The United States on Friday warned Israel against following through with a planned demolition of a tiny Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank.
Israeli authorities say that many of the structures in the village of Sussiya were built illegally, but the US State Department on Friday said that razing the buildings would constitute a provocative act. How about if we report finding a confederate flag in the ruins?
[Chicago Tribune] Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.
The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others. Narrowing the field. No one under 21, no one over 62.
A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."
There is no simple way to identify that group, but a strategy used by the Department of Veterans Affairs since the creation of the background check system is reporting anyone who has been declared incompetent to manage pension or disability payments and assigned a fiduciary. PTSD? What is that? I sleep well at night, seldom feel guilty about anything, never think about the past, have never contemplated suicide, and no longer squirrel hunt. Why do you ask ?
If Social Security, which has never participated in the background check system, uses the same standard as the VA, millions of its beneficiaries would be affected. About 4.2 million adults receive monthly benefits that are managed by "representative payees."
The move is part of a concerted effort by the Obama administration after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., to strengthen gun control, including by plugging holes in the background check system. As a rule, only honest, law abiding citizens submit to a NICS check.
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Excuse me but last time I checked, SS is not an entitlement. 7.5% of my pay goes into this sham governmental grab so don't even think about holding it hostage. The 2nd Amendment is immutable and irrefutable and endowed by the creator not any government or man. The federal government is hardly the poster child for fiscal competency.
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Therefore eliminate all pay to armed Federal Employees. They have shown they mentally competent enough to prevent their firearms from being stolen by illegal aliens that they refuse to prevent from illegally entering, detain and deport who then use those stolen federal firearms to kill our daughters such as Kate.
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It's the first time that people over the age of 65 have surpassed teenagers in crime statistics since 1989, when Japan's National Police Agency started publishing age-related crime data, the Kyodo News Agency reports. Officers took action against more than 23,000 elderly people in the first half of the year, compared to fewer than 20,000 youngsters aged between 14 and 19, officials figures show.
Japan has seen a fall in overall crime rates over the past 10 years, but not among its growing elderly population. The new figures show that violent crime committed by the over-65s rose by more than 10% compared to the same period last year. Of the country's 127 million people, more than a quarter are now of retirement age, but the government has warned that the figure is likely to grow significantly in the coming decades.
CAIRO -- The Islamic State's affiliate in Egypt's Sinai says it has destroyed an Egyptian navy vessel with a rocket off the strategic peninsula's Mediterranean coast.
The claim of responsibility by the Sinai Province of the Islamic State, as the group calls itself, was made in a brief statement posted on Twitter accounts known to be linked to the group.
The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately verified, but it was accompanied by photos purporting to show what appears to be a rocket flying toward the vessel, a large explosion engulfing most of the boat and then black smoke rising up from the vessel.
Egypt's military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir, said in a statement earlier that the vessel caught fire in an exchange of gunshots on Thursday with "terrorists" on the shore.
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This crap, the crap in Iraq, Boko Haram, and the crap in Somalia isn't going to end until a few cities receive multiple ARCLIGHT strikes. Otherwise both the Muddled East and North America are going to have a few glassy craters.
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[Johnson City Press] CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez pulled up to his military targets in a rented, silver Mustang convertible, wearing a vest with extra ammunition, wielding at least two long guns -- either rifles or shotguns -- and a handgun. His once clean-shaven face was covered with a bushy beard. A short time later, four Marines lay dead. A sailor who was seriously injured died Saturday.
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Wife and three daughters under age 6 left behind. Tragic, and Infuriating.
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These people should never be allowed to come here. Their murderous cult religion is totally incompatible. The cultural gulf is far too great. Send them all back to wherever they came from without delay.
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Hat tip to Drudge for these links the gist of which is that our government doubled down on stupidity after 9/11 by doubling immigration from Muslim countries. But somehow I think stupid doesn't really go far enough. There is something more that most likely has to do with oil, greed and corruption.
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Yeah, Harf would be perfect. And will the flags handed to the widows be Cuban or Iranian?
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Don't worry, the FBI has their best forensic teams on the case. The symptom is the huge amounts of muslims being allowed into the country illegally or legally. There were 1209 mosques in the US in 2000, now there are over 2100. All protected by Freedom of Religion in the US Constitution. Nice little infiltration game you got going O & Co. You see American religious tolerance and getting along as a weakness to be exploited in your fundamental transformation of the US.
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... All protected by Freedom of Religion in the US Constitution.
Unless you are the Little Sisters of the Poor, or bakers or florists or....
Mojtaba Atarodi, arrested in California for attempting to acquire equipment for Iran's military-nuclear programs, was released in April as part of back channel talks, Times of Israel told. The contacts, mediated in Oman for years by close colleague of the Sultan, have seen a series of US-Iran prisoner releases, and there may be more to come.
The secret back channel of negotiations between Iran and the United States, which led to this month's interim deal in Geneva on Iran's rogue nuclear program, has also seen a series of prisoner releases by both sides, which have played a central role in bridging the distance between the two nations, the Times of Israel has been told.
In the most dramatic of those releases, the US in April released a top Iranian scientist, Mojtaba Atarodi, who had been arrested in 2011 for attempting to acquire equipment that could be used for Iran's military-nuclear programs.
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The crescendo of outrageous acts will continue, I especially wonder at the lack of attention paid to the commutation power and pardoning power of the Presidency, wondering how that will play out in the waning days of the administration. If you think Mark Rick was an rare event, I suspect you will be amazed. I'd love to see someone with the courage to do a demographic/political analysis of those receiving such clemency....
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NoMoreBS, frankly, at this point it would not surprise me if on his last day in office Obama pardoned all of the prisoners in Gitmo, as well as Bowe Bergdahl, Nidal Hassan, and all of the other terrorists we have in prison.
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It appears as though Islamic fascists were sitting on both sides of the negotiating table.
[Free Beacon] A federal agency rushed to approve funding for a Clinton donor's sham Haiti recovery project that ended up defrauding the U.S. government out of millions, according to court transcripts and internal government documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Miami businessman Claudio Osorio, who is currently serving 12 years in federal prison on fraud charges, leveraged his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton to help his company InnoVida obtain a $10 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for a Haiti housing project in 2010. Birds of a feather.
OPIC is an independent government agency that submits its annual budget requests through the State Department and works closely with the agency.
Bill Clinton helped arrange for a high-powered Florida law firm to represent Osorio during loan negotiations with OPIC, according to court testimony. An internal OPIC memo said Hillary Clinton was prepared to marshal State Department resources to assist with the donor's project.
InnoVida was supposed to use the funding to build houses in Haiti after the earthquake, but it defaulted on the loan and the homes were never built. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Milton Friedman, the Nobel Laureate, wrote to Congress in 1996, “I cannot see any redeeming aspect in the existence of OPIC. … It is special interest legislation of the worst kind, legislation that makes the problem it is intended to deal with worse rather than better. … OPIC has no business existing.”
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Very little of the money slated for earthquake rebuilding in Haiti ever was used for this purpose. And here I was thinking the charity money never got past the politicians in Haiti. It never got past the grifter politicians in the U.S.A. Sean Penn and Danny Glover were pushing this cause but then again Sean Penn was also offering himself up as a human shield in Iraq too--naivety personified.
[Breitbart] While Abdulazeez failed a "background check" for a private company, the FBI insists it has no evidence he should have been monitored as a terrorist threat. "Abdulazeez was not in any U.S. databases of suspected terrorists, a U.S. official said," reads a CNN report. "His only reported prior trouble with the law was a DUI arrest in April. His court hearing was scheduled for July 30."
Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait and visited the Middle East in 2010 and possibly 2014, according to investigators. A friend said he was "different" after one trip, according to CNN. Failing a National Agency Check (NAC) can result from, among other things, the reporting or withholding of information regarding foreign connections, foreign travel, drug use, or duel citizenship. The article does not say why he failed the "background check." You can bet that whatever the reason for the failure, it was well documented.
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Hey Gus, this guy's name is 'Mohammad' he's applied for employment at the Nuke plant. He was born in Kuwait. His father is on a terrorist watch list, he lists travel to the ME.
Think we ought to tell somebody about this, or just deny approval....... ?
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Gus: "Weeeeelllll. I certainly don't want him here. If we fail him on the background check, maybe nobody will notice. If we tell anyone, we're both out of our jobs for sure. You know how this works now..."
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Reports are that he flunked a drug test.He's beginning to sound like a loser.
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[UFP] From the beginning it's clear that the tone and the mood of the White House occupier in his response to the Charleston Church and Chattanooga shootings are drastically different. The location and posture, from a stern speech with Joe Biden in attendance behind a podium for the black church to a casual, cross-legged and detached sit down to discuss the murdered military members.
In the Chattanooga shooting, Obama says his main message is to deliver the deepest sympathies of the American people. He calls it a "heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with such great valor." In Charleston Obama was much more animated, describing himself as personally angry.
Obama says of Chattanooga, "We don't know yet, all the details. We know that what appears to be a lone gunman carried out these attacks, we've identified a name." He doesn't want to say the name, because it's an Islamic one, so the perpetrator will remain anonymous for the time being, at least as far as the White House is concerned. Black lives matter, military ones, not so much.
A hate crime investigation was immediately opened in the Charleston shooting, none in the Islamic attack on American Marines. Obama recognizes "a dark part of our history" in the church shootings but not the dark threat of present days from Islamic terrorists. We're all waiting to see if this will once again be labeled workplace violence in order to provide protective cover for those who "pervert" his favored religion.
In the Charleston attack he noted the threat that is posed by "hatred across races and faiths" but that only applies to white attackers and black victims. Islamists are shielded and America's military is despised by the White House occupant. It's a comparison of apples and oranges.
Obama says he doesn't need "to be constrained about the emotions that tragedies like this raise" in the Charleston incident, which contrasts significantly with his reserved demeanor in discussing Chattanooga.
What is clear is that an attack on defenseless black Democrats is important and in this case at least it was personal for the White House occupier. America's Marines were disarmed and defenseless as well, but they don't march in lock step with his destruction of our country. They are the enemy and Obama was not successful in disguising his lack of concern or apathy over their deaths. His words sounded insincere because they were insincere.
