[Daily Caller] An Obama administration political appointee has "burrowed" into a high-level career civil service job at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), highlighting efforts by backers of the outgoing chief executive to implant themselves permanently into the federal bureaucracy in the waning months of his presidency.
Gina Farrisee was named deputy of chief of staff of the VA earlier this month, thus complicating the next president’s VA secretary’s ability to choose his own inner circle but securing high and continuing pay for Farrisee, whose job otherwise would have ended this year.
Burrowing refers to politically appointed government employees who transfer to career civil service jobs that allow them to continue working long after the politician who appointed them has completed his term in office.
It's traditionally regarded as highly improper, because the career civil service is not supposed to reward political connections and is supposed to select new hires on merit-based competition. The VA did not advertise the deputy-chief job and would not say if other candidates were interviewed.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is tasked with ensuring that political henchmen don’t entrench themselves in the final year of a presidency, but it granted a special exception for Farrisee, even though the appointment has all the hallmarks of blatant burrowing, and it is unclear that her case would have met the guidelines used in determining waivers in the few cases that are granted.
Lengthy 'cry me a river' article. Follows is an Excerpt:
[NYT of course] She lost her military security clearance; her promotion from major to lieutenant colonel was revoked when the news broke. The F.B.I. still has her computers -- including her dissertation research -- and she withdrew from her Ph.D. program. She said she was told in more than one job interview that, while she was qualified, hiring her would be a public-relations nightmare.
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Her cheated-on husband and 2 kids get exactly two mentions each
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Monica Lewinsky is still paying for the wrong choice she made at twenty. At least Ms Broadwell has a very good life to look back on while she regrets having ruined it. But if she didn't have her research backed up in a cloud in case her computer crashed, she's a fool.
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...They both had it coming - Petraeus for allowing himself to fall victim to General Officers' Syndrome, and Broadwell for not giving a flying fark about her job, commission, or family. I have no sympathy for either of these idiots.
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Q: What are three words you never want to hear from an old grilfriend?
[Huffpoo] New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones died of a gunshot wound on Saturday, and the NBA player's agent said it was because he mistakenly entered into the wrong apartment.
The 23-year-old was shot early Saturday at an apartment in Dallas, police said. The resident told officers he was asleep when an intruder kicked open the front door and entered the home. The trespasser allegedly did not respond to calls from the resident, who then retrieved a handgun. He fired his weapon when the suspect kicked in the bedroom door, according to a police report. The intruder was wounded and left the apartment.
Police found the suspect collapsed in the breezeway after responding around 3:20 a.m. and transported him to a hospital, where he died of his injuries, police said. He was identified as Dejean-Jones.
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Yeah, I always kick in the door of my own residence
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How long before we hear his family talking about what a "good kid" he was and how "deyze been robbed" by the eeeevil gun owner? How long before we hear his coach talking about what a bright future he had and "everybody on the team loved him?" How long before we get the newspaper article about the 10 year old boy who idolized him and had a bassetbaw shirt with his number on it?
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...Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Looking forward to the tox screen.
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Coming soon to a city near you. Like all bullies, they cower and run when confronted with sufficient force. It's high time we employ such means to ensure our survival.
[Breitbart] Does anyone think it an accident that President Obama chose Memorial Day weekend to give his high-sounding moral equivalence speech in Hiroshima calling for a "moral revolution"? No, of course it wan't an accident and no, no one is surprised at his actions.
What Obama proposed in his speech in Japan is moral disarmament, and the consequences of that moral capitulation will be horrific if the world follows his advice.
At Hiroshima, Obama was silent on the question of American sacrifice, American valor, and American virtue, but eloquent on the issue of American guilt.
What Obama did NOT do in his speech in Japan was to praise America’s fallen warriors, the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice saved the world from nuclear war over the 71 years since that first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Obama is wrong, but if even half of Americans agree with the president, then we have abandoned the meaning of Memorial Day and substituted Atonement Day in its place. And if America’s future leaders think our nation has no further need to honor our fallen warriors, America may discover we have no warriors willing to tread in their path.
Obama’s moral capitulation presents a stark and sobering contrast with the patriotism of a different President, America’s chosen leader only one generation ago. Thirty-two years ago in 1984 Ronald Reagan went to the beaches of Normandy to honor the fallen warriors of many nations who made the ultimate sacrifice to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny.
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This is quite stunning. On the eve of the Obama's final Memorial Day in office I feel shame and sorrow for him...here is an arrogant man with no American heritage...his father a Kenyan, his mother a pitiful communist...yet he imagines himself wiser and somehow more...moral...than the millions of veterans that fought and sacrificed to establish and preserve our Republic.
I may not be a wise man - but even I realize the weapon used at Hiroshima saved 500,000 US soldier's lives and at least 1,000,000 Japanese lives. Obama's arrogance and position do not hide his stupidity.
This Memorial Day I will not preach moral equivalence, I will honor the memory and sacrifice of my best friend that gave his life for our brothers on a Medevac mission outside of Basra. That is what Memorial Day is for...a time to reflect the last full measure of devotion paid by our true heroes.
[IsraelTimes] Islamic State affiliate just across Syrian border has an aggressive leadership, and is no longer afraid of fighting outside its heartland
Despite a pairing up of two 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.... -linked Death Eater groups on Israel’s northern border and a show of boldness by the new alliance, their threat to the Jewish state remains minimal, experts on jihadi groups in Syria told The Times of Israel.
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Interesting excerpt:
[Xinhua] At first glance, for a city falling as the first victim to an atomic bomb in human history, a visit by the first sitting president of the country that dropped the bomb does appear "historic."
However, the symbolic nature of the visit is not intended to bring the two allies come closer to Obama's nuke-free dream; politicians both in Washington and Tokyo clearly have other calculations on their mind.
For the outgoing U.S. president, the Hiroshima visit will help Obama secure yet another political legacy. He will be the first sitting president of the United States to visit the A-bombed city, after already having claimed the titles of the first African-American U.S. president, the first sitting U.S. president who won a Nobel Peace Prize after World War II (WWII) and the first U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years.
Besides, visiting Hiroshima -- a symbol for Japan's "war victim" identity in the eyes of many Japanese -- will apparently help further strengthen the ties between Washington and Tokyo, a cornerstone for America's "pivot to Asia" strategy.
What's more, Hiroshima will be a bully pulpit for Obama to show his strong sense of responsibility to America's allies as a Democratic president, earning brownie points for his pal Hillary Clinton while playing down her well-matched Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
From the beginning of May, but the pattern is familiar. This is why Afghans don't have nice things.
[AnNahar] The decision to sack an Afghan strongman accused of deliberately handing over parts of a crucial southern highway to the Taliban has laid bare power struggles and tribal feuds within police ranks, worsening insecurity.
Dozens of police checkpoints on the 160 kilometer (100 mile) highway connecting the scenic provincial capitals of Tarin Kot, in Uruzgan, and Kandahar last week fell under Taliban control, raising security alarms.
Their loss prompted a chorus of allegations that they were deliberately surrendered on the orders of Rahimullah Khan, a local powerbroker and deputy Uruzgan police chief.
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VENICE (CBSLA.com) -- Vandals defaced a memorial to Vietnam war veterans in Venice an awful sight on this Memorial Day weekend.
Stewart Oscars welled up as he looked at the vandalized mural located on Pacific Avenue near Sunset Court. It was covered in graffiti from end to end.
"This knocked me out. So sickening. Just sadness...think of all these people. They gone," Oscars said. "I remember the Vietnam war and how friends went to war, and bodies came back. Somehow, it has to be taught that this is not a good idea. This is actually stupid."
The memorial was dedicated to service members who were listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War.
George Francisco is the Vice President of the Venice Chamber of Commerce. He also runs a nonprofit called Veterans Foundation Incorporated.
"Its a desecration. I mean it's very simple. There's no sort of other way around it. It isn't graffiti," Francisco said.
In March, Francisco helped to bring a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Venice Beach. His father was a combat veteran in that war and also helped organize the effort to put up the mural in the late 1980's.
"I've known the sacrifices these people made in an incredibly unpopular war. So to continue the mistreatment of Vietnam veterans is somewhat shocking, somewhat shocking and quite sad," Francisco added.
People on this street said the memorial was tagged a few days ago. They said the graffiti matches some of the other ones in the neighborhood.
The Los Angeles Police Department said it is not investigating the case.
CBS2/KCAL9's Jeff Nguyen reached out to L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin, whose district includes Venice to see if anything can be done but has not heard back as of Friday night.
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Its California, what do you really expect from California. its that kind of place.
Nancy Pelosi comes from California, right? Go wipe your hands.
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The key to the story is that it is Mexican Gang graffiti, and the dumbshit tagged his gang name. This is about ignorant garbage from another country and culture that has no understanding respect or fear of the culture they take advantage of. What greater proof of the myth of assimilation when the numbers are so large they represent colonization not immigration.
[NDTV] The US has asked Pakistain to go after holy warriors especially the Taliban leadership, days after an American drone killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the country's troubled Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province.
"We continue to cooperate closely with Afghanistan, but also urge Pakistain to go after terrorists, especially Taliban leadership, and that cooperation continues," State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner told news hounds.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, James B Cunningham, said the drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour inside Pakistain should send a signal that the United States will not tolerate terrorist safe havens.
