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Euro 2016, the once-every-four-years soccer tournament between Europe's top national teams, kicks off in Paris today. Ahead of the build-up to the games, there were plenty of security concerns, from the looming specter of Islamist violence to threats of far-right, ultra-nationalist terrorism. That's right folks - only drunken Brit soccer hooligans are terrorists in this dickhead's mind. He fits right in at the Post.
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Saw a bigger fight outside the local Metra train station yesterday and not a single cop showed up. A few fists thrown and a failed take down then all the rowdy players edged away home.
No idea what it was about and don't give a damn.
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Very odd. Here is a subsequent report from a Dallas teleision station. The gentleman is identified, and mention made of his arrest earlier this week for driving his car at some trees in a park.
Here's an ugly footnote to Wednesday's terror attack in Tel Aviv: The two gunmen now automatically qualify for monthly salaries from the Palestinian Authority.
That right is enshrined in Article 22.2 of the PA constitution, the Basic Law of Palestine.
The terrorists opened fire at a popular open-air market, killing four innocents and wounding five others. It was the latest of some 300 attacks these last nine months, which include stabbings, bombings, motor-vehicle assaults and other mayhem. The slaughter's claimed 30 Israeli lives (including some Arab ones), and two Americans.
And all the surviving attackers collect PA checks, as do the families of what the PA calls the "martyrs" who die during their assaults. One UN-funded PA charity even did a tree-planting ceremony to honor some of the terrorists.
As the nonprofit Palestinian Media Watch points out, the PA's official news outlets are terming the latest atrocity "the Tel Aviv Operation," while the Facebook page of the ruling Fatah party blames Israel for inspiring the attacks.
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Call in an artillery strike on the tree. And monthly mortar attacks on their houses should take up most or all of their new pension.
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Easy solution: Israel can just fine the perps (if they're caught) the total of the monthly payment times their life expectancy. The perp will be allowed to pay it monthly. For the families of martyrs, do the same thing.
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3DC, The enthusiast forums are asking the same static burn question.
Couldn't happen to 'nicer' people...
Gawker filed for bankruptcy Friday in New York federal court shortly after a lawyer for the gossip website told a Florida judge that it couldn’t afford to pay a $140 million jury award to wrestling legend Hulk Hogan for posting his sex tape online.
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing says that Gawker has between 200 and 1,000 creditors, between $50 million and $100 million in assets and $100 million to $500 million in liabilities.
The company says that it will use two loans, one $15 million one made by Menlo Park, Calif. venture capital firm US VC Partners, and another $7.6 million one made by Silicon Valley Bank, to stay afloat during the proceeding.
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To anyone thinking that Gawker is going away -- sorry.
This is a Chapter 11 reorganization, not a Chapter 7 liquidation. And the VC loans clinch it. They'll come in and add "new value". Debts will go away and life will continue as before, but with a modified cap table.
Britain's Type 45 destroyers are some of the most powerful "small" warships ever put to sea -- unless that sea is as warm as the Persian Gulf, where the ships are routinely deployed.
Then they lose electrical power. Totally.
I wish I were kidding, but the HMS Daring and her sister ships "cannot cope" with warm waters:
"The equipment is having to operate in far more arduous conditions that were initially required," Rolls-Royce director Tomas Leahy said.
Managing director of BAE Systems Maritime, John Hudson, supported Leahy's comments, adding: "The operating profile at the time was that there would not be repeated or continuous operations in the Gulf."
Waters in the Persian Gulf can get as hot as 90 degrees F (32 degrees C).
The Royal Navy's Type 45 Destroyer, HMS Defender sails into the HM Naval Base Portsmouth for the first time on July 25, 2012.
Leahy told MPs that turbines do not generate as much power when they run in a hot environment, which is not recognized by the system.
"This is when you get your total electrical failure," Leahy explained.
Who the hell designs a warship unfit for duty in the world's most likely war zone?
They have a bigger problem than that. If they get into a major war, they have 19 destroyers and frigates. Nineteen. It might be best if their country didn't get itself into a "major war"...
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The RN's historical focii has bee defense of the Channel, espec Channel ports, along wid North Atlantic trade where cold weather is the norm.
