[Daily Caller] GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter called Tuesday for Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to resign over his attempt to force the Marine Corps to end gender segregation at its boot camp.
Consistent disputes between the Navy and the Marine Corps, according to Hunter, undermine the ability of Mabus to lead, since he appears primarily focused on restructuring the Marine Corps to serve his own objectives, The Washington Examiner reports.
"The only way this relationship can be repaired, I believe, is through the leadership of a new Navy Secretary -- specifically one who does not regularly make a point to undercut the Marine Corps, distract it from its mission and insult its leaders," Hunter said in a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
"I respectfully ask that you provide assurance that recruit training and Officer Candidate School will continue operating as they have, without any such disruption to the reliable and effective organization and methods for developing and training Marines," Hunter added.
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Personally, what I wanna know is whether the OWG Globalists + aligned will still send women into front-line combat iff their desired Anti-US "Limited Wars" - Conventional thru Limited Nuclear/TacNuke - occurs vee China andor Iran + expansion of the two latter's Spere(s) of Influence agz the US???
DOES CO-SUPERPOWER-VS-CO-SUPERPOWER LIMITED NUKE WARS STILL MEET THE USDOD'S BELIEF OF NO MORE MAJOR WARS TO OCCUR AROUND THE WORLD THRU YEAR 2050 IFF NOT 2100 = END-OF-CENTURY???
LIMITED NUKE WAR = WOMEN IN COMBAT, AS COMPARED OR OPPOSED TO UN PEACEKEEPING OR "POLICE ACTIONS"???
The way things are deteriorating betwwen OWG Co-Superpowers China + Iran versus US Regional Allies, the Globies, etal. may find out the reality sooner than they think.
With the presidential primaries about to kick off, we asked Ermey which candidate might be the best shot. While he wouldn't directly name any figures on the campaign trail, Ermey spoke glowingly of Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr.
"Well, I know Donny Trump," Ermey said, adding, "He's on my shooting team ... this guy's a 'dinger.' He can lay on the 600-yard line and never miss the black."
Ermey also speculated the shooting gene could be in the Trump family: "I'm thinking, if Donny Trump shoots that well ... then, dad must be a shooter too."
While not endorsing Trump, Ermey offered one observation about the candidate: "I do know that if Trump gets to be our president, our commander in chief, I know one thing -- our Second Amendment rights are solid as a rock."
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Allow me to say that once you've experienced M-1 Thumb, it will NEVER happen again to you. Ever. If you don't think so, you're welcome to stick your thumb into my M-1 and see how it feels.
"The Reaper has been bedeviled by a rash of sudden electrical failures that have caused the 21/2-ton drone to lose power and drop from the sky, according to accident-investigation documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Investigators have traced the problem to a faulty starter-generator, but have been unable to pinpoint why it goes haywire or devise a permanent fix."
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IIRC, UAVs always have a higher crash rate than manned aircraft. It is expected. It is built into the system operational design. Single string systems with lots of possible point failures.
From the article, it sounds like they were caught out on this lack of system redundancy to get the apparent airframe unit cost down.
Then all it takes is a bad batch of , say motor generators to get thru QA/QC, and the wapo has this month's gloom & doom, They-Are-Wasting-Dollars-on-Defense Wimmins-and-Chilluns-Hardest-hit liberal cry fest.
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Without pilots on board, the requirement for redundant systems go away with cost savings. Now they have a $14 million dollar aircraft with no back up electrical system. Smart move air force....
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Maybe we should start buying our drones from China . . . .
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The MQ-1 and MQ-9 have well over 2,000,000 flying hours, approximately 90% in combat. Overall loss rates are comparable to most other military aircraft. Like most WP articles, this is old news and not particularly relevant to ongoing operations.
[Nat Review] A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News. Read me that serial number one more time please. Yep, that's it !
A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car, or as it was intended, take down a helicopter.
After the raid on Jan. 8 in the city of Los Mochis that killed five of his men and wounded one Mexican marine, officials found a number of weapons inside the house Guzman was staying, including the rifle, officials said. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives checked serial numbers of the eight weapons found in his possession, they found one of the two .50-caliber weapons traced back to the ATF program, sources said.
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Chapos Sinaloa Cartel operations are big in Chicago. As soon as the Chicago regime occupied the oval office they ordered guns to be walked to Chapos cartel. If extradited it will be a looong time before Chapo is allowed on a court room stand this side of the border.
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[WattsUpWithThat] This article is intended mostly for American audiences. Today, it seems almost normal that the IPCC, UNFCCC and CAN (Climate Action Network International) interfere in American internal affairs, deciding who are scientists and who are not, telling us how much energy to use and from what sources, and generally sowing discord and polarizing society (with enormous success, I must admit). For more than 30 years, their claims of dangerous global warming caused by CO2 emissions have served as an excuse for this invasion. If there is a "problem," and the "problem" is global and America is its main cause, they reason, why not gang up on America?
But the "problem" is imaginary, and has always been imaginary. The readers of this site know that. Serious scientific assessments have never come to alarming conclusions, even when assuming exaggerated climate sensitivity to CO2. So what happened? To answer this question, we need to clearly understand three historical facts:
1) Almost all climate science between 1970 and 1992 was conducted in the USA.
2) Almost all climate politics in the same period originated elsewhere.
3) Climate politics led to climate pseudo-science, not the other way around.
[DeutscheWelle] Researchers have found that the plume of cold water released from massive icebergs increases carbon storage in the seas - far more than previously thought. This negative feedback loop significantly slows climate change.
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"We still don't fully understand the climate system - I wouldn't be surprised if there were further both negative and positive feedback that could possibly accelerate or slow down global warming," Bigg concluded [study author Grant Bigg, an Earth systems professor at the University of Sheffield in England].
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Lots of negative feedbacks none of which are not well understood by our "settled science" alarmists. For example, cloud formation. While clouds can trap heat (positive feedback) they also reflect sun light (negative feedback). Any excess of heat at the surface leads to, you guessed it, more evaporation. Evaporation transfers latent heat to the top of the atmosphere where when clouds form that latent heat is released and radiated out into space.
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none of which are not well understand --> none of which are well understood.
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Lizard People at Denver International want warmer weather.
[National Defense University Press] As the defense attach'e tasked with reopening the U.S. Defense Attach'e Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, beginning in late 2014, I had the opportunity to watch "fighting season 2015" unfold from a proximate vantage point.
Certainly no questions about where this fellow is coming from, or where he is going.
He's certainly a "half-full glass" kind of guy. I'd appreciate some independent assessment of the situation. If he's right then another year or three of steady support and no-drawdown should make some difference.
[NewsRadio WHAM 180] It's unfathomable. The account of two U. S. Navy vessels being seized by the Iranian navy earlier this week seems completely implausible. No part of it makes any sense.
The story is that two river patrol boats -- bristling modern-day incarnations of the Vietnam swift boats -- were navigating south from Kuwait to Bahrain. At some point, via some means, the two boats, with their contingent of five sailors each, surrendered to the Iranians.
Two accounts have been offered as to how that happened. The first was that one of the vessels lost its engine and that they both then drifted into Iranian waters. The other was that the two boats had been operating fine, but inadvertently navigated into Iranian territory.
Simply put, they got lost. Neither account seems possible.
Finally, someone has said in the media what I've been wondering these last couple of days. How on earth did this happen other than someone high up ordered the sailors to surrender and endure humiliation?
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IIUC, the US-N-Only-the-US is to be seemingly humiliated or debased on the world stage by POTUS OBama + any similar follow-on Anti-US US POTUS until such time the US is suborned under permanent + irrevocable US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?
Lest we fergit, the Globies STILL have N-O-T answered the Maha-RUshuan Questionne' as to HOW MUCH IS "TOO MUCH", + HOW FAR IS "TOO FAR", ETC. for the US to unlaterally voluntarily - BUT OHHH SO PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY - give up post-Cold War/9-11 "Sole" Superpower Power-n-Influence + [self]retreat geopol across the World WIDOUT BEING DEEMED DE FACTO "WEAK/DECLINING" + HENCE WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY ANYONE???
* E.G. FREEREPUBLIC, WORLD NEWS > JOE BIDEN: "WE DON'T NEED SOCIALISM".
Officially = "No", Un-Officially = "Yes", espec iff the former "American DReam" is now the "AMerikan Dream" andor "North AMerican/Amerikan Dream" where ordinary or mainstream Americans = Amerikans are all MEXICANS + CANADIANS + GREENLANDERS NOW, IN OWG GLOBALIST NATIONALIST + GEOPOL "PARITY", NOT "INFERIORITY" TO EACH OTHER.
How is Washington going to maintain sovereign Federalist-Nationalist control over a USA formally and firmly suborned under OWG NAU + Related???
Whats that you say - Under OWG + NAU the USA will still be the stronger andor dominating Nation-State widin the NAU Global Federal/Federalist Union? SORRY TO BUST YOUR BUBBLE, BUT THE GLOBIES + ALIGNED HAVE NOT AFFIRMED THIS EITHER.
* 1990'S CLINTONISM > FASCISM = NATIONAL SOCIALISM = AKIN TO MERE "LIMITED" COMMUNISM AKA ANTI-NATIONAL SOCIALISM OR ANTI-NATIONALIST SOCIALISM.
THERE IS NO US-LED PRO-US "NATIONALISM" IN US-LED ANTI-US "GLOBALISM".
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claims responsibility for âŞ#âBachaKhanUniversity⏠attack, says reports
Militants entered the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda district of the province and opened fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels.
21 killed in Pak university terror attack
A mushaera & exams were underway with participation of around 700 students
The Bacha Khan University teaches over 3,000 students and hosted an additional 600 visitors on Wednesday for a poetry recital, the vice chancellor said.
Terming the terrorist attack at Pakistan's Bacha Khan University in Charsada "very unfortunate", BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said terrorists are not able to do anything in India, hence they are now creating tensions in Pakistan.
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BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said terrorists are not able to do anything in India, hence they are now creating tensions in Pakistan.
Tensions is perhaps the wrong word at this particular moment, but the consequences of fostering pet jihadi groups flow naturally when the preferred outlet is blocked.
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Would you be satisfied with a pistol, Sven? From AFP:
Earlier in the day, Pakistanis were hailing Syed Hamid Husain, a chemistry lecturer who tried to protect his students by opening fire on the militants before being shot himself, as a "martyr" and "gentleman".
