[Defense One] Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir died in a recent airstrike, but his ideas will shape Islamic State and al-Qaeda tactics for years to come.
Last year, the Islamic State released a training video, one of a multipart series shot in Iraq. With its scenes of foot drills, target practice, and karate chops, it would have been entirely unremarkable were it not for a short classroom scene, in which an instructor walks viewers through the ideological curriculum forced upon new recruits to the ISIS cause. As he’s shown reeling off a list of some key topics in jihadist jurisprudence, one can glimpse a thick volume resting atop each of the 20 or so schoolroom desks--a manuscript that, while few would recognize it outside of jihadist circles, is instrumental to ISIS as a theological playbook that is used to justify the group’s most abhorrent acts.
Recently, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed that the obscure author of this book, Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir, had been killed in a corner of northeast Syria by an American strike. Notably, at the time of his death, he was not affiliated to ISIS but, rather, its chief ideological rival in Syria, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), a group whose orbit he entered into sometime in the last few years.
Mystery and intrigue shroud the life of Muhajir, a man who has a rich aural lineage (literally days’ worth of online recordings) but who only appeared on camera for the first time in June of this year. However, while there is a striking paucity of open-source information about him, the Egyptian national, a veteran of the Afghan jihad and long-time al-Qaeda associate, had a massive impact upon the development of jihadist thought in the last four decades. Indeed, it’s hard to overstate his importance in the context of modern Islamist terrorism--neither the Islamic State nor al-Qaeda would be where they are today without him.
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The Pennsylvania militia did a pretty good job of 'anything goes' warfare at Gnadenhutten in what is now Ohio in 1782. The state of Ohio erected a memorial marker there in 2003, calling the event a "day of shame".
h/t Instapundit
Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan wasn’t a blunder by an inexperienced president-elect unschooled in the niceties of cross-straits diplomacy.
It was a deliberate move -- and a brilliant one at that.
The phone call with President Tsai Ing-wen was reportedly carefully planned, and Trump was fully briefed before the call, according to The Post. It’s not that Trump was unfamiliar with the "Three Communiques" or unaware of the fiction that there is "One China." Trump knew precisely what he was doing in taking the call. He was serving notice on Beijing that it is dealing with a different kind of president -- an outsider who will not be encumbered by the same Lilliputian diplomatic threads that tied down previous administrations.
...And if that message was lost on Beijing, Trump underscored it on Sunday, tweeting: "Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!" He does not need Beijing’s permission to speak to anyone. No more kowtowing in a Trump administration.
...Trump’s call with the Taiwanese president sent a message not only to Beijing, but also to the striped-pants foreign-policy establishment in Washington. ... The irony is that the hyperventilation in Washington has far outpaced the measured response from Beijing. When American foreign-policy elites are more upset than China, perhaps it’s time for some introspection.
In the US and around the world, people are anxiously awaiting US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of his choice to serve as secretary of state. There is no doubt that Trump’s choice for the position will tell us a great deal about the direction his foreign policy is likely to take.
But the fact is that we already have sufficient information to understand what his greatest focus will be.
Trump’s announcement last week that he has selected Marine General James Mattis to serve as his defense secretary is a key piece of the puzzle.
In 2013, US President Barack Obama summarily removed Mattis from his command as head of the US Military’s Central Command. According to media reports, Mattis was fired due to his opposition to Obama’s strategy of embracing Iran, first and foremost through his nuclear diplomacy. Mattis argued that Iran’s nuclear program was far from the only threat Iran constituted to the US and its allies. By empowering Iran through the nuclear deal, Obama was enabling Iran’s rise as a hegemonic power throughout the region.
Mattis’s dim view of Iran is shared by Trump’s choice to serve as his national security adviser. Lt. General Michael Flynn’s appointment has been met with far less enthusiasm among Washington’s foreign policy elites.
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The scenario of terrorists on motorcycles is derived from an incident during Operation Protective Edge in which the army discovered motorbikes in a Hamas attack tunnel. Authorities believed that the bikes were to be used by Hamas for rapid raids into Israel during which they would kidnap or kill Israeli civilians or soldiers and then quickly retreat back into Gaza.
As opposed to the NorK method of going as deep as possible into territory to cause mayhem.
[Guardian] The chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has asked the thousands of "water protectors" gathered in encampments along the Missouri river to "go home" after the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the river.
In a video statement Dave Archambault thanked the thousands of Native American and environmental activists who travelled to North Dakota to help the tribe fight back against the pipeline, which they feared would contaminate their water source and destroy sacred sites.
But after the "huge victory" of the Army Corps decision, Archambault said: "There’s no need for the water protectors or for anyone to be putting ourselves in unsafe environments.
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Local Conditions:
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A little ways away from home, but their gripe is that the oilway, crossing as it does upstream from their Res., could contaminate their water if the 'lines were corrupted. Some credence to this argument. Do they have earthquakes in No. Dak?
Their other position that a leak in the pipeline could desecrate their tribal "Sacred Grounds" which, as a conclusion to my time and experience on terrestrial soil, could only be escaped by living on the high-seas...if there.
[The Hill] Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet with Donald Trump Tuesday, according to pool reports.
Kissinger, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, met with Trump after he won the presidency and earlier during the campaign.
Kissinger also met with China's Xi Jinping on Friday, which some saw as an attempt to ease concerns there about the incoming Trump administration. The meeting came as Trump took a phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, a move that could cause friction between the U.S. and China.
On Monday, Trump also met with Robert McFarland, who served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser from 1983 to 1985. Jason Miller, Trump's transition spokesman, told the pool McFarland had a "great discussion with the president-elect’s national security team."
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If you want to explore the mind spark of the Clinton Foundation, and the chicanery of globalization, look no further than Kissinger Associates model.
I have no idea why Trump would meet with this man or Al Gore. Perhaps his motivations will be revealed in due time.
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Gul Dukat: Anyone can blow up a ship. Ha! But to look your enemy in the eye, knowing you'll remember his face for the rest of your life, now that takes... a stomach, much stronger than you'll ever have.
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I have no idea why Trump would meet with this man or Al Gore. Perhaps his motivations will be revealed in due time.
Kissinger is China's emissary to the US. Xi has told Kissinger to lay down the law, and the Donald had better prostrate himself, or else... We'll see soon enough what Trump is made of. Bush was all set to confront China, especially after the EP-3 incident, but was sidetracked by 9/11 and the punitive expeditions into Afghanistan and Iraq that turned into expensive nation-building exercises.
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I can understand how Nixon wanted detente with China just like he did with the Soviets. That doesn't mean we have to kowtow to them.
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If your premise is the US went off-track after the cold war then it makes sense to talk to some of the foreign policy experts from before before the end of the cold war and get their take.
[Breitbart] Author and radio host Mark Steyn offers support to Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott in his latest column, noting the danger posed to free speech and culture when corporations increasingly politicize every issue by siding with the left in order to silence or de-legitimize the left’s political opponents, which Steyn writes is the real aim of Kellogg’s actions.
Steyn at first takes aim at the Associated Press’ characterization of Breitbart in the wire service’s article about the Kellogg’s boycott, in which the AP writes: "Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content."
From Mark Steyn:
AP doesn’t actually produce any evidence of "racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content", which would require considerable journalistic effort on its part. Instead, it states blandly that the site has been "condemned" as such. "Condemned" used to be a term with legal meaning: A judge tells a convicted man that he is "condemned to hang". But in this case Breitbart hasn’t been convicted of anything, merely labeled by its political opponents. Just like Reuters could "condemn" Associated Press for "featuring pedophile content". If labeling is all it now takes.
And in fact the real target here is not Breitbart so much as the incoming President of the United States, who has appointed Breitbart honcho Steve Bannon as a senior counselor. The losing side in the election wants to "de-normalize" Trump and his administration, by in effect de-legitimizing his voters and their electoral victory.
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A blinding flash of the obvious, but the new president and his administration will have an extremely heavy lift. The 'blowback' from Kelloggs is just the tip of the iceberg.
Heavy profit margins are found in cheap Chinese labor. Visit any box store, Target, Walmart, or Home Depot and discovery is only a single shopping aisle away. The 'Made in China' trend is going to be very difficult to turn around, especially when they continue to buy our debt.
Faceless Institutional investors (who make up the vast majority of the Stock Market), don't give a rat's arse about the 'Forgotten Man' or the concept of 'Made in America.' Similarly, Delta Airlines could care less where the cheap oil comes from, as long as they can continue to reap huge annual profits and pay exorbitant union salaries. (DAL stock has nearly quadrupled over the past four years)
Yes, Trump's lift will be a very heavy one indeed.
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Faceless Institutional investors (who make up the vast majority of the Stock Market), don't give a rat's arse about the 'Forgotten Man' or the concept of 'Made in America.'
And they're not even thinking of those forgotten Americans as they leap from or just burn in the glass towers that housed their offices. However, for a brief moment their colleagues in other buildings, suddenly remember who they're going to call upon to protect their little Brooks Brothers covered posteriors.
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Wonder if the CEO ran this career-making idea past Marketing. Has anyone at Kelloggs recently walked the cereal aisle of any grocery store and seen the other options available? Maybe, to avoid "triggering," they don't recognize competition.
I sent them a nice "eat cornflakes and die" letter last week.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a real winner also. SJW to the core. Interestingly enough, no mention of BLM support at Wiki. Go figure.
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Good. I'll have my kids making quiche within a year. Daughter already makes her own scrambled eggs, and is steadily exploring outside the basic recipe. Anyone out there interested in some cheesy scrambled eggs with (beginner level) diced green pepper and Cholula?
Talk about taking the chicken to the bunk - Americans turn back on NFL and ESPN, dumping the sugar bombs from my kids breakfast, well that is some Michelle Obama award behavior there chuck.
This will be interesting. In an era where people purposefully do not talk about how to make a tuna salad, my kids will be able to go from lure to dessert on their own. Uncultured? Daughter read Tolkien in third grade; I know it isn't the latest app and all. We'll figure that one out after a musical instrument is decided upon.
Maybe g(r)rom's comment got me on a rant, but they really are going to make a generation of bad-asses, if only in comparison to their crop. I don't need their TV entertainment, don't need their education, don't need their advice. They have taught me that I can teach myself how to teach.
"Hey s-for brains racist, buy my quarter pound of processed sugar to feed your kids."
(golf clap)
That is some top notch business modeling right there.
As the snark went, Stupid Kellogg's, cereal is for kids.
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Requires a bit of preparation but, boy, is it worth it!
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That is inspirational.
Cleaning out the fridge the other week, had a cheese ball left over from Thanksgiving - summer sausage & jalapeno. Cooked up some high-quality sausage patties, Texas toast through the toaster, had a sausage & cheese sandwiches.
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1/2 c. generic rolled oats mixed with 1 c. water of your choice. Microwave in huge bowl for 4 min. Add milk if you like &/or flavorings. Eat out of the bowl you cooked it in. Haven't had packaged cold cereal for years.
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The 'Made in China' trend is going to be very difficult to turn around, especially when they continue to buy our debt.
I don't know how much of our debt China still holds, nor Japan either. A few years back I read that both countries had significantly cut back on their holdings of US Treasuries because the interest rate was so low and the risk of default had increased significantly.
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Its an interesting phenomena I have never seen adequately explained. Why companies pander to obviously minority views, invariably on the left, and piss off many of their customers.
In part it's the media that inflates the significance of these minority views, and ignores any blowback, such that the companies can convince themselves that what they do is good for business.
Which is why it took an alternative media heavyweight - Breibart - to throw this issue into focus.
I've been boycotting various companies and products for years, mostly because of their stand on social and political issues. Unfortunately, I never eat cereal.
Perhaps time to reread MauMauing the Flackcatchers.
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The 'Made in China' trend is going to be very difficult to turn around, especially when they continue to buy our debt.
Tariffs will and always have moved business operations to the tariff imposing country, at the expense of consumers in that country. US tariffs and China imports will have the added benefit of financially destabilizing China, which has very high levels of dubious debt.
As for US debt, there is only one limit to how much sovereign (federal government) debt they can issue and it really doesn't matter if anyone buys it, because the government can buy it off itself, ie QE.
The limit is eventually your currency collapses. The USA is a very long way from that point.
Now prithee tell: Why would Orudderless need these kinds of powers?
After eight years as a wartime president, Barack Obama is handing his successor an expansive interpretation of the commander in chief's authority to wage war around the globe. And that reading has continued to grow even as Obama prepares to pass control to Donald Trump.
In his final weeks in office, Obama has broadened the legal scope of the war on extremism, the White House confirmed Monday, as it acknowledged for the first that the administration now asserts it is legally justified to take on the extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia.