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Those who pretend they can divine what's in the hearts and minds of others are often considered fools. The authors' conclusion that Preident Obama views American servicemen the "enemy" confirms it.
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"Our People™" doesn't include America's military
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Impeach the Bastard, so much or "His Legacy".
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Obama has chosen not to be President for all of the U.S.A. such as Reagan did and other presidents. Instead, he is the POTUS of only certain groups. He has chosen to be the "Great Divider."
His love of wrestling evolved into a love of competitive mixed martial arts — a sport his father did not view as appropriate for a Muslim. “Youssuf is a pretty strict, straight-line Muslim guy,” Mr. Jones said.
A video uploaded in July 2009 to GoFightLive, a YouTube account that collects video of mixed martial arts fights, showed Mr. Abdulazeez in camouflage shorts, participating in a cage fight with a man identified as Timmy Hall. Mr. Abdulazeez dominated the fight, pinning his opponent to the mat early and pummeling him.
Chet Blalock, former owner of a mixed martial arts gym in Chattanooga where Mr. Abdulazeez trained, said Mr. Abdulazeez, would allow himself to be choked while fighting until he lost consciousness. Several times, he recalled, the young man would be out cold, revive himself, then take a brief breather before continuing to train.
“It’s a bit on the extreme side, even for mixed martial arts,” Mr. Blalock said. He now thinks that Mr. Abdulazeez may have been testing his threshold for pain.
[AA.TR] Six people were killed and seven injured by security forces on Friday during anti-regime protests that began following Eid al-Fitr prayers in Egypt's Giza province west of Cairo, according to security and medical sources.
"Hospitals received the bodies of six people killed earlier today," Health Ministry front man Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar told Anadolu Agency.
A security source told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity that six protesters had been killed in the Al-Talbiya neighborhood of southern Giza's Al-Haram district "during festivities with security forces."
According to the same source, another 12 people were enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! during the melee.
Eyewitnesses said the casualties included one female demonstrator.
Eyewitnesses also said other parts of Giza -- including the Nahiya and Al-Omraniyah districts -- had seen similar protests against President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, which, they said, had been quelled by security forces using live ammunition.
The Moslem Brüderbund -- the group from which Egypt's ousted and imprisoned president, Mohammed Morsi, hails -- decried the harsh security response to Friday's protests, describing it as "a vengeful act by murderers."
[Rudaw] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... has unveiled details of its biggest military exercise in 13 years, mobilizing 36,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen from more than 30 countries.
Officials said Wednesday that the exercise, named Trident Juncture, has been planned for years, but is being tweaked to test NATO's ability to respond to new security threats like those highlighted by Russia's takeover of Crimea and the spread of radical groups like Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the Mideast and North Africa.
It will take place in October and November in Italia, Spain and Portugal, and the adjacent waters and airspace.
British Army Lt. Gen. Phil Jones said for NATO, "the challenge is to make sure that we as military, we're never fighting the last war, whether the last war was 10 years ago or 10 minutes ago."
[FIRSTPOST] A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Saturday the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group had used poison gas in attacks in late June in northeastern Syria.
The YPG militia said poison gas had been used in attacks on June 28 and June 29 against YPG-held areas in the northeastern province of Hasaka. Redur Xelil, the YPG front man, said the type of chemical used had not been accurately determined.
None of the YPG fighters exposed to the gas had died because they were quickly taken to hospital, he said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that reports on the war using an activist network on the ground, said it had also documented the use of poison gas by Islamic State in northeastern Syria on June 28.
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BARDERA, Somalia -- Suspected US drone strike has killed two Al Shabaab commanders near Gedo regional district of Bardera of southwestern Somalia on Thursday morning, Garowe Online reports.
The strikes reportedly hit a car carrying Garissa university attack mastermind Gamadhere and Ismael Jabhad in Jungal area which lies 30km from Bardera The two killed commanders were heading to trenches dug in by Al Shabaab militants as Ethiopian troops prepare for anti-militant push.
On March 7, Somalia federal government for the first time disclosed that it would use drones for offensives against Al Shabaab fighters.
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I always thought the old saw of "You can't tell a book by it's cover" had many, many exceptions.
[Rudaw] Another 11 people -- including women and kiddies -- have been killed by random Iraqi Arclight airstrikes in the city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... said a top health official of the key city that Baghdad is fighting to retake from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS, or Daesh in Arabic).
"The random Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Iraqi air force against Daesh in the center of the city and the Heyaskari neighborhood west of Fallujah have killed 11 civilians, including women and kiddies," Ahmad Shami, head doctor at the main Fallujah Hospital, said Thursday.
He runs his department at the behest of ISIS, it must be remembered.
ISIS has been in control of Fallujah since January last year. This week Iraq's hobbling army -- in cooperation with tribal militias -- launched an assault to retake the city.
Physicians in the city say that months of air and artillery bombings by Iraqi forces have killed some 71 residents and maimed about 90 others -- excluding the latest casualties.
Are they collecting the bodies in a freezer for maximum impact when displayed in their myriads, as Saddam Hussein used to do?
According to Shami, the maimed suffer grave injuries and the city is short of medicines, doctors and nurses.
Besieged is, I believe, the proper term.
He has accused the Iraqi government, as well as local and international health and humanitarian organizations, of ignoring what is happening in Fallujah.
None of which would be happening, of course, had ISIS not conquered the place with its usual viciousness.
The Iraqi government released a statement last week denying its Arclight airstrikes have ever targeted civilians inside Fallujah in the war against ISIS.
Accidents do happen, of course. Especially in war.
According to reports received by Rudaw from the frontlines, the Iraqi forces have made little progress in efforts to retake the Sunni-majority city, roughly 69 kilometers west of Baghdad on the Euphrates River.
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They ought to be used to it in Fallujah by now
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The US and others have wasted enough lives on Fallujah.
Rubble manufacturing
Bounce Rubble
Salt to taste
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I still say the proper solution is line up howitzers hub to hub in a line 500m across, and walk the fire in straight line followed 1km behind by D9's clearing the ground. Bisect the city N/S then E/W. Then do the same in each quadrant. Give you a giant cleared grid. any of the grid sqares falls to isis, it gets mined completely around, and reduced by artillery. Eventually the city is either pacified, or erased. Either way, no great loss of anything of value.
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None of the above. Let the various bastards fight it out until one side is is bleed white. If any one one of em shows danger to the U.S. , nuke the fuck out of them.
[AA.TR] The EU gave Greece a 7.2 billion euro ($7.8 billion) short-term loan on Friday to keep the country afloat until a third bailout can be put in place.
The money, provided under the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism, will allow Greece to clear its payments to the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of Greece as well as repay the European Central Bank.
"This agreement, backed by 28 European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states, prevents Greece from an immediate default," Valdis Dombrovskis, EU Commission vice president for euro policy, told journalists in Brussels.
The first installment will reach Greece by Monday.
Talks on a bailout of up to 85 billion euros ($93 billion) over three years are expected to begin next weeks and last for three weeks.
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Lay say lay boon tohn roo la, how you say that in Greek?
[Royal Danish Defense College] Why is Iran following a nuclear path that may further destabilise the fragile security situation in the Middle East? In a new paper from the Royal Danish Defence College, Iran's nuclear aspiration to destabilise power in the Middle East is analysed.
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Iran is purportedly attempting to develop a nuclear energy program, and perhaps even a nuclear weapons program, despite assurances of the opposite. An Iranian nuclear weapon would be a game changer in the region and a lot of neighbouring countries fear such a development for security reasons.
But why is Iran following a nuclear path that may further destabilise the fragile security situation in the Middle East? In a new paper from the Royal Danish Defence College, Iran's nuclear aspiration to destabilise power in the Middle East is analysed.
According to the author Major Thomas G. Nielsen it has to do with Iran's own perception of security risks, its desire for greatness in the region, and domestic challenges, caused in part by United Nations' sanctions, lack of development and internal political power struggles. Iran balances cleverly on the edge of either further international isolation or becoming a significant local power. It uses the threat of developing nuclear weapons, in combination with its important strategic location by the Strait of Hormuz, and supports various political group-ings in and around Syria and Iraq to attract the attention of the United States of American in an at-tempt to become recognised as the most important player in the Middle East.
Should Iran succeed in its brinkmanship and the outcome could be the lifting of the UN sanctions, in-ternational recognition, improved security, and even a possible end to internal political power struggles due to likely economic reforms post-sanctions. Much is at stake for Iran, but, if it succeeds, it could shift the political path in Iran to a less confrontational one, which, in the long run, could enhance security in the region. This would, however, be at the cost of recognising Iran as a true power in the Middle East and ending the sanctions regime in order to support Iranian development. The closing paragraph appears to reflect the Obama regime goals and strategy. Download the paper for free
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I think Iran was clear when they said they wanted to nuke Israel and bring back some holy monkey they've been waiting for. I'm paraphrasing, I don't remember the Shia details.
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It is an old power game. You get a big I mean BIG club (nuke) and you intimidate, demanding respect. Local neighbors cower in fear. You interpret that as respect. So you go after your neighbors and you meet one that is not intimidated, so you go into a hissy fit, and you launch a nuke, and then your whole country turns into a glass Roentgen soupbowl and that is the end of your reign, and your people so excited about your nukes. And, ugly as that scenario is, problem solved itself.
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If the police in your neighborhood stopped policing I think it would be wise to get the biggest gun possible so if they never return to policing then you are safe. If they do return then you can out gun them.
Obama will not face a non-American threat to his power. He has backed out of the Middle East and support of Israel. He has welcomed the previous enemies of Iran and Cuba to accept his surrender. Iran is just taking full advantage of the worlds police force not policing. Obamaites have done the same in Detroit, Baltimore....
[ATLANTIC.CTVNEWS.CA] Moslems around the world were celebrating Eid al-Fitr on Friday, and in Halifax the community's spirit and size were on full display.
The occasion saw more than 1,000 people gather at Exhibition Park, where the building was converted into a temporary mosque to host prayers.
One of the most important holidays in the Moslem calendar, Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the 30-day Ramadan fast.
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[ALMANAR.LB] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! Thursday night at a security checkpoint in the Saudi capital Riyadh, killing the driver and wounding two coppers, the interior ministry said.
The attack was blamed by the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group, which has been blamed for killing coppers and for slaughtering several civilians.