Witnesses said the professor had been known as "The Protector" even before he died shielding his students.
Geology student Zahoor Ahmed said the tutor had warned him not to leave the building after the first shots were fired.
"He was holding a pistol in his hand," he said.
"Then I saw a bullet hit him. I saw two militants were firing. I ran inside and then managed to flee by jumping over the back wall."
"He would always help the students and he was the one who knew all their secrets... He was referred to by students as 'The Protector'," geology student Waqar Ali told AFP.
[Huffpoo] ISIS fighters aren't getting any year-end pay raises this January. In fact, in response to mounting military and economic pressure across Syria and Iraq, the terror group is slashing salaries, newly-leaked ISIS documents show.
The administrative records reveal that ISIS leaders in Raqqa, the group's de-facto capital in Syria, reduced the monthly salaries of all fighters by half sometime around November or December of last year, just as the U.S. began to dramatically increase its airstrikes against ISIS-held oil fields and other financial targets.
"On account of the exceptional circumstances the Islamic State is facing, it has been decided to reduce the salaries that are paid to all mujahideen by half," reads the official notice, which was translated and first published by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, an ISIS expert and fellow at the Middle East Forum. "It is not allowed for anyone to be exempted from this decision, whatever his position."
It also notes that fighters will continue to be paid twice a month, as usual.
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Cutting Chechens' salaries isn't smart. Just ask Putti.
[Wash Times] The White House dismissed Republican accusations Tuesday that the U.S. paid Iran $1.7 billion as ransom to gain the release of American prisoners, saying the payment settled a long-running claim by Tehran over military equipment.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it was "not a coincidence" that the financial issue was settled at the same time as the administration swapped prisoners with Tehran and lifted U.S. economic sanctions in a deal to limit Iran's nuclear program. But he said the release of the four Americans was not linked to the payment, and instead resulted from "diplomatic opportunities" that arose during the negotiations. If the same logic follows, would then the raid on Abbottabad be an election opportunity 'vis a vis' a coincidence ?
"This is Exhibit A in the administration pursuing tough, principled diplomacy in a way that actually ends up making the American people safer and advancing the interests of the United States more effectively than military action," Mr. Earnest said.
[Breitbart] A simple new blood test that greatly facilitates the detection of Down Syndrome in unborn children may spell the "extinction" of Down Syndrome people, an article in the Telegraph suggests, since around 90 per cent of those performing the test end up aborting their babies.
In the article, writer Tim Stanley notes that the selective abortion of Down babies jumped by 34 per cent between 2011 and 2014, due to "increased access to blood tests via private clinics," and the simplification of the detection procedure will only increase the phenomenon.
Stanley cites the head of a midwife association in Denmark, who declared: "When you can discover almost all the foetuses with Down Syndrome, then we are approaching a situation in which almost all of them will be aborted."
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So it's "Down Syndrome people" now? Which, would make the selective abortion genocide?
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It's already a "genocide" to which the holocaust pales in comparison. But it's all voluntary [unless you drink Flint River tap water], and subsidized. Think of the cost savings to the Disability Insurance Fund, not to mention the inconvenience to working mums.
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"When you can discover almost all the foetuses with Down Syndrome, then we are approaching a situation in which almost all of them will be aborted."
How very Asian.
An African-American woman is almost five times likelier to have an abortion than a white woman, and a Latina more than twice as likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rate of abortion among American women is currently at its lowest point since Roe v. Wade, according to a recent report by the Guttmacher Institute. About 1.1 million abortions were performed in 2011, at a rate of 16.9 abortions for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, down from a peak of 29.3 per 1,000 in 1981. Since the reportâs release in February, the reason why has been the subject of much debate. Its authors and abortion-rights supporters point to the increase in contraceptive use and sexual education, while anti-abortion activists counter that the decrease is a result of abstinence-only teachings and state restrictions.
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An African-American woman is almost five times likelier to have an abortion than a white woman, and a Latina more than twice as likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Single parenting be hard. It's not for nothing that most Planned Parenthood centers are strategically located in urban centers. Big Government meeting the needs of the people.
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Come to the March for Life this Friday in Washington. You will hear speakers from many religions, races and walks of life.
Of course, the MSM will ignore it (again). I mean, there will probably only be 400-500 THOUSAND people there, if previous years are any example. If they mention it all, they will concentrate on the handful of counter protesters from Planned Parenthood.
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Margaret Sanger Approved™
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As pro-lifers pull on their waders
To reason and pray with the gators,
The nice people, rowing,
Throw lumps of flesh, crowing,
"Ignore those insane baby-haters!"
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I have a theory that DS folks occupy a niche in our civilization. Expensive yes, exasperating at times, but usually very kindly and nice. They rarely fight hard. I think they are here to bring our best instincts forward.
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I have a daughter with Down syndrome, and it's not an exaggeration to say what is happening is genocide. But it's been going on for a while now. Somewhere between 88% and 92% of children like mine are murdered before birth.
It's one of the reasons that, when Liberals accuse this particular conservatarian of being a "traitor," I agree with them. It's hard to have a lot of loyalty to a society that treats the one you love most like trash to be discarded.
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Worth the time to watch both segments, it makes clear that the suspicions are true, the Administration, Hildabeest, and a number of toady flag officers have lied about there being no assets available, and that some were actually turned back. It also makes the 13 hour movie even more compelling to go see I suspect. The leadership of this administration subordinates everything, every oath-bound duty, to the optics of politics over even the lives of those they lead. Despicable people for whom the word honor is meaningless and duty is merely a small obstacle to power.
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and the Select Committee apparently did not have people with enough experience and smarts to follow through on some obvious points, e.g., documentation of where assets where, why was Stevens in Benghazi, why was there a diplomatic asset there in the first place
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At the end of part two, the video offers this quote from the State Department: "The notion that [it] did not do everything possible to protect our people that night is as offensive as it is wrong."
That is about as wrong as it can get, and by their own words, that makes it just as offensive. A whole bunch of folks need to go to jail for murder and accessory to murder.
who managed last November to slip police net after the terror Paris attacks that claimed 130 lives, was captured lately in Morocco.
According to Moroccan authorities, the suspect was arrested in the Atlantic coast port city of Mohammadia, near Casablanca. Investigators said the man had sojourned in Syria where he fought with Al-Nusra front militants before joining ISIS.
While in Syria, the suspect received military training and made ties with ISIS field commanders, including the mastermind of the Paris attacks, and other terrorists who threatened attacks in France and Belgium. During his training camp, he learnt to handle different weapons and guerrilla tactics before leaving Syria for Turkey. He then travelled to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands before he arrived in Morocco.
So he got his ticket punched with all the right qualifications and tours of duty...
According to the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (Morocco’s FBI), the suspect had travelled to Syria along with one of the suicide bombers who blow up himself near Paris national stadium during the November 13 terror attacks in Paris. He built strong ties with Abaaoud, 28, during his stay in war-torn Syria. Abaaoud, the Belgian architect of the Paris massacre, was killed with other terror suspects when police raided a house in the Saint Denis Paris suburb.
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Arab Coalition warplanes intensified strikes targeting a secret meeting of Houthi leaders, killing several of them, reported Al Bayan.
Military sources said Houthi militia and forces loyal to ousted President Saleh are terrified by the presence of military units of national army and Arab Coalition on mountains near Sana'a. Therefore, the rebels have spread hundreds of their troops near the capital.
Meanwhile, Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, on Monday met Abdul Jalil Al Mukhlafi, Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen and Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is on a visit to the UAE.
During the meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), they discussed developments in Yemen and progress of the political progress as systematic hurdles created by the rebels continue to block international efforts and make it difficult to set the next date for the meeting.
The parties stressed the importance of continuing political efforts based on Resolution No. 2216, the Gulf Co-operation Council initiative and the outcome of the National Dialogue.
They discussed humanitarian developments and stressed that the situation should be addressed with resolve especially because the rebels continue to procrastinate over the issue.
The parties also discussed regional and international efforts for Yemeni issue.
[The Standard] Armed men believed to be members of a Philippine terrorist group with links to Daesh detonated a bomb Tuesday morning in a port terminal in Lamitan, Basilan, as the military finally admitted the presence of nine foreign terrorists.
Lamitan chief of police Gean Gallardo said the bomb went off near the main entrance to the terminal. The blast damaged a water tank and shattered windows but there were no reported casualties.
The bombing comes a day after Armed Forces chief Gen. Hernando Iriberri confirmed that at least nine foreign terrorists have sought sanctuary in Mindanao for years, assisting local terrorists in bomb making techniques.
Iriberri flew to Mindanao shortly after the Jakarta bombing, emphasizing the need for security forces to increase pressure on the Abu Sayyaf and other militant groups harboring foreign jihadis in Basilan, Sulu and Central Mindanao.
Of the nine foreign terrorists, four were Malaysian nationals identified as University Malaya lecturer Mahmud bin Ahmad, former Selayang Municipal Council employee Muhammad Joraimee Bin Awang Raimee, Mohammad Amin Baco and Jeknal bin Adil.
Malaysian Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said their compatriots who were enlisted by the Islamic State fled to Mindanao after an intensified crackdown was launched against them in 2013. He said the Islamist militants are associated with Daulah Islamiyah Asia Tenggara (Southeast Asia Islamiya Network) with links to Daesh.
In January 2015, Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir was killed in a clash with commandos in the ill-fated Operation Exodus in Mamasapano, where 44 policemen were slain. Troops also killed an Indonesian terrorist, Sucipto Ibrahim Ali, a member of the Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, along with six Filipino militants, as well as Moho Najib bin Husen last year.
Iriberri said it was not clear if the Abu Sayyaf was receiving funding from Daesh or other terrorist organizations.
He also said they are checking into reports that an Indonesian terrorist who led the attack in Jakarta might have fled to Mindanao and eventually established an alliance with local rebels.
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SULAYMANIYAH – Kurdish Counter-Terrorism special forces arrested on Tuesday a terror cell linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) in Sulaymaniyah city of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The members of the terror cell were reportedly planning to conduct a series of terrorist attacks across the Kurdistan Region.
Sulaymaniyah’s police department said in a statement that the Counter-Terrorism special forces raided suspected houses and arrested several terrorists.
