullet-riddled bodies had been dumped in unmarked graves ‐ many of them mass graves ‐ in India-held Kashmire.
The findings had revealed that of the more than 2,000 bodies found, at least 574 were local residents.
Al Jazeera's report, quoting the APDP, said that since 2011, the Indian government has failed to comply with directions from the human rights commission and instead, continues to avoid an investigation on the pretext it would lead to a "law and order problem" in Kashmire.
Similarly in 2008, human rights group International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice had found unmarked graves containing several thousand bodies during a three-year survey of dozens of villages in India-held Kashmire. At the time, the group had calculated that 8,000 people had gone missing in the 20-year separatist insurgency.
[Dawn] INSTEAD of fading away into oblivion, the Council of Islamic Ideology has been restored to full strength after remaining non-functional for almost a year following the retirement of its former chairman Maulana Sheerani. On Friday, it acquired 11 new members, of whom Dr Qibla Ayaz was appointed chairman. The CCI is a statutory body with a minimum of eight and maximum of 20 members, including one woman, whose function is to supposedly ’advise’ parliament on whether laws are in consonance with Islamic injunctions. That in itself makes it a superfluous body, given that the legislature is bound by the Constitution to make laws that are not contrary to the Koran and Sunnah. Moreover, objections to legislation on religious grounds can be referred to the judiciary as a check and balance.
A body like the CII has no place in a democracy because it serves as a platform for unelected regressive elements to influence decisions made by parliament. Misinformation and arguments based on flawed reasoning, if cloaked in the garb of religion, can hobble attempts at progressive legislation. Right-wing parties in parliament have time and again used statements by the CII to derail, delay or, at the very least, water down laws meant to empower and protect women. During Maulana Sheerani’s years as chairman, the CII was inordinately fixated on issues pertaining to women and marriage ‐ and in the process spurned both logic and modern technology. To cite but two pronouncements, the body denounced a minimum age for marriage as un-Islamic and rejected the use of DNA as primary evidence in rape cases. Unfortunately, politicians themselves, even those from ostensibly progressive parties, have by their actions magnified the role of the CII in lawmaking by regularly seeking its input on social issues, especially in the context of women’s rights. One may well ask why they do not do so in other areas such as the economy, given that an understanding of the subject is among the criteria for nomination to the CII.
[Libya Observer] Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Revolutionaries Brigade (TRB) has announced that it will take part in a military operation alongside western military zone and Zintan military council to help "cleanse" Jafara and Aziziya districts in Wershiffana - southwestern Tripoli - from "outlaws and gangs."
In a statement issued Saturday on Facebook, the TRB said Jafara and Wershiffana are kidnapped by a group of criminals, adding that the residents in those areas know the gathering places and camps of the criminals and outlaws, which are kilometers away from the houses of the Wershiffana High Council of Tribes' officials.
"If the brigades in Jafara have such a power that can thwart any attacks coming from outside Wershiffana, why then they did not use it to secure the district and the residents from the outlaws and gangs." The statement reads.
"We wonder why those forces did not use their power to secure banks, projects, stolen factories, residents' properties and why they did not arm - since they have so many weapons - the police and army that have about 3000 personnel each." The statement goes on.
It also explained that Wershiffana district is kidnapped by some of its residents, who are hosting criminals wrecking havoc in the area such as those "advocates of popular front for liberating Libya" and those who dream of the return of dictatorship.
"We are going to join the operation in Wershiffana to prevail security so that police and other security apparatuses return to work inside the district, open banks and protect the roads between Tripoli and western mountain as well as al-Zawiya from bandidos. Securing Tripoli needs the security of the areas around it and thus thwart any threats posed to the capital." TRB concluded.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The troops of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... have carried out a security operation in the divided city of Galkayo on Saturday following insecurity acts.
The sweep targeted Israc and Garsoor villages located in the Puntland-administered Galkayo to thwart any pending attacks from Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Lion of Islams.
Speaking to the news hounds, Abdullahi Yusuf "Dowlad" said troops were put on high alert following reports of a security threat by the Lion of Islam group in the region.
The movement of the regional forces came after an attack on a security checkpoint in the port city of Bosaso, the regional capital of Bari province.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Four former students of Tariq Ramadan -three of whom have claimed to have slept with him when he was married - have come forward with new information regarding the renowned Islamist intellectual figure.
The details were included within a new shocking article which has been recently published about the period of time when Tariq Ramadan was teaching in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... during his youth.
Familiar face
Apparently and according to witnesses, Tariq Ramadan has been abusing women for a long time, way before the recent rape cases in La Belle France and before he became the famous controversial Islamologist.
The 55-year-old Ramadan has taught for several years in his hometown Geneva, where he had nothing but good memories.
But the newspaper The Tribune de Genève has now discovered that he unsuccessfully tried to seduce one of his 14-year-old students.
The investigation states that he even got his way with three others, aged between 15 and 18 years.
These incidents go back to the 80s and 90s, when the professor of French and Philosophy worked at the Cycle of Coudriers and then at the College de Saussure, according to the newspaper.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... Bin Abdul Aziz has sacked prince Moteib Bin Abdullah, Minister of the National Guard from his post on Saturday through a Royal order.
Prince Khalid bin Ayyaf has been appointed as minister for the National Guard.
A second Royal Order was issued to relieve Minister of Economy and Planning, Adel al-Faqieh, from his duties, and the appointment of Mohammed Al Tuwaijri as Minister of Economy and Planning.
Also King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in his capacity as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of all Armed Forces (Military Units), issued sacking and replacement orders:
First: Tenure of Admiral Abdullah bin Sultan bin Mohammed al-Sultan, the Commander of the Naval Forces, is to be terminated and be retired.
Second: Vice Admiral Fahd bin Abdullah al-Ghifaili is to be promoted to the rank of admiral and be appointed as Commander of the Naval Forces.
[AlArabiya] Eleven princes, four sitting ministers and ’tens’ of former ministers have been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on orders from the new anti-corruption committee headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday evening according to sources.
The committee announced that it is reopening the file of the 2009 Jeddah floods and investigating the Corona virus issue also known as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus.
According to a Royal Decree issued by King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... on Saturday the anti-corruption committee is chaired by the Crown Prince with the membership of: Chairman of the Monitoring and Investigation Commission, Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Authority, Chief of the General Audit Bureau, Attorney General and Head of State Security.
The committee has the right to investigate, arrest, ban from travel, freeze accounts and portfolios, track funds and assets of individuals involved in corruption practices.
King Salman said in his decree that in view of what was noticed of exploitation by some to, illicitly accrue money the committee was formed to eliminate the issue.
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"Saudi princes and former ministers detained in corruption probe".
And or cutting off the Islamic fundamentalist funding? The same fundamentalists that want to overthrow Saud's royal families and replace with spicy Wasabi Imans. An ongoing battle for decades. And backed by the Bin Laden supporters.
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It is more, oh so much more than that, Wood.
But yes, that was the LAW given to house of Saud years and years ago in order so they may live.
This is but the tip of the ice3burg on terrors Wahabbist in government positions. Terror financiers, those that impart law they do not evven believe in on their underlings.