The determination is based on an expanded application of a 9/11-era use of force authorization, a statute Obama has repeatedly leaned on to justify military operations. That rationale has raised concerns about how Trump might use Obama's precedent to justify other overseas entanglements -- without consulting Congress.
The White House staunchly defends Obama's use of military power, arguing in a detailed report Monday that all operations have been firmly grounded in domestic and international law. White House counsel Neil Eggleston called the report -- the first of its kind -- a demonstration of how Obama has ensured "that all U.S. national security operations are conducted within a legal and policy framework that is lawful, effective and consistent with our national interests and values."
Yet the report, which Obama said should be updated annually, also reveals how his administration has relied overwhelmingly on the 2001 authorization, which even Obama acknowledges is outdated.
Though the law's targets were al-Qaida and the Taliban, a clause in the bill includes "associated forces" of al-Qaida, in Afghanistan or beyond. That clause is now being used as a catch-all for military action in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Libya, the report shows, plus the basing of U.S. troops in other countries.
As for al-Shabab, until recently, the U.S. determined only that its individual leaders were linked to al-Qaida, which limited targeting of those individuals. Now the broader group is included.
Trump has promised a more muscular and militaristic approach to counterterrorism, occasionally using expletives to suggest he'd aggressively bomb ISIS militants, although he has been vague on details.
Deborah Pearlstein, a former White House official and international law professor at Yeshiva University, said it's likely the next administration will use Obama's framework as its starting point. "By practice and long history, those opinions tend to stand," she said.
For Obama, the heavy reliance on 9/11-era authorities is a powerful illustration of how his campaign pledges to construct limits on the president's war-making powers were confounded by difficulties of dealing with Congress and the pressures of rapidly evolving threats.
Obama came into office aiming to reverse what he argued were the overreaches of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Obama had built a national name opposing the unpopular Iraq War and pledging safeguards to ensure mistakes in that conflict weren't repeated. In the first days of his presidency, he signed executive orders prohibiting secret CIA "black site" prisons and ending harsh interrogation techniques considered by many to be torture.
Yet Obama quickly discovered that imposing strict constraints made it harder to pursue his preferred approach to counterterrorism.
Wary of major overseas entanglements, he turned increasingly to surgical, stealthy operations like drone strikes that have traditionally operated under a murky legal framework. In a nod to that approach, Obama planned to visit U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters Tuesday in Tampa, Florida, to pay tribute to special ops forces.
Obama's challenges were exacerbated by extremist groups whose attacks bear little resemblance to traditional state-versus-state warfare. Meanwhile, Congress displayed little appetite for politically controversial votes to authorize new uses of force.
So even when Obama, in 2014, announced the U.S. would target ISIS with airstrikes, he said the 2001 law gave him authority because the group had grown out of al-Qaida. Months later, he asked Congress to pass a new war powers resolution to address ISIS more specifically and replace the outdated law.
Congress never acted. Obama, unbowed, stuck by his legal argument that the 2001 version was still sufficient.
Not everyone agrees.
"If a president can't convince Congress, as the proxy for the people, of the need to do this such that they will pass an authorization to do it, then we ought not to be using force abroad," said Scott Roehm, vice president of the Washington-based Constitution Project.
Obama did take other steps to try to strengthen the checks on a president's military power. In 2013, he notably pulled back from impending U.S. airstrikes in Syria, and instead sought formal approval from Congress that never materialized. And under pressure from civil liberties advocates, he put in place tougher rules for drone strikes, aiming to limit civilian casualties.
"It's not a legacy that is gonna score a lot of political points. It's imperfect," Obama said in a recent interview with New York Magazine. But Americans will have a better idea "their president is going to have to be more accountable than he or she otherwise would have been."
Some of those details are outlined in the 61-page White House report, the most comprehensive explanation to date of the policies the Obama administration has applied for drone strikes, detention of terrorists and access by humanitarian groups like the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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George Will, who knows a lot, but like all tiresome pedants manages to distill that knowledge into something nobody need to know, got this observation correct: The left sees history as a ratchet, continually moving in the left's desired direction. When this does not happen, leftists are first shocked, then run to the ramparts to defend their imagined gains...
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Only $125B in waste? Or is it that the study that exposed this waste just happened to cost $125,001,000,000 and was only focused on itself?
Senior defense officials suppressed a study documenting $125 billion worth of administrative waste at the Pentagon out of fears that Congress would use its findings to cut the defense budget, the Washington Post reported late Monday. Thereby subverting the will of the honest people's dishonest representatives?
The report, which was issued in January 2015 by the advisory Defense Business Board, called for a series of reforms that would have saved the department $125 billion over the next five years. Here are my reforms:
1) Cancel LCS
2) Cancel F-35
3) Anybody who writes in to expose recurring waste, fraud, or abuse that they aren't part of gets 10% of what they expose for the year and those guilty get thrown in jail.
Among its other findings, the report showed that the Defense Department was paying just over 1 million contractors, civilian employees and uniformed personnel to fill back-office jobs. That number nearly matches the amount of active duty troops 1.3 billion, the lowest since 1940. Make them sign up for the reserve. Then they're at risk of being put uniform and shipped overseas.
The Post reported that some Pentagon leaders feared the study's findings would undermine their claims that years of budget sequestration had left the military short of money. In response, they imposed security restrictions on information used in the study and even pulled a summary report from a Pentagon website.
"They’re all complaining that they don’t have any money," former Defense Business Board chairman Robert Stein told the Post. "We proposed a way to save a ton of money."
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, who originally ordered the study, told the paper that the plan laid out in the report was "unrealistic."
"There is this meme that we’re some bloated, giant organization," Work said. "Although there is a little bit of truth in that ... I think it vastly overstates what’s really going on.
Work claimed that some of the report's recommendations were being implemented on a smaller scale and would save an estimated $30 billion by 2020. However, the Post reported that most of the programs had been long-planned or unreleated to the Defense Business Board report.
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Among its other findings, the report showed that the Defense Department was paying just over 1 million contractors, civilian employees and uniformed personnel to fill back-office jobs. That number nearly matches the amount of active duty troops 1.3 billion, the lowest since 1940.
You know there are only about 330 million in the whole American population (-/+ 10 million or so illegals)?
Besides, the 'work load' doesn't match 1940 levels. So, they suggest instead of having volunteer military we draft civilians again to do grass cutting, chow hall duties, and other non-military assorted details at well below minimum wage. Again you'll have drugs, AWOL and all those wonderful fun times not being an army but daycare for Snowflakes and other assorted misfits of the culture.
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Hey, I'll nominate that we go back the the WWII ratio of general officers to enlisted.
You know, if we only had 5 general officers, being a colonel would become more important (and who you choose for the rank as well). See - grade inflation
[Dhaka Tribune] A Sylhet court has recorded deposition of 17 witnesses in the case file in connection with attempted murder of college girl Khaidza Akter Nargis
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman Hiru recorded the testimonies, including that of the victim’s uncle and plaintiff of the case Abdul Kuddus, and the principal and vice-principal of MC College, on Monday.
The sole accused in the case Badrul Alam, a suspended leader of BCL’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit, was present in the court during the recordings of the depositions. He was produced before the court under strict police protection.
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The "little man in the boat" says "two thumbs up!"
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A fish joint, and business is snappy...
But diners don't seem to be happy,
Asserting, en masse,
"Say, this stuff smells like bass!"
"I assure you, good sir, it's just crappie!"
[DAWN] A teenaged girl was allegedly molested by three men, who also took her photos from a cellphone, in a suburban area of Muzaffarabad over the weekend, Dawn reported Monday.
Fourteen-year-old Zahra*, while speaking to the media, claimed she was sexually assaulted by her distant relatives over a property dispute between her immediate family and that of the accused.
Ashfaq Ahmed, Zahra's elder brother, alleged constable Asghar Ali and his family had been threatening them to give up ownership of a piece of land, some 15 kanals in size, in Nairiyan village, Langarpura Union Council of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
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’Tis the season for crazy, cat-hoarding, hairy-legged feminists to screech about the fairly well-known Christmas song, "Baby It’s Cold Outside." Luckily Affinity Magazine (which is written by millennials so take this with a grain of salt) seems to be the only one SO FAR claiming the song is about rape.
So far being key here folks.
The Twitter comments contained within the post are (mostly) v-e-r-y funny.
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They trotting this tired, old line out again? At this point anyone spouting this shit should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through their heart.
Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah said at Monday's Council of Ministers meeting that the Taliban's leadership has suffered a major blow during recent special military operations conducted by Afghan security forces.
He said according to the National Security Council's order, security forces have focused on eliminating key and operational safe havens of militants.
"The Taliban's leadership in Afghanistan has suffered a major blow in special operations in recent weeks," he said.
He added: "The security forces will be in a better situation in the next year because they will focus on basic and main centers from where the Taliban are organizing their subversive activities."
Meanwhile, a number of military analysts said they believe that next year will be the toughest year yet for Afghan forces if the challenges and gaps are not addressed.
"The security forces should be trained to thwart the new techniques used by terrorists against them," said Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, former minister of interior.
This comes after the ministries of Defense Interior on Sunday said they have identified Taliban's strategic operating centers and will target these facilities in the upcoming winter.
The ministries said the second Shafaq Operation is already underway to eliminate insurgents in insecure regions.
Background from a Cincinnati Enquirer article posted earlier in the day can be read here. May Christopher Lee Cornell get the treatment he needs in prison, if indeed he really is schizotypal, or at least be protected from the temptations of the outside world he is clearly not equipped to handle.
[Cleveland.com] A federal judge who who voiced doubts about a man's remorse and commitment against jihadist violence Monday sentenced him to 30 years in prison for plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol, drawing an outburst in support of Allah as he was led away in shackles.
U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith also ordered lifetime probation after prison for 22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell, including monitoring of his computer use and sharp restrictions on what he can do online. He earlier offered apologies and urged her to give him "a second chance," then afterward called the court system "rigged" and shouted: "Allah is in control, not this judge!"
Beckwith said his plot was "horrific," saying Cornell "took active steps to commit mass murder. .... Additionally, he wanted to assassinate the president."
Cornell, of suburban Cincinnati, earlier pleaded guilty to three charges including attempted murder of U.S. officials and employees in a plot in support of the Islamic State group.
A psychologist who has met with Cornell repeatedly since his January 2015 arrest testified for the defense, which contended that he was a withdrawn loner with mental issues who self-radicalized while spending hours reading online "radical Islamic propaganda." Attorney Martin Pinales scoffed at Cornell plan to carry a semi-automatic rifle into the Capitol building during President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address and open fire on the president, members of Congress and others.
"This whole plan was a magical plan," Pinales said, depicting it as a result of Cornell's distorted thinking influenced by a confidential informant.
Prosecutors played a 15-minute video of Cornell excitedly discussing attacking Washington with the informant and mentioning the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Times Square on New Year's Eve as places that could have been possible targets. Authorities said Cornell also discussed attacking the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Timothy Mangan, an assistant U.S attorney, said Cornell had praised and tried to learn from a gunman's 2014 attack on the Canadian Parliament and pointed out Cornell was arrested in a gun shop parking lot after buying two M-15 semi-automatic rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition. He also cited "lone wolf" attacks including a car-and-knife assault last week at Ohio State University.
"These attacks can happen and they do happen," U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman said afterward.
The defense described the confidential informant as an older Muslim man who was being paid and trying to lessen his own terrorism-related case while becoming someone Cornell looked up to and trusted. Prosecutors said Cornell, with his father's help, tried to identify the man publicly and get retribution after his arrest. They also said Cornell circumvented a jail computer terminal's security program to issue calls for others to fight "the disbelieving people of America."
[al-Manar] Lebanese army on Monday conducted raids in north Lebanon after one soldiers was martyred and another was injured when unknown militants opened fire at an army checkpoint overnight Sunday.
Al-Manar correspondent in north Lebanon reported that army units heavily deployed in the Bqaa Sifrin town in Dinnieh in search of the gunmen, who killed a soldier, Amer al-Mohammad, and injured Abdel Qader Neaman.
The Sunday attack took place after the army raided an area in the town, and arrested a person over terrorist links, our correspondent reported.
Media reports said that the armed men targeted the 10th Infantry Brigade post Sunday night.
Meanwhile on Monday, the Daily Star reported that military helicopters hovered over the areas of Dinnieh and Akkar to assist infantry units who were launching raids in search of the militants.
A single mother punishes herself because you voted for Trump, you bastards! Meanwhile some lucky guy missed stepping aboard the train wreck who wrote this piece.
In August, I went on six dates in one week. I had decided that I was ready to look for a partner. Enough of this dating unavailable men a half-decade younger than me. They’d never seriously consider a relationship with me, my two children and our needy dog. No. I wanted to find an equal. A man who wouldn’t feel the need to step in and rescue me. I didn’t need rescuing. I think I see some of your problem.
