An explosion ripped through a crowded Pakistan park where Christians were celebrating Easter on Sunday, killing at least 60 people, officials told the Associated Press.
About 300 people were injured when a bomb detonated in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in the eastern city of Lahore.
A suicide bomber is suspected of being responsible for the blast, though authorities continue to investigate. Ball bearings, which may have been shrapnel from the bomb, were found at the scene, according to AFP.
The explosion reportedly occurred just outside the exit gate and near rides for children
"When the blast occurred, the flames were so high they reached above the trees and I saw bodies flying in the air," Hasan Imran, 30, told Reuters.
A police superintendent said most of the dead were women and children, according to Reuters. Salman Rafiq, an adviser to the chief minister of Punjab province, said many of the wounded were in a critical condition.
Headline fixed 1445 CT.
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0bean administration still poring through the evidence trying to determine if it's a hate crime or not.
[Fox] The Obama administration is emptying the military’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility of avowed terrorists captured fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, but several American service members languish in another military prison for actions on those same battlefields that their supporters say merit clemency, if not gratitude.
Among the prison population at Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas, are remaining members of the so-called "Leavenworth 10," convicted service members doing terms ranging from 10 to 40 years for heat-of-the-battle decisions their supporters say saved American lives.
"The very people who protect our freedoms and liberties are having their own freedoms and liberties taken away," said retired U.S. Army Col. Allen West, a former congressman and political commentator. "I think it’s appalling and no one is talking about this issue."
The "Leavenworth 10" is the name given to a fluctuating number of men housed at Leavenworth for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan that their supporters say were justified. Over the years, a handful have been paroled, and more have been incarcerated.
Among the more well-known cases is that of Army First Lt. Clint Lorance, who is serving a 20-year sentence for ordering his men to shoot two suspected Taliban scouts in July 2012 in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. Lorance had just taken command of the platoon after the prior leader and several others were killed days before. The Taliban suspects were on motorcycles and matched descriptions given by a pilot who flew over the area earlier and spotted them as scouts.
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You don't understand. They're American Devils (according to Zinn and his acolytes, ie 'O'), not the poor downtrodden of the earth (ie terrorists, illegal combatants, et al), to whom we are about to take in as 'refugees'.
[NY Post] As New York moves to decriminalize low-level offenses, arguing enforcement is "rigged against communities of color," other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department to do the same thing.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has issued a warning to municipal and state judges across the country that their courts could lose federal funding if they don’t ease up on fines and arrest warrants for minor crimes involving poor offenders, indigent minorities in particular.
In lieu of fines and jail time, Lynch urges the nation’s 6,500 municipal courts to provide an avenue for offenders to perform "community service" or take advantage of "amnesty days," whereby outstanding arrest warrants are cleared for nominal fees.
Failure to comply with these policies could trigger a Ferguson-style discrimination investigation. Already, Lynch says she’s "evaluating discrimination complaints against several court systems."
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Although it totally contradicts the Broken Windows policing model that turned New York from one giant crime scene into a livable city, I propose a Federal Crime Stamps program to help our poor offenders and indigent minorities cope with the criminal justice system.
In addition to allowing them to escape the consequences of their actions, this program would teach them about future time and delayed gratification as they decide whether to spend their monthly allotment on a bunch of pissant misdemeanors or save up for a big juicy felony.
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The Left's version of justice is that everything is against the law. Whether or not you are prosecuted depends on how well you pay obeisance to the system and the ruling party.
In this way, your rights matter for nothing. Anyone and everyone can be prosecuted at any time, just for pissing off the wrong people.
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"your rights matter for nothing. Anyone and everyone can be prosecuted at any time, just for pissing off the wrong people."
Isn't that what we have now, #5 Iblis? :-(
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I'm all for having people do work for the state instead of jail time for misdemeanors as punishment. Having to clean up a road in hot pink suits all day in the sun is a good way to work off an infraction.
[SultanKnish] Tonight the celebration of the holiday of Purim begins. Purim is a Jewish holiday often neglected outside the more religious communities in America and the State of Israel because it commemorates an attempt to exterminate the Jews. And we all know that stopped being a problem long ago.
If Purim had culminated with some smart power diplomacy and a lesson on tolerance, liberal Jews might be more inclined to celebrate it. Unfortunately it ends with a genocidal madman being hung from a tree and the Jews fighting for their lives, winning and slaughtering their enemies.
And instead of feeling guilty about it, their descendants eat pastries, dress up in costumes and get drunk. At least those of their descendants who believe in survival instead of surrender.
Liberal Jews complain about the difference of values they have with Israeli Jews who insist on survival instead of surrender. They have an even bigger difference of values with the Jews of the Bible. And with Jews throughout history. Not to mention with the religion of the Jewish people.
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Purim started the evening of March 23rd. (All Jewish holidays start at sunset, in line with Genesis, which says, "It was evening and it was morning, the first day."
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Does anybody know how many people voted for Hilly compared to Trump? According to an editorial today, only poor, dumb, ignorant white trash like Trump. Anybody tabulating raw votes? Just for curiosity.
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[Telegraph] In an exclusive article for The Telegraph, the top US general and former CIA chief David Petraeus urges voters to stay in the European Union in the referendum"
"For the past century, British and American forces have fought together on numerous occasions in defense of our shared security and freedom. Together, our men and women in uniform turned back the tide of Nazi fascism that threatened human civilization and then stood united as allies in the long twilight struggle against the Soviet Union and communism. Today, British and American forces are once again together on the frontlines, this time in the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda, working to stop terrorists before they can strike us at home."
"I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East. I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers -- and those of the other coalition countries under my command -- valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield."
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Them thralls need to be kept in line. Hey David, the American colonies leaving the Commonwealth would weaken the United Kingdom too (see - ship supplies, vital to Royal Navy, fighting piracy, el al).
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A most interesting question, tw. One can only speculate that someone very important to GenPet's future suggested he do it.
For Britain, leaving the EU would mean they can act in their national interest in matters like border controls, instead of suffering the mush-headed whims of their Continental betters.
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UK should be leading the Commonwealth. Let Germ/France lead Europe.
All should push for Eastern Block to form their own Alliance/Union. One that won't provoke the Russians by its existences in the way NATO expansion did.
[Daily Caller] Rebel militias in Syria backed by both the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency are starting to turn on each other in a most gruesome and farcical fashion, as U.S. military planners scramble to regain some semblance of control.
The rebel groups are fighting near the Turkish border in Aleppo, Syria, and while the fighting has already gone on for several months, it’s now taking a turn for the worse in this now five-year-old civil war, The Los Angeles Times reports.
The Pentagon is mostly funneling resources to Kurdish troops in northern Syria, while the CIA is providing TOW missiles to rebel groups from its base of operations out of Turkey. Kurdish troops are mainly focused on taking out the Islamic State, but the CIA is covertly keeping the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both groups are now skirmishing as they close in on Aleppo.
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If you wanted to destroy a country, a good way to do it would be to somehow place into power some leader who could actually get different parts of the military/security apparatus to openly engage in combat against one other ....
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So not only do we provide assistance to two separate militias that have decided to fight each other but we are borrowing money at an unsustainable rate to do it.
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Besoeker,
Methinks that Stephens was about to blow the trumpet on a big CIA arms deal and got himself in the middle of it. Because what the CIA was doing was highly sensitive, the POTUS and SECSTATE pulled the plug on his security and let things play out.
I believe the Foggy Bottom vs. Klingon is exactly what happened.
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I believe the Foggy Bottom vs. Klingon is exactly what happened.
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And so do I. Some indication or evidence might be found in Obama's actions and hand-off immediately following the attack. Hoping to escape the blast radius of warring parties Clinton and Brennan, Obama takes flight to the campaign fund raising circuit where he is most comfortable. Former Director CIA, then SECDEF Leon Panetta takes charge of the ugly details.
Brennan and the Klingons were the physical, or 'on-site' clean up team. Notice how seldom Brennan has discussed Benghazi. Foggy Bottom became the media and damage control component, whilst POTUS attempted to secure his role as sympathetic adult and enforcer of silence and inaction among senior military leaders.