And so much more.
It is a start, a tiny start in a murky underworld of GODLESS degeneracy.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Arab coalition fighters launched a series of air strikes on Saturday targeting the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia and forces loyal to ousted former President-for-Life former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... camps in southern Sanaa.
Local residents reported that violent raids targeted a camp in Atan where rocket launchers are based. A munitions depot and weapons stores were also struck in the Jabal Naqm district and the Nahdeen camp.
Intense raids and strikes continued in the skies of the capital Sana'a at the time of writing this article.
Sources confirmed that one of the raids targeted the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense under the control of the Houthi militias in central Sanaa.
The Houthi militia fired a ballistic missile targeting Riyadh on Saturday evening. The missile was intercepted by Saudi air defenses northeast of Riyadh near King Khalid International Airport and was destroyed without any collateral damage.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... ’s air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile from 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... in northeastern Riyadh on Saturday night.
The missile did not cause any major damage.
The front man for the coalition forces in support of legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki al-Maliki said that at 8:07 pm a rocket was fired from within the territory of Yemen towards the territory of the Kingdom.
Several sections of the site spotted rocket-propelled grenade hits at the exit 5 north of the city of Riyadh near the Tala Mall complex and the Ben Khaldoun Boys School.
The police and civil defense imposed a security cordon around the location of the falling fragments of the interceptor missile. Shrapnel was seen in the parking lot.
Colonel al-Maliki said that the rocket was aimed at the capital of Riyadh and was launched indiscriminately and absurdly to target the civilian and populated areas, where it was intercepted and the fragments fell in an uninhabited area east of King Khalid International Airport.
There were no injuries thankfully to anyone, he said.
Maliki said that this hostile and indiscriminate action by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia proves the involvement of one of the countries of the region sponsoring terrorism, supporting the Houthi militia with qualitative capabilities in clear and explicit challenge to violate the UN resolution (2216) in order to threaten the security of Saudi Arabia, as well as regional and international security, and towards populated cities and villages, contrary to international law.
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Is this the second one in a few days?
Starting to get personal for the Saudies.
17 in one night, Tuesday early morning in Monrovia.
[MonroviaNow] Authorities are investigating whether a string of 46 smash-and-grab burglaries across Southern California are linked, including 16 that took place at small businesses in the San Gabriel Valley early Thursday morning.
Six such incidents were reported overnight across San Dimas, another six in Azusa, four in Monrovia and one in Glendora, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and local police. Two burglaries are Duarte were no longer believed to be linked, authorities later said.
Most the locations were small restaurants and food spots, though two liquor stores and a beauty supply shop were also hit.
Stores in Azusa seemed to be struck first, with a robbery first being reported at 1:25 a.m. and a front window or door broken at each location, said Cpl. Cherie Miller with the Azusa Police Department.
Investigators had not yet determined what time other burglaries occurred, but Miller said Louie's Liquor on Foothill Boulevard, Tasty BBQ Kitchen and Super Liquor on Citrus Avenue and Pieology and Chinese Taste on Alosta Avenue were all targeted.
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Our local area is facing a lot of off hour break ins of hair salons, which makes zero sense, as explained by my wifes hair cutter, since the hair cutters are mostly independent contractors who pocket whatever cash they have accumulated at the end of every shift, while the credit card transactions are direct deposited to their operating accounts.
Whatever is broken to gain entrance is usually more costly to replace than anything that is taken.
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The San Gabriel Vally - all the crime, crowding and smog of Los Angeles with none of the glamour.
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Our local area is facing a lot of off hour break ins of hair salons, which makes zero sense,
Curious. Maybe something other than money was the point. What would be in a hair salon you couldn't get elsewhere? Concentrated hydrogen peroxide comes to mind. A common ingredient in unstable, homemade explosives.
The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis made a Washington Post article playing up the NRA’s donations to members of Congress look pretty silly with one simple tweet in early October.
The Post’s story detailed where roughly $3.6 million in NRA political donations have gone in the past few decades. However, Davis pointed out that Planned Parenthood’s political donations from last year alone absolutely dwarf that number.
“Reporter uses basic division on above tweet and you won’t believe what happens next,” Twitchy posted on Tuesday, calling out the article for being a bit overwrought.
“Since 1998, the NRA has donated $3,555,194 to current members of Congress,” The Post contributor Kyle Griffin tweeted, with a link to the story. “Find out here who has received donations.”
Davis replied: “A whopping $190,000/year spread out across 400+ races, huh? Planned Parenthood spent $38 million just last year.”
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The NRA could give considerably more to political causes if a large portion of it's budget (like Planned Parenthood) were FEDERALLY FUNDED.
Planned Parenthood is essentially a "medical benefits" money laundering shell game for the democratic party.
The highly successful Planned Parenthood services and entitlement scheme became the prototype for Obamacare. Efforts to cut Federal Funding to both have been met with strong opposition from the left, and for good reason.
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So your telling me that an org that takes millions of tax dollars from the US, used that money to try and swing an election... Sounds like money laundering to me...
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..not to mention any basis for 'non-profit' tax exemption.
[Ynet] Denying allegations made by pro-Syrian regime figures, IDF says it was not involved in rebel attack on Druze village of Hader; Syrian rebel forces habitually, intentionally operate near border with Israel; IDF possesses several plans to counteract possible Hader takeover, including cross-border ground operation.
In light of the Syrian accusations levied against the IDF for supposedly helping rebel forces carry out a suicide kaboom in the Syrian Druze village of Hader Friday, the army published an extraordinary announcement saying it was "Ready and willing to assist the people of the village and would prevent Hader from being harmed or occupied out of a sense of commitment to the Druze people."
National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat made the same point to the Israeli Druze community's spiritual leader Mowafaq Tarif, telling him Israel will not allow terrorist elements to overtake Hader.
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[Guardian] The Sydney teen was trying to travel to Syria and has provided details of other Australian fighters, Lebanese officials say
A Sydney teenager, suspected of trying to travel to Syria to fight for 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.... , has been nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Leb and has provided details of other Australians linked to the murderous Moslems, local officials say.
The Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement it had arrested a Lebanese-Australian man, who had lived in Sydney for several years "and embraced holy warrior ideology".
It said the man, born in 1999, had become radicalised by watching and reading online material from the terror group and arrived in Leb on 20 August.
"After his arrival in Leb he continued with members of ’Daash’ in Syria via the internet," the ISF statement said.
It said the teenager was detained two days before he was due to depart for Syria and had given up information on other Australian fighters, and supporters and financiers of the murderous Moslem group.
The ISF claimed the Australian man was linked to an Isis co-ordinator in a neighbouring country.
The teenager will face a local court at a future date, the statement said.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it was providing consular assistance to an Australian man detained in Leb, but would not provide further comment.
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[AnNahar] One Ottoman Turkish police officer was killed and nine others were maimed on Friday in a raid to capture a suspected Kurdish bully boy in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the governor's office said.
The officers launched the operation to arrest a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the district of Kayapinar west of Diyarbakir city centre, it said in a statement.