One of the main reasons why Thatcher sought a quick + decisive mil response to the 1980's Falkland Risis agz Argentina was the fear of RN shipboard power loss + rust.
US Navy = UK-NATO Navies = will needs specialized lubes + solvents, etc. to deal wid global temperature + weather changes due to changes on solar activities.
IMO GLOBAL-WARMING PROTECTED SHIPS BY 2030-2050 WON'T LOOK, RUN, OR "FEEL" AS WARSHIPS DO NOW.
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As for the Artic, "...They have 19 Destroyers + Frigates" > actually, former UK Fist Sea Lord Allan West says the number is actually 13 effective warships, not 19.
Iff Britain's failure is lack of numbers + proper sea drives, ITS STILL ACCEPTABLE THAN AMERICA'S PROBLEM OF HAVING ANTI-US US POLITICOS + PRO-OWG-NWO GLBALISTS IN CHARGE OF AMERIKA'S ARMED FORCES.
POTUS OBAMA SENT US WARSHIPS INCLUDING CVN NEAR OR JUST OUTSIDE CHINA'S 12-MILE LIMIT, NOT INTO CHINA'S 12-MILE LIMIT, WHICH ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING AS PER TRYING TO STOP CHINA'S CONTRUCTION ACTIVITIES IN THE SPRATLYS. CHINA NOW HAS EFFECIVE CONTROL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, + WILL SOON TURN ITS FOCII TO THE FINAL RECOVERY OF TAIWAN + THE EAST CHINA SEA AGZ JAPAN + SOKOR.
Amerika's other problem ...
* WAFF > MASSIVE US NAVY SCANDAL [high-level corruption] BRINGS ITS FIGHTING ABILITY INTO QUESTION.
Over 30 USN Admirals being investigated for various contracts fraud, bribery, + general corruption. IFF BRITAIN'S NAVY HAS TOO LITTLE MONEY TO IMPROVE UPON ITS TYPE 45 WARSHIPS, THE US NAVY ON ITS PART MAY HAVE TOO MUCH.
Big huge Daily Mail article. Here are the lowhighlights:
Bill Clinton's lover - before and AFTER his marriage - tells how 'lumpy' Hillary with her 'fat ankles and hair on her toes' schemed to get her to LIE on 60 Minutes about Bill's other affairs
'There appears to be no limit to what Hillary will do to destroy her perceived enemies,' Dolly Kyle writes in her new bombshell book
Kyle began sleeping with Bill Clinton after high school and their affair didn't end until he moved to the White House
'Billy was a sex addict; I was a codependent,' she admits in memoir that rips the lid off the power couple
Bill was undone by Wilt Chamberlain's claim to have slept with 20,000 women - That's ten times more than I've had!' he told Dolly
Dolly says Bill told her he and Hillary - who he called 'The Warden' -needed to have a baby 'so we can appear to be a normal couple'
'We need to do something serious to take attention off the Warden's lifestyle,' Bill said and Dolly suggested he sleep with Hillary Drastic times . . . ."
When Dolly met Hillary - May 28, 1974 - she wore a 'misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body'
The garment 'stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves covered with black hair'
'Thick brown sandals did nothing to conceal her wide feet and the hair on her toes,' Dolly said, adding that she was embarrassed and staring I recall Huma saying something like how she thought Hillary was beautiful. I guess that explains why she might marry Weiner.
[Ynet] Unconfirmed reports on an Iraqi news site "Alsumaria New," indicate that the leader 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.... , His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , and a number of other leaders of the terror organization were hit in a strike carried out by the international coalition on the Syrian-Iraqi border overnight Thursday.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured in air strike, say reports
London: 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.... 's self-proclaimed chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... has been maimed in an air strike by the coalition forces, media reports said on Friday.
Baghdadi was travelling in a convoy with other senior ISIS members when they were hit by an air strike, the express.co.uk reported.
Citing local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province, the Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya also reported that Baghdadi and other leaders of the Islamist group were maimed on Thursday in a coalition bombing raid.
"The planes of the international coalition yesterday bombed a location where there is a base of Isis members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh," the report said quoting an Iraqi source.