ISIL branch in Najd, the central region of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , said on its Twitter account that Thursday's attack was a message to jihadists held in Riyadh's Al-Hair prison that they had not been forgotten.
"Let the Moslem captives in Al-Hair and everywhere know that we will not relent or tire until we release them from imprisonment, with permission from Allah," SITE quoted the tweet as saying.
The blast went off when police manning the checkpoint on Al-Hair Road stopped the car for a routine check, said the ministry.
"The driver blew up the car and killed himself," it said.
The coppers were in a "stable condition" in hospital, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The ministry identified the driver as 19-year-old Saudi national Abdallah al-Rashid and said the suspect had killed his uncle before blowing himself up.
Asked whether the bombing was linked to ISIL, General Mansour al-Turki, the interior ministry front man, said he was waiting for information from Sherlocks.
In the southwestern city of Taif on July 3, a policeman was bumped off during a raid in which three people were enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and flags of the ISIL group Death Eaters found, police said earlier.
A fourth suspect was later rubbed out.
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[MYFOXNY] Good advice, that. Chickens are nearly as naturally filthy as ducks. And it shouldn't take a government edict to tell you to keep your lips away from anything that pecks.
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As I understand it, kissing a pecker is still illegal in some states.
[Rudaw] A Peshmerga official says that a roadside landmine previously planted by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... on the Mekhmour front was triggered by an ISIS convoy early Thursday, killing two leaders of the terrorist group.
"A mine had been planted by ISIS troops in previous battles in the village of Kharbadan to target the Peshmerga, the vise versa happened, killing two of the group's local leaders on the front," Ali Hussain, commander of the Mekhmour front told Rudaw.
He added: "One of the slain Emirs [Leader] was the group's administrator in the area named Abu Malik, and the other one named Abu abdul-Aziz."
The Peshmerga commander said the bomb went off at a time when several convoys of ISIS were passing by on the road.
Earlier this month, a wave of attacks from the US-led coalition targeted ISIS bases on the Mekhmour front-lines, southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
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Apparently the old adage that "a mine has no friends" still has merit...
[AA.TR] Security forces raided the headquarters of a major ethnic political party 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... early Friday morning, arresting two key leaders, officials said.
Paramilitary Sindh Rangers raided the headquarters of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) in the city center, detaining the head of the party's central coordination committee and a former provincial politician for "hate speech".
Rangers commander Maj. Gen. Bilal Akbar said the suspects were involved in arranging and facilitating speeches against the army. He said further arrests would be carrying out soon.
"Those apprehended tonight... have been arranging and facilitating hate speeches against peace of Karachi," Akbar tweeted.
The security forces claim to have incarcerated Please don't kill me! several gunnies killers belonging to the MQM in recent months. The party, the fourth largest in Pakistain, claims to represent migrants who fled India during the partition of India and Pakistain in 1947.
It has strong roots in Karachi and holds 25 seats in the National Assembly. It was involved in factional fighting in the 1990s and has been accused of behaving like a mafia but now holds the majority of the city's legislative seats.
MQM's leader Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... , who lives in exile in London, has accused the military of targeting his party. Hundreds of members have been arrested in the crackdown.
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[Libya Herald] Mustafa Al-Kharoubi, a Sebha classmate of Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... who went on to become a founding member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council has died in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... days before he was due to hear the verdict on his case in the mass trial of former regime officials held in Hadba prison . . .
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 15 civilians, including 5children and 6 women, have bit the dust in barrel kabooms on rebel-held Aleppo in the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the Moslem holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, a monitoring group said on Friday.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 5 people, including 3 children and a woman, were killed in Barrel kaboom on Darat Ezza town near the northern city of Aleppo.
Another air strike conducted by Bashir al-Assad air force has killed 5 people, including 4 women, in al Bab, the stricken town which has been through a deadly week of aerial bombardment that killed dozens.
The third barrel attack targeted Aisha village in Aleppo countryside, 5 killed, including 2 children and one woman.
The corpse count of the first day of Eid al-Fitr reached 58, according to SNHR.
Syria's conflict began in March 2011 as popular protests against four decades of Assad family rule but changed into armed insurgency under a security force crackdown.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... More than 230,000 people killed and over 12 million forced to flee their homes.
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Is this one of the bleeder El-holidays? Or the Candy ones?
Also: LOL Lunar calendar
[AA.TR] Some political analysts believe Israel and Gazoo-based Paleostinian resistance group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, may be heading for a long-term truce following years of bitter -- and often violent -- animosity, based on recent statements by leaders from both sides.
Hamas, which has governed the Gazoo Strip since 2007 after winning legislative elections one year earlier, has remained tight-lipped on the issue. Indeed, for harder-core Paleostinian resistance groups, the notion of détente with Israel remains anathema.
But Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , a senior Hamas political leader, has recently made several veiled statements hinting at such a possibility.
"Thanks to ongoing Paleostinian efforts...," Haniyeh said in early July, "the Gazoo Strip will be relieved soon and the siege will be lifted."
Since 2007, Israel -- with Egypt's help -- has blockaded the strip by air, land and sea. The embargo has deprived the enclave's almost 2 million inhabitants of most basic commodities -- including food, fuel and medicine -- and turned the entire territory into a de facto prison.
Despite the years of suffering caused by the siege, Paleostinian political analyst Tayseer al-Muhaysini, believes Hamas may be mulling a long-term accommodation with the self-proclaimed Jewish state -- one, he believes, that would include an end to the eight-year embargo.
"Repeated hints by Hamas that the end of the blockade was imminent, along with recent calls to lift the siege by certain Israeli leaders, suggest that there is movement on this track behind the scenes," al-Muhaysini told Anadolu Agency.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Yemeni sources have refuted rumors that the murderous Moslems of al-Qaeda and runaway president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi had controlled the southern city of Aden.
The sources told al-Manar that fierce festivities are taking place between the murderous Moslems and the army backed by the popular committees.
The murderous Moslems were backed by intensified Saudi-led air strikes, the sources said, noting that the raids aim at achieving what the battlefield could not do.
"Al-Qaeda and Hadi murderous Moslems did not advance but in the international airport. Elsewhere, the murderous Moslems advanced towards the bridge in Khormakser, but they did not manage to enter the town as circulated by pro-Saudi media," the sources said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... dozens of al-Qaeda bad boyz were potted near Aden International Airport, according to the sources.
The killed holy warriors are from different nationalities, the sources added.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The operative responsible for organizing the suicide bombings claimed by terrorists of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group in Baghdad revealed that most of the group suicide bombers who carried out attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad are from Arab nationalities.
The terrorist Abu Abdullah, who is currently imprisoned, said that most of the suicide bombers whom he prepared to carry out suicide attacks were from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Algeria.
"Two other Westerns, one Australian and one German named Abu Qaqaa, were among the bombers," he said, pointing out that only one out of every ten suicide bombers was an Iraqi.
Abu Abdullah indicated during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel from his cell in Baghdad prison, that choosing the locations of attacks was intended to kill the largest number of people, "especially police officers and soldiers, such as police checkpoints, markets and Shiite religious places." he said.
During the interview published Thursday, the ISIL official claimed that he doesn't remember exactly the number of attacks that he planned for, but stressed that in the last quarter of the year during which he was arrested, he had planned 19 implemented attacks.
The Iraqi security forces arrested Abu Abdullah in July 2014.
Answering a question about the process of selecting the suicide bombers and their nationalities, terrorist Abu Abdallah told the German daily that "this task was handed to the military planners who were ranked higher than me. They [suicide bombers] were being brought to me and most of them had come from Fallujah city."
"I was in charge of the latter step, i.e. preparing them in the workshop that I own, equipping them with explosive belts, and sending them to the specific places for implementation."
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Saudis love leaving Saudi for jihad.it must be something to do with their view of the world and encouraged by their govt/religious leaders to do so.
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[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday claimed to have locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! two bully boyz from Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... district.
A statement issued here said that acting on a tip-off about presence of bully boyz identified as Alauddin, son of Ghulam Mohammad, and Abdul Salam in Tangir area, CTD raided a house and took both alleged bully boyz in jug.
The police claimed that both bully boyz had opened fire on a police team in Kohistan district on July 12, but fled from the scene leaving their vehicle and weapons behind when police retaliated the attack. Police had also recovered an AK-47, six rocket shells, six safety fuses, pistol and two mobile phones from the abandoned vehicle.
The suspects were later shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.
Separately, three bully boyz were nabbed from Mattani and Sarband neighbourhood of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. . A source claimed that weapons were also recovered from the accused who were planning to carry out attacks on the eve of Eid.
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[DAWN] At least two people were killed in a suicide kaboom near Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University at Quetta's Brewery road late on Friday.
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... Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said that the bomber attempted to enter Quetta's Hazara town area but was intercepted by security personnel. He added that the interception forced the attacker, who was wearing women's clothes, to prematurely detonate his explosives.
Durrani also hailed the efforts of the security guard.
Hazara Town is a locality populated mainly by the ethnic Hazara Shia minority which has been targeted by holy warrior bully boy groups.
Bomb Disposal Squad officials who arrived at the spot earlier had also confirmed that the kaboom was carried out by a jacket wallah and that seven to eight kilograms of kaboom was used in the blast.
Security sources claimed that those killed in the attack included the attacker and the security guard who had intercepted the 25-year-old bomber.
Rescue personnel reached the spot and shifted the victims to a nearby hospital.
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[Rudaw] US President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... has ruled out cooperation with Iraq's government in areas where the Iranian military is present, warning that Iranian-backed militias might commit atrocities in recaptured Sunni areas.
In "what Iran is doing there is a problem, and we can't cooperate in that area," Obama said on Wednesday. He explained that, while Washington is cooperating with the Iraqi government on regaining territories lost to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS), it does not shy away from telling Baghdad that military cooperation with Iran is wrong.
"For example, unless you get those folks out of there, because we're not going to have our troops -- even in an advisory or training role -- looking over their shoulders because they're not sure of what might happen to them," he added.
The US president admitted that Iran has influence in Iraq and described some cooperation in Iraq as "natural," while other relations as "less legitimate."