When they entered the building, festivities broke out during which a hand grenade exploded and 10 officers were maimed. One later died after being taken to hospital.
Local resident Zahide Kilinc said she woke up to the sounds of gunfire around 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and saw officers open fire on a flat nearby.
"Of course we were scared, the children were scared. It was like there was an attack on our home and not the opposite flat," she told AFP.
The governor's office said a member of the PKK was also killed during the festivities.
Six soldiers and two military security guards were killed on Thursday in festivities with the PKK in the province of Hakkari which borders Iraq.
The interior ministry said on Thursday its security forces killed 46 members of the "separatist terror organization" -- Turkey's official term for the PKK -- in Sirnak and Hakkari in the southeast and Tunceli in the east, state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu said.
It was not possible to independently verify the toll.
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Rif Dimashq (Syria News) Informed sources revealed that the Syrian regime forces and allied militias imposed a siege on areas and recaptured other areas from the rebels, in western Ghouta, in Rif Dimashq Province, Qasioun News reported.
The sources informed that the army forces managed to recapture the areas of Dalafa, Qors al-Naql Hill and al-Harra Hill, located in northern Hodar town, in Western Ghouta, in Rif Dimashq, after violent battles between with the Syrian rebels, amid an artillery shelling carried out by the Syrian regime forces and Israeli occupation forces.
Furthermore, the Syrian regime accused the Syrian opposition of cooperating with the Israeli occupation forces, while the Israeli occupation spokesman, Avighay Adaraee, said that they are not joining any side in the conflict taking place in Syria.
It is noteworthy that Syrian opposition forces managed to break the siege imposed by the Syrian regime on the villages and towns of Western Ghouta area, in Rif Dimashq Province, following an extensive offensive.
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A Bowling Green man was arrested Friday and charged with fourth-degree assault after an incident at the Bowling Green home of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul.
Rene Boucher, 59, is in the Warren County Regional Jail in lieu of a $5,000 bond, according to online jail records available Saturday afternoon.
Paul suffered minor injuries, according to a news release from Kentucky State Police Post 3 in Bowling Green.
Paul told police the suspect tackled him from behind & forced him to the ground. Sen. Paul is also a currently licensed MD in Kentucky. The suspect, Rene A. Boucher, D.O. is listed as an "inactive physician", "retired" with KY license having expired 2/28/2015. Other sources indicate Boucher's specialty had been anesthesiologist / pain management.
Kentucky State Board of Election voting records list Boucher as a registered Democrat. A person with the same name also works as an anesthesiologist in Bowling Green.
A Facebook account that appears to be maintained by Boucher contains numerous anti-Donald Trump postings.
[DW] Another German national who had been held in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for "political reasons" has been released from jail, the German Foreign Ministry said. Nine German citizens still remain behind bars in Turkey amid diplomatic tensions.
The German Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that authorities in Turkey released another German national from jail.
Spokesman Rainer Breul said that the person had been held for "political reasons" and that he or she is not permitted to leave Turkey at this time.
Another one merely out on bail rather than imprisoned for the duration of the trial.
The freed detainee asked authorities not to release his or her identity, but the foreign ministry front man said that he or she had been released on October 22.
Breul noted that nine other German citizens are still in jug in Turkey. The only detainees who have been named are Die Welt newspaper correspondent Deniz Yucel and journalist Mesale Tolu.
Last week, Turkey released human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist Peter Steudtner and seven other activists pending a verdict in their trial for allegedly supporting a terrorist organization. Steudtner has since returned to Germany.
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One soldier was killed and at least four wounded in an attack on an army post on the road between Brak Al-Shatti and Jufra last night. Some reports say two died members of 12th Brigade and the Central Region Deterrence Force died and six wounded.
Other members of the brigade counter-attacked and it is believed that there were casualties among the attackers but numbers are unknown. It is also not known who they were. It is thought, however, that they were not members of the so-called Islamic State but rather fuel and people smugglers whose activities have been curtailed by the brigade and the Deterrence Force.
Both of the latter are led by Major-General Mohamed Ben Nayel.
Last May, 141 people, 86 of them members of the 12th Brigade, died when militants attacked the airbase at Brak Al-Shatti. The Benghazi Defence Brigades, the 13th Mechanised Battalion (formerly the Third Force) and men under southern Islamist commander Ahmed Abduljalil Al-Hasnawi have been held responsible although the 13th Battalion has denied any involvement.
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With 2 from Vox, now 8 members of leftist elite media are fingered for sexual advances
Vox’s unnamed employee and Lockhart Steel, along with NBC’s Mark Halperin, NPR’s Michael Oreskes, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, the New Republic’s Hamilton Fish and Leon Wieseltier, and Mother Jones’s David Corn, now add up to eight members of the elite media accused of everything from indifference to harassment to groping.
Juliana Margulies' encounter with Weinstein and Steven Segal
Actress Julianna Margulies said in an interview Friday that in two separate instances, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and actor Steven Seagal attempted to lure her to their hotel rooms early in her acting career.
The Sins of Leon Wieseltier
Leon’s modest fame was just ample enough for a lengthy story about his atrocious behavior to appear in the New York Times. His villainous behavior was suddenly all over the Internet. Leon made his apology, thereby owning up to the truth of the accusations against him, but the apology, though it seemed little more than perfunctory, did include the nice Leonic moral touch near the end, where he assured everyone that he “will not waste this reckoning.” At least he had the decency not to claim that he was going into therapy.
A Round of Applause for Kevin Spacey
It’s preposterous, and everyone knows it, when a leftist says “black people can’t be racist.” But not until the Spacey affair did we have such a persuasive case against identity politics outside of race. Put him in the chair, as far as I’m concerned. But let’s not forget what a blow this is to the identitarians of the Left.
Alex Baldwin didn't do enough to stop sexual assaults
McGowan accepted $100,000 from Weinstein in 1997 after an alleged encounter in hotel room. It was part of an agreement that the case would not be prosecuted further but was not an admission of guilt on Weinstein's part, according to The New York Times which viewed a legal document detailing the agreement.
NYPD sez it has credible rape allegations against Weinstein
The New York City Police Department now has a credible rape allegation against Hollywood filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, who may soon be arrested, The Associated Press reported Friday.
The Left Is Just Full Of Miserable People
You wouldn’t think people who’ve succeeded in life would be so miserable. Money may not buy happiness, but it shouldn’t lease misery either. Yet so many successful people are really, deep down, just miserable, sad human beings.
Film director Brett Ratner sues his accuser
Director Brett Ratner has filed a defamation lawsuit against a woman who claimed in a Facebook post that he had raped her some 12 years ago, documents filed in federal court in Hawaii showed.
Another accusation against Kevin Spacey
I was unable to process what was happening: My dad and I were pretending to be lovers in a play while Kevin Spacey was trying to seduce me and all the while in real life I was a hapless, straight virgin who just wanted to become a famous actor.
