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It is an excellent plane for air to mud and can do that better than any current or future plane.
We do need a A-11 type program to replace it, but killing the A-10 and saying the F-35 can do that job is just stupidity and will get a lot of soldiers and airmen killed.
In measuring progress in the American-led air war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, numbers tell one story but results tell another.
Fighter jets, bombers, attack planes and drones are dropping an average of 2,228 bombs per month on targets ranging from training camps and machine gun positions to oil facilities and weapons shacks. The Pentagon says it doesn't do body counts, but the attacks are believed to have killed upward of 20,000 IS fighters. The U.S. price tag: $5 billion since August 2014, an average of $11.1 million each day.
The bombing has damaged or destroyed hundreds of military vehicles (including American tanks surrendered by Iraqi soldiers), thousands of buildings, hundreds of pieces of oil infrastructure and thousands of fighting positions, among other targets, according to U.S. Central Command figures.
This sounds like a pummeling designed to bury an enemy, particularly one facing the military might and technological power of the United States.
But what has been the result? In a word, stalemate, although U.S. military officials say they see the tide gradually turning in their favor.
The key word is "gradually." The administration has said from the start that dealing a lasting defeat to IS will take years, that a pell-mell military approach will not work because IS is not a conventional army. But in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, many are asking why the U.S. is not in a bigger hurry.
President Barack Obama says he sees encouraging progress. On Monday he pointed to the liberation this month of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq by Iraqi Kurdish forces, the encirclement of IS-held Ramadi and the severing of a key highway serving as a supply route for Islamic State fighters between the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and the militant's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa in Syria. A key Iraqi oil refinery also has been taken from the militants.
And yet, as the Paris attacks showed, the group is now acting on global ambitions. It has withstood the aerial pounding by U.S. and coalition warplanes, defended its core territories and apparently used its resiliency and social media savvy to replenish its ranks as quickly as they are reduced.
How has 0bean it managed this?
The answer lies partly in the gradualist U.S. military approach. Instead of bombing every target in sight and sending a U.S. ground invasion force, Obama has chosen to use air power more discriminately to chip away at the Islamic State, avoiding targets where civilians are endangered. And rather than sending U.S. ground combat troops, he is waiting for the emergence of local fighters who can do the job. The premise of this strategy, endorsed by the president's top national security advisers but doubted by many in Congress, is that although the U.S. military is capable of squashing IS, any such victory would be short-lived without local armies and governments capable of maintaining stability.
The president's new chief military adviser, Gen. Joseph Dunford, defends a U.S. approach focused heavily on avoiding killing civilians.
"We're very careful in terms of civilian casualties, and some have criticized us for that," Dunford said Tuesday. "I will not apologize for that, because we are fighting the long fight, and for us to do otherwise would be shortsighted."
In the meantime the Islamic State has leveraged Iraqi and Syrian oil resources to generate nearly $1.4 million a day through black market sales. Those funds have enabled the militants to replace damaged and destroyed equipment and weapons and to finance their recruiting efforts. Critics of the administration's approach say this is giving IS too much breathing room, enabling it to spread its influence well beyond Syria and Iraq.
In recent days the Pentagon has highlighted attacks on oil-related targets that it previously had passed up or struck too lightly. For example, on Sunday it used A-10 attack planes and AC-130 gunships to destroy 116 tanker trucks in eastern Syria as they lined up near an oil facility in the open desert. On Wednesday the military said it struck two oil and natural gas processing plants near Abu Kamal in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.
A question that has not yet been fully answered by the Pentagon is why it took so long to go after more of those oil-related targets, which are links in an oil business that Col. Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, says generates more than half of the Islamic State's revenue.
For all the attention paid to the air campaign and its shortcomings, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the key to ultimate success will be found on the ground, not in the air.
Sufficient numbers of local fighters in Iraq and Syria will have to step forward. Iraq's Sunni Arabs, for example, need to rise up and reclaim what IS has taken from them, Carter said.
"This is one of the sad realities," he said. "They're harder to find than you would like."
Carter said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the administration would be prepared to change the rules of engagement for its air campaign, if it sees fit.
"We're getting better at this every day," he said in the interview that aired on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show. Carter acknowledged that the Defense Department had "changed tactics" to focus on strikes against fuel trucks transporting oil seized by IS.
Another reality is that the Obama administration is under political attack for what critics sees as a feckless military effort.
"Thousands of airstrikes against ISIL targets have conjured the illusion of progress, but they have produced little in the way of decisive battlefield effects," Sen. John McCain said Tuesday. The Arizona Republican favors a more aggressive U.S. approach in both Iraq and Syria.
The Charlie Hebdo attackers were Muslim
The murderer of Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Muslim
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims'
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Fire up the cluster analysis algorithm, Smedley! Methinks I see a pattern.
A charitable explanation for Hollande's statement is that le France already has so many disaffected Muslims living in the housing projects around their major cities that a delta of a few hundred thousand is just noise.
Oh, brother! Must Muslims be othered?
By whom are the Muslims all mothered?
They fume, soon as fathered,
In tombs, hot and bothered.
Why doom them? They're already smothered.
[PJ Media] Just days after a string of attacks across Paris left 132 dead, the Islamic State published a new issue of its magazine featuring press photos of the carnage in France and an exclusive photo of the alleged bomb used to take down a Russian plane.
They claim that the Metrojet, which crashed over the Sinai on Halloween, was taken down by an improvised explosive device constructed in a soda can (screenshot above).
"The blessed attacks against the Russians and the French were successfully executed despite the international intelligence war against the Islamic State. Both crusader nations had undoubtedly destroyed their homes with their own hands through their hostilities towards Islam, the Muslims, and the Muslim body of the KhilÄfah," the magazine stated.
They also claimed that a plane from Russia wasn't their first target at the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, a favorite holiday spot for Brits.
"After having discovered a way to compromise the security at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport and resolving to bring down a plane belonging to a nation in the American-led Western coalition against the Islamic State, the target was changed to a Russian plane," the article continues. "A bomb was smuggled onto the airplane."
[Ynet] Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium has increased in the past three months even though Tehran is supposed to reduce it significantly under a deal with major powers, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday in a confidential report seen by Rooters.
Iran had also moved centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, at its Natanz and Fordow sites, the report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. Under the deal with major powers reached in July, Iran is supposed to reduce the number of centrifuges it has in operation.
[HNGN] France is facing a threat of chemical and biological attack on its soil by extremists linked with last week's Paris attack, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warns.
"The macabre imagination of these commanders has no limits: assault rifles, decapitation, suicide bombings, knife attacks. I say this with the utmost care - but we know there may be a risk of the possibility chemical and biological weapons," Valls said during a session of lower house of national Parliament on Thursday, according to The Local. The French lawmakers are debating on a bill extending the state of emergency for another three months.
"More than ever, it's time for Europe to adopt the text... to guarantee the traceability of movements, including within the union. It's a condition of our collective security," he stated, according AFP.
Valls remarks in Parliament follow the carnage in the French capital on Friday that killed 129 people. Shortly after the Paris terror attack, President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency in the country.
Officials at interior ministry are still working on verifying the fact that the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a police raid. Three suspected terrorists were killed and five arrested in a raid in an apartment in a suburb in Paris on Wednesday, as HNGN reported previously.
[PJ Media] In recent years, Republican presidential candidates -- notably Rick Perry and Ted Cruz -- have called for numerous government departments -- Education, Energy, Commerce, HUD and, of course, the IRS -- to be disbanded. Almost all candidates have urged that the bureaucracies be significantly curtailed. But in this orgy of cost and regulation cutting, one monumental, all-important agency (with a budget approaching $50 billion) curiously has been ignored -- the State Department.
Now I realize we can't legally fire approximately 70,000 or so people -- we would just have to allow them to retire with no replacement -- but it's worth examining exactly what the State Department does and whether it has any efficacy. The answers are not easy to ascertain. The last few years have shown us that prying information out of the State Department (Benghazi, Clinton emails, etc.) is rather like opening an oyster underwater with your tongue. Nothing doing. Their lineup of spokespeople are about as forthcoming as dead bats. The primary purpose of the organization seems to be self-preservation, but self-preservation for what?
If one were to judge by its leaders (secretaries of State), one could say the purpose of the department is to provide a safe space for self-delusion. Hillary Clinton, free from public scrutiny and under sway of her "greasy" eminence Sidney Blumenthal, was able to convince herself the solution for Libya was to rid that benighted nation of strongman Muammar Gaddafi, although Gaddafi was, at that point, the only Arab potentate to make and live by a denuclearization agreement with the U.S. We all know how that turned out.
And then there's John Kerry. The man who now sits bestride the State Department has possibly the most bizarre thought processes of anyone in public life -- or maybe modern life. These were on vivid display in the aftermath of last week's massacre in Paris. Our secretary of State called those ISIS terror acts "absolutely indiscriminate" as opposed to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo that were, in his words, "a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this and that."
Never mind that Kerry omitted -- accidentally or on purpose -- in his windy analysis the attacks on the Hyper Cacher market that were obviously intended to murder Jews (or, as Barack Obama called them, "folks"). What's amazing here is the absolute blindness of the secretary's calling ISIS's acts in Paris "absolutely indiscriminate." ISIS couldn't be more clear about what they do and what their intentions are (as opposed to the State Department, for example). There's nothing indiscriminate about them at all. Earth to John: Every ISIS attack is aimed at one thing and one thing only -- taking over the world for Allah. Get it? (I guess not.)
Which brings us around to the headline question -- should State be disbanded? And, yes, I know -- it can't be really, at least initially. But if a Republican comes into office, it will be among his or hers greatest enemies, an entrenched reactionary power center doing everything it can to oppose the new president's foreign policy.
Most importantly -- no matter what Marie Harf, John Kirby and the rest of those State Department nincompoops tell us -- hello, we're at war!
So here's a suggestion for the next Republican president -- take ninety percent of that $50 billion State Dept. budget and give it to the Pentagon. They'll probably waste sixty percent of that, but at least the other forty percent will be put to good use.
