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Absolutely right Darth. They knew if would fail, planned for it, so the only option is complete governmental control. The Pubs had a chance to gut it even though they didn't vote it in the first place. A pox on both their houses..
Venezuela's opposition party has claimed the majority of seats in the National Assembly in elections held Sunday, the first major shift in power in the legislative branch since the late President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.
The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) took 99 seats to just 46 for the United Social Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Tibisay Lucena, president of Consejo Nacional Electoral announced.
"Venezuela, we won!" said opposition key figure Henrique Capriles, governor of the state of Miranda. "I always told you all, this was the way! Humility, maturity and serenity. Long live the people of Venezuela!"
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You have not won yet until the present regime is thrown out of power and defanged.
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According to Vinnie "The Pig" Maduro we should expect a violent Marxist/Military coup any day now.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been receiving treatment for cancer, said Sunday that he was free of the disease, The New York Times reports. I wonder if the treatment also took the dementia liberalis with it.
Carter, 91, had elective surgery in August when doctors discovered a small mass in his liver. However, the procedure showed that the cancer spread to other parts of his body, including his brain. Personally, I think it probably started in his brain, but we can debate that later.
Carter, the 39th president, who served from 1977 to 1981, had treatment that included radiation and a drug named pembrolizumab. By November, Carter said he was responding well and the cancer was showing no further signs of growth.
While his doctors say it's premature to call him cured - they would need three to five years without legions to say that with confidence - they say his condition is proof that aggressive, varied treatments can have a positive effect.
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91 years old. I would not count your chickens before they hatch. Still remarkable if true. How is this for a formula for the drug beelzebub pembrolizumab?:
C6504H10004N1716O2036S46 (peptide)
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Snark of the day for sure for charger.
Having said that good luck to him. The big C is a terrible way to go.
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Shouldn't this be in opinion? Not that I don't agree completely. As the old-timers here know, I've said "Real WOT would start with extermination of the Saudi 'Royal Family'" on several occasions.
A man will appear in court on Monday accused of the Leytonstone Tube stabbing.
Muhaydin Mire, 29, from Sansom Road, east London, will appear before Westminster magistrates charged with the attempted murder of a 56-year-old man.
It came as Britain's armed response to terror attacks was called in to question after uniformed [but unarmed] officers were left to deal with a suspected Islamist fanatic who tried to murder Tube passengers in revenge for Syria airstrikes.
A former Scotland Yard commander said it was "alarming" that armed officers were not on the scene to tackle the man who attacked two men, leaving one lying in a pool of blood.
Thank you for again making the case for arming all your officers -- and for concealed carry...
Amateur video of the attacker was available here & at other internet sites. Deputy Chief Constable Adrian Hanstock from the British Transport Police (BTP) issued an appeal to anyone else who may have videoed the incident to come forward.
"We are really appealing for anyone who may still have any footage to get in touch with us," he told Radio 4's Today programme. One of the videos, uploaded to Twitter shows police confronting a man believed to be the attacker, while an onlooker can be heard shouting: "You ain't no Muslim bruv." A laser targeting light can be seen on the floor near the suspected attacker just before he collapsed to the floor.
Police were called at 7.06pm on to reports of a number of people stabbed at the station and unformed officers from Waltham Forest arrived five minutes later. The man was detained by 7.14pm. 8 minutes from being called to nabbing the perp is not bad. I had hoped to see a Londoner take on the knifer with his brolly.
Scores of police officers descended on a mall in Riverside, Calif., after terrified shoppers and workers reported gunfire in the building, but the noise turned out to be breaking glass, a sign of the anxiety in Southern California in the days after a deadly terrorist attack in nearby San Bernardino.
Reports of a shooting in the Galleria at Tyler mall began to emerge shortly after 6:30 p.m., when three men entered a jewelry store and smashed glass display cases to grab the jewels kept inside, the Riverside Police Department said.
The sound of pounding sledge hammers and shattering glass sent a wave of panic through the mall as shoppers and mall employees, on edge after a terrorist attack linked to the Islamic State killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week, assumed the noises were gun shots.
"The first thing that went through my mind was, 'Oh, God, we're under terrorist attack,'" Erica Muschara, 28, who was in a cosmetics store at the mall, told The Los Angeles Times. "Everyone was screaming and running."
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A lockdown at Kirtland Air Force Base turned out to be triggered by the sound of bubble wrap popping that was mistaken for gunfire.
The military base went into lockdown Wednesday afternoon for about 45 minutes along with some neighboring public schools following reports of gunshots near a building on the west side of the base.
Base Director of Public Affairs Eric Elliott says the popper confessed to creating the commotion when bursting sandwich bag-sized air pockets.
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You know the only thing that rymes with orange is door hinge.
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My daughter was 6 years old when we went to Ireland in 1983. We were in a post office in Derry mailing some cards while she was trying to open a bag of Sam Spudz potato crisps (potato chips) when she accidentally popped it with a loud POP! People freaked out until they saw the raining crisps around the little girl.
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#1 given what goes on just north of the base, its improbable but not impossible to be literally within earshot of a drive by.
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I recall the Christian sect that left Jerusalem leaving behind a separate sect that was determined to stay in the holy place. The stay-behinds didn't make it along with a lot of Jews when the Roman finished their siege a little later in history. Some people get a hint and survive, they get to write the new book. Maybe someone is sensing the 'writing on the wall'.
[NBCNEWS] The hashtag started trending just hours after a stabbing in a London tube station that authorities have called a possible 'terrorist incident." #YouAintNoMuslimBruv
With a camera rolling, a bystander appears to have shouted the phrase at the alleged attacker, a 29-year-old man, while he was being subdued by police. The footage was posted on the internet, and it instantly spiraled across Twitter, capturing the mood of London and beyond.
"#YouAintNoMuslimBruv + Met Police arresting terrorist with tasers = London Pride," one tweet read.
"The hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv makes me proud to be a British Muslim," read another. "No real Muslim kills/harms innocent people,end of."
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When the guy yelled 'for Syria' can we really assume he attacked for religious and not political causes? Guy might have been aligned with Syrian rebels and now saw everyone going after ISIS and ignoring Assad and went nuts.
And on a different tact, if "No real Muslim kills/harms innocent people,end of." then folks won't mind if we grind down terrorist corpses and feed them to swine right? Because if they aren't Muslims it shouldn't matter (except to the poor swine).
[IN.REUTERS] Myanmar's former dictator sees erstwhile foe Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's "future leader" and has pledged to support her even though she is currently barred by the constitution from becoming president, his grandson said on Saturday.
Than Shwe ...The effective king of Burma. He has held positions within the military dictatorship since at least 1992 and has in the process managed to sideline or bump off all his rivals. Under his sway Burma has remained a xenophobic cultural and economic backwater. Than Shwe ranked No. 4 on Parade Magazine's 2009 World's Worst Dictators list of 2009... , who headed a military junta until he stepped down in 2011 and who many believe remains powerful behind the scenes, made the remarks during secret talks with the democracy icon on Friday, his grandson, Nay Shwe Thway Aung, said.
"It is the truth that she will become the future leader of the country," Than Shwe was quoted as saying by his grandson at the meeting with Suu Kyi, the first between the two.
"I will support her with all of my efforts," Nay Shwe Thway Aung quoted Than Shwe as saying in a statement posted on Facebook late on Saturday.
It was unclear whether Than Shwe's comments were a call for the constitution, drafted by his junta in 2008, to be changed to allow the Nobel laureate to become president. She is barred from the highest office because of her sons' foreign citizenship.
Attempts by her National League for Democracy (NLD) to amend the relevant article in the constitution have been rebuffed and its landslide election win last month does not guarantee it control of parliament.
Than Shwe has no official role. But though he has been out of the public eye since 2011, many in Myanmar are convinced he remains politically involved behind the scenes.
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A Somali official says Govt troops have killed a senior Al shabaab commander in the latest fighting in the south-western region of Bakool.
Tiyeglow district commissioner Mohamed Abdullai said the militant commander was killed in a fierce fight between Somali military backed by AMISOM and Al shabaab which took place an area near the town on Sunday.
“Somali national army (SNA) & AU troops killed a top Al shabaab leader in an attack on their base in Elgaras village,” said Tiyeglow district administrator while speaking with Radio Shabelle by phone.
He said newly trained Somali military soldiers involved in the attack against Al shabaab in El Garas area. Local Residents said there was an exchange of heavy gun fire and artillery during the fighting.
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A Jordanian citizen with an American passport tried to break into the cockpit of Lufthansa aeroplane heading to Belgrade from Frankfurt, but the passengers managed to fight him down.
The drama started 11.000 meters above Austria, when the troublesome Jordanian started threating he will open the door. Reasonable passengers prevented him from doing that, so the aeroplane landed safely in Belgrade at 45 minutes past noon. The aeroplane crew didn’t report the emergency situation to flight control
Right after the landing, Serbian police entered the plane and threw the Jordanian out, sending him immediately to the Belgrade police department, where he is currently being questioned by the police.
The president of Vojvodina Handball Club Milan Djukic, who happened to be on the same flight where the incident took place, said that the passenger looked suspicious even during the boarding.