After 12 years it's a little late for his accuser to gain anything from her little Facebook post. There will be no DNA or any other evidence that could possibly be admitted in court. The statute of limitations has most likely already passed. The police say that anyone who is raped should present themselves to an emergency room before even taking a shower so that evidence can be gathered. After 12 years that's no longer an option. If I was on Rattner's jury I just might vote in his favor even if he is guilty. Not all of these victims who are coming out of the woodwork are credible.
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Five children were killed by Houthis and pro-Saleh forces on Thursday, in an attack targeting a residential neighborhood in Yemen’s Taiz governorate.
The German Press Agency (DPA) quoted medical sources as saying that five children were killed and three injured in a shelling by pro-Saleh and Houthi militias.
The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations denounced the heinous massacre, stressing in a statement that it is closely monitoring all violations committed by the militias, documenting them and unveiling them to public opinion in the Arab world and the West.
The coalition demanded that the international community, the UN and local and international organizations decry the crimes committed by the insurgents against Yemen’s children and halt the massacres taking place against unarmed civilians under the watchful eyes of everyone.
Such crimes are added to the huge violations committed by the insurgents amid the international community’s silence, knowing that these acts come in contravention of the international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the coalition said.
In Nihm, more than fifty people were killed and dozens injured while many fled to the capital after fierce clashes.
The Yemeni National Army’s progress coincided with intense military operations led by the coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen.
Battlefield sources saw that the military operations in Nihm bring hope to the YNA and citizens in Sana’a.
Military sources affirmed the national army’s ongoing offensive on insurgent locations stretching over 30 kilometers.
Back in Taiz, YNA continued its operation in the west of the city, while maintaining its presence in the locations it seized in the past three days.
The insurgents on the other hand were desperate to regain control of the locations they had lost in the western front.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Three children and three policemen were killed as explosive devices went off in northwest of Mosul, a security sources said on Saturday.
“A bomb from Islamic State’s remnants exploded in al-Qubba village, northwest of Mosul, the source from Nineveh told Alghad Press. “The blast left three children, including two siblings, killed.”
The bomb, according to the source, exploded while the children were playing in a garden.
In related news, a source told BasNews that “local police found bodies of two police conscripts, one of whom was lieutenant general, near the Federal Police headquarters in Badush town. They were shot in the head and chest.”
In the same town, a bomb exploded targeting Federal Police, which left three personnel killed and fourth wounded.
Troops conducted investigations on the bomb blast, however, refused to investigate the issue of the two bodies found in the same town.
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TEHRAN: Eight Iranian soldiers were killed in clashes with “terrorist groups” on the border with Turkey on Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported.
“This afternoon, during clashes between border guards and terrorist groups, the latter suffered several losses but unfortunately eight members of the security forces were martyred,” the agency quoted Alireza Radfar, a deputy governor in West Azerbaijan province, as saying.
Friday’s clashes took place in Chaldoran county bordering Turkey. On Oct. 26, the authorities also announced the death of four “terrorists” in the county.
Chaldoran in Iran’s far northwest is mainly populated by Kurds and Turkish-speaking minority Azeris.
Security forces in Iran often clash with separatists or terrorist groups along the country’s western borders with Turkey and Iraq.
Since a double attack in the capital Tehran in June claimed by Daesh, official media regularly report the dismantling of cells reported to be planning attacks on Iranian territory.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army commander was killed, while four others were wounded in a bomb blast in west of Anbar, a military source said.
Speaking to AlSumaria News on Saturday, the source said “a bomb from Islamic State’s war remnants exploded targeting a military vehicle boarded by Col. Maher Tawfiq, telecommunications commander of the seventh division, and some of his guards on the road between Qaim town and phosphate factory.”
“The blast left the commander killed and four personnel wounded,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced on Friday liberation of Qaim in record time.
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Sadly, it's fifty/fifty odds congregation members made the calls for the attention, so let us await the results of the police investigation.
[Ynet] Two New Jersey mosques in the city where the suspect in the New York City bike path terror attack lived are receiving threats.
The Islamic Center of Passaic County says it has gotten eight telephone threats to burn the center down and kill its occupants, prompting extra police patrols in the area.
NorthJersey.com quotes Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale as saying the Omar Mosque, where suspect Sayfullo Saipov is reported to have prayed, also received threats. Officials there did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Saipov, who lived next door to the Omar mosque, is charged with providing material support 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 and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.
His attorney has said it's important to let the judicial process play out.
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This is something i said in 2003.
At one time we were perfectly willing flatten the oldest* abbey in Europe. Along with numerous other houses of worship. Now as a nation and society we seem afraid that "they might get mad at us". I hate to be the one to break it to you but they already are mad at us.
At the time I thought maybe now the idiots will get it. There I go thinking again
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I don't have a problem with 'Muslim backlash'. In fact I think it's way overdue. I've seen a number of polls where US muslims support the implementation of Sharia law here. Not here, not ever. If this requires us to start a long, long overdue counteroffensive with leveling your houses of worship, so be it.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, four others were wounded in a bomb blast in southwestern Baghdad, a security source said on Friday.
“A bomb went off in the morning near a market in al-Radwaniya region, southwest of Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and four others wounded,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added that security troops cordoned off the blast scene. “The victim’s body was transferred to forensic medicine, while the wounded were taken to nearby hospital for treatment.”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A police conscript was killed on Saturday in an IED blast in west of Baghdad, a security source said.
“An IED, placed under a civil vehicle boarded by a police conscript, exploded while as the victim was on way to al-Zidan region in ABu Ghraib, causing his immediate death,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Security troops cordoned off the blast spot, according to the source, who preferred anonymity. “Ambulance transferred the victim to forensic medicine department.”
[FreeBeacon] Nihad Awad and CAIR have been criticized for support of Hamas.
Harvard University's largest student-run organization will bestow a prestigious award Friday night on the founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has ties to extremist and terror organizations.
The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) will be giving its Robert Coles "Call of Service" award to Nihad Awad, for his work to "defend the rights of Muslims" and for advancing "justice and mutual understanding."
An online petition with over 500 signatures outlines the concerns some have with Awad, including the fact that he and the organization he created were named as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terror-financing case. Five Holy Land Foundation executives were found guilty of funneling millions of dollars to the terror group Hamas.
Awad also explicitly stated his support for the "Hamas movement" during a 1994 speech, write the petitioners.
Prior to founding CAIR, Awad worked as the public relations director for the Islamic Association of Palestine, which the petition notes was directly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
"While CAIR presents itself as a civil rights organization defending Muslims from discrimination, Awad's organization has been criticized by many Muslims for claiming to speak in their name," write the petitioners, citing a Gallup poll that showed fewer than 15% of Muslims think of CAIR as their voice.
Zainab Al-Suwaij, cofounder and executive director of the American Islamic Congress, said she was surprised a liberal university would give such an honor to an organization with CAIR's history of ties radical Islamism.
"Especially considering the moment we are in right now, where we are all concerned with violent extremism and radicalization, in particular that of radical Islam," said Al-Suwaij.
Al-Suwaij believes her organization, founded in the wake of 9/11 following what she described as disappointment with the her community's "very defensive response," is more representative of the average American-Muslim than CAIR.
"We have no history of supporting political Islam, and we don't share CAIR's victimhood [mentality]," she said. "CAIR jumps at every occasion to play the Islamophobia card. We don't."