But I knew deep down that was only partially true. I often felt the sort of loneliness that settled in my stomach, starting from a chaotic afternoon with my children, lasting well into the night when I pulled covers tight around my chin. Do tell.
I’ve been on my own with my kids for most of the past decade. I have no idea what a supportive partner would even look like in my house. I imagined it as some sort of potluck: We’d both bring the things we have to offer and place them on the table. My ability to multitask and keep everyone’s schedules on track would sit next to his ability to fix cars, cook or read books in silly voices. Then we’d feast. I hate to break it to you so early in this article, but millions of wimmin in your predicament find a partner and get married. It ain't forever -- they missed that boat years back -- but it does help.
Of the six first dates I had in August, two men seemed promising. One of them met me at a brewery. We chatted happily through two beers. Finally I was out of a job interview mode I’d fallen into while sitting across from strangers. I relaxed. I laughed. And it wasn’t the laugh I did just because. It was real. Good to know.
We dated for a few weeks before he admitted he wasn’t ready for something serious. Two days later, the other of those good dates called me out of the blue. We talked for a while, and I asked him to dinner. Things were falling into place. A feast was laid out on the table, and it looked delicious.
But two weeks later, the election happened. Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather my children in bed with me and cling to them like we would if thunder and lightning were raging outside, with winds high enough that they power might go out. The world felt that precarious to me. No, you wanted to inflict your kidz with your own unique brand of madness, instead of letting them be kidz.
My oldest came out of her room the next morning to show me the money the Tooth Fairy had left her. She’d unexpectedly had to have a tooth pulled, and so bravely went through it that I said, “Just think: You’ll always remember the day you got a tooth pulled with the day we elected our first female president.” Way to crap on the kid's early part of her Good Day, Mom.
When I told her Trump had won, she protested: “But Mom. You said Hillary was going to win.” The kid diplomatically left out the appellation, "dummy"
“A lot of people thought the same thing,” I said. I hugged her, a little scared to send her to school, out into the big sky country of the red state where we live.
Twenty minutes later, at a stoplight on the way to drop off my 2-year-old daughter at day care, steam started creeping out from under the hood of my car. Fortunately my mechanic’s shop was nearby.
My radiator was cracked in two places, right at the top. “I really wouldn’t feel comfortable with you driving it,” one of the mechanics said. Luckily a new radiator could easily be obtained and installed that day. I thanked them.
I didn’t start crying until I had crossed the street to walk home. We had a few miles to go, so I carried my daughter. I didn’t mind carrying her; I still had that urge to cling to her and keep her close. It was cold that morning, but the sun started to warm us enough to remove our hats. Halfway home, my tears stopped, and my despair grew to appreciation.
I have the means to fix our car. I, on my own, can support my family. I not only have the strength to keep it together mentally and emotionally but I also have the strength to carry my daughter home. I have the strength to carry all of us.
That urge to cling to my family while keeping our foundation strong didn’t mesh well with continuing to date the man I’d been seeing. He also has a daughter. He, too, had been feeling a lot of the same emotions I was experiencing: hopelessness; fear; uncertainty about the future; panic over having to talk to my 9-year-old about anything that might come up at school, or what to do in the instance of sexual assault. But I couldn’t reach out to him anymore. He was too new, too unfamiliar. Huh? Who is "sexually assaulting" whom? You lost me.
My focus had to be on my community of friends that are my family. I need to fiercely love the people close to me instead of learning to love someone new. To reach out to others could weaken the bonds that hold my family together. You'll note how the prospective male element has been very subtly tagged as an "other" in her mind. Wonder why?
“I can’t,” I told him. “I just can’t.” Left him with zero information, didja?
I’ve lost the desire to attempt the courtship phase. The future is uncertain. I am not the optimistic person I was on the morning of Nov. 8, wearing a T-shirt with “Nasty Woman” written inside a red heart. It makes me want to cry thinking of that. Of seeing my oldest in the shirt I bought her in Washington, D.C., that says “Future President.”
There is no room for dating in this place of grief. Dating means hope. I’ve lost that hope in seeing the words “President-elect Trump.” Sux to be you.
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You should join your other friend that checked into the mental ward. That is where all of the democrat party, marxists, leftists, statists, and nutbag psychopath schitzo LIARS belong.
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She forgot to lead off with her standard "I never thought I'd write to Hustler, but ... "
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I'm sorry for the kids. And I'm sorry for society when these kids grow up.
In grom Jr's previous school there were several "turkey buster" kids. Two observations.
(a) 90% are boys - these women are "who needs a man?", but...
(b) Most of these kids already exhibited serious psychological problems in fourth grade. Combine it with the fact that some of the sperm donors are very bright guys...
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Can't be Julia. Julia's "partner" (don't say boyfriend! That's so sexist!!!) is the O-gummint. Wait. What, O just skipped town? So sad...
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On her own the past decade with kids yet she has a 2 year old and a nine year old? Has she ever been married? Does she consider child support and GIVERnment assistance being independent? 6 dates with different men in one week?
I think it best she does take a break and based on the 2020 election she can then decide if it is safe again.
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I am going to assume the "BabyDaddy(ies)" could have the same conversation as Billy Bob Thorton had with Brad Pitt: "I tried to tell you she was nucking futz!"
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say West Bank-born imam Mohammad Qatanani failed to reveal 1993 arrest for Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", membership
The leader of one of New Jersey’s largest mosques is heading to court to fight from being deported after federal authorities say he lied on his green card application about being detained by Israel more than 20 years ago.
...the good imam has been fighting deportation for years -- his citizenship application was denied in 2006. Before that he came out strongly against the Iraq war...
told his congregation at the Islamic Center of Passaic County that he will return to court on Monday, after the Department of Homeland Security appealed an immigration judge’s decision not to deport him eight years ago after finding no credible links to terrorism, The Record (http://bit.ly/2gYYpqX ) reported.
Qatanani came to the US from Jordan. He was born in the West Bank and said that he was detained by Israeli officials while visiting there in 1993.
Federal officials say that he didn’t disclose being convicted in Israel for being a member of Hamas, but Qatanani denies that he was ever part of the group classified as a terrorist organization by the US government. He says that he was only detained like many others at the time and was never told that he was convicted of anything.
His brother-in-law was a senior Hamas military leader killed by Israel, but Qatanani said in 2008 that he did not participate with him in political activities.
"I know that justice will prevail and that everything will be in the right way. I believe in the judicial system in this country," Qatanani, 52, said Friday.
An attorney for homeland security wasn’t available for comment.
An FBI agent testified previously that Qatanani admitted that he was tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and tried, but he claimed during the trial that he was not aware of the conviction and that he was subjected to physical and mental abuse while in detention.
Qatanani came to the US in 1996 on a religious worker visa to lead the Paterson mosque and has been credited with working with leaders of different faiths and law enforcement. He has worked on the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office’s Moslem outreach task force.
A number of character witnesses have testified on his behalf at his first trial, including a rabbi and several high-ranking New Jersey law enforcement officials.
While serving as the US federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Republican Gov. Chris Christie called him a "man of great goodwill" and said that "he’s always had a very good relationship with us."
(Reuters) Islamic State fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold have hit back in the last two days, exploiting cloudy skies which hampered U.S.-led air support and highlighting the fragile army gains.
In a series of counter-attacks since Friday night, the jihadist fighters struck elite Iraqi troops spearheading the offensive in eastern Mosul, and attacked security forces to the south and west of the city.
On Sunday two militants tried to attack army barracks in the western province of Anbar. Police and army sources said the attackers were killed before they reached the base.
Iraqi officials say they continue to gain ground against the militants who still hold about three-quarters of the country’s largest northern city.
One military source said the militants had taken back some ground, but predicted their gains would be short-lived. “We withdraw to avoid civilian losses and then regain control. They can’t hold territory for long,” the source said.
But the fierce resistance means the military’s campaign is likely to stretch well into next year as it seeks to recapture a city where the jihadists are dug in among civilians and using a network of tunnels to launch waves of attacks.
This has prompted fears among residents and aid groups of a winter food, water and fuel supply crisis for the million residents still in Islamic State-held areas of the city, and calls to speed up operations.
“Daesh (Islamic State) still controls our neighborhood, and the Iraqi forces have not taken a single step forward in three weeks. We’re in despair,” said a resident in the southeastern district of Intisar, where the army’s Ninth Armoured Division has struggled to make gains.
“My family and I have been sleeping under the concrete stairs in our house for a month now, afraid of the random bombardment between the Iraqi forces and the Daesh elements,” he told Reuters by telephone.
“PEOPLE TRAPPED”
The capture of Mosul, the largest city under control of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is seen as crucial towards dismantling the caliphate the militants declared over parts of the two countries in 2014.
Some 100,000 Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish security forces and mainly Shi’ite paramilitary forces are participating in the assault that began on Oct. 17, with air and ground support from a U.S.-led international military coalition.
A senior officer in the Counter Terrorism Services (CTS) said its troops battled on Sunday to clear Islamic State fighters from one eastern Mosul district, using heavy machine guns and rockets.
“Since early morning our troops have been clearing out around 40 Islamic State militants,” said Lt. Gen Abdul Wahhab al-Saidi, as heavy gunfire rattled behind him. “It’s an ongoing operation and we have killed most of the militants.”
“People are trapped in the neighborhood and some have been killed,” said one resident fleeing into an area controlled by Iraqi forces. “They threatened us to try to force us to leave with them, but we refused,” he said referring to militants.
Hundreds of residents in another neighbourhood retaken from Islamic State queued for cooking gas canisters, some squabbling among themselves for a place in the line, others carting away their cylinders on their backs or in wheelbarrows and carts.
Iraqi commanders say they have killed at least 1,000 Islamic State fighters. A government adviser estimated the jihadist group now had about 4,000 fighters in Mosul.
The military has not given figures for its own casualties. The United Nations said last week nearly 2,000 members of the Iraqi security forces were killed across Iraq in November – a figure which Baghdad says was based on unverified reports.
The elite CTS units and the armoured division have captured around half of the eastern side of Mosul, which is split down the centre by the Tigris river.
A U.S.-led coalition has bombed four of the five bridges across the river, aiming to stem a flow of suicide car bombers coming from the west of the city to target the army in the east.
TANKS STRUGGLE
Officers say Islamic State has deployed more than 650 car bombs, but that the pace of attacks has fallen off.
In the Intisar district, the tanks of the armoured division have struggled to adapt to close-quarter urban warfare, and commanders have summoned infantry reinforcement, an officer said.
Commanders also hope to stretch Islamic State defences more thinly, by opening new fronts inside the city.
The head of the police rapid response forces, stationed a few miles south of Mosul on the west bank of the Tigris, told Iraqi television his units were awaiting orders to advance north towards the city.
First they must take control of the Islamic State-held village of Albu Saif, the last obstacle before reaching Mosul airport on the southern edge of the city.
A military statement said the army had captured on Sunday three villages near the town of Shirqat, further south from Mosul and close to the sites of two attacks on Friday night by Islamic State fighters which killed 12 people.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces recaptured on Monday eight villages at the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, according to a statement by the defense ministry’s media circulated by news websites.
The forces also demolished four underground tunnels north of the city that were used for escape by the militants, according to the statement by the War Media Cell.
The latest villages won from ISIS included Nawafla Oula, Nawafla Thania, Tahrir district, Orta Kharab and other villages in the northern line of operations.
“An IED factory was also dismantled in Simaq village…mortar launching equipment and other leftovers were seized,” read the statement.
Iraqi security officials have said recently that the forces became in control of more than 50 percent of the eastern section of Mosul. ISIS remains in control over most of the western section which neighbors the Syrian borders, but commanders at the government and popular forces say they had succeeded to encircle the group inside Nineveh and deprived it of its supply routes from Syria.
Also in Mosul, Abdullatif al-Sinjari, a major at the interior ministry’s SWAT teams, stated that ISIS militants toured the neighborhoods of Baladiyat, al-Sadeq and al-Muthanna, east of Mosul, forcing families to leave homes to other areas under the group’s control, threatening to kill non-complying citizens.
The officer clarified that the group aims to demolish the evacuated homes as means to facilitate its movement in face of Iraqi troops upon their entrance.
On the western side of the city, al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia’s media service said its fighters managed Monday to rescue 200 families from ISIS captivity near Tal Afar. “Al-Hashd forces relocated those families to more secure spots.
Asharq Al-Awsat sez weather is the culprit
Baghdad – Iraqi Security Forces resumed its offensives on the left coast of Sharqat, after three-day halt due to bad weather.
Security forces managed to liberate Kanous town and other villages, according to a source at Saladin police department. The source added that the forces are besieging the three al-Haigal villages.