“The forces also found a large deal of explosive devices in the raided houses in central Sulaymaniyah,” the statement added.
The members of the ISIS-linked terror cell were Arab and Kurdish jihadis recruited by ISIS, the police reported.
Speaking to ARA News in Sulaymaniyah, a police official said that hundreds of local residents of Iraqi Kurdistan have been recruited by ISIS group over the past few years.
“We are aware of such a movement inside the Kurdistan Region, and our special forces are pursing every citizen involved in contacts with the ISIS terror group,” he said.
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KENT, Ohio -- The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating Julio Pino, a Kent State associate history professor, for his alleged involvement with the Islamic State, according to KentWired.
"Kent State is fully cooperating with the FBI," Kent State spokesman Eric Mansfield told WKYC Channel 3 News.
"As this is an ongoing investigation, we will have no further comment," said Mansfield. "The FBI has assured Kent State that there is no threat to campus.”
An FBI special agent told KentWired a joint terrorism task force has been investigating Pino for the last year and a half.
This is the nice young history professor who shouted "Death to Israel" during a lecture by an Israeli diplomat. You can tell how nice he is by the pic of him...
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... bombed targets just across its border in Syria on Monday in direct response to rocket fire earlier the same day that hit a school in Turkey's Kilis province, killing a woman and injuring a student.
According to Hurriyet Daily News the Turkish military determined that the fire had come from border areas in Syria in the northwestern Azaz region, controlled by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) terrorist group.
After three Katyusha rockets hit the school, the Turkish military responded by bombarding ISIS positions across the border with artillery.
That came just days after Turkey claimed it killed 200 members of ISIS, following its bombardment of positions in both Iraq and Syria, in response to a suicide kaboom in Istanbul a week ago in which 10 Germans died.
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An Obama appointed
federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama's assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim.
"There is no need to balance the need against the impact that the revelation of any record could have on candor in future executive decision making, since any harm that might flow from the public revelation of the deliberations at issue here has already been self-inflicted," Jackson wrote. "The Department itself has already publicly revealed the sum and substance of the very material it is now seeking to withhold. Since any harm that would flow from the disclosures sought here would be merely incremental, the records must be produced."
Jackson said she wasn't questioning the propriety of Obama's claim of privilege, but ruling that the claim could not be sustained in view of other information the Justice Department had released on the topic, chiefly an Office of Inspector General report released in September 2012.
"This ruling is not predicated on a finding that the withholding was intended to cloak wrongdoing on the part of government officials or that the withholding itself was improper," the judge wrote. No, no, hurruph. Of course not
The administration could appeal the ruling. Spokescriters at the Justice Department and the White House didn't immediately respond I guess flicking the bird is not considered a response.
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"This ruling is not predicated on a finding that the withholding was intended to cloak wrongdoing on the part of government officials or that the withholding itself was improper," the judge wrote.
Oh but of course not. Who would ever attempt to attribute regime 'wrong doing' to 'cloaking' or a cover up.
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At the end of part two, the video offers this quote from the State Department: "The notion that [it] did not do everything possible to protect our people that night is as offensive as it is wrong."
That is about as wrong as it can get, and by their own words, that makes it just as offensive. A whole bunch of folks need to go to jail for murder and accessory to murder.
[Iran Press TV] Former Alaska governor Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... supports Republican front-runner Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election just days ahead of Iowa caucuses.
The Tea Party sensation voiced support for the billionaire real estate mogul on Tuesday, which could boost the GOP front-runner even further in Iowa on February 1.
"I'm proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president," Palin said in a statement.
According to The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Palin's support marks "the highest-profile backing for a Republican contender so far."
The former reality TV star reacted to Palin's support, saying, "I am greatly honored to receive Sarah's endorsement."
"She is a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support."
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Well, the repub establishment treated her like dirt for the last 8 years, and now wonders why she is returning the favor.
I dunno what to think about a president Trump administration. I expect to be deeply disappointed.
OTOH, in comparison to his immediate predecessor....
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I dunno what to think about a president Trump administration. I expect to be deeply disappointed. OTOH, in comparison to his immediate predecessor....
The opportunity for survival is greatly leveraged by the absence of surprise.
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This country has strayed to the left so far any turn to the right or common sense seems extreme. I look for violent action against them. Harvey Oswald, David Hinkle socialist left people are the most crazy of us all. George Wallace assassination even that Arthur Bremer fellow. Perhaps even Nixon but the Post and the Democrats were more politically effective(back up plan for Trump).
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The Donkeycrats have done such a bang up job of discrediting Sara Palin that I'm afraid she'll do Trump more harm than good. I love the girl but she is widely perceived as a kooky right-wing fringe type of character more worthy of SNL comedy routines than high office. It'd serve them right if she got elected vice-president but then the comedians would be making fun of her every day for the next eight years. Remember what they did to Dan Quayle? They could have done it to Al Gore just as easily but, of course, they didn't.
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I think if Trump was a crony capitalist you'd never hear his name. He'd be standing in the shadows and contributing to either Bush or Clinton or both.
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Cruz is so Establishment the Establishment is rallying to support him against Trump.
Ummm ... like, NOT. Seriously NOT. They are warming to Trump because he can be bought, excuse me "do deals". He and McConnell are gonna be YUGE buddies.
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He'd be standing in the shadows and contributing to either Clinton or Bush or both.
I believe he did and admits to doing so. As he explains he did that because 'thats the way the world works' and it insures that he can get help no matter who's in the WH. R or D he can call up and make things happen (or not).
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OK, but how many givernment contracts did he get for it? He says all he got from Hilary was her attendance at his wedding. shudder Anything that can compare to AIG, Solyndra, CGI, Haliburton, Goldman Sachs? You know what I mean. All those pigs at the trough. The ones who want cheap imported labor and plastic crap from China. They're the ones who are giving Sanders his ammunition. The difference is Sanders would completely dismantle all that. Maybe I'm giving Trump too much credit, but my idea of a true capitalist and not a crony capitalist is someone who believes in free enterprise instead of sweetheart deals with politicians.
"Over the last week, Clinton and her allies have faced fire from three different angles of the Benghazi/Email scandal story. Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) explained that the testimony seems to contradict the Obama administration (and State Department) story about what happened on the ground in Benghazi. Journalist Sharyl Attkisson agrees with Gowdy, saying that the evidence is now "overwhelming" and proves that the government has lied to us about what happened. Finally, the families of the Benghazi dead and those who survived are beginning to fight back against Hillary Clinton's attempts to paint them as either liars or simpletons."
If you can't dispute the facts, start calling names.
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And the BAMMER???
Lest we fergit, as POTUS + de facto EL SUPREMO atop the US NatCom Auth, the Bammer is responsible for ordering the Direct Military Response = DMR to any World Crisis [Crises] or Situation(s), OR IN ALTERN THE LACK OF SAME.
Hillary may had been US SecState, but she's NOT the Bammer, VPOTUS Grandpa Biden, andor the SecDef.
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I keep getting ads from Hillary! showing a black and white photo of her, statement is something like she is the best choice for defense/security.
The pitch is hilarious! in and of itself, but the photo they used...I understand finding flattering pictures is probably a difficult task, but this has her with what looks to be a lazy half-closed eye.
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IOC for the AF variant is late this year? The C carrier version 2018? May have that backasswards, wouldn't be the 10,000th time. B version already IOC preparing to deploy to Japan? And evidently doing expeditionary training somewhere near Pappy
[Iran Press TV] The Syrian government has strongly denounced the recent massacre by Daesh [Islamic State]Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... snuffies in the eastern Deir al-Zour Province, saying the responsibility for the crime lies with the supporters of terrorist groups operating across the Arab state.
In two identical letters to United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon and the head of the UN Security Council, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said that such killings are a continuation of a series of barbaric and methodical terrorist acts by gangs, Syria's official news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.
The ministry said the bully boy groups are receiving funds from some regional countries as well as states outside the region, noting that these countries recruit snuffies to serve their interests.
The ministry also pointed out that such crimes would not have happened without the constant funding, arming, and logistic support provided by intelligence agencies of certain states especially 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... , Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
The Syrian government affirms its determination to continue defending the Syrian people and confronting terrorism, the ministry emphasized.
The letter also reiterates its call for the UN chief and the Security Council to condemn such terrorist acts.
It also urges the UN to assume its responsibilities regarding counter-terrorism by taking proper measures against certain states that continue to conspire against Syria.
The developments come as Daesh [Islamic State] Takfiri snuffies recently kidnapped at least 400 civilians, including women and kiddies, in an assault on al-Baghaliyeh neighborhood of of Deir al-Zour.
All of the abductees were Sunni Muslims, including families of pro-government fighters. They were transported to other areas under Daesh [Islamic State] control.
Following its Saturday attack on Deir al-Zour, some 300 non-combatants were killed in the Daesh [Islamic State] attack on the troubled city.
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"Not only has the network been further discredited by having to defend increasingly-obvious Kremlin deceptions, RT's claims about its importance and reach have also been undermined. Despite their boasts that they have the largest online audience of any news agency in the world, leaked documents and independent analysis of RT's own content show that the Kremlin-run news outlet is misrepresenting its viewership and in fact has a minuscule audience in the West. Not only are "its most-watched segments are on 'metrosexuals, bums,' and earthquakes," but its most popular content are video reposted from other news agencies. Many Youtube videos which feature RT's original content average between 200 and 300 views -- hardly comparable to the BBC or private networks like CNN or Fox."
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CNN who is that?
BBC is nothing like what they once were.
FOX is losing viewership now because of bias.
News as with politics is a con game.
I learned that back in the Vietnam days of news. Flip the station and its word for word or nearly so.
A man accused of setting a fire that heavily damaged a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks has made his first appearance on a federal complaint. Twenty-five-year-old Matthew Gust, of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, is facing charges of malicious use of an explosive device and use of a destructive device during a crime of violence.
The Dec. 7 fire at the Juba Coffee House was started by a homemade explosive that was made with a 40-ounce beer bottle. It happened three days after vandals spray-painted what some have described as a Nazi-like symbol on the business, along with the words “go home.”
Gust was not asked to enter a plea at Tuesday’s hearing. A detention hearing is scheduled Friday.
Gust was originally charged in state court with felony arson.