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Methinks that Stephens was about to blow the trumpet on a big CIA arms deal and got himself in the middle of it... I believe the Foggy Bottom vs. Klingon is exactly what happened.
I take the opposite tack. Stephens got the ambassadorship due to his relationships with the various groups that rose to fight Qadaffi. It's likely that he liked playing "spy". That State took the actions it did prior to the attack indicates that it was cooperating (at the least) with Langley.
Bengazi got back burner-ed but not because of a Foggy Bottom vs. Klingon intramural.
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It's likely that he liked playing "spy". That State took the actions it did prior to the attack indicates that it was cooperating (at the least) with Langley.
Your theory certainly has merit. The one man who could validate Stephens as a "spy" would be the Chief of Station, whom of course, we've not heard from. Nor will we ever. My gut feeling is, if he was 'spying,' he was doing so for DoS, the Beest, her internal intelligence and CT apparatus, and not the Klingons.
Over zealous Clinton diplodink and deal maker gone bad is more likely. Buggered the Klingon work project as well, so their sympathy meter never left it's peg.
No argument it got "back burner-ed." Stephens may have not even been cold yet when that decision was made.
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Over zealous Clinton diplodink and deal maker gone bad is more likely.
Actually, he'd been Foreign Service since 1991. Fairly good record, mostly in the Middle East. Spoke Arabic and French She did hand-pick him for the job, though. And she knew him personally.
So, your theory too has "merit." Though I'd wipe the flecks of spittle off it before presenting it, myself.
A popular shopkeeper who wished Christians a happy Easter on Facebook was stabbed to death in what police in Scotland say was a "religiously prejudiced" attack carried out by a fellow Muslim, it was reported Saturday.
A vigil was held Friday night in Glasgow’s Shawlands neighborhood in memory of Asad Shah who was killed the day before-- a few hours after he apparently posted messages on Facebook that said "Good Friday and very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation."
"Let’s follow the real footstep of beloved holy Jesus Christ and get the real success in both worlds," one of the messages said.
Police said a 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Shah’s death. Police said the suspect is Muslim. He was not been identified.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined the vigil in support of Shah and his family.
"Moved to be one of hundreds tonight as Shawlands united in grief for Asad Shah and support for his family," Sturgeon tweeted afterward, the BBC reported Saturday.
According to the BBC, those attending the memorial were encouraged to bring a daffodil. Those at the gathering laid flowers and lit candles.
"It was very respectful," vigil organizer Eildon Dyer told the BBC. "There were a lot of people clearly very upset. There were a lot of tears and lots and lots of flowers."
Dyer added: "Everybody has said he was the nicest man. He was clearly much-loved. Everybody had nice stories to tell about him and warm stories. It's just very, very sad."
Scottish police promise a full investigation into Shah’s death.
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Sure they do....not. No reason to do something that would get you accused of Islamophobia.
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Bernie best watch his six: just yesterday here in WA, i saw an official Obama 2016 bumper sticker.
if that is representative of the education of your basic D voter we are in big trouble...
Between Bernie and Hillary I think it's pretty hard to say which one would be the worst. Either way the average tax payer is gonna get taken to the cleaners. Bernie might be a bit less likely to get us entangled in situations like Benghazi.
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Too bad the Dim ballots didn't have a box labeled "none of the above."
The outcome of that would have been quite interesting.
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Depends on your strategy. You can only rebuild once the structure is down. Sometimes the system needs a good hard shove to fall rather than incremental tipping.
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Hillary would at least be forced to defend her record as Secretary of State and the rise of ISIS that resulted. Bernie can attack everything with a blanket 'establishment bad' sort of hand wave and get away with it.
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The LeftMedias are all focused = ga-ga on Trump-vs-Cruz, etal. + the threat of GOP-N-ONLY-THE-GOP CONTESTED/BROKERED CONVENTION, not on any similar threats faced by Hillary-vs-Bernie + DNC.
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#3 Obama in 2016? No problem. POTUS M. Obama, Spouse of the US B. Obama, VPOTUS Biden, Consigliere VALJAR. Experienced team tanned, rested, and ready to go in January.
[REUTERS] Greek police tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! six people on Saturday in an operation to break up a gang which counterfeited documents for asylum seekers on a Greek island, the coastguard said.
The criminal group was active on the island of Kos, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that the authorities seized computers, cameras and a large number of fake documents and mobile phones from several houses on the island.
About one million refugees and migrants colonists arrived to Greece last year, fleeing conflict in the Middle East and beyond and seeking to reach wealthier Western European countries.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have agreed to stop the flow of migrants colonists to Europe in return for political and financial concessions for Ankara, sealing off the main route by which people poured across the Aegean islands, including Kos.
About 50,000 refugees and migrants colonists were in Greece on Saturday, many living in squalid conditions in tents near its northern border with Macedonia, waiting for a border to open.
Under the EU-Turkey deal, hundreds of new arrivals have been detained since Sunday. Refugees or migrants colonists whose applications fail will be sent back to Turkey.
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[BUSINESS-STANDARD] 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... today declared "Je suis Bruxellois" - "I am a citizen of Brussels" - in support for the people of the Belgian capital, echoing their backing for the United States after the 9/11 terror attacks.
"Then, voices across Europe declared, 'Je suis Americain.' Now, we declare, 'Je suis Bruxellois' and 'Ik ben Brussel,' Kerry said in French and Phlegmish, the country's two main languages, after meeting Belgian Premier Charles Michel.
Triple kabooms in Brussels on Tuesday left 31 people dead and 300 injured.
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Walloons say his accent is atrocious, Flemish say ?
People with a bad ear for pronunciation in one language gemerally have a bad ear in all. My father's English sounded like he just got off the boat from Latvia four decades after he learnt the language. So did six of his other languages (Latvian being the seventh).
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Kerry has always been entranced with his perception of the Kennedy era and his desire to emulate JFK in manner style and image. Sadly, he brings a patina of clownish lurch like clumsiness that makes him a buffoon. The worst part is he thinks he brings it off....
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of armed Talibs equipped with Humvee armored vehicles launched coordinated attacks on security posts in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials in Balkh, the Afghan cops managed to successfully repulse the attack by the Taliban militnats which was launched late on Friday night.
The officials further added that the Talibs attacked three security posts in Dasht-e-Khairabad located on the highway towards Khulm district.
The highway also connects the restive Kunduz province in the north which was briefly taken over by the Talibs las summer, the officials added.
According to the officials, the security posts were occupied by the public uprising security forces and members of the Afghan national security forces who successfully repulsed the attack by the Talibs.
Pictures emerging from the site of the attack purportedly showed Humvee armored vehicles caputred by the security forces following the attack.
The Talibs had also written ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ and ‘Omari Lashkar’ on the Humvee armored vehicles which they were using for the offensive in Balkh province.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
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and where did they acquire these armored Humvees?
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When they fled the AO, the Afghan army probably left them for the Taliban rather than destroying them.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday, that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in western Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “This morning, a bomb exploded near a popular market in Abu Ghraib District (20 km west of Baghdad), killing one person and injuring 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 body to the forensic medicine department.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source within the police force said on Saturday, that one civilian had been killed and three others were injured in a bomb blast that took place in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Today, an explosive device has went off in the southern area of al-Rashid in southern the capital Baghdad, resulting in the death of one civilian and wounding three others.”
In a related context, the source, who requested anonymity, added, “A force from the police found the body of a man that was shot dead in the area of al-Baya southwest of Baghdad,” noting that, “The body was taken to the forensic medicine department.”
[ARA News] ERBIL – Peshmerga forces launched grad and katyusha rockets at the ISIS-held Iraqi northwestern city of Mosul from the Naweran frontline for the second time, military sources said.
“It has been going on for a whole day, you can see grad and katyusha rockets. They [Peshmerga] have been launching them all day. They have brought four trucks with rocket launchers,” Ryan O’Leary, a US fighter in the Peshmerga ranks told ARA News.
“There are also non-stop airstrikes and artillery attacks on ISIS position in Mosul. The Turkish tanks have been hitting them [ISIS] as well,” he added.
“Since noon, 15 to 20 missiles have been hitting ISIS every hour, I don’t think they hit Mosul city itself, but the outskirts,” he said.
