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...Europe’s migration crisis has mostly been covered from the "human interest" perspective, with the perverse proliferation of tragic images and emotive narratives amplified by social media. This collective content stream has made it seem primarily a humanitarian crisis. But that is false.
Instead, what we are seeing is the unending monetization of human misery, a phenomenon as complete as it is cynical. By necessity, it has been complemented by an infectious institutionalization of irresponsibility--something that has not failed to affect geopolitics. This is why the ramifications of the migration crisis are so serious for Europe, America, and many other countries.
Countless reports have shown ways in which migration is monetized. Everyone gets something: the human trafficking networks that provide transport; the criminal networks that sell forged (and real) travel documents; the governments and humanitarian NGOs that receive handsome donations from both public and private funds; the media that attract huge audiences (and advertising revenue) by publishing images of human despair; the clever villager who sells a bottle of water for fifty cents extra.
Maybe. Maybe not. Here it is for your consideration.
While Ted Cruz proudly proclaims he is an Evangelical Christian, his campaign takes pains to hide the truth that Cruz and his pastor father, Rafael Cruz are Pentecostal Christians, a fact further hidden by having Ted and Heidi Cruz’s belong to the congregation of First Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Houston, as their home church.
Both Cruz’s parents, his father Rafael a Cuban-born immigrant, and his mother Eleanor, born in Wilmington, Delaware, grew up in Catholic families. Both were among the millions of that left the Catholic Church since the 1960s to embrace Pentecostalism, a Christian movement estimated to make up 4.4 percent of the U.S. population, accounting for some 13 percent of evangelical churches in the United States.
Holy Spirit’s "Purifying Fire"
The name "Pentecostal" derives from the feast of the Pentecost, typically celebrated fifty days after Easter, and identified in the Acts of the Apostles 2:1-31 as the day when the Holy Spirit descended in "purifying fire" upon the Apostles of Jesus Christ, inspiring them to go forth from hiding in fear to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Pentecostals believe the Apostles of Jesus were aided by the Holy Spirit’s "gift of tongues," in what Pentecostals consider as "baptism by the Holy Spirit," deriving from 1 Corinthians 12:14, that gave the Apostles the ability to speak in a "God-enabled prayer language" that Pentecostals believe even today allows the unintelligible human utterances of an Pentecostal evangelist to be understood by foreigners who do not speak the Pentecostal evangelist’s language.
Heidi Nelson Cruz, Ted’s wife, is the daughter of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries, explaining why she spent part of her childhood traveling with her parents to places like Kenya. "Speaking in Tongues" Religion reporter Sarah Pulliam Bailey, writing in the Washington Post on March 25, 2015, was of the first to recognize Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign logo and the purifying tongue-of-fire logo used commonly to identify Pentecostal churches.
Here is Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign logo:
Here is the logo of the Church of Pentecost:
The symbol derives from Acts 2:3, writing about the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, "They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them."
Sarah Palin’s nomination as vice president put Pentecostalism into the spotlight, when the press revealed that from the time she was a teenager until 2002, Palin attended a church affiliated with the Assemblies of God that the Pew Research Center in an analysis published on Sept. 12, 2008, described as "the largest Pentecostal Christian denomination in the U.S."
The Pew Research Center went on to note that Pentecostalism "emphasizes such practices as speaking in tongues, prophesying, divine healing and other miraculous signs of the Holy Spirit, which it believes are as valid today as they were in the early Christian church."
"Ted is the anointed one"
Rafael Cruz is a pastor with Purifying Fire International Ministry, although in January 2014, as Ted Cruz was preparing his presidential swing, Rafael Cruz scrapped the group’s website after various blogs began identifying the ministry as rooted in "a radical Christian ideology known as Dominionism or Christian Reconstructionism."
Dominionism calls on anointed Christian leaders to take over government to make the laws of the nation in accordance with Biblical laws. Rafael Cruz, at the Pastor Larry Huch’s New Beginnings mega-church in Bedford Texas, outside Dallas, on Aug. 26, 2012, in a Dominionist sermon proclaimed his son, Ted Cruz, to be the "anointed one," a Dominionist Messiah who would bring God’s law to reign.
At a Dominionist pastor’s meeting held at the Marriott Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 19 and 20, 2013, the following "anointing prayer" was read over.
So to pull all this logic together, God anoints priests to work in the church directly and kings to go out into the marketplace to conquer, plunder, and bring back the spoils to the church. The reason governmental regulation has to disappear from the marketplace is to make it completely available to the plunder of Christian "kings" who will accomplish the "end time transfer of wealth."
Then "God’s bankers" will usher in the "coming of the messiah."
The government is being shut down so that God’s bankers can bring Jesus back. In an editorial published in the Washington Post on Feb. 4, on the heels of Cruz’s victory in the Iowa GOP primary, John Fea of the Religion News Service published an op-ed piece noting the frequent references Ted Cruz makes in stump speeches to his father "the traveling evangelist" Rafael Cruz.
"During a 2012 sermon at the New Beginnings Church in Bedford, Texas, Rafael Cruz described his son’s political campaign as a direct fulfillment of biblical prophecy," Fea wrote. "The elder Cruz told the congregation God would anoint Christian ‘kings’ to preside over an ‘end-time transfer of wealth’ from the wicked to the righteous. After this sermon, Larry Huch, the pastor of New Beginnings, claimed Cruz’s recent election to the U.S. Senate was a sign he was one of these kings."
Fea noted that Rafael Cruz and Larry Huch preach a brand of evangelical theology known as Seven Mountains Dominionism. The name comes from Isaiah 2:2, "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the Lord’s house shall be established on top of the mountains."
Fea commented that Rafael Cruz believes Christians must take dominion over seven aspects of culture: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.
By identifying Ted Cruz as the "anointed one," Rafael Cruz has designated his son as what he believes is God’s choice to lead an evangelical coup d’etat, such that, as Fea notes, "Cruz’s campaign may be less about the White House and more about the white horses that will usher in the God’s Kingdom in the New Testament book of Revelation, Chapter 19."
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Subtle shades of Christianity baffle me. As long as he's not walking around with rattlers on his arms or forbidding scientific medicines I think the nation can handle whatever flavor he is.
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According to his LinkedIn page, the editorialist is a computer etnrelreneur, and a Republican activist since high school. Clearly he hopes the Republican presidential candidate will not be Senator Cruz. From the blurb at the bottom of this editorial:
Jacob Engels, is the Founder of East Orlando Post & Seminole County Post. He is a seasoned political operative who has led numerous statewide political groups and has worked on several high-profile local, statewide, and national races. Jacob has been interviewed on national television & radio programs, with his work having been featured in the Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald and other publications nationwide. He can be reached at info@eastorlandopost.com
computer entrepreneur. My internal editor has been on strike since I came down with the cold from hell a few weeks ago. I'm now recovering, which means I eventually notice how badly I typed. Apologies to all.
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All Christians believe in the Pentecost. Conservative Christians understand it for what it was. A major festival in Jerusalem where Jewish people from many near by nations and of different languages of those nations came together to celebrate a major feast. The new Christian church was given the power by the Holy Spirit of the Trinity to speak to these people in their own languages of the recent events associated with the Crucifixion and Resurrection and therefore these people in Jerusalem would go back home and spread the news to the whole world. Thus the establishment of the New Covenant and the news thereof to the world.
The tongues thing is a major misinterpretation I don't consider Ted to be of that level of ignorance, as the author wants people to believe.
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Barack Obama has sharply criticised David Cameron for the UK's role in allowing Libya to become a "shit show" after the fall of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in an unprecedented attack on a British leader by a serving US President. How presidential and diplomatic!
Mr Obama said that following a successful military intervention to aid rebels during the 2011 Arab Spring revolt, Libya was left to spiral out of control -- due largely to the inaction of America’s European allies.
In a candid US magazine interview, Mr Obama said: "When I go back and I ask myself what went wrong... there’s room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya’s proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
Singling out the British Prime Minister, he suggested that Mr Cameron had taken his eye off Libya after being "distracted by a range of other things". "I ran out of gas! A friend came in from out of town! My tux was at the dry cleaners! IT WASN'T MY FAULT!
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It was an extensive interview with President Obama's favourite journalist at The Atlantic, in which our beloved president no longer suppressed his feelings about a great variety of people who have disappointed him over the years. Did you know that Bibi Netanyahu dared to condenscend to him?! And he the African-American child of a single mother who now resides in the White House itself!
[IsraelTimes] Father and four siblings of Fouad Tamimi, who shot and maimed two coppers on Tuesday, did not have permission to live in capital
The family of a Paleostinian terrorist who carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem earlier in the week were expelled from the capital to the West Bank, the Israel Police said Thursday.
Fouad Tamimi seriously injured two Border Police officers, leaving one at death's door, in a drive-by shooting attack on Salah a-Din Street, near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, on Tuesday afternoon.
A police check found that Tamimi’s father and some siblings were living in the capital without permits. Haaretz newspaper said Thursday that the killer’s mother, who has Israeli residency, took her four underage children to join her husband and four other offspring.
During the attack, the gunman shot up the officers, striking one in the head. As he attempted to escape the scene, security forces engaged the gunman in a firefight, during which he shot the second officer. Tamimi was then shot and killed by police.
Immediately following the attack, Public Safety Minister Gilad Erdan asked police to look into the legal status of Tamimi’s family, who were living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah.
Police discovered that his parents had applied for permission to live together in East Jerusalem, under an Israeli law enabling Paleostinian families divided by the Green Line to be reunited. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the request had not yet been approved, police said, meaning that Tamimi, his father and some siblings did not have residency status that would enable them to live in Isawiyah.
"[T[hey were staying illegally in Isawiyah and as a result the family members were expelled to the West Bank," the police said in a statement, but did not note exactly where they had been sent. According to Haaretz, the family is now living in the West Bank village of Bir Nabala, some 8 km (5 miles) from Jerusalem.
"I made it clear to police: Whoever is here illegally -- will be expelled," Erdan said in the same statement Thursday. "We will continue to fight against terror with great force, on all fronts, and we will extract a heavy price from those who support, fund, or help terror."
[Ynet] In the wake of the terror attack in Jaffa carried out by an illegal alien, police tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... more than 250 illegal aliens throughout the country; police state that strong measures will be taken against employers.
More than 250 Paleostinian illegal aliens were arrested throughout the country Thursday by the police, in accordance with a government directive to implement steps to curb and stop the current wave of terror.
Police know that the courts tend to be easy on illegal aliens if they are not involved in criminal activity, so they are now targeting employers for punishment.
This week, the government convened a security meeting in light of the escalating violence, some of has been traced to illegal aliens, such as Tuesday’s deadly terror attack in Jaffa. Among the decisions taken were to close loopholes in the security fence around Jerusalem, build a fence in the area of Taruqumiya (a Paleostinian village northwest of Hebron) and the construction of the area Tarqumyia and promote speedy legislation to punish those assisting or giving lodging to illegal aliens.