"Iraq has a majority Shiite population. They have relationships to Iran. Some are natural. We expect somebody like Prime Minister (Haider) Abadi to meet with and negotiate and work with Iran as its neighbor," Obama said.
"Some are less legitimate -- where you see Iran financing Shiite militias that in the past have killed American soldiers and in the future may carry out atrocities when they move into Sunni areas," the president said.
He stressed that US assistance to Iraq is conditional on having Iraqi security forces under the direct control of the country's prime minister.
"If we don't have confidence that ultimately Abadi is directing those soldiers, then it's tough for us to have any kind of direct relationship," he said.
[AA.TR] A congressional vote to undermine a recently brokered nuclear deal with Iran would be a victory for Tehran, the White House said Friday.
"If the U.S. Congress votes to kill this deal, Iran will get all the benefits of this deal without having to give up anything," front man Josh Earnest told news hounds.
Under the accord that was brokered between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, Tehran will begin to receive much-needed sanctions relief once it verifiably curtails its nuclear program and submits to international inspections of its nuclear program.
Responding to criticism that the international agreement ultimately emboldens Iran, Earnest said, "There's nothing that Iran could do to be further emboldened than to obtain a nuclear weapon."
Congress has 60 days to review the deal.
Obama needs the support of 34 of the 100 senators to protect his veto authority from potentially being overridden.
Congress requires a two-thirds majority vote in both houses to override a presidential veto.
World powers and Iran spent nearly two years trying to reach the milestone agreement with successive rounds of talks being extended beyond established deadlines.
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"IRS is going to investigate you.", sorta thing?
[Libya Herald] Daesh has said that it has seized three foreign "Crusaders" and published photos of the men and their passports on social media. "Crusader" is the terrorists' term for "Christian".
There are no details of when and how the three, an Egyptian, a Ghanaian and a Nigerian were kidnapped. Their documents show them to be respectively as Bekhit Nageh Efrank Ebeid, Kofi Frimpong Sekyere and Ibrahim Adeola. In its publicity, the turbans muddle up the first and family names.
Daesh's "Barqa Province" claimed that the men were picked up at roadblocks during a "security" operation.
The picture published of the blindfolded Ghanaian Sekyere appear to show him wearing an orange jumpsuit.
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[AA.TR] Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday reshuffled his cabinet in the wake of a revolt over bailout reforms proposed by the government.
Ministers from the ruling left-wing Syriza coalition who went against the austerity measures demanded by Greece's international creditors in a parliamentary vote on Thursday night were removed from office.
Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, one of the most outspoken critics of the proposals, was replaced by Labour Minister Panos Skourletis while Tryfon Alexiadis was named deputy finance minister in place of Nadia Valavani, who quit earlier this week.
George Katrougalos became labor minister and Pavlos Haikalis from the conservative ANEL party joined the government as deputy minister for social insurance.
The administrative reform portfolio was taken by Christoforos Vernardakis and Syriza politician Olga Gerovasili was appointed deputy to the prime minister.
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[Libya Herald] Misrata has released 40 prisoners, but not it seems as a specific part of any reconciliation with rival towns. Though the authorities did not say so, it is likely to be a gesture to mark Eid Al-Fitr.
According to Colonel Sherif Arhuma, commander of Misrata's military police, the prisoners, from Tripolli, Zliten, Tarhuna and Misrata itself were being freed because they had "proved their innocence". It was unclear if there had been any trials which found them not guilty or if it had merely been decided that they had no case to answer.
Thirty two of the men had been held in Sakat prison with the remainer in Huda jail. With some of them looking a little dazed and carrying small holdalls, they were released to await transport back to their home towns.
The Misratan authorities did not say what crimes the prisoners were suspected to have committed. It is also unclear how long any of the men had been held.
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[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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. .. on Friday expressed appreciation for the recent message issued by the Taliban's top commander, Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , in which he acknowledges that there is no Islamic prohibition against negotiating with an enemy and suggests peace is the best path forward for Afghanistan.
The statements come a week after the Afghan government officially held talks with representatives of the Taliban in Pakistain. The two sides agreed to continue their negotiations, and it is expected that the second round of talks will take place on July 30.
"We welcome the message released by Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhund in which he has said that negotiation is the solution," Ghani said. "The Taliban issue is different from others. They [the Taliban] want to join the system and settle their issues through negotiations."
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[Tolo News] A bomb, placed in a cycle of violence, exploded near a mosque in the Sholgar district of northern Balkh province on the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr killing three civilians and injuring at least 14 others, officials confirmed.
The blast took place at about 8:30am soon after Eid prayers were offered in the mosque. Officials said three people were killed and 14 others were maimed in the kaboom.
Officials said the injured have been taken to the district hospital and their condition is said to be stable.
In a separate incident on Friday, four coppers were killed and three were maimed in a roadside blast in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province.
Provincial Police Chief Abdul said a police Ranger vehicle hit a roadside mine shortly before lunch.
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Shady ballot brokers are "doping the vote" in the Rio Grande Valley, an election-watch group says. Now the FBI is on the case.
"(The politiqueras) took voters to their weed man after voting," Logan Churchwell, a front man for True the Vote, told Watchdog.org.
Trafficking in petty cash and dime bags, politiqueras round up voters for South Texas candidates, nearly all Democrats. The pay-for-ballot activity has resulted in 11 federal indictments so far.
Republicans are turning up the heat on state Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, a Brownsville resident and longtime political kingmaker in the Rio Grande Valley.
"He needs to come clean with the people of Texas (about whether he) personally participated in the corrupt practice of using politiqueras to commit voter fraud," said state GOP Chairman Tom Mechler.
[DAWN] The federal government informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that it had asked the provincial governments as well as the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration to strictly monitor the functioning of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), scrutinise their sources of funding and seek audit reports from them.
The information was provided in a report submitted by the interior ministry in compliance with earlier court orders.
On July 1 and 3, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja had asked Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt to come up with information about the steps the government had taken after Dec 24, 2014 -- the day the National Action Plan (NAP) was prepared in consultations with all political parties against the backdrop of the Dec 16, 2014 massacre of children in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School -- to curb extremism and militancy in the country.
The matter relating to NGOs' activities cropped up during the June 23 hearing of a bail application of Haroonur Rashid who had been booked for alleged fraud in a business transaction.
It was revealed during the hearing that the parties involved in the matter had invested in "Baraan", a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... -based NGO, which was registered in Peshawar but carried out its activities in Tank, Bannu and D.I. Khan.
The non-availability of relevant figures was termed by the court alarming, especially when the 20-point NAP included a stipulation that "all funding sources of Death Eaters and terrorist outfits will be frozen".
Later Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... had said in a statement that his ministry would submit a detailed report on NAP's implementation to the Supreme Court to prove, with statistics, that the plan was not an eyewash.
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you can hardly blame them after what they've been through. But I have printed a whack of t-shirts with the charlie hebdo cover with mohammad as guest editor "Sharia Hebdo - 100 lashes if you don't die laughing" - it is easy to do. Just save the image as a high-res jpeg on a memory stick and take to any t-shirt printer.
On the other side "freedom is my religion" with 2 jyllands postern mohammeds - angry bomb mohammed and happy moon-and-stars mohammed.
I proudly wear up and down the street all the time, i have 8 one for every day of the week and a spare. I never forget, never forgive.
I support the right of Muslim women to wear a hijab and believe in their religion here all they like. I will defend them.
I also support my right to wear a cartoon of Mohammed and NOBODY can tell me not to. I will defend this with my life.
[Tolo News] Balkh province's acting governor Atta Mohammad Noor announced on Friday that leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , the Junbish-e-Milli Islami and the Islamic Unity parties of Afghanistan have decided to join forces to fight forces of Evil plaguing northern parts of the country.
Noor, who spoke during Eid-ul-Fitr prayers at the mosque of the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali in Mazar-e-Sharif on Friday, said the leaders of the parties have met and decided to band together to protect civilians from being victimized by krazed killers. The event was attended by hundreds of people, and held under tight security.
"We decided that Mr. Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... [Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum] and the First Vice President Ustad Mohammad Mohaqiq have to be prepared and jointly suppress the holy warriors, and stand against them strongly and gracefully to bring peace and unity and prevent more sacrifices of our people," Noor said.
Noor also criticized the peace talk process, which kicked-off last week with historic talks between Afghan government representatives and Taliban leaders in Islamabad. The acting governor said the negotiations must be held in consultation with the people of Afghanistan and their political parties.
"We should move forward - but not for the purpose of having countries come and invest in Afghanistan and hold a process for their own benefit, calling it the grinding of the peace processor," Noor said. He warned that the process could be used to legitimize terrorist groups backed by foreign powers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... 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. .. 's First Vice President, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who Atta Noor referred to in his speech and who has been an outspoken opponent of the Taliban, has expressed hope about the grinding of the peace processor. Nevertheless, he has also bucked any possibility that they can subdue the Afghan government through violence.
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It is hard to gauge a sworn blood enemy like ISIS. They have no organized army, no central command, and no apparent plan of attack.
What they do have is a large number of crazies living in the USA, who support, tacitly or blatantly, ISIS' apparent goal of general mayhem, and a probably smaller number who are just as crazy but with the capability of launching a mass casualty attack. What do you defend? Where do you defend?
ISIS' strategy, it seems, lies in the notion that governments will do as ISIS expects them to do, something that ISIS is likely prepared to counter. Frederick the Great said about strategy, "He who will defend everything, will defend nothing." That quote was lifted from Paul Carrell's most excellent social history of WWII in Russia, "Scorched Earth", and in that context, is meant to apply where forces wind up in the event of an overwhelming attack. In WWII, the German Army found great success in defensive battles by placing forces, not where the enemy was expected to be, but where the enemy could not reach them in the initial contact. Those mobile forces, once the first blows have landed, would then be used to strike at enemy forces where they would never expect to be.
The average citizen, thanks to ISIS, is living on a battlefield where his nose is the front line and his only means of supply and resupply is based on how well he has prepared, and the goodwill of friendly neighbors. But even with the basic logistics available to the average US citizen, ISIS is still an amorphous enemy who will rely on the crazies willing to step up and sacrifice their lives to attack and kill Americans. You can't plan on where you or your neighbors will be when a strike does come to your city, since ISIS' whole strategy rests, not on gaining yardage in places they can't hold, but breaking the will of their enemy, through sudden and massive violence, better when filmed and even more so when a broadcasted message can precede an attack.
