Hillary Clinton has no record to run on. Family income is lower and the world is more dangerous. Donald Trump nailed it when he told Chris Wallace, "Hillary calls me 'dangerous'? She's killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity." Trump was referring to the Obama administration's campaign to overthrow Arab dictators like Libya's Qaddafi and Egypt's Mubarak, which contributed to the chaos in the Middle East after the so-called "Arab Spring." Marco Rubio can't attack Hillary's disastrous foreign policy record because--as Ted Cruz observes--Rubio supported all the same stupid policies. Picture a Cruz-Clinton presidential debate: Cruz denounces Hillary's incompetence in promoting chaos in the Middle East. Hillary remonstrates, "But most Republicans supported me!" Cruz counters: "That's right--I'm running against you and against the Establishment in my own party." Game, set, match.
Here's a word of consolation for my neocon friends: It's not personal, just business. I'm a neocon too, an ex-lefty who went rightward with Reagan and carried my spear in the final phase of the Cold War. I was chief economist at Jude Wanniski's supply-side consulting firm Polyconomics, which is as neocon as you can get, and I give the neocons all the credit for Reaganomics. I've published in Commentary Magazine and Irving Kristol's Public Interest. I traveled the world promoting the Reagan model between 1988 and 1993--Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, and most of all Russia--and learned first hand how Quixotic was the conceit that our model could be exported.
Every ideology has a use-by date and you're long past yours. Henry Kissinger did great service to this country by opening relations to China, a necessary if not sufficient condition for winning the Cold War. But Kissinger couldn't see past the dull calculus of detente, while Reagan foresaw unconditional American victory over Communism--and without you neocons, he never could have done it. You made a Gargantuan error, though, when you assumed that the Reagan Revolution could be exported to the Middle East, Russia and China, and you misplayed the strongest hand that any world power ever held. America went from only-hyperpower status when George W. Bush took office to a playing second fiddle to Vladimir Putin today. No-one wants to hear your claim that we really won in Iraq in 2008 and lost it all because Obama wouldn't leave a few divisions there. And when the "Arab Spring" came along, you mistook the oncoming express for the light at the end of the tunnel. You and the Obama crowd played "Dumb and Dumber." You both bought into the idea that Muslim democracy would arise from Islamist opposition to the old dictatorships.
So Ted Cruz has thrown you under the bus, just as you threw Henry Kissinger under the bus when Reagan came to office in 1981.
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Spengler is right that the neocon brand is dead, but I think he's off the mark blaming neocons for the Arab Spring. The neocons bet on democracy in Iraq. I'm not sure what to call the folks that bet on democracy in Libya and Syria before the Iraq test was complete. Fools is a term that comes to mind.
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They didn't bet on Democracy, they bet on a couple of putsches by the Moslem Brotherhood, and they did it without any help from Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld.
Gunmen have kidnapped at least 27 Qatari hunters - including members of the ruling family - in a desert area of Iraq near the Saudi border, say police and the local governor.
The attackers were driving dozens of four-wheel drive vehicles when they swept into the hunters' camp at dawn on Wednesday, officials said. They struck near Layyah, 190km (118 miles) from regional capital, Samawa.
A wide-scale search has been launched for the attackers, police say.
The Qatari foreign ministry released a statement saying it was working with the Iraqi government "at the highest security and political levels... to find out the details of the Qatari citizens' abduction and work on their release as soon as possible".
It said they had been hunting with official Iraqi permission.
The remote area where the incident took place is highly tribal in nature and a Shia region, reports the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
The Shia political parties which dominate the Iraqi government are highly critical of Qatar's role in supporting Sunni rebels in Syria - so this is bound to be a serious diplomatic incident, he says.
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A preliminary report. No doubt the miscreants will be subsequently revealed, possibly with abject apologies for having disturbed the pleasure of their funders, possibly speaking vaguely Farsi-accented Arabic.
The Swedish government's foreign policy made headlines again on Monday, after Foreign Minister Margot WallstrĂśm took a stance against an EU court's annulment of a trade agreement with Morocco, over the latter's occupation and annexation of mineral-rich Western Sahara.
It appears that within the EU, Sweden stands alone against the annulment, which would seek to prevent exports from the territory being sold in the EU, as has been occurring under the agreement since it was signed in 2012.
Swedish domestic opposition parties have heavily criticized the government for its stance, reminiscent to the growing unease inside the country at the government's strong support for the labeling of Israeli settlement products, which has been likened to tacit encouragement of a boycott.
The government's position on the Morocco trade agreement appears to radically depart from its line on West Bank labeling. In the case of Israel, WallstrĂśm has regularly been seen as a major driving force inside the EU for harsher measures against the Jewish state.
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Standard Daily Mail agitation piece with scintillating, brutal truisms. '‘Rape is such a pathetic act. Every rapist’s balls should be cut off and then they should be hanged.’
‘I’m dreaming of a strong, brave nation that will defeat this nightmare called multiculturalism.'
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OTOH see CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SEEMS ANGLOSTAN [UK = Britain] JIHAD IS NEXT: ANGLO-COPS SIDE WID TRUMP | [Express.UK] "TRUMP IS RIGHT"! POLICE SAYS PARTS OF BRITAIN A-R-E "NO-GO" AREAS DUE TO ISIS RADICALIZATION | [Daily Mail.UK] MURDERS AND RAPES GOING UNREPORTED IN "NO-GO ZONES" FOR POLICE AS MINORITY COMMUNITIES [read, Muslim] LAUNCH OWN JUSTICE SYSTEMS.
Iff the future Year 2025 Islamist Republic of France had any hopes that Britain + Royal Navy, UK MoD could save their six, it may not be enuff as Islamists are already in France's rear across the Channel + have begun their destabilization of Britain proper.
One day may lead to "Decapitation Strikes" or TerrStrikes agz the UK Royal family such that to save the Monarchy + ultimately their Country, Britain may have have to allow Royal marriage to Amerikans + allow same to assume the throne???
The greatly hyped new Saudi-led Islamic coalition against terrorism is meant more for Western ears rather than actual action on the ground against Sunni jihadist groups Islamic State and al-Qaida. Fortunately, for Saudis, "Western ears" are connected to brains suffering from major reality dysfunction.
The expectation that Sunni Saudi Arabia is going to lead a 34-state coalition against fellow radical Sunni groups when it sees them as a bulwark against advancing Iranian and Shi'ite allies across the region, should not be great. Unless your name is Barack-Angela-Francois
Follow the money, some how it always leads back to one of the princes in KSA.
The Saudis could save a lot of money just looking in the mirror for 10 minutes instead of convening a conference on something they started and they fund.
[IsraelTimes] With 1,300-1,500 dead, Iran-backed Lebanese militia, campaigning to defend embattled Assad regime, is no longer hiding its losses
The Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah has seen between 1,300 and 1,500 of its fighters killed in battles in the Syrian civil war, which means that together with the maimed it has lost as much as a third of its fighting force, according to Israeli estimates.
Some 5,000 of the organization's members have been injured in fighting alongside regime troops against rebel groups, including 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.... Last weekend, Arab media published reports that Hezbollah had lost 14 fighters in battles with IS in the area of Baalbek near the border with Syria, and pictures of the fighters were published in Lebanese media. According to those reports, IS also took sustained casualties, with dozens of its members killed and many more injured.
Recently, Hezbollah has been publishing details of its members killed in Syria and is not trying to hide its losses, in contrast to its policy during the early years of the Syrian civil war, which broke out in 2011.
Fighters are now given official funerals and their coffins are covered with Hezbollah flags.
Along with its operations in the vicinity of the border between Syria and Leb, the Hezbollah campaign is also being carried out in other regions, such as the area known as Alawistan near Latika in northwestern Syria, the stronghold of embattled Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... Over the last three months Hezbollah has also battled Syrian opposition groups in the Idlib area alongside members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and regular Syrian army forces, while enjoying massive Russian air cover as part of Moscow's efforts to prop up its ally Assad.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have also taken heavy loses: According to Iranian media reports 80 soldiers have killed and some were taken captive by various Syrian militia groups.
In July, Israel Radio reported that Hezbollah had jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 175 of its own fighters after they refused to take part in battles in the Syrian city of Zabadani, close to the border with Leb.
The report also quoted the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat as saying that Hezbollah fighters dispatched to Syria to shore up the regime there had begun to show reluctance to confront the rebel groups seeking to overthrow Assad. According to the report, the hesitation began after 120 Hezbollah fighters were killed in confrontations with opposition groups and another 200 were maimed.
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Syrias civil war keeps getting better an better to me.
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Hezbollah also has to keep in mind that they need fighters to counter a presence of ISIS in Lebanon. So far ISIS has been able to do some damage in Lebanon (e.g., a big suicide bomb attack that killed 40+ on Nov 13 this year) but not to take actual territory.
Russia may be Hezbollah's partner in Syria but won't be so in Lebanon.
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Yet Nasrallah cowers fights bravely from under his daughter's bed in a secure bunker
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A senior official of the jihadist Islamic State group was killed Tuesday in a Hizbullah operation on the Lebanese-Syrian border, the party's TV channel reported.
âIS religious judge in Qalamoun, Abu Abdullah Amer, has been killed in a special operation by the mujahideen of the resistance in Ras Baalbek's outskirts,â al-Manar television said.
Al-Manar said a roadside bomb was detonated as Amer's convoy was passing in Ras Baalbek's outskirts to inspect some IS military posts.
Hizbullah fighters then blew up a second bomb in another location against IS militants who moved to recover Amer's body. A top official was critically wounded as several militants were injured, al-Manar said.
On Thursday, several IS militants were killed as Hizbullah shelled their movements as they tried to infiltrate the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of al-Qaa.
A day earlier, Hizbullah killed a senior commander of the Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front and eight of his men in an attack on their convoy in the outskirts of the Lebanese border town fo Arsal.
Militants from the IS and al-Nusra are entrenched in mountainous regions along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border.
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This exactal what Hez fear, they are bogged down. Jumping thru rings of fire and parading thru the streets proudly, doesn't work except in peace. I suspect Hezbollah are pretty darn good light infantry, but they didn't sign on for a war of years. Not at understanding of how they are supplied (ISIS gets all the wymens). Bottom, line attrition is setting in with combat fatigue leading to lack of aggressive movement.
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"A third of Hezbollah’s fighters said killed or injured in Syria"
It's a start . . . .
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ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif said on Tuesday the army will consolidate operation Zarb-e-Azb gains.
He said that those killed and injured in the Army Public School (APS) attack have rendered great sacrifices for the country, which will be remembered forever. Speaking at the Corps Commanders Conference at the General Head Quarters (GHQ), the army chief said security forces will continue to consolidate their gains to make them sustainable, which he said will be a befitting tribute to all those killed and wounded in the APS attack. The participants of the meeting comprehensively reviewed the internal and external security situation of the country along with discussing matters pertaining to professional interest. The review also focused on the most effective manner of implementing the National Action Plan (NAP) – which was drafted in the wake of the Peshawar school attack to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism – in order to eliminate terrorism, extremism and sectarianism without any discrimination. The military elite expressed satisfaction over the progress achieved in the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb operation in North Waziristan and said the operation would continue till the complete elimination of terrorism from the country. The forum was given comprehensive briefings on internal and external security situation of the country. Participants also took holistic view of the emerging geostrategic environment and its relevance to security of Pakistan. While recounting successes of operation Zarb-e-Azb, the participants of the conference also expressed their solidarity with the bereaved families and paid tributes to the sacrifices of APS Peshawar martyrs who laid down their lives in a terrorist attack on 16 December, 2014. Remembering all the martyrs and those wounded in terrorism for their great sacrifices for the motherland, COAS said, “We will continue to pursue efforts to consolidate our gains to make them sustainable.”
The meeting was held at army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi and attended by all Corps Commanders and principal staff officers. It was held on the eve of the first anniversary of the Peshawar school attack. Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday signed the death warrants of four “hardcore terrorists” nearly one week after four men were hanged through a military court order for involvement in the Peshawar Army Public School attack. General Raheel Sharif had last week signed the death warrants of four “hardcore terrorists” nearly one week after four men were hanged through a military court order for involvement in the Peshawar Army Public School attack.
A Maltese doctor working at Tripoli’s St James Hospital was seized last night and taken away by unknown gunmen.
Details of the abduction of Pierre Baldacchino, a pathologist who has been working at the Maltese-run hospital for three and a half years, are unclear.
There is however widespread shock among Libyan colleagues and members of the expatriate community. While it is feared that the 36 year-old Baldacchino may be yet another victim of kidnappers who will hold him for ransom, there was hopeful speculation today that he had been seized so that he could treat wounded gunmen.
Married with two young girls, Baldacchino is the second Maltese citizen to be kidnapped this year. In October the manager of a Malta-owned car park company Noel Sciberras was released after being held for six weeks. The Rada Deterrence Force said that they had freed him from his Tajoura kidnappers, but Maltese sources said that kidnappers have released him themselves. There were reports that a $5 million ransom had been demanded. It was unclear if any cash had been handed over.
The Joint Military Operations of the Libyan National Army (LNA) in Ajdabiya has said that it is going to launch fresh military operations in the town’s suburbs against the so-called Islamic State (IS) and other jihadist groups. However, the town’s mayor, Salem Jadhran, has sent a message to the LNA opposing the move, saying that local army forces to were able to deal with the matter.