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Moving DoS to NYC makes too much sense, but that would remote it from it's host. It may be helpful when one thinks of DoS to automatically default to Klingon 'action arm.'
Following tragic events in Benghazi, we've not heard from him, but I would defer further questions regarding The Department of State to the Chief of Station, Tripoli, Libya.
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To be fair, a case can be made for State and the Klingons to liaise on certain things. The problem is that both Langley and the Foggy Bottom Home for the Ethically Challenged have become too cozy with the Executive branch.
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So here's a suggestion for the next Republican president -- take ninety percent of that $50 billion State Dept. budget and give it to the Pentagon. I'd add to that suggestion that the next Republican President should arrest a large number of people for hampering a Congressional investigation (same with the IRS).
If there is no penalty for illegal activity we'll see more of that activity. We don't need weaponized bureaucracies.
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The problem is that both Langley and the Foggy Bottom Home for the Ethically Challenged have become too cozy with the Executive branch.
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Indeed true! But they are the king makers, and the king is well of aware of where his power and ultimate protection comes.
[Breitbart] Newly elected House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58% is setting the stage this week to cave to President Barack Obama's efforts to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees across America, even in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
On Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. ET, the House Rules Committee will meet to prepare a bill from House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) that doesn't end up stopping Syrian refugee resettlement in America. Sources Congress-wide confirm to Breitbart News that McCaul's bill leaves the entire refugee program unchanged and doesn't affect funding for the program.
The bill number is H.R. 4038 and its title is the American SAFE Act of 2015. "SAFE" stands for "Security Against Foreign Enemies," and McCaul has billed the legislation in the headline of a House Homeland Security Committee press release as an act that would "Protect Americans from ISIS."
"America has a proud tradition of welcoming refugees into our country, and we lead the world in humanitarian assistance. However, we also must put proper measures in place to ensure our country's safety," McCaul said.
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Glenmore, you have to be Muslim. Christians need not apply.
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SAFE --- Support All Foreign Enemies
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Naive, irreligious Samaritans
Are checking their privilege and arrogance,
Preparing to swamp 'em
With taxpayer wampum --
New underserved ISIS-Americans!
Jibril Abdiselam, 24, Mohammeddeq Hassan, 27, Mahamoud Mohamed, 26, Zakaria Warsame, 25 and Said Abu were taken to Trumbull County Jail and charged with possessing criminal tools and forgery, after they were stopped on the turnpike by the Ohio Highway Patrol.
The Trumbull County Jail confirmed some of the men had to surrender their passports.
[AlAhram] A "commando" of people tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! or killed in a massive police raid in a Gay Paree apartment Wednesday were a terror unit capable of staging a fresh attack, the city prosecutor said.
"A new team of snuffies was neutralised and all indications are that given their arms, their organizational structure and their determination, the commando could have struck," said Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins.
He also said police had found a cellphone belonging to one of the gunnies and jacket wallahs who staged La Belle France's worst-ever attacks Friday, killing 129 people and injuring over 350. The phone was found in a dustbin outside the Bataclan music venue, scene of the worst violence, where 89 people were bumped off.
A text message showed one of the gunnies had sent a message saying "we're ready, let's go." The message was sent at 9:42 pm (2042 GMT), before the attack, Molins said, adding that police were investigating who the message was sent to.
[AlAhram] Leb's security forces had been monitoring communications in the area of the warehouse since last week
Lebanese security forces raided a warehouse of explosives and suicide belts belonging to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Lebanese city of Tripoli
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[AlAhram] Ten bandidossnuffies from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed in festivities with security forces in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , as well as two civilians, authorities said.
Security forces launched operations in the town of Nusaybin on the Syrian border last week, killing 10 PKK fighters, the Mardin governor's office said in a statement on Wednesday. Two non-combatants were killed and 13 injured.
The statement did not offer any details of how the casualties were caused.
A two-year ceasefire and peace talks between the Turkish state and the PKK lie in tatters after a 31-year war was reignited in July, following the ruling AK Party's loss of its majority in a June election.
Kurdish politicians accuse the AKP of fomenting the unrest to garner support in a re-run election, a charge the party denies. Fighting has gripped parts of the mainly Kurdish southeast.
The AKP regained its parliamentary majority in the Nov. 1 vote.
Authorities placed Nusaybin under a round-the-clock curfew on Nov. 13, and that remains in place as security forces continue to clear trenches and barricades from the streets, the statement said.
Separately, police in the city of Diyarbakir detained Leyla Imret, the mayor of the town of Cizre, which saw heavy fighting in September, her lawyer said. He said he did not know why she were tossed into the calaboose and that there had been no arrest warrant.
The Interior Ministry suspended Imret, elected Cizre's mayor in 2014, in September while the town was under curfew amid fighting between the PKK and police.
The Diyarbakir prosecutor's office said it had launched an investigation of Figen Yuksekdag, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, for allegedly "insulting soldiers" last week when she tried to enter Silvan, a district of the city under curfew.
[AnNahar] 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.... murderous Moslems are stiffening their defenses for a possible assault on their de facto capital of Raqa, as international Arclight airstrikes intensify on the Syrian city in retaliation for the Gay Paree attacks. IS fighters are hiding in civilian neighborhoods and preventing anyone from fleeing, former residents say.
The northern Syrian city's estimated 350,000 people are gripped by fear, rattled by powerful Russian and French Arclight airstrikes that shake the city daily. They are also worried they would be trapped with nowhere to go amid signs of a looming ground invasion by U.S.-allied Kurdish and Arab forces in Syria, according to the former residents who have fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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[AlAhram] Two youngjacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers, including one thought to be aged just 11, killed 15 people at a busy mobile phone market in Kano, northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , police said on Wednesday.
"A minibus carrying some women came to the Farm Centre GSM market and dropped off one girl aged about 11 and another aged about 18, both wore the hijab," said Kano police front man Musa Magaji Majia.
"One went inside the market, the other stayed outside then they went kaboom!, killing themselves and others nearby," he told AFP.
"The victims were taken to hospital and it was later confirmed that 15 people died, not including the suicide bombers."
Five of those who died were among 58 people taken for treatment. Most of the remaining 53 have been treated and released, said Majia.
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... has previously used maidens of tender years as human bombs in its six-year insurgency to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.
In July 2014, Kano was hit four times in the space of a week by a spate of youngexploding trollop female suicide bombers wearing the head and shoulder covering used by many Muslim women in the region.
Police in Kano, northern Nigeria's commercial hub, have blocked entries and exits to the city as part of a manhunt for the VW Sharan minibus that dropped the two girls at the market, Majia said.
It was said to have four other women in it.
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[Ynet] The US-led coalition fighting 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.... conducted 16 air strikes in Iraq and 13 in Syria on Tuesday, the US military said.
The Combined Joint Task Force said the Syria strikes hit near Abu Kamal, Hasaka, al-Hawl and included four strikes near Raqqa, where they destroyed three murderous Moslem headquarters and a bivouac. The coalition has targeted the Islamic State stronghold with intensified attacks since the deadly bombings in Gay Paree last week.
The air strikes in Iraq were concentrated around Kisik, Ramadi and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the task force said in a statement on Wednesday. The others hit near Sinjar and Sultan Abdallah.
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of his predecessor's security adviser, for allegedly stealing some $2bn (£1.3bn).
Sambo Dasuki is accused of awarding phantom contracts to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and ammunition. The equipment was meant for the fight against Boko Haram Islamist militants. He denies the allegations.
Mr Dasuki reacted to the order by saying he had never been invited to appear before the weapon procurement investigative panel, which made the allegations. He was already under house arrest as part of an ongoing trial for allegedly possessing illegal firearms.
The court for that trial had ordered for his passport to be released for him to be able to travel to the UK for treatment for suspected prostate cancer. It was expected that the trial would continue on his return. But the government refused to let him leave the country.
Before he got into power in May, Mr Buhari vowed to investigate corruption in the previous government, in which Mr Dasuki served. A spokesman for Mr Buhari said the corruption resulted in the needless deaths of thousands of Nigerians.
The BBC's Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi says soldiers have reported they are better equipped since President Buhari came into office, but the previous president's supporters say this is because those weapons were ordered while Goodluck Jonathan was in power.
Turkish official sources yesterday confirmed that the Turkish army and international coalition forces consider that the military operation that ISIS is preparing for aims to invade areas that the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Turkmen Army opposition groups are active in. The sources mentioned to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that Ankara has concrete evidence and videos of the mobilisation operations carried out by the extremist organisations, indicating that Turkey has prepared essential plans to address the matter and that its response will be violent and unprecedented.
Turkish and American statements reported the presence of a joint movement for military action near the Syrian border which aims to close the border to ISIS, a matter which opens the doors to many possibilities including the existence of an organisation which uses the Jarabulus area bordering Turkey as a strategic centre to smuggle fighters and other supplies.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry made a statement yesterday which reinforced the Turkish-American initiative in the areas with borders when he said in an interview with “CNN”, an American news network, that “75% of all borders in the north of Syria have been closed, and we will begin an operation with the Turks to close the remaining area which has a length of 98 kilometres”.
On his part, the President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Khaled Khoja said in an interview with “Asharq Al-Awsat” that the opposition will not depart from the “Geneva 1” resolutions and that it will not accept deals being prepared at its expense. He said that he has obtained assurances from the US Secretary of State John Kerry on this matter during the last telephone call between them. Khoja added that the Russians and the regime have yet to make any progress on the ground despite the Free Army and opposition’s lack of power. Khoja also stated that the Syrian opposition may meet in the Saudi capital during the next two months to determine its negotiating delegation.
A hunt is apparently on for gunmen who last night beat up deputy foreign minister Hassan Elsaghir in his Beida office.
The government has condemned the attack, in which some some of Elsaghir’s staff and security detail were also reportedly injured. It described it as a “barbaric and cowardly assault”.
Details are still unclear but that several armed men burst into the foreign ministry yesterday evening. Some sources have suggested that the attackers were employees angry at the cutback in foreign diplomatic staff and the loss of opportunities to serve abroad.