Their enemy would be us, you and me.
Neither the government, nor private armies can locate ISIS' recruiting centers, or supply centers, because they don't exist. Their recruiting is done on Twitter and email, and their supplies depend on what a local criminal class can provide the crazies who volunteer, in exchange for a healthy amount of cash. Their recruits are whoever is crazy enough, Moslem or not, to pull the trigger of a rifle against unarmed individuals. And ISIS doesn't go out to get recruits; they don't have to. Recruits are coming to them.
I am no tactical expert. In this column, my expertise rests solely on following trends of pricing and availability of common firearms and ammunition. I have never fired a shot in anger at anyone, and though I am prior service military, the last time I fired an AR was while Jane Fonda was in North Vietnam casting her lot with an armed and hostile enemy of America.
A lot of advice is out there on what a citizen can do to defend himself and his family against a sudden attack, and much of that advice is probably plain awful. Advice such as getting tactical firearms training seems like a good place to start, if you have a long weekend and can part with $500, plus travel costs. Tactical Response and Max Velocity are but two who offer classes. If you are too old or infirm to get tactical training, it may be better to pay for a younger relative's training. However, I would like to point out that on one tactical training website I visited, one fella was being pushed around in his wheelchair participating in tactical pistol training exercises. So, if they can teach a fella in a wheel chair, they surely can help you.
But if you can't part with the resources, financial or personal, it seems to me the next best advice is shot placement using your preferred weapon. You may not be able to fight using your rifle, but if your first shot against an active shooter hits the mark, it may well spur you into getting tactical training.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition and for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher, while prices for used rifles were mostly lower.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, FMJ, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Ultramax, FMJ, Brass Cased, Reloads, .16 per round (From Last week: -.11 Each (!!))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
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What they do have is a large number of crazies living in the USA, who support, tacitly or blatantly, ISIS' apparent goal of general mayhem, and a probably smaller number who are just as crazy but with the capability of launching a mass casualty attack.
Empathy for FDR's internment? Might yet come. Just wait till they get a real body count that can't be suppressed by the media for a couple of years. 9/11 took almost eight years to bury. It's officially in the NYT's Memoryhole.
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Empathy for FDR's internment? Funny, the Mrs. and I were talking yesterday about this. I said, someone such as Donald Trump ought to suggest "internment" so we can all watch the liberals go nuttier. We may have to seriously consider such things as internment. Better keep Gitmo open for awhile longer--maybe expand the concept. ISIS access to the internet ought to be shut down. This would shut down an avenue of communication as well as a means of recruitment. The social media doesn't seem to be being used to dismantle terrorist networks or predict "lone wolfs terrorists." Likewise, NSA doesn't appear to be being used to identify terrorists. It seems as if it is being used to collect data on citizens who are not terrorists. The ISIS money supply should be shut down as well. Our so-called ally's such as Saudi Arabia should be talked to "seriously" about spreading the evil of Wahhabism and Sharia. The current administration needs to quit being stupid about helping Iran build a nuke. When Obama pulled our ground troops out of Iraq, we gave up a great potential for on-the-ground humint. Too bad Congress doesn't have the votes or inclination to remove a sitting president from office; Obama is a one-man wrecking crew for nearly everything he touches. We need to get serious about this piss-ant war we have going on in the Mideast before it becomes much larger. We have to take care of the subversive war here as well as the war over there.
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During WWII we had "beach watchers" in the U.S. who were mostly older people with shotguns who patrolled the beaches. In fact, one such beach watcher discovered the Nazi saboteurs who were put ashore for Operation Pastorius in 1942. Hoover's FBI rounded them up before they could do much damage.
For some reason when the Department of Homeland Security was set up, it never seemed to embrace the idea of recruiting U.S. citizens to help the effort---if was as if they adopted an "us and them" attitude about citizens of this country--"us" being the federal government and "them" being the larger citizenry. It was as if the federal government did not trust the rest of us to help in the defense of this country.
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They didn't want help from the citizens because their idea of 'defending' the country seems to include defending all their illegal terrorist invading buddies from the south and being shipped in as refugees to the countries actual citizens.
It's quite clear that to the Federal Government, American citizens are it's one true enemy.
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There are some good videos out there.
Is it a substitute for hands on instruction? No.
Not even a substitute for range time. It does give good ideas for training and
Awareness. The common thread throughout all videos.
All the IEF vets I have had a honor to hear the real stuff say Get Out of the Kill Zone in an ambush.
I was at a game recently, storm coming in. First thing I do is find where the storm shelters are, then time from seat to aisle (best time, no panic or emergency) then aisle to concourse then to shelter.
Have a plan for your day to day locations, such as work or restaurant frequently visited.
Plan your house. Practice a couple times during the day, then at night with lights off, then at night during a storm - changes everything. Don't want to carry a handgun around house (kids, neighbors whatever) put a baseball in your shooting hand. Practice with your off hand, something I wish I had done prior to my (luckily false alarm) clearing.
Have a realistic appraisal of your abilities. My default bad guy is a 21 year old male on drugs; I figure other bad guys are downhill from that point.
[DAWN] EARLIER this month, Maharashtra's BJP government voted to derecognise schools that teach religion without also teaching the primary subjects: mathematics, science, and English. Although a few Vedic schools are likely to be classified as 'non-schools', this step is primarily directed towards the state's madressahs. To be eligible for state grants, they must now teach primary subjects in addition to traditional madressah subjects. By this decision any child, male or female, will officially be considered uneducated and out-of-school if enrolled in an institution that does not follow the state's formal school syllabus in these subjects.
Is this good or bad? Predictably, Indian Moslems have protested this as anti-Moslem. Indeed, given the BJP's Hindutva agenda, to be suspicious of underlying motives is reasonable. But let us set this aside and judge this new development at face value. It is a fact that children who do not know English, math, or science cannot compete in the job market or benefit from university-level education. They become the victim of conspiracy theories, pseudo-scientific nonsense, and various forms of illogic. Madressah graduates can become maulvis and qazis but not engineers, scientists, or doctors. India sees its madressahs as posing a serious education problem but not -- at least officially -- as a terrorism problem.
This view must be contrasted against Pakistain's which now sees its madressahs entirely through a security lens. From the 1980s, these institutions had been used to provide expendable warriors for use in Afghanistan and then later in Kashmire. Although government-sponsored radicalisation tapered off after 9/11, putting the genie back in the bottle has proved difficult. Dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of madressahs now generate militancy mostly directed against the Pakistain Army and ordinary Paks.
In an analysis of the profiles of jacket wallahs who have struck in Punjab, the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police said more than two-thirds had attended madressahs. There are many instances where accidental detonations inside madressah premises have killed would-be suicide kaboomers. Special Branch has identified dozens of madressahs that are linked to bad boy groups. Nevertheless a state of denial had persisted and the public was largely inclined towards seeing madressahs as peaceful religious institutions.
This changed, at least for a while, after the Army Public School massacre on Dec 16, 2014. Over the protestations of the JUI and Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , parliament approved the National Action Plan (NAP) a month later. This plan included insistence upon madressah reform as a means of controlling religious extremism. Hitherto unregistered madressahs were to be registered, hate speech and bad boy activities stopped, and funding sources uncovered. But NAP did not call for a revamping of the content taught in madressahs, and did not insist upon the inclusion of primary subjects. This is a serious omission.
Even if by some miracle NAP's idea of madressah reform could be implemented, it would scarcely change the worldview that makes militancy attractive. Living in a primitive world where he is cut off from modern thought and almost all sources of authentic information, the madressah student can be made to believe anything. Unless horizons are broadened by including secular subjects, madressahs will remain a perennial danger to state and society. Paradoxically, the BJP's approach to madressah reform is the more enlightened one!
Nevertheless, I have no illusions on how difficult a task this will be. On the request of the-then minister for education, Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali, the five heads of Pakistain's wafaqs (madressah boards) and their deputies had gathered around a conference table. The wafaqs are divided along political and sectarian lines. I was charged with enthusing them into teaching science and math in their institutions. After expressing due deference to these powerful men who control what is taught to millions of students, I then proceeded to give a 20-minute lecture on how Moslem scientific achievements in the Golden Age had established Islam as a great world civilisation.
The bearded gentlemen were unimpressed. If you want to teach science and engineering in your universities that is your business, they said, but leave matters of faith to us. The head of one wafaq said his branch of madressahs already taught science and math, and was not interested in further changes. When the minister offered large sums of money if they modified their curricula, they unanimously said they would welcome the money -- but only if it was unconditional. The meeting was a failure.
So what is to be done? As it stands, although faced by NAP, madressah heads have flatly refused to discuss their funding sources or show accounts to the government, and there are probably more unregistered madressahs than registered ones. According to a report in this newspaper (July 16), law-enforcement officials are admitting helplessness in closing down even a single one of the 579 unregistered madressahs 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... because of their enormous street power, and the backing provided by religious political parties.
Curriculum reform may, therefore, appear even more difficult. But, in fact, unexploited opportunities are available to the authorities. In 1981 Gen Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... had ordered that various levels of madressah asnad (certificates) be equivalenced with regular certificates and degrees (bachelor's, master's, PhD), and the University Grants Commission (now called HEC) was empowered to determine equivalency requirements. This gives the HEC leverage over quality: if madressahs are to teach English, math, and science, they must be tested by the same standards as in public schools. More importantly, HEC can insist on curriculum changes and require that at least some mind-broadening subjects be taught.
Difficult or not, ultimately there is no alternative but for the Pak state to bring madressah and mosque under its control. Mere policing will not do. Instead, the content of instruction must be shifted away from a paranoid and destructive vision of the world towards an inclusive and reasoned one. Pakistain must do so even in the face of street power, as well as disapproval by Arab countries that fund those brands of madressahs which serve their narrow ideological interests. Therefore reform must be done incrementally and carefully, and without provoking a massive backlash. But it has to be done.
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I just saw a science fiction movie
"The Mist", A High point was when the religious fanatic (AKA Jim Jones") got shot,twice, By the good guys.
Yep, we don't need religious fanatics.