In leaflets distributed in the town yesterday, the LNA called on locals to secure the town centre but also warned that any buildings thought to be used by militants as weapons stores or for any other purpose would be targeted in air strikes. In the leaflets, the LNA stressed it did not see Ajdabiya itself as an enemy nor was it intent on targeting any family or tribe. The raids, it stated, would be focused purely against those terrorists who had murdered army officers and soldiers as well as other individuals recently and who wanted Ajdabiya to follow Sirte and fall under the control of IS.
The LNA added it would not carry out revenge attacks against the families of suspected militants such as setting their homes on fire or forcing them to flee the town.
However, there was a warning to fighters with the Libya Shield forces in Ajdabiya, which are linked to the pro-Islamist Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shoura Council: they could support the LNA in the war against terrorism and be accepted as heroes or they could stand with the militants and be destroyed.
Responding to the threat, Mayor Jadhran said while terrorism and IS posed a threat to the town, the army had to keep out of the fight. Any attempt to turn Ajdabiya into a battlefield would be a violation of international law, he suggested. “We are able to eradicate terrorism and bring the perpetrators to justice,” he claimed. He suggested that the local units of the border control forces would do the job.
There was no mention of the Petroleum Facilities Guard, led by his brother Ibrahim Jadhran who has a bitter relationship with the LNA and its leader General Khalifa Hafter.
The town has seen a growing wave of killings in the town over the past year which no force has managed to prevent or bring the perpetrators to justice. In response to them, the LNA had already launched air strikes in November and earlier this month – similarly to little effect.
[ABCNEWS.GO] The State Department today said that "obviously things went wrong" in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters -- comments that came in the wake of an ABC News report that said officials by policy generally do not check social media postings of applicants due to civil liberties concerns and therefore would not have seen purported evidence of Tashfeen Malik's radicalization online.
"It's difficult to say exactly what [went wrong] and how, but for an individual to be able to come into this country -- one who the FBI has maintained had terrorist tendencies or affiliations or sympathies at least for a couple years, and then to propagate an attack like that on our own soil, obviously, I think it's safe to say there's going to be lessons learned here," State Department spokesperson John Kirby told news hounds.
Fearing a civil liberties backlash and "bad public relations" for the B.O. regime, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.
"During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process," John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.
One current and one former senior counter-terrorism official confirmed Cohen's account about the refusal of DHS to change its policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.
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Sometimes the things this administration does makes blood run out of my ears...
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How long before wrongful death lawsuit against Jeh? Seriously, impeach this fool for the stupidity that contributed to the deaths in San Bernardino. fourteen people are dead because this a$$hole worried about "optics"?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] In a secret project tied to the overall U.S. campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , intelligence officials have spent months mapping out known physical locations of media safe houses where the turban group's operatives are compiling, editing and curating raw video and print materials into finished digital propaganda products for dissemination across the Internet.
Most of the locations are embedded in heavily residential areas in Syria, Iraq and Libya and are not being targeted by U.S. Arclight airstrikes because of B.O. regime concerns about civilian casualties, according to sources who spoke to The Washington Times only on the condition of anonymity.
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Civilian deaths in San Bernardino, Paris, etc. need not apply.
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Easy enough.
Surround the place, announce its destruction, catch the rats scurrying out then bring the bulldozers. IDF has it pretty well worked out.
The problem is, hate mongering with offensive digital propaganda products really doesn't meet the guidelines of capital punishment.
[RFE/RL] A Swedish court sentenced an Uzbek citizen to 18 years in prison for an assassination attempt on an imam. The court in Ostersund found Yury Zhukovsky guilty of carrying out an attack on prominent Uzbek imam Obidkhon Qori Nazarov in 2012.
Nazarov, a vocal critic of the government of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, was in a coma after being shot at least three times in the northern Swedish town of Stromsund. His relatives say Nazarov suffers from brain damage.
The court did not say who ordered Nazarov's shooting but said "technical evidence" showed Zhukovsky had "acted on behalf of someone in Russia." It sought a life sentence for Zhukovsky.
Zhukovsky was extradited to Sweden from Russia in August to stand trial in the case.
Nazarov was one of the most popular imams in Central Asia in the early 1990s. He was granted asylum in Sweden in 2006, after fleeing Uzbekistan in 1998.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] Hackers have claimed that a number of 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.... supporters' social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the Department of Work and Pensions.
A group of four young computer experts who call themselves VandaSec have unearthed evidence indicating that at least three ISIS-supporting accounts can be traced back to the DWP's London offices.
Every computer and mobile phone logs onto the internet using an IP address, which is a type of identification number.
Update: British government admits it can't stop ISIS murderous Moslems using internet addresses
The hacking collective showed Mirror Online details of the IP addresses used by a trio of separate digital jihadis to access Twitter accounts, which were then used to carry out online recruitment and propaganda campaigns.
At first glance, the IP addresses seem to be based in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , but upon further inspection using specialist tools they appeared to link back to the DWP.
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[REUTERS] Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for more sanctions on Tehran.
The White House warned that it would not rule out additional steps against Iran over the test of the medium-range Emad rocket.
The Security Council's Panel of Experts on Iran said in a confidential new report, first reported by Rooters, that the launch showed the rocket met its requirements for considering that a missile could deliver a nuclear weapon.
"On the basis of its analysis and findings the Panel concludes that Emad launch is a violation by Iran of paragraph 9 of Security Council resolution 1929," the panel said.
Diplomats say the rocket test on Oct. 10 was not technically a violation of the July nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers but the U.N. report could put President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... 's administration in an awkward position.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: At least 13 suspected snuffies were killed in a clash with security forces in Awaran area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Monday.
According to official sources, security forces launched a search operation in Barnoot area following an attack on Sunday night on a patrol party.
Militants opened fire on the security personnel when they reached near their camp. Soldiers fired back and 13 snuffies were killed in the ensuing encounter. The security personnel took hold of the corpses.
Several snuffies were maimed but they were taken away by their fleeing accomplices.
Sources claimed that security forces did not suffer any casualty in the day-long gunbattle.
A large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized from the turbans' camp which was destroyed.
Militants had attacked a contingent of security forces in Tankour area of Awaran district on Sunday night. Three attackers were killed when soldiers fired back.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Saraya sl-Jihad announced on Tuesday, that a Chechen sniper as well as four ISIS members had been killed in an operation north of the city of Fallujah.
Saraya al-Jihad said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com: “Its troops, based on intelligence information, were able to kill a Chechen sniper called “Maria” after shelling her shelter in al-Sajer area north of Fallujah.”
“The troops also foiled the infiltration of some ISIS members and killed four terrorists north of Fallujah” the statement added.
Noteworthy the security forces backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia are blockading the city of Fallujah since more than three months.
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♫ How do you solve a problem like Maria? ♫
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[IsraelTimes] After report finds Tehran stopped most work by 2003,
... except for spinning uranium into ever higher concentrations in ever more and ever more efficient centrifuges in the years since and, of course, that missile test in October...
IAEA paves way for implementation of nuclear deal in early 2016; Jerusalem accuses body of acting out of political motivations
Maybe Netanyahu's reaction to this is what that insulting Kerry interview was anticipating.
[ARA News] KOBANE – Clashes renewed on Tuesday between Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s northeastern provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa, military sources said.
Subsequent to launching two car bomb attacks on Kurdish headquarters near Mount Abdulaziz in Hasakah province, clashes broke out between ISIS militants and Kurdish YPG forces in the area.
At least four ISIS fighters were killed and several others wounded during the clashes. While the YPG lost two of its fighters.
“The clashes broke out after an attempt by Daesh terrorists to hit our (YPG) headquarters in the vicinity of Mount Abdulaziz,” the YPG leadership said in a statement, using another acronym for ISIS.
“Our units foiled the attack and killed four Daesh terrorists and injured several others.”
Also on Tuesday, ISIS militant fighters launched a mortar attack on the YPG-held town of Suluk in the northern countryside of Raqqa, where a number of Kurdish civilians were reportedly wounded.
“Our forces responded by targeting the fighting positions of Daesh terrorists with heavy machine guns, killing at least two terrorists before they retreat from the suburb of Suluk towards Raqqa city,” the YPG leadership reported.
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[ARA News] DEIR EZZOR – Militants of the Islamic State group (ISIS) has executed six people in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor on charges of “communicating with hostile parties” and attempting cope against the alleged Caliphate.
Four young men were beheaded on Tuesday in al-Bukamal city of Deir Ezzor province under the pretext that they had leaked security information about ISIS’s military plans to rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), local activists reported.
Also on Tuesday, ISIS executed two brothers, identified as Hussein and Hassan al-Khalaf, in the village of Dahla in the countryside of Deir Ezzor on charges of apostasy and dealing with the enemies of the Caliphate.
“Both victims were shot dead in front of a large crowd in Dalha. Their bodies were then crucified and remained at the scene until Tuesday midnight,” an eyewitness told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
This comes amid a state of alert in Deir Ezzor as the group has arrested dozens of media activists for publishing news about ISIS’s activities online.
Speaking to ARA News, media activist Saray Addin said that ISIS imposed a curfew on several districts in Deir Ezzor and raided dozens of houses in search for activists.
“The terror group now accuses every activist of apostasy and executes everyone who communicates with people outside the province,” he said.
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[MEDIAITE] The head of the Democratic National Committee is encouraging party members in Congress to invite Muslim-Americans to President B.O.'s State of the Union next month as a rebuke to Donald Trump.
And no, based on Politico's reporting, they don't specifically say it's a rebuke to Trump himself, but it's pretty strongly implied in some of the language they use.
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... and Congressman Keith Ellison (one of two Muslims in Congress) wrote a joint letter to House Democrats saying that inviting Muslims to the State of the Union sends a message that "we will not be intimidated by fear into discrimination."
They say, "There could be no stronger expression of support for our American values than sending this message of solidarity through the extension of this invitation."
I think this is a grand idea. I'd be sure to identify each and every Dem in the House that does this, and send pics of that Dem and their 'guests' to all their constituents. You know, just like pols do to advertise what swell guys they are.
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Invite thousands of Muslims to the capital and announce there will be no security check because you are confident that Islam is the religion of peace.
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This unhinged woman has completely lost her mind and is bonkers nutso. With her at the DNC and Obozo in the WH, who needs an enemy? She ought to be criticizing Obozo for taking the country down the dumper. Pathetic.
Almost three months after the collapse of Kunduz city to the Taliban, and the subsequent clearing operation, residents say insurgents are still active in some parts of the city.
This ongoing conflict and insecurity has residents worried. So much so, many have chosen not to rebuild their damaged homes.
One resident, Ahmad Jawed said: "The government does not want to clear the city completely [of insurgents]. If government wanted to they could but they do not want to. During the day government is out but at night it's the Taliban and now people do not trust [the situation] and people do not want to invest in Kunduz city."
Shamsullah, another resident said: "People are not sure about the security in the bazaar and they do not want to invest. Most of the investors have left the city - even the banks are closed and not accepting electricity bills - and people are worried the city might collapse again."
A number of shopkeepers in the city said meanwhile that after the collapse of the city to the Taliban investors are no longer interested in doing business there.
"In the city area, Taliban still exist and people are investing less after its collapse. People are leaving and there are no jobs in Kunduz," said Mirza Mohammad a city shopkeeper.
"After the collapse of Kunduz people are not investing in the city because they think the city will collapse again. Just one kilometer out of Kunduz city is where the Taliban is. There are no jobs and offices are closed," said Mohammad Haron another shopkeeper.
Meanwhile Kunduz's acting-governor said that it is the people's right to worry about the situation but if government plans are implemented properly the security situation will improve.
"Yet adverse effects of war exist and the recapture of Kunduz city was not easy and as long as people do not relive [the situation] mentally and emotionally and as long we do not provide security to the city again people cannot live with it. We assure the people that with the implementation of government plans the situation will improve," said Hamidullah Danishi Kunduz acting-governor.
Meanwhile, Kunduz police said that residents should not worry.
"We call upon all our people and businessmen to assess the situation. All routes are open and they can start work. We invite them to tell us about their problems so we can solve them," said Shir Aziz Kamawal the Afghan National Army commander for Zone 808 Spinzar.
[DAWN] Employees of the ailing national airline on Tuesday walked out in protest over its planned privatisation, disrupting flights and undermining a central plank of reforms promised by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... in return for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout.
In September 2013, the IMF agreed to lend $6.7 billion over three years in order to save the country from possible default.
In return, the government of Pakistain agreed to broaden its tax base, cut electricity subsidies and privatise failing state companies that lose taxpayers around $5 billion a year.
Soliciting buyer interest in Pakistain International Airlines (PIA), whose accumulated losses stand at $2.29 billion, by December 31, is one of the major steps Islamabad needs to take for the programme to continue.
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At least 150 Saudi-led troops and mercenaries were killed in ballistic missile attack Saudi military headquarters in the western Bab-el-Mandeb area.
Yemeni sources told al-Manar that the Yemeni army and the popular committees launched late on Sunday a Tochka missile on the headquarters of the aggression command in the southwestern province of Taiz.
A top Saudi commander and an Emirati officer were among the casualties, the Riyadh-led alliance announced in a statement.