Beida has seen little lawlessness since the government relocated there from Tripoli. However, Elsaghir was also involved in one of the earlier outbreaks. In January, he was briefly kidnapped from his hotel room in an incident that was linked to his refusal to issue diplomatic passports to individuals not entitled to them.
At the time, the government promised an investigation. However no arrests were made in connection with his abduction.
[Manila Bulletin] Two members of the communist New People's Army were reportedly killed while an Army soldier was injured in a series of gun battles on Sunday at a hinterland area in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte. An initial report said the slain militants were members of Front Committee 16-A and Front Committee 21-A, both of the CPP/NPA Northeastern Mindanao Regional Committee.
The initial engagement occurred at 6:40 a.m. on Sunday where an Army soldier was injured after an almost 30-minute gun battle. The next fierce firefight took place at 8:30 a.m. where the two militants were killed while an undetermined number of other insurgents were injured. About two hours later, elements of the same battalion were involved in a clash nearby.
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday killed a man and a woman in Kabul in two separate shooting incidents, police confirmed.
In the first incident, in Karte-Naw, two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a 62-year-old woman, whose sister was killed in a similar incident in the same area last year.
Jamila Halif was a teacher at a kindergarten and was killed outside the school. However, the motive is not yet clear, said police.
Her family has condemned the incident and accused the government of negligence over the sister's death last year, as they say the perpetrators of that shooting were never brought to justice.
The deceased's brother, Rohullah Halif, said: "I want my sister's killers to be identified otherwise I promise to set myself alight in front of everyone."
An eyewitness said there had been the sound of gunshots. "When I went to look I saw the dead woman lying there."
Kabul police said they are investigating the matter and are trying to find out what the motive was.
Abdul Rahman Rahimi said: "So far what we can say is our investigations are underway but we assure you we will find these criminals and bring them to justice."
This incident happened just hours before the second incident which saw a man being gunned down in Khair Khana area in Kabul.
Unknown gunmen allegedly opened fired on Shah Mohammad near the Sayed Al-Nasiri High School.
The gunmen fled the scene after killing Mohammad.
His family members have also criticized government for not ensuring the safety of its citizens.
Rough justice
MANBIJ – A Syrian young man killed a judge from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) along with two of his escorts in the city of Manbij in Aleppo province, north Syria, local sources reported on Wednesday.
After killing the ISIS judge in Manbij, the man has committed suicide by shooting himself.
“The young man has shot dead a Tunisian national, who served as a judge at the ISIS-linked Sharia Court in Manbij,” an eyewitness told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
The incident took place on Tuesday, after the Sharia Court beheaded several family members of the Syrian young man.
“The same judge had order the beheading of at least three family members of the man, including his brother,” the source reported. “He took revenge and killed himself afterwards to avoid falling in the hands of Daesh (ISIS).”
In the meantime, dozens of people took to the street in Manbij to protest against ISIS atrocities. However, the group opened fire on the protesters, killing at least two and wounding several others. The rest of the protesters were arrested, activists told ARA News in Manbij.
This is the third protest organized by the people of Manbij in two months, calling for the departure of the terror group from their city and denouncing its violations against civilians. The terror group has captured the city of Manbij more than a year and a half ago, after battles with the Syrian opposition forces.
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It is allah's will.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province announced on Wednesday, that 25 ISIS elements including a European explosives expert had been killed in an airstrike by the international coalition in central Mosul.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com: “the international coalition aircraft bombed, today, an ISIS gathering in central Mosul,” adding that, “the strike resulted in the killing of 25 ISIS militants, including an explosives expert that holds a European nationality, in addition to destroying six vehicles belonging to the organization.”
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[Hurriyet] One suspected bully boy of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was killed while 21 people were detained along The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's border with Syria, the Turkish Armed Forces has said.
An official statement released on the website of Turkey's Chief of Staff stated that an ISIL bully boy was killed trying to cross into the Turkish border town of Kilis from Syria.
It was also reported that 21 people were detained, including nine children, while crossing the Turkish border through illegal means.
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[Rudaw] Peshmerga forces reportedly defeated two consecutive assaults 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.... (ISIS) near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Wednesday, killing several snuffies whose bodies were left behind.
"At 8 pm sharp, several ISIS forces of Evil launched an assault to capture stockades of the Peshmerga at the heights of Aski Mosul on the western Dijla front," Captain Nawzad Barwari, a Peshmerga offical on the front, told Rudaw by phone.
"The Peshmerga fiercely repulsed the assault, killing several hard boys," he said.
After the first assault was defeated, the forces of Evil re-launched a fresh attack to get back the dead bodies behind, but "the Peshmerga defeated them again, killing some other hard boys," Barwari claimed.
According to information received by Rudaw, US-led coalition warplanes have bombed ISIS positions on the western Dijla and Khazir fronts, reportedly destroying facilities.
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DEIR EZ-ZOR – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded residential buildings in the regime-held districts of Deir ez-Zor city in eastern Syria, with several mortar shells, causing injuries among civilians, local sources reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, eyewitnesses said that three shells dropped on the public street in the Jura district, while another shell landed near the Sinaa school. The shelling claimed the life of a civilian and caused the injury of several others.
“The injured were transferred to a nearby clinic in the area,” a local source told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
Also on Wednesday, the pro-regime warplanes conducted six airstrikes on ISIS-held neighborhoods in Deir ez-Zor, causing civilian casualties, according to local activists. ARA News could not verify the number of casualties.
“Pro-Assad warplanes launched at least six airstrikes on neighborhoods held by Daesh (ISIS) in central Deir ez-Zor,” a media activist and eyewitnesses reported. “Scores of civilians were hardly injured in the strikes.”
Last August, Syrian regime forces cut the bread material from people besieged by ISIS in the regime-held districts in the city of Deir ez-Zor, locals reported.
In July, ISIS militant fighters opened fire on a number of civilians in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zo, who were trying to access relief aid to the besieged neighborhoods of the city, local activists reported at the time. The sources pointed out that the volunteers were carrying food supplies in an attempt to reach western neighborhoods via the Euphrates River from Mahimidiyah village.
Islamic State extremists have been imposing blockade on the regime-held districts of Jura and al-Qusour since January of 2015. Inhabitants suffer miserable living conditions as a result of the siege imposed by ISIS, according to local relief groups.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast near shops northeast of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this evening, near commercial markets in Shaab District northeast of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven others.”
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, added: “A security force rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the body of the dead man to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.”
Seat occupancy rates for airline flights between Tokyo and Paris have dropped by 20 to 30 percent in the wake of last Friday's deadly terrorist attacks.
Japan Airlines says the average occupancy rate on its Paris flights between Saturday and Monday dropped by about 20 percent, to 65 percent. All Nippon Airways says its rate fell by about 30 percent during the same period, to 50 percent.
Airline officials say that both business and leisure travelers to Paris canceled their reservations following the attacks.
Airlines arriving or departing from Paris airports have not been affected by the attacks. They say their will maintain their flight schedules. This might get somebody's attention even if they don't care about security.
[The Nation] Pattani's provincial court has handed out a death for to a man for gunning down five people at a tea shop in Panare district on February 3, 2011. The verdict stated that Asamal Jehba was guilty of conspiring to launch the drive-by attack at the tea shop, which also resulted in four injuries. Another defendant, Aliyasa Samoh, was acquitted.
In June, Asamal was sentenced to 38 years in jail in a separate national security case and the court is scheduled to read the verdict in yet another national security case on November 30. Aliyasa had been given life sentences for two other cases - both of which he appealed - and was acquitted in five cases, including this attack.
Israel issued an unusually blunt warning on Wednesday against proposals to restructure the U.S.-led peacekeeping force in the insurgency-wracked Egyptian Sinai next door, saying any draw-down of the foreign troops would "reward terrorism".
Installed to monitor the demilitarization of the Sinai under the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace accord, the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) and some of its 12 contributor countries have been quietly mulling reviews of the deployment and mandate. They worry for the safety of the almost 1,900 peacekeepers after six were wounded in September by a roadside bomb, and argue dismantling more remote and vulnerable posts would not significantly set back the mission.
With the review proposals on the agenda for MFO talks that opened with Israel, Egypt and the United States in Rome on Wednesday, a senior Israeli military officer played down the danger to the peacekeepers from the insurgents - including "Sinai Province", the Egyptian affiliate of Islamic State.
"They are not interested in attacking the MFO. If they were interested, they could be killing them every day," the officer told Reuters on condition of anonymity, echoing MFO staff who believe the roadside bomb was intended for the Egyptian army.
But any dismantling of MFO positions, the Israeli officer said, would risk emboldening harder-line insurgent elements. The officer said the MFO had removed peacekeepers from two Sinai observation outposts after the roadside bombing and had yet to return to them - something Israel would raise objections to at the Rome talks, which conclude on Thursday.
An MFO official confirmed the two positions had been vacated, and declined to comment further on the Rome meeting except to say: "We will, as always, hear out our partners in Israel, Egypt and the United States."
An Egyptian diplomat said Cairo, like Israel, regarded the MFO as "essential" and opposed any reduction of peacekeepers.
GUJRAT: The Supreme Court issued on Wednesday arrest warrants for PML-N’s Member of the National Assembly Chaudhary Abid Raza of Kotla. The MNA had been sentenced to death in the murder case of six people in Gujrat under the Anti-Terrorism Act, but was freed after a compromise with the aggrieved.
Elected from NA-107 in 2013 elections, Mr Raza had been sentenced to death by a Gujranwala ATC back in 2001. A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, while hearing a case related to Raza’s disqualification, took notice of his acquittal in the terrorism case.
The bench said that a compromise was not allowed in a case registered under ATA (1997) and issued the arrest warrants and adjourned the hearing for two weeks.
Chaudhary Ilyas of PTI who lost the NA-107 election has sought Raza’s disqualification because of his conviction under the ATA and some other reasons. The Gujrat incident in which Mr Raza was convicted had taken place in 1998 when six people on a jeep were killed in an ambush.