He also pointed out that one security forces fighter died and three others were injured, while the force discovered the bodies of four ISIS militants in Kanous town.
ISIS militants began to retreat of towns of the left coast of Sherqat towards al-Hawijah, as he expects the towns to be liberated soon. according to the source.
Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others injured during an ISIS suicide attack on a military facility in southeast Haditha, a military Iraqi source stated. The attackers were dressed in Iraqi army fatigues and engaged with the troops after they entered the facility where they blew up themselves, leaving four soldiers dead and some army vehicles destroyed.
According to Lt. Gen. Abdul Karim al-Zawbai, commander of 27th platoon in Iraqi Army’s 7th division, U.S. aircraft of the international coalition raided on an ISIS site killing nine militant and destroying their weaponry.
A senior officer in the Counter Terrorism Services (CTS) said its troops battled on Sunday to clear ISIS militants from one eastern Mosul district, using heavy machine guns and rockets.
“Since early morning our troops have been clearing out around 40 ISIS militants,” said Lt. Gen Abdul Wahhab al-Saidi.
“It’s an ongoing operation and we have killed most of the militants,” he added.
BAGHDAD: Western-backed Iraqi forces have begun shelling parts of west Mosul, residents said, in preparation for a new front against Daesh seven weeks into a difficult campaign to drive the militants from the city.
Federal police forces, stationed a few miles south of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris River that divides the city, have long said they aim to advance toward the airport on the southwestern edge.
Military commanders hope that by opening a second front within the city they can increase pressure on the few thousand terrorists who have deployed suicide bombers, snipers and militant cells against elite Iraqi troops in eastern districts.
An audio statement from Daesh’s new spokesman on Monday urged the militants in Tal Afar to stand their ground.
“Destroy their vehicles, raid them ... in their shelters so they can taste some of your misery and do not talk yourselves into fleeing,” Abi Al-Hassan Al-Muhajer said in an audio recording posted online.
Speaking by telephone from western neighborhoods, residents reported what they said was the first artillery or mortar bombardment of the area.
“About 10 mortar bombs fell on the neighborhood, coming from the south, as the Iraqi forces approached...during the past 24 hours,” a resident of the Mosul Al-Jadida district told Reuters late on Sunday. “It has sparked panic among civilians because this is the first time it has happened in our area.”
He said the bombardment had led to a virtual curfew in the district, with people afraid to leave their homes.
“One of the mortar bombs exploded 100 meters from our house, killing three youths and wounding others,” he said.
In the adjacent neighborhood of Mansour, a resident said the bombardment was an ominous development. “We’re worried there will be a repeat of the scenario in the eastern districts which have seen humanitarian disasters,” he said.
An Iraqi police source, speaking from the front line south west of Mosul, said police rockets or mortars were not yet within range of the edge of the city.
But a military source said French artillery forces, who are supporting the police units, had been firing in the south. The US-led air coalition has also conducted some airstrikes.
Another Mosul resident said on Monday there had been “constant” airstrikes against targets around the airport and in the Tel Roman district on the southwestern edge of the city.
Militants were reported to be on the move. People said they saw 40 or 50 pickup trucks with rocket launchers on top leaving Wadi Agab, an industrial area on the western limits of the city targeted by strikes, and moving to residential areas nearer the expected new front line.
A shopowner near the industrial area said he saw a long queue of pickups leaving the industrial area on Sunday. “This morning I saw more vehicles leaving. I counted at least 50 trucks,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Czech Republic is deploying medical personnel to Iraq as part of international efforts to combat the Daesh group.
The Czech Defense Ministry said a surgical field team of 17 left Prague early Monday. The team is heading to a US Navy base located some 70 km south of Mosul.
Via al-Manar: 2 die in fighting in Sharqat
Two senior Iraqi army officers have been killed in clashes with the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group south of the terrorist bastion of Mosul, the military command said Monday.
The brigadier general and colonel were killed Sunday in the Sharqat area, 90 kilometres (55 miles) from Mosul where Iraqi forces are pressing an offensive to retake the city from the terrorists, the Joint Operations Command said.
Iraqi forces recaptured the western part of Sharqat in September but ISIL still controls eastern Sharqat.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition launched a massive operation to retake Mosul, the terrorists’ last major bastion in Iraq, on October 17.
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[ARA News] Aleppo – Syrian regime’s army forces on Monday gained more ground in the battle for Aleppo.
The Syrian army and allied militias captured the Qadi Askar neighborhood after heavy clashes with rebel groups. The regime forces are now in control of two-thirds of former rebel territory in eastern Aleppo.
“Losing Qadi Askar neighborhood was a new blow to the rebels, who have suffered heavy losses under the regime-led offensive over the last three weeks,” media activist Ali al-Halabi told ARA News in Aleppo.
“At least 22 rebel fighters were killed and dozens more injured in Monday’s clashes,” al-Halabi reported.
In the meantime, the regime’s forces imposed a siege on the rebel-controlled neighborhood of al-Shaar.
Approximately 60% of the formerly rebel-held eastern Aleppo is now under the control of the Syrian regime, according to local sources.
Also on Monday, Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have demanded a seven-day truce in Syria’s Aleppo, with Russia arguing it would allow rebels to regroup and that time was needed for talks between Washington and Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has demanded the rebel factions to withdraw from eastern Aleppo “or they’ll all be treated as terrorists”.
Saleh al-Zein, spokesman of the rebel group al-Shamiya Front, told ARA News that they have refused the Russian demand to withdraw from besieged areas of eastern Aleppo.
“This is our city and we’ll fight until the last moment,” the rebel spokesman said.
“Russia is an occupying force and it has to withdraw from Syria instead of demanding the rebels to leave,” he told ARA News in Aleppo.
The allied forces took control of al-Qatarji, Karm al-Tahan and the national hospital in Aleppo’s east, Hezbollah’s Military Media Center reported on Monday.
The center said that by this swift advance, the allied forces now hold two-thirds of Aleppo’s eastern neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, the center released audio recordings of militant commanders accusing terrorists of Nusra Front and Nour al-Din al-Zinki groups of falling behind in supporting other militants in eastern Aleppo.
On the other hand, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the advance by the Syrian army and allies in eastern Aleppo.
The London-based observatory reported that the allied forces seized the Qadi Askar neighborhood after earlier capturing the Karm al-Myessar, Karm al-Qatarji and Karm al-Tahan neighborhoods, according to AFP news agency.
The group said the advances left the large Shaar neighborhood effectively encircled by allied forces and in danger of falling from militants’ control.
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[Daily Excelsior] Waging over seven decades’ struggle, the West Pak refugees settled in Jammu region today finally got some reprieve with the State Government on the directions of Union Ministry of Home Affairs devising a mechanism to issue certificates to them, excepting state subjects, which would facilitate their recruitment in Central forces including five battalions of Indian Reserve Police (IRP), which are being raised in Jammu and Kashmire.
Official sources told the Excelsior that the State Government has finally come out with a mechanism designating the officers in Revenue Department, who would issue certificates of West Pak refugees and within them the category certificates like Scheduled Caste etc that would facilitate their recruitment in para-military forces for which the Home Ministry has kept special provision.
The relief for West Pak refugees came within days after Union Cabinet approved Rs 2000 crores worth package for Pakistain occupied Jammu Kashmire (PoJK) refugees, which was only a part of the package and not full and final settlement.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Dr Jitendra Singh, who was vigorously following the package for West Pak and PoK refugees ever since his appointment as the Union Minister along with representatives (of the refugees), said the devising of mechanism for issuing caste certificates to West Pak refugees was one among various steps being taken by Narendra Modi Government to mitigate their sufferings.
"We are vigorously following the case of West Pak refugees in the Home Ministry along with their representatives and more measures were in the pipeline to help them," Dr Singh said.
According to sources, the Union Home Ministry has designated Joint Secretary Home, Incharge Jammu and Kashmire, Gyaneshwar Prasad to work out solution to the issues of the West Pak refugees, who have been denied state subject rights even after about 70 years of their migration. In view of this, the West Pak refugees were not entitled to jobs in the State Government.
Sources said the Home Ministry has kept special reservation for the West Pak refugees in the Central forces. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... they were not able to apply for the para-military forces against the reserved posts as the Revenue officers of the State had refused to issue caste certificates to them.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, on the intervention of Dr Jitendra Singh, had written to the State Government to devise a mechanism for issuance of caste and other certificates to the West Pak refugees to entitle them to apply for para-military forces and five IRP battalions being raised in the State.
"A mechanism has now been devised and the officers designated to issue West Pak refugee and caste certificates, which would facilitate their recruitment in the para-military forces, IRP battalions and other Central Government jobs," sources said.
They added that some other major issues like permission to West Pak refugees to carry out studies in the State and reservation for them outside the State are being followed as the State Government has shown its helplessness in issuing state subjects to them.
Sources said an exclusive employment package for the West Pak refugees in Central forces and other Centre Government jobs was likely to be worked out after the end of ongoing Parliament session.
The process to work out settlement to the problems of West Pak refugees was set in motion after their delegation met Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who took cognizance of their problems and was very supportive of them and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, a law knowing persons, who suggested some ways out.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... sources clarified that Rs 2000 crores worth relief package approved for PoJK refugees by the Central Government was not end of the road.
"This is not the full and final settlement. During disbursement of package, the PoJK refugees will not be asked to submit affidavit of final settlement," sources said, adding that since Rs 2000 crores was part of Rs 80,000 crores package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it has been approved and is being kept at the disposal of the State Government for disbursement.
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[DAWN] Baloch social worker Abdul Wahid returned to his home in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... area on Monday after allegedly being taken into custody in July this year, family sources told Dawn.
Missing since July 26, social activist and writer Abdul Wahid Baloch was taken away by two men in plain clothes while travelling on a bus en route to Karachi with a friend.
Baloch’s eldest daughter, 20-year-old Hani, had told Dawn at the time of his 'kidnapping' that her father and his friend Sabir Ali Sabir, and his two children, were returning from an event in Digri, a town in Mirpurkhas district of Sindh, on the afternoon of July 26.
Quoting her father's friend, she had said two men in civilian clothes, "one in black and the other in white, came towards the van as it stopped at the Superhighway toll plaza and asked my father’s friend to show his identity card."
The family, along with a few friends, then approached the Gadap Town cop shoppe, located right next to the toll plaza. "The police refused to register an FIR and asked us to wait for three days, as he might return," Hani had said. "We then approached the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP), where we submitted an application along with his details."
Abdul Wahid is a book lover and was a telephone operator at Karachi's Civil Hospital. He helped Baloch authors publish their works and activists print posters.
A close friend of his told Dawn earlier that Abdul Wahid was known for participating in events, protest rallies and hunger strikes held by Baloch activists and fishermen for the missing persons. "He was referred to as comrade and used to be a constant fixture at the Karachi Press Club," he said.
A strange tale. Has our hero truly no idea who took him and kept him hid all these many months?
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Two senior IS leaders were reportedly have been killed trying to swim away from the Sirte beachside properties while video has emerged of Friday’s female suicide bombing.
IS commanders Yusuf Mulaytan and Faiez Attiya were among eight terrorists discovered seeking to escape by sea in the last 48 hours. Two who were captured alive were identified as Tunisians.
Women and children have continued to stumble out of the rubble, though after Friday’s suicide attack by a woman, in which four BM fighters died, they are being handled with far greater caution. No figure was given for the numbers coming across the lines.
Video has emerged of that deadly attack. The black-garbed woman can be seen in the wide entrance to a shelter with a group of men around her. Her captors appear to be yelling at her that she must allow herself to be searched. She slowly raises her arms and looks to be shouting something, at which point the camera turns to follow men rushing for shelter in alcoves before a second later, there is a blinding flash.
BM operations room said today that loudhailer messages continue to call on the families to surrender. In some cases, it said women known to be there were being addressed by name, though BM did not say how it had discovered their identities.
Fifteen bodies were reportedly found in the course of the day with more likely to be trapped beneath rubble as as BM forces carry on blasting the remaining terrorist positions.
It has taken eight months, the lives of at least 712 Bunyan Marsous fighters (three of them in the final 24 hours) and the wounding, sometimes catastrophically of 3,210 more, but today the guns fell largely silent over Sirte as the last IS terrorists were killed or surrendered.
There was confusion this morning when one spokesman for the BM operations room declared the battle over only to be contradicted by another who said there were still pockets of resistance.
But even one or two hold-out gunmen could not disguise the final victory. At least a dozen surviving terrorists surrendered while their dead comrades were dragged from buildings and laid in a line. Terrified women and children scrambled over rubble to reach BM lines, where after at least one female suicide bombing in recent days, fighters were now extremely watchful. Pictures were posted of dehydrated children being cared for by medics.