"I hope that this is the beginning of a message that we will not tolerate any more the strategic challenge that is posed by the leadership of the Taliban being in Pakistain and having a safe haven there. I hope that this is the beginning of a new phase in the effort to bring the Taliban into a= political discussion," he told the Atlantic Council.
"It is rumoured that senior parts of the ISI (Pakistain's intelligence agency) may have been involved in setting Mansour up. The official account is that we informed Pakistain of the strike after it took place. In places like Afghanistan and Pakistain, conspiracy rumours will circulate for some time," he said.
Mr Cunningham hoped that this would force Pakistain to rethink the wisdom of providing safe heavens to terrorists. "I would hope so. I have seen some commentary from some Pak observers that this may encourage a rethinking of the policy that the ISI has been pursuing. That is what is necessary. That's what we, the US, have been arguing for years; that's what we need to find a way to accomplish," he said.
"We have a core strategic objective here, which is to bring the conflict to an end. In order to do that we need to make clear to the Taliban leaders that they will not prevail by terror and by military means. And we, the international community, need to make clear to the ISI that we are no longer going to tolerate the kind of policy that they have been pursuing," the former top American diplomat said.
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Green and blue-eyed girls fetch the most money at the bazaar, held in Iraq's second city Mosul
An ISIS rapist who was filmed laughing as he bartered for Yazidi women at a "slave market" has been captured by Iraqi Kurd forces, it has been reported.
The 2014 clip from Mosul, Iraq, shows the ISIS militant negotiating the price of the girls from the Iraqi ethnic minority with traders. Blue and green-eyed young girls fetch a higher price at what one of the men dubs "slave market day".
The footage begins with this man saying to the camera: "Today is the slave market day.
"Today is the day where this verse applies: 'Except with their wives and the (captives) whom their right hands possess, - for (then) they are not too be blamed'. He then adds: "Today is distribution day God willing. "Each one takes his share."
Now he has now been captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq, according to a pro-Kurdish Facebook page. His fate remains unclear - but is likely to be grim considering the number of female fighters in Kurd militias.
Almost as grim as it would be if he had been captured by Afghan wimmin...
He even appears to have shaved off his beard in order to pass as a civilian and escape capture.
What's the penalty for shaving off one's beard again?
Another man in the stomach-churning then says: "I swear man I am searching for a girl. I hope I find one."
The men cackle and then another says: "Today is the day of (female) slaves and we should have our share."
They then find a seller and begin bartering for girls. The trader says he is happy to sell his slave for a Glock pistol.
The girls are sold for up to the equivalent of $100 (ÂŁ62), however the buyers can be heard saying the price they are willing to pay depends on looks and that they will need to verify the girl is to their liking. One says he would need to check the teeth of the 15-year-old being auctioned, and explains: "If she doesn't have teeth, why would I want her?"
The video was shot in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in 2014, according to Al Aan TV - who translated the clip into English.
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Yes turn him over to the women.
Just like in the "Handmaid's Tale" the women were called on to punish/execute those who committed crimes against women...tearing them to pieces with their bare hands
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Bayonet circumcision. Cut it very short...
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Tie his privates to a tree with piano wire and stone him.
[Jpost] TEN YEARS after the Second Leb War, Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shi’ite militia, is at a crossroad.
In the fifth year of the civil war in Syria, which it is fighting on the side of the Assad regime, it is at the peak of its military power; but it is isolated politically and there are significant question marks over the implications of the emerging new order in Syria for its status and resiliency.
The Second Leb War, which Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah described as a "divine victory," led in practice to 10 of the quietest years on the Israel-Lebanese border. This was partly a result of the deterrent balance Israel was able to impose through the 2006 war. But there were other contributing factors: Local developments in Leb itself and major regional events in Syria, Iraq and Leb kept Hezbollah from seeking confrontation with Israel in the Lebanese theater.
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[Al Ahram] Two rockets fired Saturday from inside Syria landed near the international airport of Gaziantep, a major Turkish border city, although nobody was hurt, the Turkish news agency Dogan reported.
One of the projectiles landed in a residential complex for employees of Oguzeli airport, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside the city and another came down in scrubland, according to Dogan.
The rockets fell around 10:50 am (0750 GMT), the agency said, adding military officials and the governor of Gaziantep were inspecting the damage.
The nearby city of Kilis, just a handful of kilometres from the Syrian border, has been struck several times this year by rockets which Ankara says were fired by 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.... fighters. Missiles rarely penetrate deeper into Turkish territory.
Those attacks have claimed at least 21 lives with more than 70 injured, including five on Friday.
Gaziantep lies around 30 km further north away from the border.
It was not clear if the rockets were "strays" from fighting in northern Syria or if they constituted a deliberate attack on the airport.
Several European leaders including 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... and European Council President Donald Tusk visited Gaziantep only last month.
Turkish forces say they have responded to rocket attacks by bombarding IS positions in northern Syria.
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[Al Ahram] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Saturday condemned the United States' support of Kurdish fighters in Syria after AFP pictures revealed US commandos wearing the insignia of a militia branded a terror group by Ankara.
"The support they give to... the YPG (militia)... I condemn it," said Erdogan. "Those who are our friends, who are with us in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ... cannot, must not send their soldiers to Syria wearing YPG insignia."
Erdogan's comments came after an AFP photographer captured images of US troops in Syria wearing insignia of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
Ankara regards the YPG as a terror group, accusing it of carrying out attacks inside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and being the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state for over three decades.
"The PKK, the PYD, the YPG, ISIS (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.... ), there is no difference. They are all terrorists," Erdogan said.
It had long been public knowledge that around 200 US commandos are in northern Syria helping local militia target the Islamic State bully boy group's de facto capital Raqa and guiding in coalition air strikes.
Erdogan, speaking in the majority Kurdish city Diyarbakir, accused the US of being dishonest because of its support for the militia and its political wing the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
"I believe that politics should be exercised with honesty," he said.
The US, seeking to avoid a rift with ally Turkey, had announced Friday that special operations troops in northern Syria would henceforth stop wearing the badge of the YPG guerrillas.
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[LATIMES] The five men showed up at the Hooters parking lot in Ontario. But they weren’t there to eat chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses.
Authorities said the men were associates of the Sinaloa narco mob who were there try to sell 53 pounds of methamphetamine wrapped in 42 clear plastic bags.
The men, who were nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Thursday by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Investigation’s Inland Crackdown Allied Task Force, are accused of trying to sell meth to undercover officers, authorities said.
The five were arrested outside of Hooters on suspicion of transporting methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine for sales and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, KABC-TV reported. They were identified as Benjamin Machado-Morales, Heriberto Coronado-Martin, Eric Villareal-Aguilar, Eduardo Ruano-Alvarez and Hector Marroquin.
They are being held in San Bernardino County’s West Valley Detention Center, officials said.
The drugs had a street value of $2.6 million.
A 2014 report from state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris’ office stated that Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has emerged as the major gateway for methamphetamine into the rest of the country. It estimated that 70% of the U.S. supply traveled through state border crossings and linked Southern California gangs with Mexican cartels.
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Hooters must have been sponsoring a bike ralley that day.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban gunnies have suffered heavy casualties during the clearance operations in southern parts of the country, the 205th Atal Corps of the Afghan National Army said.
According to a statement by 205th Atal Corps, at least 52 snuffies were killed and 29 others were maimed during the operations.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Gundu, chenarto Kariz, Koh Albak, Albak and Siya Oba villages in north of Shawali Kot in Kandahar and Kandahar-Uruzgan highway.
At least 4 Ford Ranger police vehicles and 25 cycle of violences in jug of the snuffies were also destroyed during the operations, the statement added.
According to the 205th Atal Corps, the operations were conducted with the support of the Afghan Air Force and the artillery units of the Afghan National Army.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including the Taliban gunnies have not commented regarding the reports so far.
The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) have stepped up counter-terrorism operations across the country to suppress the insurgency activities of the holy warrior groups.
The security officials have said they will continue to maintain pressure on the holy warrior groups as they are attempting to step up attacks as part of their annual spring offensive.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five gunnies were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan, the defense authorities said Saturday.
The Arclight airstrike was carried out in the restive Ghaziabad district targeting a hideout of the myrmidons.
The Ministry of defense said five gunnies were killed and their hideout was destroyed while another terrorist was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Khogyani 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.. The anti-government armed myrmidon groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.
Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed myrmidon groups are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
Two top commanders of the anti-government armed gunnies were killed in an Arclight airstrike by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in Ghanizabad district nearly ten days ago.
At least 17 gunnies were also killed in the same Arclight airstrike and mortar and rocket launcher along with 3 Ak-47 assault rifles and various other types of explosives belonging to the gunnies were destroyed.
The Afghan forces have stepped counter-terrorism operations to suppress the insurgency activities of the myrmidon groups as the hard boyz are attempting to increase terrorist attacks by launching their spring offensive.
The Afghan forces are vastly utilizing the newly-added state of the art equipment including the A-29 Super Tucano fixed-wing aircraft to suppress the anti-government armed myrmidon groups.
