Temper tantrum that will get people killed en masse?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country's nuclear weapons made ready for use at a moment's notice, the official state news agency reported Friday.
Kim also said his country will ready its military so it is prepared to carry out pre-emptive attacks, calling the current situation very precarious, according to KCNA.
On Thursday, North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast, South Korean officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on the North in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.
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That's alright - America's golfer-in-chief has got everything under control. That Nobel peace prize is worth more than any missile shield, or interceptor capability. Rest easy - we are protected by wise and steady hands.
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They were not ready to launch given the go codes before?
Yawn.
I just hope that the missile defense guys know how to freeze a (working) baseline.
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It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from North Korea against any ally of the United States as an attack of North Korea AND China on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon North Korea AND China.
THAT should get China's attention
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China better reign in their little mad dog before all hell breaks out in the neighborhood. I do not care if Pudgy is bat-sh*t crazy and making empty threats for effect. When you threaten nuclear weapons use, people take you seriously and plan accordingly. It is signing your death warrant.
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Come on Obama and the Democratic party even the elites in the Republican party - Kim is providing you the perfect diversion from bad press. Just bomb him back to the stone age.
Welcome to the NEW WHIG PARTY! Romney enjoy killing the Whig er Republican party. BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, The opinion of the voters does not matter to you elites.
Mitt Romney delivered a sweeping broadside against Donald Trump on Thursday, laying into the Republican presidential front-runner with a sharper attack than any of the party's 2016 contenders have made against the billionaire business mogul.
"Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat."
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"Here's what I know: Donald Trump Champ is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat health care plan/tax."
And had you been elected, Mitt, I suspect a lot of us would still feel the same way.
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Donald Trump to speak about Romney attack at 1:30PM ET
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My thoughts are that Rubio has placed the word "con artist" there as part of larger strategery, along with a couple other suspicious nuggets over the last few days. Romney, apparently an establishment tool, has assembled these pieces along with other items (such as Trumps returns, which I don't care about) that just don't seem to die no matter how much Trump disavows or explains. Things like making up stories about how everyone calls him "The Donald" as a badge of disrespect. I thought Melania came up with that, and it doesn't seem disrespectful. Or I'm sure Trump would have said something about it long ago.
AFAIAC, we are heading towards socialism. Rather than let the planners get their "share", I'll take the chance that the whole thing burns to the ground rather than they get anything. Personally, I don't think Trump would let that happen.
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And if The Donald is any kind of KKK Grand Wizard, why did Romney accept his endorsement years ago? After all, according to Romney's own words, accepting such an endorsement would be horrible. All The Donald wanted to do was look into who was behind a couple of obscure groups before he made a decision, which is more than I can say of the current PoS inhabiting the Whitehouse.
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If Romney had said "Gee, you know, Trump's an OK-ish guy, but I really like Cruz" it might have actually accomplished something. But saying "OMG! This Nazi actually means what he said when he endorsed me four years ago!" isn't going to do jack shit but add to Trump's vote totals.
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If you listen to Romney's speech in its entirety, you will agree with him. Unless of course you are really a Hillary supporter.
The bulk of his speech addressed real issues. Snippets of broad conclusions sound like and are no better than Trump's comments about his rivals, but are not the important content of the speech; unless reason and facts have nothing to do with the election.
Hard to say if this is accurate or even when it was said, but it makes it sound like Trump may have been telling a falsehood when he said he'd release his taxes when the audit was over.
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Lions don't concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.
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If you listen to Romney's speech in its entirety, you will agree with him. Unless of course you are really a Hillary supporter.
For people who live in the fantasy of the old republic. It's over. It's done. It's not about Democrats vs Republicans or socialists vs conservatives. It's about power and how the ruling caste walked away from the bulk of the political body to impose their view of the world by dividing and in doing so alienated so many they created the situation they face now. The outer party and proles are realizing their choice is in a leader who will at least articulate their frustrations and address them, cause the ruling caste has refused to even though empowered to do so. Lip service. It's now a choice of Caesar, Pompey or Crassus.
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The Republican leadership has been increasingly out of touch with voters since they turned their backs on Barry Goldwater.
At that time they were called Rockefeller Republicans and while the names changed the Noblesse Oblige attitude remained the same. "They are my people...I love them. PULL!"
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Neil Cavuto said that today something he had never seen before. When Trump started his speech the traders on the floor quit trading and watched the speech - for the whole 50 mins!
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Releasing tax returns is just smoke and mirrors for the rubes when real assets are parked in corporations and trusts (legit) and foundations (dodgy).
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Romney's message is pure desperation and continuation of how out of touch the republican leadership is with voters.
I thought pretty highly of the man until recently. I hope he's not being coached by the RNC.
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Neil Cavuto said that today something he had never seen before. When Trump started his speech the traders on the floor quit trading and watched the speech - for the whole 50 mins!
I've been watching market reaction as well. As Trumps nomination solidified, an upturn would not surprise me much.
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lblis, I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what Romney was doing. A 3rd party run doesn't make sense; Mitt would lose. Are the do nothing Congressmen and Senators so afraid of losing their perks that they would rather have the Democrats continue to control the WH?
The party eating itself is just plain stupid. What a bunch of idiots. There is no justification for this; none.
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You forget that under a Donk, the Senators and Congresscritters still get perks. They're protected. They threw us over the side a long time ago.
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Its got to be Cruz...or Trump. Anything else will just be 4 more years of the same bullshit PLUS a loss of momentum that will end with a Dem in the White House again in 4 years. Cruz and...Trump...are the only 2 guys who even pretend to give a damn about "the rest of us".
[Judicial Watch] (Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch announced today that on October 8, 2015, it obtained documents from the United States Air Force Academy revealing that in 2014 and 2015, the Academy used its "Chapel Tithes and Offering Fund" to pay for cadets to participate in worship services featuring witchcraft, "Faery Magick," and voodoo. The records reveal that the Air Force Academy paid to send cadets to a Wiccan festival in Denver in May 2014 and a Denver Witches Ball in October of the same year.
The Tithes and Offering Fund, though funded by "free-will donations," is also defined as "an instrumentality of the United States Government."
According to a promotional brochure obtained by Judicial Watch, a group called "Spiritual Programs in Religious Education" hosted events at the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel Falcon Circle on the Academy campus. The Academy website describes Falcon Circle as "The worship area [for]... an umbrella of traditions that includes Wicca, Paganism and Druidism."
A woman suspected of beheading a child in her care before brandishing the severed head outside a Moscow metro station has said she acted to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria. Never forget that "Islam is one"
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I'd like them on the record next time someone calls Islam a religion of peace. I'd like them recorded talking about it in Arabic as well because I suspect they laugh a bit the suck bastards.
[IsraelTimes] Large manhunt as attackers escape after lightly injuring troops at Har Bracha outside Nablus
Two Israeli soldiers were lightly injured in a stabbing attack inside an Israeli settlement in the central West Bank Wednesday evening, the second such attack in the area in a day.
The stabbing took place after 7 p.m. at the entrance to the settlement of Har Bracha, south of Nablus, as two assailants attacked soldiers at the settlement guard booth, the IDF said.
After stabbing two soldiers, the attackers escaped the scene. Troops launched a large manhunt for the attackers and area residents were told to stay in their homes.
One victim suffered a wound to his shoulder and was taken to a hospital in Petah Tikva. The second soldier was treated for light injuries at the scene, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service.
Two Paleostinians were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... outside the nearby settlement of Yitzhar shortly after the stabbing, though they were not thought to have been linked to the Har Bracha attack.
Oooooh, first President al Sisi is going to dig up more tunnels.
Abu Abdallah offers one of the most detailed descriptions yet published of the cooperation between Sinai Province and Hamas, ties that include weapons smuggling by each group for the other; Hamas’s manufacture in Gazoo of Sinai Province’s uniforms, explosives and communications equipment; Hamas’s provision of medical care in Gazoo hospitals for maimed IS fighters, who are kept under the direct protection of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades; and even "feasts" held for IS leaders at the homes of senior Hamas officials in Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] In letter to ‘caliph,’ jihadist in Syria complains of joint military efforts with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Sinai even as group tortures IS supporters
A bitter outcry over Hamas’s oppression of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... supporters in Gazoo, and its close ties to the IS affiliate in Sinai, has caused a stir among members of the self-declared caliphate, shedding new light on the tacit cooperation between Hamas and IS.