The final collapse of resistance may have had something to do with yesterday’s intense air onslaught. US Africa Command said there had been 15 airstrikes on 42 different terrorist positions. This brought to 492 the number of air raids the US has launched since it began supporting BM operation on 1 August. The beachside properties in which IS made their final stand and much of the surrounding Ghiza neighbourhood have been reduced to rubble.
Washington said in September that its anti-terrorism air mission were being extended from Sirte to the rest of Libya. It is now accepted that even before the Mistratan-led advance on Sirte, an organised group of IS fighters escaped in May. In April terrorists had attacked and occupied the key Abu Grain junction with the road leading to the south. It was not until three weeks later that BM forces were able to retake the position. Since then other terrorists are thought to have slipped through BM lines, even around Sirte itself, where cooperation and coordination between different units was not always evident.
Proof of this may have come with a claim this evening from IS that it had ambushed two tanks at Check Point 60 (Buwabat Siteen) 60 kilometres south of Misrata on the main southern highway beyond Tawergha at the junction with the road heading west to Bani Walid. There has been no comment from BM on the report. The terrorists claimed to have killed 18 BM fighters in this ambush and in the final fighting in Sirte.
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The game of Islamic Whack-a-mole continues in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi media outlets reported on Monday, that an international coalition air strike either killed or wounded 22 members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State group (ISIS), southwest of Kirkuk.
Alsumaria News stated, “This morning, coalition aircraft conducted an air strike, targeting a gathering of the extremist group’s militants, in central Hawija district.”
“The airs strike resulted in the killing of eight ISIS members and wounding of 14 others,” the media outlet added.
“The air strike also destructed a building used by the group’s members for hiding,” Alsumaria explained.
Noteworthy, Islamic State group’s members imposed their control on the areas of Kirkuk province, including Hawija district, al-Riyad, Abbasi, Zab, as well as Basheer village, after capturing the city of Mosul in 10 June 2014.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One civilian was killed and five others were wounded on Monday in an IED blast south of Baghdad.
Police sources said the explosion occurred near a fish market in al-Qasr al-Awsat district.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the blast, but Islamic State militants have claimed several violent attacks across Iraq since they occupied large areas of the country in 2014.
On Friday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said violence during November claimed the lives of 926 civilians and wounded 930 people.
Observers believe ISIS have begun to target several areas across Iraq to divert security focus on Mosul, where the group fights to defend its last bastion in Iraq under the brunt of continuous advancements by Iraqi government and popular troops.
Pakistani paramilitary forces Monday killed five members of a militant group linked to the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, officials said.
Frontier Corps troops stormed a compound in the southwestern province of Balochistan and killed them in a gunfight, paramilitary spokesman Khan Wasay told AFP.
The militants belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which works both with ISIL and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, he said.
Provincial home secretary Akbar Harifal confirmed the details of the clash in the village of Huramzai in Pashin district, 35 kilometres (21 miles) north of the provincial capital Quetta.
The LeJ has claimed responsibility for some of the most brazen attacks on minorities in Pakistan’s recent history, and had also turned its guns on government forces in recent years.
Separately, security forces arrested 10 Baloch separatists after a gunfight in Khuzdar district.
Mineral-rich Balochistan province has been plagued for decades by a separatist insurgency and sectarian killings.
Throughout the 2016 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump warned repeatedly that his opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, would attempt to undermine the voting process.
According to some critics, one election observer has stumbled on the bombshell proof that Clinton attempted to rig the election they’d been waiting for.
During the controversial Wisconsin election recount forced by Green Party candidate Jill Stein initiated Friday, one observer noticed a number of small stickers that were torn on the election machines -- and the implications are alarming.
A volunteer election observer going by the name Wendy reported that in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, five of the nine machines being used in the recount have tampered seals.
She posted four pictures as evidence to prove it -- two of the broken seals, and the corresponding machine’s serial numbers.
This isn’t the first time Wisconsin voting results have been highly controversial, either. In April, Trump supporters accused the establishment of rigging the primary against their candidate.
Additionally, there remains widespread belief among Trump supporters that the president-elect received a greater share of votes than was reported.
In Wisconsin, Trump won by a razor thin 0.8%.
It depends how one calculates it, I suppose. Mr. Trump got 27,257 votes more than Mrs. Clinton, which the way I calculated it is 1.94% more. The recount doesn't seem to be changing those numbers much.
If voting machines were indeed tampered with, as this election recount observer’s pictures imply, that belief gains significant credibility.
Once President Trump has been sworn in, the Republican governor of Wisconsin can get on with cleaning up the voter rolls and recertifying all the voting machines.
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Really. What do democrats have to say about voter fraud other than they pay for and sponsor 90% of it?
And this bring moslem to America sham program only compells me to know that democrats are not democrats at all. They are Damn Fascist marxist idiots that live fairy tales while the populace looks at them like lobotomized parrots.
Absolutely nothing the left has done for the world has ever been good. NOTHING at all. Ever.
They are Universal f#ck^ps eternally, or at least they will find out when they DIE.
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Bet it was kids with parents voting. Kids can't resist peeling off super sticky property control or SNz. It's also fun to take the sticker and cover the LED on the mouse. Laff riot!
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St. Croix County, Wisconsin is JUST east of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the same area that 'found' enough votes during the recount for Al Franken to win Senate race in 2009.
Would put it past the folks in the area to 'coordinate'.
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Whooaa daddy! That's some "Explosive PROOF" alright. And if you can't trust The Horn news who can you trust?
pathetic
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That's right, DepotGuy. If it's not on ABC it's gotta be fake news.
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The problem with voting machines is that unless you personally work on all the hardware, software and firmware that goes into it you really have no idea how it works. There is all kinds of room for mischief. But everybody knows how paper ballots work. They're simple and foolproof. Well, mostly foolproof. I'll take my chances with the hanging chads.
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If it's not on ABC it's gotta be fake news.
Nice try Abu Strawman. Read their bio. They're one of the myriad of new Trump propaganda sites. If you hadn't noticed it's been quite a booming cottage industry lately. And as far as putrid sludge chummed out of this one...well...it's downright explosive I tells ya.
What stinks to me is that when there is evidence of irregularities, the votes are NOT subject to recount. If you aren't going to recount them, then shouldn't the initial count be thrown out? Weird rule. If you stuff the ballot box, then fudge the book and there's no recount. Massive fraud in Michigan. Probably Urban Meyer's fault.
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I don't care what their bio is. I wanna know if they're reporting facts instead of the spin I hear on ABCNBCCBSCNN and if so, why are the appropriate authorities not investigating? Who is this Wendy person. Are the pictures she took for real? Can the authorities track down the machines and find out why the seals were broken? Send Diane Sawyer out there and get some answers. If it's fake news Diane will be sure to debunk it tout suite. Then ABC can have a field day discrediting the Horn. But you'll never know for sure because Diane had a few cocktails with her lunch and she's taking a nap.
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Yeah, and Anderson Cooper is busy doing Kelly Live.
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#12 - Just two emotional hysterical girls chatting
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Outrage!: Columbia mattress girl removes tag
Horror!: Liberal clickbait destroys baby's faith in God
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The report and phots come from Jill Stein trying to justify the Wisconsin recount, so the question is whether this website is carrying water for the Greens.
According to Snopes, which is probably not in Dr. Stein's corner, St. Croix officials looked into it. Snopes has their statement as part of their discussion of the report here.
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Unrecountable, in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
How many bags, are now unreadable
I am thinking this smells of doo doooooooo
[OneNewsNow] A lawsuit claiming that the national motto of the United States is unconstitutional ‐ filed by the notorious atheist Michael Newdow ‐ was dismissed by an Ohio federal court last week.
Representing atheists nationwide, Newdow contended that the Americans’ free speech and free exercise clause rights are violated solely because they appear on U.S. currency.
Handling cash offensive?
It was argued that the mere existence of the national motto on a dollar bill forces religious beliefs upon the user. Ever heard of a credit card, Derp?
"Plaintiffs asserted that carrying currency equated to governmental compulsion to speak in support of the National Motto and to bear a ’religiously offensive’ message, in violation of the Free Exercise Clause and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act," the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) reported.
However, Newdow’s claim met stiff competition, as ACLJ attorneys filed an amicus brief on behalf of 50 members of Congress and the Committee to Protect the National Motto ‐ consisting of more than 120,000 ACLJ members ‐ calling for the court to dismiss Newdow’s problematic lawsuit.
"While the First Amendment affords atheists complete freedom to disbelieve, it does not compel the federal judiciary to redact the national motto from the Nation’s currency," ACLJ’s brief reads. "Plaintiffs’ quarrel is essentially with a foundational principle of America, [and] the national motto simply echoes the principle found in the Declaration of Independence that our freedoms come from God and not the state."
Also contended In the brief is the fact that neither the free speech rights ‐ nor the free exercise rights of atheists ‐ are violated by just looking at the National Motto on American currency.
"Placing the National Motto on currency does not force atheists to do anything," ACLJ attorneys explain. "The National Motto is the government’s message and no one would attribute that message to atheists or to any other person who happens to carry money." Continued...
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[Front Page] Makes sense. This way Obama doesn't have to waste his time by continuing to commute the sentences of individual drug dealers, as he's been doing, instead he can offer a big broad spectrum pardon for all the oppressed criminals.
Jesse Jackson Jr. urged President Barack Obama Thursday to pardon millions of former prison inmates...
In his open letter to the president, which Jackson posted to his Facebook page early Thursday morning, the former congressman claimed that "the great 2016 pardoning of the masses will create a resounding echo in history and will mark you as the greatest Christian president ever to serve."
"Truly, Mr. President, with a presidential pardon equally monumental to, and greater in scope than, the Emancipation Proclamation the legacy of Barack Hussein Obama II will be one of faith, hope and love," he added.
Jesse Jackson's noble call though is inhibited only by the fact that this pardon would apply to him stealing campaign funds to buy a Michael Jackson fedora.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor and mayor of southern Zabul province escaped an ambush by unknown gunnies earlier today.
According to the local government officials, the incident took place on Zabul-Kandahar highway as the two brass hats were on their way to Safa district.
Provincial governor’s front man Gul Islam Siyal confirmed the incident and said governor Bismillah Afghanmal and mayor Karimullah Hakimi escaped the attack unhurt.
No group including the Taliban Death Eaters has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
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Like a criminal syndicate, they are.
[ARA News] Daraa – A prominent Syrian rebel leader was assassinated on Monday by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. Local sources reported that the attack took place in Syria’s southern Daraa Governorate.
A group of ISIS militants were able to infiltrate into the rebel-held Yarmouk neighborhood in eastern Daraa.
“Daesh [ISIS] militants assaulted the office of the rebel commander Abdulnour al-Nassan in Yarmouk. The commander was found dead along with two of his guards,” Wissam al-Amir, a spokesman for the Southern Front Rebels told ARA News in Daraa.
Clashes broke out between the rebel fighters and ISIS militants after the attack. “Two of the Daesh cell were killed and four others were taken captive,” al-Amir reported.
Abdulnour al-Nassan, also known as Abu Lina, was the leader of the Hamza al-Naemi Brigade–which fights alongside other factions under the umbrella of the Southern Front Rebels.
The Southern Front Rebels is a main rebel coalition in southern Syria, fighting against the regime’s forces and ISIS.
This is not the first time for ISIS to target Syrian rebel leaders in Daraa.
On September 28, Hassan Abazid, the leader of Jund al-Farouq rebel group, was killed along with three of his guards in an ISIS-led car bomb attack in the town of Gharz in Daraa suburb. Jund al-Farouq is a powerful Free Syrian Army (FSA) faction. Its leader, Hassan, led military operations in Daraa against both ISIS and the Syrian regime forces.
In July, ISIS claimed responsibility for the assassination of another well-known Syrian rebel leader in Daraa Governorate. Shakir Nabbut al-Rashwani, the commander of Homs al-Waleed, was reported dead after militants blew up his car in the al-Balad District.
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[Ynet] Officials say a Greek court has refused to extradite to the first three of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the failed July 15 military coup.
All eight helicopter crewmen deny charges they participated in the coup and in a plot to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... Monday's decision by the Athens council of appeals court judges followed arguments by a Greek prosecutor that the lives of the pilots and flight mechanics would be in danger in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The three Turks are expected to be released from police custody in the coming days.
Their lawyer, Stavroula Tomara, said the court will rule over the next three days on the extradition of the other five servicemen. All eight fled to Greece in a Turkish military helicopter July 16
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[Daily Excelsior] Army today captured an infiltrator from Pakistain Indian Kashmiree (PoK) in an injured condition on the Line of Control (LoC) at Rangarh Nullah near Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch district.