"Somewhere in the middle of the flight, he tried to open the cockpit door, but the crew prevented him from doing so," Djukic said. According to him, Vojvodina assistant coach Milan Mirkovic and handball player Aleksej Rastvorcev fought the Jordanian down. Other passenders had no idea what was going on.
Djukic also said that the passenger was moved to business class after the incident, where he remained calm until the end of the flight. Mirkovic and Rastvorcev were keeping an eye on him the whole time.
The man, who the Serbian press said had a U.S. passport, had shouted that he wished to join Allah along with all the passengers, RTS said.
The head of the handball team's club, Milan Djukic, who was on the flight, said the man had seemed "nervous" before boarding the plane.
"I exchanged a few words with him and he was very nervous. Before takeoff, the flight attendants made him change seats three times," Djukic told private Serbian TV station Moja Prva.
Humanitarian aid has reached a besieged rebel-held area in the central Syrian city of Homs, part of a local ceasefire deal that is to include the withdrawal of opposition fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
In a delivery presided over by the United Nations, food and medical supplies entered the Waer district of the city on Thursday, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
It was a sign that the deal, which would be the second local ceasefire agreement to be reached in Syria in recent months, was beginning to be implemented.
Syrian government officials said on Tuesday they had agreed that opposition fighters could withdraw from the last insurgent-held area of Homs with their weapons as part of the agreement.
One of the four assassins who took out an employee of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Khartoum, was killed in Somalia by an affiliate of al-Qaeda after pledging allegiance to ISIS, Sudan Tribune has learned.
The family of Mohammed Makkawi Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death in the murder of the US diplomat John Granville and his Sudanese driver in 2008, received the news of his demise via an anonymous phone call which mentioned that he was killed during clashes between armed groups.
Ibrahim first came to the attention of Sudanese authorities in 2007 as a member of an extremist cell and was the head of the 4-man group that assassinated Granville. Despite their arrest and conviction, the group managed to escape from maximum security Kober prison in Khartoum.
The US has offered $5 million for information on the escapees.
Ibrahim along with another convict, Mohannad Osman, managed to reach Somalia, and join the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab insurgents. Osman was reported killed in 2011.
An anonymous friend of Ibrahim said on an internet post that the 31-years old man was murdered after expressing desire to break away from al-Shabaab and join ISIS. The post blasted al-Shabaab saying that “when the light of the caliphate emerged and the movement’s leadership refused to submit to the truth and reform its march, he [Ibrahim] showed his desire to join the Islamic State”.
“He never would have thought that al-Shabaab would sink to such a level of corruption”.
He pointed out that the movement started persecuting Ibrahim and others who sought to join ISIS and began to imprison them.
Ibrahim was one of several who ran away “to the bushes” after the clampdown, the post said adding that al-Shabaab is going after those who were its main tenants.
An expert on Islamic extremist groups, al-Hadi Mohammed al-Amin, said that the incident indicates a serious escalation of conflict between al-Shabaab and ISIS in southern Somalia.
He makes that sound like a bad thing...
He told Sudan Tribune that the gap is widening between al-Shabaab and those seeking to pledge allegiance to ISIS. Al-Amin noted that al-Shabaab refused to recognize ISIS and reaffirmed its allegiance to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Begin to apply the 'Friends and Family' pressure.
"Nomo USAID 4U!"
[Gulf Today] A subleader of the Abu Sayyaf wanted for the abduction of two Malaysians and the beheading of one of the hostages was arrested on the island province of Sulu.
Brigadier General Alan Arrojado identified the suspect as Kadaffy Muktadel alias Kadaffy Camsa, who was nabbed in a hospital in Jolo, the provincial capital, where he was confined for wounds sustained in a motorcycle accident. Arrojado said Muktadel was wanted on an arrest order for the kidnapping and beheading of Bernard Then in November due to the alleged failure of his family to pay the ransom demand.
Heavily armed men believed to be Abu Sayyaf militants including Muktadel stormed a restaurant in Sabah in May, abducted Then and the woman manager Thien Nyuk Fun and then brought them to Sulu where they started negotiations with their families for the payment of a ransom for their release.
The Abu Sayyaf are still holding three foreigners - two Canadians and a Norwegian - and a Filipino woman they abducted during a raid on a posh island resort in September.
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The Yemeni army managed to destroy another warship belonging to the Saudi-led coalition, the army’s spokesman announced.
Yemeni troops targeted and destroyed the warship by Katyusha rockets, Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman was quoted by the Arabic-language Al Mayadeen TV network as saying.
This is the sixth warship destroyed by the Yemeni army’s forces since the start of Saudi aggressions against the Arabian Peninsula country.
[FOXNEWS] Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has released a rare audio recording in which he denies claims by an Afghan official that he was maimed in a shootout during a meeting with other commanders in Pakistain last week.
In a 17-minute audio recording sent to media by the Taliban late Saturday, Mansoor dismissed what he called "baseless claims" that were "part of the agenda of the enemy." The Taliban had earlier sent The News Agency that Dare Not be Named a two-minute version of the recording.
The voice resembled that in previous recordings issued by Mansoor, who succeeded longtime Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar after his death was announced last summer. Mansoor has since faced internal challenges to his leadership, including by a breakaway faction that has battled fighters loyal to him.
"I haven't seen Kuchlak in years," he said, referring to an area near the Pak city of Quetta where the dispute was said to have taken place. He ordered his fighters to pay no heed to "baseless rumors" and to continue waging jihad, or holy war, against the Afghan government.
The audio message was released two days after Sultan Faizy, the front man for Afghanistan's First Vice President Abdul Rasheed Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , claimed that Mansoor was maimed in a firefight that broke out at a gathering of Taliban figures in Pakistain. He said the incident took place in the home of Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi, a former Taliban official, and that six Taliban figures, including Sarhadi, were killed.
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Authorities are still trying to find a serial arsonist responsible for at least five fires in a Queens neighborhood since October. Early this morning, a fire was set at the same Forest Hills location as a previous blaze.
The most recent fire broke out at 12:18 a.m., at 112-35 69 Road, and the police released an image of a person of interest, describing him as having a light complexion, wearing glasses, a scarf on his face, and a green helmet, riding a motorcycle.
According to the police, all four other investigated arsons "occurred on construction sites in the confines of the 112 Precinct. The suspect enters the sites, and ignites flammable combustibles before fleeing on foot."
The NYPD released video of a person walking through the site of the fourth fire.
The fires have been in an area that is home to one ethnic group. One homeowner told NBC New York, "I feel that we’re under attack. It’s some kind of sort of also terrorist attacks going against Bukharan Jews."
Two other fires are also believed to be the work of the arsonist. An encrypted message left at one scene has been determined to be a "mislead."
A neighbor told the Daily News of today's fire, "It's hard to believe with everyone watching this could happen again. I hope they catch whoever is doing this."
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Oh, joy. They have a fire bug in their neighborhood. Unless the little s#!t is caught soon, the only thing that will stop him will be when he moves or winds up dead in an accident/incident.
I had problems with one years ago. Even got trail camera pix of him in the act. Local law enforcement would do nothing. Fortunately, he managed to get into a fatal car accident about a year (& 2 attempts to burn my barn! Fortunately well stacked hay bales are almost impossible to set alight, even with gasoline.) after the first known arson attributed to him.
Strategic Response Unit dispatched to Queensâ Forest Hills after seven Jewish homes set alight since October
Seven fires, the most recent set Sunday, have targeted new homes under construction for Bukharian Jewish owners. According to radio station WINS, a rabbi owns the home torched most recently.
An estimated 50,000 Bukharians, Jewish immigrants from central Asia, live in New York, the vast majority of them in Forest Hills and adjacent neighborhoods. In Forest Hills,the construction by Bukharians of large, expensive homes, mostly on plots that once housed more modest residences, has sparked tensions with longtime residents in recent years.
âRight now we have members of the Arson and Explosion Squad, Major Case Unit from the NYPD, Fire Marshals, and Queens detectives all concentrated on this area to find out who this person is,â NYPD Chief of Detectives Bob Boyce said, according to the Daily News.
Police, who said they do not believe the arsons are motivated by anti-Semitism, also plan to patrol the area at night.
âWeâre not looking at this as a terrorist-related incident,â Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said, according to the Daily News. âWeâre not looking at it as a hate crime incident either.â
While the police last week believed they had a suspect, based on information in a note left at the site, the suspect had an alibi and appeared to be innocent.
The Bukharian Jewish Center is offering a $50,000 reward for information on the suspect. The NYPD is also offering a $2,500 reward.
[ARA News] KOBANE – Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition and Russia on Sunday launched a new wave of airstrikes on Syria’s northeastern province of Raqqa, the main bastion of the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group.
At least 35 ISIS militants were killed in Sunday’s strikes, a medical source in Raqqa told ARA News.
“Dozens of other militants were wounded and subsequently transferred to the main hospital in the city,” the source said, on the condition of staying anonymous for security concerns.
However, the strikes on Sunday have also caused dozens of civilian casualties.