Saudi Colonel Abdullah al-Sahyan and Emirati officer Sultan al-Kitbi were killed at dawn on Monday "while they were carrying out their duties in supervising operations to liberate Taiz" province in Yemen's southwest, the official SPA news agency said.
A Yemeni officer told AFP that both officers were killed when rebels fired a rocket at a coastal road in the strategic province, which overlooks the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
Also among the casualties, were Saudi, Emirati, Morrocan troops, in addition to at least 42 mercenaries hired by the US-based private military contractor, Blackwater, the sources al-Manar.
At least 146 burned bodies arrived in Aden and Omran military camp, the sources said, reporting that the aggression forces sent a ship carrying medical supplies to the coast there due to the high number of casualties.
Meanwhile, other sources put the death toll of the attack at 80.
QUETTA: Dr Shafi Muhammad Baloch, the younger brother of Khair Jan Baloch, political adviser to the Chief Minister Balochistan, was gunned down by unknown armed men in Jaahoo area of Awaran district on Tuesday.
Another man who was walking along with him received serious injuries in the attack.
Official sources said that Dr Shafi Baloch was going toward the bazaar of the town along with his friend in Jaahoo when both of them came under attack.
Dr. Shafi succumbed to injuries before reaching a hospital. His friend received serious bullet wounds.
Levies officials said the armed men were on a motorcycle who managed to escape from the scene.
The body was later handed over to the family after completion of formalities. The cause of killing could not be ascertained.
A senior levies official said that “the firing incident seems as to be a target killing.
However, levies officials were investigating the incident. So far no arrest had been reported in this connection.
Chief Minister Balochistan Dr. Malik Baloch, President of the National Party (NP) Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo Central Information Secretary of NP Mir Jan Muhammad Buledi and others have strongly condemned the target killing of the younger brother of Khair Jan Baloch.
The CM directed the officials concerned to submit a detailed report and also take all possible steps for the early arrest of the accused involved in killing of Dr. Shafi. So far no one has claimed responsibility for the incident.
QUETTA: Unidentified militants attacked a Levies checkpost in Pishin district of Balochistanon on Tuesday, killing one security official and injuring three others, Levies officials said.
“Armed assailants opened fire on the checkpost in district Pishin's Surkhar area,” the Levies officials added.
While giving details of the incident, the Levies official said “the assailants came on three motorcycles and opened indiscriminate fire at the check post.”
Following the attack, a search operation has been launched in order to apprehend the accused involved in the attack at the check post.
Militants kill brother of CM's political secretary
Militants on Tuesday shot dead the brother of Khair Jan Baloch, the political secretary of Balochistan chief minister.
The Levies officials said unknown gunmen targeted the vehicle of Dr. Shafi Bizenjo in Awaran's Jhawo area.
“Dr. Bizenjo was killed on the spot, whereas, one Levies personnel suffered serious bullet wounds,” the official said. However, the assailants managed to escape from the crime scene.
Levies personnel rushed to the spot and shifted the injured personnel to a nearby hospital and provided medical treatment to them. According to doctors the injured is in a serious condition.
The LEAs have initiated a search operation to apprehend the accused involved in the murder of Dr. Shafi Bizenjo.
Meanwhile, the Frontier Corps (FC) arrested six suspected militants from Sabzal road area of Quetta.
“The suspects were arrested on suspicion of their links with an outlawed terrorist group,” said FC spokesman.
The FC also arrested four suspects from Quetta's Marriabad area, a pistol was recovered from their possession. All the arrested suspects were interrogated by the officials, the FC spokesman added.
[DAWN] The Chief of Army Staff, President and Prime Minister of Pakistain along with the chief ministers of Sindh, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , Gilgit Baltistan and premier of Azad Jammu and Kashmire are expected to attend a ceremony at the Army Public School tomorrow, December 16, to mark the one-year anniversary of the horrific massacre that killed 144 children and school staff.
Ambassadors of several countries along with services chiefs and provincial and federal ministers will also attend.
Pakistain People's Party chairperson Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... is also invited, and the audience is likely to include several politicians, including Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... and Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... Central President Asfandyar Wali Khan.
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Well, look. The poor jamoke gets all his information from his liberal masters. Guns is skeery, even if printed on a shirt or made - they think - from a pop tart. He was just acting on received wisdom, ya know...
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As someone here once noted, Houston is a target rich environment. I loved the "victim's" quote,"we're all prior military service guys and it was a natural reaction."
Yemen's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah on Tuesday called on Shiite Houthi rebels to lay down their weapons, as a ceasefire in his war-wracked country came into force.
"We need to restore the country," Bahah said in the Qatari capital Doha.
"We need the Houthis to surrender their weapons and arms and leave the government institutions to restore legitimacy."
Bahah was delivering a speech at Qatar University coinciding with the start of a seven-day ceasefire as UN-brokered peace talks opened in Switzerland.
In October, Bahah escaped unharmed after a deadly rocket attack on a hotel in Yemen's main southern city of Aden.
Qatar forms part of a Saudi-led coalition which launched an air campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in March.
[Inquirer] Thirteen Abu Sayyaf militants and two soldiers were killed in a gun battle in Al Barka, Basilan, at 5 p.m., Tuesday, while 10 other soldiers were injured. Tuesday’s clash was the third day of fighting between the insurgent group and Philippine troops.
Major Filemon Tan said, "It has been ongoing for three day. It was on Tuesday that the major skirmishes happened. It was an encounter with the Abu Sayyaf. It is a focused military operation. Prior to this, there was an intelligence operation that led to the identification of the Abu Sayyaf lair."
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[Rutland Herald] There is one basic reality in the Middle East. The region contains a number of "countries" that were created out of whole cloth during the 19th and early 20th centuries by European colonial powers to suit their own purposes. The artificiality of those "countries" makes for a very unstable region.
Those "countries" are not in any sense internally cohesive, and many contain the seeds of their own disintegration. Historically, those "countries" have been governed repressively simply because the tribal, sectarian and national mixtures of residents are sufficiently volatile to require relatively strict repression for the maintenance of cohesion and public order.
The divisions that exist within those "countries" go back decades, centuries and millennia. Internal conflicts now exist where central, often repressive control has disappeared, as in Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Where open conflict has not broken out, some form of repression continues in force, as in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt (for the moment) and the Gulf States.
The American compulsion to export democracy and concomitant peace to that world has been proven incredibly naive, largely because the only elements in the region that matter -- tribal, sectarian and national -- have no experience with democracy and are largely unprepared for and do not seek its introduction.
And in the midst of this instability, we find ourselves required to deal with ISIS. Some Americans believe that we are capable of "beating" ISIS and its allies and support boots on the ground. That may or may not be, but that is not the real issue. The real issue is, what comes after the defeat of that enemy?
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(a) Stop thinking that you can fix the problems with Muslims in Western countries by "fixing" ME.
(b) Realize that you don't need ME for energy any longer---fracking is way cheaper than constant intervention.
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Exactly correct g(r)om. Both history and current events clearly illustrate they will go 'Donner Pass' if left unmolested. A classic Darwinian self-correcting problem.
Now if you permit a mass migration into Europe, all bets are off.
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Migration to Europe won't change the equation. The indigenous eurines who work and generate all the welfare benefits were already extincting themselves before the migration began, and when it's over, there will be a continent sized Gaza minus the cash infusions. It will surely be ugly, but it won't be much of a threat, except to its residents.
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have no experience with democracy
Their culture and philosophy (aka Islam) are antithetical to the whole notion of democracy and/or individualism.
It is the arrogance, narcissism and blindness of the western elites that prevents them from listening to the ME as they continually explain that.
[The Nation] A bomb squad yesterday defused a pipe bomb planted on a motorbike parked in front of a bank in Narathiwat province. It is suspected that the bomb was aimed at marines who patrol the area every morning or was intended to damage the local economy.
Police sealed off the area after residents alerted them to a "suspicious" bike left overnight. Bomb squad officers inspected the vehicle and found a bomb in a compartment under the seat. The unti defused the explosive and removed it.
Meanwhile in neighboring Yala province, 500 religious leaders and locals gathered yesterday to protest a bomb planted in a local Islamic graveyard. This follows an explosion in the graveyard on Sunday, which killed a paramilitary volunteer with Ranger Taskforce 43 and injured his father. The two men were praying for Saikh's recently-deceased mother.
WASHINGTON ‐ The United States spent $64,597 to build a wall around a school in Qala Nazir Baba, a village in Logar Province in Afghanistan. It spent an additional $41,792 to rehabilitate an irrigation system in Zoya, a village in Wardak Province....
Management of the stabilization programs has sometimes been so loose, said one former official at the aid agency, that local Taliban leaders have been able to submit requests,... and have had their requests approved.
Villagers believed that the projects would not have been allowed to take place without the Taliban's approval, and so their support for the Taliban, rather than for the United States or the Afghan government, actually increased because of the aid. The stabilization projects were part of an ambitious aid program started by President Obama in December 2009 as part of the "civilian surge" he announced along with an increase in American troop levels in Afghanistan.
U.S.A.I.D. officials, who could not visit the project sites for security reasons, sometimes did not know whether the projects had even been completed.
"U.S.A.I.D. came to us and said, We can't find our projects,' said one person involved with the study evaluating the two stabilization programs.
Management of the stabilization programs has sometimes been so loose, said one former official at the aid agency, that local Taliban leaders have been able to submit requests,... and have had their requests approved.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Minister of Interior has issued orders to arrest a group of gunnies who killed an entire family in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
Noor-ul-Haq Olomi has ordered the police HQs of Nangarhar and Paktia provinces as well the General Directorate of Counter-Terrorism of the Ministry of Interior to strictly investigate the case and detain those responsible.
Olomi has also urged residents of Behsood District as well as the local government organizations to assist security forces in investigation.
The tragedy took place in Mirza Qala area of Behsood District 2-4 nights before.
Some reports suggest that the family was killed about four nights before but the dead bodies were still bleeding when residents and coppers saw them on Sunday night.
Ataullah Khogyani, front man for the governor of Nangarhar province says three guests had visited Yousuf's house.
According to Khogyani, after the eight-member family fall asleep, guests shot up them and killed everybody including a two-month child.
Killers then locked the door from outside and fled the area, Khogyani said, adding that "when neighbors got to know about the incident they informed police about it."
Other people killed in the incident were Yousuf's mother, wife, son and four daughters.
Yousuf who was originally from Paktia province had been living in Nangarhar from the past four years.
There is no claim of responsibility for the massacre but Yousuf had worked at Nangarhar Airport which is the main military base of foreign forces in eastern part of the country.
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[ARABNEWS] Marine Le Pen, the leader of La Belle France's far-right National Front (FN), was acquitted Tuesday of inciting hatred after likening Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation.
Magistrates in the southeast city of Lyon found the 47-year-old not guilty of "inciting discrimination, violence or hatred toward a group of people based on their religious beliefs" over her comments on the campaign trail in December 2010.
Le Pen, who was not in court, faced one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros ($49,000) if convicted.
The ruling came after the FN scored a record number of votes in regional elections on Sunday.
Although the anti-immigration party did not win control of any regions, its strong showing in the first round of voting panicked mainstream parties, forcing them to band together to strip votes from the FN in the second round.
The party recorded its best-ever electoral score with 6.8 million votes, prompting Le Pen to crow: "Nothing can stop us now."
Le Pen had accused the government of being behind the five-year-old charges that saw her brought to trial just weeks before the regional poll. She took over the party from her rabble-rousing father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011 and has worked hard to improve its image, but it remains staunchly nationalistic, and Marine Le Pen has said migration into Europe recalls the "barbarian invasions" of the fourth century.
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RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said Tuesday that a cease-fire had begun at noon (0900 GMT) as scheduled.
Coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri confirmed that the truce had taken effect. The rebel forces have yet to say if they will abide by the cease-fire.
The coalition has said that the cease-fire was requested by Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to facilitate the planned peace talks in Switzerland.
In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the coalition said Arab forces retained the right to respond to any breach of the cease-fire.
The coalition has been waging mainly air strikes on the Houthis since March, after the Houthis seized control of much of the country in a series of moves that started in September 2014.
The Houthis say their actions are aimed at state corruption and against the militant Islamist Al-Qaeda, while the Saudi-led coalition sees the Houthis as furthering rival Iran’s efforts to expand its influence into the Arabian Peninsula.
Two senior commanders from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were among dozens of fighters killed in a rocket strike in south-western Yemen, according to local media and Yemeni sources on Monday.
A previous round of peace talks in Geneva in June failed to produce a breakthrough, with each side blaming the other for the failure of the talks.
[MEDIAITE] Host of MSNBC’s Hardball Chris My Thigh is Tingling! Matthews ... the late Tip O'Neill's former gopher who has magazines with centerfolds of Barack Obama in his bathroom... went after Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie Monday, arguing that his use of the term “animals” to describe ISIS was anti-Muslim. I dunno. Sends a tingle right up my leg.
“Republicans now say it’s okay to hate Muslims,” Matthews said, pointing to heated rhetoric from Christie, as well as from his GOP rival Ted Cruz. Can we chop the heads off takfiri without hating them? Seems like it'd be harder that way...
“I mean, when you hear ‘carpet bombing,’ there’s no way to hear that from Cruz without knowing a lot of regular people that just happen to live in those geographical areas will die because you’re carpet bombing,” he argued. Yet we did the same thing to Dresden, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, and Tokyo, to mention but a few. It needed done then for the same reasons it does now: we've got the same kind of enemy.