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[Ynet] Roi Harel stepped outside his home in the West Bank settlement of Eli on his way to reserve duty, when he saw two terrorists outside his home, carrying clubs. They managed to lightly wound Harel, who fought back and then locked himself and his family inside their home. The attackers were found and killed a short while later by IDF soldiers.
terrorists infiltrated the settlement of Eli in the West Bank early Wednesday morning, and attacked a local resident at his doorstep with clubs. They ran away but were killed by security forces soon after.
Roi Harel recounted the incident: "I was stepping out of the house, going to reserve duty, at around 5:00am," Harel told Ynet. "I opened the door, and saw two terrorists with hatred and anger in their eyes. They attacked me with clubs and axes, and entered my home. After a couple of seconds I came to, and I ran after them as they had almost reached my children's bedrooms. I managed to push them outside the house and I locked my door."
Harel was lightly wounded in the attack, later being evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, receiving treatment for cuts to his head. "I was very shaken," he said, "It's not a simple feeling, especially because my wife and five children were inside the house. No I'm OK, and being treated."
The two terrorists were 17-year-olds from the village of Qaryut near Nablus. They are the 12th pair of terrorists to carry out attacks since the beginning of the current terror wave.
"If anyone has any doubts as to their intentions, two 17-year-olds came to slaughter me, my wife and my kids. In the seconds during which I fought with them, I thought to myself that what happened to theFogel and Gavish families. I screamed to my wife to call the settlement's guard, the children woke up and cried but my wife was with them in the bedroom, so they hardly saw anything."
While fleeing from the Harel home, the attackers broke the windows of several vehicles in the area. After that, they apparently hid, eventually deciding to continue with further attacks. They ran into IDF soldiers, and were killed.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province said on Wednesday, that a police officer was killed in a militant attack that took place in Sharka area east of Kirkuk.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “This evening, unidentified gunmen driving a modern vehicle opened fire from their weapons against an officer in Kirkuk Police while passing in the area of Sharka east of Kirkuk, resulting in his immediate death.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “A force from the police transferred the dead body to the forensic medicine department at Azadi General Hospital, while opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.”
[USATODAY] Rahmanjan Safy scrambled to salvage anything valuable from the demolished tents and makeshift shelters at this Calais migrant camp Wednesday, even as riot police and bulldozers destroyed the site.
Food, clothing, spoons -- he picked up everything he could find.
Safy, 25, from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, has been in La Belle France since 2009. He once lived in this camp but now works with an organization that helps the migrants colonists and refugees. Driving his big white truck, he moved these precious commodities to a section of the camp still intact, so people could still use them.
"I once was in the same situation as them," he said. "I never forgot. I want to help them."
A judge gave the green light last week for the French government to tear down part of the Calais "Jungle," as the camp is commonly called, but riots broke out this week amid the resulting chaos.
Police and bulldozers began pushing migrants colonists out of tents and temporary shelters Monday, tearing apart the ad hoc camp that houses an estimated 6,000 people.
Camp residents fought back, starting fires and attacking police with rocks. The situation Wednesday was calmer, if not less tense. Confusion, uncertainty and sorrow still hang over the camp and the people who have no place to go.
[ALMANAR.LB] The operations command in Samarra announced the killing of ISIL security commander in Samarra Island in Salahuddin province.
The command told Iraqi news agency, Furat News, that the Iraqi air force killed the bully boyz Hayawi Mohammad Khamis al-Nisyani along with his assistant Bashar al-Bazi and other 13 bully boyz in an Arclight airstrike south of Samarra Island, as it is called without being an island. The command noted that the strike was based on intelligence information.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, the Iraqi forces, backed by volunteer fighters managed to seize the oil refinery along with several surrounding points in the area, Iraqi media reported.
The operations commands also said that the Iraqi allied forces started on Wednesday the second stage of the military operation in Salahuddin which is aimed at purging ISIL terrorists.
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[DAWN] Trying to lure him into the murderous MoslemIslamic 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, the would-be recruiter told Pak journalist Hasan Abdullah, "Brother, you could be such an asset to the Ummah"-- the Islamic community. Abdullah replied that he was enjoying life and had no plans to join the murderous Moslems.
"The enjoyment of this life is short-lived. You should work for the Akhira" -- the afterlife, the recruiter pressed.
IS had its eye on Abdullah not because he adheres to any murderous Moslem ideology but because, as a journalist, the group believed he could be a boon to its propaganda machine, Abdullah told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, recounting his meeting with the recruiter.
His encounter was a sign of how the IS is looking for sophisticated skills as it builds its foothold in new territory: Pakistain.
The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police’s top counter terrorism official, Raja Umer Khitab, warns that IS has great potential to grow in Pakistain.
IS first announced its presence in the country with a bloody attack in May in Karachi in which gunnies boarded a bus, ordered them to bow their heads, then opened fire, killing 45. The gunnies left behind a tattered piece of paper proclaiming, "Beware ... We have entered the battlefield for retribution and the implementation of Shariah."
The number of IS loyalists in Pakistain is not known. Government officials only recently admitted that they have a presence and insist loyalists here have no known operational links to the IS leadership in Iraq and Syria.
Still, in one of the first warnings by an official about IS, intelligence chief Aftab Sultan told a Senate committee earlier this month that hundreds of Paks have gone to fight in Syria, and some are now coming home to Pakistain to recruit.
One way IS holy warriors are trying to recruit and build is through women. One academy for women in Karachi’s Baloch Colony neighborhood recruited women by playing IS videos in the classrooms, Khitab told the AP. The 20 female students then reached out to middle-class and wealthy Karachi women, urging them to donate their religious tithes to the IS cause of establishing a caliphate.
Several women were detained, including the wife of a suspected IS operative, and were released after questioning, Khitab said.
IS recruiters have been stalking university campuses. For example, the suspected criminal mastermind in the bus attack, Saad Aziz, was a graduate of the US-funded Institute of Business Administration in Karachi.
A professor at the Institute, Huma Baqai, said there are radicalised professors teaching in some of the country’s top universities. They "are using the classrooms to mold (students’) minds," she said. "There is no scrutiny in what happens in the classroom."
An intelligence official told the AP that security officials have interrogated several university professors suspected of supporting IS and trying to recruit students.
"Finding people who are willing to strap on a boom jacket and blow themselves up is easy. There are hundreds, thousands," said Abdullah, the journalist. But the educated are a bigger prize. He said he knows two other journalists whom IS tried to enlist. Abdullah said IS probably sought him because he was known from his work writing on extremism in the region and has met many holy warriors personally.
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[Daily Excelsior] Three murderous Moslems of Hizbul Mujahideen have been trapped in Dadsar village of South Kashmire’s Tral area where security forces are battling against residents as well, who are throwing stones at them, to facilitate murderous Moslems to flee from the cordon.
Police and Army’s 42-RR cordoned off Mir Mohalla of Dadsar and conducted searches in the village after they received information about presence of three Lion of Islams. They have been identified as Mohammad Asif of Dadsar, Ashiq Hussain of Bahu Sharsu and Sabzar Ahmad of Ratsuna Tral of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit.
As the security forces zeroed in near a residential house where 3 murderous Moslems are trapped, locals pelted stones on security forces leading to festivities.
Police fired teargas shells to quell the protests and also fired few aerial gunshots. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the protesters continued to pelt stones in order to give safe passage to Lion of Islams.
The cordon around the village has been tightened to prevent murderous Moslems from fleeing.
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Time for the old adage about destroying the village in order to save it.
At least six people were killed and two others injured in deadly clashes near the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdane between armed militants who had crossed from Libya and Tunisian army and security forces today. The militants are believed to be Islamic State supporters fleeing from Sabratha after the US air raid on some of their facilities there and last week’s subsequent clashes with locals.
Five militants, believed to be three Tunisians and two Libyans, died when they clashed with Tunisian security forces and army. It was reported on social media that two of them blew themselves up inside a house in which they had tried to hide. A Ben Guerdane local was killed by a stray bullet. A Tunisian colonel and security official were also injured in the operation which lasted for five hours.
Eleven militants altogether are said to have crossed into Tunisia using four-wheel drive vehicles.
A Ben Guerdane local who asked to remain anonymous told the Libya Herald that the operation took place in open farmland in the Awiji area, a few kilometres south of Ben Guerdane. The area has traditionally been associated with illegal smuggling from Libya.
Tunisian security officials say they seized five Kalashnikovs, three 4WD vehicles, ammunition, hand grenades and mobile phones among other items in the possession of the armed group. They also discovered an arms cache in the area where the weapons were found.
Several Tunisian media sources reported that some of the armed group members forced their way into nearby houses and hostage some of the occupants.
Army reinforcements were sent after a Ben Guerdane resident alerted security officials about the presence of the group in the Awiji area.