Kabul police on Wednesday reported they had seized a large amount of arms and explosives in operations in Kabul over the past three months.
Police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said at a press conference that police had seized the weapons and explosives - of which were intended to be used by insurgents in the capital.
He said the deputy head of an insurgent group was also arrested in the city.
Rahimi said: "If we had not seized these arms and explosives imagine what would have happened to innocent people in Kabul."
He went on to say police investigations are underway to arrest insurgent groups earmarked to have used these arms.
According to him, the weapons and explosives had been well hidden in cars and in homes when found.
In addition to the weapons and explosives seized, ammonium nitrate was also found. This is used to make explosives.
Rahimi said the insurgent leader Qari Khairullah who was arrested is from Paktia province and was responsible for making mines and IEDs.
In addition he said they have arrested two people for the recent theft of three million Afs from the owner of a private company. The two accused had also allegedly threatened to kill the company owner.
Rahimi said: "These two men attacked the owner of a private company when he was leaving a bank. They stole his money and tried to kidnap him.
A rifle company
Germany will send 130 more soldiers to Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting to discuss support for Afghan forces struggling to tackle an Islamist insurgency.
The Taliban's surprise seizure of the northern city of Kunduz in September, the first time the militants had taken a provincial capital in 14 years, has prompted the U.S.-led military coalition to revise its strategy in Afghanistan.
Although NATO has withdrawn almost all of its combat troops, it still has soldiers stationed there to train local forces. Up to about 850 German troops are in Afghanistan on this mission.
That number will now go up to 980, the government said. German forces are stationed in the north of the country.
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said after the fall of Kunduz that she was open to delaying the withdrawal of German soldiers from Afghanistan beyond next year.
President Barack Obama announced last month that some 9,800 U.S soldiers would remain in Afghanistan through most of 2016, reversing a decision to withdraw all but a small U.S.-Embassy based force in Kabul before he leaves office in January 2017.
The decision was based on an assessment that Afghan forces were not yet as strong as they needed to be.
(IraqiNews.com) The Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said on Wednesday, that the land of Kurdistan is not a place for the Shiite militia of al-Hashed al-SHa’bi, while added that the region is not in conflict with al-Hashed al-Sha’bi about the importance of war against the ISIS.
A spokesman for the Presidency of Kurdistan said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The position of the President of Kurdistan, currently and formerly, is clear, that the the Kurdistan region does not have any disagreements with al-Hashed al-Sha’bi on targeting ISIS as well as the war against it,” stressing “The need for coordination and assistance between the Peshmerga and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi to target the ISIS.”
He added, “This does not mean that al-Hashed al-Sha’bi can come to occupy Khurmatu, which is the land of Kurdistan, and is protected by the Peshmerga,” explaining that “President Barzani asserts that the land of Kurdistan is not a place for al-Hashed al-Sha’bi.”
[AlAhram] French and Russian air strikes in northern Syria have killed at least 33 jihadists with 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 the last 72 hours, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Dozens of IS fighters were also maimed in the raids on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday focused on the jihadists' de facto Syrian capital of Raqa, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, after strikes intensified following last week's attacks in Gay Paree.
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[Rudaw] Russia announced Wednesday that its warplanes had destroyed 500 fuel trucks of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in Syria, carrying crude oil and petroleum to its territories in Iraq.
"I would like to point out that a decision has been made to let Russian planes fly sorties to search for tanker trucks carrying petroleum products belonging to gunnies in areas controlled by the organization calling itself the Islamic State," Russian operations chief Col. Gen. General Andrei Kartapolov said.
He added that Russian warplanes destroyed about 500 fuel tank trucks that were illegally transporting oil from Syria to Iraq.
"Over the past years, the Islamic State and other Death Eater groupings have streamlined the operations of the so-called 'pipeline on the road' in the areas under their control," Kartapolov said.
He noted that these Arclight airstrikes have considerably sabotaged the group's oil smuggling between Iraq and Syria "In the first several days alone, our warplanes destroyed about 500 fuel tank trucks."
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Monday said that he had told his G20 colleagues that 40 countries including G20 nations are financially helping ISIS.
"As we have established, financing comes from 40 countries, including some countries members of G20," Putin told news hounds.
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Why the fuck were they still there after US was supposed to cripple ISIS. Makes me wonder how effective we've been in the air war during Afghanistan and during the Iraq war insurgency.
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I bet the Russians didn't drop leaflets before attacking.
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OK, another question for you ex-military guys: shooting up 500 oil trucks that are lined up that way, why would you try to pick them off one-at-a-time the way the Russkies seem to in the video? (Also, the Russians' accuracy didn't seem to be pin-point. Any thoughts on that?) Wouldn't you either run down the line with an A-10, spewing depleted uranium shells, or cluster-bomb the lot, rendering them useless if not completely destroying them?
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Why ... after US was supposed to cripple ISIS. Your main mistake was in supposing that was (or is) the purpose of US air actions.
Another reason why the left deigns it important to teach "Gender Studies," etc. at the expense of Civics.
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“I say, ‘Congress shall make no law establishing a religion or [prohibiting] the free exercise thereof,’”
That means no official state religion, Keith. And freedom to worship. Quite contrary to Sharia Law. Not to be rude about it, but the tenets of your religion are a tad un-American.
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OTOH FREEREPUBLIC > [Change Now!] PETITION: STOP SYRIAN [Pan-Muslim?] REFUGEES FROM ENTERING HAWAII + USA.
Whoa, so instead of taking over Guam's Camel Rock in lieu of China + PLA, AHMED "Jumped the Shark" + leapfrogged over Guam-WESTPAC to Hawaii-EASTPAC instead - TRYING OR DEMANDING TO MAKE IT TO CALIFORNIA + TEHRAN-ANGELES???
NO HARD BOY LOVE FOR MUSLIM DETROIT???
Looks like Someone isn't getting any Date-Raisin Cakes for XMAS!
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And where was the representative when the German Christian homeschoolers were deported back to Germany? One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee? It's about power bubba. If you can refuse Christians on one hand, you can turn around and refuse Muslims on another.
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Keith Ellison
Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.[1] He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota.[2]
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In the same interview Rep. Ellison attempted to butress his advocacy for the Presidents Syrian refugee proposal by, and I shit you not, highlighting the "mostly successful" Somalian refugee program.
The Hebdo attack.
The Shoe Bomber.
The Beltway Snipers.
The Fort Hood Shooter.
The underwear Bomber.
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers.
The Madrid Train Bombers.
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers.
The London Subway Bombers.
The Moscow Theatre Attackers.
The Boston Marathon Bombers.
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers.
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers.
The Iranian Embassy Takeover.
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers.
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack.
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers.
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers.
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers.
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers.
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers.
The Besian Russian School Attackers.
The first World Trade Center Bombers.
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers.
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers.
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers.
Tensions continue to rise in Tripoli following a mass seizure of Misratans in the city by local militias yesterday and a statement by them effectively ordering Misratan forces out of the capital. Leaders of a number of the city’s revolutionaries and militias, including Haitham Tajuri and Abdul Ghani Kikli (more ususlly known as Ghnaiwa), last night held a “council of war” in Tripoli’s Corinthia hotel, reportedly agreeing to unite their forces if it came to a fight with those from Misrata.
In a clear reference to Misratan forces but not mentioning them by name, the statement said that some militias which had joined Libya Dawn operation had appointed themselves as the police in Tripoli. Accusing them of kidnapping, robbery and other crimes in parts of the capital, the signatories to the statement said that they would not allow this to continue.
“We will not allow any infringement upon our city”, read the statement, signed by 11 Tripoli militia leaders including Tajouri and Ghnaiwa.
Friction between Tripoli revolutionaries and Misrata has been rising ever since Misratan brigades signed peace deals over the summer with the Wershefana and other groups west of Tripoli and pulled out of the area.
As a result of the split within the Libya Dawn alliance, there has been a growing number of sproadic clashes between Misratans and the Tripoli revolutionaries. Last month saw fighting between Misratans forces and gunmen loyal to Tajouri near the Wadi Rabie barracks, east of Tripoli International Airport. This month Tajouri’s forces again clashed with Misratans, attacking the Prime Ministry building in Tripoli, which the latter were guarding.
The current crisis is said to have followed a warning to Ghneiwa that he had to release prisoners held by him, including some Misratans. When he failed to respond, Misratan forces on Monday attacked a villa in Tripoli’s Hadba district which was reportedly being used as a prison, and freed a number of captives. These have been named as Salah Mamas, Abduljalil Al-Ghraibi Al-Rujbani, Mahmud Al-Muzafer, Abdulqader Al-Hashmi, Jibril Ben Mousa and Sayd Uglu, the latter a Turkish businessmen. It is alleged that all had been kidnapped for ransom.
Rujbani, the head of Tripoli Central Hospital, was abducted in May.
It was initially reported that in Monday’s raid, Ghneiwa himself had been captured. In the event, it was one of his senior commanders who was taken.
In response, Ghneiwa gunmen yesterday set up checkpoints across Tripoli, even on the main highway. Eye witnesses reported that anyone from Misrata was arrested. Dozens were said to have been seized, with some reports putting the figure at 100.
Ghneiwa allegedly wants to use those arrested in exchange for those of this men being held by the Misratans; he is also said to want those being held at the Hadba villa to be handed back to him.
Last night in a bid to calm measures, elders from Tripoli’s Abu Sleem district, Ghneiwa’s power base, held talks with Misratan counterparts.
The capital now awaits the result of talks between representatuves of Ghneiwa and the Misratan militias. The situation is “potentially very dangerous,” one official said,
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Nice pic of him in the article: "Before driving off, a grinning Abaaoud tells the camera: "Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God's path, we're towing [the dead bodies of] apostates, infidels who are fighting us."
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations in Anbar province announced on Tuesday the killing of 11 members of the ISIS in airstrikes that targeted ISIS gatherings in the western areas of the province.