"According to reports, the Isis leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was injured along with some members of the organization who were gathered at that meeting.
"The attack was carried out on the basis of precise intelligence information that led to strike its own that site," he added.
"Baghdadi and the other ISIS leaders arrived in Iraq from Syria with a convoy of cars," the source said, adding the area is one of the group’s strongholds.
Citing a front man for the US-led coalition, the Express reported that he had also heard the news but had "nothing to confirm this at this time".
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[Breitbart] Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has declared that if Germany closes its borders Germans will degenerate through inbreeding.
Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has made it clear that he does not support a securing or closing of the borders of Germany for various reasons, including what he believes may be the downfall of the German people: inbreeding.
According to Mr. Schäuble mass migration is a great opportunity for Germans to become more diverse as a people, especially the mass migration of Muslims: "For us, Muslims in Germany are an enrichment of our openness and our diversity," Tagesspiegel reports.
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Inviting a closed community that already engages in inbreeding doesn't answer that issue, unless you are looking forward to rapey rape. That would explain the government's policy of down playing that reporting.
[Daily Caller] Obama had been in town to tape his segment for “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” (VIDEO: Obama Tells Fallon — Presidency Is A ‘Serious Job … Not Reality TV’)
The biker was seen being handcuffed in the video and reportedly received a summons for disorderly conduct.
[Zero Hedge] Widespread reports continue to pour in from all over the nation of "glitches" with the food stamp system. It is eight days into the month and large numbers of people still have not received their benefits, and in other instances it is being reported that EBT cards are simply not working correctly. So what in the world is going on here? On downdetector.com there are scores of reports of problems with the EBT system from people all over the nation. Could this simply be another example of government incompetence, or is something else at work here? Waivers expiration the problem ?
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I have to agree with comment #2 but I also believe it is more than coincidental that the new anti-white take matters into your own hands version of "Roots" was being broadcast on eight channels that I receive and many of them were broadcasting it back to back this last weekend. The race riot pot is being stirred with two spoons already.
[Mail] OOPS: White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday that President Obama won't interfere with 'any criminal investigation' like the one Hillary Clinton faces over classified documents in her private emails
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The path to deflect Hillary May be emerging, as Cheryl Mills begins to look like road kill and the option of a pardon for her and lifetime of fat employment after the pardon dangles. If she takes the bait, she should consider how often tragic accidents seem to follow post-deal Clintonian synchophants.
[Guardian] Senator Elizabeth Warren has declared herself ready to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the US presidential election.
The Massachusetts senator ‐ popular among the progressive wing of the Democratic party ‐ made the declaration shortly after endorsing Clinton, calling her "a fighter with guts" who would keep Donald Trump out the White House.
In an interview on MSNBC, Warren was asked by Rachel Maddow: "If you were asked to be Secretary Clinton’s running mate, do you believe you could do it?"
Her response was concise: "Yes, I do."
In another interview with the Boston Globe on Thursday, Warren endorsed Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee, saying: "I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States and be sure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House."
[PJ] WASHINGTON -- The State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism for 2015 note that Iran got cozier with Hamas last year while the U.S. admittedly "cannot certify" that Syria complied with the chemical weapons disposal deal that the Obama administration forged to avert acting on the president's red line.
Cuba was removed from the state sponsors of terrorism list a year ago as part of President Obama's rapprochement with the communist island. "While the United States has significant concerns and disagreements with a wide range of Cuba's policies and actions, these fall outside the criteria relevant to the rescission of a State Sponsor of Terrorism designation," State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said on May 29, 2015.
So the state sponsors of terrorism section of the department's annual report was whittled to three this year: Iran, Sudan and Syria.
Iran has been on the list since 1984, and "continued its terrorist-related activity in 2015, including support for Hizballah, Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and various groups in Iraq and throughout the Middle East."
"In addition to its ongoing support for Hizballah in Syria, Iran continued to provide arms, financing, training, and the facilitation of primarily Iraqi, Afghan, and Pakistani Shia fighters to support the Asad regime's brutal crackdown that has resulted in the deaths of more than 250,000 people in Syria," the report states. "Iran more openly acknowledged the deaths of Iranian personnel in Syria in 2015, including several senior commanders, and increased Iranian troop levels, while continuing to claim publicly that Iranian forces had only deployed in an advisory role."
