[Breitbart] The shocking sight of journalists storming into the apartment of the San Bernardino terrorists, less than 48 hours after the attack, was apparently allowed by the FBI, which handed the apartment back over to the landlord, who let the media in with a crowbar. Journalists were they? Well, ok, if you say so.
CNN had a reporter on the scene, but its own analyst Harry Houck was shocked, calling it a "screw-up."
While the journalists' behavior was disturbing, it fit a pattern: the Obama administration is careless about, or is reluctant to find, evidence of terrorism.
Good thing the perps are dead: hard to get a conviction in court if the crime scene has been spoiled...
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Deliberate contamination of the crime scene. Also, where is this 3rd shooter? There were reports by people at the venue that there was a 3rd shooter. Why has this disappeared down the memory hole?
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The FBI might have been trying to get the information out about the terrorists and they were prevented by their overlords. So maybe they hoped someone in the press is not so bought and sold that they will photograph the many ids, the bank account, and multiple items. Perhaps that was the only way to make them available.
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I cannot believe that the FBI morons left so much behind...shredded papers in a wastebasket, notebooks, papers, journals and books, etc. They should have taken everything up to and including the wallpaper. You can always give it back. This is a major investigation into terror with presumed unidentified suspects remaining at large, and they left all this behind? Incredible incompetence. Weeks or months later, someone is going to say "Hey. Wasn't there a ___ in the apartment?" Oops. Too late now.
Idiots. But then, the FBI has always been about PR rather than ability.
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The only stuff the FBI took out was the evidence pointing to the federal GIVERnment paving the yellow brick road to this families very fast immigration without vetting into America.
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It's possible the FBI found a treasure trove on the hard drives, figured the folks popped off early and didn't wipe it right as they would have been told.
Also it would be a nice way to dump red herrings into the story by having pre-shredded papers to replace with the existing onesLet the media find it and decipher it and spread the misinformation about the head of iSiS or whatever. . I'm not saying the happened but that's a missed opportunity.
Of course with our media they'd screw that up as well.
[DAWN] FANATICS flourish in the soil of hatred. The seeds of bigotry were sown in Pakistain unfortunately by none other than an army general. Let me share a personal account.
Earlier in my career as assistant superintendent, I was posted as sub-divisional police officer of Jhang city in 1981. Little did I know I had walked into the epicentre of developing sectarian tensions and conflicts. I found the Barelvi and Deobandi holy mans hurling the choicest expletives at each other on their mosque loudspeakers.
Suddenly, we noticed the Shia community being targeted in tirades by the Deobandi holy mans, chief amongst them one diminutive firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... named Haq Nawaz. This rang alarm bells, especially in the wake of the Iranian revolution and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. A proxy war, it appeared, was being fought on our soil between the international stakeholders. The Anjuman-e-Sipah-e-Sahaba was established in response to the formation of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqah Jafria. The name of the former was later changed to Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... .
I was soon to see the fallout on law and order. Every year on Muharram 7, Shias take out one of the largest mourning processions in Jhang city. Some locations along the route traditionally entail tension which is resolved in advance through adherence to a code of conduct.
In 1981, while I was on duty for the procession, Maulvi Haq Nawaz reached a mosque en route and violated the code of conduct by launching into a provocative speech. This created unrest amongst the Shia processionists. They stopped near the mosque and refused to move forward unless the holy man was stopped. With a 40-men force, I was caught between the fury of the huge procession and the fire-breathing holy man. Deputy commissioner Shehzad Hasan Parvez and district superintendent police Ahmed Nasim arrived, entered the mosque and tried to persuade Haq Nawaz to put an end to his hate speech and leave the mosque, but he refused. The Shia youth became restive and wanted to attack the mosque.
It was time for a quick decision: stop the madness or allow a bloodbath. I asked the coppers to take off their shoes and we stormed the mosque, making a beeline for the rostrum where the five-foot 'maulvi' was making the congregation chant vitriolic sectarian slogans. Getting hold of him by his neck, we dragged him out of the mosque, put him in my police jeep and headed straight to the cop shoppe. Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... the procession started moving along its assigned route. I was in the process of filing a report of the incident when I received an urgent call from the deputy commissioner to reach his camp office.
When I reached there I found the DC and SP standing outside in the lawn looking worried. The DC told me he had received a call from 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... who wanted 'Maulana' Haq Nawaz to be released forthwith. I was taken aback. How could we do that while the Shia procession was on the move? What if the enraged mullah headed back to another mosque en route and resumed his incendiary campaign? As in charge of the law and order situation, I could not allow that to happen. "You mean you want to defy the orders of the chief martial law administrator?" asked the DC in a mocking tone, for he understood the administrative imperative of maintaining order rather than appeasing a mullah.
I told the DC and SP that it was for them to handle the military dictator while the police would fulfil their duty. Both of them supported my viewpoint and asked that the holy man be taken away from the cop shoppe located in the heart of the city and released on bail after the procession. I had no idea how they placated Gen Zia but in my heart I was beholden to them for not letting the police down.
This episode, fairly early in my career as a law-enforcement officer, made me wonder at the nexus between the mullah and the military developed in the early 1980s and sustained throughout that decade in furtherance of 'national interests' based on convoluted ideology and politics. I got promoted and left as SP Quetta and served in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... for the next four years. Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Jhang witnessed some bitter politics and sectarian violence. Maulana Haq Nawaz even won a provincial assembly seat. In an era of 'controlled' democracy, some turban mullahs were definitely enjoying state patronage.
The sectarian hatred unleashed in Jhang led to horrendous consequences all over the country with tit-for-tat killings in a matter of a few years. By the time I returned to 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 in 1989, the sectarian menace had spread everywhere. Haq Nawaz's liquidation in 1990 followed the deadly turban violence perpetrated by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) formed by Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori and Ghulam Rasul Shah (four diehard supporters of Jhangvi's mission).
Riaz Basra was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Lahore in 1992 under my command as police chief of the city. Despite my request for his jail trial, after my transfer in 1994, he was taken from prison to the Model Town courts complex from where he beat feet from the judicial lock-up and unleashed a reign of terror for about 10 years as a runaway.
On promotion, I got posted as deputy inspector-general of Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... police range on Aug 11, 1997. Late IG Punjab Jahanzaib Burki gave me one task: arrest Malik Ishaq of LJ. Just about a month later, on Sep 13, Ishaq was arrested by Faisalabad police in a sting operation. But by manipulating a faulty criminal justice system which failed to protect the judges, victims, witnesses, Sherlocks, prosecutors and prison officials, the dreaded LJ criminal mastermind survived for long and was even suspected to have received patronage from some political and security elements.
In a nutshell, indifference, apathy and even collusion by elements of the state have resulted in our nation paying a heavy price in terms of violence and bloodshed. Now at last, another army general is trying to reverse the tide of sectarianism by hopefully breaking the nexus between obscurantist mullahs and the deadly turbans, including all the non-state actors, and their erstwhile sponsors. He is fighting a defining battle for the soul of Pakistain.
Good luck, General.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! six members of a new turban group from Motijheel area in the capital.
"The turban group was planning to kill a pir (religious preacher) in Dhaka. They were taking their turban training in an area near Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur and Chittagong." said DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam.
The arrestees are Johirul Islam alias Ansar alias Churanto Lorai alias Johir, Khondokar Rajesh Sobhan alias Raju alias Kacha Morich alias Adar Bepari, Abu Bakkar Siddique alias Abir alias Moumachi alias Niyomer Oniyom alias Ek Tukro Megh alias Shada Pata, Abraham Ahmed Al-Tarek, Morshedul Islami alias King Mor Khan, Kazi Bappi Ahmed alias Sazzad alias Tarique Bin Zia alias Mollah Akhter Mohammad Monsur.
The DB men also recovered a laptop and 10 mobile phones from their possession,
Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said: "A team of DB (South) made the arrests of six forces of Evil raiding different spots of Dhaka on Wednesday night."
Later in a press briefing, DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said: "The new turban group, Mujahid of Bangladesh started its activities in the country two years ago and has around 30 members.
"They usually invite people to namaz and later indoctrinate them to resort to the path of jihad on Facebook. They are using Facebook to communicate among themselves, to collect members and seek financial help."
He said the turban group was planning to kill a pir (religious preacher) in Dhaka.
Monirul also said they are the followers of al-Qaeda and used the same styles like banned turban outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) for criminal activities.
The arrestees are involved in different professions. They spend a portion of their salary on living and the rest is spent on turban work.
Their big leader, Masum has already been arrested.
The arrestees were produced before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court with a 10-day remand prayer.
The court, however, granted a six-day remand for each of them.
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4 week old kittuahs or new militant group, which is cuter?
[SFCHRONICLE] Two men who were denied entry to a nightclub later returned with others and firebombed it early Friday, setting off a blaze that killed all 16 people who were trapped inside by the smoke and flames, authorities said.
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"No Irish or Muslims Admitted!"
Bejeezus, the fellahs were twitted!
The tavern they toasted,
Which afterwards posted,
"No Alcohol for the Submitted!"
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"But, look, here's what we know: 99.5 percent of scientists in the world say this is a really urgent problem," he said.
Another number he pulled out of his ... delusions.
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Depends on your definition of 'scientist'. It's like the word 'doctor'. You really want a proctologist to do brain surgery on you? (Well in O's case, you probably need to first for the second to reach the compromised organ).
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99.5% of welfare recipients say not being able to buy booze with an EBT card is an urgent problem. Do you see the equivalency?
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Denial does not abrogate the narrative. The real issue is blind observance by the 'climateer' masses. "It is, because we think it is!" Soon will begin the public fainting.
[Tolo News] Reports continue to circulate that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour was killed during a Taliban faction clash on Wednesday in Quetta, Pakistain, but a front man for the group has denied these claims.
The front man also said that Mullah Mansour was not in Quetta at the time of the clash, but that he was 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. Political analysts believe however, that festivities between the Taliban and the breakaway group have reached a pinnacle.
Earlier reports circulated about the death of Mullah Mansoor Dadullah one of the splinter-Taliban group's deputies, and now reports of Mullah Mansour's death are doing the rounds.
"Many of Mullah Mohammad Rasoul Noorzai's branch have been killed. Those Taliban who separated from [Mullah Mansour's] Taliban are really worried and afraid because apparently the Taliban is not talking to them nor talking about negotiations, but in reality they are in search of them and waiting for an opportunity to target them," said Hassan Haqyar a former deputy minister during the Taliban regime.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... details are sketchy about the festivities between the two factions.