“And also, ‘animals’? I mean, call them what they are, bad people. But what’s this ‘animal’ thing that Christie’s throwing around?” Matthews complained. "Bad people" is kind of a wimpy description. "Raving lunatics" is closer. The only difference I can see between ISIS and the SS is that the latter had niftier uniforms.
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Chris thinks calling ISIS animals is anti-muslim? So he equates all of the foul thing ISIS does to Islam in general? Who is the bigot here Mr Mathews.
That has to be the most morally blind thing I've ever read.
Maybe it is time for one of Patton's colorful quotes:
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!
Matthews wouldn't like that quote either. What team is he pitching for?
The Saudi-led coalition launching war on Yemen said Tuesday that a ceasefire had begun at noon (09:00 GMT) as scheduled.
Coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmad al-Assiri confirmed that the truce had taken effect, hours after airstrikes killed at least 15 people late on Monday, Reuters reported, citing residents.
The strikes came before a ceasefire was due to take effect Tuesday to pave the way for UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland.
War planes launched two raids on the village of Bani al-Haddad, in the northern Hajjah province on the border with Saudi Arabia, killing 13 people and wounding 20 others, according to witnesses.
The latest attacks came as a response for the Yemeni army operation - joined by the Popular Committees - on a Saudi military headquarters in the western Bab-el-Mandeb area in the southwestern province of Taiz late on Sunday, which killed at least 150 Saudi-led troops and mercenaries in a major ballistic Tochka missile attack.
Member states of the coalition on Yemen are convinced of the need to withdraw from the Yemeni quagmire, after entering into a dead end tunnel, without achieving any of the stated goals within nine months of war for which the Saudi-US-led coalition allocated huge arsenal.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 264 days now to restore power to fugitive President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Saudi-US aggression has so far killed at least 6,594 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Yemeni national military, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Begin with the continued rise of ISIS and an ISIS-inspired attack on American soil in San Bernardino. Obama's widely-panned Sunday evening speech on combating ISIS is fresh in our minds; he's haunted by the fact that the day of the attack, in an interview with CBS News, he declared, "Our homeland has never been more protected by more effective intelligence and law-enforcement professionals at every level than they are now." In the weeks between the Gay Paree attack and San Bernardino, Obama told the public there was no known "specific and credible threat" to the U.S. -- a point that in retrospect only emphasized how blindsided authorities were by the San Bernardino attack. The day before the Gay Paree attack, Obama said it was "premature" to call ISIS the greatest terror threat in the world and declared ISIS was contained -- he later emphasized he meant militarily, in Iraq and Syria.
After Gay Paree, Obama mocked Republicans for fearing "widows and orphans" among the Syrian refugees and insisted refugees were allowed in only after "rigorous screening and security checks" administered by the Department of Homeland Security. Days ago we learned that San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistain, and no one noticed that she openly supported violent jihad on social media. We also learned her husband was in touch over the phone and via social media with more than one international-terrorism suspect.
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Obama had a wonderful year, it's US who had a lousy one.
WHAT MORE IFF ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST OBAMA IS DOING IT INTENTIONALLY!?
Lest we fergit, US-LED ANTI-US PWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE US IS DIRECTLY ANDOR INDIRECTLY HELPING ITS GEOPOL ENEMIES AND "GREAT POWER" WANNABES, GOVTS-NATIONS + NGOS, ETAL. TO BE MILPOL OR GEOPOL STRONGER RELATIVE TO THE US ITSELF.
More poplarly known in "short title" as "helping our enemies get stronger", as the adage or warning goes, relative or compared to ourselves.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG, via Murphy's Laws + "Great Game" + Sun Tzu + Machiavelli + Mahanism, Etc.???
Year 2016 = 12 months is plenty of time for "red lines" to be made by the Bammer = USA, + ignored or swept side by Same.
SANGHAR: Four people, including two police constables, were shot dead during clashes between Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) workers on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of the local government polls in Sanghar scheduled for December 17. The local government elections in the district were earlier postponed by the Election Commission of Pakistan following the killing of at least 11 people at Daraza Sharif in Khairpur district during the first phase of polling. The decision was taken on the basis of reports regarding the possibility of political clashes in Sanghar — amidst calls for revenge for the Khairpur tragedy, where eight of the 11 people killed in violence on the polling day for the first phase of LG polls, hailed from Sanghar.
Supporters of both the parties opened fire at each other when their rallies merged at the Rehmani Chowk area of the city. Eyewitnesses said that nine other people were injured in the firing, who were then shifted to Civil Hospital. Those killed have been identified as Gul Mohammad Marri, Gul Mohammad Shah, constable Ashiq Marri and constable Nabi Bux Dero. The situation in the city turned tense after the killings as enraged mobs set at least eight vehicles ablaze. Heavy contingents of police and law enforcement agencies have been deployed in the area to control the situation.
[Ynet] Egyptian Air Force makes unprecedented flights over Israeli territory, likely with IDF permission, en route to bombing Islamic State targets in the Sinai.
Egyptian Air Force planes have in recent months crossed into Israeli airspaces part of Egypt's military campaign against the local Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State terror group, Ynet learned on Tuesday.
The unprecedented flights, apparently conducted in coordination with the IDF, were conducted mostly in the triangular border area between Israeli territory, Egyptian land, and the southern Gazoo Strip.
The flights are believed to be the first time that Egyptian warplanes entered Israeli airspace since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
The Egyptian aircraft bombed IS targets mere kilometers away from the Israeli border, in the vicinity of El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid in the northern Sinai. Entry into Israeli airspace did not result in any festivities with Israeli planes, presumably because of prior coordination.
Despite Israel's peace agreement with Egypt and close operational and intelligence coordination, the Israeli Air Force treats any potential entry into Israeli airspace with the utmost seriousness. Warplanes were deployed to the Golan Heights dozens of times over the past year because Syrian planes were making suspicious movements. On the southern front, the IAF's guiding principle is to act with extreme caution.
An upgrade for anti-IS intelligence
About four years ago, with Islamist forces becoming much more active against the Egyptian military in the Sinai, Israel put the military clause of its peace accords with Egypt into action, allowing the entry of tanks and fighter planes into the Sinai, including the easternmost point near Israel.
The Egyptian forces have taken advantage of this permission, and since then there have been dozens of strikes by their fighter planes and helicopters against terrorist targets in the area.
The Egyptian Air Force has also been operating drones in the fight against the Lion of Islam organization, which counts in its ranks about
8,000 people -- considered ISIS's most efficient arm in the Middle East because of its ability to execute attacks against Egyptian military forces daily and kill dozens of security personnel every month. The main challenge for the local military, and for Israel as well, is intelligence -- the local IS branch operates in a very compartmentalized way, without using phones, and across a huge mountainous area in the heart of the Sinai region.
Israel believes that two videos recently released by the organization in the Sinai in which it calls for renewed attacks against Israeli targets, were not empty words -- even though they have yet to lead to concrete threats.
The IDF and Shin Bet have increased their efforts, with the latter establishing a special department for gathering intelligence in the Sinai area. Ynet has learned that more resources have recently been allocated to intelligence gathering on the Egyptian border because of threats by IS. Even so, assessments the IDF Southern Command suggest that intelligence about a possible ISIS terror attack against Israel will come shortly before it is supposed to happen, if at all.
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Humm sign of the end-for sure, be alert to the possibility of a visit from gog and Magog to your neighbor hood. They can be satisfied with fried baloney samiches the first, second time, well, try to hide Fluffy.
[AnNahar] German police Tuesday tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! one of the country's most prominent Islamist preachers on charges of supporting a "terrorist group" fighting in Syria.
The man, German citizen Sven Lau, 35, made headlines last year by organizing a vigilante "Sharia Police" group that patrolled German streets seeking to enforce Islamic law.
Lau is accused of supporting and recruiting fighters for the Syria-based Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (JMA), or Army of Emigrants and Supporters, which Germany lists as a terrorist organization.
Prosecutors said that in 2013, Lau was the JMA's main contact in Germany, based in the western city of Duesseldorf, and recruited two volunteers.
They also accused Lau of delivering 250 euros ($275) in cash to a German fighter in Syria, and of organizing the delivery of night-vision equipment worth 1,440 euros to the JMA.
The JMA, with fighters from Chechnya and central Asia, in September this year pledged allegiance to the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front, but a breakaway group earlier joined the rival 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.... (IS).
The prosecutors charged that the JMA wing Lau belonged to backed the IS, a group that had committed war crimes including "mass executions, the burning of prisoners, and ... beheadings".
Lau was arrested in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a hotspot for fundamentalist Islam from where several German 'imported muscle' in Syria and Iraq come.
Lau gained notoriety when in 2014 he led young Muslims wearing orange vests marked "Sharia Police" through the western city of Wuppertal telling people not to drink alcohol, listen to music or gamble.
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Yemeni security officials say pro-government forces backed by Saudi-led airstrikes took an island in the Red Sea from Shiite militias, just hours before a weeklong ceasefire went into effect.
Tuesday’s seizure of Zuqar island also comes as delegations from Yemen’s warring factions convened for peace talks in northern Switzerland.
Yemeni officials said fighting intensified across the country as both sides sought to consolidate positions ahead of the U.N.-brokered meeting. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Past efforts to end the conflict between the internationally recognized government and Houthi militias have failed.
The two sides initially agreed to halt fire at midnight Monday but the coalition delayed the truce to midday Tuesday. There was no immediate word if the ceasefire was holding.
[Tolo News] The United Nation's Human Development Office has ranked Afghanistan as 171, out of 188 countries, in the human development index.
The report has measured countries' development based on gender inequality, maternal mortality ratio, adolescent birth rate, share of seats in parliament, population with at least some secondary education and the labor force participation rate.
In this report, Côte d'Ivoire, Malawi and Æthiopia are after Afghanistan while Norway, Australia and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... are the first, second and third place respectively.
This comes after the input of billions of US dollars into Afghanistan over the past 14 years but Afghanistan is still among the least developed countries.
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Iff a poten post-Jan 2017 POTUS TRUMP = 21st equivalent of POTUS Teddy Roosevelt, Afghanistan = The Donuuld's "Panama Canal" + Other.
THE US WILL DEV + MODERNIZE AFGHANISTAN BECAUSE THE US [+ Only-the-US] CAN.
[Tolo News] The Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG) on Tuesday called on the Afghan government to prepare the ground for the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) to work in Afghanistan.
Members of the group said at an event that the International Criminal Court has mentioned in one of its reports that at least 112 complaints have been lodged with them from Afghanistan since 2003. Most of the complaints are about crimes against humanity and war crimes.
According to the group, the complaints have lodged with the court by human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... organizations in Afghanistan.
One member of TJCG Wadud Pedram said: "Kangaroo courts and targeting civilians are examples of the crimes that have happened in Afghanistan."
"We hope that the Afghan government provides the needed facilities as soon as possible and enables the ICC to operate in Afghanistan," he said.
Going into details about the complaints lodged in the court, Pedram said: "The incidents that have happened after 2003 will be included in Rome's articles of association. They should come and follow the cases in order to send them to the court and address the requests of the people and the victims."
The presence of alleged war criminals within government has been criticized several times but the TJCG says the existence of such figures in the Afghan government can hamper the lodging of complaints.
"The National Unity Government should learn from the experiences of the previous government [under former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... ], and it should bear in mind that peace cannot be established, violations cannot be stopped and people's trust cannot be gained if the legal requests of victims are ignored or if there was compromise and if the law was violated," said Rahim Jami another member of the group.
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[ARABNEWS] French police jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two men and a woman on Tuesday in connection with deadly bully boy attacks on Gay Paree last month and in January, judiciary officials said.
Daesh [Islamic State], which grabbed credit for the Nov. 13 attacks, has stated that teachers in La Belle France's secular state-schooling system should be killed for promoting what it called the evils of secular life, music and drawing.
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[ARA News] ERBIL – A group of Arab tribes in Syria’s northeastern province of Raqqa issued a joint statement on Tuesday, warning the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) of entering Raqqa.
Raqqa is considered the de facto capital of the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
“We will fight any Kurdish force entering our Arab areas in Raqqa province,” a spokesman for the Arab tribal groups in Raqqa said in a recorded statement.
Shouldn't they be teaming up with the Kurds to fight ISIS?
The statement also accused the Kurdish fighters of conducting what they called “an ethnic cleansing” against Arab residents of the towns of Suluk and Tel Abyad in the northern countryside of Raqqa, which were regained by the YPG and allied Syrian rebels after fierce battles against ISIS militants.
The Arab tribal leaders also called on the international community to support them against the Kurdish forces, stressing that the YPG and its allies attempt to eliminate Arabs in their villages and towns in Raqqa province.
This comes amid intensifying battles between the Kurdish forces and ISIS militants in northern Raqqa.
Backed by the U.S.-led coalition, the YPG and allied rebels have regained dozens of towns and villages in the countryside of Raqqa over the last few months.
The Kurdish leadership had denied in an earlier statement the rumors of carrying out any “ethnic cleansing” against Arabs in the liberated areas, saying it has been working together with Arabs and Christians to establish a civil administration in every area liberated from ISIS.