Belhassen Weslati, the spokesman of Tunisian Ministry of Defence, told Watania 1 TV station tonight that they saturated the area in which the “terrorist elements” took shelter, staging a wide sweeping operation.
Yasser Mosbah, from the Tunisian Ministry of Interior media department, speaking on the same channel, claimed that the infiltrators were IS members who had survived the 19 February US airstrike at Sabratha and the subsequent clashes between IS and local forces. Over 40 IS fighters, almost all of them Tunisians, died in the airstrike.
It had been expected that militants from Sabratha would try to flee to Tunisia, he added, Following today’s operation, Tunisian air force fighter planes have been patrolling the buffer zone along the border.
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I remember reading about this sh*t storm back in the day.
[IsraelHayom] Imagine, if you will, the following scenario: An Obama administration official quits his job and devotes seven years of his life to writing a well-researched book that pulls the rug out from underneath his former boss regarding the Iranian issue. Then imagine that the book offers a sympathetic view of Israel that is factually based and that reveals information that was not previously known. U.S. President Barack Obama can only express anger, bewilderment, and frustration in response. This leaves the Democrats with a dilemma. Do they remain true to the facts or loyal to their president?
Astonishingly enough, this is a true story, though it took place in another era. It happened at a time when the administration in power -- also Democratic -- was about as friendly as the current administration. It happened during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in power at the time, and Benjamin Netanyahu was making his initial foray into Israeli politics.
[Daily Excelsior] India today suggested that action against terror by Pakistain was a greater priority for it than resumption of a bilateral dialogue in the aftermath of the Pathankot attack, which led to postponement of the Foreign Secretary-level talks.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said there are "obstacles" in improving ties between the two countries and noted that Pakistain needs to change its attitude towards a number of issues of which terrorism is "central".
"In the aftermath of a terror attack, if you ask me what do you give priority to, a terrorist attack or a diplomatic dialogue, I think the answer should be obvious," he said.
The Foreign Secretary was replying to a question during an interactive session at the Raisina Dialogue -- a conclave on geoeconomics and geopolitics -- on whether FS-level talks were linked to action by Islamabad against perpetrators of the Pathankot attack, based on information given to it by India.
The comments by Jaishankar came as a five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from Pakistain is likely to visit India this month to probe the Pathankot terror assault. India had said Masood Azhar, head of Pakistain-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, criminal masterminded the attack and sought action against him and other perpetrators.
Jaishankar said the two countries were in touch with each other following the attack, primarily at the level of National Security Advisers, and to a certain extent between him and his Pak counterpart. He said "parallel processes" are at works.
On improving connectivity between India and Pakistain, he said, "It takes two hands to clap" and that India would like to have same kind of ties with Islamabad like it has with other neighbours.
"Most people in this country want to treat Pakistain as a normal neighbour. So, we would like to do with Pakistain what we do with everybody else. But the fact is that there are obstacles and we know what the obstacles are," he said, emphasising on the need to remove them.
Talking about overall Indo-Pak ties, he said India was for a "much more modern relationship" with Islamabad but for that to happen the neighbouring country needed a change in attitude towards a number of issues of which terrorism is a "central" one.
To a question whether India and Pakistain can remain isolated, Jaishankar said they should not and that New Delhi has been making sincere efforts to improve its ties with Islamabad.
"I cannot think of any Prime Minister of India who did not strive for better relations with Pakistain. There may be differences in nuances, pace and packaging," he said.
Last month, Pakistain had lodged an FIR in the Pathankot terror attack case which was seen by India as a "step forward" in bringing the perpetrators of the strike to justice.
The FIR was filed against "unknown persons" though India had named Masood Azhar as the criminal mastermind of the strike.
India had submitted evidence to show that the six perpetrators who attacked the air base came from across the border, and demanded action against the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed led by Azhar.
Yesterday, Pakistain 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... ’s Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said the SIT may visit India in the next few days and hoped that the Foreign Secretary-level talks will be scheduled very soon.
Pakistain had last week set up a five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the terror attack.
Earlier, a six-member SIT was set up by the Government for conducting an initial probe into the January 2 attack based on the leads given by India.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 3 people lost lives and 19 others sustained injuries when armed holy warriors attacked Indian consulate in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, around 12 pm on Wednesday.
One of the 5 attackers detonated his explosives to blow up the barricades in front of the front gate of the consulate in order to pave way for other attackers to storm the consulate.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... they were bumped off by security forces during a brief shootout.
There was no casualties to Indian diplomats and consulate employees but it left a policeman and two civilians killed and 19 others maimed including women and kiddies.
14 victims who sustained light injuries were discharged from the hospital but five others are still admitted at Nangarhar Regional Hospital whose wounds are severe.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The national parties and large segments of the locals highly appreciated the "historical speech" of Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah which he delivered on Tuesday, highly appreciating Hezbollah stances in support to the Arab country against the Saudi aggression. That's Houthis Yemen, natch. In case you were confused.
Several statements in this context were delivered and the social media websites witnessed a major popular event to thank Sayyed Nasrallah who reiterated his positions of condeming the Saudi aggression against Yemen.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Tuesday for the closure of Syria's border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to cut off outside supplies to "terrorists", including through humanitarian convoys.
"Of course, neither in ceasefire agreements, nor in the process of political settlement is there a place for bandidosturbans and hard boys," Lavrov told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
"A very special task is to cut the terrorists' supply from the outside. For this purpose it is important to close the Syrian-Turkish border, since across this border those gangs receive arms, including with humanitarian convoys," Lavrov said.
He insisted that a "landslide defeat of the ISIL group... al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... and those of their kind is a necessary precondition for securing the rights of long-suffering peoples of Syria" and the rest of the region.
His comments came after aid workers on Monday made the first delivery of desperately-needed assistance since the start of Syria's fragile ceasefire four days ago.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Dozens of "Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... " terrorists, including a commander, were either killed or maimed after a huge blast rocked its headquarters in Ashe village in Quneitra countryside, according to Al-Manar news hound.
The Syrian army and allies continued on Wednesday their military operations against ISIL bully boyz in several provinces, inflicting heavy losses upon them.
Aleppo
An army unit restored stability and security to Fah village in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province after eliminating the remaining gatherings of ISIL bully boyz in it, a military source announced.
Army units then combed the village searching for bombs and bombs to remove them and fully secure the village.
The army’s air force targeted sites for ISIL bully boyz in al-Bab city, 38 km northeast of Aleppo city, inflicting heavy losses upon the bully boyz in personnel and equipment and destroying their positions and vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns.
In a relevant context, the Syrian General Command of the Army and Armed Forces called upon the locals of Keffin and Masqan towns in the northern countryside of the province to return to their houses after the areas were secured.
Homs
A series of sorties were carried out by the army’s air force targeting ISIL terrorists’ sites in al-Qaryatain city to the southeast of Homs city.
The military source clarified that fortifications and gatherings of ISIL bully boyz were directly hit in Tadmur city (Palmyra) in the eastern part of Homs province, with the bully boyz suffering heavy losses.
More ISIL positions were destroyed, along with vehicles equipped with machineguns, in army Arclight airstrikes in the villages of Um Sahreej, al-Shendakhiyeh al-Janoubiyeh, al-Shendakhiyeh al-Shamaliyeh, al-Msheirfeh al-Janoubiyeh, Unq al-Hawa and to the east of Jeb al-Jarrah town.
Suwaida
In southern Syria, An army unit destroyed 3 vehicles equipped with heavy machinegun belonging to ISIL bully boyz and killed a number of them in Dalfaa hill and the area surrounding it in the northeastern countryside of Suwaida province.
Another army unit destroyed a bulldozer that ISIL bully boyz were using in setting up fortifications and killed the bully boyz operating it in Asheiheb hill, northwest of Suwaida city.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (Fazl) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... says that although the religious parties are not in a position to form the government, they can definitely derail it.
"Rana Sanaullah says that the people do not cast their vote for religious parties but I want to make it clear to Sanaullah that though we are not in a position to form the government, we are able to derail the government whenever we want," he said while talking to the media here on Tuesday.
Fazl said the government should introduce legislation under which a person who committed blasphemy against the Holy Prophet be punished automatically and people might not have to take law in their hands. He said a meeting of religious elements would be called soon over the issues of the protection of religious seminaries and Women Protection Act to devise future line of action.
The JUI-F chief said the Women Protection Act passed by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly was against the constitution, law and Islamic teachings.
"We reject all such laws and will continue to play our role to protect the Sharia as such laws usually are introduced to fulfill the foreign agenda," he said.