Official sources said troops spotted the infiltrator moving towards the Indian territory and challenged him to surrender. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... he tried to run away and was fired upon. Later, he was captured from near the LoC in an injured condition.
The intruder has disclosed his identity as Mohammad Nadeem, 40, son of Mohammad Iqbal R/o Abbaspur, Rawlakote in PoK.
He was shifted to hospital in injured condition for treatment and has been kept in jug of police.
Sources said further details including motive behind the infiltration would emerge during his questioning by the police.
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General James Mattis has reportedly accepted his nomination for Secretary of Defense, and if confirmed would serve under President Donald Trump.
After he was nominated, having heard rumors about "Mad Dog" Mattis over the years, I called upon our best friend’s son, SSG John C. Steffens, US Army, to inquire more about Mattis; about his real disposition and personality. John worked closely with General Mattis for about a year as a member of Mattis’ "Executive Protection" detail, in the Protective Services Division (PSD). They spent a lot of time together.
So last night (December 1st, 2016), I went to see John, his wife Tadzia, and their three children ‐ Little John, Joanne, and Emma. I was happy to have a chance to get some insights into General Mattis from someone who has spent a great deal of time around him. General Mattis had not yet accepted the nomination at the time of the interview.
The General is famously quoted as saying, "Demonstrate to the world there is ’No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy’ than a U.S. Marine." Well, he may be "Mad Dog Mattis" to his enemies, but to those who know him, there is indeed no better friend. See below:
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Well, "Mad Dog Mattis" does sort of have a pleasing rhythm to it, if he's on your side.
"Just give us some time to come up with some ballots..."
ADEN, Yemen: Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi would cede power only to an “elected” leader, after rejecting a UN peace roadmap asking him to hand over to a deputy, an official said Monday.
Hadi made his statement during talks last week in Aden with UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who has begun a new attempt to restart negotiations between the government and Iran-backed rebels.
The official said the roadmap, whose content was not made public, requires Hadi to cede power to a vice president named in agreement with the rebels, a plan the president rejected.
Hadi referred to a former peace plan brokered by Gulf states, which stipulated that he would supervise the country’s political transition.
“The roadmap has contradicted the Gulf initiative in terms of the president’s powers,” the official told AFP, adding that Hadi should run Yemen during the transition and supervise national dialogue and elections.
“He would pass his powers to an elected president,” the official said.
The Gulf initiative eased former president Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power in 2012 after 33 years in office following a year of nationwide protests. It also led to Hadi’s election the same year.
But in a blow to the political transition, Saleh allied himself with Shiite Houthi rebels who overran the capital in 2014 and expanded their control across Yemen, forcing Hadi to flee to Riyadh in March 2015.
A Saudi-led coalition intervened the same month in support of Hadi’s government.
In his response to the UN mediator, Hadi demanded that Saleh and rebel chief Abdul Malik Al-Houthi “abandon politics and be forced into a country of exile of their choice for 10 years.”
More than 7,000 people have been killed and nearly 37,000 wounded since Yemen’s conflict escalated in March 2015.
[NYP] This is the horrifying moment a pregnant dancer was shot dead on stage ‐ by drunk men who were angry that they could not dance with her, it was reported.
Kulwinder Kaur died after she was gunned down at a wedding in Bathinda in the Punjab state in Northern India. Four people have since been arrested for the murder of the 25-year-old and remain in custody after shocking footage of the shotgun attack was posted online and went viral.
Among those arrested include Lucky Goyal, the leader of the Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal, and his friend Sanjay Goyal. Two others have not yet been named. The young woman’s husband, named as Rajinder Singh, claimed she was three months pregnant when she was killed.
All Sikhs, then. Got it.
He added that a few drunk men tried to get on stage to dance with the girls but they were refused by stage management. Singh claimed they grew frustrated by this and fired a gun out of anger, with a bullet hitting his wife and killing her instantly.
Police Senior Superintendent Swapan Sharma said: "Both weapons found by officers belonged to Sanjay Goyal, but Lucky was holding the 0.32 bore revolver, as per the video clipping which we have seen.
"Lucky fired in the air while trying to go on stage. Sanjay Goyal was also near the stage holding his 0.12 gun. Both weapons have been recovered."
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More shocking than the shooting (to me, anyway) was the brutally careless way she was "carried" off the stage (thunk!) and dragged across the floor. Dunno whether they were trying to hide her or help her at that point, but it was painful to watch. I guess this is where I say "bloody savages" and thank God for putting me in a place where, if I'm gunned down by thugs, I'll be hauled away by experts.
[DAWN] WANA: In what could be described as a deadly mix-up, four people were killed when security personnel opened fire on their vehicle in Barmalzai tehsil of South Wazoo Agency on Monday.
The security forces opened fire on a suspected vehicle on an unfrequented route near the Barmalzai Fort, leaving four persons dead. Eight people were traveling in the pick-up vehicle which was on its way from Angor Adda to Wana, said sources. The security personnel mistook the inmates for bully boys.
According to a political administration’s statement, the dear departed were identified as Manikhel, Ghulam Khan and Inayat of North Waziristan Agency while the fourth one was identified as Neik Sadin of South Wazristan Agency. Four others, identified as Sher Jan, Fazal Manan, Eid Muhammad and a woman, Noor Bano, were taken into custody.
According to the locals of the area, the incident took place due to a misunderstanding as the unfrequented route was used as an alternative to other roads closed in Dattakhel and surrounding areas.
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[DAWN] Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... on his return from India on Sunday night after attending the Heart of Asia (HoA) conference in Amritsar expressed serious reservations over the remarks and attitude of the Indian prime minister and Afghan president.
This won't set too well with the Russians, I s'pect
[AlManar] Armed groups operating in Syria shelled a mobile Russian hospital in Aleppo on Monday, killing a female paramedic and wounding two doctors, the Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
“Today during an appointment of local residents, militants attacked with artillery the Defense Ministry medical facility’s mobile hospital in Aleppo. As a result of a direct hit, one Russian military paramedic was killed and two staff workers were badly wounded. Locals rushed to help and were also hurt,” he said.
The spokesman underscored that militants of the Syrian “opposition” were “undoubtedly” behind the attack.
“We know who provided the militants with information on the Russian hospital and its exact coordinates. Therefore it’s not only the actual perpetrators who are responsible for murdering and wounding our medics who were administering aid to Aleppo children.”
“The hands of those who instigated this murder are also coated with the blood of our servicemen. Those who created, fed and armed those beats in human disguise, naming them ‘opposition’ for justification before their own conscience and voters. Yes, [this blood is on your hands], terrorists’ patrons from the US, UK, France and their sympathizers,” he said.
Previous internationally mediated ceasefires have collapsed as militants continued attacks and opposition failed to expel al-Nusra Front, which is now known as Fatah al Sham Front, from the city.
[DAWN] AMRITSAR reconfirmed Pakistain remains a target of joint criticism by India and Afghanistan. Much of domestic and international opinion by and large concurs with such criticism. Such is the failure of our Afghanistan and India policies. They cannot and will not be redressed by those who can only construct self-serving narratives. Control of our Afghanistan and India policies remain with those who are neither authorised nor qualified for the task. The situation is similar for much of our domestic security and political policies,
Our India policy impacts our Afghanistan policy. This is not to say Pakistain’s Afghanistan policy should run through Delhi. But to a great extent it does because our short-sighted and incompetent policymakers effectively insist that it does -- with consistently negative results. Consistent with Einstein’s definition of lunacy, our adherence to such an India-focused Afghanistan policy is endlessly pursued in the hope that, somehow some day, it will produce positive results! We remain obstinately India-centric in the conduct of our Afghanistan policy, which has always alienated Afghanistan. It wilfully ignores the sensibilities and self-image of our Afghan brethren. Moreover, history testifies that any policy towards Afghanistan that provokes Afghan resistance is doomed to failure.
While Afghanistan cannot be treated as an aspect of our India policy, the state of our relations with India does impact on the range of options we can avail of to improve our relations with Afghanistan. This is because any significant and sustained improvement in our relations with India may (a) incline us to re-evaluate our dysfunctional strategies towards Afghanistan and (b) reduce India’s incentive to use its influence with Afghanistan as an option against Pakistain. For Pakistain to be simultaneously locked in a zero-sum relationship with two of its most immediate neighbours is pure folly. Pakistain can never be stable in such a situation.
India is, of course, the greater challenge because it is by far the bigger country and there is a long and cumulative history behind the current relationship. Moreover, Pakistain cannot control and contain the longer-term consequences of a hostile relationship with India. In the case of Afghanistan, the ’differences’ are much more recent and far less profound even if they are not insignificant. Pakistain as the larger country is more able to lend a positive orientation to the development of the relationship. This would enhance our ability to cope with the challenge of India. We should, accordingly, ensure that the India-Afghanistan-Pakistain trilateral dynamic does not remain a vicious circle for us.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... approved, in principle, the renaming of Quaid-e-Azam University's (QAU) physics department to the Professor Abdus Salam Center for Physics on Monday, according to a Press Information Department (PID) statement.
The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training was directed to draw up a formal summary of the renaming of QAU's National Centre for Physics for President Mamnoon Hussain's approval.
The PM also approved a grant for five annual fellowships for Pak PhD students in the field of Physics through the Higher Education Commission in reputable international universities. The programme will be named the Professor Abdus Salam Fellowship, the PID said.
The moves were made in order to recognise the contributions of Dr Abdus Salam, a major figure in 20th century theoretical physics, the PID said. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the field.
He was the first Pak to receive a Nobel Prize in science.
"His remarkable achievement earned fame and prestige for the country which rightly deserves to be valued," the PID said. I believe he's so far the only Pak to receive a Nobel prize in science. Left out of the description is the fact that he's not a proper Moslem, but an Ahmadi, which means somebody will blow himself up in protest and that there'll be political pressure to name the center after someone else -- perhaps a bustard-shooting Qatari will donate a few million and they'll name it the "Al-Thani Center for Moslem Science."
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[DAWN] At least 12 people were killed and 75 others injured when a huge fire erupted at Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Regent Plaza hotel early Monday, police and a doctor said.
The blaze broke out in the kitchen located at the ground floor of the four-star hotel located on the city's Shahrah-e-Faisal, and swept through the building, trapping scores of hotel guests in their rooms.
Three trucks from the fire brigade reached the site and started an operation to rescue the guests.
The firefighters were able to contain the blaze after three hours, with 11 people having been killed, said a blurb issued by the Saddar Police Station.
No fire exits?
Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar speaking to news hounds outside the hotel said the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained.
He said the hotel had "no fire exits or fire alarms".
"We have received 11 dead bodies and 75 injured," Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency services at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, told AFP.
Amongst the injured were people who had fractured bones after jumping from hotel windows to escape, others had been hurt by shattered glass and many were treated for smoke inhalation, she said.
She said six men, including three doctors and the hotel's front desk manager, and five women were among the dead. A couple from Punjab, attending a wedding in the metropolis were also among the dead. Three foreigners affected by the fire are in a stable condition, said Jamali.
Rescue officials recovered another body from the washroom of a room on the second floor on Monday evening.
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[Guardian] Native American activists at the Standing Rock "water protector" camps vowed to remain in place the morning after the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a key permit for the Dakota Access pipeline, with many expressing concerns that the incoming Trump administration and potential legal action from the pipeline company could reverse their victory.
The Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that it would not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the Missouri river, handing a major victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe after a months-long campaign against the pipeline.
However, the companies behind the pipeline, who have the backing of the incoming Trump administration, have insisted the project would still go ahead. "Nothing indicates for us to pack up and go home," said Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "Our native people have reason to be distrustful."
Donald Trump's spokesman says the former reality show host will consider restarting the Dakota Access pipeline project when he takes office. The Army Corps of Engineers refused to grant an easement for the pipeline.
A great many people are going to find the next four years challenging.
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The speaking with forked tongue part seems to be true: The Army Corps of Engineers in July granted ETP the permits needed for the crossing, but the agency decided in September that further analysis was warranted given the tribe's concerns.
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The DAPL would cross the Missouri River (impounded Lake Oahe) about 75 miles upstream of the current railroad crossing and future Reservation water system intake at Mobridge, SD - the current water intake is at Fort Yates, about 45 miles north, but more subject to low water levels during drought.
75 miles downstream of a pipeline crossing is a LONG way! Several pipelines under the Mississippi River are closer to New Orleans water intake than that. Check out a pipeline map of the US - I suspect a majority of the population gets water from within 75 miles of a pipeline.
Warm up the drones, lads, there's a new Number Three to hunt.
[Ynet] ISIS identified a new media front man for the group for the first time on Monday in an audio message released online.
The recording appeared on Al Furqan, a media organization linked 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.... , giving the new front man's name as Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer.