Speaking to ARA News, civil rights activist Ahmed Salame said that the tribal figures who issued the anti-YPG statement have earlier facilitated ISIS’s entry to Raqqa and helped the group establish its alleged Caliphate.
Oh? That would explain why they were so keen to fight the Kurds.
“Those tribes have earlier provided a social incubator to ISIS, and they are now seeking an excuse to prevent the anti-ISIS Kurdish forces and rebels from liberating Raqqa from this barbaric group. There could be some pressure behind issuing such a statement in this particular moment,” he said.
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Bloodthirsty Daesh [Islamic State] Islamists posted notes through the doors of dozens of random neighbours in several cities across Sweden, including the capital Stockholm, threatening to murder "non-believers" in a terrifying campaign of violence.
Sweden is now on lockdown after the chilling letters pledged to behead innocent civilians and then "bomb your rotten corpses afterwards".
Intelligence officials confirmed they are investigating the horrifying threats - which were signed by "ISIS" - as a state of fear gripped the nation.
The notes, written in Swedish, order people to convert to Islam or pay a religious tax, known as the jizya, warning that the police "will not save you from being murdered".
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Jeez....
Agree to pay the Jizya, ask for an address, then follow the money...
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"Dear Poobahs and Caliphs and Prophets
Redundantly picking our pockets,
Please have your nice axeman
Liaise with the taxman --
We already gave at the office."
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Once again, + wid feeling Men, SEE TOM CRUISE'S + EMILY BLUNT'S 1960's-1970's = 2014's "EDGE OF TOMORROW" ...
AKA how difficult it will be for whats left of the Judeo-Christian = Non-Muslim World to take back a former Judeo-Christian or Non-Musim Europe now dominated or lost to Islam or Radical Islam.
The OWG Globalists + aligned got the OWG-NWO, SOCIALISM, + US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER THEY WANTED, JUST N-O-T THE SECULAR EURO OR WESTERN STYLE SOCIALISM THEY'D ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR.
Saudi Arabia has formed a military coalition of 34 Islamic countries to combat terrorism, the Saudi government announced on early Tuesday morning.
The Saudi government said the multi-national coalition includes Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, and Jordan, but other details were not immediately disclosed. Saudi Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud said the alliance will not just confront the Islamic State (ISIS) group, but "any terrorist group in front of us."
The coalition will operate a joint operations center in the Saudi capital of Riyadh and coordinate with other international bodies to combat terrorism, a statement said. It emphasized human dignity and the rights to life and security, and said the coalition is committed to eliminate terrorism through the use of international legal instruments.
The full list of countries as announced is as follows: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, Palestine, Comoros, Qatar, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, the Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Yemen.
The Saudi government added that more than a dozen other Islamic countries have expressed support for the military alliance, including Indonesia. Saudi Arabia can fight terrorism by opening its own borders to multiculturalism and by turning off the oil money to export Islamist fascism... is that what they are doing? NO they are building a coalition of states in various stages of Islamist fascism, members of the OIC to fight us. And pretend they are fighting terrorism so Russia doesnt bomb them
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I repay those that worship false gods with utter destruction. The damage of this thing, and the time it cost me every hour is unacceptable.
The fucking saudis are on my shit list every time some wahabbist or salifi picks up a weapon and destroys people.
My dreams are deafening with the screams of those under torture from their offspring.
Islam is offensive in every way to me. It is an affront to the Lord who will give it no quarter neither here, nor the hereafter.
It is too late for the magik kingdome to solve this. The roots of SIN lies squarely with the land that converted a child rapist into a prophet.
GOD is at end with it, and I think these "princes" know they have sins of the Fathers and Grandfathers on their hands.
We do not put up with death cults for long. and with piece of shit languages like arabic, 16 different dialects and limited communication, illiteracy, broken government for like forever -qualifies them the piece of shit bad roots that created a tree that has no accountability.
This reads more like the beginning of a military alliance against the Mullahs, than anything else, with the exception of Lebanon.
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with the exception of Lebanon.
Hizb'allah is not happy that the government -- still lacking a president, mind you -- went ahead and made that committment without consulting them. On the other hand, they're going to be quite busy at home and in the near abroad for some time to come. On the other hand, "Palestine" is also listed. I can't imagine that means Hamas as well as the PA, even if Hamas could get many men out through the tunnels, nor can I imagine the PA can spare any when Hamas plots against the opportunity to steal the West Bank as well as Gaza from the heirs of Arafat.
In the end I imagine this will be useful for mustache-cursing in loud harmony, but nothing more effective.
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KSA rival Shia IRAN, + IRAN VASSAL STATE IRAQ, + independents INDONESIA + MALAYSIA are NOT on the list, while We're-supposed-to-the-World's First-Muslim-Superpower-NOT-Iran = Iran BFF + strategic partner PAKISTAN is proclaiming "que surprise"! at being on the KSA's list.
* See DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Dawn.PK] PAKISTAN SURPISED BY INCLUSION IN SAUDI [Anti-Terror]] MILITARY ALLIANCE.
* RELATED SAME = ...
> MALAYSIA NOT INCLUDED IN ANTI-TERRORISM MILITARY COALITION, SAYS DEFENCE MINISTER - THE RAKYAT POST.
> [Alleged] "MEMBERS" [Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia] SURPRISED BY SAUDI ANTI-TERROR COALITION.
VERSUS
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Hindustan Times] INDIA READY FOR OPERATIONS AGZ ISIS [only?] IFF UN ADOPTS RESOLUTION.
India ready to send its MilFors + SPECOPS agz the ISIS/ISIL only under TOTAL UNO AUSPICES, I.E. UN-CONTROLLED OR UN-DEFINED MISSION AS UNDER A UN-ONLY FLAG AS UNDER A UN-APPROVED RESOLUTION.
[Tolo News] Rifts among the Taliban after the death of their former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar will not end in the near future, say analysts and sources close to the group, adding that the roots of the differences among the Taliban's divided groups are well entrenched and will remain so for a long time.
It is believed that cracks among the Taliban leadership ranks were apparent in the past but only came to light after the news broke of Mullah Omar's death.
Zabul, Herat and Farah have so far been witness to heavy clashes between the two factions – those who support Mullah Omar's successor Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour and those who support the breakaway faction's leader Mullah Mohammad Rassoul Noorzai.
The recent clashes have resulted in numerous deaths among Taliban fighters.
"You heard recently that the Taliban factions fought in Batikot district [in Nangarhar province]. They [Taliban's divided factions] often fight each other and sometimes Daesh fighters interfere in their infighting," said Ghalib Mujahid, Achin district chief.
Security sources and analysts believe that the infighting among the Taliban factions will occur mostly in southern and western parts of Afghanistan.
"Mullah Mohammad Rassoul has more influence in Herat and his supporters are from Herat, Farah, Nimroz and some of them are from Helmand province. Therefore he will have influence mostly in southern and south-western parts," said Mullah Abdul Bari Fayaz, the head of the High Peace Council Committee in Helmand.
"On the other hand, Mullah Mohammad Mansour has more influence in Helmand because of tribal and regional issues, and his supporters are mostly from Helmand. It is expected that he will have more power in Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces," he added.
However, it is believed that the rifts among the Taliban will extend beyond the borders and it is said that most Taliban fighters live on the other side of the border. One example of this is of recent reports that emerged stating Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was wounded during clashes recently – across the border.
In addition, Mullah Manan Niazi, a spokesman for one Taliban faction linked to Mullah Rassoul, said recently that Mullah Mansour had been responsible for keeping Mullah Omar's death a secret and said Mullah Omar was killed on the day of the opening of the insurgent group's Qatar office. However, this claim has been rejected by Mullah Mansour.
Analysts meanwhile believe that the rifts will deep if the region's spy agencies interfere in their operations.
"If Mullah Mohammad Rassoul is supported by the region's spy agency(ies) the conflicts (among Taliban) will increase gradually," said Nazar Mohammad Motmaen, analyst in political affairs.
This comes at a time when peace talks are once again on the cards after President Ashraf Ghani announced this week that negotiations will restart in the near future.
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LOCAL ISOLATIONISM, versus [ISIS-led? allied?]"GREAT POWER" INTERNATIONALISM.
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday said that those killed and injured in the Army Public School (APS) Peshawar attack have rendered great sacrifices for the country, which will be remembered forever.
Speaking at the Corps Commanders Conference at the General Head Quarters (GHQ), the army chief said security forces will continue to consolidate their gains to make them sustainable, which he said will be a befitting tribute to all those killed and wounded in the APS attack.
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... has announced Waseem Akhtar as its nominee for the position of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... mayor with Arshad Vohra as his deputy, DawnNews reported.
Addressing party members and workers via telephone from London, MQM leader Nadeem Nusrat announced the decision on Tuesday evening.
Earlier this month, the MQM saw a landslide victory in local government elections in Karachi, clinching a maximum number of union committees -- 135 of 209.
MQM clinched 135 seats in the election for six Karachi districts, trouncing the electoral alliance of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI), both of whom bagged 11 and seven seats respectively.
The Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) emerged the runner up in Karachi, securing 32 seats, according to unofficial results.
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[DAWN] THATTA: ... as in "They went THATTA way!"
A two-member anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination team was attacked by unruly men and women in Haji Siddique Chana village within Mirpur Sakro union council on Monday.
Nazeer Ahmed Channa and his wife Yasmeen Channa were tasked with vaccinating children in the union council as part of a polio eradication campaign launched in Thatta, like other parts of the province, on Sunday.
Continuing their job on Monday, the couple vaccinated a large number of children but as soon as they left the village at the close of the day's work, a group of men and women started manhandling them. The couple somehow managed to escape though the attackers chased the cycle of violence they were riding.
Thatta district focal person of the campaign Dr Hanif Umerani and taluka supervisor Dr Ghafoor Kaloi condemned the attack and said that under a directive of Thatta Deputy Commissioner Nadeemur Reman Memon, an FIR was registered at the Mirpur Sakro cop shoppe against Mohammed Omar, his son, Mohammed Irshad and brother, Lal Mohammed for attacking and abusing the polio workers and stopping them from discharging their official duties.
Later, Mohammed Omar and Lal Mohammed were locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... Dr Umerani said that around 2,100 of the targeted 6,000 children in Mirpur Sakro union council were vaccinated during the last two days of the campaign.
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[BALTIMORESUN] Judge Barry G. Williams on Tuesday ordered a deadlocked jury panel back to work about 10 hours into deliberations over Officer William G. Porter's guilt or innocence in the death of Freddie Gray -- asking them to try harder to reach a consensus.
The 12-member panel is charged with reaching a unanimous verdict on four separate charges against Porter: involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. If they cannot, Williams will be forced to declare a mistrial on the undecided counts, leaving it to prosecutors to decide whether to retry the case.
After beginning deliberations Monday afternoon, the jury sent a note to Williams on Tuesday afternoon indicating it was deadlocked. The panel did not elaborate on whether it was split on one, some or all of the charges, or which way it was leaning on them.
Williams, meeting the jurors about 3:30 p.m. in open court, instructed them to return to deliberations. He read from a portion of the jury instructions that said the jury must come to a unanimous decision in order to reach a conviction or acquittal.
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In my mind, the discussion goes something like "we know the evidence shows he's innocent, but if we acquit him, there will be riots."
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OKARA: The Okara Saddar police after a four-month delay registered a case against 12 police officials, including the then station house officer (SHO) of City B Division police station, on the directions of the Lahore High Court.
Some four months back, then SHO Sibghatullah, ASI Shan Bhatti and 10 unidentified policemen of the City B Division police had broken into the house of a widow, Zainab Bibi, at Chak 49/2-L and disgraced her minor girls. Later, they rushed to the village graveyard where Zainab and her mother-in-law had gone to offer prayers at the grave of Nazeer Husain, the husband of the complainant.
According to the first information report (FIR), the police, at the behest of one Inayatullah, a relative of Zainab, tortured, disgraced and pushed the complainant and her mother-in-law into the police van where complainant’s brother-in-law Tariq was already present with injuries.
The police did not register a case and the complainant had filed a writ petition for the registration of case.
The Saddar police registered the case on the orders of the Lahore High court.
APS: Various functions were held to pay a homage to the martyrs of the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar.
A function was held at Tayyab Saeed Shaheed Police Lines where the schoolchildren from the DPS&C, Cadet College and Govt Girls High School participated.
Chief guests Brig Shazul Haq, MNA Chaudhry Riazul Haq Juj and District Police Officer Faisal Rana spoke to the participants.
Other functions were held at Cadet College on the Okara-Faisalabad road, emergency building in the District Complex and Special Children School.
In all the functions, the speakers, participants and schoolchildren pledged to stand with the martyrs of the nation and continue the struggle for better future while fighting against terrorism.
[ARA News] ALEPPO – At least 35 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded in Russian airstrikes in Idlib and Aleppo in northern Syria, activists reported on Tuesday.
In idlib province, Russian warplanes bombed a crowded market in the opposition-held town of Maarat al-Numan, killing 15 civilians and injuring more than 20 others.
“Rescue teams have pulled dozens of victims from the rubble subsequent to the brutal strike,” local media activist Ahmed Harith told ARA News in Idlib.
“We have documented 15 death cases so far, but the death toll may rise in the coming hours as many of the injured are suffering critical conditions amid shortage of medical supplies,” the source reported.
Another Russia raid hit an ISIS-held village in the countryside of Aleppo, killing more than 20 civilians, activists said.