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – Syrian regime’s army mobilized Wednesday hundreds of troops and heavy weapons in the southern countryside of Aleppo, north Syria, in preparation to storm rebels’ positions in the area.
Forces loyal to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have take several towns in southern Aleppo as military bases, including the towns of al-Mrej and Khan Touman.
This was coupled with Russian fighter jets conducting sorties over Aleppo, military sources reported.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, Saleh Zein, spokesman for the Levant Front (major rebel faction fighting in Aleppo), said that pro-Assad army units and allied Shiite militias were heavily mobilized in southern Aleppo.
“Pro-Assad forces are trying to take advantage of the current ceasefire to take over the entire southern countryside of Aleppo,” Zein said.
This comes after the regime’s army units lost ground to rebel factions in northeastern Aleppo.
“The regime intends to continue its advance south of Aleppo after recapturing main towns and villages from the rebels in the recent weeks,” local media activist Mustafa Sulaiman told ARA News. “The Russian sorties helped secure the movements of pro-Assad troops in the area on Wednesday.”
In the meantime, over 20 rebel fighters from the Levant Front were reportedly killed in Russian airstrikes.
“The Russian warplanes targeted rebel strongholds in the villages of Zarbeh, Tall al-Sultan and Wasta in southeastern Aleppo, killing 22 rebel fighters and wounding dozens more,” Sulaiman reported.
Spokesman of the Levant Front said that their fighters responded to the strikes by bombing headquarters of pro-Assad forces in the al-Ayss town with a number of mortar shells, without giving further details.
Sh*t getting real. If he has immunity, then refusal to testify = contempt and jail. Stay away from Ft. Marcy Park
The Justice Department has granted immunity to the former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton's private email server as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.
The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009.
As the FBI looks to wrap up its investigation in the coming months, agents will likely want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the decision to use a private server, how it was set up, and whether any of the participants knew they were sending classified information in emails, current and former officials said.
The inquiry comes against a sensitive political backdrop in which Clinton is the favorite to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
So far, there is no indication that prosecutors have convened a grand jury in the email investigation to subpoena testimony or documents, which would require the participation of a U.S. attorney's office. no, nothing to see, go about your bizness
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"You have to ask, at this point, what difference does it make?"
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Amazing how WaPo and NYT just don't seem to care. Remember this when they start throwing rocks at Republicans.
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The words are clear indicators. Immunity...Immunity from prosection, not immunity from a mere inquiry. Immunity is not offered unless the prosecutor has established probable cause in his/her mind that a crime has occurred. You can conclude that the Justice Department has physical evidence that they wish to be corroborated by Pagliano. He will have to cooperate fully to maintain the immunity...or face charges. The odds of a grand jury have increased immeasurably.
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He may also testify that he told Hillary everything was secure. That it was he who violated the policy and that she never ordered him to do anything illegal. After all he has immunity and she has control of a huge charitable foundation.
I've been thinking that they would stall and dither till after the election, but, you're idea may be the first one I heard as a way to get all the Demorats out of this mess.
WaPo and NYT will scream this to the world if that's the way it goes. Hillary uber alles!!
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Interesting theory, but if the Feds to have evidence to confirm, and his testimony flies in the face of other data, I suppose they'd hang him out to dry for perjury?
Hillary and Co. can't be any smarter than the Underworld Kingpins (to avoid ethnic stereotypes).
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They're running this business to ground far too close to the election. If she is removed from the running prior to the election, will the candidacy default to Sanders? Will a new candidate have time emerge and prepare. Will the 22nd be set aside permitting the Champ an extension ?
If she loses the election and is brought up on charges imediately afterward, will the Trump hating 'beltway party' claim the election was spoiled by scandal and seek to have it declared invalid ?
If she wins the election in November, will Champ simply pardon her and her evil minions before he leaves office.
I smell a potential train wreck of epic proportion.
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Gotta love CNN - The FBI reviewers oversaw the process that upgraded the emails now known to be highly sensitive ....
As if the SAP stuff needed to upgraded. Most of the info on the emails was classified the BEFORE it migrated to the unclass network. Why can't CNN understand that?? So in the tank for the Beast - who keeps calling this a security review or inquiry. She knows exactly what this is and knows she's into up to her neck.
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They're probably ALL 'back-channeling' classified material on UNCLAS systems to avoid FOIA, and have been for years. And if the Russians, Chinese, did I mention the Chinese? ....and others have not been hacking every keystroke, shame on them as well.
The assumption must be made that foreign intelligence services gained full access. How could any competent damage assessment effort assume otherwise? Could there have possibly been a higher priority target? I think not.
My guess is, this thing is much, much bigger than Clinton, and the wrong doing is spread across both political parties.
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Sorry Bobby but I think you're making one mistake.
Hillary and Co. can't be any smarter than the Underworld Kingpins
Smarter? No. More connected? By the power of 100.
Don't approach this as though Hillary and the Feds are on opposite sides. This is nothing more than an inrarmural squabble. They're keeping it all in the family so to speak
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Hilda is an expert in the dance to avoid prosecution through the use of language and pleas of ignorance. Someone(s) already being primed to plead out to the stripping and support Hildies' claim of no marking. Leniency promises and a fat career post conviction plus the dangle of a pardon will be the icing. Mills or Sullivan or some dupes most likely. Not Huma, she has too important a personal role and will be in residence at 1600.
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Yup, that's why I come here - to be cheered up! \sarc
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It would seem Mr. Pagliano's immunity suggests the proceedings for a grand jury are underway or possibly already convened. It's also quite likely others have been offered simmilar protections. Sec. Clinton's visit to a Federal building is not a if but a when. The outcome of these sitdowns is still very much in question.
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Weird thing is that if anything happens to this guy, or any of his family, no matter how innocent and explainable, Hillary will be blamed (even if not prosecuted).
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Could be a weird way to blackmail her. Give me $ or ? or we'll whack the guys wife and the world will assume it was you Hillary. Think about that as you transfer the money to the account our people will send to you.
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The FBI slow walking this investigation is either comforting (they are that isolated from politics?) or frightening (the Justice department is that corrupt?).
When do they plan to act?
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@Besoaker - The Donk Convention will open with a vote of the delegates to adopt the rules of the convention as set forth the day before by the rules committee. If the Hildebeeste is indicted and it's getting a bit too hot said rules committee can simply set forth a rule that, for example, prohibits anyone under active federal indictment from being nominated. All her delegates would free up and it would be game on from there.
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Getting ready to say the same thing: the FBI is very careful about offering immunity. They do it when
1) they have a pretty good idea what you're going to say
2) they have a pretty firm hold on your manly/lady parts
That they've offered immunity to Mr. Pagliano says that the FBI knows (and his lawyer knows) that he's going down the river. They don't need his testimony or his cooperation to convict him. They can convict him at any point in time after an indictment has been proffered. They know it. He knows it.
They offered him a chance to sing, and he's going to sing. He's already agreed and likely is (and has been) singing; otherwise the immunity deal wouldn't have been made. The FBI already knew what he was going to say -- he can't take all the blame now because if he tries the FBI will then indict him -- for perjury. That will then invalidate the immunity agreement, and he gets EXTRA time in prison.
He's singing. Who's next up on the food chain?
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Setting up a server isn't a crime, so I don't quite get the immunity thing.
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Setting up a server to circumvent established secure communications rules/laws is, EC. This isn't a plumber or electrician. Who directed him?
I'm hoping Cheryl Mills, Patrick Kennedy, and Huma discover that orange isn't really the new black, it's a fricking jumpsuit, not unlike their bosses' Dr Evil pantsuits
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I would be very surprised if Hillary told him that he was going to set up a server for that purposes.
But then again I don't know what the law says in that regard (regarding the administrator).
Hillary almost certainly broke the law. The consequences could be important.
Polls currently give Sanders a better chance to beat Trump.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh revealed on Wednesday, that a girl belonging to the so-called ISIS executed five women in western Nineveh.
The source reported by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, a 12-year-old girl belonging to the so-called ISIS executed five women, including a doctor who refused to medicate ISIS members that were wounded in a coalition’s bombardment, by firing squad in al-Ghazlani Camp.”
“This execution is considered to be the first of its kind to be implemented by a small girl within ISIS,” the source added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 19 Death Eaters were killed in the latest counter-terrorism operations led by the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in various provinces of the country.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were conducted in the past 24 hours to suppress the activities of the terrorist groups.
A statement by MoD said at least 5 Death Eaters were also maimed and 7 others were detained by the security forces during the same operations.
The statement further added that 7 holy warriors were killed and a vehicle along with a cycle of violence was confiscated by the security forces in Char Chino district of Uruzgan province.