However, the Islamic State confirmed the Peshmerga forces hit the city.
“The Peshmerga forces indiscriminately shell the Nur and Bakr neighborhoods on the western bank of Mosul,” Islamic State’s semi official news agency Amaq said on Friday.
“In Naweran frontline, they hit the Xursabad village in the hands of Daesh [ISIS] with rockets,” Peshmerga officer Islam Chali told ARA News. “Moreover, the same day also at the Hardan frontline, they attacked the Daesh-controlled Ayadhiya village, near Mosul,” he added.
This is not the first time Peshmerga forces start launching rocket attacks on ISIS forces. Since January 2015, Kurdish forces have fired hundreds of rockets at ISIS-positions in Mosul.
[ARA News] The Kurdish Peshmerga forces shot down a drone from the Islamic State [ISIS] on Friday evening near the Keske Junction on the Mosul frontline.
“Peshmerga forces managed to shoot down a aircraft used by Daesh [ISIS] to observe and photograph Peshmerga positions,” Islam Chali, a Peshmerga officer told ARA News.
The drone was used by ISIS to carry out surveillance on Peshmerga positions.
The Islamic State uses surveillance drones bought at the black market to spy on “enemy” positions.
Moreover, the ISIS group uses drone footage in their propaganda videos against their enemies.
When the Islamic State attacked the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria they published drone footage to show their various suicide attacks in the city.
The Kurdish Peshmerga recaptured the strategic junction of Keske from ISIS in January 2015, cutting off one of the main supply lines between the ISIS strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa.
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IS reportedly murdered three Libyan army soldiers yesterday in Sirte though pictures released by the terrorists show only two men being killed with a shot to the back of the head.
It is unclear where the soldiers were captured. One report has it that they were picked up in their home town of Ajdabiya where they had gone on leave from Benghazi.
IS also posted pictures of floggings yesterday, carried out, like the executions, after Friday prayers.
Meanwhile in Tripoli, two Bangladeshis have been kidnapped, it is feared by IS. The Bangladeshi online newspaper BDNews24 reported that Asaduzzaman Russell and a friend had gone out yesterday to buy groceries when they were chased and seized by five armed men in a car. Another Tripoli friend, who telephoned Russell’s brother in Bangladesh, said that he believed that the gunmen were members of IS
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahaddin – A security source in Salahuddin Province announced on Saturday, that the joint forces repulsed ISIS attack on Ajil oil field east of Tikrit from four axes, while pointed out to the killing of 30 ISIS militants and one of the security forces during the operation.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a joint force from the army, Federal Police and al-Hashed al-Shaabi managed to repel a violent attack carried out by ISIS militants from four axes on the defense lines near Ajil oil field in Hamrin Mountain east of Tikrit, killing 30 members of ISIS and one Federal Police member.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The operation also resulted in the destruction of three vehicles belonging to ISIS.”
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The military chiefs of staff from Muslim nations participating in a alliance to fight terrorism will meet in the Saudi capital on Sunday, the state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported.
The meeting, considered the first of its kind, aims to coordinate efforts among the 34 Muslim countries involved in the alliance.
The counter-terrorism Islamic force was announced in December by Saudi Defense minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a bid to establish a unified Muslim body to fight terrorism.
The coalition started through the establishment of a joint operations center in Riyadh.
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[AlAhram] The United States and its allies targeted 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 murderous Moslems in Iraq with 22 strikes on Friday and four in Syria, the US military said on Saturday.
Six of the strikes in Iraq were near Qayyarah, striking four IS group tactical units and three mortar positions.
In Syria, three strikes were near Mar'a and hit two IS tactical units.
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[THEHAYRIDE] Mayor Mitch Landrieu just lost a major court-battle that will demand he release lists of who is receiving lucrative city contracts.
Landrieu has been battling with the Lens after they placed a public information request for the city’s purchasing database, according to a report by Robert McClendon of NOLA.com.
The city was fighting the Lens, claiming making the list of city contractors public would include personal information and should therefore not be subject to public records requests.
But, the records being fought over normally do not include personal information, despite what the administration claimed.
Now, Landrieu’s city government must work with the Lens in releasing the purchasing database to the public, which will show just who is making tons off the city’s lucrative contracts.
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City of San Diego, among others have switched to online advertising and bidding. We use Planet Bids. Other firms exist. All bidding and awarding is available to the public. It's not that hard unless you're hiding something
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On our system, you can see the bids, bid item-by-bid-item, totals, and all subcontractors, so "MoonandMary General Material Suppliers" would have to show up
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US Navy Captain Daniel Dusek has been sentenced to more than three years and eight months in jail for his role in providing classified information to a foreign defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes and luxury gifts, the Department of Justice announced in a statement, Sputnik reported.
"The highest-ranking official charged in a massive Navy bribery scandal was sentenced in federal court today to 46 months in prison for giving classified information to a foreign defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes, luxury travel and other gifts," the statement read on Friday.
In January 2015, 49-year-old Dusek pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery, and admitted he used his influence to help defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) advance its business.
Dusek served then as Deputy Director of Operations for the Seventh Fleet Yokosuka, Japan, and later as executive officer of the US ship Essex as well as commanding officer of the US ship Bonhomme Richard.
The Navy captain admitted that for decades, GDMA had provided port services to US Navy ships in exchange for "meals, alcohol, entertainment, gifts, dozens of nights and incidentals at luxury hotels and the services of prostitutes."
Dusek added that he had given Navy ship schedules to the GDMA office in Japan and even emailed them directly to the company’s chairman Leonard Glenn Francis as well as other employees "on dozens of occasions."
According to the Justice Department, Francis had asked Dusek to use his influence to steer the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its associated strike group to Port Klang in Malaysia, a port terminal owned by the GDMA chairman.
Dusek said in an e-mail exchange with GDMA that he would "make it happen" and was able to get other officials on board.
The Justice Department noted the port visit cost the United States nearly $1.6 million.
Ten individuals have been charged for their connection to the bribery scheme and nine have pleaded guilty, including Dusek.
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They still have to wait for appeals to clear, then the Department Secretary can 'decommission' him. It's called 'due process'. However, nothing stops having the papers standing by awaiting that event rather than waiting events to start the paperwork.
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However, nothing stops having the papers standing by awaiting that event rather than waiting events
Also doesn't preclude a court-martial. Probably will not happen, but the threat is there. Then there's this:
Dusek also hinted that higher-ranking officers were on the take and that the relationship between the contractor and Navy brass was even more sordid than previously known.
Sooo... expect whatever action taken by the secretary will be low-key and quietly done.
MULTAN: Four suspected terrorists belonging to an outlawed organisation were allegedly killed in an encounter with the personnel of the Counterterrorism Department in the Adam Wahan Village in the Lodhran District late on Friday night.
CTD officials had a report that up to seven suspects were hiding in the village. They raided the terrorist hideout in the Sadar police precincts in the Lodhran District and the terror suspects threw two hand grenades at them.
The CTD officials retaliated, killing four suspected terrorists at the scene. A suicide vest, a hand grenade, a rifle and other weapons were found on the suspects. The suspects have yet to be identified.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh Province revealed on Saturday, that the joint forces launched a security operation to liberate Nineveh and besieged two villages within al-Qayyarah axis.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The joint forces from Nineveh Operations, Peshmerga and al-Hashed al-Asha’ri started an operation to liberate al-Nasr and Humaidan villages in al-Qayyarah village,” pointing out that, “The joint forces are clashing with ISIS and will liberate the two villages in the coming few hours.”
The source added, “The security forces are moving based on an accurate plan to cut ISIS supply lines.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province said Saturday, that the army forces had killed four suicide bombers belonging to the ISIS south of the province.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Military troops from the [army’s] Fifteenth Division had managed, this morning, to kill four suicide bombers driving four armored vehicles in an attempt to get close to the military forces near the village of al-Khattab in the vicinity of Qayyarah (5 km south of Nineveh).”