The United States confirmed in September that Islamic State's previous front man, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, had been killed in a US air strike on Aug. 30 in Syria
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In which the reversal of the ISIS conquests is laid out.
[AlAhram] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which has just lost its Libyan coastal stronghold of Sirte, has also suffered a series of major setbacks in Iraq and Syria.
The Islamist krazed killers, who since 2014 have seized swathes of territory in the three countries, are currently under attack in their strongholds of djinn-infested Mosul
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Benghazi, 5 December 2016:
Another senior officer was killed today as the Libyan National Army lost nine dead in bitter fighting in Benghazi’s Ganfouda district.
Mohamed Al-Busaifi of the Zawia Martyrs’ battalion was killed as the army sought to drive a wedge through terrorist positions, cutting off a coastal strip from the rest of the enclave. He is the third senior officer to die in the last week. Seven of the other soldiers to perish were in the 106 Battalion.
The army has given no figure for the number of wounded in today’s battle. However, around midday the Benghazi Medical Centre put out an appeal for extra staff to come to the accident and emergency department.
The terrorists launched two suicide vehicles towards army lines but both were destroyed by heavy gunfire before they could reach their targets. The detonation of one of the vehicles near the customs compound from which the militants were driven last week sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky. The army also claimed to have captured three technicals as well as an ambulance.
Once again there are no details of dead or wounded among the fighters of the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council and their IS and Ansar Al-Sharia terrorist allies. Nor has the army released any details of civilians seeking to flee the enclave.
The recent suicide bombing by at least one apparently-surrendering female in Sirte is likely to have reinforced the LNA’s demands that anyone wishing to leave the encircled area will have to be searched.
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Libyan armed forces have declared a state of emergency in the country on Monday, in an attempt to restore stability in the state, putting all democratic processes on hold.
Ali Katrani, head of the Presidential Council at the Government of National Accord, said the state of emergency imposed by the military heralds the beginning of a transition period that will allow Libya to restore its territorial integrity.
The military, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, will take charge of the country during this time; once the country is united once again, the government will then focus its attention on reaching a political consensus within the nation.
Katrani pointed out that the Libyan National Army owes its successes in the fight against the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group and other terrorist organizations due to the overwhelming popular support at home and to the recognition of its legitimacy abroad.
During the state of emergency, all government institutions except for the house of representatives will suspend their activities; as the army assumes control of the country, military governors will be assigned to each region and military field courts will come into operation.
Katrani insisted that the army does not seek to permanently seize power in the country, and as soon as the situation in Libya is stable the country will return to democracy: parliamentary and presidential elections will be held and a special committee will set to work on developing a constitution.
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[DAWN] Three accused in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, including her brother, denied having killed the social media celebrity, after they were indicted by the court here on Monday.
When Additional District and Sessions Judge Saeed Ahmad Raza indicted the three accused -- Qandeel’s brother Waseem, her cousin Haq Nawaz and taxi driver Abdul Basit -- they denied committing the crime.
The fourth co-accused, Zafar Hussain Khosa, was declared an absconder by the court.
The three accused were brought for appearance in the court from jail.
The court fixed Dec 8 as next date of hearing while issuing directions to the witnesses to appear before it.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... Lahore High Court, Multan bench, granted bail to one of the accused, Abdul Basit.
Qandeel was found murdered in her rented house in Multan on July 16. Her father had alleged that she was killed by her younger brother, Waseem, in the name of honour.
Waseem, who had allegedly fled from the scene, later courted arrest. He later confessed to having killed his sister at a presser.
The police had claimed that Waseem had also made a confession in the presence of an area magistrate. But the counsel for the accused denied any such confession.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Six people died in the Kirkuk town of Hawija due to the insufficiency of medicinal supplies, according to a local source at the Islamic State-held region.
“Six civilians, mostly elders with chronic diseases,died in Hawija due to the absence of medications,” the source told Alsumaria News on condition of anonymity.
“Life has almost stopped due to the presence of the terrorist group and the absence of doctors and medication,” the source added.
Tens of people have left Hawija since Islamic State took over in 2014 to more secure regions of Kirkuk. Some were reportedly executed by ISIS on attempting to flee the area or urging fellow citizens to migrate.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are living in difficult conditions either in refugee camps or cities still in ISIS grip. Iraqi security forces, popular militias and a US-led coalition have been on a major campaign since October to drive the militants out from several Iraqi cities, most notably Mosul, the group’s last bastion in Iraq.
Food shortages and electricity hiccups have been reported in the city of Mosul as utilities sustained damage in battles between the extremist group and Iraqi troops.
“The surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has resulted to over 3.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) across Iraq and left more than 10 million in need of humanitarian assistance,” according to the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have detained 35 former Iraqi army intelligence officers in Hawija, southwest Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad), according to security sources.
“At a very late time of Sunday, ISIS members detained 35 former members of the 2nd intelligence division of the Iraqi army at the villages of Tal Ali, Mahouz, Sharia and Shawook,” said the source, revealing that the officers were driven to an unknown destination.
He added that the extremist group accuses the former officers of collaborating with Iraqi forces which had advanced closer to al-Zab area, near Tigris River (30 km west of Hawija).
ISIS, emerging to the scene in Iraq in 2014, took over several areas of Iraq, including parts of Kirkuk’s Hawija. They have, since then, launched several attacks on the town outskirts attempting to storm it.
ISIS has been notorious for heinously executing people whom it accused of tipping off security about militants locations and activities.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The number of refugees from Nineveh and Kirkuk’s town of Hawija has reached 90.000, said Iraq’ s Migration and Displacement Minister, Jassem al-Jaff.
The number is a surge from last week’s announced total of 80.000 people who had left their hometowns escaping Islamic State militants.
In the meantime, 1.5 million people have returned to their liberated areas, al-Jaff said during a ministry meeting on refugees on Monday.
The ministry’s refugee relief commission had allocated 1.5 billion Iraqi dinars for the health ministry for the treatment of wounded refugees and security personnel.
United Nations estimates put the number of internally-displaced Iraqis at above 3 million since January 2014. Other Iraqis are still stranded inside regions held by the Islamic State, and have recently been reported to suffer stinging shortages of daily livelihood under the extremist group’s rule.
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On September 11th, 2001, terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, a symbol of American power and prestige. It was the worst sneak attack in U.S. history since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The destruction of the Twin Towers was a huge blow to America’s national psyche. Apart from the tragic loss of life, however, the attack by itself did little to diminish America’s military or economic strength. The next surprise strike -- if it comes -- could be far more disruptive and disabling.
Historians, military experts and technology buffs agree that the next 9/11 or Pearl Harbor could involve a form of cyber warfare that begins in outer space. In a nightmare scenario, rogue powers (hackers and terrorists) or familiar adversaries (Russia or China) might succeed in knocking out or disabling critical American communications satellites.
A worst case scenario would entail a nationwide loss of cell phone service, an Internet blackout and the disruption of key power grids across the country. Under such circumstances, experts contend that the stock market would grind to a halt. Traffic signals would malfunction. Online commerce would cease. The American way of life would be under siege. Sounds a lot like the Y2K problem, back in 2000. When we left 1999 behind us and all the ATM's failed, and computers went down, barfing COBOL and ALGOL and Logo and all those other horrible things, and the power grid shut down... But that never happened because a swarm of programmers made good money by fiddling the way dates turned over, and then when we entered the new century -- the first year in a thousand years that was neatly divisible by four that wasn't a leap year -- the whole hysteria evaporated when even the machines that had gotten overlooked in the hysteria mostly functioned correctly. The power stayed on, the ATMs continued giving money, occasionally drooling a bit of C++ but not much, and computers didn't freeze up. Now nobody wants to talk about it.
But I'm sure this one really is different. And don't eat barbecue. It'll give you cancer. Apples are coated with Alar at least an inch deep. Salt is bad for you. Farmers torture chickens for fun.
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We will screw this up somehow. We'll have satellite parts engineered and made in some hostile foreign country that will have a backdoor, or the encryption will be hacked by some basement dweller or the keys will accidentally posted on the internet, or the whole system will be overly complicated like the LCS or the F-35 and just won't work or do what it's told to do.
I find it fascinating that so-called "far right" populist parties are more and more rejecting antisemitism and openly supporting Israel, even as parties on the left are making Jew- and Israel-hatred central to their platforms.
[IsraelTimes] Swedish far-right party Sweden Democrats announced Monday it had kicked out one of its members of parliament for anti-Semitism.
Anna Hagwall had in September proposed legislation to end state subsidies for media outlets that she said favor the Bonnier media group, whose controlling family has Jewish roots.
"For many years the Sweden Democrats have been working resolutely to end the currents of anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories in society," the party’s chairman Jimmie Akesson said in a statement. "Through her statements, Anna Hagwall prejudiced this work and the party’s image.
"Anna wants legislation in which people are divided by ethnic appearances. We don’t support that."
The Sweden Democrats (SD) have been trying to distance themselves from some of their most radical elements in order broaden their electoral base.
Hagwell had sent an email to the Aftonblat newspaper in September trying to justify her position.
"It should not be allowed for any family, ethnic group or enterprise to control directly or indirectly more than five percent of media," she said.
The Bonnier group owns 175 companies, including television stations, newspapers, magazines and book publishers, and operates in 15 countries.
Pushed by her party to resign, Hagwall had refused, but did promise not to stand for re-election in 2018.
But that wasn’t enough to appease her party’s top brass.
Officially, the anti-immigration SD espouses a zero tolerance policy towards xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism.
But it has a fringe group of neo-Nazi supporters undermining the SD’s attempts to clean up its image.
In October, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven branded the far-right party "nazi and racist."
But the SD’s popularity continues to grow at a time when right-wing populist parties are enjoying a resurgence across parts of Europe.
The last opinion poll carried out by the national institute of statistics gave the SD a predicted 17.4 percent of the vote at next year’s elections, up 4.6% from 2014 when they picked up a best-ever 49 of the 349 parliamentary seats.
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Wait a minute. Can we separate antisemitism from "state subsidies for media outlets"? Why should any media outlet get a state subsidy? Oh, that's right. It's Sweden.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh will share the findings of Bangladesh Bank (BB) heist investigation carried out by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) with Philippines, but the country will not share the probe report of former central bank Governor Farashuddin Ahmed
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[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Jawed Bajwa on Monday confirmed the death sentences awarded to four 'hardcore terrorists' tried by military courts, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement.
The convicts were involved in "heinous offences related to terrorism, including killing of innocent civilians, officials of Law Enforcement Agencies and Airport Security Force," ISPR said.
They planned and executed attacks on Jinnah International Airport Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , CID building Karachi, Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) office Sukkur and a convoy of Law Enforcement Agencies, ISPR said.
The convicts were involved in killing of 58 people including Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam and wounding 226 others including SSP Farooq Awan. Firearms and explosives were recovered from the convicts' possession, ISPR said.
Chaudhry Aslam, Karachi's top cop, was killed when a jacket wallah targeted a convoy of police vehicles in 2014. The attack was claimed by the Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.
This is the first time COAS Gen Qamar Jawed Bajwa has confirmed the death sentences of 'hardcore terrorists'. The development comes as the power of military courts to try civilians is likely to end in a month as the government does not appear interested in extending the relevant amendment to the Constitution, which will lapse on Jan 2.
The details of the convicts shared by ISPR are below:
Three convicts Attaur Rehman s/o Faqir Muhammad, Muhammad Sabir s/o Alaf Gul and Muhammad Farooq Bhatti s/o Muhammad Ishaq were members of proscribed organizations.
They were involved in attacking innocent civilians, LEAs ISI officials and Jinnah International Airport, which resulted in deaths of 58 individuals including SSP Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam.
As a result of these terrorist attacks, 226 persons including SSP Farooq Awan also sustained injuries. These convicts admitted their offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. They were awarded death sentences.
Gul Zareen s/o Gul Sharif: The convict was a member of proscribed organization. He was involved in attacking police officials, which resulted in death of police constable Sartaj, police constable Ahmed Khan and injuries to 10 others including SSP Farooq Awan. He was also found in possession of fire-arms and explosives. The convict admitted his offences before the Magistrate and the trial court. He was awarded death sentence.
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"Really, Western Civ, we put a lot of effort into finding the NICE hospice for you. If you don't like it we've got one with much more aggressive orderlies we could have sent you to."
[IsraelTimes] Israeli police on Monday morning placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! six Paleostinians in East Jerusalem on suspicion of incitement to violence and terrorism on social networks.
Over the past few months, the suspects used their Facebook and Instagram accounts to spread incitement and encourage acts of terrorism and violence, which were shared and supported by their thousands of followers, a police spokesperson said.
During the course of the arrests, police confiscated computers, cellphones, and other media devices.