Speaking to ARA News in Raqqa, civil rights activists of the campaign “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” reported the death of 15 civilians and the injury of more than 30 others.
“Most of the civilian casualties were women and children,” a member of the campaign said.
The coalition’s and Russian fighter jets focused on the eastern and southern parts of Raqqa city in Sunday’s strikes, where ISIS headquarters are established among residential buildings, according to local sources.
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[IsraelTimes] Assailant rubbed out by soldier in Romema neighborhood, near western entrance to city
Two people were lightly maimed in an apparent combined stabbing and vehicular attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Romema Sunday evening.
The assailant was shot and killed by security forces at the scene, on Yirmiyahu Street in the ultra-Orthodox area, moments after the attack.
According to initial reports, the assailant first attempted to ram his car into a crowd of people. After apparently crashing his car without hitting anyone, the suspect then exited the vehicle and began slashing at a 65-year-old police volunteer.
The attacker was then shot and killed by a soldier who happened to be at the scene. He was identified by police as a 21-year-old East Jerusalem resident.
The police volunteer suffered mild stabbing wounds to his shoulder and was treated by a medical team that arrived at the scene. He was later transferred to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city.
A second man, 20, was also rushed to Shaare Zedek after suffering light wounds when he was hit by a car. It was not clear if the vehicle that hit the 20-year-old belonged to the suspected assailant, or to an uninvolved individual.
Despite the proximity of the suspected attack to the main entrance of Jerusalem, the surrounding streets were all open to traffic.
The Romema area has seen a number of stabbing attacks during the two-month-long wave of violence that has rocked Israel and claimed nearly two dozen victims.Over 100 Paleostinians have also been killed in the violence, many of them assailants, according to Israel.
[AlAhram] A police conscript was killed and three others were maimed when an bomb detonated on a highway in North Sinai's El-Arish Sunday evening, Ahram Arabic news website reported.
According to security sources who spoke with the Ahram Arabic news website correspondent in North Sinai, the bomb was planted on the coastal highway in El-Arish and went kaboom! when the armoured vehicle carrying the conscripts was passing by.
The victims were transferred to El-Arish Military Hospital.
At least six loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed as ground and air operations continue to suppress the operations of the terror group in eastern Nangahrar province.
According to the local government officials, the latest casualties to the fanatics of the terror group were incurred as a result of an airstrike in Achin district.
Provincial governor spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said the airstrike was carried out late on Saturday night.
Nangarhar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups are actively operating in a number of its remote districts with the ISIS fanatics tightening their grip in some of its districts.
The counter-terrorism operations by the Afghan national security forces have been rampant as the loyalists of the terror group are looking to gain foothold in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials said last month that the terror group has so far lost around 480 loyalists during the Afghan security forces military operations.
According to a report by United Nations the terror group is making inroads in Afghanistan with the number of sympathizers and followers growing across the country.
The report released late in the month of September also stated that nearly 70 militants of the terror group are busy in forming the core of the group’s branch in Afghanistan.
The report further added that the group is recruiting followers in at least 25 provinces of Afghanistan with 10 percent of the sympathizers belonging to the Taliban group.
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[RFE/RL] On her 20th birthday, Varvara Karaulova had plenty of time to consider the prospect of a decade behind bars. The Moscow State University philosophy student, whose name has become synonymous to some with a spreading extremist threat to Russia, was in the high-security Lefortovo pretrial detention facility on November 29, more than a month after she was sent there over alleged ties to Daesh.
Court officials say that Karaulova, who was detained by Turkish authorities near the Syrian border in June, has confessed to trying to join Daesh, but her lawyers dispute that.
Pavel Karaulov insists his high-achieving daughter was not a likely candidate for recruitment by Islamists, although he also acknowledges that she seemed to be living a double life before her trip, unbeknownst to her middle-class parents. He said, "We found out that she would leave home dressed in absolutely normal clothes for students -- jeans, sneakers, shirts, T-shirts, denim jackets -- but at the university she would change into Muslim-style clothes: long skirt and head scarf."
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Arab Coalition forces launched several raids on Houthi militants and forces loyal to Saleh in Domt area in the Governorate of Dalia’a, sources told Sky News Arabic.
The Coalition also shelled rebel groups in Harib Directorate of Ma’arib in central Yemen, and targeted guerrilla positions at Sarwah - the road between Ma’arib and Sana’a in the north, reported Emarat Al Youm.
Meanwhile, popular resistance forces made significate advancements on the ground confronting Houthis and Saleh forces as fierce fighting was witnessed near the city of Sarwah in Ma’arib, a source was quoted as saying.
The popular resistance forces along with troops loyal to the legitimate army reached the outskirts of the city market in Sarwah, which is the last bastion of the militia in the province, it added.
The army has also captured the hills surrounding the market and the city is almost clear of Houthi or Saleh militants.
The source said that army and the forces freed most of the region of Nasaban Al-Ashkri, and Ra’abiah, too.
The progress on the ground came following a meeting of legitimate forces with local leaders and sheikhs in Ma’arib. It has been agreed to give leadership of the area to Sheikh Moardhy Dharman following its liberation, the report said.
[REUTERS] The governor of Aden was killed by a boom-mobile on Sunday in Yemen's southern port city, in an attack that 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.... grabbed credit for.
A local official and residents said at least six members of General Jaafar Mohammed Saad's entourage also died in the attack, which targeted the governor on his way to work. Several other people were maimed.
The attack came in the Tawahi district of Aden, where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has returned to oversee a war against Iran-allied Houthis.
Islamic State, in a statement posted on a messaging service, said it detonated a car laden with explosives as Saad's convoy passed by. The group promised more operations against "the heads of apostasy in Yemen".
The group also posted what it said were photos of the booby-trapped vehicle as a white van carrying Saad drove past, then two other photos of a huge ball of fire which it said were taken as the bomb went kaboom!.
A local official and residents said earlier on Sunday a jacket wallah rammed his vehicle into the governor's car.
[ARA News] DAMASCUS – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad considered Britain’s bombing campaign against the extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria “illegal” adding the campaign will further fuel terrorism.
“It will be harmful and illegal and it will support terrorism as happened after the coalition started its operation a year or so (ago),” Assad told The Sunday Times in Damascus on Sunday.
This comes as the UK started its airstrikes in Syria after the British parliament approved joining military operations by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.
Assad added that terror “was like a cancer which needed to be tackled with a comprehensive strategy which would involve working with troops on the ground”.
“You cannot cut out part of the cancer. You have to extract it. This kind of operation is like cutting out part of the cancer. That will make it spread in the body faster.”
“You cannot defeat ISIS through airstrikes alone. You cannot defeat them without cooperation with forces on the ground,” he stressed.
“You cannot defeat them if you do not have buy-in from the general public and the government,” Assad said.
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Probably not, given our unwillingness to accept the collateral damage that a full nuclear assault would generate. However, that might just happen if the Islamists mount a nuclear attack on the West.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Command Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi announced on Sunday the killing of 40 elements of the ISIS as well as the destruction of 14 booby-trapped vehicles in Ramadi during the past 48 hours.
Mahlawi said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The ISIS organization suffered heavy losses in lives and equipment in the city of Ramadi, after foiling an attack on the security forces stationed in the vicinity of the city, especially in the northern axis,” adding that, “His forces, with support from the Iraqi Air Force as well as the international coalition aviation and the artillery force, had managed to kill more than 40 elements of ISIS and destroy 14 booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers over the past 48 hours in Ramadi.”
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Washington is ready to re-impose sanctions on Iran in response to any provocation from Tehran, US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said, Sputnik reported.
She's lying, and everyone knows it.
In her speech on Sunday, Clinton listed Iran’s “increasingly aggressive regional ambitions,” as a reason for the United States to strengthen ties with Israel.
"Tehran's fingerprints are on nearly every conflict across the Middle East,” the politician said.
According to Clinton, Iran supports “bad actors from Syria to Lebanon, to Yemen and beyond.”
“There will be consequences, for even small violations [of Iran’s nuclear deal], and we are ready to snap back sanctions into place,” Clinton said.
Nonsense. Champ and Jahwn have no intention of enforcing the deal. The whole point was to get rid of sanctions, not reimpose them. Champ doesn't care if Iran gets the bomb.
Iran's relief from multinational sanctions by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union is subject to the results of an inspection by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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It's hard to be provoked further once you've assumed the full hedgehog-fetal position and pulled your hole in after you.
Paris bar La Bonne Bière, where five people were killed by jihadist gunmen in the November 13 attacks, reopens to the public on Friday in an emotional step in the city's struggle to regain normality.
Three weeks after France’s worst terrorist attacks since World War II, hearts drawn in red crayon decorate the street outside the Casa Nostra and remnants of the sand used to absorb the victims' blood can still be seen. Rose stems poke through bullet holes left in the restaurant's windows – the image becoming one of the ubiquitous symbols of post-attack mourning.
A few steps away from the Casa Nostra, the façade of La Bonne Bière has been hastily repaired and tarpaulin covers the ground as the owners prepare to return to business as usual – or almost.
The owners of the Carillon and the Petit Cambodge say they also plan to reopen, but at a later date.