Russia started its air campaign in Syria on Sept. 30, bombing areas held by anti-regime armed groups, including western-backed moderate rebels and jihadist factions.
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[VF] Twice I have had the honor of meeting a pope.
The first time was 20 years ago, when the bombing of Sarajevo was at its height. Fed up with the abdication of the great powers, I sought an audience with John Paul II and brought with me the Muslim president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic.
The second time was very recently, December 9, on the eve of a celebration organized by the Holy See and the major American Jewish organizations. The celebration, to be held this Wednesday at United Nations Headquarters, in New York City, will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the encyclical Nostra Aetate, which--though this is not widely enough remembered--marked the beginning of the end of Catholic anti-Semitism. (The encyclical can be found at the Vatican's Web site.)
I will not dwell on my impressions of the two Pontiffs. On their curious and striking blend of grace and power, of visible spirituality and mysterious strength, of almost palpable saintliness residing in an equally imposing body. Nor will I dwell long on the strangeness, in both cases, of a tête-à -tête between the sovereign Pope of the "one holy, Catholic, and apostolic church" and an affirmative Jew accompanied in the first case by a devout Muslim and in the second case by two Orthodox Jews, former chief rabbi David Rosen and Michael Landau, representing the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, who had come to present Pope Francis with a sheet of new commemorative postage stamps depicting some of the major moments in the last half-century of Judeo-Catholic rapprochement.
PESHAWAR: At least eight terrorists were killed in military air strikes in the Rajgal and Sparee areas of Khyber Agency’s Tirah Valley close to the Pak-Afghan border on Tuesday.
“Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets struck hideouts of the militants in Tirah valley,” said a security source. Eight other terrorists were injured in the air strikes, the source added. Khyber Agency and North Waziristan are among Pakistan’s seven semi-autonomous tribal districts near the Afghan border, rife with homegrown insurgents and foreign militants. The tribal area is off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to verify the identity and the number of dead. These areas have also been considered home to extremist organisations including al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Military operations Zarb-e-Azb and the National Action Plan were launched against insurgents following attacks on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport and Peshawar’s Army Public School in 2014. Officials say nearly 3,400 militants have been killed since the launch of the latest offensive. The number of attacks in Pakistan has fallen around 70 percent this year, due to a combination of a military offensive against Taliban bases along the Afghan border and government initiatives to tackle militancy.
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It's not going to get any better with newly-elected Trudeau as PM. It's Canada and they elected him. However, expect to deal with the spill over in the U.S. Trudeau is Obama white and light.
Plus "Striking where the US = US-NATO/EU are NOT".
The Hard Boyz will need one [or more?], after all, from the Asia-Pacific side of CONUS-NORAM includ CANADA once they begin waging overt Jihad in Russia, China, + India.
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas is the final GOP primary debate of 2015. With about a month and a half before the first primary contest--the Iowa caucuses on February 1--it's become clear the field of plausible contenders is much smaller than the 13 Republicans who will debate in two separate events Tuesday night. It's possible December 15 will be the last time Republican voters see most of the whole band together before the forthcoming breakup. So which candidates should be cut loose after tonight?
Let's begin with the first event, the "undercard" debate: future debate organizers should make a New Year's resolution to scrap it in the months ahead. The undercard debates have had some utility in 2015. Two main-stage debaters Tuesday night, Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie, have spent one debate each on the kids' stage, giving both candidates a much-needed sense of urgency to perform well.
But the undercard has outlived its usefulness, and Tuesday's participants--Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, and Rick Santorum ...unsuccessful candidate for president and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer before becoming the Representative for suburban Pittsburgh in 1991. He lost his Senate seat in 2006 to Bob Casey, a Democrat machine politician and political dynast. Santorum is a social conservative who thinks the rest of the country is, too... --are polling so poorly they barely register as blips in the Real Clear Politics averages of national and early state polls. Onetime undercarders Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal recognized they were going nowhere in the presidential race and got out. It's up to each candidate himself--and their donor(s)--whether he should quit the campaigns, but the TV networks ought to do their part to encourage our hapless undercarders by dropping the increasingly useless JV debates.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... there are a couple of candidates performing way below their status as main-stage debaters--chiefly Kentucky senator Rand Paul, whose hide was saved from the undercard by the generous folks at CNN. Paul is leading a libertarian movement in the Republican party that's atrophied away in the same way his poll numbers have. His best position is in Iowa, where he's been stalled out since August at below four percent support. Paul is simultaneously running for reelection to his Senate seat. In the unlikely event he delivers an all-star performance Tuesday night and prompts a stampede of supporters to bolt from Ted Cruz, he's likely to spend the next 10 months campaigning in his old Kentucky home.
The same might be said for Carly Fiorina, who burst onto the main stage in September after the only breakout performance on the undercard stage in August. Fiorina's spurt of support has sputtered out, however, and she's in Rand-Paul territory in most of the poll averages. Like Paul, she doesn't have an early state to hold out for. Fiorina's polling best in New Hampshire, at an average of 4.7 percent, but that puts her behind 7 other candidates. Without a compelling message beyond her ability to skewer Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu Root ... as perhaps none of the male Republican candidates could, it's hard to see a reason for her candidacy, or her appearance on the debate stage, after December.
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Why do they still have the undercard debate? Why were half of those people on the main stage sucking up the air of the leading candidates?
Candidates need to see reality and step aside, stop wasting times, fogging up the field, and burning money.
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Actually Grog, Hillary is better than Bernie Sanders, who plans on shutting down all offshore drilling, our nuclear power plants, etc. He also wants to mandate 65mpg minimum on all vehicles. Yes, it can get worse than the Hildabeast
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I'm all for dropping Bush after last night. It's his money, not his positions or charisma, that keep him in it. Pathetic. Can't imagine anyone continuing to invest in this failure.
Christie might make a good Attorney General. He'd certainly be a refreshing change from Holder/Lynch.
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At this point, its Cruz, Rubio, and Trump. Everyone else is just cluttering up the discussion. The sooner the rest wake up to that reality the sooner we can discuss where to go from there.
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Some of you are probably old enough to remember when a 'dark horse' came out of the shadows at a deadlocked convention and was accorded the nomination. That's back when the 'media' were reporters, not shapers of sh .. fecal matter.
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Crusader, my list of 'viable candidates' is slight longer at this point --
Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Fiorina, Christie.
These are (in my estimation) the only ones who can get 3% or more of the vote.
Bush? Gone. Paul? Gone. Kasich? Never-wuzzer.
Now by February it likely will be that Fiorina and Christie are out as well.
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Drop Christie and we have a match. I like him, but he won't fly nationally. I want Fiorino to break out and surge but doubt it will happen.
The author of this excrement is a Gawd Damn fascist in my estimation.
[Salon] It has become increasingly clear that terrorist groups such as ISIS can extend their reach to American territory via the Internet. Using their own websites, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms, they lure young men and women to their mission—without having to risk the capture of foreign agents on U.S. soil. The Americans ensnared in ISIS’s net in turn radicalize others, send money to ISIS, and even carry out attacks. ISIS is a pesky bunch, to be sure.
Never before in our history have enemies outside the United States been able to propagate genuinely dangerous ideas on American territory in such an effective way—and by this I mean ideas that lead directly to terrorist attacks that kill people. The novelty of this threat calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech. "Dangerous ideas". The language about an individual who just wants their views to be heard. The language of a tyrant.
What can we do? Proposals that Internet companies “shut down” dangerous communications have been met with howls of laughter from Silicon Valley. It’s easy for determined jihadis to replace shuttered websites with new ones and hard for Internet companies to keep track of billions of communications. Using the law to force Facebook and Twitter to do more to block ISIS propaganda would make sense but also falls short of what is needed. No approach is perfect, but there is a way to deal with these problems. Ideas are not problem. If you dislike an idea, there's a solution.
Consider Ali Amin, the subject of a recent article in the New York Times. Lonely and bored, the 17-year-old Virginia resident discovered ISIS online, was gradually drawn into its messianic world, eventually exchanged messages with other supporters and members, and then provided some modest logistical support to ISIS supporters (instructing them how to transfer funds secretly and driving an ISIS recruit to the airport). He was convicted of the crime of material support of terrorism and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Amin did not start out as a jihadi; he was made into one.
Researchers at George Washington University identified 300 U.S-based ISIS sympathizers who use Twitter and other social media to lure Muslim Americans into the arms of ISIS. These American citizens and residents—themselves the fruit of the recruiting efforts of foreign ISIS members as well as of other Americans—frequently use a graduated approach so as to avoid alarming people who are merely curious about Islam: A good approach for any entity that wants to attract new blood.
But there is something we can do to protect people like Amin from being infected by the ISIS virus by propagandists, many of whom are anonymous and most of whom live in foreign countries. Consider a law that makes it a crime to access websites that glorify, express support for, or provide encouragement for ISIS or support recruitment by ISIS; to distribute links to those websites or videos, images, or text taken from those websites; or to encourage people to access such websites by supplying them with links or instructions. Such a law would be directed at people like Amin: naïve people, rather than sophisticated terrorists, who are initially driven by curiosity to research ISIS on the Web. In other words: destroy the very rights upon which this country was born.
The law would provide graduated penalties. After the first violation, a person would receive a warning letter from the government; subsequent violations would result in fines or prison sentences. The idea would be to get out the word that looking at ISIS-related websites, like looking at websites that display child pornography, is strictly forbidden. As word spread, people like Amin would be discouraged from searching for ISIS-related websites and perhaps be spared radicalization and draconian punishment for more serious terrorism-related crimes.
The law would not deter sophisticated terrorists who send one another encrypted messages. That’s not its point. ISIS seeks to recruit Americans on American soil; in order to recruit from the public, it obviously cannot act secretly. It must instead broadcast widely and rely on surrogates to broadcast widely, in order to reach an audience of nonradicalized Muslims. This is a vulnerability. When people discover ISIS websites and circulate them by Twitter, Facebook, and other public websites, those people often disclose their identities. Many are too naïve to use pseudonyms; others reveal their identities to their ISPs, which can be forced to cough them up to police. Teenagers who are curious about ISIS but not yet committed to it are unlikely to use complicated encryption technologies to mask their identities from ISPs. Laws directed at this behavior would make a dent in recruitment, and hence in homegrown radicalism, even if they do not solve other problems. Laws such as this execrable proposal would also destroy the fabric of the Constitution, which I can easily infer is the whole purpose behind the law.
One worry about such a law is that it would discourage legitimate ISIS-related research by journalists, academics, private security agencies, and the like. But the law could contain broad exemptions for people who can show that they have a legitimate interest in viewing ISIS websites. Press credentials, a track record of legitimate public commentary on blogs and elsewhere, academic affiliations, employment in a security agency, and the like would serve as adequate proof. Ah yes, exemptions. "You have my permission to read or study about something as long as it is used for government approved purposes." Do you not see something wrong with this proposal?
The obvious problem with this law is that the courts could strike it down under the First Amendment. Under current doctrine, such an anti-propaganda law is unconstitutional because it would interfere with the right of people to receive or read political information—as would proposed laws that would require Internet companies such as Facebook and Twitter to remove ISIS-related propaganda from their websites. The Supreme Court has held that the government can ban political speech only when it poses an immediate threat to public safety, as when an orator encourages a crowd to go on a rampage. Speech that blasts the American constitutional system and praises America’s enemies has been held constitutionally protected time and again.
However, these rules go back only to the 1960s. Before then, in the United States, people could be punished for engaging in dangerous speech. The U.S. government prosecuted Nazi sympathizers during World War II, draft protesters during World War I, and Southern sympathizers in the Union during the Civil War. It’s common sense that when a country is embroiled in a war, it should counter propaganda that could populate a third column with recruits. The pattern in American history—and, in the other democracies as well, even today—is that during times of national emergency, certain limits on speech will be tolerated. And those convictions and laws were unconstitutional on their face. Dredging up past unconstitutional practice do not justify their resurrection now.
We do not currently face a national emergency comparable to a world war, but anti-propaganda laws may nonetheless be warranted because of the unique challenge posed by ISIS’s sophisticated exploitation of modern technology. In the old days, radicals handed out crudely mimeographed leaflets at street corners. Today, the Internet makes possible the constant circulation of captivating videos, vivid images, and extremist text, creating a “radicalization echo chamber.” It is the change in technology, more than the change in the nature of foreign threats, that has given rise to a historic and unprecedented danger from foreign radicalization and recruitment. The Internet reduces government control over information, and to this guy, that's a problem. Radicalization, or just an invite to join a recipe sharing group, the only acceptable counter to ISIS' propaganda is better ideas, freely expressed.
The major justification for freedom of speech is the marketplace of ideas—the claim that if people can say whatever they want, the best ideas will flourish. But just what is it that we can learn from ISIS? The social value of beheading apostates? The finer points of crucifixion? Those who regard free speech as fundamental need to consider whether legal principles that arose centuries ago make sense in the age of Snapchat. It is possible, as Cass Sunstein has explained in Bloomberg View, to modify the current test for free speech violations so as to advance public safety without throwing out important protections for dissent. A simple balancing test would permit laws to target dangerous speech that does not advance public debate. They made sense when they are applied as to free speech, when they are applied.