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[Ynet] Britannia has been given nine months to produce new surveillance legislation it says is vital to national security after London's High Court ruled on Friday that emergency measures rushed through parliament last year were unlawful.
The court backed a judicial challenge from two prominent politicians and other campaigners that powers which compelled telecoms firms to retain customer data for a year were inconsistent with European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... laws.
Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... had said the measures were vital to protect the country, which is on high alert because of the threat posed
by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies and from Britons who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with them.
"The court has recognised what was clear to many last year, that the government's hasty and ill thought through legislation is fatally flawed," said politician David Davis, a long-time campaigner against state intrusion who was defeated by Cameron in the race to become Conservative Party leader in 2005.
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Both Bush and Rubio have waded into the "Pitbull Primary" with Rubio saying he likes the Florida superstar's music and Bush even saying he'd like to invite him to a baseball game.
Sorry, no vote for either of you. Not now, not ever.
#3
Trump is a bit of a clown but I do appreciate that he's helping put a spotlight not only on a problem (the border) but on the sycophants that will go along with misrepresentations of what Trump said to appeal to racial demographics.
I might accept Rubio as a VP candidate but for the big seat, clearly not ready for prime time. Reagan acted like a conservative and folks were drawn to him, why do these modern polls think they need to change their skin every other day to appeal to people?
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Joaquin Guzman
Wanted a husband
So bad that he tunneled
To flirt with the Donald.
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Cruz-Trump a clear non RINO winning machine,
Look, you guys know me, a. Centrist rethuglican from way back, if it's not Walker or Bush we loose, it's just that way. Or perhaps we like loosing? Do I think Pat Buchanan has the ear of gawd? Yes.
#11
I find Bulldog's work improves dramatically when run through the mute filter. It is nice to see the American Dream in action, even if built on an initial success of white suburbanites mistaking him as the next Vanilla Ice during his debut.
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The deal is brilliant in that the left can lay claim to peace and then Israel gets all the blame when the do what has to be done.
A better deal would have been pretty easy. Just spend four or five years fighting about the shape of the table and you'll eventually start to hear through back channels what they really want.
[AA.TR] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has invited Friday the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to sever all ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The president argued that as a HDP is now a political party with seats (80) in the Turkish parliament, it must break with the PKK group, which is considered as a terrorist organization by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the U.S. and the EU.
"An offshoot that attained representation at the parliament must do its best [to cut off relations with PKK] as they apparently maintain an indirect link, even if not a direct one, with the terrorist organization," he told the press after performing the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Istanbul's Atasehir Mimar Sinan Mosque Friday.
Government officials and Erdogan have regularly accused the HDP of having ties with the group and acting and speaking like its political wing.
Erdogan said intelligence services had established that there were ties between the HDP and the PKK, which the former has categorically rejected.
The Turkish president went on to argue that certain results in the June 7 parliamentary elections proved his point.
"The pro-Kurdish party swept the polls in hundreds of villages while other parties had zero percent vote," he said, referring to southeastern Turkey where there is an important Kurdish presence. "It means the local people there are threatened with guns."
The Turkish government launched an initiative in early 2013 commonly known as the "solution process" to end the decades-old conflict with the illegal PKK, which has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people for over 40 years.
Erdogan said that HDP should not attempt to play politics in the next stages of the process and should reject backing from an illegal group if it truly believed in democracy and wanted to stay within the parliamentary system.
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[AnNahar] A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official said Friday there could be no new exchange talks with Israel until it frees dozens of prisoners it has reincarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... since their release in a 2011 swap.
Ismail Haniya, a former Paleostinian prime minister, said Israel had re-arrested at least 54 of the more than 1,000 prisoners freed in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a cross-border raid by GazooLions of Islam in 2006.
"We have told all the mediators who have mobilized to discuss a new exchange that there won't be any negotiations before the release of all those Israel detained from among the Shalit deal group," he said in a speech marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
"There will be no talks without their unconditional release."
Haniya did not elaborate on what new exchange was being mooted.
Hamas has long acknowledged holding body parts of two Israeli soldiers killed during last summer's conflict in Gazoo.
But it has not commented on Israel's announcement last week that Hamas is also holding two of its citizens in Gazoo.
Hamas and Israeli sources have reported informal, indirect contacts on the possibility of a long-term truce between them, to cement an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that ended the Gazoo conflict last August.
Last Thursday, the Israeli defense ministry said that Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Æthiopian descent, had been held by Hamas since crossing illegally into Gazoo last September.
It said an Israeli Arab is also being held, although it has given no details of his case.
Israel does not allow its citizens to enter Gazoo, partly out of fear they may be used as bargaining chips to demand concessions, including the release of prisoners.
Israel insists that all of those rearrested since the Shalit exchange were implicated in fresh security offences committed after their release.
[BREITBART] That's what happens when you don't echo the party line. I think Jenner became a eunoch too late in life to sing soprano, but I guess it does take a lot of "guts" to let somebody chop your doinker off. Of course, back in my younger days it would have been none of my business.
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Shapiro should have this twit arrested for assault and battery, making terroristic threats and whatever else he can legally charged with.
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Of course, back in my younger days it would have been none of my business.
Yeah. The man is sick. But that doesn't mean I want to hear about it. If he had cancer I wouldn't need daily updates either.
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Was there an obituary for Bruce Jenner and a birth announcement for Caitlyn Jenner? Isn't that what is done these days? Some things I'll prabably never understand. What Bruce Jenner chose to do is his/her own business as far as I'm concerned. I wish he'd pay more attention to his driving as that does affect others.
[DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... apex committee decided on Thursday to 'completely ban' collection of Zakat and Fitrana by banned outfits.
It was the sixth meeting of the committee and it continued for more than three and a half hours with Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... in the chair.
Corps Commander Lahore Lt Gen Naveed Zaman, Home Minister Shuja Khanzada, Director General Punjab Rangers Maj Gen Umer Farooq Barki, General Officer Commanding 10-Div Maj Gen Sardar Tariq Aman, chief secretary, Inspector General of Punjab Police, home secretary and senior civil and military officers attended the meeting.
The meeting decided to impose complete ban on the collection of Zakat and Fitrana by the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations and monitor and control their other activities.
Analysts say that such decisions taken in the past had remained unimplemented.
The meeting decided to take more effective steps for the implementation of the National Action Plan. The committee expressed determination for elimination of terrorism, extremism and sectarianism.
It was also decided that indiscriminate crackdown would be carried out against Death Eaters and controllers of Lions of Islam as well as those providing them financial assistance.
The meeting was told that consignment of electronic devices had reached here from abroad. These devices would be attached to the ankles of those included in the Fourth Schedule of the anti-terrorism law. The devices are being tested and law-enforcement agencies personnel are being trained how to use it.
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Banned outfits?
No more Nehru Jackets, no more white belts and grey polyester trousers. :( Is life the worth living? Itn enought to make you take up your shutter gun and head for the hideout.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Three young men plotted an attack on a French military base after receiving orders from an 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 contact in Syria to strike in La Belle France, prosecutors said Friday.
The accounts Sherlocks say they gave underscore the role of the Islamic State organization's savvy social media machine in recruiting Western youth. All three had high school diplomas and quickly radicalized watching grisly IS group videos, the prosecutor's office said.
The men, tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! Monday, went before an investigative judge Friday. The prosecutor's office opened an investigation June 23 on suspicion they were preparing terrorist acts to harm people.
More than 2,500 potentially radicalized youth have been flagged in La Belle France by worried families, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said this week, and 1,850 others have traveled to Syria or are trying to.
The prosecutor's statement said the three men told Sherlocks they planned a late December or early January attack on the Mediterranean military post Fort Bear, where Djebril A., 23, a former Marine, once worked. The others, Ismael K., 17, and Antoine F., 19, said the plan was to decapitate the base chief, which Djebril A. denied.
Djebril A. told Sherlocks he felt he was on a mission for the Islamic State group and wanted to answer the order to attack a site in La Belle France, the statement said. He left the Marines in 2014 after less than a year for failure to adapt to military life.
The three intended to travel to Syria but Ismael K. raised suspicions and was questioned in October. A month later - at his mother's request - he was banned from leaving La Belle France, the statement said.
The three, who met online, communicated through an encrypted program.
The youngest of three suspects in jug-- aged only 17 -- was given the order when it became clear he would not be able to leave the country to wage jihad in Syria because he was under surveillance, Molins said.
"They claim to be part of Daesh," said a source close to the investigation, using an alternative Arabic acronym to refer to the jihadist 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 that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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[TORONTOSUN] We may be tired of writing about them. You may be tired of reading about them. But 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.... certainly isn't tired of continually increasingly their savagery.
In an editorial earlier this month, we wrote that ISIS had reached a new low. Looks like it's time to repeat that refrain.
At that time it had been reported that the terror group beheaded two Syrian women -- the first time women had been the targets of this cruel treatment.
Now they've moved on to push the boundaries of evil once again.
A new propaganda video released the other day shows a child soldier beheading a Syrian prisoner. The boy looks like he isn't any older than 12.
It's the first time such a recording as this has showed a child solider, which they fondly and disturbingly call "cubs of the caliphate."
And they released the video of the beheading to coincide with Eid al-Fitr, a celebration that marks the end of Ramadan. While most Moslems around the world are peacefully gathering with their families, ISIS is "celebrating" in its own sick way.
So let's not mistake ISIS' troubled antics for religious observance. Regardless of religion and nationality, practically every person in the global community is equally horrified by these actions.
As we wrote only several weeks ago: "If any still don't know who we are dealing with, no doubt should be left. ISIS engages in evil. It's their modus operandi."
The reality is this story has more to do with life in Canada than we'd like it to. In a Sun Media guest column last week, Sen. Daniel Lang, chair of the national security and defence committee, wrote: "The committee learned there are over 318 radicalized Canadians supporting the Lion of Islam jihadist movement or seeking to leave Canada to join it. This number is increasing."
The committee's latest report made recommendations on how policymakers and law enforcement can deal with this.
The coalition fighting ISIS has made a number of victories in recent months. But the fight continues.
As awful as the stories of beheading are, Canadians need to be aware of them to help understand exactly why we're in this fight.
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ISIS mistake is overkill. If they told the Christians to just pay the tax and self segregate, they'd be left alone and then actually practice that they'd be ahead of the Socialists who tax them and not leave them alone. It would make an interesting 'devils choice' to a big population.