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[Al Ahram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says U.S.-led coalition Arclight airstrikes and Turkish artillery fire against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria have killed 104 bully boys.
Anadolu Agency says on Saturday said the strikes came late Friday, hours after rockets fired from Syria hit a southern Turkish town and maimed five people.
It said the Arclight airstrikes and artillery fire also destroyed 7 buildings used as IS group headquarters. The claim could not be independently verified, and Turkey has not explained how it can count casualties in Syria.
Cross-border fire from Syria has claimed 21 lives and maimed dozens of others in the border town of Kilis this year.
Authorities blame the attacks on IS group which has a presence in northern Syria. Turkey typically responds by shelling IS group positions.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The local officials in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province have said drone strikes have played a role in suppressing the activities of the loyalists 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Achin district.
The district administrative chief Ghalib Mujahid has said the group has received major blows in this district during the recent months and their activities have become limited by a large extent.
He said the loyalists are the terror group are targeted on daily basis both the Afghan forces and the US forces.
Mujahid further added that the terror group loses around 5 to 10 Lions of Islam on daily basis as a result of the counter-terrorism operations.
According to Mujahid, the drone strikes have mainly targeted the hideouts and centers of the terror group which they had established in this district.
Achin was once a stronghold of the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group from where they started their operations in the country.
The US forces stepped up Arclight airstrikes against the terror group after the B.O. regime granted more authorities to the US forces in the country.
The increased Arclight airstrikes against the terror group followed amid concerns that the leaders of the group are attempting to expand foothold in the country and establish a regional operational base in Nangarhar.
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Remember this man, and his son, for the right reasons.
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As we remember those who served this great nation (and yes we are still great), thank those that continue to serve, let us have a special place in our hearts for those "that gave the last full measure of devotion".
Mr.Stewart is a genuine hero and paid the ultimate price of losing something he considered much more valuable than his own life.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Saturday, a source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced, that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, a bomb exploded near a popular market in al-Husseiniya area in northern Baghdad, killing two people and injuring seven others.”
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 bodies to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the area of the incident and barred approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police said on Saturday, that unidentified gunmen killed a civilian in al-Sadr City east of Baghdad.
The source, who requested anonymity, said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, unidentified militants opened fire against a civilian in the city of al-Sadr east of Baghdad, resulting in his immediate death,” adding that, “A security force transferred the dead body to the forensic medicine authority, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source within the police force in Baghdad province said on Saturday, that six people had been either killed or injured in a bomb blast southwest of Baghdad.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, an explosive device went off near a parking garage in the area of al-Dawanem, southwest of Baghdad, resulting in the death of one person and wounding five others,” noting that, “A security force rushed to the area of the incident and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for medical treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine authority, while imposed a security cordon around the area and prevented approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday, that six members of al-Hashed al-Shaabi had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.
The source said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded on a civilian car carrying members of al-Hashed al-Shaabi in Latifiya vicinity in Mahmudiya District in southern Baghdad, killing two members and wounding four others.”
The source, who spoke on condition of 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 cordoned off the area of the incident and barred approaching it.”
[ARA News] AYN AL ISSA – Rojda Felat, the commander of the Northern Raqqa campaign told ARA News that the operations against ISIS extremists are continuing for the fourth day. This despite rumours that operations have stopped.
“Since the beginning of the campaign we have captured six villages and four farms [from ISIS],” she said.
In an exclusive interview with ARA News, the Kurdish female commander denied reports that the operations were halted and blamed the heavy mined areas.
“The border line of our areas is mined, so demining this area takes time,” she said.
Furthermore, local fighters told ARA News that the Islamic state is using human shields and prevent civilians from leaving Raqqa.
Felat said that so far the operation is only taking place for taking northern Raqqa.
“It depends on the situation and the strategic changes on the ground,” she added.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) led by the female commander Felat launched an operation on 24 May to liberate the northern countryside of Raqqa form ISIS.
She told ARA News that this has no affect on the cooperation between Kurds and the more conservative tribal Arbas in the SDF.
“This culture is broken because many women join the SDF, including Arabs, Kurds, and Syriacs,” she added.
“We in the SDF have no difference between men and women,” she said.
Nevertheless, while many Arab men are joining the SDF-forces, the number of Arab women joining the SDF is quite limited. So far mostly female Kurds join the battle against the Islamic State.
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[AnNahar] Yemeni authorities on Saturday tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! seven 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 suspects, including one "Westerner", in second city Aden, a police officer told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The arrests are part of a government offensive against IS and Al-Qaeda, which have claimed a wave of deadly attacks in recent months in Yemen's south and southeast.
Among these were twin bombings claimed by IS that hit loyalist forces in Aden on Monday, killing at least 41 people.
"We arrested seven ISIS (IS) members, among them a Western Muslim, in Mansura" district of Aden, said officer Munir al-Yafie, who took part in the raid, without giving further details.
IS and Al-Qaeda have exploited the power vacuum created by more than a year of conflict between pro-government forces and Iran-backed rebels to expand their zones of control in Yemen.
Government forces drove the rebels out of the port city of Aden and other southern provinces since July with support from the Saudi-led coalition which launched its operations in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in March 2015.
But authorities have struggled to secure Aden, where Sunni jihadists emerged after the rebels left the city.
Aden is serving as the temporary government headquarters as the Shiite Houthis and their allies control capital Sanaa.
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[DAWN] An eight-year-old girl was raped before being thrown off the roof of her house 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... ’s Superhighway Industrial Area Saturday, the girl’s post-mortem report revealed.
Police and hospital sources said the girl’s dead body was first brought to Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) at the Gul Goth area near Superhighway, but due to the unavailability of a female medico-legal officer, was shifted to Civil Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Additional police surgeon at Civil Hospital, Dr. Qarar Ahmed told Dawn the girl’s autopsy report confirmed she was raped. Dr. Seemin Jamali, head of JPMC’s emergency department, told Dawn the girl sustained injuries on her head, adding that doctors also found "evidence of sexual assault".
Dr. Mubarak Pathan, a medico-legal officer at Civil Hospital, revealed that the victim’s family and police were reluctant to allow doctors to conduct an autopsy.
Station House Officer Site Superhighway Industrial Area, Asmatullah Marwat, had earlier quoted the dear departed’s maternal uncle as saying that the girl died after falling from the roof while playing.
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[Ynet] An Iranian delegation has left 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... without an agreement for its citizens to attend the Muslim haj pilgrimage this year, Saudi media have reported, a second failure by the rival Middle East powers to strike a deal.
Relations between the two countries plummeted after hundreds of Iranians died in a crush during last year's haj and after Riyadh broke diplomatic ties when its Tehran embassy was stormed in January over the Saudi execution of a Shi'ite holy man.
The dispute has provided another arena for discord between the conservative Sunni Muslim monarchy of Saudi Arabia and the revolutionary Shi'ite republic of Iran, which back opposing sides in Syria and other conflicts across the region.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Embassy 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.... has issued a security alert warning its citizens regarding murderous Moslems planning attacks in the city.
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul continues to receive reports of murderous Moslems planning unspecified attacks in Kabul City and elsewhere in Afghanistan against locations and individuals with potential American connections," the alert by the embassy states.
It also adds that the murderous Moslems are looking to attacks Afghan and U.S. government facilities, foreign embassies, foreign guest houses, restaurants, hotels, airports, civilian institutes, and educational centers.
The latest security alert by the US Embassy comes as the anti-government armed krazed killer groups are looking to carry out attacks in Kabul, specifically following the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a US drone strike last Saturday.
At least eleven people were killed and ten others were maimed in an kaboom in Kabul province earlier on Wednesday.
The incident took place after a jacket wallah detonated against a shuttle bus transporting employees of the Maidan Wardak provincial court.
Earlier, the Afghan cops thwarted a suicide kaboom plot against the Ministry of Interior compound by arresting a suicide bomber and seizing a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED).
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A jacket wallah belonging to the Haqqani terrorist network was rubbed out by the Afghan intelligence operatives in capital 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.... The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the would-be suicide bomber was rubbed out before he manage to reach to his target.
NDS said the man was wearing a suicide kaboom vest but there are no reports regarding the exact location where the bomber was looking to carry out an attack.
This comes as the US Embassy in Kabul earlier issued a security alert warning its citizens regarding gunnies planning attacks in the city.
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul continues to receive reports of gunnies planning unspecified attacks in Kabul City and elsewhere in Afghanistan against locations and individuals with potential American connections," the alert by the embassy states.
It also adds that the gunnies are looking to attacks Afghan and U.S. government facilities, foreign embassies, foreign guest houses, restaurants, hotels, airports, civilian institutes, and educational centers.
The latest security alert by the US Embassy comes as the anti-government armed Death Eater groups are looking to carry out attacks in Kabul, specifically following the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a US drone strike last Saturday.
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An asylum seeker who jokingly wore a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' was so savagely beaten by his fellow refugees that he had to be rushed to hospital.
The 23-year-old Iraqi had thought that his fellow Islamic asylum seekers would see the funny side, but instead they accused him of offending their religion and decided to teach him a painful lesson.
The man was attacked in the evening as he returned to his asylum seeker home in Berlin, Germany wearing the T-shirt which he had just bought. He was allegedly confronted by three angry Muslims who ripped up the T-shirt and ran off after beating him.