A CAIR spokesperson did not respond to request for comment by press time.
Previous recipients of the "Call of Service" award include former Vice President Al Gore, Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza, Civil Rights activist Bob Moses, and TransGriot founding editor Monica Roberts.
PBHA and Harvard spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
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[Express.co.UK] DONALD Trump’s government has announced around 300,000 refugees living in the country can be deported over the next few months.
The US State Department said that Central Americans and Haitians granted temporary status, some who have lived in the country for 20 years, could now be sent to their home countries.
They had originally been given Temporary Protected Status because their nations had been deemed unstable due to armed conflict and natural disasters.
But the Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ruled those conditions no longer apply.
The Department of Homeland Security now has until Monday to announce its plans for about 57,000 Hondurans and 2,500 Nicaraguans whose protections are due to expire.
A large number fled to the US illegally in 1998 as Hurricane Mitch battered Central America and have had their status renewed ever since.
Under the changes, the refugees could be arrested and sported once their protections expire.
So far, the Department of Homeland Security has refused to say what action will be taken.
A decision on the other 240,000 refugees who have the status will be made by January.
Many of them have homes, businesses and children who were born in America.
According to the paper, Donald Trump’s administration has stressed the programme was never meant to allow permanent residency in America.
An official said: "It is fair to say that this administration is interpreting the law, exactly as it is, which the previous one did not.
"It is very clear what needs to be done."
Mr Trump campaigned for the presidency last year on a promise to deport large numbers of immigrants.
Last month, people close to the administration said the White House was considering anti-immigration activists' appeals to pull back on the programme.
And this week, following the truck terror attack in New York that killed eight people, the President urged Congress to end the Diversity Immigrant Visa program under which suspect Sayfullo Saipov entered the United States in 2010.
The diversity program, signed into law in 1990 by President George Bush, was designed to provide more permanent resident visas to people from countries with low US immigration rates.
[TheBlaze] Actress Mila Kunis revealed this week that she has been donating to Planned Parenthood each month in Vice President Mike Pence’s name. She explained why she has been doing so during an appearance on "Conan."
What did Kunis say?
Kunis explained to host Conan O’Brien that the recurring donation isn’t a prank, but simply a reminder that "there are women out there in the world that may or may not agree with his platform."
"Every month to his office, he gets a little letter that says like, ’an anonymous donation has been made in your name,’" she added, noting it’s her way of peacefully protesting the Trump administration.
How did people react?
For liberal women like Kunis, being pro-abortion under the guise of supporting "women’s access to health care" is a big thing. So anytime conservatives or Republicans suggest stripping Planned Parenthood of its federal funding, they blow up.
But many pointed out that Kunis proves exactly what her peers say can’t happen: that Planned Parenthood can be completely funded without taxpayer dollars. The organization currently receives more than a half billion taxpayer funds each year.
In fact, many said Kunis made the case for exactly why Planned Parenthood should be stripped of its federal funds: Light Twitter hilarity ensues.
The economy grew by 3 percent in the third quarter -- July, August and September -- despite three Category 5 hurricanes devastating Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
Economists expected 2.5 percent growth.
President Trump delivered what he promised -- and better than expected. It's what he does. He beats expectations. That's why he is a billionaire and Jeff Flake is not.
From CNBC:
The U.S. economy unexpectedly maintained a brisk pace of growth in the third quarter as an increase in inventory investment and a smaller trade deficit offset a hurricane-related slowdown in consumer spending and a decline in construction.
Gross domestic product increased at a 3.0 percent annual rate in the July-September period after expanding at a 3.1 percent pace in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said on Friday.
The department said while it was impossible to estimate the overall impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma on third-quarter GDP, preliminary estimates showed that the back-to-back storms had caused losses of $121.0 billion in privately owned fixed assets and $10.4 billion in government-owned fixed assets.
Under Obama, these stories used the word unexpectedly because the results were worse than expected.
That's because Obama did not know what he was doing.
Trump does.
Rolling back 1,000 regulations, approving two pipelines, renegotiating trade deals, and appointing competent businessmen instead of political hacks to the Cabinet not only have a long term effect, but are goosing the economy in the present as well.
From CNBC:
Businesses accumulated inventories at a $35.8 billion pace in the third quarter in anticipation of strong demand. As a result, inventory investment contributed 0.73 percentage point to third-quarter GDP growth, after adding just over a tenth of a percentage point to growth in the prior period.
Businesses stock up when they think business will expand.
They sell off stock when they expect sales to fall.
Under Obama, most businesses sold down their inventory.
I just checked my 401-k. Ot's ip 19.49% since we elected Trump president. I am fully invested in Jack Bogle's Standard and Poor 500 index fund. It's a nice safe investment for us poor old retirees that is worth looking into at any age.
Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, who throughout last year's campaign predicted gloom, despair, agony, deep dark depression and excessive misery if we elected Trump, told the New York Times today: “There are no real headwinds to growth for the first time since the expansion began. We are at full employment and we are in full swing, let the good times roll.”
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I just checked my 401-k. Ot's ip 19.49% since we elected Trump president. I am fully invested in Jack Bogle's Standard and Poor 500 index fund. It's a nice safe investment for us poor old retirees that is worth looking into at any age.
Yes, since the Federal Government has all the bank money borrowed and your saving accounts are LOSING 3-5 percent per year.
Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian forces directed several strikes on the sites of ISIL terrorist organization in the city of al-Bukamal in the southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city.
“Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers struck ISIL targets near the town of al-Bukamal in Syria on Saturday,” the Ministry said in a statement.
Command centers and weapon depots were among the targets hit by the bombers which flew over Iran and Iraq, according to the statement.
On Friday, long-range bombers Tupolev-22 and the submarine The Kolpino have dealt a massive missile and air strike against ISIL terrorists and infrastructure near al-Bukamal. Six strategic bombers Tupolev-22 and six submarine-launched cruise missiles Kalibr hit terrorists’ fortifications, weapons and ammunition depots, manpower and command centers.
Source: SANA
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[Ynet] An IDF force fired rubber bullets at Paleostinians throwing stones at the security fence of the Karmei Tzur settlement in the West Bank on Saturday.
According to the IDF, one Paleostinian was hurt by the rubber bullets.
[Ynet] An IDF force shot up Paleostinians who were rioting at three different spots near the Gazoo border fence on Friday.
The rioters burned tires and hurled stones toward the border.
Long and detailed. Possibly not the whole truth...
[AnNahar] It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... campaign.
The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the messages bounced back untouched.
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Has anyone seen the DNC server other than Crowdstrike? Thought Crowdstrike backed off on the claim of Russian hacking into the server via Cozybear and Fancybear? Interesting article about this at Breitbart: Here. Why did the FBI never obtain the DNC. Did they already know what was on it or just didn't want to know what was on it? (Rhetorical question)? There is a much better forensic argument for Seth Rich having downloaded DNC files but then Seth is not around to ask, is he?
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To me the big issue is NOT who hacked the DNC, it is what those emails SAID that is the big news.