The commander of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations Major General Ali Ibrahim Dbon said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The intelligence information enabled the air force to launch an air strike that targeted ISIS gatherings in the areas of al-Rabii and al-Dolab in Heet District in western Anbar, killing 11 members of the organization.”
Dbon added, “The air strike destroyed four ISIS vehicles and a large store of weapons and rockets in al-Dolab area in western Anbar.”
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Ghazni-Police HQA bomb explosion has claimed the lives of two brothers in southern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The incident took place in Rabat area of Deh Yak District around 07:00 am this morning.
According to the district’s governor Karimullah Ameeri , the victims had loaded apples to a “Flying Coach” vehicle and were driving towards Ghazni city when their vehicle ran over a Taliban-planted roadside landmine.
Meanwhile, the province’s Police Chief Brigadier General Aminullah Amarkhil says that the victims belong to Rabat village.
Reports suggest that Taliban have a strong presence in Deh Yak District especially around its Rabat village.
The militant group had earlier urged Rabat villagers to remove the Afghan Local Police (ALP) security post from their area if not then ready for consequences.
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President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said that government is determined to arrest kidnappers of 31 civilians in southern Zabul province.
In a meeting with the released hostages in Presidential Palace “ARG” on Wednesday, President Ghani said that terrorists showed their horror when they abducted civilians in Zabul, adding that they would be arrested and dragged to judiciary.
In the meeting where vice presidents, Abdul Rashid Dostum and Mohammad Sarwar Danish, were also present the President instructed related officials to deliver assistance to the released hostages and families of those killed.
The 31 passengers were abducted reportedly by Uzbek militants, who have pledged allegiance to Daesh, from Shah Joy District of Zabul province in February.
25 to 26 of them were released, including some freed nearly nine months after, and at least five of them were killed.
19 of them were released in exchange for some prisoners.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that the abuse of Afghans by police in Pakistan has been rampant since Pakistani Taliban launched a deadly attack on a school Peshawar last year.
According to the latest report by HRW, the abuse by police has forced thousands of Afghans to abandon Pakistan and head towards Europe after returning to war-torn Afghanistan.
The deputy Asia director of HRW, Phelim Kine, said “The Pakistani police’s outrageous mistreatment of Afghans over the past year calls for an immediate government response. The Pakistani government should press the police to apprehend perpetrators of atrocities instead of scapegoating the entire Afghan community.”
Calling on Pakistani government to take all necessary measures to end the rampant police harassment, threats, and violence against Afghans living in Pakistan, HRW said akistani government is obligated to ensure that all law enforcement and other government officials treat Afghans living in Pakistan with dignity and respect for their human rights in compliance with domestic and international law.
“Pakistan’s government has a responsibility to prevent and prosecute terrorist attacks,” Kine said. “But permitting police reprisals against the Afghan population is neither lawful nor effective in combatting terrorism.”
HRW also added that the police abuses and ensuring that Afghans are treated fairly should be a first step toward formulating a viable legal framework to manage the Afghan population in Pakistan.
The report has been prepared after interviewing 50 Afghans who had returned to Afghanistan after living many years in Pakistan, and 46 Afghans living in Pakistan, as well as Pakistani and Afghan government officials, staff of nongovernmental and community-based organizations, United Nations refugee agency officials, diplomats, journalists, and other experts.
Pakistan is host to one of the largest displaced populations in the world. The 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees and 1 million undocumented Afghans that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates are living in Pakistan as of November 2015 include many who fled conflict and repression in Afghanistan during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and their descendants.
Some arrived as children, grew up in Pakistan, married, and had children of their own who have never lived in Afghanistan. Others have arrived in the decades of turmoil in Afghanistan since, seeking security, employment, and a higher standard of living.
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested over 40 ‘human smugglers’ from various areas of Punjab on Wednesday.
Sixty-one raids were carried out, mostly in Punjab, in a crackdown launched across the country on the instructions of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
The arrested people include owners of fake visa consultancy firms in Punjab, most wanted human smugglers and proclaimed offenders.
“We have arrested 43 agents and fake visa consultancy firms’ owners during raids in Lahore, Gujrat, Faisalabad and Multan. Some 300 passports, fake visa stamps and bank statements have been seized from them,” Lahore FIA Director Dr Usman Anwar told Dawn. He said it was illegal for the consultancy firms to keep the passports of clients.
The FIA director said the crackdown had been intensified to stop Pakistanis from illegally entering European and other countries. “The Pakistanis facing deportation in Europe for being illegal immigrants are earning a bad name for the country,” he said.
The FIA laid hands on the human smugglers and fake visa consultancy firms after the minister asked it to adopt a strategy of prevention, protection of victims, prosecution of criminals, pursuing proclaimed offenders and absconders and partnership at the local and international levels.
He ordered the FIA to freeze bank accounts, cancel passports and block the computerised national identity cards of 300 identified human smugglers.
“We have placed the names of 150 human smugglers and their agents in Punjab on the Passport Control List,” Dr Anwar said.
The interior ministry fears that the country may be downgraded to ‘Tier 3’ from Tier 2 on the US Human Trafficking Watch List.
The ministry has also reportedly warned the local and foreign airlines not to bring deported persons to the country without its prior permission.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The governor of Dhi Qar Yahia Nasseri announced on Wednesday the arrest of a cell belonging to “Baath Party,” indicating that the cell includes 13 “terrorists.”
Nasseri said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A cell belonging to Baath party, including 13 wanted terrorists, has been arrested in accordance with Article IV of the anti-terrorism law,” noting that, “The arrest was made in different parts of the province of Dhi Qar and based on intelligence information by the security services.”
Nasseri added that, “The judiciary has already issued memorandums against the detainees,” expressing hope that “Dhi Qar maintain its security and stability.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations in Anbar province announced on Wednesday the killing of five ISIS senior leaders in an artillery bombing that targeted their gathering west of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
The commander of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations Major General Ali Ibrahim Dbon said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The security forces, based on intelligence, was able to target a gathering of ISIS elements in Alkasirat area in the area of Haditha District (170 km west of Ramadi),” noting that, “The gathering was bombed by artillery shelling that resulted in killing five ISIS senior leaders.”
Dbon announced the death of the terrorist Walid Hashim Najm, among the five leaders, who were killed by the artillery shelling, as well as the destruction of a vehicle carrying weapons and missiles.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – The leader within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi Jabbar al-Mamouri anounced the killing of six ISIS elements, including two suicide bombers, in northern Salahuddin.
Mamouri said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Six members of the ISIS had been killed in clashes following an attack by the organization on the first defensive line in the areas surrounding Makhoul Mountains in northern Salahuddin, adding that, “Two suicide bombers, one of which holds a Saudi nationality, were among the dead.”
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Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front said it had downed two Russian reconnaissance drones over a military airport it controls in northwest Syria.
If confirmed, the incident would be the first time that the armed opposition down a Russian aircraft since Moscow launched strikes in Syria on September 30. Al-Nusra, in a post late Tuesday on one of its official Syrian Twitter accounts, claimed the "downing of two Russian reconnaissance drones over Abu Duhur military airport" in Idlib province.
The group posted a picture of wreckage in a large plain as well as two others of a small plane on fire with larger military aircraft parked in the background. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group also said Al-Nusra Front had downed two drones over Abu Duhur, but could not specify if they were Russian.
Al-Nusra and its allies in the powerful Army of Conquest alliance seized Abu Duhur on September 9, consolidating its control of Idlib province.
Syria's army began using Russian-provided unmanned drones in the north and east of the war-torn country on September 23, just a week before Moscow began its own air war in Syria.
The country's conflict erupted in 2011 with anti-government protests that spiralled into a fractured civil war increasingly dominated by militant groups.
A map shown by the Russian military on state television appears to show that some Russian artillery contingents could be operating on the ground in central Syria’s Homs region.
Russia has servicemen at bases in government-held Syria helping to conduct an air campaign in support of forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad but denies it has deployed ground troops.
The detailed map shown in footage during a defence ministry briefing with President Vladimir Putin Tuesday showed acronyms for Russian contingents near areas where the regime is conducting an offensive against jihadists.
The diagram, shown to Putin on a large screen and filmed by state television, apparently showed that several 152mm-calibre Msta (2A65) howitzers of the 120th artillery brigade are deployed close to the town of Sadad, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Homs.
A Syrian military source told AFP only that “there are Russian counselors in Sadad advising the Syrian army on the artillery.”
The 120th artillery brigade is based in Russia’s Kemerovo region.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday reiterated Moscow’s consistent denial that it has deployed any ground troops in Syria.
“There is a technical contingent linked to ensure the operation of the Russian air force,” Peskov said.
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I'm looking for a significant Russian ground invasion in the coming weeks, possibly an airborne envelopment of Raqqa. Evidence of this could be confirmed by their continued denial of 'boots on the ground' and introduction of artillery and drones.
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an airborne envelopment of Raqqa an aerial bombardment of Raqqa, turning it into utter rubble might be more appropriate. Just drop lots of leaflets on Raqqa to tell all the non-combatants to get out of town and remain a safe distance away.
DAMASCUS – Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition have pummeled at least 175 targets in the ISIS’s major oil-rich areas in a month, as Washington seeks to disrupt a key revenue source which almost brings the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) nearly $1 million a day.
Earlier this week, 116 oil tanker trucks have been hit by the coalition forces, which is the first time Washington targets ISIS vehicles in the wake of last Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris claimed by the extremist group.
The targets, which include key oilfields, were previously not allowed to be attacked by the U.S.-led coalition in a bid to avoid civilian casualties and preserve oil infrastructure that could be needed later by a new Syrian government.
The Pentagon said in a statement that the coalition’s strikes have caused “significant damage” to ISIS’s ability to fund itself. The strikes have been focused on oil facilities near Deir ez-Zor and al-Bukamal, which provide nearly two-thirds of the group’s oil revenue.
Speaking to ARA News, Syrian journalist Muwafaq Ahmed said: “If the West continued arming moderate rebels alongside covering their backs in the battlefields, this would definitely enable them control these facilities as well as deprive the extremist group of its financial resources.”