Wednesday night police seized hundreds of illegal aliens, most of whom were staying in Israel because they had found a job.
In Holon, three illegal aliens who were renovating an apartment, as well as their employer, were arrested. In Bat Yam, two Paleostinians without work permits were arrested. Another eleven illegal aliens were arrested in Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan. A Bnei Brak business owner was detained for questioning for employing one of them.
22 others were arrested in an improvised residential area near Habesor Stream in the Negev. Intelligence information led Israel police, Border police and volunteers to the site, where they found that the illegal aliens had put up showers, sleeping tents, toilets and a field kitchen.
Five illegal aliens, including two minors were arrested in Kiryat Malachi. They were found at a construction site and were taken in for questioning. One of them was arrested and the others were expelled from Israel.
Police said that their actions against illegal aliens, whether in the past or the present, is meant to strengthen citizens' sense of security. They clarified that strong measures will be taken against employers, and that they will not balk at closing restaurants, construction sites or stores that employ illegal aliens and will file charges and impound vehicles.
[Ynet] 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 Thursday around 3,000 migrants colonists were returning to Iraq from Germany every month and that the number was on the rise.
Many are living in shelters and are frustrated with a slow asylum process in a country struggling to work through a backlog of asylum applications after 1.1 million migrants colonists arrived last year.
"At the moment 3,000 are returning to Iraq every month for example - and it's an upward trend - when their cities are liberated from 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.... ," Merkel said at a campaign event in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg ahead of a regional election there and in two other states on Sunday.
Three thousand per month returning out of 1.3 million who arrived last year alone. Still, it's something.
[AlAhram] The United States has carried out air strikes that it believes have degraded the chemical weapons capabilities 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) group in Iraq after using information obtained from a captured bad boy, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
US-led coalition forces detained Sulayman Dawud al Bakkar, IS group's head of chemical and traditional weapons manufacturing, during an operation in Iraq in February, Pentagon front man Peter Cook said in a statement.
"We believe that the information we've been able to obtain will allow us to conduct additional operations," Cook said at a news briefing on Thursday. Cook said the intelligence came from "the information we learned from this individual."
Al Bakkar, also known as Abu Dawud, was transferred to Iraqi custody on Thursday, Cook said. He gave details about IS group's chemical weapons facilities and production and the people involved, Cook said.
He said the United States does not believe it has been able to altogether eliminate IS group's chemical weapons capability.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , citing officials, said that the U.S.-led air campaign targeted a weapons production plant in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq and another against a "tactical unit" near Mosul believed to be linked to the program.
In February, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan for the first time openly accused the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group of using chemical weapons, including mustard gas, in Iraq and Syria.
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Any proximity to Beqaa, where those mysterious trucks from Iraq went, nearly a decade and half ago?
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Beqaa is in Lebanon, Blossom Splat8740. Is that Hizb'allah territory? I can't imagine them sharing such things with ISIS, despite Iran sheltering that Al Qaeda contingent for so long.
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Now was that so hard? 0bama could have hit Syria's CBW capabilities instead of walking away from his red line and triggering the Ukraine and ISIS crises.
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Beqaa has been controlled by Hezbollah in the past. No idea about today.
Keep in mind that the ISIS people were getting support from Iran and Syria and their allies like Hezbollah back in the 'noughts when they were "the resistance" in Iraq.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities in touch with men by phone after Egyptians fill passage with seawater; Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, said to be building ‘mega-tunnels’ into Sinai
Six Gazoo Paleostinians were trapped and one was missing on Thursday after a tunnel caved in, the sixth to collapse since January, a local civil defense official said.
The cave-in was caused by Egyptian flooding of the border zone in its campaign to stop smuggling, the official told AFP.
He described the underground passage from the southern Gazoo town of Rafah into neighboring Egypt as a "trade tunnel."
Israeli officials have said there are dozens of tunnels linking Gazoo to the Sinai Peninsula and used to smuggle goods -- including weapons -- and people in and out of the Gazoo Strip.
A local official confirmed that authorities had spoken by cellphone to one of the men trapped by the tunnel collapse and that rescue efforts were under way.
Tunnels falling in have left 12 Gazooks dead since the beginning of this year.
The news came amid a report that Hamas had begun to dig tunnels that are big enough for weapons-laden trucks to pass through. The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth daily quoted Egyptian security officials on Thursday as saying that Hamas had started to build "mega-tunnels" more than three kilometers long.
The tunnels, designed to smuggle in arms as well as food and building materials, would compensate for hundreds of smaller tunnels that the Egyptians had either blocked or flooded with seawater, the officials said.
They are designed to bypass the seawater channels used for tunnel flooding and to literally undercut Egyptian efforts to raze all buildings in a roughly one-square-kilometer area aboveground, the report said.
Israeli officials, who said they were unaware of plans to construct such giant tunnels along Gazoo’s border with Israel, have linked many of the recent tunnel collapses to Hamas’s shortage of materials such as wood and cement, needed to strengthen walls of sand, the report said. Hamas has apparently been using fiberglass instead -- despite Israel’s prohibition of its entry into the Strip -- a material that has proven to be too weak to support the weight of the sand, Israeli sources told the paper.
Egyptian officials claimed that over the past few months, Hamas has been supplying rockets and deadly homemade weapons such as explosive-filled solar heating drums to 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.... forces of Evil in Sinai for their own war against the Egyptian regime.
Used as roadside kabooms, the adapted drums, which normally hold water, can destroy a tank, as the Israelis discovered several years ago when such a weapon blew up an Israel Defense Forces tank in the enclave.
Hamas has been accused of training and supplying weapons to jihadis in Sinai.
WANA: Nine people, among them employees of the Fata Development Authority (FDA) and guards, went missing in Gul Kach area of South Waziristan tribal region on Thursday.
An official in the political administration told Dawn that Project Director Atiq Bangash was among the missing people.
He said that five officials of the FDA were inspecting small dam projects in Gul Kach area when they went missing along with four local people who served as their guards.
Gul Kach is located some 30km west of Wana, adjacent to the Zhob district in Balochistan.
The political administration has sent Khasadars (local police) to find the missing people. Tribal elders will also be contacted for the purpose.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Special police units on Thursday tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a woman controller of the PAF Badaber attack from the Telaband area of the quiet provincial capital.
Police officials claimed that the woman, Zar Zadgai, has confessed to facilitating the Lions of Islam who launched the attack on the PAF installation.
The security source also claimed that Zadgai has confessed to providing food and empty plastic bottles for storing chemicals to the terrorists.
In wake of the brazen assault, search and strike operations were initiated in Badaber and Matani areas during which police arrested at least 28 suspects, including 8 Afghan nationals.
In what appeared to be a precisely planned and executed attack, Lions of Islam displayed their ability to breach the security of an Air Force camp by carrying out one of the deadliest assaults on a defence installation on the southern fringes of the quiet provincial capital, Dawn newspaper reported.
Twenty-nine people -- among them personnel of the Pakistain Air Force and military and some civilians -- bit the dust and all 13 turbans who had stormed the camp were also killed.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Four alleged members of a pirate gang, including its ringleader, were killed in a ‘shootout’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Bangladesh Coast Guard in the Sundarbans yesterday morning.
Lieutenant Colonel Faridul Alam, commanding officer of Barisal Rab-8, said they had got information that members of a pirate gang locally known as ‘Nayan Bahini’ were taking preparation to commit a robbery in the area, a joint team of RAB and Coast Guard launched a drive there. 19 fishermen were kidnapped from Barguna’s Patharghata area a few days ago and they were held hostage by Noyon Bahini, said Faridul Alam.
The team reached Kachikhali Chandeshwar area under Shoronkhola upzila, Bagerhat around 6:30am.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the joint team members, the pirates shot up them prompting the team members to fire back, triggering a shootout. After 40 minutes’ shootout, the pirates expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Later, the joint team recovered the bodies of Manir Hossain,25, commander of ‘Nayan Bahini’ and son of Abduk Khalek of Patharghata upazila in Barguna district, and Enam Ahmed,35, deputy commander of the gang and its two members Gias Uddin,25, and Hachan,20, residents of Chittagong.
Eighteen firearms and 450 rounds of bullet were also recovered from the spot. The bodies of the dacoits were sent to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital morgue. Two cases were filed in this connection.
Earlier, two forest bandidos were killed in a "shootout" with RAB personnel at Tambulbunia canal of Chandpai range of the Sundarbans on December 28, last year.
The RAB members also recovered 17 firearms and 450 rounds of bullets from the forest during the drive.
Despite effort from law enforcment agencies, piracy in the Sundarbans has sharply risen with the killing of several fishermen and around 200 incidents of abduction in the last six months.
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Time to deploy Q-ships masquerading as fishing boats.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: A senior ‘commander’ and front man for a banned bad boy organization and seven other forces of Evil have been killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Sibi district.
Addressing a presser here on Wednesday evening, the 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... government’s front man, Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, said two security personnel were also killed in heavy fighting which continued for several hours in Sangan area of the district.
"I confirm the killing of a high-profile commander of the banned Baloch Liberation Army, Aslam Achou alias Merick Baloch, in the gunbattle.
"He was an Afghan Tajik and his body is now in the custody of security forces," he said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Interior says a footage circulating in media which shows police torturing a detainee is two years old and that the perpetrators were detained and trialed.
Najib Danish, spokesperson for the said the footage was horrific and that the Ministry of Interior is very upset about it.
He added that the government is committed to human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... .
"Those coppers were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! who tortured a member of Taliban," Danish told BBC.
The footage which prompted uproar in social media shows a detainee being dragged by a police vehicle.
It shows another man wearing local clothes but standing among others wearing police uniform forcing the detainee to confess.
Then most of them start beating the detainee.
Rights commission of Afghanistan urged all warring sides to refrain from violating human rights and badly treating the detainees.
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Seven Kurdish militants were killed in a gunfight in southeast Turkey’s largest city Diyarbakir on Thursday, security sources said.
Turkish authorities announced on Wednesday the end of military operations in the Kurdish Sur district of Diyarbakir (Amed), southeastern the country.
“The military operations in the district ended at 16:00 pm on Wednesday, while curfew is ongoing since the 2nd of December last year,” Chief of staff of the Turkish army said in a statement on Wednesday.
The clash reupted in the city’s Sur district, parts of which have been devastated in fighting between security forces and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants since a two-year-old ceasefire collapsed last July.
The sources said Special Forces police clashed with the militants after they opened fire from a basement in Sur, an area surrounded by UNESCO-listed Roman-era walls, which was placed under 24-hour curfew on Dec. 2.
The army said on Thursday 279 PKK fighters had been killed in operations in Sur since Dec. 17.