Pic of the offending shirt at the link. Bwha-ha-ha...
Two of the alleged attackers, a 27-year-old from Syria and a 33-year-old from Lebanon, were later arrested on charges of aggravated GBH. Police said a report would be prepared for prosecutors.
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They knew he was not Muslim there was not explosives attached to it!
[THEHILL] The B.O. regime is trying to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another George C. Marshall ... from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email server. Birds of a feather...
Late Thursday evening, the Justice Department filed a court motion opposing the Clinton deposition request from conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch, claiming that the organization was trying to dramatically expand the scope of the lawsuit.
Judicial Watch is "seeking instead to transform these proceedings into a wide-ranging inquiry into matters beyond the scope of the court’s order and unrelated to the FOIA request at issue in this case," government lawyers wrote in their filing, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
The lawyers wrote that the request to interview Clinton "is wholly inappropriate" before depositions are finished in a separate case also concerning the email server.
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Certainly would not want an expansion of 'discovery' which might include the White House and POTUS and their potential knowledge of the Beest's misdeeds. Who knows, perhaps the Champ's communications habits were a bit lax as well.
More bathroom sign background noise for the media and little people please.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The administrative director of Kunduz police has been kidnapped by the anti-government armed murderous Moslems in north of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the administrative director of Kunduz police, was kidnapped as he was travelling on Kunduz-Takhar highway.
The officials further added that a policeman was also killed as the Taliban Lions of Islam kidnapped the administrative director from the vicinity of Khanabad district.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the incident but the local security officials said an operation is underway for the release of Kunduz police administrative director.
This comes as the Talibs suffered heavy casualties during a military operation launched by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) which led to the opening of Kunduz-Takhar highway last week.
The highway going through Kunduz is considered as one of the main highways in northern Afghanistan which connects northeastern Takhar with Badakhshan and Kunduz provinces.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems are usually threatening the highway by conducting insurgency activities, mainly in Kunduz province where the Taliban Lions of Islam are having a widespread presence.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 6 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces were martyred in fight against terrorism in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.
According to an operational update by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the soldiers were martyred while conducting counter-terrorism operations against the internal and external terrorists.
"The Afghan National Army (ANA) forces are prepared for all kinds of devotion and with all force to maintain security and comfort for the people of Afghanistan," a statement by MoD said, adding that 6 Afghan soldiers were martyred during counter-terrorism operations against the internal and foreign terrorists.
There has been a sharp rise in the casualties of the Afghan national security forces since they took full control of the security responsibilities from the coalition forces at the start of last year.
The operational update by MoD further added that 71 bandidosholy warriors were killed and 39 others were maimed during the same operations.
MoD said the operations were backed by the Afghan Air Force and units of the Afghan artillery.
According to MoD, the operations were conducted in Kandahar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Uruzgan, Kunar, 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... , Badghis, Paktia, and 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.. provinces.
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[Al Ahram] At least 59 people were maimed in Guinea when youths frustrated they were being kept out of the opening of a new mosque in the town of Timbo clashed with police, a hospital director and witnesses said on Saturday.
Security officials stopped ordinary people from entering the mosque to allow local dignitaries to pass but youths became angry and threw stones and attempted to rush in, witnesses said. Police responded with teargas and beat back the youths.
"There was a huge clash between the police and the young people and clouds of tear gas. I saw old women pushed over by the surging crowd. It was serious," said Latif Haidera, a witness.
Mamadou Kouyate, the director of the regional hospital at Mamou, said 59 people were treated at his hospital alone following the incident on Friday in Timbo, which is about 260 km (163 miles) northeast of the capital Conakry.
About 85 percent of Guinea's population follows Sunni Islam and Timbo is a centre of Islamic learning and the capital of the Foutah branch of Islam in Guinea.
The town is also a stronghold of the political opposition to President Alpha Conde, though witnesses said the clash was not directly connected to national politics.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 2 Taliban group leaders were killed in an Arclight airstrike in northern Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, local officials said.
The Arclight airstrike was carried out in Suzma Qala district of Sar-e-Pul targeting a gathering of the Taliban hard boys.
Provincial governor’s front man Zabiullah Amani said the Taliban faceless myrmidons had gathered to organize a funeral for the group’s chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
He said at least 6 Taliban faceless myrmidons were also maimed during the Arclight airstrike which was carried out in Kata Qala village.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Sar-e-Pul is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where the anti-government armed hard boy groups are active in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
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[REUTERS] Forty-one U.S. Secret Service employees have been disciplined over a media leak of the personal files of a congressman who had criticized the agency's security lapses, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
Punishments ranged from a letter of reprimand to suspensions without pay for up to 45 days, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said in a statement.
One person found to have disclosed information on Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz to the Washington Post has resigned from the service, Johnson said, noting that privacy laws prevented disclosure of more details.
The latest embarrassment for the Secret Service came as it seeks to recover from a leadership crisis and mend a culture of covering up mistakes that some trace back 12 years to when it was pulled out of the Treasury Department and absorbed into the sprawling new Department of Homeland Security.
More than 40 Secret Service employees accessed the personal information of Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who was leading a probe of the agency, according to a report in September by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.
Soon after Chaffetz held a hearing on the agency in March, various media reported that he had been rejected for a Secret Service job in 2003.
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Well it is called the 'Secret' service. They were just following the Lois Lerner and IRS model.
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Good. No, excellent. This may be bureaucratic arrogance, but the seedlings of a Praetorian Guard should be stomped, uprooted, scorched, and the ground sowed with salt.
[DAWN] The United States offered an olive branch to the new Taliban leader when it asked him to join the Afghan reconciliation process, says the US State Department.
"Our olive branch would be simply that we have long said that we support an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned grinding of the peace processor and reconciliation process, and we would welcome any efforts by the new Taliban leadership to engage," said a State Department front man, Mark Toner.
Asked if the United States would offer the new Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah an olive branch to encourage him to join the grinding of the peace processor, Mr Toner said the elimination of his predecessor last Saturday has created an opportunity for Mullah Haibatullah to quit violence.
But the US official once again refused to offer an assurance that American drones would not target the new Taliban leader if he chose to join negotiations.
"I’m just not going to -- and I said this yesterday -- ever preview any operational activities we may take with regard to targeting any individual."
Mr Toner, however, explained that the strike against Mullah Mansour was based on both his previous actions and his intent to carry out additional strikes not only against Afghan forces, but also against United States military forces on the ground in Afghanistan.
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[Al Ahram] A prominent member of Germany's far-left Linke party was hit in the face with a chocolate cream pie on Saturday in an attack claimed by a self-styled "anti-fascist" group protesting her stance on refugees.
Sahra Wagenknecht, who has advocated putting a limit on the number of refugees Germany should accept, is the second German politician to be attacked with a desert this year over her position on asylum-seekers. Beatrix von Storch of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party suffered a similar fate last month.
Wagenknecht was sitting in the front row during the opening speech at a party congress when a young man stopped in front of her and threw the creamy pie in her face, before shouting what sounded like slogans.
The party's president interrupted his speech. As cameramen rushed towards her, one party official asked journalists not to film or take pictures of Wagenknecht as another sought to screen the Linke's parliamentary group leader with a jacket.
The man who threw the pie was swiftly taken away by security and offered no resistance. A young woman later said they belonged to a group called the "Anti-fascist Initiative, pies against the enemies of mankind," which was outraged by Wagenknecht's refugee policy.
Wagenknecht suffered a backlash in her own party when she spoke of a cap on how many refugees Germany should take in. The party has since distanced itself from that stance.
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – On Saturday, Diyali Police Command announced arresting five wanted individuals and seizing a cache of equipment during raid operations in different areas of the province.
Diyali Police chief, Maj. Gen. Jasim al-Sa’adi, said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Today, forces belonging to the Emergency Police conducted a number of raid operations in three cities including Baqubah, resulting in the arrest of five wanted [individuals],” adding that, “The detainees were transferred to security centers to complete the investigations with them.”
Sa’adi also added, “Another force seized a cache of equipment near the vicinity of Mandali (9 km east of Baqubah).”
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, officials promised Egypt two months ago they’d end cooperation with IS fighters in Sinai. But Gazoo’s rulers have done nothing of the kind, and the repercussions could impact Israel
A few days ago, Hamas’s security forces in Gazooplaced in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a group of Salafi activists -- members of Salafiya Jihadiya, a movement made up of Islamist groups that identify mainly with Islamic State
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Clashes around Najila, west of Tripoli International Airport, continued for the second day today between Libyan National Army-supported Wirshefani forces on the one side and Janzouri and Misratan units on the other.
According to the LNA’s spokesman in Benghazi, Ahmed Mismari, the fighting which started on Friday afternoon is the beginning of the LNA’s operation to liberate Tripoli.
This, however, has been denied by the LNA’s Tripoli operations room headed by Colonel Idris Madi. It issued a statement this evening saying that no operation against Tripoli had started. What was happening, it suggested, was yet another local conflict.
It said that fighters from Janzour had attacked a checkpoint which had resulted in a number of them being captured but that also some members of the LNA-supported forces had been injured. It did not say how many.