Lock him up for a good 50 years. Arson is an ugly, ugly crime.
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A rare hate crime that seems to actually have been one, rather than a false flag operation.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... has said that the video of American sailors released by Iran made him angry and frustrated. Yeah. Tut tut. And tut. Pass the Heinz ketchup.
Video footage showed the US Navy personnel kneeling with their hands behind their heads as they were apprehended, something Kerry made clear he was deeply unhappy about. "Yep. Just tugged at my heartstrings."
"I was very angry. I was very, very frustrated and angry that that was released," Kerry told John Berman on CNN's "New Day." Yeah, buddy. Betcha he got down there and chewed the carpet, maybe even beat the servants.
"I raised it immediately with the Iranians. It was not put out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the government directly, it was put out I think by the military over there, the (Revolutionary Guard), who is opposed to what we are doing." "So just ignore it."
The 10 sailors were tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... with two navy boats by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) after illegally entering into Iranian territorial water on January 12 and released within 24 hours. Iran said the sailors were released after the United States apologized for the intrusion and gave assurances it would not happen again. Shucks, I wish I could be a foreign policy expert. Maybe if I'd been in Vietnam...
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"I was very angry. I was very, very frustrated and angry that that was released," Kerry told John Berman on CNN's "New Day."
[Ynet] 15-year-old allegedly responsible for stabbing Dafna Meir to death in Otniel has been captured in a Paleostinian city, apparently acted alone.
Security forces on Tuesday morning captured a 15-year-old, Morad Adais, who allegedly murdered Dafna Meir on Sunday in a terror attack at her home. He was apprehended at his home in Yatta, near Otniel, where the murder took place and south of Hebron.
It appears that like most of the holy warriors in the wave of violence that began in September, Adais acted alone and had no previous record, thus making it extremely difficult for security forces to know of his plans in advance.
Har Hevron Regional Council chief Yochai Damari said the terrorist entered Otniel by finding a breach in the settlement's defenses.
Video released on Monday showed the terrorist's escape from Otniel. Reports that day said the terrorist appeared to have fled in the direction of Yatta. Tuesday's capture also put to rest rumors that the terrorist was a laborer at Otniel. Adais was not employed as a laborer and presumably snuck into Otniel. The settlement is fenced only in the forested area between one of the large yeshivot and Highway 60, from which holy warriors infiltrated in the past. In other parts of the settlements there is no fence, but only electronic measures such as motion detectors and security cameras.
Witnesses reported a brutal scene on Sunday: Dafna Meir was painting her house's doorframe when the terrorist approached her from behind and stuck his knife in her head. Meir's daughter Renana, the eldest of six children, was present and called for help, her screams helping to scare him off.
[Iran Press TV] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has called on Muslim countries to form an alliance for progress and development and not for war, in an apparent reference to the coalition formed by 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... for the aggression against Yemen.
"We believe that the conditions in the region and world of Islam call for the creation of a coalition for development, and not war, in the world of Islam," Rouhani said in a meeting with Pakistain's 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 Tehran on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia launched a deadly aggression against Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... last March with the help of some of its allies. More than 7,500 Yemenis have so far been killed in more than nine months of incessant attacks, while millions more are reported to have been stranded across the country.
Responding to the Pak premier's remarks about the recent tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Rouhani said, "We call for the expansion of relations and do not welcome tension provided that the rights of Muslim people are respected."
Nimr's execution was widely censured by Muslims and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists around the globe as well as different governments.
Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran on January 3 following demonstrations outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad by angry protesters. The Saudi diplomatic premises was attacked by some during the demonstrations. Iranian officials strongly denounced the raids and have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! over 150 people over the incident.
Besides Pakistain, other countries, including Russia and China, have voiced readiness to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Rouhani expressed deep concern over insecurity caused by gunnies in the region and said the Iranian administration's policy is "based on constructive interaction with world countries, particularly neighboring states."
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Of course they do but it makes so much sense that even he doesn't believe it.
[DAWN] Microblogging website Twitter temporarily went down for a few hours on Monday, with both the website and mobile application inaccessible to users. Of course it did. The internet was closed for cleaning. Everybody knows that.
"Something is technically wrong," an error message read on the Twitter website when users attempted to login to their accounts.
Some Twitter users' feeds were visible despite the service being affected.
It was unclear what the issue is, but the message read: "We're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."
Tweetdeck, Twitter's other official client was also not working, The Independent reported.
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Repeating the Facebook experiment looking to see how desperate users become when cut off, perhaps? That's exactly the kind of information investors and advertisers want to know.
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The FBI-CIA discovered that a certain Madonna Fan from Guam whom knows secrets about Osama Bin Laden + Others is reading + using Twitter Artics as sources, hence Twitter has to be monitored.
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JOE! Whether you are human or advanced Baysean Bot doesn't matter. On this we are one. Guam > Okinawa > Yokohama
Fall back regroup and reforge, commence ass kickery using new info.
Or nuke the starch out of their poorly woven cotton shirts.
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – On Tuesday, Diyala Police Command announced, that four wanted men including two men wanted on charges of terrorism were detained north and west of Baquba.
Diyala police Spokesman Colonel Ghaleb al-Attiya said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Police units carried out a number of raids on residential areas north and west of Baquba, detaining four wanted men including two men wanted on charges of terrorism.”
Attiya added, “The operations were carried out based on accurate intelligence information,” indicating that, “The detainees were transferred to a security center for interrogation.”
According to a local official, 56 armed Shiite factions in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, sow terror among the Sunni population yesterday, he told Asharq Al-Awsat.
Member of Diyala Provincial Council, Ali al-Daini, said that overlooking the daily crimes committed in the cities of the province, in addition to what has happened lately in Muqdadiyah where ten mosques were bombed, lead the representatives of the Sunni components in Diyala to seek to globally shed the lights on the suffering in order to end the extermination campaigns perpetrated by these armed militias, who, according to al-Daini, belong to a “third-party” against the Sunnis in Diyala.
Al-Daini added that these militias belong to influential political parties providing them with legal coverage in order for them to carry out their criminal acts freely. They do not comply with any orders given by Diyala security authorities, have no deterrent, and they have become very difficult to control. Those armed factions have not only penetrated the army, police, and the province, but also have given themselves the right to name the security leaders in Diyala according to how they see it fits.
On the other hand, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced yesterday that the concerned bodies have started gathering evidences on the three Americans and their interpreter, who were kidnapped in Baghdad by an armed group wearing military uniform and driving a Sport Utility Vehicle.
An official source confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the victims were kidnapped from an apartment in Baghdad’s southeastern Dora neighborhood.
The kidnapping of the Americans came at a time when the fate of more than 20 Qataris remains unknown, after being kidnapped by an armed group for more than a month now, in the desert western Iraq.
Prior to that incident, gunmen kidnapped Turkish workers and held them hostages for more than a week before releasing them.
The U.S. has deployed a state-of-the-art guided-missile destroyer and nuclear-powered attack submarine to the 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan. The 7th Fleet is part of the Pacific Fleet and currently the largest naval grouping the U.S. deploys overseas.
The deployments are believed to be a response to the growing North Korean nuclear and missile threat as well as China's moves to widen its naval reach.
A military source on Tuesday said the USS Barry, an 8,900 ton destroyer,
...or what used to be called a 'light cruiser'...
left the Norfolk naval base on the U.S. east coast on Dec. 12 and is en route to the 7th Fleet. It is armed with SM-3 and SM-6 guided missiles.
The USS Charlotte, a 6,900-ton nuclear-powered submarine, apparently arrived at Sasebo naval base in Japan on Jan. 5 and will be based there for the next six months. The Los Angeles-class fast-attack sub can launch four torpedoes, 12 Tomahawk cruise missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Another nuclear-powered submarine, the 6,100-ton USS City of Corpus Christi, was deployed with the 7th Fleet last week.
The submarines would be capable of surreptitiously approaching the North Korean coast to launch precision strikes against nuclear and missile bases.
A Defense Ministry official here said Seoul and the U.S. are also discussing the deployment of B-52 long-range bombers and other strategic weapons to the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korea's nuclear test earlier this month.
The U.S. Navy also said an aircraft carrier, the USS John C. Stennis, will be deployed to the western Pacific for seven months.
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See SPUTNIK NEWS on the Russian take on the deployment of the USS "STENNIS" CVN.
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I would be surprised to learn that a large percentage of the USA's cruise missile carrying attack subs are not already deployed within firing range of norkland. What is one more sub? Pudgy has to know that a world of hurt is posed to rain down on him should he try something stupid.
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* WASHINGTON TIMES > CHINA RATTLES ITS SABRES AT JAPAN, CITES WW2.
* WORLD NEWS, TWITTER > CHINA WARNS JAPAN, US TO EXERCISE CAUTION ON TAIWAN, CHINA SEAS ISSUES.
Beijing warns Tokyo + Washington to tread carefully + not to intervene in its "internal" affairs.
* PLA DAILY ONLINE = CHINAMIL > US [Strategic, Nuke-armed/capable] "KILLING MACHINES" FLOOD INTO ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, in aftermath of alleged NOKOR H-Bomb test.
* MANILA TIMES > US TROOPS CAN BE DEPLOYED TO DISPUTED [South China Sea]ISLANDS - BIAZON, e.g. Pagasa under the terms of EDCA.
Ex-PH Armed Forces Chief Rodolfo Biazon.
* RELATED GLOBALNATION.PH > EDCA WILL ACT AGZ CHINA'S "CREEPING AGGRESSION" - BIAZON.
* @WSJ@TWITTER > THE US CAN PLAY "TAIWAN" CARD IFF CHINA [Beijing] WON'T BACK DOWN IN EAST ASIA
| FOR US, TAIWAN VOTE CHANGES CALCULUS ON "ONE CHINA" POLICY.
YEEEUUP.
ARTIC = Bejing should be demanded to give up any + all sovereign rights or claims to TAIWAN in return for being allowed to keep its SCS islands.
SORRY, WSJ + JOHN BOLTON, BUT METHINKS BEIJING IS GONNA DEMAND SOMETHING TIT-FOR-TAT FROM THE US [read, Guam-CNMI-WESTPAC?].
China loses or gives up something(s), so must the US.