The source added, “The anti-armor missiles have achieved 100 percent injury in the destruction of four targets before approaching the military troops near the village of al-Khattab.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source in Nineveh Liberation Operations Command announced on Friday, that 25 fighters of the so-called ISIS were killed in an artillery shelling south of Mosul.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A force from the army’s 15th brigade carried out an artillery shelling on ISIS headquarters in al-Khatab village in Qayyarah District during ISIS members meeting.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “The shelling resulted in the killing of 25 militants belonging to ISIS, as well as destructing their headquarters completely.”
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A bloody 24 hours in Zawia has seen at least eight more deaths, including the execution of six men, five of them brothers and the slaying by shellfire of an Indian nurse and her baby son.
The bodies of the six men were found with gunshots wounds to the head and clear signs of torture. Pictures show that their hands had been bound behind them.
The Al-Moudi brothers, Sabri, Naji, Ashraf, Ehab and Essam, aged between 35 and 19 and their 32 year-old friend Majdi Shushan were seized yesterday from the Moudi family home in Zawia by an armed group. The town’s police police spokesman, said they had been abducted by “a gang from Warshefana” as part of the continuing violence between the two rival communities, in which 11 men died on Thursday. A large crowd of mourners attended the funerals of the six men this afternoon.
The Indian nurse Suni Sathyan, 31 and her toddler son Pranev were killed when a shell exploded in their Zawia apartment. Her husband Vipin Kumar was out of the building at the time. The Indian foreign ministry has said that Sathyan was one of 27 Indian medical staff still working at Zawia hospital. The ministry repeated its call for all Indian nationals to leave Libya immediately. It is unclear who fired the deadly shell.
Meanwhile there are unconfirmed reports that a Zawia resident and his sister were fatally wounded and his wife and two year old daughter seriously injured when they tried to run a Warshefana roadblock yesterday. The man was reportedly rushing his daughter to Tripoli for emergency treatment.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Talibs suffered heavy casualties as a result of the Arclight airstrikes conducted in a bid to suppress the activities of the murderous Moslem group which have been rampant in different parts of the country amid efforts to end the ongoing violence through reconciliation efforts.
According to a statement released by the provincial government media office, over 20 holy warriors were killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted in Marjah district on Friday.
The statement further added a safe haven of the Talibs was destroyed in the air raid, preventing the Talibs to use the safe haven for coordinating terrorist attacks and manufacturing explosives.
A school compound was used by the Talibs for the manufacture of explosives and coordinating terrorist attacks, the statement added.
In the meantime, the commander of 505th Corps of the Afghan National Army conducted air raids in Nad-e-Ali, Marjah and Nawa districts, leaving over 100 Talibs dead or maimed.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the reports so far which comes as the holy warriors affiliated with the group have been attempting to intensify attacks in different part of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... during the recent months.
The officials had earlier announced that the Taliban group has been attempting to shift the group’s grand council from Quetta city of Pakistain to Helmand province as the group has intensified attacks in this province during the recent months.
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A competent CIA would be putting out the word that the various IS, Taliban, AQ factions are phoning in the coordinates and tactical reports on each other
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 10 Taliban Lions of Islam were killed and 27 others were maimed during the ongoing operations in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the murderous Moslems were killed or maimed during the military raids being conducted as part of Thunder-1 clearance operations.
A statement by MoD said the shadow district governor of the Taliban group was also among those injured during the operations.
MoD in its further added that the operations are being implemented in the central parts of Kunduz province a number of vehicles used by the murderous Moslems were also destroyed during the operations.
According to MoD, the Taliban shadow district governor injured during the operations has been identified as Doctor Hussain who was leading the Taliban group murderous Moslems in Khanabad district.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
The control of the strategic Kunduz city, the bustling provincial capital of northern Kunduz province was briefly taken over by the Talibs during the summer time last year.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the Afghan forces managed to retake its control after launching clearance operations with the support of the US forces who were providing close-air support.
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[MIRROR.CO.UK] Spy whistleblower Edward Snowden claims the terror attacks in Brussels could have been stopped because The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... shared information about the killers with Belgian security forces. Maybe, if all their data wasn't compromised.
The former US National Security Agency worker, who is described as a traitor by British and American intelligence services after leaking huge amounts of data relating to mass surveillance, was referring to reports that Turkey warned Belgium that some of the men behind the attacks were involved in terrorist activities. Thank you for assisting the enemy. I'm sure you feel much better now.
Snowden, speaking from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location in Russia at a video conference hosted in Tucson, Arizona by the University of Arizona College of Behavioral Sciences, also cited news stories that Russia warned the US about the Tsarvaev brothers, who were behind the Boston Marathon bombing, but the authorities did not take any action, reports Sabah.
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Snowden, speaking from an undisclosed location in Russia
Not quite a Guy Burgess, and not in the same class as Donald Maclean. Perhaps John Cairncross?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Canadian man has been placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! under the country's anti-terrorism law, police said on Saturday.
Kevin Omar Mohammed, 23, was taken into custody with a "preventive arrest" under the Fear of Terrorism Offence section of the law, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.
Police said the arrest is not linked to the recent attacks in Brussels and there was no indication of a domestic attack.
Mohammed's lawyer, Anser Farooq, said Mohammed was arrested on Friday and appeared in court in Brampton, west of Toronto, on Saturday. Farooq says the arrest involved "a number of" terrorism offences but that his client was not charged with any.
According to the police statement, Mohammed was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace. There were no immediate details on specific allegations.
Farooq said the weapon in question was a knife.
Mohammed will appear in court again on Tuesday. There is no immediate indication on how he intended to plead.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday menacingly titled "Last Chance", showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.
The four-minute video romps through the history of US-Korean relations and ends with a digitally manipulated sequence showing a missile surging through clouds, swerving back to the earth and slamming into the road in front of Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.
The US Capitol building explodes in the impact and a message flashes up on the screen in Korean: "If US imperialists budge an inch toward us, we will immediately hit them with nuclear (weapons)."
The video was published on the North’s propaganda website DPRK Today and shows images from the Korean War, the capture of US spy ship Pueblo in 1968 and the first crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program in the early 1990s.
Pyongyang has upped the rhetorical ante in recent weeks, with near daily threats of nuclear and conventional strikes against the South and the US mainland in response to large-scale South-US war games.
The threats have turned increasingly personal, and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday watched a live-fire long-range artillery drill simulating a strike on the official residence of his South Korean counterpart.
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* SAME > [NYT] TRUMP SAYS SOUTH KOREA [ROK] + JAPAN SHOULD CONSIDER GOING NUCLEAR [NucWeapons = NucArsenal], instead of depending on US Umbrella.
> TRUMP = also says as POTUS he will pull out US Milfors from the ROK + Nippon.
> TRUMP = claims ROK + Japan likely to unilaterally decide to go nuclear anyway on their own iff the US continues down ITS CURRENT/PRESENT PATH OF GEOPOL OR STRATEGIC WEAKNESS.
* RELATED JAPAN TIMES > TRUMP DETAILS "AMERICA FIRST" FOREIGN POLICY, THREATENS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM JAPAN + SOUTH KOREA.
* WORLD NEWS > [Asia Times] COMING SOON TO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: BEIJING'S BEST WEAPONS OF WAR.
* WAFF > [BMPD.Livejournal] FRENCH GENERAL STAFF COMENST ON REPORT THAT FRANCE HAS ONLY 20 DEPLOYABLE FIGHTER JETS [out of 200 in current inventory].
FRANCE CONFIRMED AS EFFECTIVELY "UN-ARMED" = "DEFENSELESS"? WHERE AIR FORCE IS CONCERNED, RUSSIAN AIR FORCE MORE WORRIED ABOUT NORTH KOREA'S OBSOLETE BUT MUCH LARGER ACTIVE AIR FORCE THAN FRANCE'S.
* TOPIX > [WaPo] US LEADERSHIP MATTERS TODAY JUST IT DID AFTER WORLD WAR TWO.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 15 Taliban holy warriors were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! by the Afghan intelligence operatives for planning coordinated suicide kabooms in southern Kandahar province.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the Taliban holy warriors were operating in three different groups and were involved in planning and coordinating suicide attacks in Kandahar province.
No further details were given regarding the possible target of the detained holy warriors which comes as the Talibs have been attempting step up attacks in this province.