At least 5 holy warriors were killed in Dand-e-Shahabuddin district of Baghlan province, MoD said, adding that 5 others were maimed.
MoD also added that 3 holy warriors were killed in a separate operation in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz province, while 4 others were killed in Alisheng district of Laghman province.
The statement said various types of weapons, ammunition and explosives were seized by the Afghan forces during the same operations.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups have not commented regarding the operations so far.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source in Nineveh Province announced on Wednesday, that seven members of the so-called ISIS were killed in a bombardment carried out by the international coalition aviation north-east of Mosul (405 km north of Mosul).
The source said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today the international coalition aircrafts bombed the headquarters of ISIS in Kabrli village in Hamdaniya District (40 km north east of Mosul), killing seven members of ISIS.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The bombing also resulted in the destruction of the headquarters completely.”
Noteworthy, ISIS took over the city of Mosul in Nineveh Province (405 km north of Baghdad) in the tenth of June 2014, before extending its terrorist activities to many other areas in Iraq.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: The security forces 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... claimed to have killed seven suspected Lions of Islam during operations carried out in Kech and Kohlu districts of the province on Wednesday.
Four suspected Lions of Islam were killed during an exchange of fire in Kohlu district in the evening, while there suspects, including a key commander of the outlawed Baloch Republican Army (BRA), were killed in Kech district earlier in the day.
The front man for Frontier Constabulary, Khan Wasey, said the miscreants killed in Kohlu district belonged to an outlawed murderous Moslem organization operating in the area. Two suspects were maimed during exchange of fire.
He said five sanctuaries were also demolished during the search operation in the aftermath of the killings. A cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from the possession of suspected murderous Moslems, said Wasey.
Earlier, the security forces acted on a tip-off regarding the presence of Lions of Islam in Dasht area of district Kech and killed three miscreants belonging to the BRA.
Wasey said a key murderous Moslem commander of the banned outfit was also among the dead and added that security forces had also recovered weapons from their possession.
The front man further said the Lions of Islam were involved in killings of labourers working at Shadi Kor Dam.
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[DAWN] Mumtaz Qadri was a member of the Elite Force of Punjab. The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported he had been "removed from a special police branch several years ago because of his bully boy religious views", and reinducted in 2008, when Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... became the chief minister of Punjab.
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[UPI] Prosectors in Russia believe a nanny accused of decapitating a 4-year-old girl was encouraged to kill the child by instigators still on the lam.
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, a mother of three from Uzbekistan, was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Monday after she was caught on video apparently carrying the severed head of Nastya, a 4-year-old girl who was in her care. Officials said she suffers from mental health problems.
In court Tuesday, she said "Allah ordered" her to kill the girl.
When asked if she accepted her guilt, Bobokulova replied, "yes."
Police Sherlocks told Moscow's Presnensky district court they have not found anyone else involved in the case, but said they believed Bobokulova was "incited" to commit the alleged crimes by instigators yet to be detained.
"Suspected accomplices, specifically the instigators, are currently on the lam," an investigator told the court. Bobokulova was held without bail and will remain in jug until at least April 29.
Nastya was under Bobokulova's care for 18 months. No motive has been established, but Russian media quoted police sources as saying Bobokulova allegedly mentally deteriorated after she discovered her partner had a second family.
In recent days, Moscow residents have laid flowers and children's toys outside the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro station where Bobokulova was arrested and outside of the child's home.
[TODAYSZAMAN] Residents returned to the flashpoint town of Cizre, in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Wednesday to find many of their homes destroyed and at least one body still lying inside a destroyed house.
A first wave of arrivals reached the town at the break of dawn, their vehicles loaded with personal belongings and, in many cases, children, after authorities partially lifted a 24-hour curfew that had been imposed to facilitate security operations against Kurdish Death Eaters.
Police carefully inspected their documents as well as the contents of their cars and bags as they trickled into the town near the banks of the Tigris river.
The level of damage in some neighborhoods evoked the early days of military conflict in neighboring Syria with buildings gutted by shelling or partially collapsed. Shell casings littered the streets of the Sur neighborhood where residents made a grisly discovery - the corpse of an unidentifiable male.
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahaddin – A security source announced early on Wednesday, that the security forces managed to free 50 families who were withheld by the so-called ISIS as hostages north of Samarra south of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “This morning the security forces liberated 50 families who were withheld by ISIS elements as hostages near Leine area north of Samarra (40 km south of Tikrit).”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The security forces evacuated the families to safe areas.”
Noteworthy the Joint Operations Command announced on Tuesday the start of major operations to cleanse the area of al-Jazeera area north of Samarra south of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad)
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[DAWN] Adviser for Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... has said that a Pak team will visit India "in the next few days" to investigate the Jan 2 terrorist attack on an airbase in Pathankot.
An official transcript released on Tuesday also quoted him as saying that the foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries could be rescheduled soon after the visit.
After a meeting with US 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... on Monday, Mr Aziz said it was unfortunate that the Pathankot attack disrupted the resumption of secretary-level talks between India and Pakistain.
He pointed out that since the attack, Pakistain had taken a number of "important steps" for resumption of these talks.
"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... called the Indian Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) immediately after the attack and assured him of Pakistain’s support in the investigation. National security advisers are maintaining frequent contacts," he said.
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[TODAYSZAMAN] A front man for German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... said on Wednesday that EU states should not leave Greece alone to deal with an influx of migrants colonists and refugees, but also urged Athens to do its part by protecting its border effectively.
"Greece should not be left alone in the situation in which it finds itself," Steffen Seibert told a regular government news conference.
"At the same time, Greece must ... protect its borders effectively and also push ahead with the construction of functioning hotspots and sufficient accommodation capacities," he added.
Elsewhere, Macedonia intermittently opened its border with Greece to a tiny trickle of Syrian and Iraqi refugees Wednesday, leaving about 10,000 more people camped on the Greek side, with more arriving daily.
The border bottleneck has left at least 25,000 people stranded in Greece, the first European country that migrants colonists reach in smuggling boats from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . As the prosperous but divided continent flails in search of a workable solution, individual countries led by Austria have imposed immigration caps that have caused a domino effect down the Balkan immigration corridor, which has been traversed by a million people over the past year.
Greek police say Macedonian police opened the Idomeni crossing at midnight Tuesday and 7 a.m. on Wednesday, each time for two hours. They admitted a total of 170 people from Syria and Iraq -- the only nationalities allowed to continue north.
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The EU can always consult The Donald (tm) about the ins and outs of wall building. Is there a wall building for dummies?
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The Greeks did not cause this problem. They should sue Merkel and Obama for damages.
[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah declared on Monday the martyrdom of Leader Ali Fayyad, aka Alaa of Bosnia, who was killed while answering the call of duty. Martyr Fayyad had a long Jihadi life, the latest badge of honor was his the military campaigns he led against the takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups operating in Syria.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Explosions and gunfire echoed Wednesday as gunnies attacked the Indian consulate in Jalalabad in the latest assault to rattle the eastern Afghan city.
No myrmidon group has so far grabbed credit for the ongoing assault and no fatalities were immediately reported.
Indian foreign ministry front man Vikas Swarup told AFP: "Our consulate has been targeted but everyone is safe."
The area, also home to other diplomatic missions, has repeatedly come under attack in recent months.
In January, faceless myrmidons of the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group grabbed credit for a deadly gun and bomb siege targeting the nearby Pak consulate in Jalalabad, the first major attack by the group in an Afghan city.
Wednesday's attack comes as direct peace talks are expected to start this week between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
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[DAWN] The chairman of Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani, said that some clauses of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) Domestic Violence Bill are in contradiction with Shariah and the country's Constitution.
Talking to media in the federal capital on Wednesday, Sherani said that CII is holding discussion over the bill and some clauses of it are under consideration for being in contradiction with the law of the land and also Shariah.
Sherani said that the CII's formation and authority is protected under the Constitution and if any assembly, whether provincial or national, moves to dissolve the council then that act will be considered against the Constitution of Pakistain.
"Tell me whether that assembly should be lauded or dissolved for acting against the Constitution," Sherani asked the media.
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[DAWN] Many prominent religious personalities attended the funeral prayer of Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of former 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.... governor Salmaan Taseer, at Liaquat Bagh on Tuesday.
Mumtaz Qadri was hanged early on Monday morning after his clemency appeal was rejected by President Mamnoon Hussain.
"The government protected snuffies and delayed their cases for several years despite the fact they killed hundreds of people but it executed Qadri in haste," said Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi, a former federal minister for religious affairs in ex-prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... ’s cabinet, while talking to Dawn.