The investigation and the arrest order were carried out by the State Attorney’s Office and the Jerusalem District Attorney
Police said they have been working to end incitement, which they say is even more dangerous than direct support for terror attacks due to its wide exposure and its potential to inspire attackers.
Since a nearly year-long wave of terrorist attacks began in October 2015, Israeli security forces have vigilantly patrolled social networks for signs of radicalization and incitement, as many attackers posted their intentions prior to carrying out attacks, while others said they were inspired by calls for violence they saw on social networks.
Two Paleostinians were also arrested in Hebron overnight Sunday by the IDF and police after a raid of their home uncovered a pistol, a hunting rifle, ammunition, body armor, and a computer with "incitement" messages, the army said.
Eight other West Bank Paleostinians were arrested for alleged involvement in "popular terror operations," which usually means rock throwing, and for violent disorderly conduct directed toward Israeli citizens and security services, the army said.
Three of the men detained are from the northern West Bank city of Qabatiya, one is from the town of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem, while the other four are from the Jordan Valley. They were arrested in a joint operation by the IDF, Border Police, Israel Police, and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service.
Ynet points out that the two arrested in Hebron were father and son.
[IsraelTimes] The police detained six Paleostinian children suspected of throwing rocks at cars in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan last month. The children, aged nine to 13, were questioned and released, and police say they will punish them to the full extent of the law.
[IsraelTimes] Police say rocks were thrown at officers and Border Police troops in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya. No injuries are reported. Police dispersed the rock-throwers with riot dispersal means.
[Democratic Leader] "Dr. Ben Carson is a disconcerting and disturbingly unqualified choice to lead a department as complex and consequential as Housing and Urban Development.
"Our country deserves a HUD Secretary with the relevant experience to protect the rights of homeowners and renters, particularly in low income and minority communities, and to ensure that everyone in our country can have access to safe and affordable housing without facing discrimination or homelessness.
"There is no evidence that Dr. Carson brings the necessary credentials to hold a position with such immense responsibilities and impact on families and communities across America."
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What will be interesting is how Ben deals with a lot of HUD occupents who don't want to get a job and would rather live off the taxpayer. Being that he is a self made man watching him try to "help" those people will be interesting.
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Well I guess we'll just have to confirm Dr. Carson and see how he does right Nan??
That was you attitude for Obamacare. Just do the opposite of what she says and things will be fine.
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Pelosi claims renowned brain surgeon disturbingly unqualified to lead HUD
Racist!
(cause if I said a community organizer who had no record of achievement at in his Illinois or Federal governmental positions was unqualified for president, that's what they would call me)
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cuz Julian Castro was soooo qualified at age 40 as a 5 yr Mayor of San Antonio, with the "right values". F*CK her in the ear
" In July 2016, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel issued finding that Castro had violated the Hatch Act by commenting on the 2016 campaign while giving an interview in an official capacity; Castro admitted the error and ordered his team to improve training on the Hatch Act."
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I'd love to hear her bring her concerns to the confirmation hearings and compare Carson against previous occupants of the job.
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He hasn't run anything like this as far as I know and therefore doesn't have experience.
However, he is a sharp guy and at this point would do worse, and most likely a hell of a lot better than the current corruptocrats that populate Washington now.
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I'd love to hear her bring her concerns to the confirmation hearings
I don't think they have ever had to try and confirm an outsider before since he is not a politician or bureaucrat and has a IQ. The Dims will no doubt be havin to Google what his answers mean.
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Yeah. "I am cornJulio!" Castro. Part of that deep, deep dem bench. Hehe...
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heh heh heh, he said "deep", heh heh
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But...but...but...he's pro life, dammit!!! That disqualifies him from walking on the face of the earth as far as Pelosi is concerned.
But, really, his job at HUD should be quite simple. Fire everybody. Sell off all the assets. Shut it down and save the taxpayers of this country several billion dollars.
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Yes, because her district in San Francisco is such a model blueprint for "Housing" and proper "Urban Development"...
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Trump should have put Milo up for the position with the intent that he'd have fun at the confirmation and then step aside when he got bored screwing with the Democrats.
At that point put Carson up for the position and they'd be slobbering for his peaceful demeanor.
Terror militants affiliated with al Qaeda blew up Yemen’s only gas export pipeline on Monday, local officials said, in a further blow to a moribund but vital piece of infrastructure for an impoverished country battered by 20 months of war.
The explosion occurred in the remote desert area of al-Uqla in the southern province of Shabwa, the officials said, and severd the link between Yemen’s gas-producing Marib region and the export terminal of Balhaf on the Arabian Sea, reported Reuters.
Oil and gas once accounted for most of Yemen’s state revenue before a civil war spurred by Iran-aligned Houthis for an attempt at a power grab halted their export and unleashed a humanitarian crisis.
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[DAWN] Security forces on Monday killed the criminal mastermind of the Quetta Civil Hospital bombing along with four other high-profile bandidosbully boyz during an operation in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Pishin district, said Balochistan's Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti.
"Jehangir Badini, criminal mastermind behind the attack on Quetta's Civil Hospital was killed during the operation," said Bugti.
Bugti was talking to the media at a presser in Quetta.
The bandidosbully boyz were involved in a series of terrorist acts, including the attack at Hazara women and the murder of Barrister Amanullah Achakzai, the principal of University of Balochistan's law college.
"So far three of the five holy warriors have been identified," the home minister said.
Balochistan Police Chief Ahsan Mehboob and other high-ups also flanked him during the presser.
Security forces also claimed to have recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the possession of the holy warriors.
"Security forces recovered 30 to 40 kilogrammes of explosives, four suicide jackets and other weapons," said Bugti.
One suspect was detained during the operation and was being interrogated by security forces.
The jacket wallah, who went kaboom! himself in the hospital in Quetta on Aug 8, was also identified with the help of DNA tests.
His name was Ahmed Ali and he was a resident of Quetta, Bugti added.
Ali had targeted the emergency services ward at Quetta’s Civil Hospital, killing at least 70 people and leaving scores injured.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) splinter group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), had grabbed credit for the bombing, which occurred at the gates of the building housing the emergency ward.
The bomber struck as more than 100 mourners, mostly lawyers and journalists, crowded into the emergency department to accompany the body of Advocate Bilal Anwar Kasi.
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[DAWN] AFGHAN President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has become a harsh critic of Pakistain -- harsh to the point of outdoing Indian hawks and, seemingly, undermining his own country’s interests. At the Heart of Asia conference in Amritsar, where the theme was cooperation against security threats, Mr Ghani’s rhetoric was aggressive, almost as if Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... desired a rupture in Pak-Afghan ties. This is not the right attitude and it is hoped that better sense will prevail. Certainly, there is some history here. When Mr Ghani assumed office more than two years ago, he made it a priority to reach out to Pakistain through some bold verbal statements and diplomatic gestures towards Islamabad and Rawalpindi; it indicated that resetting ties with Pakistain were a core part of his agenda. The outreach was received warmly by both the political government and the military leadership here, but Mr Ghani soon became impatient with what was perceived in Afghanistan as Pakistain’s slow pace in addressing his country’s concerns.
Yet, Pakistain, too, has had genuine concerns vis-à-vis Afghanistan. As Mr Ghani and the National Unity Government he heads became increasingly hawkish on Pakistain, they deliberately steered closer to India -- a growing closeness that the security establishment here saw as one of the reasons behind the renewed security troubles in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . Moreover, with counter-insurgency operations in North Wazoo and other parts of Fata nearing their final stages, the problem of sanctuaries for anti-Pakistain murderous Moslems in Afghanistan, particularly in the eastern region, has become a thorny issue. The combination of Afghan and Pak grievances against one another has led to a relationship that is now in a shockingly poor state. Still, there are compelling reasons for both sides to move the bilateral relationship back towards cooperation, and Mr Ghani surely knows this, even if he prefers to give voice to a one-sided interpretation of events at the moment.
There are at least three areas in which cooperation is merited -- and can be achieved, if both sides are willing to accept the principle of reciprocity. First, the problem of cross-border militancy is a regional one, as the joint statement at the Amritsar conference indicated. In the case of Afghanistan and Pakistain, border management and interdicting cross-border murderous Moslem movement can be a joint priority. Second, the goal of a political reconciliation with the Afghan Taliban is one shared by all sides. Pakistain can continue to use its influence in a way that nudges the Taliban towards reconciliation, while Afghanistan can tamp down its hostile rhetoric towards Pakistain as it explores further ways to move dialogue ahead. Third, trade and commerce between Pakistain and Afghanistan can and should be expanded -- Pakistain remains a vital trading partner for Afghanistan and the old business links, formal and informal, are an important platform. Cooperation needs to be the guiding principle of Pak-Afghan relations.
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Pakistain can continue to use its influence in a way that nudges the Taliban towards reconciliation, while Afghanistan can tamp down its hostile rhetoric towards Pakistain as it explores further ways to move dialogue ahead.
"Nice, albeit backwards, country you got there, Ghani. Real shame if anything happened to it."
Islamic whack-a-mole, Libyan Edition
TRIPOLI, Libya: Libyan loyalist forces have seized full control of the coastal city of Sirte from the Daesh jihadist group, an official spokesman said Monday.
“Our forces have total control of Sirte,” after more than six months of fighting, Reda Issa, a spokesman for pro-government forces, told AFP.
“Our forces saw Daesh totally collapsing,” he said, using an Arabic acronym for the group.
Sirte, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, was the last significant Daesh-held territory in the north African country.
Forces allied with the country’s unity government launched an offensive to retake the city on May 12, quickly seizing large areas of the city and cornering the jihadists.
But Daesh put up fierce resistance with suicide car bombings, snipers and improvised explosive devices.
The United States started a bombing campaign in August at the request of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) to help local forces recapture the city, seized by jihadists in June 2015.
“Daesh has totally collapsed and dozens of them have given themselves up to our forces,” said a statement on the loyalist forces’ official Facebook page on Monday.
The fall of Sirte — the hometown of the slain dictator Muammar Qaddafi — represents a significant blow to the extremists, who have also faced major setbacks in Syria and Iraq.
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Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed government said Monday they had seized full control of Sirte from the Islamic State group, in a major blow to the terrorists who battled for months to retain their bastion.
The battle for the coastal city, which was the last significant territory held by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group in Libya, cost the lives of hundreds of loyalist troops as well as an unknown number of ISIL gunmen.
“Our forces have total control of Sirte,” Reda Issa, a spokesman for pro-government forces, told AFP. “Our forces saw Daesh (ISIL) totally collapse.”
Forces allied with the country’s unity government launched an offensive to retake the city on May 12, quickly seizing large areas of the city and cornering the terrorists.
But ISIL put up fierce resistance with suicide car bombings, snipers and improvised explosive devices.
“Daesh [ISIL] has totally collapsed and dozens of them have given themselves up to our forces,” said a statement on the loyalist forces’ official Facebook page.
The capture of Sirte boosts the authority of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), which was launched in Tripoli last March but whose legitimacy is contested by a rival administration based in eastern Libya.
The United States started a bombing campaign in August at the request of the GNA to help local forces recapture the city, seized by terrorists in June 2015.
As of December 1, US warplanes, drones and helicopters had conducted 470 strikes.
Libya descended into chaos following the NATO-backed ousting of longtime dictator Moammar Ghaddafi in 2011, with rival administrations emerging and well-armed militias vying for control of the country’s vast oil wealth.
The infighting and lawlessness allowed extremist groups such as ISIL to seize several coastal regions, giving the terrorists a toehold on Europe’s doorstep.
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[IsraelTimes] The Russian Defense Ministry says a Su-33 fighter jet, based on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after returning from a sortie over Syria.
The ministry says in a statement that was reported by Russian news agencies that "because of the failure of the arrester system’s cable, the Su-33 fighter rolled off the deck" on Monday.
The pilot of the aircraft successfully ejected and was unharmed in the incident. The ministry added that Russian military operations over Syria will not be affected by the incident.
This is the second loss of an aircraft from Russia’s only aircraft carrier since it arrived off Syria last month. The Defense Ministry said that a Mig-29 fighter crashed into the sea on November 15 while attempting to land on the Admiral Kuznetsov.
[Dhaka Tribune] The International Crimes Tribunal has awarded death penalty to Shariatpur razakar leader Idris Ali Sardar for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The three-member tribunal led by Justice Anwarul Haq delivered the verdict against the runaway saying the execution can be carried out by hanging or shooting.
He may challenge the verdict with Appellate Division of the Supreme Court if surrenders or gets caught within next 30 days.
All of the four charges were proved beyond doubt against Idris, 67, and he was awarded death in two charges held by majority, imprisonment for life in one and seven-year jail term in another charge.
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