Total corruption and malicious game playing to guarantee Hillary got the nomination.
The media have succeeded in turning this entire issue on its head. It is all about hacking not the content of what was found. If this dirt had been found on a Republican, the hacking would have been pushed into sideshow status.
Except for polling data and finance, what should the DNC have the right to hide?
[IsraelTimes] As The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... becomes ever more Ottoman, to President Erdogan's delight.
Legislation signed by Erdogan allows 'muftis' to perform and register weddings; critics say it will also exacerbate problem with child marriages.
President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has signed into law controversial legislation to let state-approved holy mans conduct marriage ceremonies, a move critics claim risks undermining Turkey’s secular foundations.
The government-championed measure, passed by parliament last month in the face of bitter opposition, was published Friday in the Official Gazette following Erdogan’s signature Thursday, which means it has now come into force.
The law allows "muftis" to perform and register marriages, as well as state-appointed civil servants.
Muftis are holy mans employed by Turkey’s state religious affairs agency Diyanet with the task of taking care of worship across the country.
Turkey is an overwhelmingly Moslem nation but an official secular state under its constitution as set up by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Ottoman Turkish Republic, in 1923.
"The AKP has taken another step that harms the state’s secular pillars and that moves people away from secularism," Sezgin Tanrikulu, an MP with the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) which was founded by Ataturk, told AFP.
Until now, the law has stipulated that even religiously observant couples must be married by a state registrar from the local municipality, not a holy man.
Critics also claim the new law will open the way for unregistered marriages, and will breach Turkey’s civil code.
The government however says a marriage conducted by a mufti is a civil marriage, arguing that the bill is actually regulating secular life, not religious life.
But Tanrikulu said the law was "not an actual need" and expressed fear that citizens would feel under pressure to have a religious marriage as this would go down in records that could be examined by future employers.
"The seeds of such a discriminatory practice are being sown today," he said.
Tanrikulu expressed concern in particular that the change will exacerbate an already existing problem in the country with child marriage.
According to UN children’s agency UNICEF Turkey has one of the highest rates of child marriage in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... with a rate of 15 percent of women married by 18.
"The new law will open the way for child marriages," he said.
But the law has been a priority for the government and in October, Erdogan told the opposition that the law would pass "whether you like it or not."
Erdogan and the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been repeatedly accused by critics of eroding the secular pillars of modern Turkey.
Erdogan’s governments have notably eased restrictions on wearing the Islamic headscarf in education, politics, the police and most recently the army.
The government rejects the criticsm, arguing it allows freedom of worship for all Ottoman Turkish citizens and the lifting of headscarf bans merely brought Turkey into line with the rules in many Western, non-majority Moslem, nations.
Some European countries, notably Britannia, recognize religious marriages but in other EU members like La Belle France and the Netherlands couples must first marry in a civil ceremony.
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Islamic group shuts down comic convention in Tripoli FFS!
TRIPOLI: A Libyan armed group said Saturday it had closed a comic book convention in Tripoli and detained the organizers for an “attack on morals and modesty” in the strife-ridden country.
Hundreds of young Libyans on Friday flocked to the opening of the city’s second Comic Con festival, including some dressed up as their favorite heros from American comic books and Japanese manga.
Later in the day members from the Deterrence Force — a group of mainly conservative Islamists that acts as the police for the UN-backed government — entered the venue, seized computers and arrested organizers, a participant said.
The group said those responsible for the event would be handed over “to prosecutors for an attack on morals and modesty” as they looked to prey on youths in the city.
“This sort of festival imported from abroad exploits the weakness in their religious faith and their fascination with foreign cultures,” said a statement posted on Facebook.
Comic Con began in 1970 as a convention of a few dozen fans who swapped superhero magazines in the US.
The event has grown in size and spread around the world, including to Saudi Arabia.
Libya has been wracked by conflict since the fall of dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 and the country has two rival governments: a United Nations-backed one in the west and a rival administration backed by a military strongman in the east.
Hundreds of different militia groups have stepped in to impose their authority in the security vacuum.
[AlAhram] Egypt's top prosecutor Nabil Sadek has referred Moslem Brüderbund businessman Hassan Malek and his son to an emergency state security court on charges from 2015 including belonging to and financing the now-banned group, the prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
Twenty-two other co-defendants, including Abdel-Rahman Saudi, also a well-known businessman and member of the banned group, were referred to the High State Security Emergency Criminal Court on the same charges, which also include attempting to topple the regime, assaulting police and army personnel and harming the national economy.
The defendants in the case include 13 individuals who are on the lam.
The prosecution said that Brotherhood material detailing plots to harm the national economy were found at Malek's house.
Malek has been placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! since he was incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in October 2015 pending investigations into charges of collecting foreign currency from the Egyptian market and smuggling it abroad with the aim of harming the national economy.
His assets have been frozen since September 2014.
Last week, Malek completed the maximum period of two years allowed by Egyptian law for detention with trial.
Prosecutors can refer criminal cases to an emergency court in light of the current state of emergency imposed in the country.
Last month, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a decree extending the six-month-old state of emergency for another three months.
Egypt first imposed the state of emergency in April after two church bombings killed at least 45 people.
Since the 1990s, Malek has been considered one of the most prominent businessmen affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund, along with his business partner and former deputy chairman of the group Khairat El-Shater, who is currently serving jail time for various convictions.
Malek’s commercial and industrial ventures include textile manufacturing, electrical supplies and furniture.
The Moslem Brüderbund was designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in November 2013.
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[AlAhram] Afghanistan's telecoms regulator wrote to internet service providers this week ordering them to block the messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram but it was not immediately clear whether they had complied.
Use of social media and mobile instant messaging services has went kaboom! in Afghanistan over recent years. Social media users and civil rights groups reacted with outrage to initial reports of the move and the letter sent by telecoms regulator ATRA was widely shared on social media.
Some media reports, citing unidentified sources, said the move had been ordered by the National Directorate for Security to thwart the use of the encrypted messaging services by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and other holy warrior groups.
It was not immediately possible to confirm the reports.
The acting minister for telecommunications, Shahzad Aryobee, posted a message on Facebook saying that the telecoms regulator had been ordered to put a gradual block on the services to improve their functioning after complaints had been received.
"The government is committed to freedom of speech and knows that it is a basic civil right for our people," he wrote.
The letter by telecoms regulator ATRA, dated Nov. 1 and signed by an official of the regulator, directed internet companies to block Telegram and Facebook Inc's WhatsApp services "without delay" for a period of 20 days.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the service worked normally this week and still appeared to be working normally on Saturday on both state-owned operator Salaam and private service providers.
On Friday, there were reports of interruptions but it was not clear whether they were caused by a deliberate shutdown or by the unrelated issues with WhatsApp services that were experienced in several countries.
Mobile phone services have been one of the big success stories in Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted from power by a U.S.-led campaign in 2001, but there are also frequent complaints from users about quality and coverage.
WhatsApp and similar services, including Facebook Messenger and Viber, are widely used by Afghan politicians and members of the government as well as by the Taliban, which has a sophisticated social media operation of its own.