A third statement from the Janzour Knights, one of the two main forces based in the west Tripoli suburb of Janzour, partially corroborates this. It said there had been an attack on a checkpoint at Najila manned by a Misratan brigade two days ago and that one of the Misratan fighters had been seized and taken away. What then happened, sources have told the Libya Herald, was that the Janzur Knights and the Misratan brigade concerned mounted a joint operation yesterday afternoon counter-attacking a checkpoint controlled by the Wirshefana.
The clashes stopped at sunset today, Saturday, but it is feared they may flare up again on Sunday.
On the front line between the Wirshefana and those forces representing whoever is in power in Tripoli, the area around Najila has seen repeated clashes between the two sides over the past two years. In November 2014, the LNA was claiming that the operation to liberate Tripoli had begun, yet shortly afterwards, nothing more was heard of it. Again just over a year ago, the LNA claimed it was in Najila and moving towards Tripoli.
[Ynet] In light of a possible war with Hezbollah, believed to have 100,000 rockets aimed at Israel, citizens will be trained in disaster relief and working with the population.
Israel is forming civil defense units throughout northern Israel to assist in any future conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Col. Eren Makov, the Northern Regional Commander of the Homefront Command recently stated.
"There is a big change in the Arab population in Israel in that they are much more willing to cooperate with us," Makov said in an interview. "We give them training in what to do and they see it as a contribution."
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"There is a big change in the Arab population in Israel in that they are much more willing to cooperate with us," Makov said in an interview. "We give them training in what to do and they see it as a contribution."
At FiveThirtyEight, we like to celebrate outliers. LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers may end up losing in the NBA Finals, but James's performance has been outlandishly good. In the same vein, I want to congratulate Donald Trump, who reportedly will declare today that he is running for president.
Trump is the anti-LeBron ‐ popularity is performance in politics, and Trump is the first candidate in modern presidential primary history to begin the campaign with a majority of his own party disliking him. A whopping 57 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Trump, according to an average of the three most recent polls. That beats former record holder Pat Buchanan, who had a 43 percent unfavorable rating at this point in the 2000 election cycle.1 Buchanan, of course, ended up running as an independent.
Taking into account name recognition, Trump's net favorability rating (favorable minus unfavorable) of -32 percentage points stands out for its pure terribleness at this point in the campaign. Like his unfavorable rating, it is by far the worst of the 106 presidential candidates since 1980 who are in our database.
For this reason alone, Trump has a better chance of cameoing in another "Home Alone" movie with Macaulay Culkin ‐ or playing in the NBA Finals ‐ than winning the Republican nomination. Warms my heart to know that heartless, ridiculing pricks like these are wrong.
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He's not wrong. Trump's negatives are sky high. Even worse than Hillary's, and, excluding Trump, Hillary's are the worst in our lifetime.
Nate predicted that Trump had a snowball's chance in Hell of getting the nomination. Also true. That it happened anyway is something we will all be thinking and talking about for some time to come, no matter what happens in November.
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Nate Silver's 15 minutes are up, he just has not run the numbers yet...
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For this reason alone, Trump has a better chance of cameoing (sic) in another “Home Alone” movie with Macaulay Culkin — or playing in the NBA Finals — than winning the Republican nomination.
The Navy’s experimental railgun fires a hardened projectile at staggering velocity—a battlefield meteorite with the power to blow holes in enemy ships and level terrorist camps.
Long piece at WSJ complete with images and video.
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Still hope it scares the poopoo out of potential targets.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] SpaceX pulled off another rocket landing Friday, the third in just under two months.
The first-stage booster of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled vertically onto a barge 400 miles off Florida's east coast, eight minutes after the late afternoon liftoff. Cameras on the barge provided stunning, real-time video.
"Falcon 9 has landed!" said a SpaceX flight commentator.
The touchdown occurred after the rocket launched an Asian communications satellite. Like the last successful landing, this one was especially difficult given the speed and heat of the incoming 15-story booster.
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[ARA News] ZAXO – The Peshmerga forces of Iraqi Kurdistan on Saturday repelled an offensive by militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) near Makhmur district, according to military sources.
Peshmerga commander Serwan Barzani stated that five ISIS militants infiltrated into the Kuber-Makhmur area in a bid to launch suicide attacks on Peshmerga headquarters.
“Four of them were arrested before detonating their explosive belts, while the fifth terrorist bombed himself,” Barzani said in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
“One Peshmerga fighter was injured in the explosion, and his situation is stable now,” he added.
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[Al Ahram] The Czech Republic has extradited to the United States a Lebanese man who was detained on suspicion of supporting terrorism in a sting operation in 2014, police said Saturday.
Faouzi Jaber was caught trying to sell weapons from Ukraine to agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) posing as guerilla fighters belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC), according to Czech media.
He faces a life sentence in the United States after his extradition from the Czech Republic several weeks ago, police spokeswoman Marketa Janovska said in a statement.
Faouzi was tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! in April 2014 along with two other men of Lebanese-origin who were subsequently released in February 2016, provoking an angry reaction from the United States embassy in Prague.
Ali Taan Fayyad and Khaled Marabi were freed as part of a deal to secure the release of five Czech citizens kidnapped in Leb in July 2015, among whom was Fayyad's lawyer.
The two men were accused by American officials of preparing liquidations of US babus government employees and of planning to use a surface-to-air missile against a US diplomatic mission.
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When I return to the University of North Texas for the fall semester, I’ll have no way of knowing who is carrying a firearm. As of August 1, students, faculty, and staff with concealed weapon permits may carry guns on public university campuses, under a law approved last year.
I’m a black female professor working in a Texas town with a prominent Confederate memorial. Howdy. I'm a white male professor working in Chicago with a prominent BLM movement. Nice to meet you. All the Confederates are dead now. They won't hurt you.
I teach journalism courses that spark debate about race, gender, and nationality. I have serious reservations about campus carry. If you're so worried about it, get a gun.
Or don't. It's a choice, not a requirement.
Proponents of the new law claim that if more people are armed at institutions of higher learning, we will all be safer. Days after he signed the bill, Governor Greg Abbott declared that would-be shooters in Texas would now understand that “somebody is going to be watching them and have the ability to do something about it” if they open fire on a college campus. Makes sense to me.
But I don’t feel safer. The idea of working in an environment where anyone may have a gun makes me feel perpetually under threat. Why? If they were carrying knives, clubs, brass knuckles or flamethrowers would you feel less threatened? If they weren’t carrying weapons at all but had huge ham hands and hairy knuckles, would you feel less threatened?
I’m afraid of accidents, mostly, but also of misplaced anger and emotional distress. But the gun carriers aren't progressives, so misplaced anger and emotional distress are a lot less likely...
I’m afraid that situations that occur every day on college campuses, like a classroom debate or an office visit about grades, will escalate into deadly shooting. They could do that without a student with a concealed gun. The point is that a shooter with mayhem on his mind can be stopped much more quickly by another armed individual. Or does that make too much sense? Classroom debates and office visits occur every day as you say, perfesser. Very, very, very few of these provoke violence. Why would that change now?
My mother wants me to quit. Friends send me job ads in other states. A few high-profile academics — including a University of Texas dean and a professor emeritus — have already made a public show of leaving. They were attention whores. Do you wish to be an attention whore?
She wrote this. The answer is obvious.
She's making a fine show of pearl-clutching...
But the job market makes it hard for me to consider leaving my first tenure-track position. Even now, while guns are still technically banned from campus, they often show up in campus crime reports. It would be naive to think those incidents won’t increase when more permit holders can legally bring their guns to campus. It would be naive, but for the fact that experience shows armed citizens are a factor in preventing shotings.
To be absolutely clear: I am not anti-gun. No, no, certainly not!
I have never touched a firearm, though I’ve long been interested in obtaining a license to own and carry one. I live alone, and I’m often on the road. Having a tool that would allow me an extra measure of protection is attractive. I’ve also considered carrying a gun as matter of liberation — the kind preached by black militants like Malcolm X and Fred Hampton, who advocated for gun ownership as a means of protecting black bodies like mine from all types of threats. You should so do that. Harriet Tubman was also armed. Good example...
Not to mention Martin Luther King, Jr. and Condoleeza Rice's father. But notice which Black exemplars the perfessor chose for their shock value.
But I’m unsettled by the notion of entire university communities being motivated by fear to take up arms. It's not fear that motivates them, nor hatred. When you understand that you'll get why they carry.
I also wonder how people will react to black students, staff, and faculty who choose to arm themselves. Most likely the black faculty and students will be invited to the gun range for socials. It happens.
It’s clear not everyone is so keen on black folks using guns for self defense. I’m mindful of Marissa Alexander, a black woman who fired a warning shot in her own garage to ward off an attack from her abusive ex-husband. That shot – which injured no one – earned her a 20-year jail sentence in Florida, a state that allows people to “stand their ground” when they cannot escape imminent threat. Not everyone will be armed. Those who do decide to "take up arms" will be forced to consider the notion that someone on the campus is willing and able to return fire. That has to help.
As for the warning shot: the law is clear. You can fire if you are under immediate threat, or if you are under fire. Warning shots are not regarded as a proper response to a physical threat.