Previously, ISIS has been able to repair some oil facilities that had been exposed to damages by airstrikes.
As its own oil trucks have been attacked by the U.S. and allies, ISIS started to use civilian trucks to transfer its oil across the group-held territory and sell it to locals who use it for power generators and vehicles, according to local activists.
“We finally blew up a bunch of oil trucks,” said former State Department counter terrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin.
Last year, striking mobile refineries had deprived the group’s oil revenues from $3 million a day to under $1 million a day, according to independent estimates. However, the group was able to repair many damaged facilities quickly, according to U.S. officials.
“The new strategy of striking key oilfields may permanently destroy oil wells along with other facilities, preventing any future Syrian government from its revenue,” a monitoring group has said, warning of the possibility of killing civilians in these attacks.
ISIS not only relies on oil revenue to fund its military operations, but also gaining much more money from ransoms paid for releasing hostages whether by individuals or organizations. Some reports say ISIS still earns tens of millions per month from oil sales, thus striking these facilities could considerably reduce the amount. According to local activists, the terror group makes most of its money from taxing, oil sale, kidnapping, ransoms, and the sale of antiquities.
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“We finally blew up a bunch of oil trucks,” clearly implying that the US has known about the oil trucks but up until now has refrained from interfering with them. A reasonable assumption beyond this is the existence of other easy targets the US has refrained from hitting for no good reason at all.
Honduran authorities have arrested five Syrians intending to make it to the United States with stolen Greek passports, triggering alarm Wednesday in the wake of the Paris attacks launched by Syria-linked jihadists.
The Syrians were arrested on Tuesday as they flew into Toncontin airport serving the Honduran capital and failed to make it past airport security checks, a police spokesman, Anibal Baca, told reporters.
"Five Syrian citizens have been detained and will be taken to our offices to be investigated because it is suspected they are carrying false documents, passports stolen in Greece," Baca said.
They had traveled by air from Syria to Lebanon, then to Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and on to Honduras.
From there they were to make their way to Honduras' second city of San Pedro Sula with the aim of going overland through Guatemala, then Mexico and on to the United States, Baca told AFP.
The reasons for the Syrians' trip were not immediately known, and Honduran police were considering the possibility that they were refugees fleeing the war in Syria.
"We are not saying they are terrorists," Baca said. "They are being investigated for using false passports. It could be they are fleeing war. That is being investigated." Innocent until proven guilty, I always say. How about letting them babysit liberal congresscritters' kids/grandkids until after their trial is over?
Countries involved in the Syria conflict, including the United States, have been on alert for possible attacks since the killings in Paris last Friday and the October 31 bombing of a Russian passenger jet leaving Egypt.
Those attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State group based in Iraq and Syria. One of the gunmen in the Paris attacks was carrying a Syrian passport used to transit through Greece, though authorities have not confirmed that he was the man in the document.
Honduras on Monday said it had reinforced security in its ports and airports following the French attacks.
A spokesman for the country's Inter-institutional Security Force, Lieutenant Colonel Santos Nolasco, said that day that Honduras was part of a route to the United States often used by unauthorized migrants.
This year, 12,600 foreigners were detected illegally entering Honduras, almost all of them with the aim of getting to the United States, Nolasco said.
Those detained by authorities include nationals of Somalia, Iran, Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea, Sri Lanka, Eritrea, Togo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, as well as of other Latin American countries.
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traveled by air from Syria to Lebanon, then to Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and on to Honduras.
That's a lot of frequent-flyer miles for a refugee.
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I wonder if those passports are identical to the ones just seized in Trumbull County Ohio.
UTHAL: Awaran Bar Association (ABA) President advocate Dad Shah was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Awaran Town, Balochistan on Wednesday.
According to police sources, armed assailants opened fire at him and fled from the scene killing him on the spot. The body of the deceased was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities. Police has registered a case and started investigation.
Journalists and human rights activists from Libya attending a UNESCO workshop in Tunis organised to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
earlier this month, have called on the organisation and other international bodies to help ensure that those involved in crimes against journalists and others working in the media are brought to account.
Yesterday’s workshop, organised by the UNESCO Tripoli Office and the Regional Bureau of Reporters Sans Frontières, took place against the background of growing concern about the safety of journalists in Libya. There have been a series of arrests and disappearances. Moutaz Khraif who was seized last week just behind the Surpeme Court, was finally freed after protests in the city. In August, Reda Fahail Al-Boum was freed only when UNSMIL intervened after he had been seized at Mitiga airport.
There is still no news of photographer Mohamed Al-Naili who disappeared at the end of last month or of the two Tunisian journalists kidnapped in eastern Libya in September last year or the five-member Cyrenaica TV crew seized the previous month.
Many Libyan journalists have been forced to leave the country for their safety.
At the workshop, participants pointed out that those still in Libya were being silenced at the very time the provision of accurate and impartial information was badly needed. Those responsible for this were able to get away with it because there was no protection from the law; those threatening journalists and activists knew they could act with impunity.
“We all are aware that collecting and transmitting information is very important in times of crises. If allowed to work professionally, journalists can make a vital contribution to enhance the peace and reconciliation process in Libya”, said Austria’s ambassador to Libya, Ronald Sturm. “However, we are increasingly faced with a culture of impunity that endangers professional journalism.”
Malik Stitah, a journalist from Derna, said that UNESCO and other international partners had to “do their utmost to ensure the impunity issue in Libya remains in the spotlight as an urgent issue to be addressed by all responsible parties”.
UNESCO Representative to Libya Michael Croft agreed. Impunity was becoming ingrained in Libya, he said, insisting that Libya’s international partners had to react and make clear to the powers there that this was unacceptable.
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The idiots in the government want to insulate us from what's going on in the world. As long as it doesn't hurt too much, folks will continue to vote stupid. I say if someone is at war with us, we ought to feel it. To me, it's like trying to live your life with your sensory nerves numbed to the point you don't feel warning pains. While we were numbed, they were allowed to grow to be a threat that will be much more difficult to deal with. The CIA and NSA are whining that they can't get the intelligence they need. I think those kinds of statements reveal the bottomless depth of their ignorance. Maybe people will now wake up to what is going on now that they realize they are under attack.
As crowds continued to gather at the Place de la RĂŠpublique last night, laying flowers and lighting candles in memory of the dead, a group of French Muslims held up banners and started to chant.
'Unite against brutality, unite for humanity!' They shouted. 'Killing any human is killing all mankind! Saving any human is saving all mankind!'
Around 30 Muslims, wow - 30 Muslims out of the 1,600,000 muslims in Paris
all of Bangladeshi origin and living in Paris, felt they had to take a stand against Islamic extremism because â as they saw it â few other Muslims were willing to raise their voice.
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Well, seems like we found the moderate Muslims.
What's that? About .00002%?
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See BIGNEWSNetork > [IANS] 420 [out of 43,00 generally known] POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS ISLAMISTS LIVING IN GERMANY.
German BKA Chief Holger Munch.
* Also from BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Telegraph.UK] ISLAMIC STATE DIVIDES THE WORLD INTO JIHADISTS AND CRUSADERS.
Yeeeuuup.
As per old childhood dreams or vsions of mine, DARE THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION WILL ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN THE FINAL FALL OF FRANCE + ISLAMIC/ISLAMIST INVASION OF THE UK???
The Hard Boyz succeeding where Hitler's
"OPERATION SEA LION" + "BATTLE OF BRITAIN" [Blitz] did NOT???
As a reminder,
[ 1960's-1970's = 2014 TOM CRUISE'S + EMILY BLUNT'S "EDGE OF TOMORROW" here = "The [Counter]Invasion will fail ... every [US-Allied = Non-Muslim World] Soldier that lands on that Beach [Islamist-controlled/dominated Europe] tomorrow will die"!
IN THE MOVIE, THE BASTION OF GLOBAL RESISTANCE UK [USA?] GETS INVADED + CONQUERED BY THE ALIENS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INVASION FORCE.
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#3 My current opinion of Europe is the elite of both countries are wracked with shame over their past and Luxumberg should step up and run things.
I'm okay with that, as long as Belgium doesn't try to run things. The EU (Belgian Bureaucrats) is a disaster for ALL of Europe.
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Ebbang: Yes, exactly. The earliest iteration of the EU was born in 1950 as the French plan to keep Germany hamstrung and on a short leash.
Although the EU's "capital" is Brussels, Eurocrats are not actually Belgian - they're from all over the continent. Who, over time, go native and lose their local allegiances, just like our ruling class.
RJ: Luxembourg is too French. If Europe has to be centralized and run by someone, I'd pick the Swiss, who resisted getting dragged into the whole mess to begin with.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is starting a new offensive with "new strategies" against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), including raids on the group in northern Iraq and Turkey's own Kurdish southeast, Turkish media reported.
Ground operations will begin soon in Turkey's Kurdish areas of Oramar, Doski, Shamzinan, Amad heights, Dersim and Shirnakh, the reports said.
The Turkish air force will also reportedly resume air raids in the Qandil, Avashin and Zap mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, which the PKK has used as a safe haven for its guerrillas over the last 30 years.
The Turkish army has urged the country's intelligence agencies and police to arrest those behind PKK financing in the Kurdish areas.
At a security meeting this month, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had warned that weeks-long assaults on the PKK would continue during the winter.
The Turkish government reignited a war with the PKK after the rebels grabbed credit for the deaths of two coppers in late July. The fighting has ended a 2013 ceasefire that was meant to resolve a three-decade conflict in which some 40,000 people have been killed.
Turkish forces have been fighting the PKK since the two-and-a-half year cease-fire broke down in late July following a bombing in Suruc.
Early this month, the PKK's umbrella organization declared a resumption of the deadly conflict with the Turkish government, formally ending a unilateral truce.
"We are going to resume our military activities in northern Kurdistan and Turkey," said the leadership of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), which was founded by the PKK to put into practice incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! leader Abdullah Ocalan's ideas.
The statement accused Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of unwillingness to solve the Kurdish question in Turkey. It said the AKP was demonstrating "the will to fight."