Military operations have also recently arrived to an end in other parts of the mainly Kurdish southeast, most recently in the town of Idil, near the Syrian border where 120 PKK fighters were killed in three weeks of fighting there, according to military sources.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its insurgency in 1984. The group, which says it is fighting for Kurdish autonomy, is labelled as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union.
Reports reaching us from Lower Jubba region indicate that fresh Kenyan troops have crossed into Somalia, to reinforce KDF fighting against Al shabaab militants. Sources says the KDF backed by armored vehicles and fighter jets stationed at Kenyan army bases in Afmadow, Tabta and Qoqani towns in Lower Jubba region, south Somalia.
Upon their arrival, the Kenyan troops began military movements and surveillance operations on nearby Al shabaab controlled villages, using four warplanes, reports said.
The move comes after as many as 150 Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were killed in a massive Al shabaab car bomb and gun attack in January 15, 2016.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 14 Afghan Taliban have been tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... during a raid in Quetta, capital of Pakistain’s 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, Dawn News reported on Thursday.
The report further states that strict security measures were taken during the raid by Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) at a compound in Pashtunabad area where the faceless myrmidons were residing.
A bigwig has told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the men were shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.
Sleeping bags, boots and administrative objects were also recovered from the possession of the detained men, the media report adds.
"It is premature to say something about the arrest of any high profile leader among them", the official has been quoted as saying.
Pashtoonabad which houses a large number of Afghan refugees since three decades is located in the eastern part of Quetta.
Dawn report further states that several raids have been conducted in the area and suspects arrested from there in the past.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top aide to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. voiced concerns regarding the growing infiltration by anti-government armed Death Eaters into the government institutions, including the security sectors.
In his remarks during the commemoration of the 5th death anniversary of Mawlana Syed Kheli, the former police chief of Kunduz province, Ahmad Zia Massoud said the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups have infiltrated in almost all civilian and military institutions of the country in the past 14 years.
He said the Talibs have been freely moving in the past 14 years and establish networks in 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.... city and launch widespread political movements in the major cities of the country.
Massoud further added that various groups affiliated with the Taliban group are actively operating in the capital and invite people to the group as well as sending youths to Pakistain for training.
He said the Mujahideen figures are outspread and in a state of confusion as the terrorist groups are moving forward with proper plans and strategies.
Massoud also added that numerous Mujahideen leaders were assassinated during the past 14 years and called on the former jihadi leaders to become united and launch anti-terrorism campaign in a coherent way by uniting the people in a proper political movement.
He called on the High Peace Council and International Community to include and consult with the jiahdi leaders in the grinding of the peace processor with the murderous Moslem groups, insisting the jihadi figures have been an important side of the affairs.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) slammed the Afghan courts for significant reduction of sentence to 13 men convicted of Farkhunda’s brutal murder in March 2015.
The New York-based rights organization said "It’s a bitter irony that the latest blow to justice for Farkhunda Malikzada occurred on the eve of International Women’s Day."
The Attorney General Office of Afghanistan announced Monday that 17 suspects have been awarded jail terms, which include 20 years term for 3 of the perpetrators, 16 years tem for 13 perpetrators and another perpetrator has been placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for 10 years.
"This week, Afghanistan’s Supreme Court granted significant sentence reductions to 13 men convicted of Farkhunda’s brutal murder in March 2015. The men were part of a mob that beat Farkhunda to death in broad daylight in central 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.... awhile police stood by and watched," HRW said.
HRW further added that the decision is a reminder of just how badly the Afghan justice system has failed Farkhunda and her family.
"Commuting the four death sentences averts the further cruelty of capital punishment. But it does not bring justice for Farkhunda any closer," HRW said, adding that thirty men were initially charged with a murder that was witnessed by scores of people and video recorded by her killers and bystanders alike.
According to HRW, at every stage of this case the Afghan criminal justice system failed to adequately investigate, hold to account or appropriately punish those responsible.
"The trials of those originally accused were conducted in haste and riddled with procedural errors, with many defendants lacking legal counsel. Police also failed to arrest a number of attackers who are clearly identifiable in video footage of the killing. Of the 19 police prosecuted for failing to intervene to stop the mob, the court lightly disciplined only 11," HRW added.
HRW also added that President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s government could still do much more to track down those individuals implicated in Farkhunda’s killing who have so far evaded justice.
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[ALMANAR.LB] An airborne regiment unit of the Lebanese army raided on Wednesday the hills localed behind Ras Baalbek barrens in the eastern region of Leb, Al-Manar TV correspondent reported.
The hills contain several posts 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.
The army unit managed to storm and destroy the posts, leaving a large number of hard boyz killed or maimed.
Army helicopters took part in the operation as the Lebanese artillery was targeting positions close to ISIL deployment, the Kassarat [crushers] area in particular.
Al-Manar news hound stated that the festivities erupted at 03:00 am and lasted until 06:00 am. In the meantime, the Lebanese army check points are now targeting movements of the terrorist takfiris by appropriate weapons.
Moreover, sources told Al-Manar TV that a Lebanese soldiers was killed and several others were maimed during the engagement with terrorists.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Times newspaper published Thursday a report about the leak of classified documents from 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, revealing the data of thousands of ISIL recruits, including Britons.
"Security services were last night examining files alleged to contain names, addresses and family contacts of 22,000 jihadist fighters, including at least a dozen British recruits," The Times reported.
The leak, according to the daily, was hailed as a severe setback for ISIL, providing vital intelligence on the war effort in Syria and Iraq.
The Times said that security agencies discovered that ISIL established a human resources center to make interviews with recruits and to take private information about them.
The accepted recruits can then choose whether to be jacket wallahs or soldiers, or to be committed to other tasks, it added.
The leaked documents show that ISIL had recruited fighters from 50 countries, 70 percent of whom are Arabs, while most foreigners are from La Belle France, Germany and Britannia.
It is believed that the man who leaked the documents was within the ranks of the so-called 'Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ', then he joined ISIL before fleeing away.
"The group has become under the control of former soldiers of Saddam Hussein's regime, and it is no longer committed to the teachings of Islam," the daily quoted the soldier as saying.
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[Daily Excelsior] Deciding not to let Pakistain go unbeat feet from its responsibility and involvement in facilitating digging of tunnel along the International Border (IB) in RS Pura sector that was detected last Thursday, the Government of India has shot off a strong worded letter to Pakistain asking it to join the joint investigations with the BSF to punish the elements responsible for digging it as this would have resulted into major terror attack(s) against India.
Top official sources told the Excelsior that the issue has been taken up by the Centre Government with appropriate channels in Pakistain after the BSF Headquarters submitted a detailed report highlighting direct involvement of Pakistain in facilitating digging of the tunnel from their side into the Indian territory.
"The BSF Headquarters has also written to the Director General (DG) Rangers to join joint investigations with the BSF on digging of tunnel inside the Indian territory along the IB near Alla Mai De Kothe (AMK) Post in RS Pura sector. The BSF has given all evidence available with it including pictures of the tunnel to prove its point," sources said.
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[CounterJihadReport] The drug of choice for ISIL members is an amphetamine known as Captagon. A Lebanese Captagon manufacturer who supplies drugs for various groups fighting in Syria says that those who consume the drug 'have a thirst for fighting and killing and will shoot at whatever they see. 'They lose any feeling or empathy for the people in front of them and can kill them without caring at all. They forget about their mother, father, and their families.' Although US military personnel (usually pilots) utilize "go-pills," I suspect ISIL has more relaxed dosing protocols.
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Anybody else see that pattern moving? Not too much, just every now and again?
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PC is overdriving your monitor?
Retina flexing with heartbeat?
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'They lose any feeling or empathy for the people in front of them and can kill them without caring at all. They forget about their mother, father, and their families.'
So, amphetaminoethyltheophylline, a drug used to treat attention deficit disorder, mimics the effects of reading the Quran.
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[ALMANAR.LB] North Korea looked to ratchet up already elevated tensions on the Korean peninsula still further Thursday, firing a pair of short-range missiles and announcing the liquidation of all remaining South Korean assets on its territory.
The moves were a direct response to unilateral sanctions announced by South Korea on Tuesday to punish the North for its January nuclear test and last month's long-range rocket launch.
Military tensions have been on the rise ever since the January test -- the fourth nuclear device North Korea has detonated in defiance of UN resolutions.
The UN Security Council responded with tough, new sanctions, which Pyongyang condemned as a "gangster-like" provocation orchestrated by the United States.
The North also reacted furiously to the start earlier this week of large-scale South Korea-US military drills, threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes against both Seoul and the US mainland.
The asset seizure announced on Thursday referred to two now-shuttered joint projects, the Mount Kumgang tourism resort and the Kaesong joint industrial complex.
"We will completely liquidate all assets of South Korean firms and related institutions left behind in our region," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.
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Do you suppose Pudgy is feeling some heat? He's either going to do something really stoopid or get wacked before he does.
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As per CHINA DAILY, NOKOR repo has cancelled all commercial exchange public agreements wid SOKOR.
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"CHINA-ordered, NOKOR-launched/fired".
As FOREIGN POLICY, REAL CLEAR WORLD, + OTHER NET ARTICS indic or illustrated time back, TAIWAN'S final status vee Mainland China = Beijing, i.e. formal reunification wid Mainland China or in alternate the lack of same, is the key to what happens on the Korean Peninsula in regards to de facto or final INTER-KOREAN = NOKOR-SOKOR REUNIFICATION.
IS THE OBAMA-LED OR POST-PBAMA [Jan 2017] US WILLING TO ACCEPT A NOKOR/DPRK TAKEN OVER OR ANEXED BY MAINLAND CHINA, EVEN IT MEANS HARMING OUR RELATIONS + CREDIBILITY, ETC, WID SOKOR, JAPAN, + OTHER US REGIONAL ALLIES, FOR THE SAKE OF REGIONAL, WORLD PEACE + TRADE WID CHINA???
IFF THE NET IS ANY MEASURE, MANY MAINSTREAM OR ORDINARY AMERICANS SEEMINGLY WOULD N-O-T MIND OR CARE IFF BEIJING FORMALLY TOOK OVER NORTH KOREA, CORRECT???
KJU = "Pudgy" aside, the US must decide, + given OWG Co-Superpower CHINA's determination to unilaterally or "asymmetrically" settle its various terrigtorial sovereignty issues wid neighboring countries e.g. the South, East China Seas, THE US MUST DECIDE QUICKLY!
IFF NOKOR DOESN'T DEV OR ACQUIRE NUKES TO BREAK THE "STATUS QUO" IN NE ASIA, DOES THE US PREFER THAT THE ISIS/ISIL ATTACK CHINA [+ Russia, India]???
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [The Hindu] CHINA BASE PROGRAMME: BEIJING WILLING TO BUILD [overseas = international Military] FACILITIES TO PROTECT OVERSEAS INTERESTS.
RELATED SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > MORE CHINESE BASES ABROAD? BEIJING "WILLING" TO BUILD FACILITIES TO PROTECT OVERSEAS INTERESTS.