VERSUS
* YAHOO NEWS > AMIDST DROP IN OIL PRICES, US NAVY DEPLOYS "GREAT GREEN FLEET", i.e. Bio-fueled Naval vessels.
Reminds of an old childhood dream or vision of mine where, to counter slowly but steadily intensifying Solar-led GWCC = heating up of the Earth, the USN decides to coat its ships wid specially developed Anti-Solar lubes + other Techs.
EEEEWWWWWWWWWWW - D *** NG IT, WTFH KIND OF SHIP PAINT-OILS ARE THESE???
[DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that findings of the Pathankot airbase attack inquiries will be made public in a couple of days. Jaish to be exonerated!
Addressing a presser here on Tuesday, he said military and civil agencies were working on the leads provided by India and a report would be compiled and shared with the media in a couple of days. He refused to speak further on the issue. Masood Azhar to be vindicated!
Rana Sanaullah regretted that facts about the cases -- gang-rape of a teenage girl, cutting of hands of a labourer by a landlord, murder of a pregnant woman in a robbery incident and sewing of lips of a so-called victim of extortionists -- had been grossly overlooked by the electronic media. But shucks, that sort of thing happens everywhere. It ain't just Pakistain. Mostly, maybe, but not all...
The stories were aired without confirming details with the authorities concerned, he said, adding that such reporting presented a negative image of the country to the world and did not serve the cause of justice. "So, really, they shouldn't have been reported..."
Punjab IG Mushtaq Sukhera and investigation officers shared with journalists findings of the four cases. ...and I'm sure the journalists were totally convinced.
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RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force seized 4.3 tons of narcotics, arrested 14 suspected smugglers and impounded five vehicles in different parts of the country.
The seizure included seven kilograms of heroin intercepted by the Airport Security Force at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) while it was being smuggled to Saudi Arabia.
The suspect carrying heroin was identified as Mubashir Hussain, a resident of Khushab, who was to board a Jeddah-bound Oman Air flight at the BBIA. According to an ANF press release on Monday, Mubashir was taken into custody.
Bilal Ahmed, a resident of Charsadda, was detained after he reportedly confessed to having swallowed heroin-filled capsules. He intended to proceed for Abu Dhabi by a PIA flight.
During the eight operations carried out by the ANF in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Okara, Hyderabad and Qilla Abdullah, 3.075 tons of opium, 1.25 tons of Charas and 8 kilograms of heroin were seized.
The seized drug is estimated to be valued at Rs7.06 billion in the international market. Most of the seized drug was intended to be smuggled abroad.
During an intelligence-based action conducted near Bahria Town in Rawalpindi, four vehicles were intercepted and 1,250kg of Charas was recovered them. Initial reports said the drug was being sent to Karachi.
Eight suspects were held.
Muhammad Zahoor, a resident of Khushab, was arrested at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, after one kilogram of heroin was found in his trolley bag. He was attempting to fly for Jeddah.
A car was stopped near Thokar Niaz Baig in Lahore and 19kg of opium was recovered from its secret cavities. An occupant of the car, Rehmat Ullah, a resident of Bajuar Agency, was held.
An alleged drug supplier, Samundar Khan, a resident of Okara, was detained and 2.2 kilograms of Charas was found in his possession. He was arrested near Lahore-Multan Bypass, Okara.
Zeeshan was arrested during a raid conducted in Pathan Colony in Hyderabad and 3kg of Charas was recovered from his possession.
The ANF Quetta raided a desolate area in Qilla Abdullah district and seized 3,056 kilograms of opium. The site was being guarded by armed men who fled the scene taking advantage of darkness after an exchange of fire with the ANF personnel.
Cases were registered against the suspects and investigations were under way.
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Evidently, Moslems are just wild crazy Party animals. Out for a good time and 1.7 Billion skinneros worth of Laughs. Don't you wish you were a Moslem?
Hand-rolled solid hashish from the Himalayan foothills, esp. Charas in India. Very dark, almost black in colour with a high THC content and distinctive taste and aroma, it is a far superior smoke to the more popular hybrid Skunk varieties. Expensive and hard to come by compared to said skunk.
Known as 'the breath of Buddha'.
'Charas, my friend. Trust me, you'll never go back..'
Would have been better to let the shipment proceed but inform the Saudis of the incoming. The smugglers would have received a flashy (present scimitars!) welcome.
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[IsraelTimes] Credit cards still don't work in Islamic Theocratic Republic, and likely won't in near future; funds expected to be transferred through Dubai
He did not say how much money was involved in the transfers, though he said the nuclear deal would give Tehran access to $32 billion in overseas assets and lower international currency transactions for the country by 15 percent.
Iran successfully transferred some of the billions of dollars' worth of frozen overseas assets following the implementation of the nuclear deal with world powers, the head of the country's central bank said Tuesday. But ordinary Iranians are still waiting to see how their daily lives will improve and how fast Iranian companies will gain access to financial markets worldwide.
Credit cards still don't work in the Islamic Theocratic Republic and its ATM machines remain separated from the rest of the world. That is not likely to change soon as many of the world's major financial services companies operate in the United States.
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[DAWN] IT took yet another murderous Moslem attack across the border and increasing pressure from outside powers for us to finally act against Masood Azhar and his murderous Moslem network -- although one is not sure how serious we are in cleaning out the stables this time. Although proscribed some 14 years ago, his organization continued to operate freely despite the evidence of its being involved in murderous Moslem activities at home and outside.
How come a banned murderous Moslem outfit was allowed to operate its offices across Punjab, that the security agencies now claimed to have closed down? Has the province been in a state of denial, or is there something more sinister? The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
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Demon- a smart person does not become a puppet and kill for the inbred people and destroy their own country heritage etc. etc,
At least 23 anti-government armed militants were killed during clearing operations by the Afghan armed forces during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in conjunction with the security personnel belonging to the other security institutions.
A statement by MoD said at least 14 militants were also wounded during the operations and 6 suspected militants were detained by the security forces.
The statement further added that the Afghan security forces confiscated various weapons and explosives during the operations conducted in Baraki Barak district of Logar, parts of Kunduz, Zabul, Paktika, and Helmand provinces.
According to MoD, a member of the Afghan National Army (ANA) also lost his during the operations.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban militants have not commented regarding the report so far.
The operations are being conducted as the Taliban-led insurgency have been rampant during the recent months as efforts have been put in place to encourage the militants to join the reconciliation process.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Six million Afghanis have gone missing from the Education Directorate of central Daikundi province.
Clerk of the Education Directorate had reportedly withdrawn six million Afghanis from the bank
Oh. It's stolen currency, not missing students...
a few days before who has been missing since then.
Sayed Mustafa Musawi, Finance Manager at the Education Directorate says that the clerk's cell phone is also not working.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... Governor of Daikundi province has said that security agencies are looking into the incident.
According to Masuma Muradi, those responsible for the theft would be tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! sooner and the issue would be resolved.
A similar incident took place 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 about a year ago where salaries of instructors were snatched on way.
Several officials of Nangarhar University were then arrested on suspicion and sent to jail.
Although, security agencies have not yet concluded their investigation into Daikundi's incident but it is possible that other officials of the Education Directorate are also involved into the theft.
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They are now FEJ instead of FES.
Thus the free lunch money is allah approved.
Maurice! Leave the damn Pompatus alone and bring the Triumph around. What? There are all kind of condensers! A Lucas condenser? Aw shit. Well then, fetch gawds Chrysler, yes the collectible Fury, what do you mean wut? Get gawds Fury, the same one he used to drive Adam and Eve out off the garden. I don't want to see that Pompatus for the rest of the day, leave it in the tub for dawg's sake.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – A security source in Salahuddin said on Tuesday, that a civilian was killed in a militant attack in central Tuz east of the province.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, unidentified militants driving a modern vehicle opened fire against a civilian in the neighborhood of al-Teen in central Tuz-Khormato (90 km east of Tikrit), resulting in his immediate death.”
The source also added, “A security force cordoned off the area of the incident and transferred the dead to the forensic medicine department.”
[Iran Press TV] The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, says the military power of Iran and Pakistain has so far deterred many foreign plots and mischief.
In a meeting with Pak Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... in Tehran on Tuesday, Shamkhani added that Iranian and Pak military might is aimed at safeguarding the interests of the Muslim world in favor of regional unity and stability.
He pointed to the presence of armed bandidos in the border areas of Iran and Pakistain and said, "These insecurities are completely guided and are based on plans [designed] by intelligence services of certain countries."
Shamkhani also warned against threats posed by terrorist groups to the region and urged all regional countries to strengthen cooperation and make use of their potentialities for combating terrorism.
He added that the escalation of tensions and squandering of Muslim countries' assets would only serve the interests of enemies and bolster terrorist group.
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[Iran Press TV] United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. experts have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about new counter-terrorism measures adopted in La Belle France against the backdrop of the deadly 2015 Gay Paree attacks, calling on the French government to protect fundamental freedoms in its anti-terror battle.
In a statement released on Tuesday, a group of four UN rights specialists said the current state of emergency in La Belle France and surveillance laws impose "excessive and disproportionate restrictions" on the basic rights of people.
The statement said the main concerns center on "the lack of clarity and precision of several provisions of the ... laws, related to the nature and scope of restrictions to the legitimate exercise of right to freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and association and the right to privacy."
On November 13, 2015, assailants struck at least six different venues in and around Gay Paree. The terrorist attacks left 130 people dead and over 350 others maimed. La Belle France introduced the state of emergency following the horrendous assaults, which were claimed by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Daesh [Islamic State] terrorist group.
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Relax. Adopting these counter-terrorism measures won't stop France from criticizing Israel for similar things.
[Bangkok Post] A village security guard and his wife were gunned down at a rubber plantation in Yala province early on Monday morning.
Duty officer Chamnong Kaewpimol said Ma-ae Limada-i and his wife left their house to tap latex at a plantation near their village. When they had not returned home by 8 a.m., their relatives went to the plantation to fetch them as it was time for Ma-ae to go on security patrol at the village school. Instead they found both of them lying dead, having been shot many times each.
Police believed at least two attackers had hidden in the plantation. They blamed insurgents, pointing out that the couple's son is also a defense volunteer in the district.
[Ynet] US sources say Washington has no reason to believe Tehran was involved in abduction, while Iraqi intelligence sources say three US citizens were kidnapped because they're American.