It added: "We are always ready for a bilateral ceasefire; when we declared a unilateral truce the Turkish army kept attacking us in northern Kurdistan," in Turkey.
Senate Democrat Minority Leader Harry Reid is already praising Paul Ryan's approach to avoid shutting down and defunding the process altogether. Go ahead. Explain to me how the Republicans have no choice. Again.
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So, what is this talk about reforming govt? The two party system is dead. You are a fool if you put any effort toward the Republican party. They are done.
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They lost me when they DIDN'T impeach Obama
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Excerpt: 'The official said previously the fuel trucks were off limits to U.S. military strike aircraft. WTF?!
When asked if the Paris attacks would bring about a change in the U.S. military's rules of engagement, the official said that the truck drivers were warned first before the bombs fell.
'We dropped leaflets, warning the drivers to scatter,' See above.
said an official who had been briefed on the strike. 'Next we strafed the area [with 30mm cannons] before the dropping bombs' from the warthogs."
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'The official said previously the fuel trucks were off limits to U.S. military strike aircraft.
WTF?!
One possible explanation; if your bombing campaign has primarily targeted ISIS High Value Targets (HVT) traveling about in vehicles, Toyota's, captured MRAPS, etc, the continued mobility of these vehicles is essential.
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I guess Putin showed G-20 all the trucks carrying illegal fuel to fund ISIS crossing over Turkey, warning them he was going to take them out. RoE prohibited our pilots from taking them out because the drivers were considered civilians....also warning fellow G-20 members were actively aiding ISIS. The photo of Putin and O was very telling--look at Putin's tense jaw--but Pooty deserves a little respect for calling it like it is.
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How about remove most, but not all, fuel from the rat line. Only the most "mission critical" vehicles will be allowed fuel, to include troop transports, and other HVT's.
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More than a year ago there was the claim that ISIS made $1 million a day selling oil to Turkey and Iraq. There were articles that disputed that claim because it would take hundreds of trucks to achieve that amount. I for one certainly didn't realize that the Pentagon had placed the trucks off limits. IOW, the Pentagon kept silent as ISIS continued to fund itself through the ilicit movement of oil that could have been stopped. Don't tell me that the Pentagon is not a 'go along and get along' operation.
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Tank truck drivers are part of the military logistics effort of ISIS. Therefore they are also legitimate targets. Get rid of the truck drivers and it will be harder to get recruits for other trucks. Just like the driver of a hit squad. They may only drive but they are part of the operation.
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Warren said the leaflets, which were dropped about 45 minutes before the airstrikes began, said, "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them."
Because the truck drivers were assumed to be civilians, Warren said the military created the leaflets to "shoo people away without harming them."
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I bet all those family survivors of French railroad workers caught in the allied bombing of '44 wished grandpa got some warning leaflets too just before the iron arrived.
It's sort of like war, but not quite war as you thought it was.
[RFE/RL] A Kazakh citizen was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of inciting separatism through the internet.
The Ridder city court in northeast Kazakhstan found Igor Sychyov guilty of urging local citizens to support separatism by posting a poll on the Internet asking whether the East Kazakhstan region should join Russia. Sychyov was arrested earlier this year after he placed the poll on a social network.
Sychyov pleaded not guilty. He has said he will appeal the sentence.
At least three Kazakh nationals have been sentenced this year for inciting separatism and ethnic hatred via the Internet amid heightened government concern sparked by the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have seized control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
[RFE/RL] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it has destroyed a terrorist cell in the western province of Kermanshah. In a statement on November 18, the IRGC said the operation was carried out in "recent days."
It said, "A terrorist team in Kermanshah Province near the border was identified in recent days and its members were arrested in an operation," adding that "some military equipment" was confiscated.
A day earlier, the IRGC commander in Kermanshah was quoted as saying the IRGC and the Intelligence Ministry had arrested groups in the province trying to recruit fighters for Daesh.
Intelligence Minister Mahmud Alavi said on November 15 that the recent terrorists attacks in Beirut and Paris should be regarded with "serious alarm" when it comes to Iran's security.
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A number of young would-be Afghan migrants on Wednesday said human traffickers are going about their business freely in Kabul and no action is being taken against them.
These would-be migrants say that the people smugglers sell their services "dishonestly" and make promises in exchange for money that they do not keep.
This, they say is specifally related to the modes of transport used and the routes promised to refugees who seek refuge in Europe.
One Kabul resident, who himself wants to leave for Europe, says he has met with 10 different human traffickers and is now waiting his turn to leave.
"Human traffickers have significantly increased. Everyone tells us different stories and we don't know who to trust," Abdul Raouf said.
Raouf who has already tried to reach Europe once before was deported from Iran on his first attempt. He said the human traffickers at the time took all the money he had on him.
"When I travelled to Iran the trafficker took my $3,000 USD to keep with him but when I was deported, he didn't pay back my money," he said.
According to these would-be migrants, those using human traffickers now pay money changers, who hold their cash. Once in Europe the migrants call these operators and give them the go-ahead to pay the money to the traffickers.
Following government calls to money changers to abstain from working as middle-men, they continue to take guarantees of thousands of dollars a day.
"All money changers have been told that helping smugglers is a crime but still a few of them are secretly doing the business," Haji Zeerak, spokesman for the Money Changers Union said.
He said a minimum of $400 million USD leaves the country each month due to human traffickers. He also linked the dip in the Afghani against the U.S dollar to this problem.
People have however, raised questions as to why government has not clamped down on this practice and tracked and arrested the human traffickers.
The Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, however that a senior-level commission comprised of 10 different government organizations has started work to track down the traffickers and curb the problem.
"Many individuals and groups were arrested last week for deceiving people and trafficking them illegally to foreign countries," MoI spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. "They are being interrogated."
Meanwhile, speculation suggests that officials within the government and at foreign embassies also help the human traffickers get visas for would-be migrants.
According to them, the lack of action by government to crack down on these traffickers has led them to continue their illegal business without any fear.
By Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged on Wednesday global powers to unite without any preconditions on the fate of Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad after Russia and France killed 33 militants in 72 hours.
“It seems to me there are no longer any doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any pre-conditions for joining forces in the fight against terror,” Lavrov told reporters.
Lavrov, who said there was still no agreement about Assad’s political fate after international talks in Vienna, said he had detected a change in the West’s position since the Paris attacks and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane.
Unlike the United States and other Western allies, Russia continues to say that Syrians need to decide in an election on whether Assad to stay or go.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised Russia’s role in talks to end the Syria crisis and offered the prospect of better ties if Moscow focused military strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
But, he said, there were still differences over the fate of Syrian ruler, and Moscow’s current military focus on defending him.
“I hope the change in the position of our Western colleagues -- which has unfortunately only come about as the result of terrible acts of terror -- will spread to other Western partners. That the stance that the real battle with ISIS can only be resolved once the fate of Assad is clear, that this position will put to one side,” said Lavrov.
“In my opinion there can now be no doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any preconditions in order to unite in the battle against so-called Islamic State terrorists.”
Meanwhile, Syria’s foreign minister Walid al-Moualem will visit Russia next week for talks with Lavrov about his country's crisis and the struggle against terrorism.
Sweden's ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to explain the remarks Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom made on Saturday to Swedish state broadcaster SVT.
Asked if she was concerned about the radicalization of young people in Sweden who are fighting for Islamic State, Wallstrom said: "Clearly we have a reason to be worried not only here in Sweden but around the world because there are so many who are being radicalized.
"Here again, you come back to situations like that in the Middle East where not least the Palestinians see that there isn't any future (for them). (The Palestinians) either have to accept a desperate situation or resort to violence."
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either have to accept a desperate situation or resort to violence." She may regret that last part, as her own citizens may someday feel the exact same way with regards to the Muslim invasion.
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All this flooding of ME migrants into Europe is coming to a head. Margo is going to have her hands full fending off mobs of muslims or mobs of pi$$ed off Swedes.......or both. Better find a bunker while they are cheap.
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And CHINA + PLA have no qualms about hitting wid "Bolt-from-the-Blue Preemptive strikes, nor about suffering massive cambat casualties.
IMO any "Sino-American military conflict" over Taiwan as indic in the Artic must includ or give due consideration to China's desire for unchallenged strategic acccess for the PLA in both China Seas, or in the East China Sea vee Japan + SOKOR, espec as per China's historical rival for Pan-Asia/East Asia #1 JAPAN.
* MANILA TIMES > OBAMA: "BOLD STEPS" NEEDED TO STOP [Chinese island] RECLAMATIONS.
* RELATED MANILA BULLETIN: OBAMA CALLS ON CHINA TO HALT ISLAND RECLAMATIONS, + any New Contruction + any attempt or effort by China to "militarize" the islands.
* FYI GLOBALNATION.PH > RUSSIA WANTS TRADE, MILITARY DEFENCE PACT WID THE PHILIPPINES.
IMO read, PUTIN/RUSSIA CONCERNED ABOUT CHINA + ISIS THREAT TO PH = EAST ASIA.
Besides the USN, "look whom else may coming to dinner" at SUBIC BAY [+ Can Ranh Bay, VN in prior].
Where CHINA-VS-US ASIA-PACIFIC RIVALRY, is concerned, not unlike Rising Iran + ISIS China must now thread carefully wid Darth Vlad = Russia deciding to enter or intervene in the mix.
Which may explain, in part, + not to my surprise, at China's new angst first agz POTUS Obama at APeC, + now agz JAPAN at APEC.
* GLOBALNATION.PH > CHINA WARNS VS [US-led] FREE TRADE PACTS.
* BREAKING NEWS > [China Daily = Twittter] [China warns agz] OBAMA STIRRING SCS TENSIONS, espec as per trying to turn ASEAN Nations agz China.
* SAME > CHINA SLAMS JAPAN'S SHINZO ABE FOR ALLEGED "GROUNDLESS REMARKS" IN CRITICIZING SCS BUILDING.
Nippon PM Abe accused China of engaging in Expansion agz its neighbors [also read, Imperialism], + for violating International Law [UNCLOS] wid its island reclamations.