But Ghaleb Mujaheed, Achin district governor, in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , said: "Both of the Taliban [groups] are puppets of Pakistain. This is Pakistain that brings one group for us and then another group."
The reports of Mullah Mansour's apparent death have however come close on the heels of renewed efforts this past week by Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Islamabad to restart the stalled peace talks process with the Taliban.
However a number of Afghan analysts said they do not trust Pakistain's promises and said Pakistain is trying to make sure the Taliban is prepared for next year's fighting season.
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The Russian spy beheaded by ISIS was an orphan who was recruited by secret service and sent to Syria after being caught with drugs, MailOnline can reveal. Magomed Khasiev confessed on video to being recruited by Russian intelligence before going to Syria and working undercover for the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The brutal execution was carried out by a Russian-speaking terrorist who addressed President Vladimir Putin directly and vowed to unleash murderous attacks on Moscow.
Now, MailOnline can reveal Khasiev was born in Chelyabinsk, in the Russian Urals mountains but orphaned aged nine and raised by adoptive parents in Chechnya. The following year he became a Muslim and went on to study law at Maykop Polytechnic college, in the small Russian region of Adygea.
Khasiev, born Yevgeny Yudin before taking the name of his adoptive mother, is said to have ended up in Syria after being recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB. In February last year he was caught in possession of prescription medication, lyrica pills, and was known to have links to drug dealers. Khasiev is said to have done a deal with the FSB to avoid prosecution, it is claimed.
Mess with the bear, get the claws...
After Fred's little bear story that has an entirely different feel.
He was then sent to ISIS via Turkey and given the intelligence services information from behind enemy lines.
Anton Naumlyuk, a journalist from Radio Svoboda, said: 'In summer 2014 (he) was caught by FSB people having drugs on him.'
'Khasiev was sent to ISIS via Turkey. From there he was in touch with the FSB and passed information about those who were intended to go to Syria - and who had already got there,' said Naumlyuk on Facebook.
'The last time he passed information about a student of a medical college.'
It is thought Khasiev was suspected of being a spy by ISIS after Russian medical students were arrested and convicted for assisting ISIS.
On his execution video, Khasiev looked into the camera and said: 'During all this time I contacted FSB of Russia five times and passed information about six brothers.
'And when I contacted FSB the last time, I passed information about brother (name is bleeped out) who studied in a medical institute.
'During the last contact, Shamil [the fixer] told me to wait. And I understood that I had to wait for further instructions.
'But I couldn't wait or pass information any further because I was caught and completely exposed by officials of the security service of the caliphate.'
The beheading is believed to have been in Raqqa, ISIS de facto capital.
As Khasiev knelt beside a lake, his ISIS executioner, spoke in a Russian: 'Here today, on this blessed land, the battle [against Russia] begins.'
'We shall kill your children for every child you've killed here.'
The FSB has not yet commented on the claims -
Nor will they...
although a Russian intelligence source said ISIS has offered no evidence Khasiev was an FSB spy.
'Most probably, the executed man had nothing to do with our intelligence. A few factors prove that,' the source told Interfax.
'If the militants had really found a spy, they 'undoubtedly' would have used him as a negotiating pawn. It would have been more beneficial than simply killing him,' they added.
By your way of thinking, yes, but ISIS doesn't think like Russians think...
Pro-Kremlin site LifeNews today claimed Khasiev had been put on Russia's federal wanted list in February this year for 'participating in military actions on ISIS side'. In May, a criminal case was filed against him in absentia for 'participating in an armed group on the territory of a foreign state' contrary to the interests of the Russian state.
Meanwhile Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Putin, has vowed to avenge the execution. The Chechen leader said: 'Yes he is a Russian citizen, a Chechen, and he was beheaded.
'Chechens will remember. We know and won't forget it. Those who stabbed our citizen are a threat to the security of our state. They won't live long. We'll send them to the better world and will give them one way ticket.'
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DERA MURAD JAMALI: The Frontier Corps (FC) foiled a subversion attempt on Friday by seizing arms and ammunition from the Lanjo Sughari area of Sui tehsil of Dera Bugti district.
The FC spokesman said that an anti-personnel mine, a rifle and four submachine-guns were seized during a raid conducted by a joint team of the FC and bomb disposal squad in the Lanjo Sughari area.
The spokesman claimed that the weapons had been left by unknown militants as part of a sabotage plan.
[InterAksyon] Philippine security forces have seized a camp of Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron in the hinterlands of Sulu province early Thursday.
Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado said the camp was seized in Barangay Darayan, Patikul hours after they shelled the encampment. He said the camp belonged to the group of one-armed Abu Sayyaf leader Sahiron. Sahiron is the oldest among the existing leaders of the Abu Sayyaf militants based in Sulu province.
Arrojado said troops found bloodstains in the camp which indicated that some militants were injured during the shelling as the insurgents fled towards Barangay Danag.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Texas became the first state to sue the federal government to halt the settlement of Syrian refugees, citing security concerns following deadly attacks on Gay Paree on Nov. 13. Here is a timeline of events in Texas' battle with the U.S. government over refugee resettlement:
-- Nov. 16: Gov. Greg Abbott announces on Twitter that "Texas will not accept any Syrian refugees & I demand the U.S. act similarly." The same day, the governor reiterates that in a letter to President B.O., citing security concerns following the Gay Paree attacks three days earlier.
-- Nov. 17: Abbott asks the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Public Safety to implement his directive to stop accepting Syrian refugees and to notify nonprofit refugee aid agencies, such as the International Rescue Committee.
-- Nov. 19: The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, in a letter to IRC, demands information about the group's resettlement plans, instructs it to immediately discontinue any resettlement in Texas and informs it that the agency "will refuse to cooperate with the resettlement of any Syrian refugees in Texas."
-- Nov. 25: The Texas health agency again writes IRC, claiming it has "been unable to achieve cooperation with your agency" because "your agency insists on resettling certain refugees from Syria in the near future."
-- Nov. 30: IRC responds it is "committed to working in close cooperation with the highest levels of Texas State leadership" and notes it has worked in Texas for over 40 years "in a constructive partnership with state, local officials, and communities."
-- Dec.1: Texas sends a letter to IRC, demanding it "halt resettlement of any Syrians seeking refugee status in Texas," and confirm by the next day that it will comply.
-- Dec. 2: Texas Health and Human Services Commission seeks an injunction in federal court to stop IRC from settling six Syrians in the Dallas area, as scheduled for later in the week.
-- Dec. 3-4: Twelve Syrian refugees arrive in New York; six who are destined for Dallas and six for Houston.
-- Dec. 4: The federal government and the IRC respond in court to the Texas lawsuit, saying the state has no legal authority to block the resettlement of government-approved refugees. A Dallas IRC official said the group shared with Texas officials on Nov. 12 a spreadsheet noting that 200 to 250 Syrian resettlements were proposed for Texas for this fiscal year, disputing the state's claims it had not been consulted. The Texas attorney general later withdraws the state's request for a temporary restraining order.
Court documents also indicate that 21 Syrian refugees were expected to arrive next week, including six children to join relatives already living in Texas, a family of eight and a 26-year-old woman whose mother lives in the Houston area.
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[Dhaka Tribune] RAB has locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! six people, including a Pak national, in the capital on charges of making fake notes and human trafficking.
The six -- Bangladesh-origin Pak citizen Abdullah alias Selim, 42, Md Jahangir, Md Abdul Khaleq, Md Kamrul Islam, 28, Md Abu Sufian, 48, and Md Rasel, 45 -- were held in different areas of Dhaka on Thursday night and early yesterday.
RAB said the men were held in possession of 70 lakh counterfeit Indian rupees, 9,125 US dollars, 21 Pak passports, seven Bangladeshi passports and a bunch of seals of different high officials.
"The seals were used for human trafficking crimes. Also, we seized equipment for making seals from the detainees," RAB's legal and media wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan told a press briefing yesterday.
He said Abdullah, Jahangir and Khaleq were detained from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area at around 8pm on Thursday.
"Based on information obtained from them, RAB detained the three others in possession of 30 lakh fake Indian rupees, 43,190 Pak rupees, 13,627 dirhams, 623,500 taka, five mobile phones, four foreign mobile SIM cards, police clearance papers and travel permits around 1:30am on Friday."
Mufti Mahmud said the fake Indian notes were printed meticulously in Pakistain and Pak national Abdullah is the leader of the gang. "In 1979, he moved to Pakistain from Bangladesh where he was involved in producing counterfeit foreign notes and human smuggling. During his stay in Pakistain, he would visit Bangladesh occasionally."
The RAB official said the six men had communicated with crime lord Dawood Ibrahim's four associates - Aslam Suriya, Arif, Javed and Hanif -- who live in Pakistain.
"The four men help Bangladeshi citizens living in Pakistain without valid passports move to Bangladesh. On the other hand,
the six detainees make fake documents for illegal Pak nationals living in Bangladesh."
According to RAB, the six men smuggle fake Indian notes via Chapainawabganj border with the help of a local man named Kamrul Islam.
"Kamrul sells the notes to an Indian gang in Malda district of West Bengal. One lakh fake Indian rupees are sold for 40-45 thousand rupees. The Indian gang again uses the money during trades with Bangladeshi nationals, especially cattle traders, to defraud them."
RAB has so far arrested 1,700 people in possession of counterfeit notes and another 165 for involvement in human trafficking.
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Fake notes are huge at my skool.
Mr principl pls exempt Lemongalo yesterday him was pissing blood and feeling poor.
[DAWN] DEARBORN: Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonised and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the bloodiest mass killings in the United States.
Across the country, Muslim Americans responded with shock and outrage after a shooting in which authorities said Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 21.
"I was at the gym yesterday while the shooting was taking place and all the TVs were showing that footage and all I could keep thinking to myself is 'God, I hope they don't have any Eastern descent, not just Middle Eastern, anything we'd associate with a Muslim'," said Adam Hashem, 32, in Dearborn, a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... suburb with one of the country's largest Muslim populations.
"We're all worried. We're all concerned," he said.
It was the deadliest US mass shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre three years ago. While the motivation remained unclear as authorities investigated the attack, details of Farook and Malik began to emerge.
Farook was described as a second-generation American born in Illinois and raised by Pak parents. Malik was born in Pakistain and lived in 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... until she was introduced to Farook.
San Bernardino police said they found pipe bombs and several thousands rounds of ammunition at the residence of the couple, who died in a shoot-out with police.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Attari Supermarket bustled on Thursday with customers shopping for Middle Eastern products.
"In every culture and in every religion there are bad apples that will spoil the rest of the apples. That has happened toward us," said Dawod Dawod, a 25-year-old Muslim American, who manages the store that his family has owned for a decade. When was the last time Rosicrucians shot anyplace up?