Three US citizens who disappeared last week in Baghdad were kidnapped and are being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, two Iraqi intelligence and two US government sources said on Tuesday.
The US sources said Washington had no reason to believe Tehran was involved in the kidnapping and does not believe the trio are being held in Iran, which borders Iraq.
"They were kidnapped because they are Americans, not for personal or financial reasons," one of the Iraqi intelligence sources in Baghdad said.
Unknown gunnies seized the Americans on Friday from a private residence in the capital's southeastern Dora district, according to Iraqi officials.
The Iraqi government has struggled to rein in the Shi'ite militias, many of which fought the US military following the 2003 invasion and have previously been accused of killing and abducting American nationals.
No US citizens have been kidnapped in Iraq since US troops withdrew from the country in 2011.
ERBIL – Amid intensifying airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition on the positions of jihadis in Iraq’s northwestern province of Nineveh, radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) has transferred a number of it top militant commanders to Libya and Yemen.
Speaking to ARA News, head of Nineveh Media Network Raafat al-Zarari said that a number of ISIS top commanders have left the group’s headquarters in Nineveh province over the past two weeks.
“More than 20 leading members of the group have headed to ISIS strongholds in Yemen and Libya,” said al-Zarari, quoting an ISIS official in Mosul city.
“The group is trying to avoid the loss of more prominent leaders in the raids of the western coalition,” the source reported. ISIS is also trying to strengthen its positions in Yemen and Libya.”
This comes after the U.S.-led coalition intensified its raids on the group’s positions across the region, killing a number of ISIS military commanders and security officials. The coalition has been targeting meeting points of influential militants of ISIS in northern Iraq for weeks.
On Monday, at least nine leading members of the extremist group were killed in a U.S. airstrike, including Hajim Ahmed al-Aswad –ISIS leader in Baaj, northern Iraqi.
Earlier on Thursday, a similar airstrike hit the group’s headquarters in Mosul city, killing more than 30 ISIS militants.
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So they bugged out but it is not cowardice rather a redistribution of the hindmosts?
[ARA News] TEL ABYAD – Turkish army troops bombed on Tuesday headquarters of the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Syrian border city of Tel Abyad, military sources reported.
Several artillery shells fired by the Turkish army hit the YPG headquarters in the border city of Tel Abyad.
At least two Kurdish fighters were injured and three armored vehicles were destroyed in the Turkish attack, the YPG leadership reported on Tuesday evening.
Tel Abyad city is located north of Raqqa province –the de facto capital of the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group.
The city, which includes a crossing on Syria-Turkey border, was recaptured by the Kurdish forces in June, subsequent to fierce battles against ISIS militants. Since then, the Turkish border police and army troops have bombed the Kurdish headquarters for 23 times, according to Kurdish officials.
“Those attacks explain the Turkish support to ISIS terrorists,” YPG spokesman Habun Osman told ARA News in Tel Abyad.
“When the city was under ISIS control, the Turkish army has never launched any such operations. However, since the Kurdish forces liberated Tel Abyad, the Turkish army has repeatedly bombed the city and its suburb,” Osman said.
PESHAWAR: At least 10 people were killed and over 20 wounded when a bomb exploded near a security checkpost situated close to the Karkhano Market area here on Tuesday, rescue officials said.
Most of the dead include personnel from the Khyber Khasadar Force, rescue sources said. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Fazlullah group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The blast, which targeted a vehicle of the Khasadar Force, also killed the Assistant Line Officer Nawabshah and president of the Tribal Union of Journalists Mehmoob Shah.
"Although the exact nature of the blast is being ascertained, it appears to be a suicide attack," said political agent Khyber Agency Shahab Ali Shah.
He said 10 people were confirmed to have died in the blast that targeted Khasadar personnel.
The explosion occurred in Khyber Agency's Jamrud area, near Karkhano, said Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mubarak Zeb Khan. Karkhano is the gateway to Peshawar from the tribal belt.
According to initial reports, the exact nature of the blast could not yet be ascertained. However, eyewitnesses at the site claimed that the explosion was a suicide blast.
TV footage of the blast showed vehicles parked near the blast site caught fire after the explosion. The site was cordoned off.
An emergency was imposed at Hayatabad Medical Complex.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast so far.
AFP adds: Toheed Zulfiqar, a public relations officer at Hayatabad Medical Complex, said the dead included a seven-year-old and six of the injured were in serious condition.
Khyber is part of Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border. The area is known to have been a militant stronghold in the past.
Pakistan suffers frequent bomb and suicide attacks blamed on extremist militant groups and troops have for years been fighting homegrown armed groups in the tribal belt.
Pakistani security forces have carried out ground offensives in Khyber Agency, particularly the Tirah Valley of Bara which borders Nazyan.
The forces cleared much of the Bara plain in Operation Khyber One launched in October 2014 while in a follow-on operation named Khyber-2 cleared the fierce Tirah terrain consisting of deep valleys and high mountains.
Zarb-i-Azb, a military offensive launched in North Waziristan in 2014 following a brazen militant attack on Karachi's international airport, is also currently in its last stages.
The number of attacks in Pakistan fell around 70 per cent in 2015, due to a combination of a military offensive against Taliban bases along the Afghan border and government initiatives to tackle militancy.
[Rudaw] Kurdish security forces have incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... members of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) sleeper cell in Sulaimani who had planned an attack on the city's Shiite mosque, the security department (Asayish) said Tuesday.
An Asayish statement said that the group had in their possession explosives and plans for an attack on the Shiite Husseiniya mosque on Salim Street on the religious ceremony of Ashura held every November.
The members of the cell are of Kurdish and Arab nationality.
This is the second such plot against the mosque to be foiled by the Asayish.
In May 2014 the security forces detained a Farsi-speaking suspect carrying an explosive-filled backpack who confessed to have plans to blow it up among a crowd of mourners inside the Shiite Husseiniya.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Tuesday, Commander of the Rabid Intervention Brigade Thamer Ismail announced the advance of the brigade’s troops into Husaiba area east of Ramadi, while pointed out that four booby-trapped houses were cleansed in the area.
Ismail said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The forces from the Rapid Intervention Brigade continue their advance into Husaiba area east of Ramadi, after the attacks of its Karar battalion on ISIS hideouts.”
“The forces from the Rapid Intervention Brigade continue their advance from al-Madiq area toward al-Sijariya, after Karar battalion, army’s artillery, in addition to the Federal Police forces demolished ISIS hideouts and killed its inhabitants,” he added.
Ismail continued, “The brigade forces freed a large number of buildings and dismantled the improvised explosive devices in Husaiba area, in addition to cleansing four booby-trapped houses.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Tuesday, Head of Khalidiya Council in Anbar Province Ali Dawood called the security forces to break the siege imposed on hundreds of families taken by ISIS as human shields east of Ramadi.
Dawood said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Hundreds of families in Jubiya area east of Ramadi are appealing to the security forces to break the siege imposed on them by ISIS and transfer them to safer places.”
He added, “These families are besieged and used as human shields by ISIS,” pointing out that, “The liberation operations of al-Sijarya and al-Jubiya were delayed due to the presence of the families and improvised explosive devices.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Tuesday, a source in Anbar Operations Command announced, that 14 elements of the ISIS organization were killed including the so-called Armor Officer in the ISIS organization during a military operation north of Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today, the security forces have carried out a military operation on ISIS gatherings in al-Azrakiya area (16 km north of Fallujah), killing 14 elements of the organization including Abu Obeida al-Mohajir who was also known as the Armor Officer in the organization.”
The source added, “The security forces managed to destroy three armored vehicles were used by ISIS to conduct terrorist attacks on the army and police forces in Fallujah,” indicating that, “The ISIS organization is trying to hide the tanks and armor used in attacks against security forces from the air strikes carried out by the international coalition aviation.”
(Iraqinews.com) Anbar – On Monday, a security source in Anbar Province announced, that nine ISIS elements including two military officials were killed in an armed clash broke out between the elements of the ISIS organization west of Ramadi.
The source said in a statement followed by Iraqinews.com, “Armed clashes broke out between the ISIS elements and the military officials in the ISIS organization in Dolab area in Heet City (70 km west of Ramadi),” noting that, “The clashes broke out due to the escape of some ISIS elements and their inability to fight the security forces and tribal fighters.”
The source added, “The clashes resulted in the death of nine ISIS elements including the ISIS military official in Dolab area and the military official in al-Baghdadi Island.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Tuesday, a source in Anbar Operations Command announced, that 14 elements of the ISIS organization were killed including the so-called Armor Officer in the ISIS organization during a military operation north of Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today, the security forces have carried out a military operation on ISIS gatherings in al-Azrakiya area (16 km north of Fallujah), killing 14 elements of the organization including Abu Obeida al-Mohajir who was also known as the Armor Officer in the organization.”
The source added, “The security forces managed to destroy three armored vehicles were used by ISIS to conduct terrorist attacks on the army and police forces in Fallujah,” indicating that, “The ISIS organization is trying to hide the tanks and armor used in attacks against security forces from the air strikes carried out by the international coalition aviation.”
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On Monday, Minister of Local Administration, Abdul Raqeeb Fateh, confirmed the failure of all UN relief-support-organizations’ attempts in entering Taiz. Nothing had reached Taiz except for aid that was delivered by the Air Drop Box Relief Aid Delivery System carried out by the Arabian coalition forces and “King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aids” in their efforts to lift the blockade.
Fateh warned in a press conference in Riyadh about the Madya town crisis in Syria being repeated in Taiz. A couple of days ago, Madaya shocked the world by revealing the horrific suffering of its citizens, due to the blockade inflicted by the regime, where even food was not allowed to reach in.
In sight of that, a militant organization in Aden has claimed the attack on the security director Colonel Shalal Ali Shayea’s house on Jan 17. The militants calling themselves “Aden’s Islamic Army” had threatened to continue carrying on their terrorist attacks.
On the militants announcing their attacks, Security Spokesman Ali Shayef al-Hariri said “the assassination groups are tracking down former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Houthi leaderships, and are running their operations from the same room”.
“The purpose behind the assassinations is to deliver the idea that Aden is not safe anymore” he added.