The OWG Co-Superpower USA can S-T-I-L-L have mucho Milbases in Europe + East Asia-Pacific, BUT THE US' OWG CO-SUPEPOWER SIBLING CHINA CAN'T, NOT EVEN IN EASTPAC???
Not very "Multi-Polar" or "Sharing" of the
US now is it???
* SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST [SCMP] > WE WILL NOT TOLERATE INSTABILITY [War andor a Nuke-armed NOKOR]: BEIJING'S WARNING TO WASHINGTON AND PYONGYANG.
* XINHUA > CHINA WARNS PHILIPPINES NOT TO CHALLENGE ITS SOVEREIGNTY ON SOUTH CHINA SEA. China on "high alert" monitoring vee possible Japan-led actions [Milactions?].
* XINHUA > [The Australian] DO NOT DISTURB SPRATLY ISLANDS - CHINA FM WANG YI, in warning to Australia.
* YAHOO NEWS > BEIJING [China] ACCUSES TOKYO [Japan, as per intervention/interference in Chinese affairs] OVER PATROL PLANES FOR PHILIPPINES.
* VICE NEWS > US SAYS BEIJING "WILL SOON HAVE SUBSTANTIVE [Offensive] MILITARY POWER" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.
RELATED REUTERS > CHINA ABLE TO PROJECT
"SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSIVE MILITARY POWER" IN SPRATLYS IN MONTHS.
* WORLD NEWS > Japan News" [CSIS CEO-President John H.] HAMRE: JAPAN TO BE ANCHOR IN ASIA WID US.
Sorry, Mr. Hamre, but that's N-O-T what Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama, the Globies, + "US-style", "US-par" OWG Co-Superpower CHINA wants to hear.
AGAIN, CHINA = WHY SHOULD ANGRY PUTIN-LED ANTI-US RUSSIA, + SEEMINGLY SIMILAR MILITANTLY ANTI-US IRAN, GET THEIR SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE VEE OBAMA + US AS OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS, BUT N-O-T [MilPol-Geopol "Quiet", Pro-US] CHINA???
Has China said they are "PRO-US"!?
YOOHOO, SWEET CAROLINE KENNEDY = POTUS HILLARY CLINTON?, ITS STILL YOUR TURN AT BAT!
United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are frustrating efforts to repatriate Somalia refugees.
Frustration is a U.N. specialty...
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery yesterday said the refugees were willing to go back to their country but the organisations were frustrating the efforts of transferring them.
“There are big wars there; otherwise many refugees are willing to go back, but the NGOs are not interested because they make a lot of money in the process,” said Mr Nkaisery.
At the same time, the CS said the Government and the Jubaland region administration had identified 1,000 hectares to build a refugee camp inside Somalia.
“The UN and other agencies have set aside Sh10.5 billion for the construction of a refugee camp that can accommodate 50,000 people near Ras Camboni. The building will include schools, health facilities and an airport,” Nkaissery told MPs.
He was responding to a question from Parliament’s Administration and National Security Committee member Mohamed Diriye (Wajir South). He said once the new camp is complete, Kenya will supervise the repatriation of refugees to the new camp.
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[ALMANAR.LB] 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... called his Iranian counterpart on Wednesday to protest Tehran's latest round of ballistic missile tests.
Iran and the United States have no formal diplomatic ties, but Kerry and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif built a close working relationship during negotiations for last year's nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers.
The United States argues that a series of apparent missile tests breach the terms of a UN Security Council resolution and will result in new economic sanctions - either from Washington or the world body.
"If they are confirmed, if they're true, as I said yesterday, we'll take up the appropriate action inside the UN," State Department front man John Kirby warned.
"But I don't want to convey the impression that we are only looking at multilateral or UN possibilities in terms of measures to deal with it."
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"If they are confirmed, if they're true, as I said yesterday, we'll take up the appropriate action inside the UN," State Department front man John Kirby warned.
Am I wrong, or did Iran already admit the deed, saying "they weren't against the agreement" or something like that?
[ALMANAR.LB] Arab foreign ministers Thursday voted to appoint veteran Egyptian diplomat Ahmad Aboul-Gheit to the post of secretary-general of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... He succeeds Nabil al-Araby, another Egyptian diplomat, who last month said he would not seek a second term in leading the Cairo-based organization. Al-Araby's five-year mandate ends June 30.
Aboul-Gheit, 73, was the sole contender for the position, and his choice comes at a critical time for the 22-member regional bloc.
Aboul-Gheit served as the last foreign minister under Egypt's president Hosny Mubarak, who stepped down in 2011.
Chiefs of the vaporous Arab League have always been Egyptians since the organization was created in 1945.
The only exception came in 1979 when the headquarters of the organization were moved from Cairo to Tunisia.
Chedli Klibi, a Tunisian politician, was selected for the position at that time.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source in Nineveh Operations Command announced on Thursday, that the Iraqi Army artillery destroyed headquarters belonging to the so-called ISIS south of Mosul in Nineveh Province (405 km north of Baghdad), while pointed out that the operation was carried out in response to a similar attack launched by ISIS.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The army’s 15th artillery brigade carried out an artillery shelling targeted the headquarters of ISIS in Sultan Abdullah village in Qayyarah area (60 km south of Mosul),” adding that, “The shelling destructed many headquarters belonging to ISIS.”
“The shelling was carried out in response to ISIS attack on the brigade’s headquarters on Thursday morning, using a number of Katyusha rockets,” the statement continued.
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PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen on Thursday kidnapped eight Fata Development Authority (FDA) employees in South Waziristan when they were heading to inspect an under construction dam in the area, security officials said.
The incident took place in Toi Khula area of South Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan border where unidentified gunmen intercepted the vehicle of abducted officials and took them to an unknown location.
Zafrul Islam, the top government official in South Waziristan, said project director of Chao Tangi small dam, two geologists and other technical staff of the dam were among those kidnapped at gunpoint.
“Gunmen kidnapped these eight men when they were heading to the dam site,” Islam told AFP.
Another senior government official confirmed the abduction and told AFP that a search operation has been launched to locate the abductors.
No group has yet claimed responsibility.
Pakistan army stepped up its offensive in the region after the Taliban's massacre of 153 people, mostly children, at an army-run school in Peshawar in December 2014, and has killed or pushed hundreds of militants to Afghanistan.
A senior al-Shabab commander has made a public appearance to deny claims that he and another group leader were killed in US air strikes last week at a training camp in southern Somalia.
"Lies! All lies!"
Washington said on Monday it had carried out several strikes in Somalia’s Hiiraan region, in which it claimed more than 150 of the al-Qaeda-linked group’s fighters had been killed. Somali officials said later on Monday that five al-Shabab commanders had been killed in Saturday’s attack, including Mohamed Mire, the group’s Hiiraan governor, and Yusuf Ali Ugas, al-Shabab’s former Hiiraan chief.
But Mire appeared on Thursday in the village of Buqa Qabe – in the same province the air strikes took place – to dismiss the claims.
“It is all lies. They said I was among those killed. But I’m here and doing well as you can see,” he told a crowd that had gathered to see the public execution of a man the group accused of being a Somali government soldier.
"No one higher than a number 6 was killed. That's a lieutenant in Stratego!"
“It is all propaganda. America is losing this war and that is why they now have to resort to guerrilla tactic,” Mire added, in reference to a Wednesday morning raid on the town of Awdhegle – 50km south of the capital Mogadishu – by joint US and Somali special forces.
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[DAWN] 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... prayed for the speedy recovery of Kashmire's All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was hospitalised after suffering a minor heart attack in New Delhi on Thursday morning.
In his message the premier said, "Syed Geelani's indefatigable leadership is a beacon of freedom for the people of Jammu and Kashmire. We pray for his quick recovery and good health."
APHC Chairman Syed Ali Geelani was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi after he complained of chest pain, which was later diagnosed as a minor heart attack.
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[DAWN] Police in a southern district of Azad Jammu and Kashmire are hunting for a person who chopped off his wife's nose and hair, allegedly in the name of honour.
The accused, Gulfraz alias Billa, cut off the nose of his 24-year old wife, and chopped off her hair before fleeing from the scene, a police official told Dawn.
The incident occurred on March 8, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, in Androt Potha village, some 35 kilometres from Rawalakot.
The victim told the police that her spouse would not let her visit her parents, which would trigger fights between them.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... SHO Thorar Sardar Tariq told Dawn that the accused suspected the character of his spouse.
"It was why they would often quarrel with each other, even though the couple had contracted a love marriage some five years ago," he said.
The victim was in her parents’ home for the past four to five months due to acrimony and was brought back by her spouse on Tuesday after reconciliation.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... after he brought her home he tied her with a chair and cut off her hair and then nose.
As the victim fainted, the accused fled from the scene, fearing she may have died.
Later, her brothers shifted her to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital Rawalakot for treatment.
Doctors said had she been brought to the hospital earlier, they could have stitched back the severed portion of the woman's nose.
Now she will have to undergo a three-stage treatment process, she was told.
SHO Tariq said the accused was on the lam but the police would soon hunt him down.
He said the accused had been booked under sections 337Q, 337V and 292 of the Azad (Kashmire) Penal Code," he said.
"Actually, this crime is dealt with under the law of retaliation, meaning thereby if someone has cut the nose and hair of someone, he too will be penalised with the same treatment," he said.
The police official said it was the first time that such an incident had occurred in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
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The accused, Gulfraz alias Billa, cut off the nose of his 24-year old wife, and chopped off her hair
Now what do you plan to do with the rest of your life? Absolutely no control or logic whatsoever. Entirely driven by emotion.
"Actually, this crime is dealt with under the law of retaliation, meaning thereby if someone has cut the nose and hair of someone, he too will be penalised with the same treatment,"
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"Actually, this crime is dealt with under the law of retaliation, meaning thereby if someone has cut the nose and hair of someone, he too will be penalised with the same treatment,"
Cutting off her hair and nose were intended to render her unattractive to other men. Doing the same to a man in that culture would not have the same effect so long ws he could earn a living, which suggeste that other bits that would render him equally unattractive ought to be cut off instead.
[DAWN] Pakistain has reminded US politicians that gunnies have killed thousands of Pak soldiers and civilians only because the country supports the US-led war against terrorists.
In a letter to a senior Republican Senator, Rand Paul, Pakistain’s Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani referred to a US intelligence document, which quotes the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... as asking his followers to attack the Pak state and it’s military because of their anti-terrorism partnership with the United States.
Senator Paul leads the congressional campaign to block a proposed sale of eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistain.
He sent a letter to his colleagues earlier this week, claiming that it was "past time" to demand accountability from Pakistain whose "coziness" with gunnies has harmed the US military.
Senator Paul has also introduced a joint resolution of disapproval in the Senate, which may come up for hearing this week.