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They clean up their act or someone else will
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It's a gutter cult no matter how many billions of zombies join it.
There is no reconciliation. There is no Salvation.
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CAIR has reliably said some of the blame is on the U. S.
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In World War 2 Japanese Americans signed up in numbers to prove their loyalty despite a US government grabbing their stuff.
They are free to leave if their fear is to great. I'm tired of hearing about their fear of some future demonization (that never seems to happen) after each attack by their coreligionists (which happens with increasing frequency).
The woman who took part in the ISIS-inspired San Bernardino massacre is linked to her native country's most notorious radical mosque, American officials believe.
Sources have told Daily Mail Online that US officials handed over information to their Pakistani counterparts about links between Tashfeen Malik and the Red Mosque in Islamabad.
The Red Mosque. Of course she was. Why on earth would she be linked to a "moderate" mosque...
The mosque is infamous for its links to violence and authorities in Pakistan are now considering taking action against its preacher, Maulana Abdul Aziz, after the disclosures by US officials.
It is unclear currently how law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the US have connected Malik to the mosque.
Perhaps because they did the leg-work they should have done in the beginning?
Radical preacher Maulana (a title given to Islamic scholars) Abdul Aziz runs the Red Mosque in Islamabad, which US officials say is linked to Tashfeen Malik, wife of Syed Farook.
The Red Mosque - Lal Masjid - is at the center of Islamabad has become known for its close association with Islamic fundamentalism. A year ago its chief cleric openly spoke of his support for ISIS.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Wednesday, a US intelligence official told Daily Mail Online that his agency was investigating Sayeed Farook's ties to known terror groups abroad, saying: 'The United States will leave no stone unturned.
'This is what we do. If he has ever communicated with ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, or any other known Islamic threat group, we'll find out.'
After the fact...
American officials have now held crisis talks with one of Pakistan's most senior figures Shahbaz Sharif, brother of prime minister Nawaz Sharif, at the country's High Commission in London, sources revealed. Sources with knowledge of the meeting told Daily Mail Online that the US had handed over 'some proofs' of links to the Red Mosque.
Pakistani authorities were described as 'seriously thinking' of how to take action against Aziz, the chief cleric of the mosque.
Malik was born in Pakistan and lived there until the age of two then raised in Saudi Arabia, where she lived in Riyadh where her father, Gulzar Ahmed Malik is thought still to live. Saudi sources told ABC News that she had traveled back and forward between the two countries.
She returned to Pakistan in 2010 to study pharmacy at the Bahauddin Zakariyah University in Multan. The city, in the south of the Punjab, is believed to be where her family originally came from. Public records show that she was a high-achieving student. There are conflicting accounts of her educational achievements. She completed a three-year master's degree in pharmacy.
She was also listed as being in the fourth year of a D Pharm degree in 2014, although she may not have completed it.
Some serious basic chemistry coursework required for a Pharm D. In case you're wondering if she would be comfortable mixing up pipe bombs in the Cali love shack...
Intelligence agencies will be examining her time in the Punjab, the country's most populous province, where there has been a growing Pakistani Taliban threat. But the link to the Red Mosque may prompt the most rapid action by Pakistani authorities.
Don't count on it. When 9/11 hit and we went after Afghanistan, George Bush and Colin Powell had the stones to tell Pervez Musharraf that either he'd cooperate or they'd deal with the immediate next president of Pakistan. I sure don't see Champ and Jahwn Kerry doing that to Nawaz...
Aziz shares an ethnic background with Malik, coming from the Pakistani Punjab. He was born in Rojhan, around 200 miles from where she studied. It is so far unclear if she and the notorious cleric share a tribal background too.
What are the odds...
Malik came to the US last year on a K-1 - fiance's - visa and received a green card after marrying Farook. The two are believed to have met online and married abroad, possibly in Saudi Arabia. Farook's lawyer has denied that he had traveled to Pakistan.
All that may be a cover story: the "match" was arranged by ISIS to get her into the country and work with Farook on the terrorist raid.
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And Loretta Lynch sez if I call that a sow I will be sent to the joint. There. I said it...
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"The narrative" is that she weighed 90 pounds. That face looks to be going 145 pounds at least...
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And yet they let her waltz right into our country?
People, something is very terribly wrong with our president. His government gave this bitch a visa and nobody knew about Lal Masjid? Of course, they knew. They had to know. And if they didn't know that how are they going to vet all these Syrians? I'd call for a Congressional investigation but most of those crooks seem to be in on it as well.
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Fox reported about an hour ago that from the initial visa application, she used a false address. Not only was she a member of perhaps the most virulent jihadi mosque in the world, but she used a phony address, and the rocket-scientists at the State Department didn't notice. Can anyone think that the Syrian refugee "vetting" will be any better. Our government is an incompetent joke......or at least the administration has made it that way.
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Tonight's MSM TV news is banging away on "gun control" to divert the attention of the masses away from "immigrant control", "vetting", and all other "ISIS" issues. Pathetic.
[Bangkok Post] An accused Thai militant became the third man to die in military custody since October when he mysteriously perished during questioning at an army camp in Pattani province Friday.
Abdullayi Dorloh died while being interrogated at the Ingkhayutthaborihan camp in Nong Chik district where he has been held since he was nabbed in early November, the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) said. Doctors could not identify the cause of the death because there was not a bruise on his body. Relatives and a representative for a local lawyers' foundation have taken his remains to another hospital in Songkhla province for an autopsy.
Abdullayi had been arrested in Nong Chik on Nov 11 on suspicion of being a key insurgent involved in southern unrest. He reportedly had already confessed to being behind attacks in the region and had been brought to record his testimony with police at Nong Chik station. He died during interrogation by intelligence soldiers, ISOC's command said.
Boston police detonated a suspicious suitcase left near a Homeland Security vehicle on Atlantic Avenue Friday. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a person of interest in relation to the incident, and released a photo of that person on Friday afternoon. According to Boston police, officers responded at 9:50 a.m. to a radio call for a suspicious package on Atlantic Avenue. Officers were informed at the scene that a man had dropped a suitcase by the rear tire of a marked Department of Homeland Security vehicle, then quickly left the area, according to a BPD statement.
The department's explosive ordinance unit responded and performed a controlled detonation of the suitcase. Officers determined there was no additional threat to the public. An X-ray of the suitcase had shown wires and a ââpower source.''
[Inquirer] A suspected Maoist militant was killed in a clash with Philippine troops in a hinterland village in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, early Thursday morning.
Two firearms and at least nine improvised bombs were also recovered after a 25-minute gun battle in Anticala village said military spokesman Joe Patrick Martinez. He said troops from the 29th Infantry Battalion were fired upon by the New People's Army.
"Residents had tipped off about the presence of (NPA militants) conducting lectures and extortion activities in the community,” Martinez said.
Republicans on Friday called for a comprehensive review of the U.S. visa system after reports that the female attacker in the San Bernardino mass shooting pledged allegiance on Facebook to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The suspect, Tashfeen Malik, came to the U.S. on a special K-1 visa last year, raising new questions about potential vulnerabilities in the immigration system. That special K-1 visa allows foreigners to come to America to marry a U.S. citizen. Under the rules, a couple must wed within 90 days or face deportation of the foreign individual.
Lawmakers are pledging a close review of the K-1 visas, but time restraints could make it difficult for lawmakers to address potential K-1 security gaps before leaving Washington for the holidays.
“In light of the renewed terrorist threat, we need to take a look at our entire visa program to enhance our national security. This incident highlights the very real security threat throughout the system,” Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.), the GOP Policy Committee chairman and a member of leadership, told The Hill on Friday.
“Experts in the field now say that terrorists recognize that passports, visas and immigration documents are now weapons in the war on terror.”
But Messer said it would be difficult — though not impossible — to deal with K-1 visas in the visa-waivers bill that the House is expected to pass net week.
“We need to look at K-1 visas as part of the broader policy debate,” he added. “If it can’t be dealt with next week, it will need to be dealt with early next year.”
Or the year after, or the decade after. And you'll need 60 votes in the Senate because the Democrats won't do anything that restricts immigration, even if it puts national security at risk.
Malik and her American-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, are said to have carried out this week’s attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 and wounded 21. Born in Pakistan, Malik had traveled to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia in July 2014 on a K-1 visa, FBI officials said.
According to The New York Times, Farook applied for a permanent resident green card for Malik in September 2014. A conditional green card was granted earlier this summer but only after the couple proved their marriage was legitimate and after Malik passed criminal and national security background checks.
Shows the weakness in the system right there: she was clean, came to the country, and started building pipe bombs in her new love nest...
Some presidential contenders also have the K-1 visas on their radar. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he's been "worried ... for a long time" about terrorist groups arranging marriages with U.S. citizens in order to infiltrate the country.
"What you do is you try to think like the enemy. How can they penetrate the homeland? One of the concerns has been an arranged marriage where a terrorist organization will pick the mate to marry ... one already in the United States legally, and create a marriage of jihadist," Graham told Fox Business News.
And when they do that they'll be as professional as the KGB was. They'll have convincing cover stories, documents and records. Any usual inspection will show them to be "clean". It will take time and cost money but ISIS will do that.
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Perhaps they can start with the H1b visas?
Syrian activists have reacted with dismay at the news Britain is to begin targeting ISIS militants with air strikes inside the country. Many expressed concern that it would do little to hinder the jihadis while others suggested it would drive new recruits into the extremists' arms.
If I wrung my hands that much I'd need lotion...
'If the UK wants to help people then they should accept Syrian refugees in their country and not close the border.
'Just bombing ISIS in Raqqa from the sky will not defeat ISIS but it will make people suffer more.
'ISIS will use UK strikes to recruit new people in the West and new fighters, and maybe they will [carry out] terrorist attacks.
'In the end, nobody will liberate Raqqa except the people of Raqqa.'
Which the people won't do until ISIS is gob-smacked and the people armed...
According to the BBC, Robin Yassin-Kassab, a British-Syrian writer, stated the real issue was embattled president Bashar al-Assad.
'ISIS is a symptom of a larger problem and in Syria that is the Assad regime and the scorched earth policy it uses against anyone who opposes it, creating a space that jihadists from all over the world can come and exploit.'
He suggested citizens living in the country saw little distinction between the varying groups and countries bombing them instead of al-Assad.
'So it's very easy for jihadists to say it's the Shia Muslims, the Russian Orthodox Christians and the Western Christians all ganging up and bombing us because we are Sunni Muslims.'