On the other hand, Khaled Mahfouz Bahah, Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister, said that “despite all the military gains that have been accomplished and the operations that have been completed on the case of freeing cities and governorates, they are still working on putting an end to the war and to enter a true and permanent peace stage”
“The international community and the United nations have to work hard on implementing all UN resolutions, and to compel the insurgent party to accept them and execute them to a notch” Mr. Bahah stated at the deliberations meeting held with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Abu Dhabi.
KOBANE – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) executed a woman in the northeastern Syrian city of Raqqa after accusing her of “committing adultery”, local sources reported on Tuesday. The victim was reportedly stoned to death in central Raqqa.
“The woman was a western jihadi in the ranks of ISIS. She was accused by the Sharia Court of committing adultery,” a local media activist told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“She was stoned to death in front of hundreds of people in Raqqa’s central square,” the source, who witnessed the execution, reported on Tuesday.
This is the first time that ISIS executes one of its own female jihadis on charges of adultery.
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western jihadi - probably a leftard - the disconnect is irreconcilable - object lesson applied
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My great-grandfather was 'executed' for adultery - by the adulteress's husband. By shotgun. While underneath her house, where he had fled. The husband was acquitted. Justifiable.
Despite the ongoing conflict in Yemen, thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis are continuing to make a perilous sea crossing, which has already claimed at least three dozen lives this year, the UN refugee agency warned today.
So Yemen is still a garden spot, if you're from Æthiopia or Somalia...
Once again rather than still -- not so long ago it was the Yemenis fleeing south ahead of rampaging Houthis..
Latest data on sea arrivals shows that 92,446 people arrived in Yemen by boat in 2015, one of the highest annual totals recorded over the past decade. A full two thirds arrived since March 2015 when the conflict began.
With 95 deaths reported,
or 0.1%, a very small number, indeed...
2015 is the second deadliest year recorded to date. In view of this, and the loss of 36 lives in an incident on 8 January this year, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today reiterated its warning to people contemplating the crossing over the dangers of this journey.
“The overall figures are disturbing,” UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards told reporters at a news briefing in Geneva.
“People continue to arrive despite unprecedented escalated internal conflict in Yemen and tragically, more people continue to lose their lives trying to cross the sea in overcrowded, unseaworthy boats,” he added.
UNHCR began systematic recording of arrivals in Yemen in 2006. To date, only 2011 and 2012 have seen higher arrivals of Ethiopians and Somalis in Yemen than there were in 2015. Almost 90 per cent of last year’s arrivals were from Ethiopia.
UNHCR in Somalia and its partners have reportedly been working with the international community and Somali authorities to improve political, security and socio-economic conditions in Somalia. They have also been actively pursuing durable solutions for refugees, returnees and people who are internally displaced.
According to the agency, these efforts aim at providing an alternative to Somalis to undertaking perilous sea journeys to Yemen. The number of Somalis who made the journey to Yemen last year compares to a high of just over 33,000 in 2008.
Meanwhile, many new arrivals are reportedly misinformed about the severity of the conflict, believe that the situation has become relatively calm in some of the southern governorates, or are following rumours of improved access into neighbouring Gulf countries.
New arrivals have been described as facing movement restrictions in Yemen, and there have been reports of some being caught in the conflict and killed. There are now fewer income opportunities and available services, and organized gangs and smugglers continue to operate along the Red Sea coast.
“UNHCR and partners in the Horn of Africa counsel would-be crossers about the inherent dangers of the journey, the realities of the situation on the ground in Yemen and the asylum and assistance options available to them,” Mr. Edwards said.
Conflict continues to rage in the country and Yemenis are bearing the brunt with the UN estimating that over 2.5 million people are now internally displaced. Despite severely restricted humanitarian access and security constraints, UNHCR reached over 280,000 internally displaced Yemenis with essential household items and shelter material in 2015.
Yemen is also host to over 266,000 refugees, of which some 250,000 are Somali. Meanwhile, over 168,000 people have fled Yemen to neighbouring countries since March.
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Twenty Egyptians abducted earlier this month near Jufra have been returned to Egypt after they were freed during an army operation.
Their repatriation in a Libyan oil services plane was a high profile affair, not least because Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi was on the tarmac at Cairo airport today to greet them.
The hand-over was no less promoted in Libya with the men being interviewed on board the aircraft. They said that they were grateful that they had been freed from near Zillah by a Libyan army unit. However, they gave few details of the operation or their abduction. A Libyan officer claimed that the men had been seized by a gang which had close ties to IS.
Welcoming his countrymen home, Sisi said that he was grateful to Libya and to Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief General Khalifa Hafter for securing the men’s safe release.
It is thought that the Egyptians were discovered as army units moved towards Jufra seeking to secure the area in advance of an expected terrorist push into the oilfields.
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[DAWN] IN any Muslim society, the Friday sermon is a powerful platform from which to disseminate views. Most mosques are filled to capacity and preachers use the pulpit to communicate various concerns.
Sadly, in Pakistain, as well as other Muslim states, some holy mans have used the pulpit -- particularly during Friday prayers -- to promote obscurantism and militancy.
There are cases on record in Pakistain where the mosque loudspeaker has been misused to stir up sectarian hatred, demonise other religions and communities, and promote extremism. In view of these concerns, the Sindh government has reportedly decided to table a bill in the provincial assembly designed to regulate Friday sermons.
On Monday, the adviser to the Sindh chief minister on religious affairs said the move was aimed at promoting "sectarian harmony" and bringing an "end to hatred and extremism".
There can be little argument with the need to counter the poison of sectarianism and extremism in society. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... we must ask if government-issued sermons are the best way to approach the problem.
First, this method has been tried in other Muslim countries, with less than commendable results. For example, in Egypt, 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 the UAE, the state gives 'themes' and 'guidelines' to preachers to incorporate in Friday sermons.
This is primarily designed to exercise political control and ensure holy mans toe the official line. Further, for the military in Egypt and the royal family in Saudi Arabia, these measures are designed to stamp out criticism.
Yet despite the strict controls over religious activity in these states, they have failed to snuff out militancy. Second, we must ask whether the action suggested by Sindh would not breach the principle of freedom of expression -- although the state must ensure that preachers do not egg on the people to break the law.
Monitoring what preachers have to say in these tense times and punishing them for attempting to incite violence may be acceptable, but to assume that all of them will actually do so is unreasonable.
Finally, there is the issue of practicality. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of mosques in Sindh where the Friday sermon is delivered. Does the state have the wherewithal to bring all these under its control and issue them uniform sermons?
Rather than dictating the content of sermons, the state needs to keep an eye on what is being said by preachers. There must be simple guidelines: promotion of militancy and hate speech, rebellion against the state etc must be strictly off limits.
The state has a relatively effective intelligence apparatus at its disposal. This -- together with the involvement of communities and Learned Elders of Islam -- must be employed to keep an eye on rabble-rousing holy mans who misuse the pulpit to encourage militancy and fan hatred.
Citizens also have a responsibility to stop frequenting mosques which host hate-mongering holy mans.
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Long article on how Iran is going to try and sell NG into a glutted market. Some of the neighboring countries, such as Kazakhstan, are doing the same. Oil and NG prices just have to go lower for a while yet.
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hopefully, after Jan 20, 2017 there will be a series of unfortunate events in iran's export infrastructure.
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It may be better for them to shed their resources for a fraction of what they would otherwise be worth. Make them burn through their 0bean-given wealth and their resources and find themselves penniless at the end of the downturn.
[DAWN] A MILITANT attack claimed by the banned TTP on the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... boundary, a separatist attack in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... -- the new year has continued with grim reminders of a troubling reality: the country still has a long way to go before victory can be declared in the fight against militancy.
While it was never expected that a year and a half of sustained counter-insurgency operations in Fata and intensive counterterrorism actions across the rest of Pakistain would eliminate militancy, the worry is that the state may have reached the point of diminishing returns.
Past counter-insurgency operations, like the several iterations in Khyber Agency, have yielded a worrying pattern.
While the military is able to reclaim territory and ensure turbans do not return en masse, the turbans adapt their tactics to new realities. The occasional suicide kaboom against security targets and frequent IED attacks have prevented the return of true normality.
Vastly improved as the situation on the ground may be, small-scale attacks continue with disturbing frequency. Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... in Balochistan, two years of outreach by the previous civilian governments to separatist elements have not been able to offset the continuing realities of a province where politics and security have effectively been militarised.
The Bolan attack on FC personnel and the claim of responsibility by the BLA suggest that a decade of trying to militarily crush the separatists has not worked.
Could NAP be the answer to both problems in areas abutting Fata and in Balochistan? On paper, yes. But in reality, patchy implementation and the lack of meaningful coordination between the centre and the provinces and the civilian and military arms of the state continue to impede long-term success.
The attack on Khasadar personnel stationed at a Khyber-Peshawar check post embodies the dizzying array of challenges -- border control with Afghanistan; normalising Fata; and protecting the provinces.
Neither the success of Khyber I and Khyber II, nor high-level attempts to improve border management prevented the turbans from being able to kill personnel right on Peshawar's doorstep.
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MERKEL may broadly desire Germany to be a OWG Co-Superpower like Bundes BFF/BFRNF + strategic partner RUSSIA = PUTIN, but apparently the Bundeswehr needs to first be seriously revamped or modernized.
[Iran Press TV] Ahmad al-Arab will be 147 years old after serving his jail term handed down by a Bahraini court.
The High Criminal Court in the capital Manama on Tuesday sentenced the 17-year-old to an additional 10 years in prison on charges of protesting against the ruling Al Khalifah royal family and charges of alleged terror acts, Arabic-language Manama Post online newspaper reported.
The court also ruled that Arab, who was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on April 13 last year, will no longer be a Bahraini national at the end of his prison term.
The Tuesday ruling is the latest in a series of harsh punishments handed down to dissidents in Bahrain, a tiny Persian Gulf island nation that has seen years of anti-regime protests.
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will no longer be a Bahraini national at the end of his prison term
[DAWN] The other day, my brother had an animated argument with a relative of ours who thinks that Tashfeen Malik was innocent, and that she had been "set up" and just happened to be in the "wrong place at the wrong time".
My relative, who holds a Master's degree and resides in the US, believes that Tashfeen was not even a religious person and did not wear the hijab, as "photoshopped" pictures in the media inform us.
Soon after this incident, I received a forwarded WhatsApp message that had a similar crux: There is a conspiracy afoot to target Muslims in the US.