Last month, the US government approved the sale of the fighter jets, along with radar and electronic warfare equipment, in a deal worth $700 million.
Senator Paul is using the obscure Arms Export Control Act of 1976 to try and stop the sale, labelling Pakistain "an uncertain ally", which could not be trusted with sophisticated US weapons.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 41 anti-government armed bully boyz were killed in the latest counter-terrorism operations led by the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said at least 36 others were maimed and a suspected holy warrior was jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by the security forces during the same operations.
A statement by MoD said at least 15 of the bully boyz were killed in Chora and Herawood districts of Uruzgan province and 12 others including a commander of the group were maimed.
The statement further added that 6 bully boyz were killed and 11 others were maimed in an operation in Darqad district of northeastern Takhar province.
At least 3 bully boyz were killed and 2 others were maimed in a separate operation in Dand-e-Shahbuddin district of Baghlan province, MoD said, adding that 4 others were killed and another suspect was held in Kot district of 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.
MoD also added that 4 bully boyz were killed and 6 others were maimed in an operation in Nejrab district of eastern Kapisa province.
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[DAWN] The United States and India have agreed to ‘deepen’ their close collaboration in the fight against Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM), the White House said.
In a joint statement with Pakistain last week, the United States stressed the need for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmire issue and called on ‘all parties’ in the region to act with ‘maximum restraint’ for reducing tensions.
But in a statement issued after US National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice’s meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday, the United States also underlined the need for greater cooperation with India for combating terrorist groups operating in Kashmire.
At the White House meeting, Ambassador Rice and Foreign Secretary Jaishankar discussed US-India collaboration against LeT, JeM and other terrorist threats.
"Building on their leaders’ commitment to make the US-India partnership a defining relationship for the 21st century, they agreed to deepen their already close collaboration on these issues," the statement added.
The two officials also noted their preparation for the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit, which would also be attended by Pak and Indian prime ministers.
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – Subsequent to fierce battles with the Syrian regime forces, militants of Nusra Front (al-Qaeda branch in Syria) and allied Islamist rebels seized control of several locations in the central Hama province, local activists reported on Thursday.
Speaking to ARA News in Hama, rights activist Abdul Rahman Taha said the Nusra Front –backed by the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham and Jund al-Aqsa brigade– carried out a surprise attack on positions for the Syrian army forces on the outskirts of the town of Maan northeast of Hama.
The Nusra Front was able to take over five locations for the regime’s special forces which used to monitor the opposition factions and movements of Islamist brigades on the outskirts of town.
“A number of soldiers from the regime’s army were killed in the attack, while clashes are still ongoing amid Russian aerial bombardment on the Nusra positions in eastern Hama,” Taha reported.
The offensive caused a state of alert in the ranks of the regime’s army in the northern and eastern areas of the province.
Earlier in January, Islamist rebels launched a massive attack on headquarters of the regime’s army in the town of Maan, but the latter was able to repel the attack backed by a Russian air cover.
[DAWN] A sessions court sentenced on Wednesday a man to 10 years in prison in a rape case.
Mohammed Adil was found guilty of sexually assaulting his teenage niece in Nov 2013 at his house within the jurisdiction of the Sharea Faisal cop shoppe.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (east) Inam Ali Kalhoro also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 and in case of default the convict would have to undergo an additional two-month imprisonment.
The court ruled that the victim testified against the accused, her testimony was corroborated by documentary evidence, including the report of a DNA test, and the case stood proved against him beyond a shadow of a doubt.
According to the prosecution, the victim’s mother remarried after the death of her first husband, the father of the victim girl who started living with her maternal grandparents.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... her uncle repeatedly raped her and when the victim informed her mother she asked her to stay silent, it added.
It said that the victim got pregnant and finally a case was registered a few months before she gave birth to a boy.
During the trial, the accused rejected all charges and the court ordered a DNA test, which revealed that the accused was the biological father of the child, it concluded.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done under Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code on the complaint of the victim.
The accused was in jug and after the pronouncement of the verdict, the court remanded him back in prison to serve out the sentence.
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During the trial, the accused rejected all charges and the court ordered a DNA test, which revealed that the accused was the biological father of the child, it concluded.
Undoubtedly ISIS will declare DNA testing unislamic, and revert to requiring the testimony of four(?) Muslim males before they will consider anything.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has handed down life imprisonment to four Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) turbans for their role in the 2005 series kaboom.
Judge Momtaz Begum of Speedy Trial Tribunal 3 yesterday also slapped a Tk20,000 fine each on Kawsar Alam Sumon, Yunus Mia Kawsar, Mehedi Habib Mohammad Rafiq, and Ashraf alias Ashraful Islam alias Sharif.
All but Sharif are in police custody. The court acquitted eight others.
Banned holy warrior group JMB orchestrated a series bomb kabooms in 63 districts in 2005 demanding introduction of sharia laws.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! four members of a gang which is engaged in forcing women into prostitution from Panchlaish area, Chittagong city Wednesday night.
During the drive, police also rescued three teenage girls who were forced into prostitution from a flat located in Hill View residential area.
A case was filed against Nazir Uddin, 48, Kulsuma Begum, 40, Ali Haidar, 30, and Samsu, 35, in this connection.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (prosecution) Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan said the three victims who were rescued from the clutches of the gang will give their statement before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Nowrin Aktar Kakon under section 164."
Police said one of a victims managed to get out from the custody of the culprits and informed police about the flesh trade. Later, police conducted a drive at the flat and rescued them and rounded up four persons.
"The male members of the gang first developed relationship with the girls of rural areas across the country and kidnapped them technically luring to marry or promising a good job in the city.
When the victim fall off on their trap, the gang brought them to the city and sold to the flash traders and forced them into illicit business.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army managed to control a number of villages in east of Khanasser in Aleppo southern countryside, according to Al-Manar reporter.
Among the villages, which cover an area of 130 square kilometers, are Sardaj and Zabad.
In Hama, the Syrian army killed more than 70 Nusra Front terrorists and destroyed their vehicles, SANA mentioned.
The Syrian army clashed at dawn with Nusra Front (Qaeda branch in the Levant) terrorists who infiltrated to the villages of Maan, Tayyebet al-Esm, al-Shaata, Karah and in the surrounding of al-Rai mountain in Souran area to the north of Hama city.
The Syrian army also advanced in Homs southeastern countryside and regained Trax hill, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorist groups.
The Syrian warplanes raided ISIL sites in Palmyra, killing around 70 terrorists
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[ALMANAR.LB] A top commander 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) Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was "seriously injured" in a recent US strike in Syria but not killed, a monitoring group said Wednesday, after a US official said the murderous Moslem had "likely died" in the attack.
The opposition Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that according to its sources, the March 4 strike had indeed targeted a convoy of the wanted terrorist, killing his bodyguards, but he himself "was maimed" and taken to hospital.
"He's not dead," the Observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman said. Pray for sepsis.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The corpse count as a result of the bloody festivities among the rival Taliban groups has climbed and reached to almost 150 people, local officials said Thursday.
A member of the provincial council confirmed the latest toll and said majority of those killed belong to Mullah Mohammad Rasool, one of the main side in the deadly infighting.
The local government officials confirmed the bloody infighting which broke out on Monday afternoon but said the exact corpse count could not be confirmed at the moment.
Another security official earlier today confirmed that nearly 200 Talibs were killed or maimed in the attack.
The official further added that the two rival groups have also summary executions of the detained fighters as well as the local residents.
The festivities continue between the two sides in two regions of Shindand district, Charqala and Bakhtabad, according to the local security officials.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... reports emerged on Wednesday suggesting that two top Taliban leaders, Mullah Malik and Mullah Wakil, were reported in the infighting.
The infighting among the Taliban factions has not been rare and is taking place occasionally in parts of the countyr, which is mainly triggered due to differences over the leadership of the group which was assumed by Mullah Akhtar Mansoor last year.
The Talibs also entered into a deadly infighting in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province three months ago which followed months after the election of Mullah Mansoor as the new Taliban supreme leader.
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just a few miles from the Iran border
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least nine anti-government armed hard boyz were killed in a raid by the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the raid was conducted in the vicinity of Lashkargah city by the Afghan armed forces from the 215th Maiwand Corps.
MoD further added that 5 hard boyz were also injured during the operation, while 2 others were tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in a separate raid by the commandos of the Afghan National Army from Greshk district.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.
Helmand is among the volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where anti-government armed hard boyz are actively operating in its various districts and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
The Talibs launched coordinated attack on government compounds in Greshk district of Helmand province earlier yesterday, with the local officials saying the jacket wallahs attacked the district police commandment, NDS department and the district administrative compound.
The officials further added that 16 suicide bombers and hard boyz were killed in the attack and 21 others including civilians and security personnel were maimed.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday, that ten people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this morning, near a popular market in Madain area in southern 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 carried out a raid to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday, that five policemen had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast targeted their patrol in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this morning, targeting an Iraqi police patrol while passing in Arab Jabour village in southern Baghdad, killing one of its members and wounding four others, as well as causing material damage to the vehicle.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Thursday, a source in the Iraqi police revealed, that an officer belonging to the Anti-Terrorism forces was wounded in an armed attack in southern Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “This morning, unidentified gunmen attacked the vehicle of an officer belonging to the Anti-Terrorism Directorate in al-Sayidiya area in southern Baghdad, wounding him with several injuries.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “A security force cordoned off the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital, while opened an investigation into the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A police source revealed on Thursday, that a group of gunmen stormed a house and kidnapped a young girl southeast of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today, unidentified gunmen riding a SUV stormed a house in Diyala Bridge area southeast of Baghdad and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl,” pointing out that, “The gunmen escaped to unknown destination.”
“A security force rushed to the area of the incident and opened an investigation into its circumstances, while carried out an operation to search for the kidnappers,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Thursday, a police source announced, that a security force foiled an armed robbery on a currency exchange office in eastern Baghdad, while arrested two of the robbery perpetrators.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “A joint security force from the army and police managed to foil a robbery carried out by an armed group on a currency exchange office in al-Kendi Street in al-Harithiya area.”
The source added, “Two of the robbery perpetrators were arrested, while the others managed to escape.”
[ARA News] ERBIL – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) executed on Thursday three Kurdish men in the city of Mosul, northern Iraq, on charges of “spying” for the Kurdish forces, local sources reported.
The victims were arrested earlier this week in Mosul city of Nineveh province.
After three days of interrogations by jihadis, the ISIS-led Sharia Court convicted them of spying for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces of Iraqi Kurdistan against the ISIS self-declared Caliphate.
ISIS militants publicly beheaded the three young men in the Nabi Younis neighborhood of Mosul on Thursday evening, according to a local media activist and eyewitnesses, who spoke to ARA News on condition of anonymity.
The victims were accused of leaking security information about ISIS movements to the Kurdistan’s Peshmerga army.