And a statement issued by Rethink Rebuild Society, a Manchester-based Syrian advocacy group, expressed dismay. It claimed the bombing would not make Britain safer from the terrorists - instead it would 'fan the flames of radicalisation and therefore expose us to greater vulnerabilities'.
It added: 'We stress that any threat that [ISIS] poses to the UK is ultimately attributable to the Assad regime.
'Without first addressing the Assad regime’s indiscriminate use of force in Syria, which created the violence, chaos, and destruction that allowed for the emergence of terrorist groups in Syria, we cannot begin to tackle the threat posed by [ISIS].'
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Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters killed scores of Iranian-backed coup militias in heavy fighting on Thursday as they advanced on rebel positions in the Northern Al Jawf governorate to open the way towards the capital Sanaa.
The nationalists, backed by coalition air raids, launched a two-pronged offensive on Wednesday to capture Al Labnat military camp, the main stronghold of Houthis and their allies in Al Jawf, news reports from Yemen said.
Capturing of the camp will open the way for the army and resistance to attack Al Jawf capital, Al Hazm, and expel the rebel remnants from the entire province.
“Scores of rebels were killed or wound in the battles to seize Al Labnat…two rebel field commanders, Abu Al Hassan Mathar and Abu Mansour Al Fakhri, were also killed…a large number of the rebels were also captured,” a resistance source said, quoted by the UAE Arabic language daily Emarat Alyoum.
The source said the coalition warplanes and Apache helicopters supported the resistance with heavy raids on the military camp, which is the main gate to Al Hazm.
“The target is to seize Al Hazm, the capital of Al Jawf…we then will begin pushing our way towards Sanaa to liberate it from the coup insurgents,” the source added.
In the Southwestern governorate of Taiz, heavy fighting continued between the resistance and the Houthis while several rebel targets were hit by coalition jets.
Military sources said the national army and resistance continued to send reinforcements to some areas in the province after the insurgents bolstered their positions.
In a related development, a Sudanese soldier was killed during the battles in Taiz, becoming the first fighter from that Arab country to fall as a martyr in Yemen since Sudan decided to participate in a Saudi-dominated Arab coalition to quell the Iranian-backed coup and restore the legitimate government.
According to resistance spokesman in Al Ind front in Taiz Fahd Qayed, one Sudanese soldier and five resistance fighters were martyred in that area. “At least 20 coup militias were killed in the fighting while more rebels were killed in other Taiz areas,” he said.
A female suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was killed on Friday in Istanbul in a police operation against militants suspected to be planning suicide attacks, reports said.
Counter-terrorism police raided a home in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district after receiving a tip-off that PKK militants had arrived in Turkey’s biggest city to carry out suicide attacks, Dogan news agency said.
A female member of the PKK was killed in the ensuing shootout with police while three other militants were detained, Dogan said. More at the link
[DAILYWIRE] The day after a horrific shooting spree by a "radicalized" Muslim man and his partner in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged to a group of Muslim activists that she would take aggressive action against anyone who used "anti-Muslim rhetoric" that "edges toward violence."
Speaking to the audience at the Muslim Advocate's 10th anniversary dinner Thursday, Lynch said her "greatest fear" is the "incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Jewish, anti-police, anti-Christian, anti-Muslim rhetoric" in America and vowed to prosecute any guilty of what she deemed violence-inspiring speech. She said:
The fear that you have just mentioned is in fact my greatest fear as a prosecutor, as someone who is sworn to the protection of all of the American people, which is that the rhetoric will be accompanied by acts of violence. My message to not just the Muslim community but to the entire American community is: we cannot give in to the common sense fear that these backlashes are really based on.
Assuring the pro-Muslim group that "we stand with you," Lynch said she would use her Justice Department to protect Muslims from "violence" and discrimination. We somehow always knew they were on the enemy's side and not on ours.
"When we talk about the First Amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American."
Claiming that violence against Muslims is on the rise and citing La Belle France's clamp down on potentially radicalized mosques, Lynch suggested the Constitution does not protect "actions predicated on violent talk" and pledged to prosecute those responsible for such actions.
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"Please, don't say a Muslim is crazy
Or stupid or mentally lazy!
Don't hit on his breeding
Or shit on his reading
Or shoot out his eye with a Daisy!"
[FREEBEACON] Leading senators on Thursday evening demanded in a letter that the B.O. regime release the immigration records of the two suspected shooters who killed at least 14 people in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, this week.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) claimed the B.O. regime has failed to comply with a request for immigration records of 72 recent bully boyz found to be in the United States.
The attacks this week, they said, highlight the need for greater oversight on those entering the country.
Devout Muslim Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, who was born in Pakistain, are suspected of killing at least 14 people in an attack that some believe was motivated by the duo's potential ties to terrorists.
Cruz and Sessions are demanding to see their immigration records in order to shine more light on the case.
"We demand that you immediately provide the same detailed information requested in that letter for Farook and Malik, which would include the immigration history of their parents and any immigration documents related to their marriage and her subsequent travel to the U.S," the senators wrote.
It is critical that the B.O. regime is more transparent about information pertaining to recent immigrants, according to the senators.
"We are dealing with an enemy that has shown it is not only capable of bypassing U.S. screening, but of recruiting and radicalizing Muslim migrants after their entry to the United States," the two wrote to the secretaries of state and homeland security as well as the attorney general.
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Cruz and Sessions are demanding to see their immigration records in order to shine more light on the case.
Good luck with that. Cruz and Sessions smell something? Please share will you ?
How about 'demanding to see' the FBI forensics report(s) on the type of explosives used in the dozen or so pipe bombs? Yes, those are the ones, the Syed Farook pipe bombs we're hearing nothing about.
Please circle one or more: Nitroglycerin, TNT, Nitrocellulose, RDX, PETN, HMX, C4, Home Made, Chinese firecrackers, inert (well nothing went off did it) ?
Speaking of hearing nothing, is Jim Comey still employed at the FBI? Very little heard from him lately either. Plenty of background kak slinging and diversionary threat chatter from Lynch at DoJ, but little in the MSM from the head of the Bureau.
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......He said there were no other suspects under arrest, adding that an “acquaintance” who bought two guns on behalf of Farook was so far not under arrest.Link
A 'Straw Purchase' (someone buys firearm for you) of a firearm is a federal offense with rather severe penalties. Link
Name? Supplier? Anything? BTW, nice LE style 'single point' slings and bipods.
[CNN] Investigators think that as the San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, massacre was happening, female shooter Tashfeen Malik posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... on Facebook, three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Malik's post was made on an account with a different name, one U.S. official said. The officials did not explain how they knew Malik made the post.
A law enforcement official said it appeared that Wednesday's mass shooting -- which left 14 people dead and 21 maimed before the two attackers, Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, were killed in a shootout with police -- may have been inspired by ISIS.
But none of the officials said that ISIS directed or ordered the attack. ISIS has called for people worldwide to launch attacks in its name, but isn't known to have claimed credit for what happened in San Bernardino.
At a Friday presser, FBI official David Bowdich said authorities are officially investigating the massacre as "an act of terrorism."
Bowdich said a number of pieces of evidence pushed authorities to launch a terrorism investigation. He noted some phone conversations between at least one of the San Bernardino shooters and other people are being investigated by federal officials.
No one has been tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in connection with the massacre.
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At a Friday presser, FBI official David Bowdich said authorities are officially investigating the massacre as "an act of terrorism."
It'll be classified as "workplace violence," because none of the bombs on-scene went off.
ALEPPO – Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda al-Nusra Front and the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham pounded the Kurdish neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in the city of Aleppo with mortars, causing injuries among civilians, local sources reported on Friday.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, media activist Shoresh Saleh said that at least nine civilians were wounded, including children, after the Islamists bombed the neighborhood with several mortars. The bombing also caused material damage to the residential buildings, according to the source.
On the other hand, the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) responded by bombings locations of Islamist rebels in al-Shkef and Kastillo districts of Aleppo, activists reported.
In the meantime, volunteers of the Kurdish Red Unknown Shaped Thingy Crescent (KRC) formed a rescue team to pull victims from under the rubble in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, beside providing medical assistance to the wounded in the stricken area.
Speaking to ARA News, KRC chief Dilgesh Issa said their volunteers are trying to assist the injured people stranded in the neighborhood.
Islamist rebels of al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham have been targeting the YPG headquarters in the Kurdish neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud with rocket-propelled grenades and hell cannon for days. The rebels intensified their shelling on the neighborhood by using mortar shells and bombing residential buildings, eyewitness told ARA News.
DAMASCUS – At least 25 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded on Friday in airstrikes by Russian warplanes in the towns of Jisrain and Kafr Batna in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, local sources reported. The airstrikes targeted a crowded market with guided missiles, activists and a local documentation center said on Friday.
Speaking to ARA News in Damascus, media activist Ahmed Doumani said that Russian warplanes have launched several raids on the town of Jisrain in Damascus suburbs, one of the rockets dropped on a crowded popular market, and led to the death of at least 25 people and the injury of 70 others, including children and women.
Activists described the incident as a “terrifying massacre” committed by Assad’s ally, Russia, against peaceful civilians.
The attack led to a huge damage in the shops and residential buildings of the market.
“Russian fighter jets also launched several air raids on the residential neighborhoods in the town of Kafr Batna. The victims’ numbers are dramatically increasing,” an informed source told ARA New. “Residents raised distress calls due to the lack of medical staff and medicines.”
Over the past few weeks, Russian air forces have been stepping up their military operations on the areas held by Syrian opposition factions, especially in light of the frustration experienced by the regime’s army.
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I can imagine Russian apology. "We are sorry. Due to unfortunate chain of circumstances the pilot: Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanov; was totally sober. We'll make sure things like this don't happen again."
[Tolo News] Local officials say at least 12 people including children were killed in a mortar attack in Wardak province on Friday morning.
Secretary of Wardak provincial council, Sharifullah Hotak said the incident took place near a mosque in Dandokai village in Sayed Abad district at around 10am.
He said war was ongoing between Afghan National Army troops and the Taliban in the area.
He added that at least six people were also injured.
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DAMASCUS – Fierce clashes hit Damascus suburb between the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) and militants of al-Nusra Front (Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda) on Friday evening, where a top ISIS commander was hardly injured, activists reported.
Speaking to ARA News in Damascus, media activist Ahmed Bayanouni said that rifts emerged between ISIS militants and al-Qaeda affiliated group of al-Nusra in the Wadi Musa district west of al-Tal town in Damascus suburb, “causing the injury of an ISIS senior commander”.