Mr Kazmi, who arrived in the city to attend the funeral prayers, said Mumtaz Qadri killed the former governor out of his love for the holy prophet (peace be upon him). He said the huge gathering at the funeral was enough to prove that people considered Mumtaz Qadri as a martyr.
Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman added: "The presence of such a large number of people in the funeral is a referendum against the government. The government killed Mumtaz Qadri and people rejected the government’s act. I have never seen such a big gathering in any political or religious function," he said.
Police and the capital administration remained on their toes throughout the day on Tuesday to ensure that the funeral procession of Mumtaz Qadri passed Islamabad to Athaal village in Bhara Kahu without any hindrance. All arrangements were put in place to meet any untoward incident.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two loyalists of the terrorist group of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) which is also known by its Arabic name Daesh [Islamic State] have been killed by their own explosives 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.
According to a statement released on Wednesday by the spokesperson of Nangarhar police, the incident took place in Mazdaki village of Achin district.
"Two Daesh [Islamic State]gunnies have been killed and three others maimed in the kabooms of their two home-made bombs in the jurisdiction of Mazdaki of Achin district," states Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal’s statement.
Even though, the Ministry of Defense says they have cleared all villages of Achin district from the presence of Daesh [Islamic State] during the ongoing military offensive ‘Operation Shaheen 18’ but it is believed that the group still has a strong presence in the area.
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[ARA News] ERBIL – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched on Wednesday an offensive on positions for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq, using rockets filled with chlorine gas, officials said.
“Peshmerga positions in the Khazir district east of Mosul have been exposed to a new offensive at the hands of Daesh terrorists,” Khalid Razazi, a spokesman for the Peshmerga, told ARA News in Erbil, using an acronym for ISIS.
“The terror group bombed Peshmerga headquarters in Khazir with rockets filled with chemical agents,” the source reported.
At least nine Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers were killed and four more wounded in the attack.
The official pointed out that the injured have been transferred to a hospital in Erbil for treatment, “where investigations confirmed that the rockets fired by Daesh had been filled with chlorine gas”.
He added that the affected soldiers suffered burning in their noses and throats, and experienced vomiting subsequent to the attack.
“The Peshmerga responded to the offensive by bombing Daesh strongholds in Mosul with heavy artillery. Scores of terrorists were killed in the operation,” the Peshmerga spokesman told ARA News.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday, that ten people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast southeast of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this morning, in Nahrawan area southeast of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while an operation was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police said on Wednesday, that three civilians had been injured in a bomb blast in southern the capital Baghdad.
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, reported for IraqiNews.com, “A booby-trapped motorcycle that was parked on the side of the road exploded, today, targeting a gathering of civilians in the district of al-Mada’an located in southern Baghdad,” pointing out that, “The blast resulted in the injury of three civilians.”
“The security forces arrived in the area of the incident and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for medical treatment,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Italian government announced on Wednesday, that it decided to send 130 soldiers, in addition to eight helicopters for combat and logistics purposes to help Iraq in its war against terrorism, while pointed out that the helicopters will be deployed in the province of Erbil. The Italian government also revealed its intention to deploy an infantry force to protect the Italian team that will work on the maintenance of Mosul Dam.
The Italian Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Italian government will send four Mongoose (A- 129) helicopters and four other NH90 planes to Iraq in the coming few days,” indicating that, “The aircraft will be deployed the soonest in northern Erbil for combat, search and rescue purposes.”
Pinotti added, “The Italian military aid includes sending 130 soldiers to Iraq as part of its ongoing efforts to assist Iraq in its war against ISIS, as well as deploying an infantry force to protect the Italian contractors working to repair Mosul Dam in the province of Nineveh.”
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[ARA News] DERIK – Kurdish security forces of the Asayish arrested on Wednesday a group of gunmen linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group in the city of Derik (Malikiyah) in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province.
Five pro-ISIS gunmen were arrested in a security raid by the Asayish in the Suwediya sub-district of Derik.
“Our forces have arrested all members of the pro-ISIS sleeper cell in Suwediya on Wednesday evening,” the Asayish leadership said in a statement.
It added that explosive devices and ammunition were found in the building that was raided by the Kurdish security.
“The suspects have been preparing to launch terror attacks on Kurdish headquarters in the area,” the Asayish said, adding: “The initial interrogations confirmed their affiliation with ISIS terrorist group.”
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Afghan military forces caught up in heavy clashes with insurgents in southern Helmand's Sangin district have appealed for air support.
Despite troops having managed to reopen some roads to the provincial capital Lashkargah the ongoing clashes have led them to request support.
"To strengthen the military forces on the battle filed we need air support to target the insurgents," said a soldier from the front line.
Mohammad Moean Faqiri, deputy head of 201 Maiwand Military Corps, said a number of villages have been cleared of insurgents in Sangin and forces are able to move forward.
"The operation was launched under the name of Khanjar [dirk] and so far the security forces have been able to clear several villages and taken control of the area. We are moving slowly to protect civilians," Faqiri said.
Abdul Jabar Qahraman, the head of the military operation in Helmand, said: "We are trying to re-open the road from Sangin into Lashkargah. The military operation still continues and we want to provide security for the high way."
A groups calling itself “Revolutionaries of the Revolution’s Squares” has threatened to attack members of the planned State Council who have been meeting in the capital. Speaking today on Nabaa TV channel, owned by radical Islamist Abdulhakim Belhaj, they described the series of meetings held by the council as a conspiracy. Its aim, they said, was a split among the revolutionaries.
They also claimed that responsibility for any bloodshed that might occur in Tripoli would lie with what they called “the dissidents and supporters of Kobler’s conspiracy”. The State Council meetings were a coup on the revolution, they said. They added they knew where the meetings were talking place and that they were ready to make “crucial decisions” to deal with the challenge.
The threat follows a meeting of 53 Congress members who are also members for the State Council. At the meeting, they said that they were 100-percent behind the Libyan Political agreement (LPA) and which now had to be be implemented.
In a statement read out by Hay Al-Andalus congressman and member of the present state council member, Abdulrahaman Al-Shater, and broadcast by the LPC Panorama satellite channel, members said they were determined to end the nationwide crisis and support the government of national accord led by Faiez Serraj. They also said that it had to operate from Tripoli.
Shater also called on the international community to continue its backing on Libyan unity.
[ALMANAR.LB] Local media outlets in Turkey reported that the Greek coast guards detained on Sunday a Turkish ship boarded with weaponry, adding that it heading towards Lebanon.
The ship which took off from the Turkish city of Izmir on February 4 was boarded with six containers, two of them hold weapons and munitions.
The Greek authorities also arrested all the crew members who are: six Syrians, four Indians and a Lebanese.
Things are not always as exciting as they first appear, according to this update from An Nahar:
The ship that was seized Sunday by Greek authorities was not carrying weapons or explosives and was not headed for Leb, a media report said on Wednesday.
Quoting unnamed sources, Leb's Future TV said the ship was headed for Africa and that it did not contain weapons but rather "hunting rifles."
Greek authorities have allowed the ship to continue its sailing, the TV network added.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) meanwhile said that the ship is owned by the Lebanese nationals Mohammed Amin and Kamal Kashef, who both hail from the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... "During interrogation, the two men revealed that the ship has been leased to a Turkish firm and that it was only carrying hunting rifles and related ammunition," VDL added, without saying where the two men were interrogated.
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the ship was headed for Africa and that it did not contain weapons but rather "hunting rifles"
Soddy backed forces in Yemen have made fresh progress to the east of the capital Sana’a after engaging in confrontation against militias of the ousted president and Houthis in Naham directorate.
A source said this advancement is coming in conjunction with arrival of new military equipment.
Major General Mohsen Khser of the Yemeni army told the Arabic newspaper Al Bayan that the decision to liberate Sana’a has been taken and there is no retreat in it. The legitimate forces are advancing towards the directorate of Al Baka’a in Sa’adah governorate.
He said Yemeni military forces in Naham had reached regions of Al Dabouah and Bait Qatran and added that and they are only a few kilometres from Al Sama military base in Arhab directorate.
He added that coup troops have suffered tremendous casualties as a result of air raids of the Arab coalition which targeted their sites in Sana'a and Ta’aiz, Sa’adah and Jawf.
It is believed that military experts from Iran and Hezbollah were killed in coalition raids on militia sites and positions in Sa’adah in the past few days.
Brigadier Ahmed Asiri stressed the Arab coalition forces do not differentiate between forces of ousted President Ali Saleh and Al Qaida and Houthi militias.