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Mistakes from this point of view. Recruiting videos from their end.
Anyone catch the counter-ISJV video where anti-ISJV Team executed a number of ISJV captures, but themselves in the orange suits executing (alleged) ISJV?
[FIRSTPOST] The suspect in the fatal shootings of four U.S. Marines travelled to Jordan and possibly other Middle Eastern countries last year, authorities said on Friday, as the investigation focussed on any signs of a connection to Islamist murderous Moslems.
Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born naturalized U.S. citizen, died on Thursday in a firefight with police after a rampage at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The 24-year-old engineer travelled to Jordan, possibly between April and November, U.S. government sources and friends of Abdulazeez in Chattanooga told Rooters. One childhood friend, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said he went there for a job opportunity.
Investigators will try to establish if he was part of an organization or the latest "lone wolf" murderous Moslem, radicalized U.S. Moslems acting on their own who President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... has said pose a greater risk to the country than a large-scale operation.
Friends were shocked by the actions of Abdulazeez, who they said lived about 150 miles (241 km) away in Franklin, Tennessee, but had returned to his hometown to visit family for the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which ended Thursday.
"He was a friend of mine, a good Moslem. But there were no red flags, nothing unusual. It is shocking," said another childhood friend, who prayed with him at the Islamic Centre of Greater Chattanooga over the past month.
A little more than 24 hours after the shooting, the FBI said it continued to investigate it as an act of terrorism and that it was "premature" to speculate on the motive.
"We are exploring all travel that he has done and we have asked our intelligence partners throughout the world to provide us with any information they may have," Ed Reinhold, FBI special agent in charge, said during a news conference.
Born to Paleostinian parents and raised in a Chattanooga suburb, Abdulazeez may have family in Jordan and may have made several stops, said a government source, adding that a visit to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has not been ruled out.
A trip to Yemen, long viewed as a training ground for Islamic murderous Moslems, would raise special concern.
Law enforcement officials have said they are investigating whether Abdulazeez, was inspired by 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.... or similar murderous Moslem groups. Islamic State had threatened to step up violence during Ramadan.
But the FBI said Friday it had "no indication" so far that the attack was linked to that group.
The young American Moslem man who rubbed out four US Marines in Chattanooga on Thursday visited Jordan and Yemen last year, Army Radio reported Friday.
According to the report, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez spent a month in Jordan in 2014, during which time he also visited Yemen.
Special concern realised yet?
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According to the Obama campaign, In 1981 -- the year Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University -- Obama visited his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia. After that visit, Obama traveled to Pakistan with a friend from college whose family was from there. The Obama campaign says Obama was in Pakistan for about three weeks.....
It's actually well documented. Radicalization can take place in as little as three weeks.
[AnNahar] Three girls carried out suicide kabooms in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday, killing 13 people celebrating the end of the holy Moslem month of Ramadan, police said.
"Thirteen people were killed in the... suicide kabooms," said Markus Danladi, Yobe state police commissioner. "The attacks were carried out by three underage girls. Fifteen people were also injured in the attacks."
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamists have carried out a slew of deadly assaults in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... over the course of their six-year-old insurgency. Over the past year the group has deployed several jacket wallahexploding trollop female suicide bombers.
Residents said twin kabooms near a prayer ground in Damaturu killed two people, with a third blast moments later near a mosque leaving another 11 people dead, according to medics.
This year's Ramadan has been particularly deadly, with suicide bombers hitting mosques and worshippers attacked by gunnies as they prayed.
A medical source who wished to remain anonymous told AFP that 13 bodies had been brought to the hospital.
Damaturu is the capital of Yobe, one of three northeastern states hardest hit by the insurgency that has left 15,000 people dead and 1.5 million homeless since 2009.
On Thursday, rescue workers said at least 49 people were killed and dozens injured when twin blasts struck a market in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe.
In all, we have 49 dead and 71 injured," a top rescue official told AFP, asking not to be named.
He warned that the toll could climb further as some of the maimed "are in a critical condition".
"The victims include many women and kiddies," he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts but a market, bus station and stadium in the city of Gombe, the capital of Gombe state, have all in recent months been targeted by bomb and suicide kabooms.
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[AlAhram] The leader of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels on Friday issued an Eid message calling for a wave of new recruits in order to "lift the pain of Moslems" across East Africa.
In a statement that underscored the group's ambition to expand its operations, Shabaab leader Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, took aim at Kenya, Æthiopia, Djibouti and Uganda.
"The sword of the Mujahedeen is drawn and attacks against the enemy are ongoing countrywide and we are calling them to increase their attacks on the infidels," he said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
"We say to our beloved brothers living in territories under Kenyan colonisation that your brothers will never stop coming to your assistance," he said.
"You have to know that Jihad is the only way you can free yourselves from the oppression and humiliation you are now facing, so rush and join in the Jihad... and liberate your territories from the Christians."
Diriye praised the April massacre at Garissa University in northeastern Kenya, in which four Shabaab gunnies killed 148 people, most of them students. The attackers were mostly Moslems from Kenya.
"We congratulate you and the rest of the Moslems in the world on the heroic Garissa university operation," the Shabaab leader said, saying the massacre was retaliation for "organised extrajudicial killings against holy mans and kidnappings of Islamic youth" along Kenya's Moslem-majority coastline.
"The time for the Christians to engage in atrocities without accountability is over," he said. "We pray to God to lift the pain of the Moslems in the whole of eastern Africa -- Æthiopia, Uganda and Djibouti."
"We will not spare any effort to assist you, and the doors of our training camps are open to receive you and our houses are open to welcome you."
The Shabaab, meaning "youth" in Arabic, emerged out of a bitter insurgency against Æthiopia, whose troops entered Somalia in a 2006 US-backed invasion to topple the Islamic Courts Union that was then controlling the capital Mogadishu.
Shabaab rebels continue to stage frequent attacks, seeking to counter claims that they are close to defeat after losing territory in the face of an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and Somali government offensive, regular US drone strikes against their leaders and defections.
Currently affiliated to the Al-Qaeda franchise, there has been mounting speculation that the group could shift its allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The Shabaab were once a magnet for foreign volunteers, but their capacity to recruit has in recent years been eclipsed by the rise of Islamic State gunnies in Syria and Iraq, while several foreign Shabaab members have fallen victim to in-fighting and purges.
[FIRSTPOST] More than 100 people were killed in a suicide boom-mobileing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks carried out by 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.... Death Eaters since they overran large parts of the country.
The blast brought down several buildings in Khan Bani Saad, about 30 km (20 miles) northeast of Baghdad, crushing to death people who were celebrating the end of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, police and medics said.
Islamic State, which controls large parts of northern and western Iraq grabbed credit for the attack in the mixed eastern province of Diyala where Khan Bani Saad is located and said the target was "rejectionists", as the group refers to Shi'ite Moslems.
Angry crowds went on the rampage after the kaboom, smashing the windows of cars parked in the street in grief and anger.
This is why you can't have nice things, guys.
Body parts were flung onto the roofs of nearby buildings by the force of the blast, police said.
"Some people were using vegetable boxes to collect children's body parts," said police major Ahmed al-Tamimi from the site of the kaboom, describing the damage to the market as "devastating".
An officer from the Diyala police command said rescue crews were still retrieving bodies from under the debris so the corpse count could rise.
The Diyala provincial government declared three days' mourning and ordered all parks and entertainment places to close for the rest of the Eid al-Fitr holiday to pre-empt any further attacks.
Islamic State said in a statement issued on Twitter that the attack was to avenge the killing of Sunni Moslems in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija, and that the suicide boom-mobileer was carrying around three tonnes of explosives.
Iraqi officials declared victory over Islamic State in Diyala earlier this year after security forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries drove them out of towns and villages there, but the snuffies remain active in the province.
Security forces and militia groups are currently focussed on the western province of Anbar, where they have been gearing up for an offensive to retake the mainly Sunni governorate - Iraq's largest.
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[BUSINESSINSIDER] That word you're probably looking for right now is "ignorant." Make sure she can conjure a jug of rye whiskey before cutting her a check.
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I suppose these idiots will want the rest of America to bail out their asses after the big quake? And no a Wiccan will not make your home/office quake proof.
Neither can they protect your computer.
Your brain? It looks like its already lost.
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Let me refer my fellow Rantburgians to a book by Dr Carl Sagan called The Demon Haunted World. Goes a long way towards explaining this kind of idiocy.
Mike
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Bring me a Cuban Cigar, a quart of Rum, a roast chicken and ?I will tell you why this is stupid.
Also bring me asprins, thumb drives and feminine products that I might better see your future.
[DAWN] IN extraordinary times will inevitably come extraordinary measures -- but the costs are piling up and perhaps now unacceptably from a civil rights perspective. That an ex-minister belonging to the MQM, Rauf Siddiqui, has to approach the Sindh High Court to obtain protective bail after the police booked him under anti-terrorism laws for listening to a speech by his party leader Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... is mind-boggling. So too are the arrests of senior MQM leaders for allegedly facilitating and arranging the broadcast of Mr Hussain's recent speech in which he lambasted the military leadership. Surely, inadvisable as Mr Hussain's tirade may have been, there is no justification for arresting and intimidating MQM leaders for having simply listened to or arranged a political speech by the leader of their party. The actions are being explained away on the grounds that what Mr Hussain said amounts to hate speech and an incitement to violence. But this is patently false.
Consider the extraordinary contrast between the repression of the MQM and the space once again being afforded to a banned group like the ASWJ, which is no stranger to hate speech and that yesterday held public rallies rather incredibly in defence of the military. It is truly alarming that the law-enforcement and criminal justice systems are being used to shut down vocal dissent by a mainstream political party, howsoever controversial its actions, while banned bad boy groups are being allowed to preach in favour of the state and military. Could there be a worse indictment of all that is wrong with the state's approach to fighting crime and terrorism 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... and beyond? To be sure, Altaf Hussain is only attacking the military leadership because his own party is under siege by the security apparatus. It was only recently that his party still seemed to regard the military as a panacea and urged it to intervene in national politics.