The Marissa Alexander case was very odd, indeed, compounded by mandatory sentencing. But at any rate, she was released to house arrest after only three years in a plea deal, with two more years of semi-house arrest. (Wikipedia has the details here.) Our perfessor has not been keeping up.
The lesson I took from her case? Black women do not enjoy the same privilege of self defense as others. Dumb conclusion. Indeed, incorrect. If you're going to carry you have to know and follow the law. Prosecutors and police are pretty particular about that.
While I remain ambivalent about guns, I fear that gun violence on campus isn’t a matter of what if. It’s a matter of when.
Earlier this semester, I thought that day had come.
I’d stepped out of my office for a moment, and when I returned, a student I’d never seen before was perched in one of my chairs. She was a waif with lavender hair and headphones shaped like cat’s ears looped around her neck. Must have been a Rethuglican right? It's the lavender hair, gives us away every time...
“Dr. Clark?” she said.
Her eyes struck me immediately. I can’t recall their color, Lavender?
but I remember the jolt of panic I felt when I noticed that her pupils were huge. Dilated. At 8 in the morning.
“I’ve read about your work, and I wanted to ask you some questions,” she said.
She wanted to talk about “what the black community wants,” and the protests linked to Black Lives Matter.
I felt the familiar heart palpitations I’d had during my days as a newspaper columnist, when readers from God-knows-where would call and offer their critiques sweetly enough, only to devolve into screaming and swearing, threatening to stop me from writing about all that “black shit.” Colleges today are wall to wall psychopaths. Guns are a potentially effective way of dealing with them, or failing that, putting them away.
Any time a stranger — from any background — seeks to engage me about my positions of black existence, I am on guard and prepared to defend myself.
I invited her to sit down.
She was hard to follow. At one point she asked me about racial inequalities then offered her thoughts before I could answer her question.
I began to worry that this young, erratic woman might become violent, Why? How was she different than halftwo-thirdsfour-fifths almost any other Oberlin student?
and I scanned the room to see what I could grab to defend myself. A picture frame? My computer monitor? Then I felt silly. I was twice her size, but fear of what could happen kept me on edge. As I sat, cornered in my own office, I realized that I’d never been so glad to be unarmed. If I were, I’d have had one hand on my gun.
When she finally left, I felt relief, then a flood of guilt. Had I been carrying a weapon, and had she made too sudden a move, what would have happened? I am still unsure of her motivation for seeking me out, but it seems likely she was simply a confused young woman, under the influence of drugs. If I’d had a gun, I might have overreacted that day, brandishing it out of a heightened sense of fear. I might have caused irreparable harm, even if I never fired a shot.
And that’s what frightens me most. Well no. What frightens you the most is that you still don't have a grip on your own emotions. Carrying a firearm won't help that. But the proper training to carry, followed by some range time, followed by some quiet discussions with a gruff but kindly former Marine at the range, followed by some introspection, will give you a certain, quiet confidence that will carry you when you don't have a weapon handy, and will teach you on the rare, rare moment that it is necessary to draw a weapon.
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Legal gun carriers have to pass tests and a background check. Which is more stringent than college professors. All the Confederates are dead now. They won't hurt you.
Not quite, their legacy lives on with the modern Democrats and their desire to own and control all.
[Al Ahram] Sunni politicians in Iraq condemned on Saturday a visit by Iranian General Qassem Soleimani to Shia paramilitary forces fighting alongside the Iraqi army to drive 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.... bandidosLions of Islam out of the Sunni city of Falluja.
Three politicians from the province of Anbar told Rooters the visit by Iran's al-Quds brigade commander could fuel sectarian tension and cast doubt on Baghdad's assertions that the offensive is an Iraqi-led effort to defeat Islamic State, and not to settle scores with the Sunnis.
Falluja, which lies about 50 kilometers (32 miles) west of Baghdad, is a bastion of the insurgency that fought the US occupation of Iraq and the Shi'ite-led authorities that replaced former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, a Sunni.
In recent days, Iranian media published pictures of what they said was a visit by Soleimani to Falluja and a meeting he held with the leaders of the Iraqi coalition of Shi'ite militias known as Popular Mobilization, or Hashid Shaabi.
It is the second time Soleimani has appeared in Iraqi conflict zones. About a year ago, witnesses said he was present when Popular Mobilization fighters ousted Islamic State bandidosLions of Islam from cities north of the capital.
An Iraqi government front man did not confirm Soleimani's visit and stressed that Iranian advisors are present in Iraq in order to assist in the war on Islamic State (IS group) in the same capacity as those of the US-led anti-IS group coalition.
Member of parliament (MP) Hamid al-Mutlaq rejected that, however.
"We are Iraqis and not Iranians," he said. "Would Turkish or Saudi advisers be welcomed to assist in the battle?" he added, drawing a parallel between the three regional powers bordering Iraq -- mainly-Sunni The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , and Shia Iran.
"Soleimani's presence is suspicious and a cause for concern; he is absolutely not welcome in the area," said Falluja parliamentarian Salim Muttar al-Issawi.
"I believe that the presence of such an official from the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guard could have sectarian implications," said another MP from the city, Liqaa Wardi.
Falluja was the first city captured by Islamic State in Iraq in January 2014, and is the second-largest still held by the bandidosLions of Islam after djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , their de-facto capital.
The Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, a hardline political organization formed after Saddam's ouster to represent Sunnis, rejected the participation of the Shi'ite militias in the fighting in Falluja.
"The militias ... didn't come to liberate areas, as they claim, but to carry out their sectarian goals with direct guidance from Iran," it said in a statement on Friday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia traded accusations over Soleimani's role in Iraq.
"The presence of Iran's military advisers in Iraq under the command of General Qassem Soleimani is at the request of the country's legitimate government in order to fight terrorists," an Iranian foreign ministry front man said, according to the Fars news agency.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was quoted as telling Russia's RT channel Soleimani's presence in Iraq was "very negative."
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Watch what what happens to the guy in the red shirt his new associates,
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent political figure and former Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf ...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home... has warned that Pakistain will be added to the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism if it does not refrain from wrongdoings.
Sayyaf was apparently pointing towards Pakistain’s support to the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups fighting in Afghanistan, joining the Afghan officials to slam the country for providing shelter to terror groups.
He was speaking during a gathering in capital 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.... to remember 117 people belonging to Nahzat Islami killed 37 years ago.
Sayyaf said the world has recognized Pakistain and there will be one day that the name of Pakistain will be included in the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
He also called on the Taliban group to join grinding of the peace processor by renouncing violence, warning that the Talibs will be killed as their leaders if they chose to pursue violence.
The remarks by Sayyaf comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for providing shelter to anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups, specifically the Taliban group and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network.
The Afghanistan's Caped 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. .. earlier asked Pakistain to take actions against the leadership councils of the groups based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta cities of Pakistain.
President Ghani warned to take the issue to the international organizations, including the UN Security Council if Pakistain did not take any action against the groups waging violence in Afghanistan.
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In anger? Rather as a matter of cold calculation, you sad inheritor of a once-serious profession.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] MSNBC breaking news host and ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was allowed out on MSNBC’s airwaves early Friday afternoon to discuss President B.O.’s visit to Hiroshima so he could resurrect a taped report that aired in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bomb’s dropping on the Japanese city.
In the course of discussing the event afterward, though, Williams threw some shade in the direction of the U.S. military and then-President Harry Truman by complaining that "we’re the only nation to have used them in anger" against the horrifying Axis Powers member.
Leading up to that, Mitchell pointed out that the current President has shown an interest in nuclear disarmament since he took office but lamented has made little progress since the most recent conference in D.C. "because Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... -- the other great nuclear power and the other curb on proliferation after the Cold War was the Soviet Union wasn’t present, was boycotting because of other tensions, tensions over Ukraine."
NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss compared the President’s Hiroshima speech to that of "John Kennedy at the American University -- so close to where we are now in 1963 and that was given with the same motive which was that was a time when talks about a test-ban treaty had been installed."
Asked by Mitchell to comment on the push by then-Senators Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) to curb the use of nuclear material, Williams initially praised them, but then took a swipe at the entire reason that Truman had the bombs dropped (which was to end the war):
It is and that is still the threat that people worry about that this material will fall into the wrong hands. If people have found the U.S. to be preachy in the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki about the use of weapons, it’s because we’re the only nation to have used them in anger. Sometimes, I am amazed that the world has been without these weapons all the years since, but it is a point of, a great pride by the people who have seen to it.
Of course, Williams has a past on this issue (as he does on most things -- including lying) going back to 2005 when, in addition to the taped piece, he pressed Enola Gay pilot Dutch Van Kirk on whether or not he has "remorse for what happened" and how he "deal[s] with" the bomb’s dropping psychologically.
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the only nation to have used them in anger
Certainly they were used in time of war perhaps not in anger but in hope.
The two bombings killed tens of thousands.
The resultant actions saved perhaps millions of lives of the alternative Allied invasion forces.
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War is fought in anger. We did not storm Normandy beach listening to Polka music. We went there to kill, in anger, and to make the cost of war so high on our enemies that they would rather live under our rule that fight us. Its angry business, the angrier we are, the shorter the war will be. This is what's wrong with the way America fights its wars today. Total war ends quickly, just ask Japan. Fight hard, get angry, win, get over it....