“Clashes erupted between the both sides after ISIS accused al-Nusra militants of apostasy and rebellion against Islam,” the source said.
Abu Muhannad, an ISIS senior leader, who led an attack on al-Nusra headquarters in al-Tal town, was hardly injured in Friday’s clashes, an informed source told ARA News.
“The clashes continued until Friday midnight, during which the ISIS commander Abu Muhannad was wounded along with two of his escorts,” the source said on the condition of anonymity.
ISIS seized the Wadi Musa district in al-Tal town nearly a month ago.
“Several militants defected from the Nusra Front and joined ISIS in Wadi Musa after being lured with high salaries,” the same source said.
The town of al-Tal is overcrowded with displaced people from other stricken areas of Damascus suburbs. ISIS power has been increasing dramatically in the area, locals said.
The town has been under blockade by the Syrian regime for 136 days. Its residents suffer from deteriorating living conditions amid a sharp shortage of basic needs of food and medical supplies, as well as flour and fuel.
Three Palestinians attacked Israeli troops with knives in separate incidents on Friday before they were shot and killed by the Israeli forces, the military said, the latest violence in more than two months of almost daily Palestinian assaults against civilians and soldiers.
In Friday's attacks, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a soldier near Ramallah in the West Bank, the military said. It said troops at the scene opened fire and killed the attacker.
Earlier in the day, two Palestinians attacked a soldier with knives in the city of Hebron, also in the West Bank, wounding him before Israeli troops shot and killed them, the military said.
Since the violence erupted, 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings and shootings. At least 105 Palestinians have also died, including 70 said by Israel to be attackers. The others died in clashes with Israeli forces.
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Please forgive my blowing y'all off the other day. Ambushed by naps and whatnot. Happens a lot.
1. "Extra" coffee? If coffee grinders had millstones, I'd be the horse.
2. There is an Authorship Question.
3. No pot. Just high on life.
Ship whirs up his words in a blender,
And pours 'em in orderly splendor,
Then, tastefully blurred,
Takes a spin with his herd
Round the Burg on a Triumphal bender.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, the most popular politician in the Netherlands, has told Turks "you are not welcome here" in a video that takes aim at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's hopes of joining the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Wilders, who is fiercely anti-Islam, has surged in public opinion polls with his call for the closing of national borders in the face of a migrant crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Muslims, fleeing to Europe this year to escape conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and beyond.
Turkey promised at an EU summit in Brussels last Sunday to help stem the flow of migrants in return for cash, an easing of visa restrictions for Turks visiting Europe and renewed talks on admitting Turkey as a member of the bloc.
In his English-language video posted online on Friday with Turkish subtitles, however, Wilders told Turks in typically blunt fashion: "Your government is fooling you into believing that one day you will become a member of the European Union. Well, forget it."
"You are no Europeans and you will never be. An Islamic state like Turkey does not belong to Europe," he said. "We do not want more but less Islam. So Turkey, stay away from us. You are not welcome here."
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte swiftly condemned the video.
"We have freedom of speech, but this sort of remark, in which a whole country and a whole population is deeply insulted, is totally unacceptable and contributes absolutely nothing to resolving the problem," Rutte told a news conference.
"And it totally lets the cat out of the bag,", he added softly...
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The aircraft carrier at the heart of France's campaign of air strikes on Daesh will move from the eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf "in a few days", President Francois Hollande told its crew during a visit Friday.
"In a few days, you will go into a new zone, taking over command responsibilities from our allies in the coalition," Hollande said, after arriving by helicopter
The Charles de Gaulle will take over duties from a US carrier in the Gulf, coordinating strikes on Daesh targets in Iraq and, increasingly, in Syria.
"You will continue in another way the struggle that we have undertaken against terrorism," Hollande told the crew.
France began bombing jihadist targets in Syria in late September, with planes using bases in the region. The carrier was deployed last month after Hollande declared that France would respond "mercilessly" to Daesh in the wake of the November 13 militant attacks on Paris in which 130 people were killed.
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So they're moving the deGaulle from the eastern Med into the Arabian Gulf in order to better run missions into Syria?
Or is this in order to get more distance from the Russian Med Squadron, who is pissed and itchin' right now?
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I suspect the move was to avoid any accidental shootings by Russia air defense net.
[NBCNEWS] A communist "cult leader" who brainwashed three women -- including his own daughter -- and for years controlled every aspect of their lives was convicted Friday of false imprisonment, child cruelty and rape.
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, was the "charismatic leader" of a political collective he founded in the 1970s named the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
All that? Goodness.
While the group's membership dwindled by the end of that decade, its remaining members were mostly women who Balakrishnan convinced he possessed supernatural powers, according to a statement from London's Metropolitan Police following his conviction.
He was "able to manipulate their minds through this regime of abuse," the force said.
His daughter, who was born into the group in 1983, was kept in conditions amounting to slavery and had extremely limited contact with the outside world until she fled two years ago aged 30.
Following her escape, officials tracked down two other women, now both aged 64, who gave similar stories and said they left the commune earlier after more than a decade "following years of degrading treatment."
Balakrishnan was convicted at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday of cruelty to a child and false imprisonment with regard to his daughter. He was found guilty of 12 other charges including rape, indecent assault and actual bodily harm against the other two women.
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[NATION.PK] During last month, the Drug Court of Lahore division imposed Rs2.3 million fines and handed down prison terms of up to four months on quacks and medical store owners selling spurious medicines, sources have told The Nation.
Seventeen medical stores were sealed on the court orders, after their owners were found guilty of running clinics without licenses and selling fake drugs.
The jurisdiction of the drug court is spread over five districts including Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Okara and Kasur.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... not even a single medicine manufacturer of fake and spurious drugs was produced before the court or awarded punishment. Only retailers and bogus medics were brought to justice.
The drug court disposed of around 200 cases in November, according to a court official who wished not to be named. The court acquitted four accused persons during the period.
Experts estimate there is an increasing amount of fake medicines in the local market. There is also a lack of availability of certified doctors in towns and cities of 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.... to examine the patients.
Muhammad Mansha, one of those convicted, was found guilty of injecting veterinary drugs to poor patients and running clinic without license and warranty. He was awarded three-month imprisonment and a fine of Rs40,000.
Another quack was awarded one month one month jail and Rs 50,000 fine after he was found guilty of running a clinic without the permission of the government in Sheikhupura district.
The main focus of the health authorities is on those who are running clinics without license or selling poor medicines.
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Just look at Detroit, Baltimore, all those urban paradises.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Jean Augustine recalls looking around the rooms of meetings she used to be in and sometimes realized she was the only minority person present. Augustine was the first African-Canadian woman to be elected to the House of Commons, representing the riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore from 1993 to 2006.
“I just didn’t see the diversity of my own life reflected in the institutions and organizations I had been appointed to,” Augustine told Yahoo Canada News.
That’s an issue the Liberal government says it wants to tackle — by boosting the number of women, minorities and aboriginal people in the hundreds of appointments it will make to agencies, boards and Crown corporations (ABCs).
Olivier Duchesneau, a spokesman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, told The Canadian Press recently the process would be “open, transparent and merit-based.”
In addition, the party has pledged to create an independent body to make recommendations for positions, including new senators.
“It’s who you know and who put your name in the hat,” explains Augustine, who also served as minister of state for multiculturalism and the status of women and was parliamentary secretary to then-prime minister Jean Chretien from 1994 to 1996.
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More like 'Snowflake' government. For some, it is 'better'. In the dark old days, merit and skill were considered 'better'. However, the tags of efficient, effective, and affordable are not of any priority in the new definition of 'good'.
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As long as the goals are published and the success/failure reported quarterly.
We'll need another bureaucracy to do the reporting, of course, put they'll have to have the same diversity as the stated overall goal. How will failure to meet the goal be punished? If we achieve 110% of the goal, who gets a bonus? Why would exceeding the goal be rewarded? How often should the goals be re-evaluated, and on what basis?
All that sounds pretty complicated, so we'll just go for "more". Then it never ends.
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"Appointing more women and minorities 'produces better government'"
No, it produces precisely the mess we in the States are in right now: a government that is incompetent, stupid and corrupt. Don't emulate us.
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"Appointing more women and minorities 'produces better government'"
... say the people who cannot cut it in the Dreaded Private Sector.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A 26-year-old woman who says that Muslims cannot be French may be about to be elected president of a large region sprawling from Marseille to Nice and the Italian border.
A 47-year-old woman -- aunt of the first, and the leader of Europe's most powerful far-right party -- is likely to be the next president of another big chunk of La Belle France, starting a few miles from Kent and stretching almost to the northern suburbs of Gay Paree.
If opinion polls are to be trusted, the Front National will make a spectacular breakthrough in a two-round regional election on Saturday and next Sunday.
In the wake of the 13 November atrocities in Gay Paree, the polls predict an unprecedented surge of support for the xenophobic, anti-European and protectionist FN in all regions except, paradoxically, the Île-de-La Belle France around the capital.
Marine Le Pen, the party leader, seems almost certain to be elected president of a new super-region covering industrial northern La Belle France and Picardy -- for decades a fiefdom of the left. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, her niece, is predicted to take Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur -- a traditional bastion of Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... 's centre-right.
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That will give europe something to think about and some defence against Islamism
[VOA News] An kaboom near a metro station Tuesday in Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , injured at least five people and brought the transport system to a halt.
A local official in Istanbul said the kaboom in the evening rush hour at an overpass near the city's Bayrampasa station was caused by a pipe bomb.
Atilla Aydiner, the mayor of Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, also said a number of vehicles were damaged in the blast, including a bus and a car.
Authorities deployed riot police to secure the perimeter of the site in case of a second blast.
No claim of responsibility has been made.
Earlier, Istanbul's governor, Vasip Sahin, said the cause of the blast was not known, and authorities were assessing every possibility.
Some media reports said the kaboom might have been caused by a bomb, and other reports said it could be linked to an electrical transformer.
Ambulances were dispatched to the scene, as commuters were helped to safety, reports said.
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[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said Pakistain will continue its support and cooperation for United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... (UN) sponsored endeavours towards bringing peace and stability in Yemen.
Aziz was talking to noble peace laureate Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman who called on him here at Foreign Office on Friday along with the Yemeni Ambassador Ahmed Qaid Al- Horary.
Aziz briefed Tawakkol Karman about the ongoing anti-terror operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... and its positive results which have eliminated terrorist networks in Pakistain.
He also highlighted about the economic gains achieved after improved security environment Pakistain.
"The focus of the present government was to strengthen good relations with our neighbouring countries and promote regional connectivity in transport, energy and trade," he added.