For now, the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people were killed in the deadliest of the series of shootings and suicide bombings, remains the focus of the mourning. Hundreds of people flock there every day – it is just a short walk from La Bonne Bière – and fresh flowers line the pavements outside.
The owners of the concert hall said this week they are determined to re-open the venue, although they are unlikely to be able to do so until the end of next year.
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Warring Libyan factions meeting in Tunisia said Sunday they had reached an agreement to be approved by rival parliaments on ending the political deadlock that has plagued the country since Moamer Kadhafi's overthrow.
"This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for, the Arabs were waiting for and the world was waiting for," said Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the first deputy head of the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC).
Most historic thing Libya has seen. This week...
GNC officials had been holding talks in the suburbs of Tunis for several days with delegates from the internationally recognised House of Representatives.
Abdul-Sadiq called on Libyans to support what he called "a historic opportunity".
"If this solution receives real Libyan support -- from the people and institutions -- we will surely arrive in no more than two weeks or a month to a solution to solve the political crisis," he told a press conference.
Amna Emtair from the GNC delegation told AFP the agreement would set up a new representative body that would choose a committee to nominate a prime minister within 15 days, while another committee would conduct a review of Libya's constitution.
"It is a major breakthrough," Emtair said.
The latest announcement comes as experts and sources in Libya said that the Islamic State jihadist group has strengthened its grip in its Libyan stronghold Sirte. IS first appeared in Libya in 2014 when a group of Libyan IS fighters returned from Syria and reorganised in the port city of Derna, declaring eastern Libya to be a province of the caliphate.
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Political parties loyal to President Sisi dominated in the parliamentary elections where For Love of Egypt party won all the 120 seats allocated to the list system while the majority of the remaining 448 seats filled on individual basis was also held by pro-Sisi parties. The elected MPs would be joined by 28 other members nominated by the president.
The Free Egyptians’ Party of Naguib Sawiris, a business and media tycoon, won the parliament majority with 65 seats followed by the Nation’s Future with 50 seats according to the state-run al-Ahram newspaper. Both parties are strong supporters of the president.
The former Egyptian parliament has been dissolved in 2012 by a court ruling and the legislative powers are temporarily exercised by the president. The new parliament will vote on all the laws that were issued by interim president Adly Mansour, after Morsi’s ousting in a coup d’état in 2013 and by President Sisi afterwards. Most parties elected to the parliament are funded by regime-linked businessmen and many of the candidates had been vetted by the country’s feared security apparatus according to U.K based The Telegraph.
Critics say the build-up to the elections was marred by a heavy security crackdown on Islamists and other opposition parties. Al Nour party is the only Islamist party that participated in the elections winning 12 seats. It supported the ousting of President Morsi and backs Sisi.
The turnout in the two rounds of the elections was rather low, standing at below 30%.
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Somali security forces have launched a large-scale security operation in the Somali town of Bulo Burde, targeting suspected Al shabaab members hiding themselves in the city, reports said on Sunday.
Area Security officials said that nearly 100 people were rounded up in the sweep, and pending for investigations before trying them for indefinite accusations. The local officers foiled bomb attacks by Al shabaab as they removed three land-mines from the ground of the city’s main livestock market on Saturday.
The security agencies of Somali federal government are struggling deadly attacks by the Al-Qaeda linked Al shabaab for years, since the militants were driven out of the capital, Mogadishu in 2011.
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The other thing that amused me was the Chinese audience's reaction to the way China fit into the plot. [SPOILER ALERT!] Chinese audiences aren't dumb, and they know when they're being pandered to by Hollywood. In this case, the Chinese Space Agency's involvement in the rescue of Mark Watney was actually a part of the plot in the original book; it wasn't inserted by Hollywood in a bid to ensure box office success in China.
But the way the scene was done, cutting to China out of nowhere, just felt so similar to the infamous Iron Man 3 scene (with the Chinese doctor and the Fan Bingbing nurse cameo), that as soon as the audience realized that China was about to save the day, they all laughed. They laughed! They weren't proud or appreciative, it was just an, "oh puh-leeeze, here we go againâŚ" reaction. Thanks, Hollywood, you fuckface losers. Make the Chinese earn it, dammit.
I'm pretty sure that's not the Chinese reaction the producers were going for; hopefully Hollywood gets better at this!
[AlArabiya] Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on Saturday called the deployment of several hundred Turkish troops inside Iraq near the northern city of Mosul “a violation of international norms and law.”
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad on Saturday to protest at the deployment of Turkish forces near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and demand their immediate withdrawal.
The ministry said in a statement that the Turkish forces had entered Iraqi territory without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad, and that Iraq considered such presence “a hostile act.”
But Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the troop rotation was routine and the camp had originally been set up in coordination with Iraqi authorities.
A Turkish security source said on Friday the forces would provide training for Iraqi troops near Mosul, which is controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Iraq’s prime minister and foreign ministry have called for Turkey to withdraw its forces.
In an online statement, Massoum also called on Turkey to withdraw the troops and asked Iraq’s Foreign Ministry to take the necessary measures “to preserve the country's sovereignty and independence.”
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Fascinating bit from the second article -- after the obligatory real world cold shower -- given that Turkey keeps talking about its troops have been there for two years to train the Peshmerga:
In practical terms, Iraqâs options are primarily diplomatic, as its forces are tied down battling ISIS and Ankara has a far more powerful military.
Turkey has troops at a base in the Bashiqa area in Nineveh province to train Iraqi Sunni volunteers hoping to retake the nearby city of Mosul from ISIS, which seized it and swathes of other territory in June 2014.
The camp is used by a force called Hashid Watani (national mobilisation), which is made up of mainly Sunni Arab former Iraqi police and volunteers from Mosul.
It was formed by former Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, who had close relations with Turkey. There was already a small number of Turkish trainers there before this latest deployment.
So, genuine grievance about the arrival of Turkish tanks or Baghdad trying to take control over isolated governors acting independently, Shiites insisting that only the official army and Shiite auxiliaries may be seen to overthrow ISIS?
[Inquirer] A Maoist militant was killed and two others were injured in separate clashes between Philippine troops and insurgents in Southern Mindanao on Saturday.
The injured included a soldier wounded in a clash in Maragusan town, Compostela Valley, and a village chairman waylaid by militants in Toril, Davao City.
Captain Rhyan Batchar said troops from the 28th Infantry Battalion were on patrol when they chanced upon a band of New People's Army militants in New Cebu around noon, triggering a 20-minute gun battle that left a soldier slightly hurt. The militants, thought to be from the NPA Front 27, fled soon after.
In Davao City, a militant was killed by soldiers who responded to an ambush on two village officials in the early afternoon. Generoso Bacalso suffered a gunshot wound in the hand following the attack. Batchar said, "A group of soldiers from the 84th IB who were travelling on the same road engaged the suspected NPA attackers. No soldier was hurt in the incident."
Meanwhile, five NPA suspects have been detained for planting makeshift bombs along a road in Compostela Valley, on Friday afternoon. Glen Canete, Arnel Angeles, Eric Beloy and Jutam and Junel, all surnamed Calig-unan, were chanced upon by soldiers on patrol.
Suspected NPA killed, soldier and village chief hurt in Southern Mindanao clashes
[FREEBEACON] At least 72 employees at the Department of Homeland Security are listed on the U.S. terrorist watch list, according to a Democratic politician.
That's not good...
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D., Mass.) disclosed that a congressional investigation recently found that at least 72 people working at DHS also "were on the terrorist watch list."
"Back in August, we did an investigation--the inspector general did--of the Department of Homeland Security, and they had 72 individuals that were on the terrorist watch list that were actually working at the Department of Homeland Security," Lynch told Boston Public Radio.
One hopes they are now employed elsewhere.
Where, the IRS?
"The [former DHS] director had to resign because of that," he said.
DHS continues to fail inspections aimed at determining the efficiency of its internal safety mechanisms, as well as its efforts to protect the nation.
Lynch referred to a recent report that found the Transportation Security Administration, which is overseen by DHS, failed to stop 95 percent of those who attempted to bring restricted items past airport security.
"We had staffers go into eight different airports to test the department of homeland security screening process at major airports. They had a 95 percent failure rate," Lynch said. "We had folks--this was a testing exercise, so we had folks going in there with guns on their ankles, and other weapons on their persons, and there was a 95 percent failure rate."
Lynch said he has "very low confidence" in DHS based on its many failures over the years. For this reason, he voted in favor of recent legislation that will tighten the vetting process for any Syrian refugees applying for asylum in the United States.
"I have very low confidence based on empirical data that we've got on the Department of Homeland Security. I think we desperately need another set of eyeballs looking at the vetting process," he said. "That's vetting that's being done at major airports where we have a stationary person coming through a facility, and we're failing 95 percent of the time."
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Lynch said he has "very low confidence" in DHS
"Low confidence" levels are an offshoot of inefficiency and poor quality control, which are hallmarks of unionized, big government.
Efficient organizations on the other hand, maximize individual pride in workmanship and production. Efficient organizations reward accomplishment and excellence while weeding out unproductive elements and poor practices.