The extremist group has used to execute anyone suspected to have relations either with the U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraqi army or the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, especially after dozens of ISIS insurgents and prominent jihadi leaders have been killed in northwestern Iraq.
Over the last two years, hundreds of people have been arrested and executed on similar charges in the ISIS-held territories in Iraq and Syria, including dozens of media activists.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Tunisian security forces stepped up the anti-terrorist operations in Ben Guerdane city which lies near the border with Libya, killing four holy warriors and arresting 2 others.
According to Al-Manar news hound, the festivities between the two sides continued as the Tunisian troops besieged forces of Evil inside the city and chased others in its vicinity.
ISIL terrorist group issued on Thursday a statement in which it grabbed credit for the failed terrorist attack in the Tunisian southern city, acknowledging its failure and threatening of more operations against the entire country.
Tunisian forces repelled a terrorist assault Monday on Ben Guerdane near the Libyan border, killing 35 gunnies in what authorities said was a thwarted effort to establish an emirate 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.
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – A local source in Diyali province said on Wednesday, that two elements of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia had been killed in a bomb blast north of Baqubah.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb that went off while being dismantled by two elements of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi in the village of al-Tala al-Awla near al-Azeem (63 km north of Baqubah) resulted in their death,” adding that, “A security force arrived in the area and opened an investigation into the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – A local source in Diyali said on Thursday, that an officer was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a bomb blast that took place east of Baqubah.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “A lieutenant was killed and two soldiers were injured while attempting to dismantle an [improvised] explosive device (IED) in Hamrin Hills near the vicinity of al-mansouriya (45 km east of Baqubah),” pointing out that, “The device was from the remnants of the ISIS control of the area over a year ago.”
North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-Un has ordered further nuclear tests, state media said Friday, as military tensions surge on the Korean peninsula with South Korean and US forces engaged in large-scale joint exercises condemned by Pyongyang.
Just days after he was photographed posing in front of what state media described as a miniaturised nuclear warhead, Kim said the weapon required further testing. Overseeing a ballistic missile launch on Thursday, Kim ordered "more nuclear explosion tests to estimate the destructive power of the newly produced nuclear warheads," the North's official KCNA news agency said.
Experts are divided as to just how far the North may have gone in shrinking warheads to a size capable of fitting on a ballistic missile -- a major step forward in strike capability that would present a heightened threat to South Korea, other countries in the region and, eventually, the US mainland.
According to KCNA, Thursday's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles, which traversed the eastern part of the country before falling into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), was part of a nuclear strike exercise. The aim was to simulate conditions for "exploding nuclear warheads from the preset altitude above targets in the ports under enemy control," the agency said.
Watching the exercise, Kim reiterated an earlier threat to launch an immediate nuclear attack if the "sabre-rattling" South Korea-US drills should harm "even a single tree or a blade of grass" on North Korean territory.
That would be interfering with dinner, after all...
"I will issue a prompt order to launch attack with all military strike means," he said.
Military tensions on the divided Korean peninsula have been on the rise since the North carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, followed by a long-range rocket launch last month. South Korea and the United States responded by scaling up their annual joint drills, which Pyongyang has always condemned as provocative rehearsals for invasion.
The North's anger has been fuelled this year by reports that the drills included a "decapitation strike" scenario in which the North Korean leadership and command structure is taken out at the start of any conflict. In light of such drills, "our self-defensive countermeasures should adopt a more preemptive and offensive mode," Kim said.
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Kim reiterated an earlier threat to launch an immediate nuclear attack if the "sabre-rattling" South Korea-US drills should harm "even a single tree or a blade of grass" on North Korean territory.
What if we insult one of your remaining two blades of grass. Would that be OK?
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All things eventually have a day of reckoning - "nothing lasts forever", as the saying goes.
Iff Pudgy/KJU + Kim Regime = NOKOR can no longer stave off Chinese takeover or annexation for any reason, I sincerely believe that Pudge = NOKOR will find a way to unilaterally start a major US-China war, Conventional thru Limited Nuclear, as a last-ditch, you-betcha-its-desperate measure to save his Country from Beijing.
NO ONE SHOULD DOUBT THAT PUDGY = NOKOR IS USING BOTH OWG CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA'S DESIRE TO EXPAND ITS INFLUENCE + DOMINATE IN EAST ASIA-WESTPAC, + ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA'S PCORRECT-DENIABLE DESIRE LET CHINA DO SO AT THE EXPENCE OF HISTORICAL OR TRADITIONAL US INTERESTS, AS COVER TO BREAK CHINA'S HOLD ON HIS COUNTRY + FORCE INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION ASAP ONCE-N-FOREVAR!
OTOH, let us NOT forget that PUDGY = KJU IS NOT POTUS OBAMA ...
* LUCIANNE [repost] PRESIDENT OBAMA IS LEAVING THE US A MUCH WEAKER + MORE DIVIDED NATION.
* FOREIGN_POLICY@TWITTER > IS THE US SAFER UNDER OBAMA THAT IT WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO?
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > USCNO RICHARDSON: NAVY NEEDS A DISTRIBUTED FORCE OF NETWORKED SHIPS, SUBS TO COUNTER [Chinese-led = SCS, ECS? Taiwan? IOR?]A2/AD THREAT - USNI NEWS.
["GUAM WILL CAPSIZE" = PEARL HARBOR 1941 USN BB USS "OKLAHOMA" here].
Iff youse thought it was only the US engaging in "A2/AD" agx China [+ Russia, Iran], YOU WERE WRONG - THE US FEARS CHINA,ETAL. LED COUNTER-"A2/AD" RESPONSE AGZ THE US = US-ALLIES.
I have nothing on the Net to indic or prove that the USN CVN "STENNIS" violated the 12-nm limits around China's improved islands in the SCS - IOW, DESPITE SENDING WHAT FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES IS THE CLOSEST WORLD'S EQUIVALENT OF THE STAR WARS "DEATH STAR" TO THE SCS, OBAMA STILL ENDED UP ONCE AGAIN INDIRECTLY RECOGNIZING CHINA'S CLAIMS.
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Shelling and small arms attacks by Ukrainian forces on rebel positions continued Thursday in Yasinovataya, as elsewhere along the western line of contact, Ukrainian forces have intensified their artillery attacks on rebel positions according to Russian language news accounts.
According to a news release posted by the Donetsk ministry of defense, Ukrainian forces have caused more than 400 violations of the ceasefire Thursday. Artillery struck rebel positions in western Donetsk, including at Spartak, western districts of Donetsk city and at the airport, where Ukrainians pounded rebel positions for more than 30 minutes Thursday morning.
Since Tuesday little has changed at Yasinovataya: Ukrainian forces have moved forces including artillery spotters to block two roads leading into Gorlovka, at a road junction, where the rebels maintain a police checkpoint.
According to Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin, rebel positions have not changed since Wednesday with rebel positions remaining static along the western edge of the road junction, but firing on rebel positions remains intense.
Rebel military officials have identified the unit operating in the area as the Ukrainian 58th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade. Apparently, three rifle companies are the units in the van of the attack on Yasinovataya.
But artillery and small arms fire continues, including, charged the rebels, 152mm artillery. So far, no reports have emerged from either side of the use of the 122mm rocket artillery system, the BM-21 Grad (Hail) launcher, which is the preferred artillery platform for either side.
Two separate reports from reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin's novorusinform.org news website said that the fighting around the road junction has devolved into small infantry engagements, fighting over single residential buildings and for rooms within those buildings. The water filtration plant, which came under Ukrainian artillery fire in initial reports on Tuesday, according to one report, has been abandoned for now.
Rebels said that 59 artillery shells landed over an period of an hour in the Yasinovataya area overnight, Wednesday to Thursday night, concentrated in the police checkpoint, at a rate of one per minute. They also charge that the Ukrainians are not just firing on rebel troops, but on civilians as well.
Rebel officials say that the Ukrainians are trying to encircle Gorlovka, which is immediately to the north of the contested road junction. A second report in novorusinform.org said that artillery attacks using 82mm mortars continue around Zaiytsevo, which is immediately north of Gorlovka.
According to Rozhin, retired GRU Colonel Igor Bezler, formerly chief of police of Gorlovka and formerly a key commander in the early fighting in the Donetsk and Lugansk in the summer of 2014, indicated in a Live Journal post that the reason the Ukrainians have yet to advance beyond 300 meters from the road was because of fire from rebel 12.7mm heavy machine guns, which can,. he claimed, penetrate medium armor at the range of 500 meters. Rebel reports say that Ukrainian tank gunfire has been used to augment the Ukrainian attack, but in current reports it is unclear if tank gunfire includes 125mm tanks guns or 30mm autocannons.
Wrote Bezler: "Respect your opponent, and never count him dumber than yourself."
According to a Russian writer, Ruslan Yakubov, serving as a militiaman with the rebels, Ukrainians have deployed two volunteer battalions, the Lions Battalion and the Aydar Battalion, both of which are staffed with members of the Right Sektor Ukrainian political party.
Right Sektor has earned them the enmity of the Russian backed fighters, which have gone out of their way to fire on and kill their members.
A report from the Donetsk ministry of defense said that as many as 300 fighters have appeared at the line of contact near Yasinovataya. Another 60 were detected deploying to Volnovakha well to the west of Donetsk city, from Mariupol.
Ukrainian media has been curiously silent on the fighting near Yasinovataya, similar to the Ukrainians' silence during the rebels' Debaltsevo operation.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
[Daily Excelsior] After divisional commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), Abu Dujana, and his associates fled from cordon in South Kashmire’s Pulwama district yesterday, security forces have intensified operations in the area as they have inputs that they are planning a fidayeen attack in Kashmire along the National Highway.
The 55-Rashtriya Rifles of Army, 182 Battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police, Pulwama, today cordoned off and conducted search operations at Koil, Prichoo and Wagun villages of Pulwama in search of the LeT Death Eaters including Abu Dujana.
Sources said that security forces have intercepted a phone call which indicated that LeT based in South Kashmire is planning fidayeen attack along the National Highway on security forces in Kashmire.
They said that LeT has already conducted recce of an Army camp near Jawahar Tunnel, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 24th battalion at Jawahar Tunnel and one more security installation in South Kashmire along the highway.
These fidayeen are said to part of the group that carried out attack in Entrepreneur Development Institute (EDI) Building at Pampore in South Kashmire on the National Highway last month that lasted for three days in which 5 coppers including three Para-commandos of Army were killed and the building suffered extensive damage.
As part of proactive strategy to prevent the strike, Police and Army have established check points at various places along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and other roads so as to prevent movement of these fidayeen. They are conducting searches of all types of vehicles particularly trucks as LeT last year used a truck to ferry fidayeen to Uhdampur where they carried out an attack on BSF convoy.
Security forces were also conducting operations at various places in South Kashmire to put pressure on the holy warriors. Sources said that security forces are taking every input in South Kashmire these days seriously so as to counter the LeT strike.