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[WaPo] China has launched an extraordinary set of attacks against Communist Party members in Xinjiang and Tibet, with accusations of disloyalty, secret participation in religious activity, sympathy with the Dalai Lama and even support for terrorism. The accusations reflect President Xi Jinping's determination to push for ideological purity within the party nationwide, stifling debate and dissent.
Critics say they also reflect the reality that the party's hard-line approach toward smasshing "the three evils of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism" has not only alienated many ordinary Tibetan and Uighur people but has also provoked dissent in its own ranks.
Xu Hairong, secretary of Xinjiang’s Commission for Discipline Inspection, complaied that some party officials openly criticize policies handed down from above. In his agency’s official newspaper, he wrote, "Some waver on clear-cut issues of opposing ethnic division and safeguarding ethnic and national unity, and even support participating in violent terrorist attacks."
An article published on party website China Tibet Online said 355 party members had been punished in Xinjiang last year for violating "political discipline." The article said that one had reposted an interview given by prominent Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti, who was sentenced last year to life in prison on charges of advocating separatism.
Meanwhile, the Communist Party has been recruiting, and the number of members in Xinjiang is said to have risen by 21,000 to 1.45 million in 2014. And that has brought other problems.
More than 80 opposition leaders will attend the meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A conference bringing together dozens of figures from Syria's political and armed opposition will be held next week in Riyadh, opposition members said on Friday.
How about the Iranian-supported opposition leaders?
According to Samir Nashar, a member of the opposition National Coalition, "the meeting will be in Riyadh on Tuesday and Wednesday, and maybe Thursday if necessary."
He said the Coalition would be represented by 20 people and that 10 other opposition figures were also invited.
Haytham Manaa, co-founder of the Cairo Conference group which includes domestic and exiled opposition figures, said 85 people would attend the meeting, including 15 from armed factions.
"We received some twenty invitations for the meeting that will be held on December 8 and 9," he said.
But the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) have yet to be invited because of pressure from the Istanbul-based Coalition, Nashar said.
The YPG has been the most effective fighting force against the Daesh group in northern and northeastern Syria.
Which is why the Istanbul-based coalition is unhappy...
An opposition source said the armed factions invited are those "not considered terrorist groups," including the powerful Jaish Al Islam and the rebel Southern Front.
On November 21, UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura announced that Saudi Arabia would host a broad opposition conference in mid-December. The meeting is part of an effort to close the gap between opposition groups ahead of potential future negotiations with Damascus.
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The meeting was originally scheduled for Raqqa, but had to be moved because of reasons.
[CNN] A joint Afghan-U.S. military operation rescued about 40 Afghan soldiers and coppers from a Taliban prison in south-central Afghanistan on Thursday night, U.S. forces in the country said.
The raid, featuring Afghan special security ground forces and Afghan helicopter crews, happened in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province's Nawzad District, the U.S. military said.
Afghan forces freed about 40 prisoners, including Afghan coppers and soldiers, the U.S military said.
The U.S. military provided intelligence and planning support, said U.S. Army Col. Michael Lawhorn, a front man for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The freed prisoners were handed over to Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense to receive medical care, the U.S. military said in a statement. The military said it didn't have details about the former prisoners' capture.
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[RFE/RL] Thai police have confirmed they are searching for Syrian terrorists following a tip from Moscow. A police memo was leaked earlier asking officers to follow up on information from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) that ten Syrians who may be linked to Daesh could stage attacks in Thailand on targets associated with Russia and other enemies of the militants. Police on Friday confirmed the memo was genuine and said that authorities were conducting searches to track down the suspects.
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A senior military official says at least 15 Al shabaab members have been killed in an ambush attack occurred on Friday in the central region of Hiiraan. Dhame Abdulkadir Mohamed Ahmed, who is a senior army commander in the region, has confirmed to Radio Shabelle the attack and slaughter the 15 militants.
“SNA and AMISOM repulsed Al shabaab when militants attacked their convoy at Baar and Eldheer areas, 25Kms west of Beledweyne town. The attackers suffered heavy losses in the ambush,” Mr Ahmed added.
Al shabaab did comment on the attack and the claim of military officer.
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[NATION.PK] A 25-year-old man ended his life yesterday by drinking kerosene oil at his house in Jalalpur village near Raiwind.
Muhammad Adnan drank kerosene oil after he got into an argument with his wife, Shazia Bibi, over a domestic dispute. He was rushed to a hospital where he expired later.
Adnan's relatives told the police that the relationship between the issueless couple was not cordial as they used to fight over domestic issues. They body was moved to the morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
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Just to wash down all the sh*t he's had to eat.
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i dont like the abuse of the #JeSuisCharlie intended to show solidarity with the victims of Islamist violence - cartoonists at a magazine who were shot to death in cold blood.
Instead it is Islamist hijabis that are the real victims? enough to make me vomit.
I read something interesting once. This is just a jihad tactic learnt from the Warlord mohammed.
ALWAYS play the victim. Mohammed attacked innocent people without provocation - but he blamed them because they had “stopped others from becoming Muslims” and had worshiped idols. The attack was their fault, and the Muslims were the victims, not the Kaffirs.
Mohammad became a warlord as soon as he got enough followers. His first battle against the Meccan caravan violated a holy month where no attacks were ever made.
He blamed the Quraysh tribe for not preventing people converting to Islam and refusing Sharia. Blame the victim.
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Our families are normal! Just see --
One Muslimah, happy and free,
A sweet Muslim man...
And the Holy Koran...
And Mohammed... and Allah... makes three?!?
My takeaway from the festivities in San Bernadino was that the Jihadi couple were well trained in gunnery, probably while in Soddy Arabia. I say that because of the 75 rounds fired, 30 struck a target at least once. As far as a kill ratio goes, the couple were 7.5 to one, while with shooting they were 15 to one.
A commenter on Facebook railed:
...this goatfucker and his half-ewe wife are pathetic third rate jihadists. You have a building full of faggot-ass Californians, two semiauto rifles and two pistols, and you only get 75 rounds off? And only 7 dead each? And maybe 10 wounded each? May God curse all jihadists with such pathetic skills. And how stupid do you have to be to fail to detonate a pipe bomb full of black powder? Jebus, put a string soaked in kerosene in the touch hole! What a shitty waste of oxygen and DNA.
The fact is that this was this couple's first (and last) time out, and trained or not, it was an impressive performance. Special Forces might have better performance, but these were amateurs on a one way mission.
I suspect that they were trained by Al Qaeda, and I say that because they were in Soddy Arabia where Al Qaeda is known to operate, and is funded to some degree. The latest report is that they were in contact with al Nusra, which is Al Qaeda in Syria, but my guess is that their handlers were from Soddy Arabia.
The weapons used, according to the latest data supplied by the UK Daily Mail were a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 and a DPMS, both .223 caliber. The Daily Mail article made much of the fact the rifles were "illegally" modified according to California law, including standard capacity 30-round weapons magazines.
The state of California wants Jihadis and criminals to be better armed than its own citizens, it would seem.
The couple bought around 6,000 rounds of ammunition, some of it stripper clips for rapid reloading of magazines. As you would expect, it was rather breathlessly reported that the amount of ammunition bought was excessive, but I know, and several Rantburgers probably know people for which 6,000 rounds fired at the range is a short weekend.
Which brings up the next topic: training.
Several months ago I saw this video, wherein a Russian Spetsnaz operator was put through the ringer at a Russian confidence course.
OK. Here is the skinny on the Paris Drill, prompted by Fred commenting on my post “Europe in the Fall” linked here.
The Paris Drill is 3 shots at 3 separate 6″ diameter steel targets at 25 yards. Par time is 5 seconds; any misses are a DQ. Fifteen points per second deduction for time over 5.00 seconds; same bonus for less than 5.00 seconds. Ideally, this would be done from the leather, but some ranges (mine included) don’t allow this. In such cases, start with sidearm by your side and eliminate the draw stroke.
Examples:
-Smith shoots his three shots, and gets three hits in 6.48 seconds. His base score is 75 points, less 22.2 for time over 5 seconds, for a total score of 52.8.
-Jones shoots his three shots, and gets three hits in 4.27 seconds, His base score is also 75 points plus a bonus (for being faster than par by 0.73 seconds) of 10.95 for a total score of 85.95.
-Historian shoots three times and misses the third plate. His score is zero.
-Historian tries again and hits all three plates in 10.83 seconds. His score is again zero.
The main thing in these two drills is training yourself to select targets and hit them accurately and rapidly. You could do this with a paper target, as the Russian did in their range, only with rifles at 100 meters and six much smaller targets drawn on/pasted/taped on. Select two to hit with the others you do not want to hit.
A better way would be to set up a non-standard rifle range in which you would be completing this course on your feet and moving. As an apartment dweller, I do not have a home or land I can set up to practice this, but I can at least try to make progressively more difficult shots as my marksmanship improves on the square range.
My local CBS affiliate had some news report on what to do during an active shooter incident, most of which can be reduced to: how to cower in the face of an existential threat.
Two tactical trainers I follow on social media have videos on how to deal with an active shooter, if you are armed. One is Hoss USMC, and another is James Yaeger.
But as can be expressed, it boils down to how well you can narrow your aim under an existential threat.
As Rantburg's new book reviewer, swksvolFF has said repeatedly, practice, practice, practice.
Prices for pistol ammunition and rifle ammunition were were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were higher across the board while prices for used rifles were mostly lower.
** For some reason I could not find any 150 Grain 7.62x51mm cartridges in bulk for anything less than $0.56 per round, so for the purposes of this one round in bulk, I switched to 147 grain.
Note, also that the price for .223 55 grain ammunition is the lowest it has been since last year at $0.21 per round.
New Lows:
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Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: +.03 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LG Outdoors, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Case, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Blok Tactical, Store Brand, TMJ, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk (5 Box Limit), 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads; .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Midsouth Shooters Supply, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain**, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds (147 grain **): Ammunition Supply Company, Wolf, Steel Cased, FMJ, .43 per round (From Last Week: +.11 Each (!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds (20 Box Limit): Glen's Army Navy Store, Federal American Eagle, RNL .08 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds (1 Box Limit): Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Federal, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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Guns guns guns, guns guns guns, guns guns,
Not Turkey, Turgenev, or funds!
The dreams of your children?
Forget all that, pilgrim,
And kiss a Kardashian's buns.