When was the last time you heard about big government weeding out unproductive employees? It simply does not happen. Big government budgets are based, not on production numbers, big government budgets are based upon numbers of employees, and more and bigger government.
Big government is about inclusion and control, not efficient, cost saving production.
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This is not news. See this PDF issued June 2015.
A quote from the PDF: "our testing showed that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes. According to TSA data, these individuals were employed by major airlines, airport vendors, and other employers. TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to received all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watchlisting policy. Excluded categories [REDACTED] TSA acknowledged that these individuals were cleared for access to secure airport areas despite representing a potential transportation security threat."
I have a vague recollection this OIG report has already been mentioned on the Burg back around June 2015. MSM and the usual pundits seem to have ignored the findings.
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I think we desperately need another set of eyeballs looking at the vetting process
That'd be another government agency, of course - The Department of Overseas Persons Selected for Entry (DOPSE) to the US. Pronounced just like dopes.
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So, is the problem that Homeland Security employs people whom it should not, who should be on the No Fly list? Or that the No Fly list includes people it should not? (Or both?)
The objection I have to Obama's call to prevent people on the No Fly list from obtaining guns is not with the guns part, but with the No Fly list part - there is no oversight on who gets put onto the list, and no appeal process if one is on it; in fact often one is not even permitted to find out one IS on the list - just that your NICS check fails.
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"Low confidence" levels are an offshoot of inefficiency and poor quality control, which are hallmarks of unionized, big government.
If one reads the original article on the WGBH site, the esteemed Member of Congress blames it all (besides on GWBush) on the TSA employees not being unionized.
[IsraelTimes] No immediate reports of damage or casualties after air strike against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, target in northern part of strip
An IDF aircraft attacked what the army called "a Hamas military post" in the northern Gazoo Strip early Monday.
There was no immediate report of casualties or damage.
The single strike followed two attacks on IDF vehicles on the border with southern Gazoo over the weekend, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said.
On Friday, an army jeep came under fire from the strip, leaving bullet holes in the windshield. The attack was repeated Sunday, with another jeep taking fire that left bullet holes in its windshield.
[AA.TR] Russia has activated its Cold War era propaganda system "Pravda news" against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as it did during the Ukrainian crisis in accordance with its political interests.
Moscow has been using "Pravda news" propaganda against Turkey since it shot down a Russian SU-24 bomber jet because of Turkish airspace violation despite repeated warnings on Nov. 24.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... several news items run by Russian outlets have been proven to be completely wrong. For example, the Russian Sputnik News Agency claimed recently that La Belle France's Permanent Representative to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , Jean-Baptiste Mattei, said that "Turkey axes operations against Daesh [Islamic State]"; however, Mattei himself clarified that this Sputnik story was a "lie".
Also, Russian media alleged that there was a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's son Bilal Erdogan with Daesh [Islamic State] members. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the picture which showed people with beards sitting alongside Bilal Erdogan were in fact the "Kamber brothers", who are only owners of a restaurant in Istanbul.
Moreover, many Russian commanders claimed that the terrorist organization Daesh [Islamic State] was selling oil via Turkey and also claimed to show routes taken for such oil shipments on maps; however, it was found that the claimed routes were in fact under the control of the Russian government-backed Bashir al-Assad regime and the PYD, the terrorist PKK organization's Syrian affiliate.
Also, former staff of Russian RIA Novosti agency and propagandist expert Vasily Gatov said: "Russian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
s are now applying the tricks for Syria as they do in Ukraine"
Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Andrew Wilson emphasized that "Pravda journalism" had only one message even though it changed at times.
"Pravda journalism's only message is to support Russia's attitude in Ukraine and Syria, and cause confusion abroad," Wilson says.
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Today there are two great evils in the World. Islam that is like flesh eating bacteria, and Transnational Progressivism that is like HIV for Western societies. I'm glad that Russia joined Israel on their extermination list.
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While there are many others (see photo at the right), may I add 'Eugenics' to your evils list? Government controlled reproduction must surely fit in there somewhere.
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If anything it's reverse-eugenics nowadays, Besoeker. From my personal observation, children of, midle-crust, artificial-insemination, single mothers are just as psychotic & anti-social as their Ghetto parallels. And any child that doesn't fit the (hog narrow) "norms" taught in teaching colleges and is not in a protected category is a candidate for lifelong doping.
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No worries g(r)om. The end of traditional family meals and the default to genetically altered 'fast foods' will continue to sustain childhood obesity, shorten lives and reduce long-term societal impacts. And yes, big pharma will obviously play a key role.
There are simply too many of these people. Government controlled diet [free food], medicine, and selective reproduction [Choice], should go a long way in assisting the much needed reductions.
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"Government controlled reproduction "
Managment Summary:
The effect of "welfare" states (child benefit and state schools) is fertility redistribution from the most productive to the least.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source within the police force said on Sunday, that six elements of the federal police had been injured in an explosion that took place in Abu Gharib District in western Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “This evening, an explosive device has went off targeting a patrol for the federal police while passing in the district of Abu Gharib in western Baghdad,” noting that, “The blast resulted in wounding six elements of the police.”
“The elements of the patrol transferred the injured to a near hospital,” the source added.
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pretty verbose but the author actually realizes the problem,
from his opinion piece,
"... a blanket term such as “Peaceful Salafism” hides the presence of extremists, radicals, terrorists and their supporters and perpetuates a false sense of comfort that non-violent Salafis should be uneasy about...."
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Since radical ISLAM claims they are true ISLAM the moderate Muslims need to come up with a term of their own, and perhaps some style way that the world can tell them apart (wear sombreros instead of turbans for example).
A top Afghan security official said Sunday that the terror groups waging war in Afghanistan are still having sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan.
The Minister of Interior Noor-ul-Haq Ulomi made the remarks during a ceremony for the introduction of 470 policewomen who recently completed during their trainings in Turkey.
He said the enemies of Afghanistan are looking to create differences among the Afghan people through ethnic divisions.
Ulomi further added that the enemies of Afghanistan will continue to support the terror groups under different brands, including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
According to Ulomi, the terror groups are still having sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan and are receiving financial support from the sources which were previously funding them.
This comes as National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar said last month that the Pakistan-based Haqqani Terrorist Network and Taliban’s Quetta Council (Shura) still operate against Afghanistan from their safe havens within the Pakistani soil.
Atmar shared the issue during a meeting with Ali Sait Akin, the Ambassador of Turkey to Afghanistan, slamming the Pakistani authorities for not taking important steps to prevent the activities of the two groups in their soil.
The Presidential Palace also slammed Pakistani officials for their remarks regarding the elimination of Haqqani Terrorist Network following military operations in tribal regions of Pakistan.
In a statement following Pakistani National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz’s remarks suggesting the elimination of the Haqqani network sanctuaries from Pakistan, the Palace said “The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan believes that one of the major differences between Afghanistan and Pakistan is regarding the presence of terrorist groups, specifically the Haqqani Network in Pakistani soil.”
“The recent remarks by Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, suggesting that the Haqqani Network has been decomposed following military operations, are repeated claims by Pakistani officials during the past one decade,” the statement added.
The statement further added that documents and evidences shows that the network’s leadership, commander and control, supportive infrastructure and sanctuaries are still operational in Pakistan.
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif taking notice of injuries to five people in an armed clash between activists of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Purani Chungi locality of Jhang on Sunday.
According to reports, five political workers were injured in exchange of fire between activists of PTI and PML-N after which protest was held by the supporters of the former party blocking Jhang-Faisalabad Road resulting in massive traffic jam on both sides of the road.
The road was later opened after interruption of police. CM Shahbaz Sharif taking the notice of the incident has directed the authorities to arrest the culprits besides presenting a report in this regard.
[LibyaHerald] A feud between families is believed to have been responsible for cutting power to parts of Tripoli when a fuel tank at Khoms power station was hit during exchanges of fire.
State electricity company GECOL was forced to shut down the 450 MW plant as black smoke billowed from the burning diesel tank. A company official told the Libya Herald that the local area and parts of the capital has lost power. Electricity to Air Zara had been cut for eight hours and to Hay Andalous for five hours today. Further, rolling cuts were likely, he said.
The fighting involves the Khoms military council and another local brigade calling itself “The Truth Martyrs”. It is understood to have been kindled by a family dispute.
GECOL has requested both sides to move away from the power station. It has also asked Libya Dawn to provide protection for firemen and engineers to reach the electricity plant and start to fix the damage.
Yemen’s national resistance fighters seized more rebel positions in Western Taiz on Sunday as they and the national army pushed ahead with a major offensive to expel the coup insurgents from the Southwestern governorate.
The defeats on some fronts prompted the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies to intensify shelling of residential areas in the besieged city, Yemen’s news network ‘Masdar Online’ said, quoting resistance sources.
“Although they are fighting with light weapons in Western Taiz, the resistance men continued to advance on rebel positions,” the report said.
It said seized areas include Zankal, Taiz University, Al Saqr Club and the old airport, adding that the rebels launched attacks to retake those positions but were repelled.
The report quoted the sources as saying heavy fighting was still raging late Sunday between the resistance and the rebels in an area close to the 35th army Brigade loyal to the insurgents.