Kandahar is the birth place of the Taliban holy warriors however the Afghan cops have managed to maintain security and stability in this province during the past several months.
At least five incidents involving terrorist attacks have been reported in this province since the beginning of the month which involves two insider attacks and a coordinated attack that left a senior army general dead.
The deputy commander of 205th Atal Corps of the Afghan National Army General Khan Agha Achekzai was killed after a group of turbans attacked him near a guesthouse late on Thursday night.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the arrest of the group’s holy warriors by NDS so far.
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[REUTERS] Just under two-thirds of Venezuelans think Nicolas Maduro's presidency should end this year as the opposition pushes to oust him amid a grueling economic crisis, a survey by a leading pollster said.
Socialist-run Venezuela's struggling state-led economic model and a fall in the price of oil, its biggest export, have led to acute shortages of everything from rice to contraceptives, galloping three-digit inflation, and a profound recession.
Some 63.6 percent of Venezuelans say Maduro should quit this year or be removed via a recall referendum, versus some 29.3 percent of Venezuelans who want him to keep governing until 2019, when his mandate ends, according to the poll seen by Rooters on Saturday.
A whopping 90.9 percent of those surveyed by pollster Datanalisis in February viewed the country's situation as negative.
But Maduro's approval rating edged up to 33.1 percent from 32 percent in January, with negative views slipping to 63.4 percent from 66.4 percent.
The opposition's December legislative victory has re-polarized parts of the OPEC-member nation and Maduro has reaped rewards for labeling some of his political rivals as divided elitists incapable of solving the economic crisis.
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[REUTERS] Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of the capital Sanaa on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the war between a coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Iran-allied fighters who had overthrown the government.
More than 6,200 people have been killed since the coalition joined the war to try to stop the Houthis from taking control of Yemen the country and to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
Hadi had been ousted after Houthi forces took over the capital Sanaa in September 2014. Saudi-led foreign forces intervened on the side of fighters loyal to Hadi six months later.
The demonstration, one of the biggest in Yemen since mass protests in 2011 forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, took place ahead of a ceasefire and U.N.-sponsored peace talks next month.
Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, made a rare appearance at the demonstration, his first since the war began, offering an olive branch to the Saudi-led coalition.
"We extend a hand of peace, the peace of the brave, for the direct talks with the Saudi regime without a return to the (U.N.) Security Council, which is incapable of resolving anything," Saleh told flag-waving supporters who also held up large posters of the former president.
The United Nations says the war has displaced some 2.3 million people and precipitated a humanitarian disaster across large parts of the Arab world's poorest country.
"We came out today to tell the world, that the Yemeni people remain steadfast, that we have endured a whole year despite the siege and the hunger and the airstrikes and the planes," said one participant, named Kamel al-Khodani.
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[LATIMES] Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian Arclight airstrikes have seized three neighborhoods inside Palmyra, a town with famed Roman-era ruins that fell to 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.... murderous Moslem group last May, state media reported Saturday.
Russian jets carried out 40 air sorties near Palmyra in the past day, hitting 158 targets and killing over 100 murderous Moslems, Russia's defense ministry said.
Syrian troops and allied bully boyz have taken up positions in the three neighborhoods that are part of the modern town, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group.
Palmyra, affectionately known as the "bride of the desert," once attracted tens of thousands of tourists a year. Islamic State drove out government forces in a matter of days and later demolished some of the best known monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage site. The bully boyz say the ancient ruins promote idolatry.
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Shaping the battle space g(r)om. A little vacuum here, a little vacuum there, permits them to gain a tactical appreciation and fix the enemy for the next match. Also facilitates troop leave and re-supply.
[THEHAYRIDE] New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration announced today that they have cut ties with former Rep. Bob Livington (R-LA), a Washington lobbyist for the city, after he endorsed GOP front-runner Donald Trump for president. Mitch is the brother of former Senator for Life Mary Landrieu. The fambly bidnid is politix...
Landrieu confirmed that the city did in fact break with Livingston, who has represented the city in Washington DC since 2009, immediately following Livington’s Trump endorsement, according to a report by the Advocate.
The Landrieu family is actively fundraising and campaigning for Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ... , telling the Advocate that the break with Livingston was because the administration wanted to "have a lobbying team that operates in a bipartisan manner and is able to deliver in a bipartisan way."
Landrieu said his cutting ties with Livingston was "mutual."
Landrieu along with his sister former Sen. Mary Landrieu (R-LA) held a fundraiser for Clinton months ago, costing attendees up to $27,ooo just to meet the former Secretary of State.
Mitch Landrieu has also attacked Trump in the past, calling his temporary pause on Muslim immigration into the US "absolutely disgraceful" and claimed the Donald has "poisonous rhetoric, which is reminiscent of David Duke’s racism."
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[PJMEDIA] A new video posted online by ISIS supporters shows the Eiffel Tower exploding and crashing to the ground in stylized, video game animation.
The video begins with a river of blood pooling and dripping off a wooden table filled with stacks of American money, guns, knives and bullets.
It's ripped from a video game, as betrayed by the name of a video game designer with a U.S. company carved in the wood of the animated table.
The video is titled "A message to the Western Kafir [Disbelievers] from the Supporters of the Caliphate." It's narrated in English and subtitled in Arabic, and was posted on YouTube and other file-sharing sites.
It included Defense Department footage related to strikes on 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.... and news footage of ISIS attacks.
"To you western Kafir, you that meant to fight Islam," the narrator warns, "vengeance is coming" against the "new crusaders," and "it will be welcomed by Allah's permission."
The video threatens to "rip your cross," showing video of ISIS members tearing down church crosses in the territory occupied by the Islamic State.
"So we will invade London, Brussels and Berlin, like we did in Gay Paree before," the narrator warns, adding "supporters of the Islamic caliphate state are determined that their [inaudible] will be at the earliest time."
"We will come to you and terrify you everywhere," he says. "We will come after you from where you don't expect" and "fill your streets with blood."
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Damn, couldn't they do the very basic Decent thing and blow up the Pompidou Centre?
After a French minister said yesterday that there were 800,000 migrants waiting to leave Libya for European shores, Libyan coastguards today discovered 12 expectant travellers who would not be completing the trip.
A very polite, almost Monty Python way of saying that they're dead, dead, dead...
A dozen bodies were found washed ashore on a beach near Garabulli. Coastguard Abdullatif Al-Munser told the Chinese news agency Xinhua that the bodies were badly decomposed. This led him to believe that the craft carrying them had sunk several days earlier. Munser also said that he thought it probable that the migrants had been trying to head for the Italian island of Lampedusa.
It is likely that the dead were victims of the storms that hit the Libyan coast this week. The expected winter drop in attempted crossings did not happen. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees believes that so far this year around 100,000 migrants have managed to make the journey to Europe. Many of them have been picked by European warships patrolling in or close to Libyan territorial waters.
There are unconfirmed reports that some people-smugglers have not bothered to inflate rubber rafts completely nor provided enough fuel to allow them to travel any great distance. This may indicate that they expected the migrants to be rescued sooner rather than later.
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[CBSNEWS] In the wake of the bombings in Belgium this week -- and increasing criticism of officials for their inability to thwart those attacks -- police in the last 24 hours have made at least four arrests in a series of raids in Belgium and four other countries across Europe.
New evidence shows disturbing evidence of just how big the terror network is across Europe.
CBS News' Allen Pizzey reports from Brussels that, as the effort to break the terrorist cell that carried out the bombings goes on, Belgian officials are coming under increased scrutiny and criticism for what is being seen as a series of intelligence failures.
In an operation that played out in full view, Belgian police shot a man who was spotted with a suspicious bag at a tram stop Friday.
The raids have uncovered what is being described as "alarming" evidence of a Europe-wide jihadist cell connected to the attacks in Belgium as well as those in Gay Paree in November.
DNA found on a boom jacket and a piece of cloth at the Bataclan concert hall massacre in Gay Paree and a bomb at the Stade de La Belle France stadium was that of Brussels airport bomber Najim Laachraoui.
In a stark contrast to other places where jihadi gunnies have struck, there has been no militaristic flag-waving in Brussels and no real backlash against Muslims.