As said times before, Beijing ideally would like
to see Tokyo [Japan] leave the US Camp in favor of China.
Again, the scenario or danger is there that Japan + other US Regional Allies may just do so iff a major US-China war threatens in one or both China Seas + Taiwan, + Obama fails to uphold mandated US treaty obligations to same agz China [ISIS?].
Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama will COVERTLY OR QUIETLY ACCEPT IT IN THE NAME OF GOOD [US-led Anti-US] OWG-NWO.
"ASIA OR EAST ASIA FOR SAME + [China-led] OWG ASIAN/EAST ASIAN GLOBAL FEDERAL UNION(S)".
* WORLD NEWS > [Yahoo News] CHINA SAYS HAS BEEN SELF-RESTRAINED IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, COULD HAVE TAKEN BACK OTHER ISLANDS | [SCMP] CHINA "HAD RIGHT TO SEIZE BACK [Illegally = Foreign-held] OCCUPIED ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
* SAME > [Chosun Ilbo] "TEN KOREANS TRIED TO CONTACT [join?] ISIS".
Dozens of the U.S. citizens arrested in recent years on terror-related charges are immigrants admitted to the United States legally who later obtained citizenship.
More than 70 U.S. residents have been publicly arrested and charged with conspiring to help, attempting to help, or actually helping terror networks such as Islamic State in recent years. At least 15 of them received U.S. citizenship after being admitted to the country legally, including one of the Boston bombers.
Here are five examples.
Two immigrants from Pakistan who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship were convicted of plotting to detonate a bomb in New York City in 2012, and were sentenced to a combined 55 years in prison.
Raees Qazi, 22, and Sheheryar Qazi, 32
Federal prosecutors accused a Somalian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen of plotting to "go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style." The man had trained with a terrorist group in Syria and was told to return to the U.S. and carry out an act of terror.
Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, whose brother was killed fighting in Syria
An immigrant brought by his family from Kuwait at a young age and later approved for U.S. citizenship killed four Marines in a shooting rampage at two military centers in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July.
Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24
A woman born in Saudi Arabia who obtained U.S. citizenship and taught pre-school in Queens, N.Y., was arrested on terror charges in April. She and a friend also living in Queens pledged allegiance to Islamic State and considered bombing a police funeral. FBI raids on their apartments turned up bomb-making materials, including propane tanks and a pressure cooker, in addition to bomb recipes and jihadi literature.
Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31
An immigrant from Ghana who obtained U.S. citizenship was arrested in June and charged with conspiring to support a terrorist group after investigators allegedly found he was plotting a terror attack on New York City landmarks in the name of Islamic State.
Munther Omar Saleh, 20, who was studying electrical circuitry at a college specializing in aeronautics in Queens
The Obama administration has ignored a request from Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions for detailed immigration histories of 72 U.S. residents arrested in the past year on terror-related charges.
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday launched a countrywide crackdown against human traffickers in a bid to control the flow of immigrants, specially to Europe.
On the directives of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the FIA formed seven raiding teams which have raided human trafficking rings in Rawalpindi and other areas, while acting on actionable intelligence.
In the raids carried out so far, the FIA has arrested seven human traffickers and one proclaimed offender.
Read: EU warns of tough action against Pakistani migrants
Those arrested in the raids have been booked under the Passport Act and Emigration Ordinance. Around 89 passports were also recovered from the arrested individuals.
“There has been improvement in FIA’s performance over the last year and a half against human smugglers, but more still needs to be done,” said Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
The interior minister also directed the director general passports, NADRA chairman and the FIA to cancel the passports, block computerised national identity cards (CNIC) and freeze the bank accounts of 300 human traffickers and their agents, who have been identified so far in the ongoing investigation.
“Human traffickers who have managed to travel outside the country, will be arrested through Interpol once their red warrants are issued,” added Nisar.
The interior minister has also directed the FIA to submit a weekly progress report on the measure taken to prevent human trafficking and operations conducted during the crackdown.
The latest development comes after Pakistan on Tuesday instructed its diplomatic missions in European capitals to demand evidence of a potential crime when host countries sought to deport illegal immigrants being held on terror charges to Pakistan.
Also read: Pakistani migrant dies in Hungary while fleeing arrest
The move came days after Islamabad said it had suspended its agreement on the readmission of illegal immigrants with European Union countries, except Britain, because of its “blatant misuse”.
Nisar has also warned that airlines who carried deportees back to Pakistan without the interior ministry's permission or without travel documents would have to pay unspecified fines.
The 2010 agreement that Pakistan said it had suspended aimed to facilitate the return of Pakistani illegal immigrants and other nationals who had transited through Pakistan before arriving in the European Union (EU).
Earlier, Pakistan had expressed readiness to accept its citizens who illegally arrived in the EU.
JEDDAH: Two Saudi policemen were shot dead on Wednesday when they came under fire in the kingdom’s east, where most of the minority Shiite community live, the Interior Ministry said.
The pre-dawn attack happened near a farm in the Saihat area of Qatif, on the Gulf coast.
A ministry spokesman said the suspect or suspects had not immediately been identified.
CHAGHI: Iranian security forces handed over 87 Paksitanis to Levies force in Taftan area of the district. Levies force informed on Wednesday that these Pakistani workers had been arrested from different parts of Iran by Iranian forces as they were living there without valid documents.
The Levies force said that the deportees would be handed over to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for interrogation after initial inquiry.
Bahrain has sent troops to Aden to join a Saudi-dominated Arab coalition and national allies in ensuring security in the liberated city following the return of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the coalition spokesman has said.
“A Bahraini force has arrived in Aden…it will participate along with the other coalition forces in supporting security and stability in the city,” Brigadier Ahmed Asiri told the Saudi news network Alarabiya.
He did not mention the size of the Bahrain force deployed in Aden, here the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Sudan have troops. The other coalition members are taking part in naval patrols or air raids against the Iranian-backed coup rebels in Yemen.
President Hadi returned to Aden from his temporary residence in Riyadh on Tuesday and officials said his return is final. They said he would oversee military operations launched by the coalition and national army and resistance to quell the coup and liberate all areas in the conflict-battered Arab country.
A United Nations agency protested Thailand's deportation of two registered refugees to China on Wednesday, saying they should not have been sent back to a country where their lives could be in danger.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agency said the two individuals were in possession of a U.N. "protection letter". They were waiting to go to Canada, having been accepted as refugees, at the time of their arrest by Thai authorities.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department also said that the two could be in jeopardy on their return to China.
The UNHCR did not identify the activists or their nationalities, but an official at an Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok gave details of their case.
Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping were arrested on Oct. 28 following a request from China. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the issue was being handled "in accordance with the law". He did not elaborate.
The Canadian embassy in Bangkok did not offer any immediate response for comment.
Thailand's generals have cultivated warmer ties with China since seizing power in a 2014 coup. The coup was widely condemned by Western nations, which downgraded diplomatic ties, but the ruling junta claimed to have support from China.
Thailand has not signed a 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, nor does it have a specific law on refugees. Thailand deported about 100 Uighur Muslims back to China in July, drawing condemnation from the United States and others.
Thai immigration officials said the two deported men were not Uighurs.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that the security forces have destroyed five booby-trapped vehicles belonging to the ISIS, in addition to killing 40 elements of the organization north of Ramadi.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A force belonging to Anbar Operations Command had managed, today, to destroy five ISIS vehicles, while trying to target the army forces in the areas of Albu Dyab and Abu Faraj north of Ramadi.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “Ground forces were able to repel another ISIS attack, killing 40 elements of the organization and causing considerable material losses.”
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[Ynet] Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium has increased in the past three months even though Tehran is supposed to reduce it significantly under a deal with major powers, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday in a confidential report seen by 
[Manila Bulletin] Two members of the communist New People's Army were reportedly killed while an Army soldier was injured in a series of gun battles on Sunday at a hinterland area in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte. An initial report said the slain militants were members of Front Committee 16-A and Front Committee 21-A, both of the CPP/NPA Northeastern Mindanao Regional Committee.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province announced on Wednesday, that 25 ISIS elements including a European explosives expert had been killed in an airstrike by the international coalition in central Mosul.
DEIR EZ-ZOR – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded residential buildings in the regime-held districts of Deir ez-Zor city in eastern Syria, with several mortar shells, causing injuries among civilians, local sources reported on Wednesday.
[The Nation] Pattani's provincial court has handed out a death for to a man for gunning down five people at a tea shop in Panare district on February 3, 2011. The verdict stated that Asamal Jehba was guilty of conspiring to launch the drive-by attack at the tea shop, which also resulted in four injuries. Another defendant, Aliyasa Samoh, was acquitted.
Kabul police on Wednesday reported they had seized a large amount of arms and explosives in operations in Kabul over the past three months.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Bdiya and al-Jazeera Operations in Anbar province announced on Tuesday the killing of 11 members of the ISIS in airstrikes that targeted ISIS gatherings in the western areas of the province.
Ghazni-Police HQA bomb explosion has claimed the lives of two brothers in southern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that the abuse of Afghans by police in Pakistan has been rampant since Pakistani Taliban launched a deadly attack on a school Peshawar last year.
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested over 40 ‘human smugglers’ from various areas of Punjab on Wednesday.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations in Anbar province announced on Wednesday the killing of five ISIS senior leaders in an artillery bombing that targeted their gathering west of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
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UTHAL: Awaran Bar Association (ABA) President advocate Dad Shah was gunned down by unidentified armed men in Awaran Town, Balochistan on Wednesday. 
A number of young would-be Afghan migrants on Wednesday said human traffickers are going about their business freely in Kabul and no action is being taken against them.
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday launched a countrywide crackdown against human traffickers in a bid to control the flow of immigrants, specially to Europe.
JEDDAH: Two Saudi policemen were shot dead on Wednesday when they came under fire in the kingdom’s east, where most of the minority Shiite community live, the Interior Ministry said.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that the security forces have destroyed five booby-trapped vehicles belonging to the ISIS, in addition to killing 40 elements of the organization north of Ramadi.