The movement's main front man, Zabihullah Mujahid, wrote to news hounds this week giving his Viber number "in case WhatsApp is not working".
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...The trouble is, this is Afghanistan. They could be trying to keep the Talibs from communicating, or they could be trying to suppress opinions they just don't fecking like, or it could be a combination of the two.
Mike
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[Ynet] With land and air defenses covered by Iron Dome and the Gazoo underground obstacle, IDF implements special precise sonar to defend against possible Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", commando incursion by sea.
The Israeli Navy is currently implementing the "Simba", a mobile sonar for precise location in shallow waters, designed to quickly and precisely identify terrorist infiltrations into Israel by sea, mainly from the Gazoo Strip.
Three and a half years since the last naval incursion into the Zikim Beach just north of the Gazoo Strip during the Operation Protective Edge, the IDF estimates that Hamas' naval commando has improved dramatically and already includes hundreds of trained fighters equipped with advanced diving systems.
In light of the proven capabilities of Iron Dome against rockets, and against the backdrop of the underground anti-tunnel obstacle and its related technologies whose effectiveness were proven this earlier week in the destruction of the terror tunnel in the southern Gazoo border, it is estimated that in the next confrontation Hamas will invest its efforts, apparently at the outset, in penetrating Israel by sea.
An underwater sensor system for initial warning of divers was deployed at the bottom of the border two years ago, but despite this, the soldiers of the 916th Ashdod navy patrol squadron were still forced to gear up for dozens of false alarms due to the sensor's imprecise identification.
The new sonar is expected to be vastly superior to the one currently in use: it is mounted on a small and fast Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, and can identify in real time, within a radius of many kilometers, who is an enemy combatant among hundreds of marine mammals, miscellaneous submerged objects and civilian divers.
"Within minutes, we will be able to identify the threat and act against it while still in the water, and eliminate it using grenades and other bombs," an navy officer told Ynet. "Its use will also prevent unnecessary harm to animals that live in water, such as sea turtles."
"This is a sensitive and precise sonar that was originally developed for sea port security," the officer noted. "We made adjustments that allow us to use it in the open sea. Currently the sonar is installed in the southern marine sector, but later on we will be able to use it at all our shores, including the Gulf of Eilat."
The officer added that the sonar could analyze and focus on even the smallest of signals, and could resolve the IDF's weak points in this area.
"The enemy is looking for weak points through which it can penetrate our territory, and the underwater route is a complex area with great potential," he said. "On the other hand, we are currently invested in bolstering our defenses on this front. There are no countries in the world that deal with this issue with the same intensity with which we are dealing."
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...IIRC - perhaps some of our 'Burgers with time in the Navy could clarify - a 'Yankee Search' (the classic 'sonar' sound from movies and TV) can and will do serious damage to a swimmer at close range. So perhaps the Israelis have adapted a sonar to do just that.
Mike
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I suspect it is some kind of computer integrated passive sonar array. Sounds propagate a long way in water.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three police personnel were killed, while three others were wounded as Islamic State launched at attack in west of Diyala, an official said.
“Militants infiltrated from Hamreen regions in Salahuddin toward Udhaim dam to attack security checkpoint and al-Safra exit using mortar missiles and other weapons,” Abdul Jabbar al-Ebeidi, head of Udhaim town, told Baghdad Today on Friday.
“The attack left three containers burnt, three persons, including police officer, killed and others wounded,” he added.
Ebeidi blamed the attack on “security vacuum in regions between Diyala and Salahuddin from the north of Udhaim.”
Earlier on the day, a security source said security troops, backed by air cover, headed to the exit after the attack to control the situation there.
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[AmericanGreatness] He broke me,” Kathy Griffin famously said of our 45th President as she gazed, narcissistically, upon her self-inflicted wounds after incomprehensibly and symbolically decapitating the man Politico once called an outsider and an outer-borough brawler.
Many Americans of the conservative persuasion have been waiting for a brawler who would fight the good fight internally and not worry about breaking things or being overly attentive to decorum.
Writing in the Kansas City Star this week, Robert Leonard, a self-described liberal political junkie from Iowa who can’t stand the sound of Donald Trump’s voice, gave the clearest evidence yet of the astounding ability of Donald J. Trump to break things that very much need breaking.
Leonard itemized the conventional wisdom about Trump and recited all of the Left’s hopes and dreams for undoing his influence. Then, the surprising conclusion of said liberal political junkie:
This is delusional.
Here in conservative rural America, Trump is ascendant.
Yes, it is delusional, Mr. Leonard, and yes he is ascendant. Not just in conservative rural America, either.
Leonard compared and contrasted Trump’s Value Voters Summit speech as he first read it (he couldn’t bear to hear it because, remember, he hates Trump’s voice) and then as he understood it on a second reading, and this is instructive. He knew of the speech, in a vague and opaque way, through the filter provided by the mainstream media. This meant the import of the thing was diminished in his mind by reinforcing his focus on perceived gaffes and the hope that the president, once again, in the judgment of the “important people” failed.
Leonard, however, was stunned by the political substance of what he read:
Looking only at the written word, and putting Trump’s arrogant off-script comments aside, it was a beautiful speech. Powerful. Inspirational. Brilliant even.
The effect of the comparing and contrasting caricatured media filter to a first and uninhibited reading and then, most importantly, to a second reading speaks volumes. As Leonard made the effort to understand Trump as he understands himself, he discovered something ”powerful,” ”inspirational,” and even “brilliant.” You won’t find those three words often used to describe anything about the current president by people like Robert Leonard, but then, most of them don’t step outside of their echo chambers long enough to hear him as their neighbors do.
Leonard itemized ten different themes of Trump in this speech. To my ears, it’s extremely easy to see the winning formula they represent, for they clearly set down lines of demarcation that have strong appeal in a primarily center-right nation:
1) We’re sustained by the power of prayer versus Democrats who want prayer out of the public sphere.
2) Mass murder event caused by an act of pure evil versus Democrats who blame guns and want to take them away.
3) Honoring first responders versus elevating thugs and viewing our protectors in blue with disdain.
4) Quoting scripture versus Democrats ridiculing those who do.
5) Stressing American unity versus Democrats dividing American society into victims and oppressors.
6) Trump saying “We love our country” versus Obama going on an international “apology tour.”
7) Protecting the unborn versus Democrats turning a blind eye to the horrors of abortion.
8) Focus on strengthening the family unit versus Democrats’ policies that pull families apart.
9) Pride in American history versus Democrats tearing down monuments.
10) Great respect for the American flag versus Democrats who take a knee. Read the rest at the link
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Rainmakers had the Democrat's Number: "Government Cheese"
Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows
Put his family on food stamps, now he's a big spender
no food on the table and the bills ain't paid
'Cause he spent it on cigarettes and P.G.A.