[DAWN] Police in Sahiwal are tracing a man who rubbed out both his sisters in an apparent "honour killing".
Mohammad Asif had previously murdered his mother four or five years ago, according to police, before being pardoned at the time by his family and set free.
The latest killings occurred in the village of Noorshah in Sahiwal district, in the central province of Punjab.
"Mohammad Asif, who is in his late twenties, shot his two sisters late last night because he doubted their characters and was against their lifestyle," local police official Allah Ditta Bhatti told AFP.
He said the sisters was struck down in his prime while Asif fled.
"He had killed his mother around four or five years ago and was set free after his family pardoned him," Bhatti said.
The incident was confirmed by other officials at the local cop shoppe.
On Monday a father in Lahore rubbed out his 18-year-old daughter because she could not account for where she had been for about five hours.
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I guess "honor killings" are Ok as long as you keep it in the family.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has threatened a terrible vengeance after his 10,000 point Tomb King army was rendered obsolete by new Warhammer rules.
Al-Baghdadi announced that the Great Satan America and its lapdog Games Workshop had fallen to a new low, after learning he’s wasted the last six months painting a whole shitload of skeletons.
The specially designated global terrorist claimed the Tombs Kings matched his playing style perfectly, as he’s used to leading an army of mindless zombies motivated by nothing but hate, rage and the need for power.
His followers cheered as he spoke yesterday of ISIS overrunning the lands of The Empire and Albion and crushing their enemies underfoot before toppling the towers of Araby, but started to sound a bit less certain when he went on to speak of a great invasion of Naggaroth and Ulthuan.
“In the name of Allah, the Just, the Merciful, we shall hunt down the infidel dogs who not only came up with the word ‘Urroks’ but also charged me over forty quid for a Liche High Priest I can’t even play,” he said petulantly.
“We shall overrun their lands, their shops and their shipping warehouse and they shall reintroduce 5th edition because that was best.”
The terror organisation is accused of wooing impressionable teenagers by telling them they can still play Chaos Demons and have a 1,000 point advantage when the Caliphate rules the world.
[ALMANAR.LB] The leadership of the popular mobilization forces announced on Wednesday that they, backed by the Iraqi army, regained the area of Salahuddine Island from ISIL, controlling swathes of territories (thousands of kilometers).
Imam Ali Hadi (P) campaign which employed the Iraqi air force and special forces, continued to comb in search for the remnants of ISIL snuffies in the liberated areas before declaring the complete victory.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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.... (IS) terrorist group appears to have been looking for nuclear materials in Belgium to build radioactive ‘dirty bomb’, the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington reports.
A small video camera stashed in a row of bushes silently recorded the comings and goings of the family of a Brussels-area man with an important scientific pedigree last year, producing a detailed chronology of the family’s movements. At one point, two men came under cover of darkness to retrieve the camera, before driving away with their headlamps off, a separate surveillance camera in the area revealed later.
The Belgian police discovered the secret film on Nov. 30 while searching the Auvelais home of a man with ties to the Islamic State terror group. But they became far more alarmed when they figured out that its star was a senior researcher at a Belgian nuclear center that produces a significant portion of the world’s supply of radioisotopes.
That realization quickly got the attention of the world’s counterterrorism experts.
A diagnostic tool used by hospitals and factories around the globe, radioisotopes are also capable of causing radiation poisoning and sickness, making them a potential target for Lions of Islam seeking to build a so-called "dirty" bomb that could contaminate the downtown area of a major city, sowing panic and causing billions of dollars in financial losses.
Belgian authorities have since speculated that the group was trying to figure out a way to collect such materials from the nuclear center, perhaps by kidnapping the man or one of his family members as the first step in building a bomb.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that the security forces repulsed ISIS attack on the headquarters of the security forces in southern Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad), while pointed out to the death of 13 members of ISIS during the operation.
The source said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today the security forces were able to repel the attack of ISIS members on the military headquarters in the regions of al-Hitawin, al-Sada and Nuaimiya (22 km south of Fallujah), killing 13 ISIS militants.”
The source added, “The security forces managed to destroy four vehicles mounted with machine guns and missiles, in addition to a rocket launcher.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi, announced on Wednesday the killing of 12 ISIS elements, including a senior military commander, north of Ramadi.
Mahalawi said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Elements belonging to ISIS tried to get close to the army forces of the 10th division in the area of al-hamediyah and Albu-Thiyab located north and east of Ramadi, resulting in the death of 12 ISIS elements, including the military and administrative officer for the region Abu Tabark Mafraji.”
He also added, “An army force belonging to the 1st regiment of the 31st division found three fortified tunnels for the ISIS in the area of al-fuhailat north of al-Ameriyat (23 km south of Fallujah),” noting that, “Those tunnels were destructed completely.”
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Saudi joint forces killed 11 Houthi rebels and ousted Saleh militias when they foiled an attack off Al-Malhamah Mountain and northern Al-Khobar.
Saudi joint forces were able to deal with the attack through direct and indirect fire, involving special forces, and managed to seize a variety of shells, ammunition and medical supplies that were hidden in a cave used by the militias for storage.
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[DAWN] IS Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar veering off script or reading from notes that his government has given him?
The question put to Mr Parrikar in parliament by a Shiv Sena A Hindoo nationalist political movement that presents a resistance using the same nasty tactics to aggressive Islamists and that's a pain in the underwear to other Indian political parties... member of the upper house, Sanjay Raut, was clearly meant to bait the government into giving a hard-hitting response.
A sensible response by Mr Parrikar would have been to state that investigations were ongoing. A more expansive response to Mr Raut’s question would have had the Indian defence minister acknowledging the role of non-state actors in the attack on the Pathankot air force base, but avoiding speculation about the link to the Pak state.
Instead, Mr Parrikar, who has earned a reputation for bellicose remarks off the cuff, went so far as to link all non-state actors, ie bandidosbully boyz and terrorists, on Pak soil to the Pak state. "Any non-state actors there, they cannot function smoothly without full state support," Mr Parrikar told the Rajya Sabha.
The Indian defence minister’s loose remarks underscore the challenges that bilateral dialogue has to contend with: when dialogue is stalled, hawkish elements in both countries can and do casually undermine the environment for talks and make it that much more difficult to resume them.
Pakistain clearly has a non-state actor problem -- bandidosbully boyz and turbans still operate with impunity on Pak soil in unacceptably large numbers. The Pathankot attack may well have originated from Pak soil.
But from the very moment of the attack, the state here -- both the political and military sides of it -- has tried to respond to India’s concerns, vowed to investigate the attack, shared information with India and the public in both countries, and appears committed to bringing the architects of the Pathankot attack to justice.
Nothing the Pak state has done since Pathankot suggests the group to which the attackers apparently belonged has been allowed to operate smoothly. If anything, there has been an unprecedented crackdown on an anti-India group operating inside Pakistain.
Mr Parrikar and his fellow hawks in government must surely be aware of the steps Pakistain has taken, even if they remain suspicious of Pakistain.
Are the hawks then trying to convince their own government to reverse itself on its decision to resume dialogue with Pakistain? Or is Prime Minister Modi using his cabinet to put pressure on Pakistain without directly implicating himself?
The history of the Pakistain-India relationship is replete with examples of politicians on both sides saying one thing and meaning another.
Perhaps what is important for 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... ’s government, and the military establishment in Pakistain is to recognise that a drawn-out investigation into Pathankot is not in the interests of bilateral dialogue.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... has yet again suggested that a Pak investigation team is set to visit India soon. Perhaps the two governments are close to setting a date for the foreign secretaries to meet too.
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Pak hand waving not working? Too bad.
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[DAWN] For years, Pakistain has denied that the Afghan Taliban enjoys a safe haven on its soil or that Islamabad could do anything to end their violent campaign in Afghanistan that has seen tens of thousands of Afghan civilians and international troops killed since 2002.
But in an unusually candid admission, Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, says that Islamabad has considerable influence over the Taliban because its leaders live in the country.
"We have some influence over them because their leadership is in Pakistain and they get some medical facilities. Their families are here," he said. "We can use those levers to pressurize them to say, 'Come to the table'. But we can't negotiate on behalf of the Afghan government because we cannot offer them what the Afghan government can offer them."
Aziz made the comments at Washington's Council on Foreign Relations think tank on March 1. He added that Islamabad pressured Afghan Taliban leaders to participate in the first-ever direct talks with the Afghan government on July 7, 2015.