The State Department also noted Tehran's provision of weapons, funding, and training to Shiite forces in Bahrain, including a bomb-making facility discovered by Bahraini authorities last September stocked with 1.5 tons of high-grade explosives.
"Although Hamas’s ties to Tehran have been strained due to the Syrian civil war, both sides took steps in 2015 to repair relations. Iran continued to declare its vocal support for Palestinian terrorist groups and its hostility to Israel in 2015," the report added. "Supreme National Security Council Secretary Admiral Ali Shamkhani sought to frame a series of individual Palestinian attacks on Israeli security forces in the West Bank as a new 'Intifada' in a speech on November 25."
Tehran has also been rearming Hezbollah in violation of a UN Security Council resolution at the end of the 2006 conflict with Israel, pouring "hundreds of millions of dollars" into arms and training of fighters who have "carried out isolated attacks along the Lebanese border with Israel."
"Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa’ida (AQ) members it continued to detain and refused to publicly identify the members in its custody. Iran previously allowed AQ facilitators to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iran since at least 2009, enabling AQ to move funds and fighters to South Asia and Syria."
Syria has been on the list since 1979, and the regime continues its three-way relationship with Hezbollah and Iran.
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Well, at least Iraq is not on the list anymore. Thanks to Champ, it's not even a country anymore. Same for Libya. Oh, sorry, that one was Cameron's fault.
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State Sponsors of Terror Continue Nefarious Support Unabated
"Oh, sir, didn't you know it's illegal to kill people?"
[LI] At the same time, he asked Congress for $1.8 billion in funding for the resources to combat the Zika virus, the pathogen spreading rapidly through the Americas that can cause birth defects and neurological problems. In a rare display of fiscal restraint, Congress granted $622 million (mainly from unused Ebola response money). Yes, Bernardo. Five hundred million U.S. dollars.
However, as negotiations continue for even more Zika funding between these two branches of government, it seems that $500 million of those taxpayer dollars initially allotted now sits in the coffers of the United Nations.
The Obama administration siphoned $500 million that could have gone toward combating the Zika virus into a United Nations effort aimed at mitigating climate change.
Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.) wrote in an op-ed published in the Daily Signal that the Senate last year granted Obama the authority to pay for a response to Zika, but his administration chose instead to allocate those funds toward the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund.
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No doubt the funding diversion was justified by saying fighting global warming fights mosquitos fights Zika, so they are complying with what Congress granted the money for.
[Breitbart] The lawyers' association to which Judge Gonzalo Curiel belongs was co-founded by a man who publicly bragged about Hispanics taking over California and all of the state's governmental institutions - and insisted that whites should go back to Europe. The group, the California La Raza Lawyers Association, has been widely defended as "not pro-Mexican" by mainstream media outlets, though the outlets failed to report the inflammatory statements of the man listed first as a founder, Mario Obledo.
Oh Mexifornia? Just a book written over 13 years ago by little known author Victor Davis Hanson. Why do you ask ?
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In an amazing revelation about the hypocrisy of the media and the left, Mark Steyn pointed out that the huge groundswell of support for the removal from the bench for the Judge involved in the lenient sentencing of a rapist in Palo Alto/Stanford included reasoning that he was guilt of "white privilege" and thus unfit to rule effectively in cases involving white defendants. How is this any different?
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Recent reporting indicates Judge Curiel was an anchor baby. His father never obtained US citizenship and his mother got hers when the Judge was sixteen.
"Amigos, quit pushin' and shovin'!
Nurse midwife Obama is glovin'
To birth a new nation
The Race will be safe in...
And then there'll be plenty of lovin'."
As a reminder, China in future would like 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM for "living space", while the Hard Boyz wanna fly their black banners oer Washington DC in righteous conquest of the infidel. Iff the Hard Boyz conquer Amerika-fka-America, by extension the conquest of NORAM will occur soon after.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Disclose TV] PUTIN WARNS TURKEY: IFF YOU DON'T LEAVE SYRIA ALONE, I WLL [destroy Turkey + Turks, +] BRING BACK CHISTIANITY TO ISTANBUL [Constantinople].