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Considering we haven't used them in over 70 years despite some people just begging for it, I'd say that's a better record than most other nations might have.
[Daily Excelsior] In a major blow to Hizbul Mujahideen outfit, Tariq Pandit, a close aide of Burhan Wani was apprehended by Army in a well coordinated swift operation today on Newa- Pinglana road in district Pulwama.
An Army front man said: "Based on specific intelligence input regarding the move of a HM millitant on the Newa ‐ Pinglana road near Karimabad, Pulwama a joint mobile vehicle check post was established by Army and JKP today morning."
The front man said that the movement of murderous Moslem was kept under constant surveillanc. He was apprehended by the team of Rashtriya Rifle battalion, along with one 9 mm pistol, two Chinese grenades and other war like stores. The murderous Moslem was involved in many terror related incidents in Pulwama area.
An FIR has been registered and the apprehended terrorist has been handed over to the local Police Station, Pulwama.
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Fierce clashes between the ISIS group and rebels erupted in a town in northeastern Syria Saturday, a monitor and an activist said, after jihadists entered a Syrian opposition stronghold near Marea cutting a main supply route.
“Heavy clashes took place overnight between ISIS fighters and rebels inside the walls of Marea town,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as the extremist group built on its most significant advance near the Turkish border in two years.
Early Saturday, ISIS fighters staged two suicide bombings targeting “opposition forces” near Marea using tanks and two car bombs, ISIS said via its news agency, Aamaq.
The advance has besieged more than 160,000 civilians are trapped and forced the evacuation of one of the few remaining hospitals in the area, run by the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders.
Following the suicide bombings, ISIS militants entered Marea and fighting began inside the town, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition media outfit that tracks Syria’s civil war.
The territorial gains around the rebel strongholds of Marea and Azaz, north of Aleppo city, are a blow to the Syrian rebels, who have been struggling to retain a foothold in the region while being squeezed by opponents from all sides. They also demonstrated the ISIS group’s ability to stage major offensives and capture new areas, despite a string of recent losses in Syria and Iraq.
The ISIS offensive targeting Syrian opposition strongholds near the Turkish border began Thursday night.
On Friday, militants of the group captured six villages near Azaz, triggering intense fighting that trapped tens of thousands of civilians unable to flee to safety while Turkey’s border remains closed. A few hundred fled west to the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin.
People are “terrified for their lives,” the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a statement. The group said it has received confirmed reports that at least four entire families, including women and children, were killed Friday on the outskirts of the town of Azaz.
The IRC runs centers for both children and women in Azaz and provides clean water and sanitation to a camp supporting 8,500 people. More than half the camp’s population has fled to find safety elsewhere in the town, it said. The IRC also relocated its staff from the centers and camp to shelter to safer areas of Azaz until the situation enables them to return.
The U.N. refugee agency said it was “deeply concerned” about the fighting affecting thousands of vulnerable civilians.
“Fleeing civilians are being caught in crossfire and are facing challenges to access medical services, food, water and safety,” it said in a statement Saturday.
The advances brought the militants to within few kilometers of the rebel-held town of Azaz and cut off supplies to Marea further south. Marea has long been considered a bastion of moderate Syrian revolutionary forces fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.
Azaz, which hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced people, lies north of Aleppo city, which has been divided between a rebel-held east and government-held west.
A route known as the Azaz corridor links rebel-held eastern Aleppo with Turkey. That has been a lifeline for the rebels since 2012, but a government offensive backed by Russian air power and regional militias earlier this year dislodged rebels from parts of Azaz and severed their corridor between the Turkish border and Aleppo.
The predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are fighting for their autonomy in the multilayered conflict, also gained ground against the rebels.
In recent months, Syrian rebel factions in Azaz — which include mainstream opposition fighters known as the Free Syrian Army along with some ultraconservative insurgent factions — have been squeezed between ISIS to the east and predominantly Kurdish forces to the west and south, while Turkey restricts the flow of goods and people through the border.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh Province revealed, that 35 civilians were wounded by an attack launched by ISIS using rockets containing chlorine gas in southern the province.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today, ISIS attacked Kahrez village in Zamar vicinity (45 km south of Nineveh) with more than ten rockets containing chlorine gas, wounding 35 civilians, mostly women and children.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The wounded were transferred to nearby hospitals to receive treatment.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The local council of Amiriyah vicinity in Anbar Province announced on Saturday, that 22 people, including women and children were either killed or wounded in a shelling conducted by the so-called ISIS while trying to escape in southern Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad).
The council’s member Sabah al-Eissawi said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS members targeted a number of civilian while trying to escape from the regions of Albu Shihab and Jamila in southern Fallujah, killing two women and injuring 20 people, including children and women.”
Eissawi added, “ISIS is taking the civilians as human shields and preventing them from leaving their areas in the southern sector of Fallujah, in addition to forcing a large number of residents to flee from Amiriyah to Fallujah.”
[ARA News] ERBIL – Exremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Saturday executed four Syrian men in the northeastern city of Raqqa on charges of spying for the US-led coalition.
The group released a video showing four young men, dressed in orange, allegedly confessing their involvement in communicating with the western coalition about ISIS movements inside Raqqa.
The victims, identified as Hamoud al-Hamoud, Ahmed Mardud, Ali al-Ali and Abdullah al-Khalaf, were beheaded by ISIS masked jihadis.
The video then shows life in Raqqa under ISIS, where a jihadi speaker stresses that life will continue in the territory of the alleged Caliphate despite the American and Russian military campaign against ISIS.
[ARA News] The Kurds in Sheikh Maqsoud suffer from the absence of many services as a result of the blockade imposed by Islamist rebel groups on their district, mainly by the Nusra Front (al-Qaeda branch in Syria).
Speaking to ARA News, Luqman Ismail, one of the stranded citizens in Sheikh Maqsoud, said that electricity outage continues for nearly three years because of the barbaric bombardment led by Islamist rebels on the main network of power outside the district.
“These groups are apparently punishing the people of Sheikh Maqsoud for their support to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), who are engaged in fighting with Islamist rebels around the city of Aleppo,” he reported.
“People now depend on power generators that work only 4-5 hours per day. We also suffer from the lack of fuel to run these generators,” Ismail added.
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[Al Ahram] Fighting between IS group and Syrian rebels near the Turkish border has killed dozens of people in the last two days, as IS Lions of Islam keep up an offensive that has led to rapid territorial gains, a monitoring group said on Saturday.
Fighters from the Lion of Islam group entered the rebel-held town of Marea early on Saturday, using at least two boom-mobiles in the assault, and festivities continued later in the day, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
An advance by the jihadists on Friday that cut Marea off from another key myrmidon-held town, Azaz, was their biggest territorial gain in the northern province of Aleppo for two years, the Observatory said.
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.... has been battling rebel factions fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) since late last year, but festivities have intensified in recent weeks.
The fighting in the past two days has killed at least 27 civilians as well as 41 combatants, the Observatory said.
A US-led coalition carried out air raids on IS positions in one of the villages that the jihadists had captured from rebels, it said.
IS on Friday encroached from the east on a narrow area of rebel control connected to the Turkish border, through which the rebels have received support.
To the west of that rebel-held area is territory under the control of the Kurdish YPG militia and its allies, who have been fighting the rebels but also separately battling Islamic State.
One of the Kurdish-allied groups took over a village west of Marea on Saturday, apparently in a rare agreement with the FSA rebels, the Observatory reported.
The move could bring the Kurdish-allied group, Jaish al-Thuwwar, into confrontation with IS in the area. It also further erodes rebel control there from the west.
The United States is backing the YPG and its allies in an offensive against IS in the northern countryside of neighbouring Raqqa province, which is home to the group's de facto capital, Raqqa city.
Washington has also supported FSA factions.
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – On Saturday, Syrian Islamist factions renewed their bombardment on the Kurdish district of Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo city, causing casualties among civilians.
At least four people were killed and over 15 others wounded, mostly women and children, after Syrian Islamist groups hit Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood with dozens of rockets and mortar shells, local activists told ARA News.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham and other Islamist factions participated in bombing the Kurdish district on Saturday.
A spokesman for the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG)–that are in control of Sheikh Maqsoud–told ARA News that the shelling continued until Saturday evening, “causing mass destruction to residential buildings beside killing and wounding twenty civilians”.
“Some of the injured are in critical situation. Civil defense volunteers are still searching for survivors under the rubble,” Kurdish civil rights activist Rezan Hiddo told ARA News in Aleppo.
Am nasty International calls for blocking of arms to Islamists attacking Kurds in Aleppo
Amnesty International said that armed groups attacking the Kurdish neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo since February have killed at least 83 civilians, and called on Turkey, Gulf states and others to stop the transfer of arms to the Aleppo Conquest operations room–an umbrella for Syrian Islamist rebels.
“Armed groups surrounding the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo city have repeatedly carried out indiscriminate attacks that have struck civilian homes, streets, markets and mosques, killing and injuring civilians and displaying a shameful disregard for human life,” Amnesty said last week.
The organization has gathered strong evidence of serious violations from eyewitnesses, and obtained the names of at least 83 civilians, including 30 children, who were killed by attacks in Sheikh Maqsoud between February and April 2016.