As the Belgian prime minister put it in a speech to Parliament, "freedom ... the rule of law and tolerance are more than ever our reference points for moving forward together."
But moving forward is a slow process. With a manhunt on for at least two missing suspects, the authorities announced that Brussels' airport won't open before Tuesday at the earliest.
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[AlAhram] Belgium on Saturday charged a suspect thought to be the runaway third Brussels airport bomber with terrorist murder, as a peace march for the victims was cancelled for security reasons after the attacks in the heart of Europe.
The postponement of the Easter Sunday rally underscored the tension in Belgium as police track members of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group cell linked to both Tuesday's Brussels attacks that killed 31 people and a similar assault on Gay Paree in November.
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[IsraelTimes] Becomes sixth state in recent months to advance legislation targeting state procurement in entities boycotting Israel
The Georgia General Assembly passed legislation Thursday night that aims to deter corporate entities from partaking in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
The bill makes Georgia the sixth state in recent months -- along with South Carolina, Illinois, Florida, Arizona and Colorado -- to advance an anti-BDS measure through its legislature prohibiting state procurement with companies that engage political boycotts of the Jewish state.
Georgia Sen. Judson Hill, who sponsored the bill, said in a statement that the legislation is "a critical step forward in defending Georgia’s state economy and public policy" and referred to it as "taking a stand against the anti-Semitism and discrimination of the BDS movement."
It will now go to the office of Gov. Nathan Deal, who must decide whether to sign it into law.
[REUTERS] Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... he would consider stopping U.S. oil purchases from 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... unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight 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.... Trump's comment on Friday was included in a lengthy foreign policy interview published by the newspaper on Saturday and came in response to a question about whether, if elected president, he would halt oil purchases from U.S. allies unless they provided on-the-ground forces against Islamic State.
"The answer is, probably yes," Trump said, according to a transcript.
Trump has said the United States should be reimbursed by the countries it provides protection, even those with vast resources such as Saudi Arabia, a top oil exporter.
"And yet, without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for very long," Trump told the Times.
Not really. Oil is a commodity. If the Saudis don't sell to us they sell to someone else. But I wouldn't mind getting our country to the point where we could swear off the oil ticks...
"... We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries. Now Saudi Arabia’s one of them."
Trump also named in the interview retired Major General Gary Harrell, Major General Bert Mizusawa and retired Rear Admiral Charles Kubic as additional foreign policy advisors to the five named earlier this week who were criticized as obscure.
Trump has faced questions about his reluctance to reveal who was advising his campaign. He told the Times he was willing to rethink traditional U.S. alliances should he become president.
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It takes a child, or a buffoon, to see that the king is naked.
So less of a firm policy position and more of an incendiary device to ignite discussion. Go ahead, take the other side. Raise your and say "We should definitely keep buying Saudi oil". Oil embargo back in '73, OPEC, gas prices. Give that tarbaby a kick!
As our salmon-flavored moderator points out, the reality is more complicated. But this isn't reality, it's a media campaign. Trump may appear a cartoon buffoon, but he can play the media game.
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makes sense to me, cut their cash flow, buy US oil and see what happens to KSA and all of their under the table deals
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Considering that the Saudis just went on a spree, buying up all the for sale refineries along the US Gulf Coast, this is something that they've been seeing in the distance.
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Sort of like the Japanese opening up auto plants in the US after the oil embargo caught the (then) Big Three with gas guzzlers and the subsequent capture of over a third of the market by people who were making not only fuel efficient autos, but with better quality and no hundred of dollars additional add on costs at the dealerships. The pressure by the American auto companies and unions almost put involuntary quotas on them. They saw the picture too and got around any future threat to their market. If you can't control the resource market, control the means of production.
(IraqiNews.com) The Turkish military announced on Saturday the killing of one of its soldiers and wounding another in a rocket attack by ISIS north of Iraq.
The Turkish military said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, ISIS targeted a base belonging to the Turkish army in northern Iraq by a rocket attack, killing one soldier and wounding another,” pointing out that, “[The military] had responded by targeting the [ISIS] sites which were specified in the region,” and adding that, “The injured soldier was evacuated to a hospital in the province of Şırnak southeast Turkey.”
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Concerns terrorists are plotting an attack on power station
A security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and had his security pass stolen, just two days after the Brussels terror attacks.
Didier Prospero was shot several times in the bathroom of his home in the Charleroi region of Belgium. The unidentified killers shot Prospero, who worked for G4S security at a Belgian nuclear research centre.
A family member found Prospero's body lying next to that of his sheep dog, Beauce, who had also been shot dead. Police found several .22 bullet casings in the room but there was no firearm in the isolated farm house.
Belgian prosecutors denied the 45-year-old security worker's access pass had been stolen.
"No, no, certainly not! It was, umm, copied, that's all!"
The Charleroi prosecutor's office in charge of the case 'formally denied' any connection between the murder of Prospero, who was shot dead on Thursday at his home in Froidchapelle and a planned terror attack.
He was in charge of security for a nuclear research centre at Fleurus. Media had said he worked at a nuclear power plant. Belgian police are refusing to link Prospero's murder to the ongoing terror investigation, however further evidence of an ISIS plan to hit a nuclear power station has emerged.
"We can say no more!"
According to the New York Times, several employees working in the Belgian nuclear industry have had their security clearances revoked over potential ISIS plots. Following last November's terror attack in Paris, Belgian police recovered surveillance footage of a senior nuclear official in the home of ISIS ringleader Mohamed Bakkali, who was arrested and is currently facing terrorism charges.
It is feared the murder may be part of an ISIS plot to attack the facility and release radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Or, the terrorists could have been planning to steal radioactive material to create a so-called dirty bomb. Also, it is possible the terrorists wanted to sabotage a critical piece of machinery and cause the plant to meltdown, leading to a critical release of radioactive material.
That's the trifecta, and they're not mutually exclusive...
Sebastien Berg, spokesman for the federal agency responsible for Belgium's nuclear industry said they were fearful of a bomb exploding inside a plant or terrorists conducting a 9/11-style attack using a hijacked aircraft.
In 2012, two workers from a plant in Doel fled to Syria to join the jihadis. They are believed to have fought alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, mastermind behind the Paris attacks. One of the men is believed to have been killed in Syria, while the second served a short prison sentence in Belgium for terror-related offences in 2014.
Nuclear power plants are known to be targets for the terror network behind the Brussels bombings and the Paris attacks in November. In a nation on high alert following this week's attacks, the report stokes fears about the possibility militants are seeking to get hold of nuclear material or planning to attack a nuclear site. Such is the level of fear within the Belgian nuclear power industry, all non-essential staff at the Doel and Tihange power plants have been sent home.
For the foreseeable future Belgium's nuclear plants will continue operating with staffing levels similar to weekend service to ensure that no unauthorised personnel could gain access to the plants.
Unless the bad guys plant someone on the inside who is considered 'essential'...
'Some 1,000 people work on sites like these. Their backgrounds are all checked thoroughly, but better safe than sorry.'
On Thursday, Derniere Heure newspaper had reported the suicide bombers who blew themselves up on Tuesday originally considered targeting a nuclear site, but a series of arrests of suspect militants forced them to speed up their plans and instead switch focus to the Belgian capital. However, Charleroi prosecutors has reportedly played down reports of a connection between the murder and a planned terror attack, according to the Belga news agency.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Belgian prosecutors have placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and charged a new suspect in the investigation into the Brussels terror attacks.
The federal prosecutor's office said in a statement today that a man identified as Faycal Cheffou, was one of six men detained in a police raid on Thursday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... on Saturday urged Americans not to stigmatize Muslims following this week’s deadly attacks in Brussels, saying that doing so is "counterproductive" in the fight against radical Islam.
In his weekly media address, Obama said Muslim-Americans are "our most important partners in the nation’s fight against those who would wage violent jihad."
"That’s why we have to reject any attempt to stigmatize Muslim-Americans, and their enormous contributions to our country and our way of life," Obama said.
"Such attempts are contrary to our character, to our values, and to our history as a nation built around the idea of religious freedom. It’s also counterproductive," he said.