"We have to use these levers and [have] restricted their movements, restricted their access to hospitals and other facilities, and threatened them that 'If you don't come forward and talk, we will at least expel you'," he said of the tough message Islamabad sent to Taliban leaders, most of whom are believed to be operating out of Quetta, the capital of southwestern 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... Province.
"[We told the Taliban leaders that] we have hosted [them] enough for 35 years, and we can't do it anymore because the whole world is blaming us just by [their] presence here," he said.
Pakistain, Afghanistan, the United States, and China last week agreed on a road map to end the Afghan war through negotiations between Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and the Taliban.
Taliban representatives are expected to join Afghan officials in the first round of peace talks in Pakistain during the next few weeks.
Aziz, however, took pains to convince Washington's audience that Islamabad has abandoned its support for the Islamist holy warrior groups.
"After our government came into power in 2013, there has been a significant change in our policy. We are now moving against all murderous Moslems without discrimination," he said.
Speaking alongside US State Secretary 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... on February 29, Aziz said Pakistain now has little interest in fomenting violence in neighboring Afghanistan.
"Who would like to set one's own neighbor on fire with the hope of saving one's backyard?" he asked.
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[TODAYSZAMAN] A Saudi-led bloc of six Gulf Arab nations formally branded Hezbollah a terrorist organization on Wednesday, ramping up the pressure on the Lebanese krazed killer group fighting on the side of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... in Syria.
The move by the Gulf Cooperation Council comes less than two weeks after 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... announced it was cutting $4 billion in aid to Lebanese security forces. The kingdom and other Gulf states followed up that move by urging its citizens to leave Leb, dealing a blow to the tiny nation's tourism industry.
A statement from GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif al-Zayani said the bloc decided to implement the terrorist designation because of hostile acts by Hezbollah within its member states. It said the designation applies to the krazed killer group as well as all its leaders, factions and affiliates.
Al-Zayani accused Hezbollah of charges including seeking to recruit members within the GCC to carry out terrorist acts, smuggling weapons and explosives, and incitement to sow disorder and violence.
Those activities within GCC member states and in Syria, 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... and Iraq "are incompatible with the values and moral and humanitarian principles and international law, and pose a threat to Arab national security," he said.
The GCC includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, 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... , Bahrain and Oman.
Leb's main political divide pits a Sunni-led coalition against another led by the Shiite Hezbollah movement, which includes both political and military wings. The Mediterranean country has weathered a string of krazed killer attacks in recent years linked to the war in neighboring Syria.
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Funny, they had no problem with Hesb'allah when they were trying to kill only Joos.
[TODAYSZAMAN] Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtas has said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... joined ranks with potential coup supporters and carried out a coup against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and Parliament in order to prevent anyone from toppling him from power.
"We are living through a coup period right now. We have already had a coup; it's happened. It was after July 7. And now, we have a coup government leading The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," Demirtas said during an exclusive interview with Haberdar online news portal that was made available on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"There could have been a coup against Erdogan; instead, what he did was to join forces with coup supporters and carry out his own coup against the government. All of which is why the government has been completely bypassed at this stage. Not even a police officer will listen to [Prime Minister Ahmet] Davutoglu," he said.
Since the June 7 general election of last year, in which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Erdogan's former party, failed to win enough seats to rule as a single party, Turkey has been hit with violence due to festivities between the Turkish security forces and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) following the end of a settlement process between the government and the PKK last July.
Demirtas said that when Erdogan restarted the war with the PKK, he knew that the government was not in control of all the instruments of the state and that it controlled neither the police, the military nor the bureaucracy.
"When the war that he himself had provoked broke out, Erdogan saw that the government actually couldn't fight against the PKK effectively. ... I think Erdogan needed to make a choice. He saw that he was going to lose. ... The war that he provoked after June 7 caused a level of social outrage he hadn't predicted as we headed toward the Nov. 1 [2015 snap election]. He had to make a choice. In order to get the state institutions that weren't tied to him, like the military and the police, to fight for him, he had to strike compromises with them. This is why he had private meetings with the Ergenekon people, the supporters of [ultra-nationalist Workers' Party (IP) leader Dogu] Perincek, the former BBP [Grand Unity Party] people and so on," Demirtas said.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Oil prices fell Wednesday as traders awaited the release of US crude inventory data, which are expected to show a further rise in stockpiles.
At around 1100 GMT, the US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in April slid 74 cents to stand at $33.66 a barrel.
In London, Brent North Sea crude for May shed 36 cents to $36.45 a barrel compared with Monday's close.
Crude futures had risen Tuesday on fresh Russian calls for a production freeze to reduce the global supply glut.
"US crude oil inventories increasing is almost becoming a norm. Inventories are already at a historic high" and markets are taking a nonchalant stance towards a continued inch upwards, said Daniel Ang, analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore.
"US production, on the other hand, is slightly more interesting as it is finally starting to show corrections. We highly expect to see US oil production drop a lot more now that prices are in the $30 region, which could result in the easing of global oil supply," he added in a note.
A Bloomberg News survey ahead of Wednesday's Energy Information Administration (EIA) report showed that US crude stockpiles probably increased 3.4 million barrels from an 86-year high last week.
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Call me when there are rumors of cannibalism in Iran
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Iran probably needs $100/bbl oil to break even given their proclivity for spending on everything but basics and heavily subsidizing local petrol for the rubes.
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[TODAYSZAMAN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has hit only radical terrorist Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria since the start of a cease-fire last weekend, the Turkish Foreign Ministry front man said on Wednesday, rejecting Russian claims of transporting weapons-loaded trucks into Syria.
Foreign Ministry front man Tanju Bilgic said at a briefing with news hounds in Ankara that Russian claims of weapons being sent to Syria hidden in aid convoys from Turkey are not to be taken seriously and were designed to cover Russian war crimes.
He also said Russian and the government forces have been carrying out bombardments since the truce began.
Moscow's Defense Ministry has said that four journalists were lightly injured along the Syria-Turkey border as a result of heavy artillery fire on Tuesday, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that journalists from China, Canada, Bulgaria and Russia were maimed in the village of Kinsibba, which was being shelled from the town of Bidama and elsewhere along Syria's border with Turkey. Kinsibba is under the control of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... forces.
The ministry described the conditions of the maimed journalists as fair, according to the news agency. Shortly before, Syria's state news agency said several members of a group of foreign journalists were maimed by mortars fired from the Turkish side of the border and that the area targeted had recently been seized from rebel forces.
Turkey has been shelling the north of Syria near Azaz for the last few weeks, targeting the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG), saying that it is a national security measure and Ankara will not let the terrorist PYD, which is an affiliate of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) cross the west of Euphrates River.
Russian Foreign Ministry front man Mikhail Bogdanov said Russia will raise recent Turkish shelling of Kurdish positions in Geneva during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
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[CBSNEWS] A new U.S. special operations team has been questioning a key Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq (ISIS) and Syria leader in Iraq since seizing him in a raid last month, U.S. officials said Wednesday. It is believed to be the first case of a top ISIS Lion of Islam captured alive in that country. Oh, I do hope they read him his Miranda rights.
The officials would not identify the Lion of Islam by name or provide other details, but the raid appears to be the first major success by the Pentagon's new expeditionary targeting force that recently began operating in Iraq. It aims to disrupt ISIS operations in Iraq and Syria and gather intelligence that can be used to conduct follow-on raids and strikes.
The Lion of Islam has been held in Iraq for two to three weeks, the officials said, calling the development important because of his leadership position in the holy warrior group and the information they could glean from him.
The officials weren't authorized to speak publicly about the raid and demanded anonymity. The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , also citing anonymous officials, was first to report the capture and said the Lion of Islam was being interrogated by American officials at a temporary detention facility in Irbil in northern Iraq.
Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook wouldn't confirm the capture, but said the goals of the new expeditionary targeting force include capturing ISIS leaders. "Any detention would be short-term and coordinated with Iraqi authorities," he said.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has spoken about the team several times over the past few months but has emphasized his intention to keep a lid on details of its actual operations in Iraq and Syria. He told Congress in early December about the team's planned deployment, saying they would be there to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture ISIS leaders.
Using an alternative acronym for the ISIS, Carter said Monday the force would be part of accelerated military operations and used "to conduct raids of various kinds, seizing places and people, freeing hostages and prisoners of ISIL, and making it such that ISIL has to fear that anywhere, anytime, it may be struck."
He said the targeting force was "in position" and "having an effect and operating."
Col. Patrick Ryder, front man for U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for American military operations in the Middle East, declined to comment on the capture or detention of the Lion of Islam.
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If a criminal prosecution is intended it would have been best to have an FBI representative "make the arrest". I know, insanity. But this is Obama-world.
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