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NSW Police seek injunction in Supreme Court to stop Cronulla rally
and yet they do not seek similar for the violent hard left protesters that beat people up at Reclaim Australia rallies, denying them freedom to speak and organise
A team of ISIS snipers was killed by an RAF airstrike last night as Britain continues to step up the fight against the terror group which is set to last at least three years. Total rubbish! It's not 'overkill' if you're taking sniper fire and pinned down, have friendly WIA in need of extraction, and a MEDIVAC which cannot land.
Four Tornado GR4 jets set out overnight from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, with two carrying out reconnaissance in Syria and two providing air support for the Iraqi army. The Ministry of Defence revealed that when a 'terrorist sniper team' began firing on Britain's allies, they were 'silenced by a direct hit' from a 500lb laser-guided bomb dropped by one of the Tornados.
The MoD said in a statement today: 'Royal Air Force aircraft have continued offensive operations against the Daesh terrorist network inside Syria and Iraq.
'Overnight on December 3/4, Tornado GR4s from RAF Akrotiri conducted missions over Syria and Iraq.
'Two GR4s flew an armed reconnaissance patrol over eastern Syria, gathering intelligence on terrorist activity. A second pair of GR4s patrolled over western Iraq, where they provided close air support to Iraqi forces engaged in combat with Daesh in and around Ramadi.
'A terrorist sniper team opened fire from a compound on Iraqi troops, but was silenced by a direct hit from a Paveway IV guided bomb.'
So nah, it wasn't overkill. As is usual for the Brit newspapers, lots and lots of photos at the link: Tornadoes, air crews, etc.
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Ah yes, time again for breathless Fleet Street reportage. I wish we could do this properly.
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A nuke is overkill. Was the weapon used the most cost effective available that would get the job done? Sounds like they used the best that was avaiable. Perhaps the Brits need dial-a-warhead. :-)
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[NATION.PK] RAWALPNDI: ANF in its drive against drug trafficking seized mega cache of drugs worth Rs 10.2 billion in international market. The seized drugs comprised 7.8 Ton Opium, 4.4 Ton Poppy Straw and 70 Kg Hashish. During the operation, ANF also tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! 5 persons involved in drug smuggling and impounded 2 vehicles. Most of the seized drugs were destined abroad.
According to details, ANF Rawalpindi Road Check Team while acting on a tip-off, intercepted a Truck Registered No. C-2781-Mardan near Tarnol, GT Road, Rawalpindi and recovered 4400 Kg Poppy Straw loaded on the truk. Driver of the truck, identified as Iftikhar Khan, a resident 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. was taken into custody. According to initial information, Poppy Straw was being transferred to Southern 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.... for preparation of drug.
ANF Quetta in 2 different intelligence led operations launched at Killi Nasai and Killi Dilsoore, Tehsil Muslim Bagh, District Qilla Saifullah, seized huge consignments of Opium weighing 4604 and 3243 Kg respectively. Total weight of seized drug is 7844 Kg. Both drug consignments were stocked at desolate sites situated in the folding of mountainous terrain far away from the populated area. As per report, the drug consignments were to be shifted to some safe location at Costal Belt for onward transportation to some foreign territory after receipt of safe signal.
ANF Lahore intercepted a car near Thokar Niaz Baig, Multan Road Bypass, Lahore and recovered 10.2 Kg Hashish concealed in it. Two narcos including Fazal Malik and Sami-ul-Haq, residents of Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... were also arrested during operations. As per initial information, they arrived here to deliver drug to some local drug suppliers at Lahore.
ANF Peshawar Road Check Team recovered 9.6 Kg Hashish from personal possession of an accused Arshad Khan and his lady accomplice named Shahida, both residents of Peshawar, while they were travelling to Mardan in a passenger van. They were arrested at GT Road near Pabi, Nowshehra.
ANF 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... in an information based raid at a place adjacent to Bismillah Market Sabzi Mandi, Super Highway, Karachi, seized 50 Kg Hashish which was concealed in dense bushes.
Cases have been registered at respective ANF Police Stations and further investigation is underway.
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"NO Christmas bonus for you!"
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[RFE/RL] Seven residents of Tajikistan's southwestern Shahrtuz district have been put in jail for raising the Daesh flag in a public place. The men were arrested in August after they raised the banner in the center of the district's capital.
The Khatlon regional court's judge, Zubaidullo Mahmudzoda, said that the seven men, three of whom are minors, had been found guilty of publicly calling to overthrow the government and illegally recruiting people to fight abroad. They were sentenced to prison terms between seven and 27 years in jail.
Tajik officials say that some 500 Tajik nationals are fighting alongside Daesh militants.
[Tolo News] In an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's state-run broadcaster, 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. .. said on Friday that incident's such as the recent public lashing and stoning to death of girls in Ghor province are shameful and despicable.
"This is part of our shame, we have inherited situations that are shameful, that are absolutely despicable," he added.
Ghani also talked on the controversial housing scheme project involving former Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Bank CEO Khalilullah Frozi and said that some government officials who played a role in the deal were fired and that his own legal advisor had been suspended.
"The minute this became public, I ordered that he [Frozi] be placed in prison in solitary confinement. $20 million USD has been paid by him out of his assets, the property that allegedly he was using to partner on, is now under legal process or being confiscated," he said.
In a question regarding the role of his legal advisor in the deal, Ghani said: "The officials have been dismissed, my legal advisor was responsible for this, the legal advisor has been suspended, a full inquiry is underway to deal with this."
Ghani also talked on the issue of the refugee crisis and said the future of Afghan citizens was guaranteed in their own country, but not abroad.
"We have a complex diaspora. The privileged elite are part of the globalization moment that we live in. What is significant is to create opportunities for the generations to come and the point remains if the families of the privileged live abroad they aren't going to have careers abroad. The careers are back in Afghanistan," Ghani said.
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[NATION.PK] TIANJI: A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight made an emergency landing at China's Tianjin airport Friday, following a bomb hoax.
After taking off from Beijing, flight PK-852 was en route Tokyo when it made the emergency landing in Tianjin amid a bomb scare, PIA front man Danial Gilani said.
The information about the presence of the bomb originated in China, said Gilani. The source of the bomb threat is being probed by Chinese authorities.
At Tianjin, the plane was searched and passengers made to disembark, following which Chinese authorities gave clearance to the plane to take off for Tokyo.
PIA flight 852 had departed from Islamabad for Beijing, from where it was scheduled to reach Tokyo after a brief stopover in China.
Separately, a Lahore-bound flight PK-758 had a bird-strike before landing. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the flight which took off from London did not encounter any technical fault and landed safely.
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[Rudaw] As cold weather sets in, the United State has started its winter supply campaign for refugees in the Kurdistan region, and promised more help to come, the US embassy in Baghdad announced in a statement.
The distributions sent to the region's capital Erbil aimed to help people who are directly affected by the country's ongoing war against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , or ISIS.
Humanitarian support from US include: "winter clothing and coats for more than 500,000 children, warm blankets, hygiene kits, water storage containers, kerosene heaters and solar lights to help vulnerable internally displaced people and refugees cope with the cold winter weather." According to the statement.
Yesterday's distribution provided IDPs and Syrian refugees with plastic sheeting to protect their shelters from cold, rain and snow.
For those currently living in unfinished buildings, the US provide "adequate protection from winter weather elements," the statement said.
Refugees will also receive cash to buy necessary items to prepare for winter, but the amount of money each family will receive has not been specified.
The US has provided more than $603 million to refugees and IDPs in Iraq since the start of the crisis, which is one of the fastest growing humanitarian crises in the world.
More than 3.2 million people were forced from their homes after the Islamic State captured land in parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Finally, someone is showing sense. Follow-up with more details from previous reports here at the Burg.
Yesterday four Tornado GR4 jets were sent from RAF Akrotiri to bomb the Omar oilfield, which provides around 10 per cent of ISIS's oil supplies. The raids are said to have wiped millions off the value of oil held by ISIS, which diplomatic sources suggested could disrupt the group's deadly terror network by reducing the funding it uses to pay the jihadist fighters who protect its territory in Iraq and Syria and carry out attacks on the West.
The MoD said: 'The Omar oilfield is one of the largest and most important to Daesh's financial operations, and represents over 10 per cent of their potential income from oil.
'Carefully selected elements of the oilfield infrastructure were targeted, ensuring the strikes will have a significant impact on Daesh's ability to extract the oil to fund their terrorism.'
The UK Government is apparently targeting 'anything to do with ISIS and oil' as the first step towards defeating the terrorists in the aftermath of Wednesday's night's vote to authorise Syrian airstrikes. The field has previously been hit by American forces - but an Arab diplomat suggested that the US had not done enough to disrupt the jihadists' economic activity.
'We have been giving the Americans the precise coordinates of the oil routes for months, but they do not seem to have done very much about it,' a diplomat told the Daily Telegraph.
Isn't that a telling comment...
'If you really want to damage ISIL, then cut off their supply lines. If they don't have the oil revenues then they will not be able to pay their fighters, and they will become a far less attractive proposition for would-be jihadists.'
The Brits have always been a bit bloody-minded and to the point when it comes to war...
A local activist told the Guardian: 'Yesterday was very violent as it targeted anything that has to do with Daesh and oil.'
Experts have suggested that raids by Britain's allies have already halved the amount of oil that ISIS is able to sell in order to finance its operations around the world. A military source told the Evening Standard: 'We are going after the head of the snake, but it's also about going after its wallet'.
ISIS's control of oil fields in north-east Syria has provided them with £320million of revenue which they use to fund their terror activities in the Middle East. The jihadist group is believed to work together with the Assad government - nominally its bitter enemy in the Syrian civil war - to maximise the profits it makes from its industrial operations. State employees have allegedly been ordered to work at ISIS-held energy facilities to ensure that the country's infrastructure remains intact, with the terrorist factory bosses imposing a brutal regime.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The coalition forces, freshly bolstered by inclusion of Britannia and Germany, are going after the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's oil industry, destroying refineries and hundreds of tanker trucks transporting oil from eastern Syria in a heavy bombardment in recent days aiming to break the Lion of Islams' biggest source of income.
The campaign already appears to be having some effect, with oil prices rising in areas of Syria that rely on crude smuggled out of IS-controlled areas. But experts say it will be difficult to cut off the myrmidons' trade completely since they are likely to switch to smaller, more elusive vehicles.
Putting a total end to the industry would mean destroying the oil fields in Syria, but that would also bring hardship to millions in the population under IS rule and others who depend on the group's oil, causing fuel shortages as winter sets in. Otherwise, taking the fields would require ground forces.
Still, the campaign could hit hard on an industry that US officials say generates more than half the revenue the Islamic State group uses to maintain its rule over its swath of territory across Syria and Iraq and pay its fighters.