It said the resistance fighters were advancing slowly in that area because of street battles and the absence of sufficient air support.
“The Western front is very important and is a strategic area because it will help the resistance break the siege on the city,” a military source said, adding that the insurgents are sending daily reinforcements to their forces near Taiz.
Just appeared at the France24 website but the events themselves are two weeks old.
French military aircraft have flown reconnaissance and intelligence missions over Libya, including areas controlled by Islamic State, and more are planned, a presidential document shows.
According to the press dossier provided on Friday ahead of President Francois Hollande’s visit to the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of Syria, two missions were flown on Nov. 20 and 21 around the towns of Sirte and Tobruk.
The French government had not previously acknowledged carrying out operations over IS zones in Libya. Sirte is controlled by the group.
That's the new bit of information.
“Other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights are also planned,” the document said.
Neither the defence ministry nor president’s office were immediately available for comment.
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[AlArabiya] Nine Egyptian policemen have been arrested in an investigation into the death of a man in police custody in Luxor, officials said Sunday, after authorities vowed a crackdown on police abuses.
It would be lovely if the culture could be changed.
The nine, including three lieutenants and a captain, were arrested on Friday and Saturday as part of a probe into the death of the 47-year-old man at a police station last month.
Their arrests came amid at least two investigations into deaths in police custody and after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last week warned that police officers found guilty of “committing mistakes” would be punished.
The official MENA news agency said the arrests were ordered after a forensic report revealed that the man had died after being beaten on his neck and back.
[REUTERS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said on Sunday it would halt further transfers of troops to an area near 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.... -controlled Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... after Baghdad threatened to appeal to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to force Turkey to withdraw its soldiers.
Turkey deployed hundreds of forces to a camp in the Bashiqa region of northern Iraq on Thursday, calling it a routine rotation to train Iraqis to retake Mosul from Islamic State, which captured Iraq's second-largest city in 2014.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said his country might turn to the U.N. security council if Turkish troops sent to northern Iraq were not withdrawn within 48 hours.
He said the deployment of hundreds of Turkish forces happened without the approval or knowledge of the Iraqi government and constituted a violation of national illusory sovereignty.
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Yemen’s national resistance fighters in the Southern Shabwa governorate seized six arms shipments destined for the Iranian-backed coup rebels.
The Saudi Arabic language daily ‘Al Watan’, quoting resistance sources, said the weapons were hidden in large trucks heading for rebel areas outside Shabwa.
It said resistance men asked the truck drivers to stop but they refused and drove off, prompting the fighters to open fire at them and force them to stop.
After checking their cargo, the fighters found large quantities of weapons, explosives and ammunition, the paper said, adding that the drivers confessed that they sere transporting the arms to the Houthi militias in Bihan town.
“They also confessed that they picked the shipments at a coastal area in Shabwa and that they were told to deliver them to the Houthis,” the report said.
It did not make clear where the weapons came from but said the resistance chased and stopped the trucks after receiving a tip-off.
[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 17 air strikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and 12 in Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
In Iraq, the air strikes focused on the myrmidon strongholds of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Ramadi, where four and six strikes respectively hit tactical units, weapons and buildings, the coalition said on Sunday. Other strikes hit near Albu Hayat, Sinjar, Sultan Abdalla and al Huwayjah.
In Syria, the strikes hit near Ayn Isa, Mar'a, RaqqaDayr Az Zawr, where five strikes destroyed five Islamic State oil wellheads, the statement said.
[Ynet] The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State with 12 strikes in Iraq and 11 in Syria on Friday, the U.S. military said.
Seven of the strikes in Iraq hit five Islamic State tactical units, 12 buildings, and a weapons cache near Ramadi, a statement issued on Saturday said.
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[LibyaHerald] The international community needs to use force to impose its will against the invading militias in Tripoli, HoR member Younis Fannush has said.
The Benghazi member was talking to the Libya 24 channel.
The HoR member was discussing the vexing problem of how a proposed Government of National Accord (GNA) proposed by the UN to unify the conflicting Libyan political and military factions could be secured in the capital Tripoli.
It will be recalled that the capital was forcefully occupied by a coalition of GNC-backed and Misrata-led militias calling themselves Libya Dawn in the summer of 2014. The occupation forced the Libyan government to flee for its life to the eastern city of Al-Beida.
There has been much debate and speculation about the security arrangements for any GNA with the possibility of some of the Libyan militias providing security. At one stage Misrata was favourite to act as security provider.
However, it is believed that the recent clashes between militias within the capital has been a counter reaction by Tripoli-based militias to the idea of Misratan militias being put in control of security in the capital.
The clear evidence that no one or one set of militias can impose security in the capital Tripoli is thought to have jettisoned the idea of Misratan militias being put in charge. It has probably also shot down the idea of putting any Libyan militia in charge of security.
This has then led to the serious consideration of using foreign troops with the idea of using African, Arab or Muslim troops being initially favourite. Then there was consideration of using UN blue helmets to provide a secure ”Green Zone”, as was the case in Baghdad.
It was thought that the GNA could be housed alongside the UNSMIL mission at their Palm City base in western Tripoli. However, the possibility of Italian troops has more recently been discussed.
Whatever decision is taken regarding which troops will provide security in Tripoli for a GNA, most experts agree that unless security is provided for a GNA in Tripoli, the GNA would be as unsuccessful as previous Libyan governments since 2011.
Equally, it is also agreed that unless the problem of the widespread distribution of arms and the autonomous from central government militias in Libya is resolves, it will be very difficult to put in place an effective and successful Libyan government of whatever makeup.
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Invading militias in Tripoli? When I read the headline I thought they were talking about the invading militias in Europe. But then we wouldn't expect NATO to do anything about that, would we?
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Al-Quida and ISIS provide targeting information to those sociopaths. Yes if they are destroyed another group (or a few) will pop up to replace them but the targeting info is what makes them dangerous.
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I find it interesting that one minute we were watching an Islamic civil war between Shia and Sunni and then Russia got involved on the Shia side and the next thing you know the West is attacking the Sunni.
[AlArabiya] Three members of the Turkish security forces were killed on Saturday in clashes with militants in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, security forces said.
Hundreds of people have died since the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) abandoned its two-and-a-half-year ceasefire in July and the Turkish air force began striking PKK targets in northern Iraq.
Two gendarmes were killed when militants opened fire on their vehicle in the town of Cizre, near the Syrian and Turkish borders, officials said. Two others were wounded in the attack. More at the link
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British air strikes on Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will fail to defeat the krazed killer group, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... 's strategy in the region.
British politicians approved the bombing of ISIS targets in Syria on Thursday. Hours after that approval, the Royal Air Force struck the oilfields that Cameron's government says are being used to fund attacks on the West.
Speaking in an interview conducted before the vote in parliament, the result of which had been widely anticipated, Assad said Cameron's strategy would make the situation worse, not better.
"They are going to fail again," he said. "You cannot cut out part of the cancer. You have to extract it. This kind of operation is like cutting out part of the cancer. That will make it spread in the body faster."
Police in London said they were treating a stabbing on Saturday as a terrorist incident after a man wielding a knife slashed another, screaming according to British media "this is for Syria."
Assad ridiculed Cameron's assertioe n that therare as many as 70,000 Western-backed opposition fighters in Syria who would open a political solution to the civil war and could retake territory from jihadists weakened by the air strikes.
"This is a new episode in a long series of David Cameron's classical farce ... where are they? Where are the 70,000 moderates he is talking about? There is no 70,000. There is no 7,000."
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He also said a bunch of things that were wrong, or embarrassing, or both. And he's pushing gun control for the people on the no-fly list, the listing of which isn't disclosed to the public and can't be debated. Discuss.
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Cautions Americans from confusing Islam with terrorism?
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Let's make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional.
Gee, Mr. President, would you mind telling us what you think make America exceptional? Besides the fact that it elected a mixed-race Marxist to the highest office in the land. Which made your wife proud of her country for the first time in her life.
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Did I miss the "Islamic" terrorist act declaration?
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer had a number of experts on to rspond to the president's little speech. Here is Michael Weiss from the Daily Caller in three devastating minutes: CNN: ISIS will laugh at Obama's oval office speech
You know who wasnât on the no-fly list? The San Bernardino shooters. Nor was the Fort Hood shooter. Nor the Boston bombers. Nor the Chattanooga shooter. In other words, no perpetrator of any major attack on American soil was on the no-fly list.
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"Plan mayhem and murder deceitful.
Then gleefully do what is needful.
Last part of our plan:
Wipe the Holy Koran
So these dumbasses still think we're peaceful."
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Finally, if Congress believes, as I do, that we are at war with ISIL, it should go ahead and vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists.
This one is a "gotcha" and something the Left has been pushing for a while. Basically it's to score political points by tying and eventually dumping the currently failed strategy onto Congress.
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"Let's make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional" Must of been a typo, it was supposed to read "Let's make sure we never forget what makes ME exceptional."
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O is a tired broken record, that even some of the dems are finding embaraskin'. And I think that ISIS will make a few more hits, which in a terrible way, will slowly destroy his remaining credibility among the brainless faithful.