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she had been "set up" and just happened to be in the "wrong place at the wrong time"
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I love how all of these "theories" make no mention of the USSR and other competing interests.
Is the US blame free at all times? Of course not. But the whole picture is much more complex. Probably too complex for them to even begin to understand.
Nine policemen have embraced martyrdom in an insider attack in southern Afghanistan.
Dost Mohammad Nayab, spokeperson for the governor of Urozgan province says security agencies are looking for the policemen who went missing from the check post after the attack on Sunday evening.
He added that the four policemen missing have probably carried out the attack.
According to Nayab, ammunition and weapons are also missing from the check post and the suspects are believed to have taken them away.
This comes days after four policemen were martyred by their comrades inside a police check post in Urozgan’s neighboring Kandahar province which is also located in the southern part of the country.
This part of the country has been the scene of most of the insider attacks.
In the middle of 2014, policemen from inside a security post in Gezab District of Urozgan province had established links with Taliban which led to attack on the same post leaving 10 policemen martyred.
[NPR] Univision Communications Inc., the parent company to the nation's leading Spanish-language broadcast channel, has acquired a controlling stake in the satirical news site The Onion, NPR has learned.
The agreement between two seemingly disparate media outfits was described to NPR by a person with direct involvement in the negotiations. A second person who was briefed on the deal by Univision executives also confirmed its broad strokes. The amount of money involved in the deal was not disclosed. NPR has also obtained a memo from the CEO of The Onion announcing the deal to staffers.
This account is in many ways reliant upon the information provided by those two people. NPR sought comment Monday from corporate officials and spokespersons for Univision and The Onion about the deal, as well as from Fusion and ABC about elements of this story involving them. None of those messages by voice mail or email were returned.
[Iran Press TV] Britannia sold the Saudis over 1.5 billion dollars worth of arms last summer that saw Riyadh escalate its deadly military campaign against Yemen, say human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups.
From July to September 2015, the British government authorized the sales under an export category which covers missiles, rockets and bombs via five separate licenses, The Guardian cited Saferworld and Amnesia Amnesty International as saying on Tuesday. And the Soddis might be just the people to put these bombs to use...
The sales were made just one day after British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... claimed he was trying to "encourage a political process in Yemen," and that the crisis in the country would not be solved through military intervention, said a Saferworld spokesperson.
"All of these are for air force end use, with the components for air-to-surface rockets for training purposes," the spokesperson noted.
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Brits will sell weapons to anybody---even to you know who.
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Exports from the United States to the UK and British SA expanded considerably during the Boer War. The average annual value of these exports of about $577. million during 1899-1902 marked in increase of around $112. million over their average for 1899-1902. The most significant wartime expert were horses and mules. Over 100,000 of the former and over 80,000 of the latter were shipped from the U.S. to South Africa, about half of all the mules used in the British forces originated in America. Very large quantities of cartridges, hay, oats, and preserved meat were also sold. In addition, loans from US bankers underwrote approximately 20 percent of the cost of Britains war.
Keith Wilson, The International Impact of the Boer War, page 112. Published by Acumen 2001.
As an aside; these horses and mules did not come home. Domestic recovery from these exports lagged well into the WW1, placing our own soldiers lacking for horses, mules, and teams at the U.S. entry to the 'War to end all Wars.'
To get a feel for today's US dollar values, simply multiply 1899-1902 dollars by a conservative factor of 10. You'll be hitting the green with only a short putt remaining.
[DAWN] NEW DELHI: An anonymous letter claimed to be from the Death EaterIslamic 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) group has threatened to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar over the government's support for beef ban, Press Trust of India said on Tuesday.
It said Goa Police have circulated the letter to all cop shoppes in the state and handed over the case to the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS).
The postcard threat letter was received at the state secretariat last week following which Goa police swung into action, a senior police official said.
"All the agencies of state police are investigating this letter. We will soon be able to find the source of it," the police official said.
"ISIS was written at the bottom of the postcard," the official confirmed.
The letter expressed anger over ban on cow slaughter in the country, PTI said. The letter regardless of its veracity could give traction to Hindutva campaign in a clutch of state polls due in a next few months.
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[Iran Press TV] Pakistain successfully test-fires a locally developed "state-of-the-art" air-launched cruise missile.
"The state of the art Ra'ad ALCM (air-launched cruise missile) is equipped with highly advanced guidance and navigation system that ensures engagement of targets with pinpoint accuracy," the Pak military said in a statement on Tuesday.
The first of such missile was test-fired in August 2007.
The military said the newer version of the Ra'ad missile can reach targets distancing 350 kilometers (218 miles) from it launcher.
The missile is capable of hitting fixed enemy installations, such as radar posts, command nodes and stationary surface-to-air missile launchers, at stand-off range.
The missile can also be armed with a nuclear warhead.
The recent missile test is the latest in a series of tests conducted by Pakistain and its arch-rival India since both demonstrated their nuclear weapons capability in 1998.
On December 30, 2015, India test-fired its Barak-8 missile system. The long-range surface-to-air missile is reportedly capable of countering air attacks from long distances.
The system includes a radar for detection, tracking and missile guidance and was jointly developed by India and the Israeli regime.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Twelve people died in the city on Monday and Tuesday after allegedly having consumed tainted liquor.
Six friends, who were celebrating an occasion, died in Youhanabad and the other six in Liaqatabad. The two areas are notorious for manufacturing and supplying spurious liquor.
The dear departed were identified as Gohar, Nabil, Boota, Samuel Viki, Shera and Qasim Masih in Youhanabad and Akram, Saleem, Shan, Sanni, Asim and Quma from Behar Colony and Gill Chowk of Liaqatabad.
Three died on Monday and the others on Tuesday. Two others were said to be in hospitals in a serious condition.
DIG operations Dr Haider Ashraf told Dawn that according to initial inquiries the victims had consumed Kickapoo Joy Juice from Youhanabad.
But he confirmed only eight deaths -- two in Liaqatabad and six in Youhanabad.
He claimed that Qasim, who had supplied the liquor, was among the dead. His brother Asif ran the same business.
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[Iran Press TV] Canada has not been invited to a ministerial meeting in the French capital this week to discuss the battle against the Daesh [Islamic State]Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terror group.
The meeting, which is planned to be held in Gay Paree on Wednesday, will host defense ministers from the Netherlands, La Belle France, Australia, Germany, Italia and the UK.
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter did not mention Ottawa last week in a speech in Kentucky when he announced plans for holding talks with defense ministers from countries that are playing a significant role in the so-called US-led coalition that is allegedly targeting positions of Daesh [Islamic State] in Iraq and Syria.
Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, meanwhile, tried to play down the exclusion on Tuesday as he said the meeting would not be the only gathering over the issue.
The meeting comes as Washington has urged coalition members to contribute more to the anti-Daesh [Islamic State] fight in Iraq and Syria after the deadly terrorist attack in Gay Paree in November claimed by Daesh [Islamic State].
This is while Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to withdraw the country's six fighter jets from the mission but said Ottawa would increase military training.
Canada's opposition Conservative party has said in reaction to the exclusion that Ottawa "is deliberately being excluded because of this Liberal government's decision to withdraw our CF-18s from the mission against ISIS (Daesh [Islamic State])."
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Tuesday, a police source announced, that unidentified gunmen threw a hand grenade on a traffic policeman’s house in eastern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “At noon today, unidentified gunmen threw a hand grenade on the house of an officer working in the General Directorate of Traffic in al-Obaidi area in eastern Baghdad,” pointing out that, “The hand grenade inflicted material damage on the house without any casualties.”
The source added, “A security source rushed to the area and opened an investigation into the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Tuesday, a source in the Ministry of Interior announced, that five policemen had been either killed or wounded in the explosion of an explosive device north of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “At noon today, an explosive device emplaced on the roadside exploded when a police patrol passed in Tarmiya District north of Baghdad, killing one of the patrol’s occupants and wounding four others.”
The source added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the dead body to the forensic medicine department and the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, while cordoned off the area of the incident and prevented approaching it.”
QUETTA: Security forces claimed on Tuesday to have arrested four suspected militants in a search operation launched in Margat area of Bolan district following a bomb attack on FC personnel.
Six personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed and another injured in the Margat coal-mine area on Monday when a remote-controlled IED, planted on a road, was detonated near their convoy.
Subsequently, the FC launched the search operation in the area which continued on Tuesday. “The FC has taken four suspected militants into custody,” said a spokesman for the force, adding that they had been handed over to the authorities concerned for interrogation.
The troops also claim to have seized arms and ammunition from Mugha Kibzai area of Zhob district where they conducted a raid following a tip-off regarding the presence of extremists affiliated with a banned organisation. The seized goods include hand grenades, pistols and thousands of bullets. No arrest was reported.
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.
[Huffpoo] ISIS fighters aren't getting any year-end pay raises this January. In fact, in response to mounting military and economic pressure across Syria and Iraq, the terror group is slashing salaries, newly-leaked ISIS documents show.
[Breitbart] A simple new blood test that greatly facilitates the detection of Down Syndrome in unborn children may spell the "extinction" of Down Syndrome people, an article in the Telegraph suggests, since around 90 per cent of those performing the test end up aborting their babies.
A Belgian of Moroccan origin 
[The Standard] Armed men believed to be members of a Philippine terrorist group with links to Daesh detonated a bomb Tuesday morning in a port terminal in Lamitan, Basilan, as the military finally admitted the presence of nine foreign terrorists.
Sarah 
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] U.S. Secretary of State 
[DAWN] Microblogging website Twitter temporarily went down for a few hours on Monday, with both the website and mobile application inaccessible to users.
The U.S. has deployed a state-of-the-art guided-missile destroyer and nuclear-powered attack submarine to the 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan. The 7th Fleet is part of the Pacific Fleet and currently the largest naval grouping the U.S. deploys overseas. 
How come a banned
[DAWN] IN any Muslim society, the Friday sermon is a powerful platform from which to disseminate views. Most mosques are filled to capacity and preachers use the pulpit to communicate various concerns.
Ja, ja das gute leben (the good life). Things were so much simpler back then. 
[Iran Press TV] 
[DAWN] LAHORE: Twelve people died in the city on Monday and Tuesday after allegedly having consumed tainted liquor.