PUTIN warns he will avenge the Tsarist Romanovs failure to [re-]conquer the Dardanelles + Constantinople.
* SAME > VIETNAM ACTIVELY INVITED CHINESE NAVAL VESSELS TO VISIT VETNAMESE PORTS, INCLUDING CRIP [Cam Ranh Bay International Port] | [Naval
Institute, Australia] ANALYSIS: CAN RANH PORT IN STARTEGIC CONTEXT.
BLOGGER = iff the US + USN can engage in alleged acts of FONS in violation of Chinese territorial or sovereignty rights, then China can + should do the same vee LIUQIU, KURILS, GUAM, HAWAII, + ALEUTIANS. THE PLA + PLAN CAN DO + GO ANYWHERE US-ALLIES CAN.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Asia Times] IS IT TIME FOR US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO VISIT TAIWAN?
RUSSIAN? ISLAMIC NATIONS?
* SAME > [National Interest] AMERICA, CHINA, INDIA, + JAPAN HEADED FOR A SOUTH CHINA SEAS SHOWDOWN?
The State Department underscored its condemnation of an attack on civilians at a Tel Aviv market on Thursday, but cautioned the Israeli government to "exercise restraint" as it vows to increase security control over the West Bank and its residents. Every time I think they've hit the bottom...
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I wouldn't nuke the hamas yet, but otherwise I would level all their restaurants and markets and let the Muzzies truly fast all rumadan long. Then extend rumadan another month of more muzzie fasting.
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"Just lay back and enjoy it"
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The IDF announced late Thursday evening that they will institute a temporary closure of the West Bank and block Gaza Strip crossings following a deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv the previous day, a military spokesperson said.
The temporary closures are expected to be lifted on Sunday, contingent on the the security situation. IMO, the best way to deal with Palestinian terrorism is to permanently close all crossing around Brussels.
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It's Page 4: Opinion, because it asks for action, and Home Front: Politix, anon1. If it were just information it would be Page 6: Seedy Politicians, though it's not actually the politicians doing it. During the campaign season, page 6 is for politics in general.
[IsraelTimes] The US military says a second carrier group is nearing the Mediterranean Sea to bolster operations, the first time two American carriers will be in those waters at the same time since the 2003 Iraq invasion.
US European Command spokesman Lt. Col. David Westover says Thursday the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its strike group of guided missile cruisers and destroyers is now in EUCOM’s area of responsibility in the Atlantic en route to the Mediterranean. It joins the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group already in the Mediterranean.
US 6th Fleet spokesman Lt. Shawn Eklund says US warships are there to carry out anti-Islamic State actions and to reassure European allies. He says: “When we put carriers in place, it sends a signal.”
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He says: “When we put carriers in place, it sends a signal.”
And that's about all our military is capable of these days given the desires of our current regime.
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0bean has a problem. If Trump wins, ISIS better be on its way out or Trump will show the world how it's done, thereby pantsing 0bean, underwear and all.
[Dhaka Tribune] US President Barack Obama formally endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, describing himself as eager to get out and campaign for her, days after she gained the delegates needed to secure the party's White House nomination. One would think that the first presidential candidate to be the principal of a lengthy FBI investigation in the run-up to a national election might justify caution and pause, but no, political ideology trumps the hand of justice.
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political ideology trumps the hand of justice.
It's not political ideology. It's desire for the use of the apparatus of state to guarantee money and status. Most of the people who will vote for Hillary Clinton are apolitical, they just have the ability to see which side their bread is buttered on.
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Consider the case of fellow Democrat poltician Alcee Hastings? Impeached Judge and "Representative for Life" in a safe district.
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So Obean endorses Hillary and then he later meets with Bernie Sanders and also meets with Loretta Lynch of DOJ. Shortly after endorsing Hillary Clinton, Josh Ernest, the WH Press Secretary goes to the podium and says the FBI email investigation is a criminal investigation. Meanwhile, the few dribs and drabs that have appeared in the press suggest the email fiasco is far worse than people thought. Is Obean trying to protect his backside?