Damn tides around here are really slow, if you get my drift.......
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Some will always worship him as the lightbringer. Him and his 'beautiful' wife and children. And also Hillary. And if you try to discuss it with them then you are a racist and H8ter and....
Totally divorced from reality.
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I think that ISIS will make a few more hits ISIS will make as many hits as it can until they are rendered no longer capable of such, or, if that doesn't happen, until the supply of victims is exhausted.
"He was great in the clutch, but he couldn't go the distance." After official review the original ruling stands: Mansoor is dead, dead, dead...
Shortly after the Taliban militants group released an audio recording purportedly from the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, some senior Taliban leaders have said the audio has been faked and that he is no more alive.
According to the Taliban leaders, the audio recording containing a voice similar to Mullah Mansoor, has been released in a bid to buy more time to elect a new leader for the group.
A senior Taliban source told AFP on Sunday “I think it’s a faked audio. I believe he’s dead.”
Insisting on the need to provide more proof, the source further added that the group is buying time to select a new leader and bring their organisation out of “this sudden shock”.
Another senior Taliban source said “I am not satisfied after hearing the clip that it belongs to Mansour,” while a third said Mansour succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. "You're not foolin' anyone, you know!"
The audio message by Mullah Mansoor was released late on Saturday night and five days after reports circulated regarding his death.
A man purporting to Mullah Mansoor dismissed the reports as propaganda and an attempt to further to spread the propaganda regarding growing difference among the Taliban ranks which led to infighting.
He said “I want to assure that there had been no incident of gunfight. The audio message is aimed at giving you assurance that I am safe.” "I'm feeling better."
Mullah Mansoor has been struggling with the Taliban leadership since assuming charge of the group following a controversial decision by the group’s council in July this year.
Despite his appointment was called an unanimous decision by the group’s Quetta Council, Mullah Omar’s brother, Mullah Manan along with various other Taliban leaders had opposed with his election as the replacement supreme leader of Taliban.
Mullah Manan wanted Maulavi Yaqoob to succeed his father as the supreme leader of Taliban insisting that Mullah Mansoor was not elected by majority of Taliban’s central Shura ‘council’.
[Tolo News] Speaking before members of the Afghan Senate on Sunday, Afghanistan's army chief of staff Gen. Qadam Shah Shahim once again blasted Pakistain over its counter-terrorism policy and called on Islamabad to be honest over its dealings in the war on terror.
Referring to Taliban's intention of launching major attacks on Afghanistan, Shahim said that Afghan troops have foiled large plots by various Taliban circles in Pakistain -- including the Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... , Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... Shura and 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. Shura - plans which he said would further escalate uncertainty in the country.
Irked by Pakistain's role in Afghanistan's insecurity, Afghan officials have always blamed Islamabad of harboring the Afghan Taliban in a bid to use them in their proxy war. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Pakistain has always insisted that it is working hard to combat the forces of Evil and forge closer ties with 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.... While threats against Afghan civilians and security personnel remain, the Afghan army commander says that the security forces have achieved major victories against the forces of Evil in the battlefield this year.
"Wazoo's operation was a symbolic one and you will witness such operations in future as well. Why did they not launch such operations in Peshawar, Quetta and other areas instead of Waziristan? We have our measures for Waziristan operation and you should not worry about any bad impact of the operations as it was witnessed in the past," Shahim said.
He said that the Afghan cops effectively thwarted ominous plans of Pakistain to destabilize Afghanistan through the bad boy groups.
"The enemies of the Afghan people, the spy agency in the region, had decided to capture major parts of Afghanistan's soil and create a parallel government, talk from a powerful stance and implement their nefarious ends on the Afghan nation, but they were unaware of the courage of the Afghan people, and they failed," he added.
"Figures show that more than 30,000 enemies [militants] have been killed, at least 2,030 of them maimed, 344 Taliban fighters and 547 suspects have been nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! [in operations carried out by Afghan cops]," said Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi Deputy Minister of Interior for Security Affairs.
As Taliban's so-called summer offensive reaches an end, Shahim said that winter was the best time to eliminate the Taliban and other bad boy groups associated with Daesh [Islamic State], whose recent emergence in Afghanistan has sparked concerns.
These comments come amid a deteriorating security situation in the country - following a range of major Taliban offensives against Afghan troops particularly in the southern and northern regions.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel urged Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday to stop supporting religious radicals, amid growing concern among some politicians in Berlin about the funding of Lion of Islam mosques by the world's biggest oil exporter.
The unusual criticism of the Gulf state follows a report by Germany's foreign intelligence agency which suggested that Saudi foreign policy was becoming more "impulsive".
The German government rebuked the BND agency for making such suggestions about Saudi Arabia, an important business partner that is involved in international talks to find a political solution to the Syria crisis..
"We need Saudi Arabia to solve the regional conflicts," Sigmar Gabriel, the head of the Social Democrats (SPD) who share power with conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , told the mass-circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
"But we must at the same time make clear that the time to look away is past. Wahhabi mosques are financed all over the world by Saudi Arabia. In Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities," he said.
Saudi Arabia follows the ultra-conservative Wahhabi form of Islam, and some outsiders see it as a cause of the international jihadist threat.
In a statement, the Saudi Arabia embassy in Berlin said the Kingdom was interested in countering the radicalization of young people and referred to a previous statement in which it denied wanting to build 200 mosques in Germany.
"Like Germany, we are part of the anti-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.... coalition and fighting side by side against terror," it said.
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The greatly reduced oil prices we are seeing, in part because KSA is trying to break the US frack production, is substantially reducing the money KSA has available to fund Islamic terrorism. They may be funding ISIS etc. in order to deflect the attention of their own internal enemies, both Shia and Sunni. I don't think this will end well for the royal family.
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Gabriel is singling out the totalitarian Muslim faction that is arguably, at present, the least evil among the main players (Sunni/Saudi, Sunni/Qatar/MB, Iran).
He's criticizing the Saudis in order to support the Russia/Iran/Hezbollah axis.
France’s far-right National Front (FN) party rode a wave of fear over immigration and terrorism to storm to a commanding position in the first round of voting in the country’s high-stakes regional elections on Sunday.
The anti-immigration party led by Marine Le Pen scored 30.6 percent of the vote nationally, an exit poll by Ifop-Fiducial showed, and now looks on course to take control of at least one French region for the first time in its history once the second round of voting takes place a week from now.
The party came ahead of both former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s Les Républicains (formerly the UMP), which earned 27 percent, and President François Hollande’s Socialists, with 22.7 percent, according to the exit poll. In the first national vote since Islamic State group terrorists killed 130 people in a wave of attacks across Paris on November 13, the FN looked set to come first in at least six out of 13 regions, according to exit polls.
However, it was in the regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, where Le Pen herself is running, and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, where her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen topped the polls, that the FN had its best night. Exit polls showed the FN gaining more than 40 percent in the two regions, in the north and south of the country respectively, well ahead of rival parties.
"This is a great result that we welcome with humility, seriousness and a deep sense of responsibility", said Marine Le Pen as she addressed supporters in the town of Hénin-Beaumont in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
“We are without question the first party of France," she added. "We have the vocation to achieve the national unity that the country requires.”
Le Pen called on all “patriots” to back her party in the second round and “turn their backs on this political class that deceives them”.
Though Le Pen has attempted to steer her party away from some of its more extreme rhetoric of the past, she has been typically uncompromising on the immigration issue.
"Feed them, warm them up, and send them back where they came from,” she told reporters earlier this year.
Le Pen was quick to associate the attacks with immigration and with refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe.
“The Islamic State group keep their promises," Le Pen said in a speech last month. "They vowed to attack, and there were attacks in France. They said there'd be killers among migrants and indeed there were. Politicians here need to open their eyes. There is a link between massive immigration, failure to integrate, and radical Islamism.”
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58% from just the two largest right-of-center parties - sounds like a rather firm rejection of the Socialists policies.
Butchered bodies by the dozen by a threat clear as day to anyone with common sense isn't a 'wave of fear', it's recognition that the state has failed to provide the fundamental of its justification to exits - ie Security in one's person, one's family, one's property.
QUETTA: Levies force on Sunday recovered an abducted man after three months from Killi Habib Baziabzai near Gulistan area of Killa Abdullah district.
Levies sources said that acting on tip off, a levies team led by Killa Abdullah Assistant Commissioner Ijaz Ahmad raided a place and recovered an person namely Syed Muhammad Arif.
The levies sources said that Syed Muhammad Arif was kidnapped three months ago. Levies force cordoned off the entire area and started effort to arrest kidnappers.
[AlAhram] Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing, which connects it to the Gazoo Strip on Saturday after two days of opening the crossing in both directions.
Countdown to the next massive Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/IS in the Sinai attack begins. Though perhaps flooding the tunnels prevented passage of men and materials.
Gazoo's Interior Ministry Spokesman Iyad Al-Bozom said in a short statement on Facebook that 1,526 people were able to leave Gazoo in an exceptional opening of the border crossing.
"There remain more than 23,000 humanitarian cases that urgently need to travel," he said.