IS controls almost all of Syria's oil fields, concentrated in the east of the country, producing some 30,000 barrels a day, along with one field in Iraq. It smuggles most abroad, mainly to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , selling at cut-rate prices and generating nearly $50m a month.
It is not clear why coalition forces waited this long before going after IS oil infrastructure. US officials previously had said they avoided attacking fuel trucks out of concern for civilian casualties. In recent strikes, warplanes first dropped leaflets telling drivers to flee, reading, "Airstrikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from your oil trucks immediately. Do not risk your life."
Combined with recent gains by Kurdish forces and their Arab allies that have cut off some of the main supply routes between IS strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the Arclight airstrikes are likely to deal a painful blow to the group.
Last monght, Kurdish forces captured the town of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, severing of a highway serving as a supply route for Islamic State fighters between the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and the myrmidon's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa in Syria. An Iraqi oil refinery also has been taken from the myrmidons, and Iraqi forces have encircled the western Iraqi city of Ramadi.
It is too soon to tell to the impact of this week's Arclight airstrikes on IS operations. But there are signs the campaign is already causing prices to rise.
Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, said prices of fuel shot up in some IS-ruled areas by around 80%, due to truck drivers refusing to drive to IS oil facilities, fearing their vehicles will be hit.
Many parts of Syria controlled by other rebels --even ones fighting the Islamic State group -- rely on IS for oil since they have few other sources.
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You knew this article was coming. From WaPo. Way too long (and boring) so just the high points here. I'm only surprised that they beat the NYT to the punch...
American Muslims say they are living through an intensely painful moment and feel growing anti-Muslim sentiment after the recent Islamic State attacks in Paris and this week’s San Bernardino shootings, carried out by a Muslim husband and wife.
Does any of this anxiety cause you to turn in your crazy co-religionists to the police? No? How come?
The motivations of the California killers are still unclear,
No, WaPo reporters, the motivations were completely clear...
although authorities are investigating it as a potential act of terrorism. Muslims said they are bracing for an even more toxic climate in which Americans are increasingly suspicious of Muslims.
There are plenty of tolerant, decent, peaceful Muslims in the U.S. It sure would be great if they'd start ratting out the fools, crazies, and evil ones among them. We asked Irish-Americans to do the same during "The Troubles"...
Muslims say that Americans, like many in Europe, often do not draw a distinction between radical Islamist militants, such as those associated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the religion of Islam and its followers who have no ties to extremism.
It would help if you could give us some reasons why we should...
Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights lawyer who is working on a book on Islamophobia in the United States, said that headline was evidence of how people jump to conclusions about a suspect in a crime who is Muslim.
“When a Muslim American commits a murder, their religion is brought front and center,” he said. “With anyone else, [it’s] a crazy, kooky loner.”
You deliberately obfuscate, Mr. Iftikhar. The press was trying to blame this attack on anyone BUT Muslims, going so far as to point out that the attack occurred within a short commute to a Planned Parenthood center so that the press then could gratuitously attack conservative Christians.
Many Muslims said fear of Islam is being fueled by the heated rhetoric of Republican presidential candidates, particularly businessman Donald Trump, who has called for surveillance of some mosques and requiring Muslims to register with the government.
Did Trump say that or did reporters plant those words? We've seen the latter a couple times recently, haven't we...
That may be smart electoral politics: A 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center showed that 82 percent of Republicans said they were “very concerned” about the rise of Islamic extremism in the world, compared with 51 percent of Democrats.
So even Democrats are worried. Then again, even a flatworm can feel pain...
Estimates of the number of American Muslims vary from about 4 million to perhaps 12 million. The backlash against them has created a deepening sense of alienation. Talk of creating Muslim databases and noting Muslims’ religion on their IDs has echoes for many of the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Recall that the response of many, many young Japanese men in that situation was to join the U.S. Army. They fought for America in the European theater and were among the most heroic troops we had. If you want to ally concerns, have your young men join the U.S. Armed Forces -- and be similarly heroic in defending America...
Many mosques have asked local police for more security.
“There’s a constant climate of insinuation of terrorism and disloyalty that creates this pervasive sense of being an outsider,” said Haroon Moghul, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington.
That Institute is, of course, your typical progressive NGO and is always good for a quote for a reporter looking for something from a progressive NGO that has a neutral-sounding name...
Pew studies show that since the 9/11 attacks, Americans have become far more likely to think that Islam encourages violence more than other religions might. A Pew survey in March 2002 found that 25 percent of Americans held that view, and the number reached 50 percent by September 2014.
Why could that be? 9/11? London? Paris? Bedlam? Madrid? All the car bombings throughout the Middle East and North Africa? How on earth did Americans come to believe that violent Islamicists were violent?
Research by Pew and CAIR shows that apprehension about Islam has increased sharply with the rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, in the past two years, especially since the group’s highly publicized beheadings of foreign journalists and aid workers began in August 2014.
“After 2010, we had a few years where things seemed to be getting better,” said Corey Saylor, national legislative director at CAIR. But he said the beheadings “set us back down a darker path. . . . People of goodwill are trying to do work to bring people together, and it just takes a few moments of ISIS’s time to unravel all of that.”
Yes, beheadings do make people anxious, particularly when the hard boyz doing the beheadings wave the bloody scimitar at you and tell you that you're next...
Muslim leaders are also debating whether they need to apologize each time Islamic extremists carry out an attack, said Adem Carroll, a member of the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition in New York.
We don't need you to apologize. We do need you to clean out your communities. We'd ask that of any community that is sheltering crazies. So get on it.
Other Muslims think that moderate Muslims need to be more aggressive about denouncing acts of terror and rejecting the Islamic State’s call to establish a caliphate — a Muslim homeland ruled by sharia.
On Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, a group of American Muslims will announce the Muslim Reform Movement, calling on other American Muslims to reject the caliphate and advocate for the equality of men and women.
By jove, somebody's got it!
“We need to deal honestly with issues of extremism,” said Asra Nomani, an author and activist who is part of the group. “As long as Americans see denial and deflection, it feeds distrust.”
Muslims, Nomani says, need to directly address how extremist Muslims interpret the Koran and how that affects church-state relations.
“What we’re struggling with is on the far right, a lot of people who want to deal with Islam in a monolithic way, and on the far left, no one wants to acknowledge there’s a larger problem,” Nomani said. “The truth lies somewhere in the middle. There is an extremism problem. The majority of Muslims don’t live that way, and we have to reclaim a middle path.”
You need to put your words into action...
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Lying to the infidel is a matter of policy in Koran. So anything one tells you is suspect.
Islam is the circus and the violent are the Muslim's monkeys. If they don't control them, then we will and if it is hard for us to tell the difference that's too bad. If you expect Obama and the DOJ to protect you he'll do just about as good a job of that as he has the populace of the US. You'll be living in the hell you made.
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"Muslims say that Americans, like many in Europe, often do not draw a distinction between radical Islamist militants, such as those associated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the religion of Islam and its followers who have no ties to extremism."
...Okay, then look at it from this point of view: almost without exception, the nice people who have attacked us on our own soil have been uniformly described as hard-working folks who for reasons apparently unclear (to their coreligionists, anyways) suddenly went all Jihadi. If the same thing was coming out of Catholic or Baptist churches, wouldn't the Muslims be just the tiniest fracking curious as to WHY, and be demanding some kind of action?
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So, they're feeling like any white male on America's campuses? Have they been forced to take reeducation diversity classes to face their privilege too?
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Islamophobia claims are the entire point of the violence
the violence means nothing unless the PR machine can benefit.
These are two-pronged attacks. The violence just gets your attention to enable the culture war.
Goal - to push the muslim grievance narrative
it can be about anything - cartoons of mohammad, bombing in syria, war in iraq, or being the wrong kind of muslim
This is deliberate. If you can persuade the victim to accept the blame you have won, because retaliation requires a sense of injustice. If the victim accepts the blame they will turn their hatred towards themselves.
Imagine you are a military commander. After you kill civilians, the host nation blames itself, keeps looking among its own citizens and institutions for who did wrong and how it can do better.
You have won. You can just keep attacking until they capitulate
This is why it is SO important to stop pretending we can win this war with guns and bombs or spies and cops
we cannot
this is an ideological war and the only thing that can win it is telling the truth about jihad and political Islamism.
Blame political Islamism. blame theocratic fascism. dont apologise for profiling muslims. Uphold the rule of secular law and deny the religious the ability to tread on the human rights of others. Ban sharia. Declare the caliphate the enemy and use treason laws against its fans and the pushers of sharia.
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Muslims say that Americans, like many in Europe, often do not draw a distinction between radical Islamist militants, such as those associated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the religion of Islam and its followers
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According to a recent poll of Muslims worldwide, fully one third support the jihadist agenda. Must suck to be in the two thirds who are "cafeteria" Muslims....
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...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...
[Tolo News] Reports continue to circulate that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour was killed during a Taliban faction clash on Wednesday in Quetta, Pakistain, but a 
The woman who took part in the ISIS-inspired San Bernardino massacre is linked to her native country's most notorious radical mosque, American officials believe.
[Bangkok Post] An accused Thai militant became the third man to die in military custody since October when he mysteriously perished during questioning at an army camp in Pattani province Friday. 
[Inquirer] A suspected Maoist militant was killed in a clash with Philippine troops in a hinterland village in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, early Thursday morning.
Republicans on Friday called for a comprehensive review of the U.S. visa system after reports that the female attacker in the San Bernardino mass shooting pledged allegiance on Facebook to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Cruz and Sessions are demanding to see their immigration records in order to shine more light on the case.
DAMASCUS – At least 25 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded on Friday in airstrikes by Russian warplanes in the towns of Jisrain and Kafr Batna in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, local sources reported. The airstrikes targeted a crowded market with guided missiles, activists and a local documentation center said on Friday.
The aircraft carrier at the heart of France's campaign of air strikes on Daesh will move from the eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf "in a few days", President Francois Hollande told its crew during a visit Friday.
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
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[WaPo] China has launched an extraordinary set of attacks against Communist Party members in Xinjiang and Tibet, with accusations of disloyalty, secret participation in religious activity, sympathy with the Dalai Lama and even support for terrorism. The accusations reflect President Xi Jinping's determination to push for ideological purity within the party nationwide, stifling debate and dissent.
A team of ISIS snipers was killed by an RAF airstrike last night as Britain continues to step up the fight against the terror group which is set to last at least three years.
[RFE/RL] Seven residents of Tajikistan's southwestern Shahrtuz district have been put in jail for raising the Daesh flag in a public place. The men were arrested in August after they raised the banner in the center of the district's capital.