It’s possible that the propaganda threat from radical Islam will peter out on its own. Many Internet companies already censor pro-ISIS websites and accounts—which they can do because the First Amendment does not require private companies to protect the speech of their customers. And law enforcement authorities have used the material support statute aggressively, as in the case of Amin, to crack down on anyone who takes a step beyond mere advocacy. My colleague Geoffrey Stone has argued that the U.S. government has usually overreacted to foreign threats by cracking down on civil liberties, hurting people who would never have caused harm. During World War I, for example, the government punished dissenters who merely criticized the war and were not spreading German propaganda or trying to recruit agents. If Stone is right, we should be careful to avoid overreacting again. You are overreacting with this proposal.
But like it or not, the West is engaged in a propaganda war with ISIS. Our own distaste for ISIS’s views should not blind us to the fact that it appeals to thousands of Americans. A narrowly tailored anti-propaganda law that reduced the ranks of homegrown jihadis would not only enhance public safety. It would also protect American Muslims like Ali Amin from the virus of ISIS’s ideology. "Narrowly tailored" laws have a nasty habit of becoming the fascist monsters that destroy rights and societies. The only tried and true counter to terrible ideas are better ideas, freely expressed. Her 'narrowly tailored law' will be tailored sufficiently to be used against domestic political opponents. Ask Lois Lerner...
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Sounds not too unlike a modern extension and expansion of the Communist Control Act. The effect would be to perpetuate an endless cycle of whack-a-mole that would effectively divert attention from and thus prevent addressing the real problem.
Said real problem, of course, being Islam as demonstrated by the correlation between the level of religiosity of its adherents and those persons propensity to engage in violence against everyone else.
Hack at the root or hack at the branch, both are anathema to the Constitution. Or sit back and enjoy the escalating violence.
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to modify the current test for free speech violations so as to advance public safety
Say, doesn't science denial threaten public safety?
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Currently, there is far too much focus in D.C. on bogus global warming. If we can't disrupt, confuse, and destroy ISIS communications, we are too focused on bullshit leftist notion such as climate change. This piss ant caliphate should have been destroyed long ago and left in rubble.
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ISIS Gives Us No Choice but to Consider Limits on Speech of the Right
FIFY. Somehow fascism is always falling on America but always ends up promoted by the Left.
The major justification for freedom of speech is the marketplace of ideas—the claim that if people can say whatever they want, the best ideas will flourish.
Sort of missed whats been happening on America's campuses. And just who is shutting down the 'market place of ideas'? /rhet question
You don't have to limit American's right to free speech. But you can block internet traffic to and from certain parts of the world. Syrians, Chechens and the like are not American citizens and have no such rights here.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are attempting to establish a regional base in Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the commander of the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, said foreign murderous Moslems from Syria and Iraq had joined the loyalists of the terror group in eastern Nangarhar province.
Gen. Campbell further added that the loyalists of the terror group in Afghanistan are also trying to consolidate links with the leadership of the terror group based in Syria and Iraq.
He did not comment regarding the exact number of the imported muscle who have joined the loyalists of ISIS terror group in Afghanistan.
But his remarks comes as a report was reportedly released by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... late in the month of September this year, stating the terror group is making inroads in Afghanistan with the number of sympathizers and followers growing across the country.
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.
"The number of groups and individuals who are openly declaring either loyalty to or sympathy with ISIL continues to grow in a number of provinces in Afghanistan," the report said.
The report also added that around 70 murderous Moslems of the terror group are busy in forming the core of the group's branch in Afghanistan which was initially formed by Abdul Rauf Khadem after visiting Iraq in 2014.
Khadem was the former Taliban adviser to Mullah Mohammad Omar and reportedly formed his own group in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and western Farah provinces.
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It's rare that Fox News mouthpiece Bill O'Reilly expresses an opinion that even those on the American left embrace, but his summary of Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to reflect the attitude of just about all Americans. The cable host has used the following expressions when speaking of Mr. Putin: "a KGB thug," "a menace to the world" and, simply, "a killer." We should join forces with this thug to rid the world of a greater menace.
According to the Pew Research Center, in 2015 three-quarters of Americans have been "critical of Putin" with only 21 percent having "confidence" in him. By the same poll, Russian sentiments toward U.S. President Barack Obama are even lower, with only 11 percent of Russians having faith in Mr. Obama--down from 41 percent in 2011. This drop is due, in great part, to the economic sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, and American policy on Ukraine and Syria. But these are not the only reasons.
As in America, the Russian public is largely informed by TV shows and other media, which never miss an opportunity to remind viewers that the current occupant of the White House is the world's biggest villain--but not one to be taken too seriously.
Russian television has its own Bill O'Reilly. His name is Dmitry Kiselyov, and he is the host of his own weekly program News of the Week. This week's heroes are Fox's Ralph Peters and actress Stacey Dash, for the simple reason they "cursed" Mr. Obama last week. That's good enough for Mr. Kiselyov.
"I am not going to clog your brains with the usual banalities by Obama," was all Mr. Kiselyov said to his viewers last Sunday, after the U.S. President's speech from the Oval office. Rather than reporting on the substance of the U.S. President's policies, Russian media prefers stories on Mr. Obama making faces like 'Grumpy Cat,' or on his wife's adoration of rap music or other easy-to-digest memes:
Barack Obama loves to act like a clown.
"U.S. President Barack Obama started to laugh when asked by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart who the U.S. is bombing in the Middle East. It's not his first appearance on the comedy show," reported major Russian news agency RIA Novosti,
Barack Obama is lazy.
"During his presidency, Obama spent more than 1,100 hours on the golf course--or one-and-a-half months without breaks for sleep or food. He played golf 247 times during his presidency, breaking the record of Dwight Eisenhower who did it 210 times," a major Russian tabloid reported.
Barack Obama is an idiot.
"Obama linked the spread of terrorism to climate change. At the same time, the American president expressed confidence that terrorism will be defeated." Not having given any specifics on how to deal with the climate change, Mr. Obama cannot be trusted in the war against terrorism, concludes RIA Novosti.
Barack Obama is a liar.
"Together with [German Chancellor] Merkel and [Turkish President] Erdogan, Germans called Obama the liar of the year--39 percent called Merkel the biggest liar, 21 percent called Obama," announced another Russian tabloid.
In other words, Russian media wants viewers to believe Mr. Obama is the anti-Putin. Mr. Putin is strong. Mr. Obama is weak. Mr. Putin is a doer. Mr. Obama is a talker. Mr. Putin fixes things. Mr. Obama ruins. Mr. Putin is a leader. Mr. Obama isn't.
Mr. Putin is a macho alpha-male. Mr. Obama is a... what?
Mainstream media dodges this answer, leaving the task to pro-Kremlin propaganda that quickly and willingly provides it through videos like that of popular nationalist comedian Mikhail Zadornov, author of the widely known slogan, "Americans? But they are STOOOOOOOOOOPID!"
Instead, the answer is in the short and offensive motto: "Obama [is a] schmoe."
In Russian, "schmoe" resembles the Yiddish "schmuck," but with much stronger negative connotations.
"Obama schmoe" has recently become an all-pervading part of Russian pop-culture. There are "Obama schmoe" bumper stickers (in addition to others, like "Obama is bad" and "Obama is the devil"), and there are tee-shirts with pictures of Mr. Putin whispering into the ear of the embarrassed American President, "Obama, you are a schmoe."
Last summer, during his trip to Russia, French Senator Yves Pozzo di Borgo was tricked into holding the tee-shirt, with which he was photographed, La Parisien reported.
There are satellite photographs of the slogan in white paint on the runway of the Russian air base in Syrian Latakia. There, it serves as a background for Russian warplanes.
The term is so popular that it made its way into Wikipedia (but was later deleted because of user complaints).
On the surface, the Kremlin avoids putting President Obama down, though the Russian government approves the trend and, from time to time, openly condones it.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of spreading the Kremlin's views to the world, Russian government-funded TV network RT kicked hard at President Obama in a recent promotional video. The film depicts what Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry will be doing 20 years from now, at a time when Edward Snowden is president and the whole world watches nothing but RT. Nobody is afraid of America any longer, and Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry have a drink. "Yes we can!" says a decrepit Mr. Obama as he goes for a beer in the fridge.
Mainstream Russian media delivers ugly insults wrapped in "newsworthy" and "innocent" packaging, like Vesti's "The Farmer's He-Goat Obama is Looking For His Raging She-Goat Merkel."
When RT speaks to a mostly international audience, the anti-Obama message it spreads is only on the verge of being hostile and is never personal. When presented for domestic consumption, however, the attacks on the U.S. President--orchestrated by the Russian government--are straightforward.
During last summer's 'Day of Youth' celebration in the Siberian city of Bratsk (population around 250,000), the local administration organized a "Who Can Kick Obama Higher" contest. A life-sized poster of Mr. Obama was placed in the central square of the city and, to the joy and enthusiasm of the young participants, the rules were simple: the winners are those who kick Mr. Obama highest in the face.
In February, during the Maslenitsa folk holiday--celebrated in Russia in the last week before Lent--effigies of the U.S. President were burned in Kaliningrad, Sevastopol and other cities. In the Siberian city of Barnaul, the organizer of the burning was "an Afro-American who looked like Barack Obama," who was a local representative of the LDPR party in Russian Parliament.
The holiday also included a puppet show for children, during which Russian puppet Petrushka killed and burned the American President. The performance welcomed by the Governor of the Altai region, Alexander Karlin. "This is a folklore tradition," he said. "During Maslenitsa the people always have burned the effigy of Winter, and she never was offended by this. There is no political context here." Organizers denied that Barack Obama was a puppet in the show.
In July, in the city of Perm, the U.S. President's effigy was found hung under a railroad bridge not far from the local university with was a nameplate that read, "One dead Obama = 7,650 live Ukrainians."
The perpetrators of this barbaric "performance" were never found--in fact, according to v-kurse.ru, police said that "the hooligans" had done nothing unlawful. Just last week, in the Kuban region of Russia, a crowd of around 500 took part in the burning of the effigies of both Barack Obama and Recep Erdogan for "shooting down the Russian plane by Turkey at the command from America."
Blatant racism has long accompanied attacks on the U.S. President's image, but until recently never became a cause for concern among Russian authorities.
Last April, in the city of Samara, local company hung a poster in the middle of the street that read, "Shame on you, unwashed chimney sweep!" with a picture of Barack Obama's face. The company received national notoriety and a great deal of new business, but was fined 10,000 rubles ($150) for breaking advertisement laws.
In the center of the city of Lipetsk, a local printing firm put a huge commercial banner with Mr. Obama's face and a tear printed under his right eye. "We work for everybody -- but Barack Obama," it read. But this company was not fined because the banner didn't break any laws, and "Barack Obama did not complain to the department personally."
Last week's disgustingly racist scandal finally broke the patience of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which had been silent despite all of the vulgar anti-Obama assaults in Russia. The high-end Bakhetle supermarket chain displayed cutting boards styled as the 2016 calendar that, according to Chinese horoscopes, will be "the year of monkey."
"The product features a family of monkeys," AFP reported, "with an image of Obama's face superimposed onto that of the smallest primate."
The owner of the supermarket chain, according to the Maxpark social network, is Mrs. Muslima Latypova, the deputy of the regional Tatar Parliament.
"It is disgusting to see that such blatant racism has a place on Russian store shelves," Will Stevens, the spokesperson for the US Embassy in Moscow wrote on his Twitter.
The response of the cutting boards' producer was even more disgusting than the "product" itself.
"Nowhere on the cutting board is it written that this is Obama. These are nothing but boards with monkeys on them," said the commercial director for the "Eurostyle" manufacturing company, Mr. Kirill Naumenko.
The boards were removed immediately following the angry reaction from the U.S. Embassy and the official representative of the store chain made the public apology. But, yet again, there was no public apology from representatives of the state, and no signs that the ugly racist "performances" and personal insults against the U.S. President will be ended once and for all.
[ARABNEWS] Those who do not read what leaders of Daesh [Islamic State] write and those who do not watch the group's videos may not realize that it has many enemies, foremost among them is 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... Daesh [Islamic State] has a long list of rivals worldwide, such as the United States and most recently earned foe is Russia, as well as European governments, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan. Daesh [Islamic State] is also fighting both the Syrian regime and the opposition.
For two years now, the organization has actively spread fierce propaganda against Saudi Arabia and its rulers. There are many Saudi fighters in Daesh [Islamic State]'s ranks, and the government worries that they may one day sneak back into the country from Iraq and Syria to implement promote Daesh [Islamic State] agenda.
The same applies to the terrorist Al-Nusra Front, which presents itself as an opposition group that is only hostile to the Syrian regime. It is an extension of Al-Qaeda and has previously professed loyalty to it. Although it fights Daesh [Islamic State], their aims are similar.
Al-Nusra Front fighters have previously threatened Saudi Arabia. This is why we doubt the aims of regional governments that support it, because its biggest aim is to attack Saudi Arabia, which for turbans represents the Promised Land and the path toward legitimacy.
Terrorists consider Syria a base to gather, train and launch operations, as they did previously with Afghanistan. Initially, Al-Nusra Front and Daesh [Islamic State] deceived people with the idea that they were formed to fight unjust sectarian regimes in Iraq and Syria, thus exploiting people's grievances. Al-Qaeda did the same in Afghanistan and Iraq.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... crimes committed in Syria and Iraq by Al-Nusra Front and Daesh [Islamic State] have quickly turned Arab and Muslim public opinion against them, unlike Al-Qaeda, which enjoyed media and religious propaganda in its defense.