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E mails implicate O. Hillary has him over a barrel. Correspondence occurred. The fix is in. They will never drag O down. The FBI will be forced to make a sacrifice within their department at most.
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Hillary's PCorrect, on-going silence on the Econ + Foreign Policy won't help her iff an Obama-led US has to fight a war agz China + Iran this summer or fall in defense of overseas US allies. HER POLICY ADVISOR(S) ON CAMPAIGN NEED TO COME UP WID SOMETHING.
AND OBAMA CAN'T + WON'T BE IMPEACHED IFF HE IS NO LONGER IN OFFICE.
[Dhaka Tribune] Jane Alam, driver of the black microbus which was allegedly used by standby assailants during police officer Babul Akter’s wife murder, witnessed the killing that took place in Chittagong city’s GEC area on Sunday morning, a police brass hat has claimed.
Alam, 50, was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! from outside the city on Wednesday night, hours after the police seized the microbus (Chatta Metro Cha-116119). He hails from Jungle Salimpur area of Sitakunda.
The microbus was seen in CCTV footage leaving the scene of the crime following the three assailants on a cycle of violence. The bike was found in an abandoned condition from the city on Sunday night.
At the CMP Headquarters, Additional Commissioner Debdas Bhattachariya told news hounds that Alam was the owner and driver of the microbus.
"We are confirmed that it is the same black microbus which was seen in CCTV footage collected from near the murder spot," he said, adding that the law enforcers were trying to know about the persons staying inside the vehicle during the killing operation.
"After primary interrogation, Jane Alam confessed that he was in the spot during the killing mission ... he witnessed the whole incident of murder. We are interrogating the person to glean more information from him. If his involvement is found, he will be arrested in the case," the officer said.
About Mitu’s coming out of the house 30 minutes earlier on that day, Debdas said that Mitu used to come out of her house at 7am or 7:05am along with her son to catch the school bus. Other residents of the building too came out at the same time. The bus usually wait at GEC intersection around 7:15am to pick students.
"We need to know why Mitu started for the bus stop half an hour ago on that day. The school authorities did not send any SMS on Mitu’s phone regarding early school on Sunday."
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Mitu’s mobile phone has remained missing since the murder, he added.
Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Police Bureau of Investigation are jointly investigating the case.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... a court in Chittagong yesterday sent a former activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... to jail, a day after he was arrested in connection with the gruesome murder.
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Kader sent Gunnu to jail after the investigation officer of the murder case produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer, CMP Additional Deputy Commissioner (prosecution) Nirmalendu Bikash Chakrabarty told the Dhaka Tribune.
The court directly questioned the IO, Detective Branch Inspector Kazi Rakibuddin, regarding the case. Later the court fixed Sunday for the hearing asking the IO to present all relevant documents of the case.
Gunnu, who was arrested on Wednesday from Hathazari, is an attendant of a local shrine. Police said that he is a charge-sheeted accused in an abduction and murder case filed with Satkania police.
"He had been arrested in Mitu murder case based on concrete information," Debdas told news hounds.
Gunnu’s family and locals refuted his connection with Shibir, and claimed that he had not left the shrine in the last seven days.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] South African archbishop Desmond Tutu nominated imprisoned Paleostinian political figure Marwan Barghouthi for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday. Red Arch supports convicted murderer? What more could one expect ?
In a letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Tutu wrote of Barghouthi being a symbol of the Paleostinian people and their "struggle for freedom, [which] constitutes a clear signal of support for the realization of the Paleostinian people’s inalienable rights, including to self-determination."
Barghouthi’s plight has been known worldwide. The first of several Paleostinian parliamentarians to be kidnapped and imprisoned in 2002 by Israel, for many, he stands as a symbol of injustice against the Israeli occupation.
In the letter, Tutu spoke of Barghouthi's continuous advocacy for lasting peace, despite years of imprisonment and isolation. Sorry Bishop Des, no Boden's Mate for you. King Obama just endorsed the Hildebeest.
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It's that Blair's Law thing about all the world's multiple idiocies becoming one giant, useless force.
Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Thursday announced that Helmand's former police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang will be introduced to the attorney general for legal investigations within two days.