Still, while there may be objections to the tone and tenor and some of the impolitic language used, what Mr Hussain has said now on several occasions against the military is no different to what politicians routinely say about each other or other institutions of the state, particularly the bureaucracy. It is troubling that such a blatant double standard is being enforced, one for what can be said about any political leader and most state institutions and another for what can be said about the military. Yet, the pressure on the MQM at least is not about to abate -- the extension of the Rangers' mandate in the province for a year suggests the PPP government in Sindh has also been convinced of the need to continue the Karachi operation. That a wide-ranging operation is needed in the province cannot be disputed. That it should focus on crime and terrorism, including atrocities committed by MQM bad boys, and be mindful of civil liberties is very clear too.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A child soldier recruited by 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.... apparently has beheaded a Syrian army officer, the first such documented decapitation, the founder of a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Friday.
The child is among several hundred so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate". They are children, ranging in age from pre-teens to mid-teens, given military training and hardline indoctrination after being recruited near schools, mosques and in public areas where Islamic State is operating.
Images released by the turban group's Homs province in central Syria showed a child, apparently a pre-teen, in a camouflage uniform, holding a human head and a blood-stained knife.
The Syrian officer was captured by the turban group after it took control last May of Palmyra, a site of Roman ruins east of the city of Homs, according to Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head, who received a copy of the video.
"This is the first such case of a beheading by a child," Rahman said.
Islamic State has beheaded or rubbed out Syrian civilians, combatants, foreign aid workers and journalists. Videos it has released in the past released videos appeared to show children watching or participating in some of the killings.
Separately, Syrian army sources said a senior army commander, General Muhsen Makhlouf, was killed in an Islamic State ambush on Thursday in the desert around Palmyra, where the Syrian army was launching an assault to regain the town. (Rooters)
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why can't we just nuke Mecca, Medina and Riyadh, possibly also Sanaa, Jakarta and Islamabad, and be done with it?
[Rudaw] Britannia's Ministry of Defense says UK pilots have conducted air strikes on targets in Syria while embedded with other military forces fighting 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.
Defense officials confirmed Friday that pilots acting under the command of other forces, such as the United States and Canada, have conducted the strikes. The admission, made after a Freedom of Information request by the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. group Reprieve, is important because Britannia's Parliament has only approved strikes on neighboring Iraq.
Britannia has been carrying out surveillance and air-to-air refueling over Syria. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has argued recently that politicians should also consider backing Arclight airstrikes.
The defense ministry said Friday that although there are currently no British pilots operating in this region, "when embedded, UK personnel are effectively operating as foreign troops."
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Kyrgyz officials say that alleged militants killed and detained in Bishkek on July 16 were members of the Islamic State, and were receiving support from Syria.
Rakhat Sulaimanov, spokesman for Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security, said that the militants were planning several terrorist attacks, including one against the Russian military base at Kant, in northern Kyrgyzstan, and a terrorist attack during public Eid al-Fitr prayers in Bishkek. He said that six IS militants had been killed in two separate operations in Bishkek on July 16 and seven more arrested.
Sulaimanov said the group's leader of the group was Zhanbolat Amirov, a Kazakh citizen, who was among those killed. He and another Kazakh, Albert Abkhin, were sentenced in Kyrgyzstan to three and four years in jail for forgery and illegal border crossing several months ago.
Kyrgyz officials earlier reported that the pair had escaped from prison in April. On July 1, when Kyrgyz police found them in Bishkek and tried to rearrest them, Abkhin blew himself up, while Amirov managed to escape.
On July 17, troops from the Alpha special-police unit raided a private home in southern Bishkek before the suspects opened fire. Four officers were injured in the operation.
Two more members of the group were killed in the suburbs of Bishkek later the same evening, according to officials.
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[DAWN] Former provincial minister and leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... Rauf Siddiqui was on Thursday granted protective bail by the Sindh High Court in a case registered against him under antiterrorism laws for listening to Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... 's speech criticising the military establishment.
The complainant in the case stated that the MQM chief criticised the government and the country's security agencies, and his slanderous remarks hurt his feelings.
A division bench headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar gave the MQM leader protective bail for 10 days in the sum of Rs50,000.
His counsel told the judges that Mr Siddiqui was named in an FIR registered at the Sukkhun police by the complainant who alleged that his client had attended a public gathering and listened to the MQM chief's outburst against the security agencies.
He contended that no case was made out against the former provincial minister as no specific charges were levelled against him.
The counsel said that his client apprehended arrest in the case before he could appear before the trial court for his defence.
He said his client wanted to appear before the trial court to face the charges against him and asked the SHC to grant him protective bail.
The court granted Mr Siddiqui protective bail for 10 days directing him to appear before the trial court for further legal remedy.
The complainant in the case stated that the MQM chief criticised the government and the country's security agencies, and his slanderous remarks hurt his feelings.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... made a rare public appearance on Friday for holiday prayers at a Damascus mosque, state media reported.
Assad attended morning prayers at the Al-Hamad mosque in northwest Damascus on Eid al-Fitr, the Moslem holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, the SANA news agency reported.
He was accompanied by "high-ranking officials from the (ruling Baath) party and from the state," it added.
Photographs published by the news agency showed a smiling Assad surrounded by religious figures.
A photograph published by the president's official Twitter account showed him kneeling in prayer beside other officials.
The mosque's imam, Sheikh Mohammad Sharif al-Sawaf, "prayed to God to save Syria, its leader, its army and its people, and to bring victory against its enemies".
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[FIRSTPOST] At least 19 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters and two Chadian soldiers were killed in combat on Friday after the forces of Evil attacked a Chadian village on the banks of Lake Chad, a military source said.
"The Islamists fighters attacked early this morning and we returned fire and they were forced to flee back into Nigeria," the source told Rooters by telephone from Komguia, where the fighting took place.
Chadian President Idriss Deby earlier on Friday vowed to crush the forces of Evil who have killed thousands of people and threat the stability of the region.
"Chad will never bend in the face Boko Haram and I promise you that Boko Haram will disappear," he told a group of Moslemholy mans.
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[Tolo News] The acting governor of Badakhshan Shah Wali Adib says that foreign rebels are trying to destabilize parts of the province by conducting attacks.
He told TOLOnews on Friday that Chechen and Tajik fighters have settled with their families in parts of the province and are trying to pose a threat to Badakhshan security.
"As per reports that have reached us, foreign bully boyz have decided to conduct heavy attacks during Eid days or after that in parts of Badakhshan, but the security forces in the province are ready for any kind of threat by rebels," Adib noted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... Jawid Mujaididi, member of Badakhshan provincial council said: "The provincial council office in Badakhshan is also concerned over the increase of foreign holy warriors' activities in this north-eastern province. The fighters want to attack Baharak, Yamgan and Warduj districts."
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Badakhshan police say they are well coordinated and are prepared to defend any kind of attack by bully boys.
"Badakhshan police in collaboration with the Afghan and NDS operatives are ready to foil any kind of attack by bully boys," Sakhi Dad Khan, the provincial security chief told TOLOnews.
"I warn anti-government bully boyz that if they attack the province, they will face a tit-for-tat response by the security forces," he noted.
On the other hand, a number of Badakhshan residents once again called on warring sides to support the Afghan grinding of the peace processor in order to witness lasting peace and stability in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
It comes as a number of Badakhshan districts have witnessed conflicts between Afghan cops and holy warriors over the past year.
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A reminder that, in some cases, the information we read here at Rantburg was dearly bought. All honour to those who provide that information.
[Rudaw] 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.... , or ISIS, executed a journalist Thursday in the jihadist stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , charging the news hound with providing information to the national press.
"The Islamic State group executed journalist and cameraman Jala al- Abadi after he was tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 41 days ago on the charge of leaking information to the Iraqi media in Mosul," said Mohamad Bayati, director of the Nineveh Media Network
"The journalists that remained after the ISIS takeover of Mosul have been seriously watched by ISIS," Bayati added.
Bayati said a group of 10 ISIS fighters arrested Abadi at his home on June 4.
Bayati said the ISIS turbans asked Abadi's family to take his corpse at the Mosul morgue.
Abadi, who is married and the father of two kids, has been a journalist and a cameraman for more than 10 years in the local Mosulia TV station.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Times of Israel reported:
[Free Beacon] A federal agency rushed to approve funding for a Clinton donor's sham Haiti recovery project that ended up defrauding the U.S. government out of millions, according to court transcripts and internal government documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
[AA.TR] Six people were killed and seven injured by security forces on Friday during anti-regime protests that began following Eid al-Fitr prayers in Egypt's Giza province west of Cairo, according to security and medical sources. 
[FIRSTPOST] A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Saturday the 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] 
BARDERA, Somalia -- Suspected US drone strike has killed two Al Shabaab commanders near Gedo regional district of Bardera of southwestern Somalia on Thursday morning, Garowe Online reports.
[AA.TR] The EU gave Greece a 7.2 billion euro ($7.8 billion) short-term loan on Friday to keep the country afloat until a third bailout can be put in place.
[ATLANTIC.CTVNEWS.CA] 
[ALMANAR.LB] Yemeni sources have refuted rumors that the 
[AA.TR] A congressional vote to undermine a recently brokered nuclear deal with Iran would be a victory for Tehran, the White House said Friday.
[AA.TR] Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday reshuffled his cabinet in the wake of a revolt over bailout reforms proposed by the government.
Shady ballot brokers are "doping the vote" in the Rio Grande Valley, an election-watch group says. Now the FBI is on the case.
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
David Cameron
[AA.TR] Turkish President 
[AnNahar] A senior 
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Three young men plotted an attack on a French military base after receiving orders from an 
[TORONTOSUN] We may be tired of writing about them. You may be tired of reading about them. But the 
[FIRSTPOST] The suspect in the fatal shootings of four U.S. Marines travelled to Jordan and possibly other Middle Eastern countries last year, authorities said on Friday, as the investigation focussed on any signs of a connection to Islamist
In a statement that underscored the group's ambition to expand its operations, Shabaab leader Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, took aim at Kenya, Æthiopia, Djibouti and Uganda.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A child soldier recruited by 
Kyrgyz officials say that alleged militants killed and detained in Bishkek on July 16 were members of the Islamic State, and were receiving support from Syria.
[DAWN] Former provincial minister and leader of the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[FIRSTPOST] At least 19 