"It plays right into the hands of turbans who want to turn us against one another -- who need a reason to recruit more people to their hateful cause."
Obama made his remarks as the global community continues to reel from Tuesday’s attacks in Belgium, claimed by ISIS, which killed 31 dead, including two Americans, and maimed 300.
"At least 14 Americans were maimed, and we pray for their full recovery, along with everyone else affected by these attacks," Obama said.
The remarks by the Democratic president follow controversial statements in the wake of the Brussels bombings by the two top Republicans vying to succeed him in the White House.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz demanded this week that police "patrol and secure" Muslim neighborhoods in the US in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks, and reiterated an earlier call to suspend the relocation of Syrian refugees to the country.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, repeated his demand for the government to temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the US.
The billionaire real estate baron first called for a ban on entry into the US by Muslims back in December, following a deadly shooting attack in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
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Most terrorists are Muslim, not all Muslims are terrorists. We get it . Why doesn't he? Denial? Or self-preservation among the Ummah?
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'Terrorism' is a method of asymmetrical warfare.
Some Muslims are terrorists. More Muslims aren't terrorists but approve of terrorism to further islamic political objectives.
Other Muslims disapprove of terrorism and aren't terrorists themselves.
The problem is that there's a consensus among Muslims about their political objectives vs the West.
Both the OIC and Muslim terrorist organizations are demanding that the West implement elements of Sharia law within Western nations.
Mainstream consensus Islam rejects the notion of peaceful coexistence. That is the problem, not 'terrorism.'
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"That’s why we have to reject any attempt to stigmatize Muslim-Americans, and their enormous contributions to our country and our way of life," Obama said.
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Given his commentary about America he bleated in Cuba, he has done a lot of stigmatizing himself lately. Matthew 7:3-5
Given that American has been around a little over 200 years and your Religion of Peace over a thousand with a long record of conquest and war, certain followings gain a stigma by their actions.
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Lemme get this straight. The people who are waging war on us are our most important partners in our war against the people who are waging war on us? That sounds like yet another classic example of Democrat logic.
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[MSN] An Ohio man who rushed the stage at a Donald Trump rally pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." Friday in federal court to a charge of illegally entering a restricted area.
Fairborn resident Thomas DiMassimo, 22, is accused of jumping a barricade and charging at the Republican presidential candidate March 12 at a Dayton International Airport hangar.
His attorney, Jon Paul Rion, said the Wright State University student was trying only to ensure that his political views were heard and didn't have ill intentions toward a particular person.
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"His pants' crease was off. I was trying to fix it"
/David Brooks approves
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It's become glaringly obvious the Secret Service has decided to stop doing their job. This guy should have been ventilated and lying in a pool of blood while the rest of the detail moved Trump away.
Since they apparently can't or won't do security anymore, let the Marines do it. Sure you may have a few extra corpses from people like this, but at least you know they will take the job seriously.
#5
If you want to have your political views heard, hold up a sign, stand on a street corner and yell it, start a blog, write an editorial to your paper, etc.
You don't do it by depriving someone else of their right to express their view. Then you are a tyrant and need to be put down.
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It's become glaringly obvious the Secret Service has decided to stop doing their job. This guy should have been ventilated and lying in a pool of blood while the rest of the detail moved Trump away.
Thanks for your statement of this not-in-the-least-bit obvious situation. Now the barely perceptible intuition I had after reading the initial accounts of the incident has become much clearer.
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Was this before or after folks started punching protesters at Trump rallies? If after, it could be the secret service were told to have a light touch.
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Plenty of idiots out there for sure. Couple things:
Access - can people who should not be handling firearms able to get into your bag? And if so, is the firearm secured? Shifting is where my 10th glo-stick and 19th & 20th water pouch went to, and neither were against points or edges.
The Law - Your route may take you into another state, especially if you are a somewhat border town. At least be familiar with the laws of potential destinations and the route(s) there. You may find yourself in a situation where you could, justifiably, give a shit what the law is. As your situation stabilizes, you may find yourself in a situation the law gives a shit about you. Know so to make an informed decision.
Storage - make sure the firearm is kept in a way it does not load and/or fire on account of contents shifting around.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The coordinated terror attacks in Brussels has unveiled new information regarding the liquidation of a key jiahdi leader in Afghanistan as a terror suspect who was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by police in Brussels after a dramatic stand-off at a tram stop is believed to have previously been tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! for helping to assassinate an Afghan leader just days before 9/11.
The suspect has been identified as Abderaman A who was shot in the leg at the tram stop in Schaerbeek because he was carrying a rucksack police believed contained a bomb. Abderaman A is Abderaman Ameroud, who got seven years in 2007 for his part in the murder.
Massoud was the arch rival of the Taliban group and was holding the last strategic stronghold in northern Panjsher province as he was assassinated in a suicide kaboom during an interview by holy warriors who had disguised themselves as journalists.
He was killed shortly before the deadly terrorist attack on New York and Washington and shortly after he paid a visit to Brussels where he issued warnings regarding the terror attack plots by al-Qaeda terrorist network.
In his speech in European Pearliament in April 2001 Massoud "warned the US government" about bin Laden as he was on a diplomatic trip to Europe seeking financial support for his cause from the EU and individual countries.
The UK-based MailOnline newspaper reported today that the latest revealations was made as the investigation continued into Tuesday terror attacks in Belgium at Brussels Airport and a metro station in the city, which left 31 people dead.
The report further added that passports found on Mr Masood’s killers were linked to a Brussels-based hard boy cell run by Tarek Maaroufi.
Ameroud was handed a sentence of seven years when he went on trial for his part in the liquidation at a court in Gay Paree in 2005, according to the report.
Massoud was conferred the title of national hero following his liquidation by the Taliban militnats in a bid to take control of Panjshir province which has always remained a stronghold against the foreign invasions.
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Ten members of the “Islamic State” (IS, aka ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) terrorist group have been arrested in Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported March 26. The arrested, who were earlier detained on the Syrian border, are Turkish citizens. Some of them are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks in Turkey.
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[ARABNEWS] We are at war! This is how French Premier Manuel Valls described his feelings after the terrorist attacks in Brussels last week. By noontime it seemed that most European leaders and commentators had adopted his analysis by sticking the war label on the tragic event. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... saying that Europe is at war unleashes many questions. What kind of war and against whom?
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If they answer the question, the immigrant thing would come to a halt and there would be MASS deportations...of course the empty suit would volunteer to take a few hundred thousand off their hands.
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But none of those charged are in American custody, nor ever likely to be.
[IsraelTimes] 7 people indicted; attorney general says attackers threatened America’s economic well-being
Seven hackers tied to the Iranian government were charged Thursday in a series of punishing cyber-attacks on dozens of banks and a small dam outside New York City, intrusions that reached into America’s infrastructure and disrupted the financial system, US law enforcement officials said.
The indictment announced at the Justice Department reveals the determination of overseas hackers to cripple vital American interests, the officials said.
"The attacks were relentless, systematic and widespread," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. "They threatened our economic well-being and our ability to compete fairly in the global marketplace, both of which are directly linked to our national security."
One of the seven alleged hackers is accused of repeatedly gaining access to the control system of the Bowman Avenue Dam, a small flood-control structure in Rye Brook, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of New York City.
The New York dam is small, only about 20 feet (6 meters) tall. A recently installed sluice gate at the dam, which is digitally controlled, is intended to help control downstream flooding that could inundate nearby homes.
With that access, the hacker was able to get information about the dam’s operations, including its water level, temperature and the status of the sluice gate.
The hacker would have been able to operate the sluice gate, which controls water levels and flow rates, but the gate had been disconnected for maintenance when the intrusion occurred.
The seven accused hackers worked for a pair of Iranian computer companies linked to the Tehran government, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the US said.
None of the individuals is in American custody, and it’s not clear whether they will ever be enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! or whether criminal indictments in absentia can be effective in combating such crimes. The indictment two years ago of Chinese military hackers has not led to any of them being hauled before a US judge.
Officials said the goal of such cases is to put cybercriminals on notice that their mouse clicks can be traced, even if they’re on the other side of the globe.