The ministry said he is being investigated on charges of exploiting his official powers, establishing ghost police and underestimating his responsibilities in the war with insurgents.
Meanwhile, Kintoz, the new police chief of Helmand said that statistics show almost 50 percent of police personnel reported in the structure of the police in Helmand are ghost officers, calling it an act of treason.
Helmand has been embroiled in heavy fighting for months.
"There are around 10,000 police personnel in the structure of police force in Helmand plus 16,000 army soldiers along with public protection forces and border security forces. According to my information, 40 to 50 percent of the force did not exist physically when we asked for help during operations. Salaries of ghost soldiers had been received during the past eight months and the money has gone to personal accounts," said Kintoz.
"Main issues related to the problems facing Helmand including institutional problems facing Helmand police. However it is a bit early to comment about the rest of the cases. The case is in the final stage in line with the orders of the president, and the former commander of Helmand police will be investigated," said Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman to ministry of interior.
"Huge numbers of ghost police are reported in Helmand province. Their equipment and weaponries were distributed to mafia and local lawbreakers while our people in Helmand and military forces are burning in war flames," senator Akhundzada Alokozai said.
"There are 40,000 people on the list, but the reports which have been received show that seven to eight thousand insurgents exist in Helmand. With forty thousand people who are backed by tanks, artilleries and aircrafts, we should have eliminated each one of the enemy, it is clear that we have not everyone there," Kintoz added.
This comes at a time that the Taliban currently control several districts in Helmand and are plotting to expand their existence in several regions.
The existence of ghost police is thought to be one of the reasons that has expanded the war in the province.
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Imagine a world in which wars were fought exclusively by ghost soldiers. Imagine the money that could be made if none of it had to be diverted to real expenses.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Thursday, a source from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior revealed that at least 13 people were either killed or wounded in an explosion of a booby-trap vehicle at New Baghdad area in eastern Baghdad. Meanwhile, it is expected that the number of casualties will increase as time goes by as it was a high intensity bombing.
In a statement issued to the press, which has also been obtained by IraqiNews.com, the source said, “This morning, a booby-trap vehicle exploded near a popular market in New Baghdad area of eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding nine others.”
The source, who requested anonymity, furher added, “Ambulances rushed to the incident area and evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital. The bodies of the deceased people were sent forensic tests and the area has been cordoned off and approach to the area has been sealed.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Thursday, a source in the Ministry of Interior announced that a booby-trapped vehicle exploded near a gathering of the security forces and civilians at Taji district in northern Baghdad.
In a statement issued to the media and also obtained by IraqiNews.com, the source said, “The death toll of the suicide bombing, which took place this morning and which was targeted at a military headquarter in al-Taji district in northern Baghdad, has increased to 6. The number of injured too has reached 18.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “The injured are still undergoing treatment in the hospitals of Baghdad.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The ISIS on Thursday claimed responsibility for the twin blasts that rocked New Baghdad and al-Taji district in Baghdad earlier on the day and it further revealed the identity of the perpetrators who carried out the bombing.
In a statement published on a number of websites, the ISIS said, “The suicide bombing that took place this morning on New Baghdad area was carried out by Abu Muhajer al-Iraqi and it targeted on a large gathering of al-Hashd al-Shaabi.”
Adding further the statement said, “The second suicide bombing that targeted a number of army officials this morning, near the 1st gate of Taji Camp in northern Baghdad was carried out by Habib al-Iraqi, another ISIS member.”
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent terrorist involved in major attacks has been tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! from the Emergency Hospital of 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.... where he was admitted after sustaining wounds in an kaboom.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the terrorist has been identified as Abdullah who is originally a resident of the central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan.
According to a statement by MoI, Abdullah was involved in a number of terrorist attacks in the southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The statement further added he was arrested by the operatives of the counterterrorism department of the Ministry of Interior.
According to MoI, Abdullah was admitted to Kabul Emergency Hospital after sustaining wounds following an kaboom which was triggered by the explosives he planted in a bicycle.
MoI also added that four non-combatants were killed and and two others were maimed in the attack and Abdullah was shifted to Emergency Hospital in Kabul after sustaining wounds in the same attack.