They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please
They're feeding our people that Government Cheese
Give a man a free lunch and he'll figure out a way
To steal more than he can eat 'cause he doesn't have to pay
Give a woman free kids and you'll find them in the dirt
Learning how to carry on the family line of work
It's the man in the White House, the man under the steeple
Passing out drugs to the American people
I don't believe in anything, nothing is free
They're feeding our people the Government Cheese
Decline and fall, fall down baby
Decline and fall, said fall way down now
Decline and fall, fall down little mama
Decline and fall, decline and fall
Give a man a free ticket on a dead end ride
And he'll climb in the back even though nobody's driving
Too ******* lazy to crawl out of the wreck
And he'll rot there while he waits for the welfare check
Going to hell in a handbag, can't you see
I ain't gonna eat no Government Cheese
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My concern is that a good candidate can be found in 2024 who is not corrupt and who is also a fighter and doesn't mind trashing PC, Washington decorum and all the other icons that need trashing. Trump was hired to break things that needed breaking.
[AnNahar] Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. on Saturday, in an unforeseen move, announced his resignation from the Lebanese government, stressing that "Iran's hands in the region will be cut off."
In a televised appearance from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Hariri said: "Wherever Iran is present it plants discord and destruction attested to by its interference in the Arab countries."
Hariri added: "Iran is driven by deep hatred on the Arab nation. Unfortunately, it has found some of our sons who are putting their hands in its and trying to seize Leb from its Arab surroundings.
"In recent years, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has used the power of its weapons to impose a fait accompli," he said, reading a speech from behind a desk.
"I would like to tell Iran and its followers that they have lost and their hands in the region will be cut off. I promised you that I will seek to unite the Lebanese, end the political division and establish the principle of self dissociation," added the Premier.
Citing Iran's "grip" on the country and threats to his life, Hariri added: "There is a state of frustration, fragmentation and divisions. We are witnessing a climate similar to the atmosphere that was felt before the liquidation of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri."
"I felt what was being covertly plotted to target my life," Hariri said.
"I announce my resignation from the post of prime minister with my certainty that the will of the Lebanese is stronger and their will be able to overcome the tutelage from inside and outside," he said in a speech broadcast from Saudi Arabia by the al-Arabiya news network.
The two-time prime minister, whose father Rafik was assassinated when he held the same position in 2005, accused Iran and Hizbullah of seeking hegemony in the region.
The 47-year-old Sunni politician's resignation comes less than a year after his government, to which Hizbullah's political wing belongs, was formed.
"Iran has a grip on the fate of the region's countries... Hizbullah is Iran's arm not just in Leb but in other Arab countries too," he said.
"In recent years, Hizbullah has used the power of its weapons to impose a fait accompli," he said, reading a speech from behind a desk.
Hizbullah is a vital ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... in the war the Syrian regime is waging 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.... group and armed opposition movements.
It enjoys broad support from Iran and is the only Lebanese party to have kept its weapons after the 1975-1990 civil war.
Its arsenal has since grown exponentially and now outstrips that of the nation's own armed forces.
It claims it is the only credible rampart against neighboring Israel and its refusal to disarm is the main political crux in Leb.
Hizbullah members have been accused over the 2005 liquidation in a massive boom-mobile blast of Rafik Hariri, the dominant figure of Leb's post-war political landscape.
Riyadh is Iran's main regional rival and the two powers' tussle for influence has played out in ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
[IsraelTimes] Saudi news station says there was an attempt to assassinate Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. as he traveled in Beirut earlier this week; Hariri resigned saying he fears for his life
An liquidation attempt on Leb’s prime minister Saad Hariri was reportedly thwarted just days before he announced his resignation during a trip to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Saturday, citing threats on his life.
The plot was reported by Saudi Arabia’s al-Arabiya news station, citing unnamed sources, and occurred "a couple of days ago." It did not say who tried to kill him.
The report gave few details except to quote a source as saying "the planners of Hariri’s liquidation attempt disrupted the watchtowers (control towers) when his convoy was passing by." It was not immediately clear what they were referring to.
The report came hours after Hariri announced he would resign in a surprise move that plunged the country into uncertainty amid heightened regional tensions.
[AnNahar] An unknown jihadist group has claimed a deadly October 20 ambush that killed at least 16 Egyptian coppers in a statement published Friday on Death Eater Islamist social media channels.
The statement purporting to be from a group called Ansar al-Islam -- or "Supporters of Islam" -- also said one of its leaders, Emad al-Din Abdel Hamid, was killed in Egyptian air strikes after the ambush.
The statement could not be independently verified.
No other group has grabbed credit for the attack on police last month that saw assailants gun down officers in a shootout between Cairo and the Bahariya oasis in the Western Desert, a rare flare-up outside Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
The military said on October 31 and November 1 that it had tracked and killed all the attackers in desert raids and liberated a police officer taken hostage during the ambush.
Egyptian police have for years been seeking a Death Eater named Emad al-Din Abdel Hamid, a former military officer turned jihadist.
He is believed to have joined a fellow officer, Hisham el-Ashmawy, in Libya following the 2013 military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Ashmawy, who split with an Egyptian jihadist group that claimed allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in 2014, is thought to be aligned with al-Qaeda.
Egypt believes the bandidosfaceless myrmidons have been plotting attacks from the jihadist stronghold of Derna in Libya.
I thought that lot were associated with ISIS in Libya and Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai in Egypt... but perhaps things are changing with the fall of the ISIS caliphate.
Since Egypt's army removed Morsi from power in 2013, bad boy groups have increased their attacks on the military and police.
Authorities are fighting against the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State group in the north of the Sinai peninsula, over 500 kilometres away from the scene of the October ambush.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Lengthy Judicial Watch Video.
Notice how the 'old saw' of... 'We had the Awan Bros. on our radar' is NOT being used. 
[Johnathan Turley] This week we have been discussing Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent speech at Northwestern University Law School detailing the claim of President Barack Obama that he has the right to kill American citizens based on his inherent authority and the ongoing war on terror. I previously wrote a blog and a column on the issue. Those pieces noted that Holder limited his remarks by referring to targeted killing "abroad." However, I noted that the Administration’s past references to this power are not so limited. Indeed, the only limits stated by the Administration have been self-imposed standards and what Holder calls "due process" ‐ expressly excluding "judicial process." Now, FBI Director Robert Mueller has entered the fray. On Wednesday Mueller was asked in a congressional hearing whether the current policy would allow the killing of citizens in the United States. Mueller said that he simply did not know whether he could order such an assassination. It was the perfect moment to capture the dangerous ambiguity introduced into our system by this claim of inherent authority. I can understand Mueller deferring to the Attorney General on the meaning of his remarks, but the question was whether Mueller understands that the same power exists within the United States. One would hope that the FBI Director would have a handle on a few details guiding his responsibilities, including whether he can kill citizens without a charge or court order.
[Wash Times] A majority of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist, communist or fascist nation rather than a capitalistic one, according to a new poll.
[Townhall] President George H.W. Bush and his son President George W. Bush are remarkably candid in their distaste for their successor President Donald. J Trump in a new book, reports the New York Times. 
[Breitbart] The inclusion of salacious gossip about Martin Luther King in the latest release of John F. Kennedy assassination documents serves as a headscratcher before it catalyzes an ah-ha moment.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
They had originally been given Temporary Protected Status because their nations had been deemed unstable due to armed conflict and natural disasters.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