The border crossing was scheduled to be opened on Thursday and Friday, according to an Egyptian announcement last week. Bozom said "we appreciate" the Egyptian role's continued opening of the crossing until this morning but called on Egyptian authorities to extend the opening, citing the "magnitude of suffering" in Gazoo.
According to Gazoo's interior ministry 1,148 people were able to leave Gazoo for Egypt, and 561 people who were stuck on the Egyptian side crossed over to the Strip on Friday alone.
Egyptian authorities turned away 87 travelers without providing a reason, the Gazoo interior ministry said, citing the Paleostinian authority for crossings.
Figures for Thursday were provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, which said that on that day 647 people crossed in and out of the besieged Gazoo Strip, whose main entry and exit point is the Rafah border crossing.
Eighteen truckloads of aid including school supplies, food supplies and blankets were delivered to Gazoo over the past two days, Gazoo's interior ministry said.
The Rafah border crossing, which is the main entry and exit point to Gazoo, has been mostly closed since October 2014 when a krazed killer attack in North Sinai left over 30 Egyptian security personnel dead. According to a report issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, before last week's two-day exceptional opening, the crossing was only opened partially for 37 days, and that its closure also shut out "humanitarian assistance".
Gazoo measures around 360 square kilometres and is home to 1.8 million people, making the enclave among the world's most densely populated areas.
Having been under seige for the past eight years, economic and living conditions inside the Strip are dire. In May 2015, the World Bank said, "blockades, war and poor governance have strangled Gazoo's economy and the unemployment rate is now the highest in the world," adding that the enclave's economy is on the "verge of collapse".
The difficult living conditions in the enclave were worsened after destruction caused by 50 days of Israeli military operations in the summer of 2014.
Consequences are so often no fun at all.
Last year, Egypt and Norway co-hosted a donors conference on the reconstruction of Gazoo, raising over $5 billion. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the international efforts to raise money for reconstruction have had little effect on the ground. According to the World Bank, which is monitoring the delivery and disbursement of pledges, by August 2015, only 35 percent of pledges had been disbursed.
In September 2015, the Egyptian army began flooding the underground smuggling tunnels that supplied essential goods to the besieged territory. Egypt has been fighting a growing militancy in the North Sinai region. Destroying the underground tunnels leading in and out of Gazoo was one of several counter-terrorism measures the Egyptian state has adopted. Egypt sees the tunnels as a pathway of arms and krazed killers, forming a direct threat to the country's security.
On the other hand, goods imported to Gazoo "through tunnels, especially foodstuffs, medicines, fuel, construction materials and cars, have spared the Gazoo Strip the breakdown of all vital sectors," the Paleostinian Centre for Human Rights said in 2013.
QUETTA: Three terrorists of a banned outfit were killed and two others arrested in exchange of fire with security forces.
Frontier Corps (FC) spokesman said that the paramilitary troops and law enforcement agencies (LEAs) on an intelligence report raided a house at Badeni Link Road in Saryab area of district during which exchange of fire took place between law enforcement agencies personnel and militants taking shelter in the house.
In cross firing three terrorists of a defunct organisation were killed and two others were injured who were arrested.
Arms and explosives were recovered from the house. Sources said that terrorists killed in fire exchange were planning terror attack but timely action foiled the bid. The nabbed terrorists were shifted to an undisclosed location for further interrogation.
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Which banned, defunct outfit was it? The article doesn't seem to say. Nor can it have been all that defunct if it had members, weapons, and a safe house.
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.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Doctors in United States are expecting to perform a rare penis transplant surgery on a young soldier who sustained horrific genital injury in Afghanistan in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) kaboom, it has been reported.
The surgery which is considered as unprecedented in United States is expected to be performed in the next couple of months by surgeons in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, according to a report published in New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... With only two transplants reported globally so far, including a successful and failed surgery, the doctors are expecting to develop urinary function, sensation and, eventually, the ability to have sex by attaching the organ which will come from a deceased donor.
The decision to perform the surgery comes as nearly 1,367 US military service members have sustained genital wounds while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001 to 2013.
According to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry, the wounds include partial and total dismemberment of the penises or testicles and the victims were all reported to be under 35 years old who sustained injuries mainly by homemade bombs, commonly called improvised bombs, or IEDs.
At least 60 transplants are expected to be performed after doctors were given permission by Johns Hopkins with the results to be monitored by the university as the surgery is considered as experimental and the decision to make the surgery standard will be taken afterwards.
Bleeding, infection and the possibility that the medicine needed to prevent transplant rejection will increase the odds of cancer are said to be among the risks of the surgery.
According to the doctors, only the penis will be transplanted, not the testes, where sperm are produced, which mean that the recipient will have his own genetic child and not the offspring of the donor if he becomes a father.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the case will be vice versa with the recipients who will receive both the penis and testicle.
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According to the doctors, only the penis will be transplanted, not the testes, where sperm are produced, which mean that the recipient will have his own genetic child and not the offspring of the donor if he becomes a father.
I read this five times and still cannot understand it. What am I missing ?
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It may be easy to be generous with someone else's money, but it's likely to be difficult to father your own child using someone else's testicles, unless they're from a homozygotic brother.
If his fry all inherit his barbels,
A catfish has kept his own yarbles,
But fry that look Greek
Like some guy up the creek
Have been drawn from another cat's marbles.
[NYTIMES] Counter-terrorism police in Britannia on Sunday investigated a stabbing at a London Underground station in which a man brandishing a knife injured two people and reportedly said "This is for Syria."
Police jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a 29-year-old man late Saturday and said they are treating the "violent unprovoked knife attack" at east London's Leytonstone subway station as a "terrorist incident."
Richard Walton, chief of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, said the decision was made because of information received from witnesses and subsequent police investigations. The force said it was searching a residential address in east London, but declined to say whether they were looking for other suspects.
British media widely reported that the suspect linked his actions to Syria after the attack. The claim could not be independently verified, but the incident comes just days after Parliament approved British Arclight airstrikes on 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 targets in Syria.
Detectives from Britannia's Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) searched a home in east London in connection with Saturday's attack at Leytonstone station, which left a 56-year-old man with serious knife injuries.
Police said the stabbing victim was in a stable condition in an east London hospital and his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
The attacker may have arrived at the station by train, said a passenger who arrived at Leytonstone shortly before the attack and had seen a man fitting the suspect's description.
"I don't know if it was the same gentleman that they caught, but he was very aggressive, he was a bit angry, shouting, abusing... he was on the train," a woman who gave her name only as Christina told AFP.
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Unbalanced nutter tipped over by the internet into running amok, or radical Muslim tipped over by the internet into Sudden Jihad Sydrome?
[Bangkok Post] A group of militants clashed with a team of rangers in Yala province on Sunday morning and at least two militants were believed injured.
The clash occurred as the rangers were laying siege to a village on a tip that at least ten separatist militants would meet at a house to plan attacks on targets in Bannang Sata, Krong Pinang and Yaha districts during the New Year. As the rangers approached the house, some of the insurgents opened fire at them. The clash lasted for about 20 minutes, after which the militants fled. The rangers found trails of blood at the scene.
Two suspects were later arrested nearby. One of them was identified as Ahamad Luebasa, who was wanted under an arrest warrant dated Sept 11, 2009 for an insurgent attack.
[IsraelTimes] Associated with Salafist branch of Islam, prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne is third in country to be shut down since Gay Paree terror attacks
Kalashnikov ammunition and 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.... propaganda videos were seized in raids following the closure of a mosque in the Gay Paree suburbs, French authorities said Sunday.
The prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of the capital, was shut down last Wednesday following a large-scale police operation.
Associated with the traditionalist Salafist branch of Islam, it is the third mosque in La Belle France to be closed after the coordinated jihadist attacks on Gay Paree on November 13.
The prefect -- the highest representative of the state -- in the Seine-and-Marne department said Sunday "7.62mm ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle and propaganda videos" for the Islamic State group had been found in raids linked to the closure of the prayer hall.
The locations of the raids were not given.
A revolver and jihadist documents were also found during searches at the homes of the mosque leaders, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said previously.
A total of 22 travel bans and nine house arrests for "radicalized individuals" have been issued as a result of the operation.
Police also found recordings of religious chants "glorifying the deaders of jihad linked to the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ", the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the prefecture added.
The recordings were found among a wealth of teaching material for youngsters in an undeclared madrassa, or religious school.
"No request was made to open a private school," the prefecture said in its statement.
Mohammed Ramdane, president of the local Muslim association in Lagny, had criticized the closure of the prayer hall on Wednesday, saying: "Nothing has been found. Nothing is hidden, we don't hide anything."
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The prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of the capital, was shut down last Wednesday following a large-scale police operation.
Two people were reported to have been killed and three others were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion went off in Somalia capital, Mogadishu, witnesses said.
The explosion detonated near police checkpoint around Mogadishu’s industrial road, where police soldiers were taking levies from public transportation, a witness told Shabelle Media. Soldiers were among the dead, sources said.
Hundreds of government troops sealed off the blasted scene. No word was released by local authority over the attack.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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