For last four days police and Army conducted searches at several places in South Kashmire. These operations were conducted at Tulbagh and Patalbagh in Pampore areas near the National Highway by 55- Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmire Police, Pampore; Kaweni in Sangam by SOG and Army, Reshipora and Gowahapora near National Highway and Panzeth in Qazigund area by 9 RR and SOG Kulgam.
Yesterday, they trapped 11 Death Eaters of the LeT including its divisional commander, Abu Dujana, in village Wadhakpora in Awantipora area of South Kashmire’s Pulwama district where they were holding a meeting. Two of their members including a top commander, Abu Ukasha, were killed and others escaped.
Sources said that after the busting of LeT network following Udhampur attack on BSF convoy and killing of LeT commander Abu Qasim last year, LeT under the command of Abu Dujana in South Kashmire has re-established its network and received around a dozen foreign holy warriors, who were planning strikes.
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[ALMANAR.LB] 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... is seeking a bank loan of between $6 billion and $8 billion in what would be the first significant foreign borrowing by the kingdom's government for over a decade.
Riyadh has asked lenders to submit proposals to extend it a five-year US dollar loan of that size, with an option to increase it, in order to help plug a record budget deficit caused by low oil prices.
The sources declined to be named because the matter is not public.
Last week, Rooters reported that Saudi Arabia had asked banks to discuss the idea of an international loan, but details such as the size and lifespan were not specified.
The kingdom's budget deficit reached nearly $100 billion last year. The government is currently bridging the gap by drawing down its massive store of foreign assets and issuing domestic bonds. But the assets will only last a few more years at their current rate of decline, while the bond issues have started to strain liquidity in the banking system.
London-based boutique advisory firm Verus Partners, set up by former Citigroup bankers Mark Aplin and Andrew Elliot, is advising the Saudi government on the loan, the sources said.
The firm has sent requests for proposals to a small group of banks on behalf of the Saudi Ministry of Finance, the sources said. They added that banks participating in the loan would have a better chance of being chosen to arrange an international bond issue that Saudi Arabia may conduct as soon as this year.
Analysts say sovereign borrowing by the six wealthy Gulf Arab oil exporters could total $20 billion or more in 2016 - a big shift from years past, when the region had a surfeit of funds and was lending to the rest of the world.
All of the six states have either launched borrowing programs in response to low oil prices or are laying plans to do so. With money becoming scarcer at home, Gulf companies are also expected to borrow more from abroad.
In mid-February, Standard & Poor's cut Saudi Arabia's long-term sovereign credit rating by two notches to A-minus. The world's other two major rating agencies still have much higher assessments of Riyadh, but last week Moody's Investors Service put Saudi Arabia on review for a possible downgrade.
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Am I imagining things or what? Saudis being hoisted by their own petard? Dropped the price of crude by pumping at max to hurt American frackers and others. Low prices sustained because Iran now back in the market. So to keep up the welfare state the Saudis sell assets to make up difference between lower revenues and expenses. Now they need a bridge loan while they try to sell assets in an orderly way to avoid taking a financial bath.
This veddy interesting. A source of innocent merriment if true.
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And with other gulf states in the same boat, they are doomed to a steady decline towards bankruptcy if prices hold. If they decrease production then others will increase production. If they start to cut their welfare state then they face unrest at home. This is most interesting. Every disaster is a new opportunity.
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I would like to see this turn into a long term retrenchment where KSA withdraws from all of its expensive subvertiing in the wider world and withdraw into a quaint local tribe and take the rest of the sheikdoms with them.
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15 of the 19 911 hijackers were Saudis. The Individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia financed al-Qaeda while Saud officials turned a blind eye. The Saudis have financed and spread Wahhabism which is full of hatred aimed at the West. They have raped the West via OPEC for decades. A $6-8 billion loan to support the state budget--screw em. We are not in the best of shape to finance anyone's budget thanks to our elite betters in Washington (sarc).
#13
Given the present political climate in the USA I cannot visualize an American bank initiating a loan with Saudi Arabia if it values its reputation.
Did you see the piece about how Chase isn't going to provide credit for coal plants in the US anymore? Only in "underdeveloped countries" or whatever phrase they used.
#15
Keeping oil prices low is a good way to starve Iran until they burn through the $150B that 0bean gave them for nothing in return. And starve Maduro into submission. And ISIS. I guess we owe the Saudis here. Cheap by comparison.
#16
If they start to cut their welfare state then they face unrest at home.
They've already started cutting subsidies on a variety of things loke utilitiy bills and gasoline, Alaska Paul. As I recall, they only have reserves to cover five years of expenses at the current oil price before they have to start selling off assets. So reducing expenses has already begun.
#17
...no problem. Just sell the assets to foreigners then after collecting the money, just nationalize them. They'll come back. Watch whats happening with Cuba now.
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I wonder what new and interesting new names will appear today? Probably none if you-know-who's name doesn't appear first. Now that would be an interesting experiment.
#3
And ZenFlo bangs another one out of the park like it weren't nothing. Unless he has been working on it for weeks, which would imply precognition or time travel. Phillip K. Dick, call your office!
#5
A handsome young man of Dalmatia
Was stranded in Nipponese Asia,
But stitched up new togs
And respotted his dogs
And soon paid for his passage, as geisha.
#6
Definitely not precog. The poor man has his own private muse dropping rhymes on him at all hours of the day and night. Rather like that fairy tale princess whose every word dropped pearls and precious gems from her lips. ;-)
Italian counter-terrorist police have arrested a 22-year-old Somali imam and asylum-seeker, for planning a terror attack on the city of Rome as well as “intense and vehement proselytism” among migrants for jihad.
A little young to be a number 3, isn't he?
On Wednesday, police moved swiftly to arrest the man at the “Happy Family” migrant reception center where he was living in Campobasso, in the southern Italian region of Molise, saying they had evidence he intended to leave that very day for Rome where he planned to carry out an attack.
Prosecutors also claim they have “clear technical evidence” indicating that the imam, who told others living at the center that he was a member of the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, was preparing an attack in Rome. He had been denied refugee status and would have had to leave the migrant center soon.
Just over two months of intense investigation, including the interception of phone conversations and taped footage from a hidden camera placed in the man’s room, allowed the counterterrorist agents ascertain the real extent of his words and intentions.
According to police, in an intercepted conversation the man uttered the phrase, “Let’s start with Italy, let’s go to Rome and start with the station,” referring to Rome’s iconic Termini train station.
“The war continues. Charlie Hebdo was only a foretaste of what is happening now,” he also said, as well as “there’s an easier way: to equip themselves and blow themselves up, that’s the easiest way.”
The man allegedly used his platform as imam to praise last November’s terrorist attacks in Paris and the “martyrdom” of its perpetrators, urging the other guests of the center to join jihad and follow him, first to Rome and then to Syria.
At the end of one service, the imam offered a prayer for the Islamic State and for the fighters who sacrifice themselves for the cause.
Either jug him for 20 years or bind him and toss him into the middle of Puntland...
According to the charges brought against him, the young Somali sang the praises of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Al Shabaab, in an attempt to radicalize other guests of the reception center to undertake violent actions under jihad. The chief prosecutor of Campobasso, Armando D’Alterio has described his activities as an “intense and vehement proselytism” for jihad against the West.
In one recorded sermon, the imam declared to the other guests at the migrant center:
“This month the Prophet is preparing soldiers against the idolaters, fighting against the enemies of God. So take advantage of this month, and race to be the first. God has ordered us to kill his enemies and make jihad in his name, preach religion and Sharia and punish the sinner.”
Police believe the Rome attack was still in the planning stages, and that the man had not yet acquired the necessary materials to carry it out. They do, however, identify him as “extremely dangerous and determined,” with clear intentions of violent actions.
“The arrest in Campobasso shows that the system of prevention works,” said Italian Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano. “We have a very strict, technically equipped monitoring system in all the centers and places where proselytism can occur and where recruiting could theoretically take place.”
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[DAWN] In Larkana, a 13-year-old girl in Class 4 was repeatedly raped and impregnated by her male teacher.
These are the facts of the case; other details can be inferred.
That the rape over many months led to extreme physical pain to the child, that psychologically the girl was restrained to not report it at school because there was no vigilance, that she was traumatised enough to hide her sickness and grief for over 90 days from even her nearest and dearest.
The girl child, in countries like ours, are not taught to be brave, only the boys are. Unwanted sexual advances can only be thwarted if the girl child has guts.
This would mean that the social conditioning of the child would be to jump off monkey bars, run sprints or attempt seventh-grade math problems in Grade 4. That is all reserved for boys. On the contrary, girls are gauged on how politely they nod.
No surprise then that in our pervasive rape culture, even grown women find themselves in uncharted territory when dealing with a man abusing his position of power.
What makes things worse is the government's callous response to such a national catastrophe. There are no reports in the media of anyone from the provincial government visiting the aggrieved family.
The community blames the victim and the family for not protecting the honour of the girl -- as if honour is some kind of ticket stub or super glue bottle.
The problem is also our terminology when the rape of a minor happens. We shy away from calling it a crime; we call it perversion, for which culturally there is widespread acceptance of the boys-will-be-boys code.
Our schools are supposed to be sanctuaries for the already dropping rates of female students. They are supposed to be places where girls can nurse their tired bodies, overworked through housework, and enrich their minds with the possibilities of a bigger and brighter world.
Instead they are breeding grounds for abuse and oppression.
We must stop shaming the victims and consequently shame the perpetrator. By coming forward, the family of the girl have done just that, but if the case is mismanaged -- the family is under pressure to take the accusation back -- then much will be lost.
Not just the fact that Larkana will be bloodied and scarred but a little child will grow up to know that her state failed her.
As did the Council of Islamic Ideology for declaring child marriages as kosher.
As did the society where child marriages and teenage pregnancies occur frequently.
It's estimated that some 20 per cent of girls in Pakistain are married before they turn 18. Most international (read: human) conventions consider individuals under 18 as children.
The reason under 18 girls are children is not because these years are too little to teach girls about empowerment but also because practically and physically their hip bones cannot squeeze out a child.
Nature abhors children giving birth to children.
Underage marriages are just as crass as dogfights. You sit in the audience as a bloodied show is put on.
Except girls suffer silently as per the manual of the literature and oral tradition stories they are fed, where girls revere women who suffer and idealise women who suffer indefinitely.
Given the low conviction rate of rape in Pakistain, it is heartening to see that a sessions court in 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... sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for raping his niece.
In a similar vein, this 13-year-old's rapist must be brought to justice. Her suffering should not be exacerbated with criminal and legal incompetence.
Until she gets justice, her ordeal is one that will haunt this country.
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In the States, Planned Parenthood routinely destroyed evidence of rape/carnal knowledge and pregnancy. Anyone who challenged the practice was denounced, not PP. Just google Kansas Planned Parenthood destruction of evidence.