Those who sympathize with Al-Nusra Front or Daesh [Islamic State] do not dare express that sympathy in Saudi Arabia. In some cases, worshippers have driven out preachers who dared commend Daesh [Islamic State]. People can now distinguish between nationalist groups that rebel against injustice and terrorist groups that facilitate chaos.
Daesh [Islamic State] in Iraq has worn several masks. It claimed to be formed from tribal groups then it portrayed itself as aligned with Baathists and later claimed it was a mixed army under An-Naqshbandiyyah leadership. Daesh [Islamic State] is the biggest and most dangerous power in Iraq -- many people became aware of this after it occupied djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and a number of cities in Al-Anbar province. Today, it not only threatens Baghdad, but also Saudi Arabia's borders.
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I'm so tired of the (pathetic) attempts to fit Muslim belligerence into the framework of the modern liberal (lumpen Marxist) worldview.
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I'm so tired of both leftist Marxists and Muslims who don't give a fig about America. Fifteen of the 19 911 terrorists were from SA and all of them were Muslims from the ME. Financing came from SA. Nearly all of the recent terrorism is somehow linked to the ME except for a few one-off nut cases who were home-grown. I am tired of the left taking the country into Detroit territory--a shit hole that is the result of leftist policies over decades.
Helmand-Provincial police headquartersSecurity forces have killed the military commander of Taliban for Marjah District of restive Helmand Province during clash.
Police Chief of Marjah District said five companions of Mullah Obaidullah alias Sahar were also killed during the brief gun battle that erupted last night.
Abdullah Khan added that security forces did not suffer casualties during the clash.
Another report from Marjah District suggests that 11 civilians sustained injuries after a rocket hit a house in Block-e-Naw area.
The victims include nine children and two women who were taken to Emergency Hospital, located in the provincial capital, for treatment.
Doctors say eight victims were discharged after treatment but three children who had received severe injuries are still under medical care.
Officials say Taliban had taken security posts under fire during which a rocket landed on a house in Block-e-Naw area leaving 11 civilians wounded.
This comes as heavy clashes have been erupting between security forces and Taliban have been engaged in heavy clashes in Marjah District.
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Sanity ‐ and Santa ‐ have been restored at a Brooklyn public elementary school where St. Nick was banned, the Pledge of Allegiance was dropped and Thanksgiving was replaced with a "harvest festival."
The good news arrived at PS 169 in Sunset Park on Monday morning, a day after The Post exposed the bizarre PC extremism of Principal Eujin Jaela Kim. "Jeeeebus, am I required to monitor all you commie kids?"
It's nice to see that central school board administrators can still be shamed by adverse publicity -- wonder how much longer that will be the case...
District 15 Superintendent Anita Skop stormed in the front door at 9:50 a.m., and minutes later, two fifth-grade boys were brought to the main office to lead a recital over the public address system of the Pledge of Allegiance, teachers told The Post. "Do it right. Stick it in her face" As The Post reported on Sunday, the pledge hadn't been said over the loudspeakers since the beginning of the school year. Kim, 33, became principal in May 2014. "whoops"
Santa Claus is now reinstated at the school, and Department of Education officials said on Monday that the Pledge of Allegiance will be recited over the PA system every morning, in response to concerns from the community.
"It never would have happened if The Post didn't do the story. That's the only way we got our voices heard," PTA president Mimi Ferrer said. Sunlight on roaches
"I'm ecstatic that Santa can come back. Hopefully, he can make a visit to the kids in our school for our winter celebration on Thursday."
At a school leadership team meeting last week, Kim told staffers, "Do not celebrate Christmas, do not celebrate gift-gifting, do not celebrate Santa. We need to be respectful," according to a school source. of....?
"Christmas is a Christian celebration and something that is tied to religion," Kim told them, according to the source.
DOE officials said on Monday that PS 169 administrators were mistaken in believing that Santa could not be used as a holiday symbol.
Happens all the time. Why, the past one hundreds they've been unwilling to ... oh, right, this is the first time.
Only depictions of religious figures or texts are banned.
"We work to foster inclusive communities in our schools that welcome students and families, and celebrate the diverse values and traditions of all New Yorkers," DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye said in a statement.
"We will foster inclusiveness for everyone except for the majority community, which we will insult, scorn and exclude!"
"This principal continues to work closely with her school community to ensure PS 169 is an inclusive school, meet students' and families' needs, and celebrate the values that make her community and New York City great," Kaye said.
Officials said the school emailed staffers new guidelines on Monday allowing the use of Santa Claus "as a holiday symbol with secular dimensions."
"I apologize for any confusion this may have caused," Kim wrote in the email. She said, through her clenched resignation papers
"I apologize for any confusion" is NOT an apology. We weren't confused in the least.
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Time to move Eujin Jaela Kim to being a principal of another school---one with different demographics?
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Strangely enough the Koreans and Japanese both participate in the Western Christmas festivities, neither countries are technically 'Christian' nations, for the same reason that the American form of Christmas got started here - merchants/businessmen. So get off of Santa's case.
[Jpost] Less than 24 hours after a Paleostinian man rammed his car into 11 pedestrians in Jerusalem, seriously wounding an infant boy, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, announced Tuesday that the assailant was a member of the terrorist organization and resided in the West Bank.
Although police initially identified the terrorist, Abed el-Muhsen Hassuna, 21, as living in east Jerusalem's upscale Arab Beit Hanina neighborhood, Hamas claimed that Hassuna, who held an Israeli identity card, had resided in Hebron for the past two years.
A subsequent police investigation determined that Hassuna drove his car from Hebron to the western entrance of Jerusalem on Monday and at 3 p.m. he plowed the vehicle into a group of civilians waiting at a bus stop near the Central Bus Station, across from the Bridge of Strings.
During the collision, which knocked over a fire hydrant, an 18-month-old boy sustained a serious leg wound, resulting in reported amputation, while 10 others were taken to area hospitals in satisfactory- to-good condition.
Amid the chaotic, flooded scene of the crime, a security guard, police officer and armed civilian shot Hassuna dead as he attempted to exit the vehicle.
A green, metal hand ax that was found by police near his corpse was seized as evidence.
Hadassah officials and the infant's family, religious immigrants from La Belle France, refused to confirm multiple media reports on Tuesday that the boy's leg was amputated below the knee following two emergency surgeries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... police said on Tuesday a female Border Police officer prevented a terrorist attack in downtown Jerusalem after detaining and searching a suspicious-looking Paleostinian woman.
The suspect was placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! after confessing that she intended to use a screwdriver that was found in her purse to carry out an attack on a heavily traveled nearby street.
Police and security personnel remain on the highest level of alert across the city, with special emphasis on the Old City, flashpoint Arab neighborhoods and all public venues.
[ARABNEWS] Justice Minister Waleed Al-Samaani has welcomed the newly formed 34-nation anti-terrorism alliance and said it demonstrated the determination of Muslim countries to unite and fight terror in all its forms.
Speaking to the press, the minister said these terrorist groups have been allowed to grow and flourish because of support they received from various countries directly or indirectly.
These groups were targeting several Muslim countries, including 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... , and by doing so were tarnishing Islam, which teaches that believers should behave moderately and respect their neighbors, he said.
Islam's leading seat of learning, Al-Azhar, urged all Muslim countries to join the coalition to fight "terrorism" in the Islamic world.
The Cairo-based institution hailed the formation of the alliance as "historic", and said it hoped it would defeat the "evils of terrorism".
"This was an urgent demand of the people of Islamic countries who have suffered more than others from this black terrorism," Al-Ahzar said in a statement.
"Al-Azhar calls on all Islamic countries to join this coalition to counter terrorism... that has committed horrible crimes indiscriminately."
In Cairo, Egypt's Foreign Ministry front man, Ahmed Abu Zaid, said that his country has supported the alliance because it has been formed by Arab and Muslim countries and is aimed at fighting terrorist groups.
In Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said the unified stance taken by Muslim countries represents the strongest response to those who want to link terrorism with Islam, and that the country would provide whatever assistance is needed for the fight.
Military analyst, Ibrahim Al-Marai, told a local newspaper here that many countries have decided to join the alliance because of the success of the coalition forces in Yemen.
He said it was clear the alliance would operate on military and other fronts, be wary of violating the illusory sovereignty of other countries, or be seen as an aggressor. The aim was to achieve global security and stability in partnership with others, he said.
Daesh [Islamic State], which has launched attacks on several Western targets in recent months, has issued warnings to Gulf states and have mounted a series of attacks on mosques and security forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, a report in an online publication said Tuesday.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "They don't want me to waste my energy picking out something they don't want so it'll just be the money," first lady Michelle Obama told a patient at Children's National Medical Center Monday when asked what she was giving her family.
She also divulged what the president will find under the tree.
"He's going to get some workout stuff. It's not going to be very interesting this year, honey. Sorry," said the first lady, according to press pool reports.
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Of course they all get a $3 million trip to hawaii from us taxpayers.
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Money as a Christmas gift would be just fine with most kids I know.
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Training for life at the trough. Who needs a bust of Churchill or a necklace that won't fit around a cow's neck when cold hard cash can be had instead?
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Like everything else with this family, they missed the point of Christmas.
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49Pan when they are Muzzie Socialists of course the miss the point of Christmas.
[Borneo Post] Philippine soldiers found a headless body in Sulu late Monday evening. Major Filemon Tan Jr.said that the military believed the cadaver belonged to Malaysian national Bernard Then Ted Fen.
Tan said, "(The) alleged decapitated body of Malaysian Chinese Bernard Then Ted Fen is recovered at Sitio Lungon-lungon in Barangay Lanao Dakula, Parang municipality. (It) will be subjected to DNA testing to determine if it matches the head recovered last month," he added, referring to the severed head found on November 17.
The head, which was found inside a bag labeled with the name of the kidnap victim, was recovered in Indanan town.
Then was abducted, together with restaurant owner Thien Nyuk Fun, on May 14. Thien was released after paying ransom but the group led by Abu Sayyaf leaders Alhabsy Misaya and Idang Susukan had demanded P30 million for Then's freedom.
The Malaysian media reported in August that Then had told his wife the Abu Sayyaf planned to kill him if the ransom was not delivered by November. Then also said that another hostage, Dapitan village chair Rodolfo Boligao, had been beheaded because of his family's failure to pay ransom.
In a statement, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said such beheadings were an "act of terrorism." The MILF also called on the Abu Sayyaf to stop its "un-Islamic" kidnappings. The statement said, "We call upon the Abu Sayyaf to abandon their kidnapping activities, being against Islam and human dignity and civility. Kidnapping will bring your group to nowhere."
"We also call upon the leaders of the Sulu Province, including the politicians, MNLF and the claimants to the Sultanate of Sulu to pool their efforts together to stop or at least neutralize these kidnapping activities," the MILF added.
Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said the time has come for the government of Sulu to take action and end the atrocities in that province.
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[Jpost] Three IDF soldiers were maimed by gunfire during arrest operations in the Kalandia refugee camp in the West Bank overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to the IDF, a Paleostinian motorist attempted to ram Israeli security forces during the sweep.
IDF soldiers responded with fire and killed the suspected terrorist.
The military was investigating the possibility that the soldiers were accidentally maimed by IDF fire.
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.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[RFE/RL] A Swedish court sentenced an Uzbek citizen to 18 years in prison for an assassination attempt on an imam. The court in Ostersund found Yury Zhukovsky guilty of carrying out an attack on prominent Uzbek imam Obidkhon Qori Nazarov in 2012.
[REUTERS] Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for more sanctions on Tehran.
[DAWN] Employees of the ailing national airline on Tuesday walked out in protest over its planned privatisation, disrupting flights and undermining a central plank of reforms promised by Prime Minister 
[Inquirer] Thirteen Abu Sayyaf militants and two soldiers were killed in a gun battle in Al Barka, Basilan, at 5 p.m., Tuesday, while 10 other soldiers were injured. Tuesday’s clash was the third day of fighting between the insurgent group and Philippine troops.
[Rutland Herald] There is one basic reality in the Middle East. The region contains a number of "countries" that were created out of whole cloth during the 19th and early 20th centuries by European colonial powers to suit their own purposes. The artificiality of those "countries" makes for a very unstable region.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Minister of Interior has issued orders to arrest a group of 
Chris 
International Criminal Court
[Tolo News] Rifts among the Taliban after the death of their former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar will not end in the near future, say analysts and sources close to the group, adding that the roots of the differences among the Taliban's divided groups are well entrenched and will remain so for a long time.
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Jirga, jirga, jirga. Regime change, who needs it when you're losing? Hey, we're all on the same team again, wat were we dinking ? 
[Borneo Post] Philippine soldiers found a headless body in Sulu late Monday evening. Major Filemon Tan Jr.said that the military believed the cadaver belonged to Malaysian national Bernard Then Ted Fen.
In a statement, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said such beheadings were an "act of terrorism." The MILF also called on the Abu Sayyaf to stop its "un-Islamic" kidnappings. The statement said, "We call upon the Abu Sayyaf to abandon their kidnapping activities, being against Islam and human dignity and civility. Kidnapping will bring your group to nowhere."