More than 700 civilians were also injured, according to the local field hospital. Video evidence shows artillery shelling, rocket and mortar attacks carried out by the Fatah Halab (Aleppo Conquest) coalition of armed Islamist groups in the area, targeting the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) controlling the district.
“The relentless pummelling of Sheikh Maqsoud has devastated the lives of civilians in the area. A wide array of armed groups from the Fatah Halab coalition has launched what appear to be repeated indiscriminate attacks that may amount to war crimes,” said Magdalena Mughrabi, interim Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International.
There are around 30,000 civilians living in Sheikh Maqsoud which is a predominately Kurdish part of Aleppo city.
[DAWN] MAYBE we don’t know what we’re doing. Maybe we’re hostage to history and the past. Maybe the outside world is wrong.
Or maybe we know exactly what we’re doing and why.
Mansour is dead because Pakistain couldn’t deliver him to the negotiating table. And Pakistain couldn’t deliver Mansour to the negotiating table because Pakistain has influence, not control.
And Pakistain has only influence, not control, over the Taliban because -- well, here’s where the official story starts to break down.
Publicly, the line is this -- sanctuary does not equal control because even without sanctuary, the Taliban would still be fighting the Afghan state inside Afghanistan.
The fault, then, is with the Afghan state -- if they were better at governing and fighting, the Taliban wouldn’t be around. We -- Pakistain -- can’t be held responsible for the screw-ups of the Afghan state.
Privately, the line is this -- sanctuary does not equal control because the Taliban know we can’t force them to dialogue. Because if we tried to force them, they’d bring the war here.
And Pakistain cannot afford another war inside Pakistain, with the Afghan Taliban of all things. That would be insanity and disaster.
So, influence -- and limited influence at best.
We want there to be dialogue, we really do, but there’s only so much we can do. See above.
Except -- what part of Mansour catching a taxi from Taftan and merrily wandering across 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... expanse suggests that we were serious about making the Taliban dialogue?
You don’t have to be a strategic expert to figure out how leverage works. We want X to do Y. We ask politely. X refuses. So, we lean on X.
We curb his freedoms. We ask for his passport back. We disrupt his side businesses. We stall his communications. We make him feel isolated.
Gradual but determined escalation. Whatever the specifics, by the time the end comes, X shouldn’t casually be passing through immigration and wandering around on his own.
And that business about bringing war to Pakistain? It sounds awfully like what we were once told about the TTP. We can’t go into North Wazoo because they’ll bring the war to the cities. It will be carnage on a scale that we couldn’t imagine. Pakistain would be brought to its knees.
Except, it wasn’t. Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. happened, as did Lahore and some other stuff. But that epic blowback that had been so feared was pretty much neutralised by the very thing we were told would trigger it:
A military operation combined with counterterrorism stuff -- y’know, the kind of stuff that a state is supposed to do when confronted by an internal military threat.
And about the Afghan Taliban’s bluff.
The basic difference between the Afghan Taliban and the TTP, we’ve always been told, is that the Afghan lot are nationalists, not trans-nationalists.
They have no ambitions beyond Afghanistan. They won’t fight abroad and won’t sponsor violence abroad. They’re not the TTP.
So, call their bluff -- we tell them to dialogue, they say they won’t, then squeeze them until they do or see if they’ll really threaten to bring the war here.
And if they do threaten -- it’s not like we don’t know where each and everyone of their leaders is. They threaten war, we bring the hammer down on them.
Fantasy? You bet.
Because we’ve done this before. Back when the Geneva accords were being negotiated and we were publicly pledging non-interference and non-intervention while preparing for the opposite.
Now, it’s all talk of peace and dialogue and Afghan-owned and Afghan-led. While Mansour is getting his passport stamped and taking a taxi across Balochistan.
Maybe we don’t know what we’re doing. Maybe we’ve trapped ourselves.
Or maybe we do know exactly what we’re doing and why -- Afghanistan is ours, the Taliban are ours and there ain’t anything the world can do about it.
Because the post-Bonn Afghan state is not sustainable. Because the US will eventually tire. Because time is on our side.
And while destiny and the inevitable will be ours, if in the meantime there’s a drone strike or four, so be it. The US is a superpower. You have to let the angry giant tire himself out.
Omar, Mansour, Haibatullah, Jack, John or Jill, who cares -- Project Afghanistan, our plan for our neighbour to the west, remains untouched.
A simple agenda -- Afghanistan will be ours and the Taliban will get it for us. But a complicated tactic -- shout dialogue from the rooftops, while keeping the Taliban in the basement.
Because the time isn’t right and until then we have to play along.
Influence, not control is the other incompetence or complicity -- a canard that buys us time and shields our agenda.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The leadership of al-Hashed al-Shaabi in Anbar Province announced on Saturday, that the Iraqi security forces launched the second phase of Fallujah liberation operations to free the city from the so-called ISIS control.
The leadership of al-Hashed al-Shaabi said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This morning the second phase of the liberation operations of the city of Fallujah was started from the western axis towards Saqlawiyah vicinity,” adding that, “The security forces moved towards the village of al-Bakra and al-Shohada neighborhood in Saqlawiyah in northern Fallujah.”
Noteworthy, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Monday (23 May 2016), that the security forces had started military operations to liberate the city of Fallujah, while emphasized that ISIS has no choice but to flee from the battle.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A security source in Anbar Province revealed on Saturday, that more than 80 ISIS members were killed by an air strike on a tunnel belonging to the organization north of Ramadi.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition aircraft bombarded a tunnel belonging to ISIS in Albu Bali area in Khalidiya Island north of Ramadi, killing 80 ISIS members.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The air strike was carried out based on accurate intelligence information.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday, that the security forces had managed to liberate the village of al-Bakara north of the city of Fallujah.
The officials said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Federal Police Command liberated the village of Bakara north of Sajar,” pointing out that, “The [security] forces are still advancing into their specified targets.”
Last week, Secretary-General of Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri announced the complete liberation of the area of Sajar north of Fallujah in Anbar Province.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Saturday, Baghdad Operations Command announced, that 100 terrorists were killed and 2030 people were evacuated from the northern axis of Karma, while pointed out to the destruction of 39 hideouts belonging to the enemy.
The command said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces in the northern axis of Karma, Albu Shajal axis, al-Lahib, Jesr al-Tofaha axis, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi, tribal fighters, al-Hashd al-Ashaeri, Army Aviation, Iraqi Air Force, international coalition aviation and artillery, managed in the past 24 hours to kill 110 terrorists and wound 20 others, as well as destroying 18 vehicles, including one booby-trapped vehicle.”
The statement added, “The operations also resulted in seizing an exclusive belt and materials, in addition to dismantling 535 improvised explosive devices and 20 houses,” pointing out that, “Three laboratories, two bulldozers and 39 hideouts were also destroyed during the operations.”
“The army’s 6th brigade and 14th infantry brigade evacuated 2030 people through safe havens,” the statement continued.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi announced on Saturday, that the security forces destructed two vehicles south of Fallujah.
Mahalawi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A force from Anbar Operations’ 8th brigade managed to destroy a booby-trapped vehicle and kill the two suicide bombers who were inside it using Russian cornet rockets,” pointing out that, “The vehicle tried to target the security forces in al-Hasa area south of Fallujah.”
Mahalawi added, “Another force managed to destruct a vehicle carrying a rocket and killed five ISIS members in al-Hasa south of Fallujah.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – On Saturday the Federal Police Captain Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat announced, that the Iraqi security forces managed to retake the village of al-Mukhtar north of Fallujah.
Jawdat said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The Federal Police forces managed, today, to liberate the village of al-Mukhtar located on the international highway road north of the city of Fallujah,” adding also that, “The [security] forces and supporting troops are advancing into the vicinity of al-Saqalawiya to liberate it from ISIS.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Saturday, Fallujah Council in Anbar Province announced, that the joint forces are preparing to storm Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad) from four axes during the next few hours, in order to liberate it from the control of the so-called ISIS, while pointed out to the evacuation of 250 families from the northern and southern sides of the city.
The Council’s spokesman, Salam Ajami, said in in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The joint forces from the army, police and tribal fighters backed by the international coalition aviation are preparing to storm Fallujah from four axes in the next few hours, in order to liberate it from the ISIS control.”
Ajami added, “The security forces managed to evacuate 250 families, mostly women and children, from the southern sector of Amiriyah Fallujah and the northern axis of the city,” indicating that, “The joint security forces are advancing dramatically on the eastern side of the city.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Federal Police Command revealed on Saturday, that the Federal Police forces imposed its control on Fallujah highway in western Baghdad.
The official journalists with the Ministry of Defense also announced dismantling an armored car bomb in Fallujah, while indicated to the killing of a number of ISIS fighters in Albu Shajel axes.
The Federal Police Captain, Raed Shakir Jawdat, said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Federal Police forces imposed its control on Fallujah highway.”
Meanwhile, official journalist with the Ministry of Defense stated, “Baghdad Operations’ reconnaissance regiment found a booby-trapping laboratory and an armored car bomb in al-Karma City,” indicating that, “The car bomb was dismantled by the military engineering teams.”
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It appears from this map that the Iraqi troops are still outside the city and working their way toward the city limits.
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