Jeddah- Over five thousand Yemeni Republican Guard soldiers and officers supporting the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh have turned themselves in to the National Army of Yemen. Among those who surrendered are 3250 who have arrived at the 4th military district, in preparation for participating at the anticipated Taiz military confrontation against Houthi and pro-Saleh supporting militias.
The battle is expected to take place over the few upcoming days. Moreover, military leaderships are trying to reach senior officials that stood out and abstained from participating in the insurgency.
Commander of the Aden 4th military district Brig. Ahmed Saif told Asharq Al-Awsat that large numbers of soldiers belonging to the Yemeni Republican Guard have fled their boot camps and joined pro-legitimacy zones in their region. It is remarkable that some groups of soldiers and officers have even joined pro-legitimacy forces on field.
The 4th military district took in an approximate 32520 Republican Guard soldiers and officers after they refused to execute orders dispatched by insurgent militias on multiple occasions. Those who have crossed sides are at full readiness to carryout combat orders against Houthis in Taiz’s battlefront and to advance towards other governorates.
Brig. Saif pointed out that the defectors leaving the insurgency are not restricted to one brigade only, several Republican Guard defectors are fleeing from a formation comprising up to 32 different brigades. The event coincides with the escalating disputes between Houthi militias and the Republican Guard leaderships.
Disputes are rising on two issues addressing priorities and capacity leverage leaders on military operations are entitled to. Inner-insurgency conflicts have reached their breaking point. Only last Wednesday did the first round of fire exchange between Houthis and Pro-Saleh supports take place in the Harad District; however, the reasons behind the clash remain unknown. Military sources translate this to be the end of the insurgent alliance which primarily aimed at tearing the country apart and having it dive into pitch-black chaos.
The conflict rising among the militia lines can be taken advantage of, according to 4th district commander Saif. The military deterioration militants are suffering must be faced with immediate full-on
offensive by national forces. Political contact must continue to take place with military officials that have maintained an unbiased stance from the crisis, especially those residing in Sana’a. They have refused to join the militias; however, they should be convinced to join pro-legitimacy forces, Saif siad.
He further added that the conflicts among the insurgency help the pro-legitimacy forces directly on the battlefield. The National Army has yet not faced serious issues on all fronts. The army receives directions from military leaderships and executes them swiftly. The mechanics employed by the National Army has contributed to prevent field failures.
[The Nation] Three suspects, believed to be subordinates of a militant cell led by Adul-Harem Jehtu, have been taken into custody in relation to Wednesday's bomb attack on a teacher security patrol in Narathiwat’s Chanae district. The attack killed two and injured five.
Meanwhile, the insurgency in the far South continued early yesterday morning, when an unknown man in a pickup truck opened fire at a utility worker's home in Narathiwat's Muang district. Though nobody was wounded, Torsit's pickup truck was riddled with bullet holes.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Commander of US Central Command General Lloyd J Austin has said Pakistain should "take decisive action" against the Haqqani terrorist network, calling the network as the greatest threat to the US forces in Afghanistan.
During a congressional hearing with the Senate Armed Service Committee, Gen. Austin said "We need Pakistain to take decisive actions against the Haqqani Network (HQN). The Paks are uniquely positioned to counter the HQN, which remains the greatest threat to our forces and to stability in Afghanistan long-term."
Gen. Austin further added that the US is encouraged by some signs from Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and Islamabad that point towards a renewed effort at improving Afghanistan-Pakistain relations, and Pak support for the reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
"The Pakistain military continues to play a visible role in efforts to reduce safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border, while at the same time actively countering VEOs, including AQ, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, and the newly-emerged 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.... -Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... ," he said.
The Haqqani terrorist network is accused of staging numerous cross-border attacks from their base in North Wazoo, including the 19-hour siege at the US Embassy in Kabul in September 2011.
Haqqani network was formed in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani ...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit... . The group is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region.
The network is considered the most lethal murderous Moslem group targeting the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led coalition security forces and Afghan personnel in Afghanistan.
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As though all this was new! Why we continue to play footsie with Pakistan and fund their military, why we bother with what is in reality a failed state, is beyond comprehension.
[AA.TR] Three foreigners suspected of being kidnapped by a Daesh [Islamic State]-linked group in the Philippines south nearly six months ago have pleaded for their lives in footage uploaded to the Internet.
A video on the Facebook page of an "Abu Muhammad" on Thursday showed Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad shirtless and surrounded by gunnies.
Hall identifies their captors as the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... The three thin, bearded and handcuffed men appeal to their governments for help securing their release, saying that if their kidnapper's demands are not met they will be killed.
"To the Canadian prime minister and to the Canadian people in the world, please do as needed to meet their demands within one month or they will kill me, they will execute us," Ridsel -- a Canadian mining consultant -- pleads as a long haired man holds what appears to be a machete to his neck.
The video is the second to surface since the trio were kidnapped from a resort on Samal Island in Davao del Norte in September with Filipina Marites Flor.
In the first video, the kidnappers demanded P1 billion pesos ($21,500) for each of the three foreigners.
"The Canadian government has got to get us out of here fast," Sekkingstad adds in Thursday's video, saying that they are being held hostage on Sulu Island -- an Abu Sayyaf stronghold in the country’s south.
"This is the last message to families, friends and authorities... follow the negotiations and try to meet their demands or we're all dead," he adds.
Asked by Anadolu Agency to comment on the latest video, Brig-Gen. Restituto Padilla, Sulu Joint Task Force commander, declined saying he was still to see it full.
The Philippines government has repeatedly maintained a no negotiation or ransom policy with such groups.
The Abu Sayyaf -- which has reportedly pledged allegiance to Daesh [Islamic State] -- is also holding a Dutch man kidnapped more than three years ago in Tawi-Tawi and a former Italian priest seized last year in Zamboanga del Norte.
Since 1991, the group -- armed with mostly improvised bombs, mortars and automatic rifles -- has carried out bombings, kidnappings, liquidations and extortions in a self-determined fight for an independent Islamic province in the Philippines.
It is notorious for beheading victims after ransoms have failed to be paid for their release.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk Province announced on Thursday, that the international coalition aircraft destroyed a bridge west of the province (250 kilometers north of Baghdad), while pointed out that the destruction of the bridge will cut ISIS supply between Hawija and Mosul.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today the international coalition aircraft shelled Shemeet Bridge that connects the western areas of the province with Mosul, destructing the bridge completely.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The destruction of the bridge will cut ISIS supply between Hawija District and the city of Mosul.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk Province announced on Thursday, that eight members of the so-called ISIS were killed while trying to launch rockets toward Taza area in southern Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad).
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “A force from al-Hashed al-Turkmani managed, at noon today, to target a vehicle equipped with rockets belonging to ISIS members in Bashir village, killing eight ISIS members.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The deployed security forces in Taza area are working to locate and target the ISIS members in Bashir village.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk said on Thursday, that 50 people fled from the areas controlled by the so-called ISIS southwest of Kirkuk and arrived in the areas controlled by the Peshmerga forces.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “50 people including children, women and elders fled from Zab and Hawija areas southwest of Kirkuk,” adding that, “The escaped families arrived in Qaraj area in the district of Makhmour which is controlled by the Peshmerga forces.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk Province announced on Thursday, that the so-called ISIS executed three people for collaborating with the security forces in the district of Hawija southwest of the province (250 km north of Baghdad), while revealed the killing of 20 ISIS members in an aerial bombardment launched by the Iraqi Air Force aircraft.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS executed three young people in al-Jahesh Village in Hawija southwest of Kirkuk on charges of collaboration with the Iraqi security forces,” adding that, “The three young people were shot dead in front of a gathering of people in the village.”
The source also pointed out, “The Iraqi Air Force carried out air strikes on ISIS headquarters in the industrial area, Khan Village and near Hawija Technical Institute in the district of Hawija, killing 20 members of ISIS, and destructing three vehicles, as well as six machine guns.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia said on Thursday, that eight elements of ISIS had been killed in an artillery shelling by al-Hashed al-Sha’bi that targeted a gathering for them in southern Kirkuk.
The source said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The artillery battalion of al-Abbas Regiment shelled, today, a gathering for ISIS in the village of al-Bashir located in the district of Tuz Khurmato (23 km south of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of eight [ISIS] elements as well as the destruction of a vehicle that had carried a machine gun.”
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, “The intelligence efforts of al-Abbas Combat Regiment were able to locate the ISIS sites in the village of al-Bashir and determine the exact coordinates of those [sites] for the artillery battalion.”
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ISIS militants attacked a checkpoint south of the Libyan city of Misrata on Wednesday, killing three security personnel, a military source said, after an air strike in Sirte killed three children and wounded their mother.
Checkpoints south of Misrata are manned by brigades from the city. The Abu Grain checkpoint, about 140 km (85 miles) west of Sirte, was attacked in the late afternoon, hours after the air strikes, raising the possibility that it was a retaliatory move.
There was no immediate confirmation from officials in Misrata, but forces from the city regularly carry out air strikes on Sirte.
Abu Grain is on the road between Misrata and Sirte, where militants loyal to ISIS took control last year. The militants withdrew after the attack and the situation was under control, the military source said.
War planes, believed to be from Misrata, carried out air strikes at three different sites in Sirte, including near a water plant - where the children were killed - and close to a hotel complex in the city center, the resident said.
Also on Wednesday, a source from Zintan said forces from the town clashed with suspected ISIS militants who had briefly taken control of a major road about 320 km west of Sirte and 200 km south of the capital, Tripoli.
One member of the Zintan forces was injured before the militants retreated, the source said.
ISIS has taken advantage of political and a security vacuum in Libya to establish a foothold in the North African country, carrying out attacks on cities and against oil installations.
While war planes tonight bombed remaining insurgent positions in Benghazi, the search is on for further mass graves near a key area retaken by the army last week.
Government planes attacked terrorists in Gwarsha and Sabri with one massive explosion in Gwarsha. In response rockets have been fired apparently at random striking Buhdeima, Tabalino and close to Rahabah. It is not yet clear if any casualties were caused. In the last two days of fighting, three soldiers have died.
The initial momentum of the army’s assaul,t which saw the terrorists lose Leithi Hawari and their main supply port at Mreisa, has slowed. A source close to the army has said that IS, Ansar Al-Sharia and their allies are now effectiely cut off from resupply and reinforcements.
Meanwhile Libyan Red Crescent workers are searching for further mass graves in Hawari near the former Rafallah Saiti camp which was a major IS command post. So far two such burials have been found. Yesterday, in a four-hour operation, nine badly-decomposed bodies were exhumed from open ground near the camp and taken away for forensic examination. The suspicion is that the victims were prisoners who were executed summarily.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A senior al-Shabab commander has made a public appearance to deny claims that he and another group leader were killed in US air strikes last week at a training camp in southern Somalia.
[DAWN] Police in a southern district of Azad Jammu and 
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