"The message of this case is that we will work together to shrink the world and impose costs on these people so that no matter where they are, we will reach them," said FBI Director James Comey.
The criminal case is the latest salvo in a contentious cyber relationship between Iran and the US.
In 2010, the so-called Stuxnet virus disrupted the operation of thousands of centrifuges at a uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Tehran says that assault and other computer virus attacks are part of a concerted effort by Israel, the US and their allies to undermine its nuclear program through covert operations.
The indictments unsealed Thursday stem from a series of cyber intrusions between 2011 and 2013 that officials say targeted 46 victims, primarily in the financial sector, that disabled bank websites and interfered with customers’ ability to do online banking. The attacks cost the victims tens of millions of dollars in remediation costs, but no customers lost money.
It was the latest instance of the B.O. regime publicly blaming foreign nations for damaging cyber intrusions.
The Justice Department in May 2014 indicted five Chinese military officials suspected of hacking into several major American companies -- including US Steel and Westinghouse -- and stealing trade secrets and confidential business information. None of those individuals has been brought to America to face charges.
And that December, the federal government linked a damaging attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment to North Koreans.
The Justice Department is determined to remove a cloak of "perceived anonymity" long enjoyed by foreign hackers, said John Carlin, the department’s top national security official.
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"digital control" is not at all the same as "internet control". I am still flabbergasted that critical life-support devices have anything at all to do with the internet. Having said, that, and knowing modern tech tendencies, Dick Cheney's implanted cardiac defibrillator is probably accessible on the internet, too.
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, claimed on Saturday to have seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the residence of a ‘former sector in-charge’ in Korangi and said they had foiled a ‘big conspiracy’ to trigger terrorism in the city.
The paramilitary force, acting on information provided by some detained suspects, raided the house of a former sector in-charge belonging to a militant wing in Bagh-i-Korangi area and found weapons hidden there, said the spokesperson.
The Rangers official did not identify the purported militant wing nor its ex-sector in charge.
Seized arms included one LMG, 15 SMGs and thousands of rounds.
“These arms and ammunition were stockpiled to carry out a big act of lawlessness in Karachi,” claimed the Rangers official.
Two suspected targeted killers were also apprehended during this action, said a Rangers’ statement.
[THEHAYRIDE] Y'all just keep on votin' Democrat. It's the only way to fix the problem.
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The Most Dangerous Cities in the United States: Top 10
Camden, New Jersey
Flint, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
Oakland, California
St. Louis, Missouri
Cleveland, Ohio
Gary, Indiana
Newark, New Jersey
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Birmingham, Alabama
Anybody notice anything they have in common?
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I'll take cities run by those with a 'D', Alex.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 48 anti-government armed faceless myrmidons and 4 Afghan soldiers were killed amid intensifying violence across the country.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said at least 55 faceless myrmidons were also maimed and others were maimed during the same operations.
According to an operational update by MoD, at least 22 of the faceless myrmidons were killed and 2 others were maimed in Arclight airstrike conducted in Marjah district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The operational further added that 15 faceless myrmidons were killed and over 40 others were maimed in a separate operation conducted in Khanabad district of Helmand province.
At least 10 faceless myrmidons including 2 commanders of the faceless myrmidons group were killed in a separate operation conducted in Charchino district of Uruzgan province, MoD adde.d
MoD also added that four soldiers serving with the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces also bit the dust during the same operations.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons groups including the Talibs have not commented regarding the reports so far.
This comes as the Afghan national security forces have stepped up counter-terrorism operations amid deteriorating security situation across the country as the anti-government armed bully boy groups have increased to their insurgency activities during the recent months.
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Texas does have its own military with Maritime patrol forces and a Marine contingent.
The mission of the Texas State Guard (TXSG) is to provide mission-ready military forces to assist state and local authorities in times of state emergencies; to conduct homeland security and community service activities under the umbrella of Defense Support to Civil Authorities; and to augment the Texas Army National Guard and Texas Air National Guard as required.
Headquartered at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas, the TXSG functions as an organized state militia under the authority of Title 32 of the U.S. Code and Chapter 437 of the Texas Government Code.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian government forces advanced into the ancient city of Palmyra on several fronts on Saturday, backed by waves of artillery barrages and Russian air strikes, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting was the heaviest yet in the army's three-week campaign to recapture the desert city from ISIS fighters.
Russian warplanes deployed in Syria have made 40 sorties around the city of Palmyra over the past 24 hours, hitting 158 ISIS targets and killing more than 100 bad boys, Russian news agencies quoted Russia’s defense ministry as saying on Saturday.
It said Syrian soldiers and allied militias had taken control of neighborhoods in the western and northern parts of the city.
Syrian state media earlier said the army had taken full control of Al-Amiriya district on the northern edge of Palmyra.
Two Lebanese TV stations showed footage Saturday of Syrian tanks and machine guns firing at positions inside the town, with smoke rising over the skyline.
The Observatory says ISIS killed at least 10 soldiers in a counter-offensive earlier in the day.
Many of the Palmyra’s Roman-era relics, including the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel and the iconic Arch of Triumph, have been blown up by ISIS. The town, a UNESCO world heritage site, has been held by ISIS since May.
Palmyra had a population of 50,000 according to a census more than 10 years ago. Those numbers were swelled hugely by an influx of people displaced by Syria's conflict, which has raged since 2011, but most fled when ISIS took over.
Recapturing the city would open up eastern Syria, where ISIS controls most of the Euphrates Valley provinces of Deir al-Zor and Raqqa, to the army.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostine is not the Muslims’ ‘primary cause,’ IS article argues; ending Saudi control of Mecca and Medina takes precedence
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.... terror group published an article explaining why it does not attack the Jewish state, arguing that the Paleostinian issue should not get preferential treatment.
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Translation: Are you kidding? if we so much as seriously point a weapon at those Jews, they will hunt us down to the last curly toed slipper! The Saudis are a lot safer and easier to attack.
Look at the leadership of Hezbollah- those poor B@$!@#%$ have to live underground like moles. at least the americans give us some opportunities to get some air before they send the drones after us!
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LOL NGuard. Can you imagine the seething in the Paleos?:
"We used to be sumpthin. The terror champs. Now... we're trying to stab random Jooos and getting killed for it"
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the precedence of killing heretics and apostates before lifetime infidels is pretty clearly established in Islam
the only problem is that the definition of heretic and apostate is changeable --
on this subject, it seems to me that for ISIS, the Shia must be considered worse heretics than the saudis by far
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it seems to me that for ISIS, the Shia must be considered worse heretics than the saudis by far
But Mecca and Medina are the ultimate possession, lord garth. Nonetheless, conquering Saudi Arabia would not be as easy as conquering Iraq, it seems to me. And even conquering Iraq turned out not to be the doddle it first appeared.
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If they fought Israel they wouldn't be mainly intimidating women and children? It does seem that the arab/islam infested can only really manage that "feat".
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They would get their asses kicked...
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"ending Saudi control of Mecca and Medina takes precedence"
Ummm - Israel could do that for you (as could we, the Brits, the Phrench, etc.). I'm sure any of us could spare a couple of nukes to help y'all out there.
Why not just ask?
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As far as the Koran is concerned Jerusalem always was a side-show. They just made a big thing out of it to concentrate the natural hate of everything that boils in the Arab mind towards a target that wasn't the leader of an Arab country.
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
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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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[BUSINESS-STANDARD] US Secretary of State 
[THEHAYRIDE] Mayor Mitch Landrieu just lost a major court-battle that will demand he release lists of who is receiving lucrative city contracts.
North Korea
[THEHAYRIDE] New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration announced today that they have cut ties with former Rep. Bob Livington (R-LA), a Washington lobbyist for the city, after he endorsed GOP front-runner Donald Trump for president.
Hillary Clinton
After a French minister said yesterday that there were 800,000 migrants waiting to leave Libya for European shores, Libyan coastguards today discovered 12 expectant travellers who would not be completing the trip.
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Ten members of the “Islamic State” (IS, aka ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) terrorist group have been arrested in Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported March 26. The arrested, who were earlier detained on the Syrian border, are Turkish citizens. Some of them are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks in Turkey.