He was arrested based on the intelligence information received by the personnel of counterterrorism department of Interior Minitry, the statement added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A television debate on potential peace deal between the Afghan government and Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... led into a brawl between the debate participants.
The trailer of the television debate immediately gone viral earlier tonight as the social media users were surprised with the reactions of the two debate participants.
According to the trailer of debate which is due to published later tonight on 1TV channel, the brawl erupts as one of the debate participants calls a peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami as ineffective, calling Hekmatyar a terrorist who is still internationally blacklisted.
The remarks by the debate participant angers the other participant who speaks in favor of Hekmatyar, calling Hezb-e-Islami a key party which has a major influence in the country.
The brawl among the two participants leads to exchange of punches as the host and another analyst rushes to end the fight.
The delegation of Hezb-e-Islami arrived for peace talks to 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.... in mid March and shortly after the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) called on myrmidon groups to participate in direct peace talks with the Afghan government.
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Maybe MSNBC should try this. Imagine the ratings boost.
[Iran Press TV] The ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group has published a new kill list, urging its sympathizers around the world to kill thousands of people including British nationals.
The terror group’s alleged cyber warfare wing published the full names and home addresses of nearly 8,000 "targets" on Wednesday.
The list includes the names of 39 Britons, as well as 7,848 Americans, 312 Canadians and 69 Australians whom the group wants murdered.
It was not clear why the terror group wanted the people on the list killed. Whether the information is entirely new or already available online also remains a question.
The terror group’s cyber outfit claimed in early May that it is using a mole it claims it has in the UK Ministry of Defense to infiltrate into Britannia and the US.
"In our next leak we may even disclose secret intelligence the ISIS has just received from a source the brothers in the UK have spent some time acquiring from the Ministry of Defense in London as we slowly and secretly infiltrate England and the USA online and off," the hacker group wrote.
The ministry declined to enlarge on what personnel security measures it is taking for its staff.
"While we don’t comment on cyber threats, Britannia is a world leader in cyber security and we are investing more than ever before in the UK’s capabilities to protect our national interest," said a ministry front man. "Our increasing defense budget means that we can stay ahead of our adversaries in cyberspace while also investing in conventional capabilities."
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Damn Canucks have have done gone Linda Ronstadt on the mother country, odd and intriguing.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A source from the Nineveh Liberation Operations Command revealed on Thursday that at least seven ISIS members were killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition aviation at west of Mosul.
The source, in a statement issued to the media and of which IraqiNEws.com also got hold of, said, “The international coalition aviation forces launched an air strike at noon today on a vehicle belonging to the ISIS and during this air bombardment at least seven members belonging to the ISIS were killed on the spot. The strike was carried out on the main road in al-Baaj district.
On the condition of anonymity the source further said, “The vehicle in which the ISIS members were travelling has been completely destructed.”
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[Ynet] Denmark's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling to revoke the Danish citizenship of a Moroccan-born dual national who was convicted of instigating and promoting terrorism.
Said Mansour is the first person to be stripped of his Danish citizenship under a law introduced in 2004.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected his appeal of a lower court decision to revoke his citizenship and expel him after a four-year prison sentence
Mansour, who is 56 and has lived in Denmark for 32 years, was convicted of instigating and promoting terrorism for posting social media messages in support of al-Qaeda and associated groups. Mansour denied the charges, citing the freedom of speech.
His lawyer told Denmark's TV2 that Mansour would appeal the case to the European Court of Human Rights..
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Last night, whle driving home from a date with Mr. Wife, my phone went off with an entirely new sound -- very attention-getting. It signalled an advisory from the police for those in Deerfield Township to shelter in place while the police dealt with a problem. It turns out that a domestic violence call had gone sideways -- a deputy and civilian were shot -- and a massive manhunt for the escaped shooter was underway. They caught him at 4:30 this morning.
I had no idea my phone did that. I'd long since downloaded an app to give me weather warnings from one of the local news stations, but this was something else, and I'm very glad I got it.
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I'd bet that the alert was an Integrated Public Alert & Warning System. I don't think you can disable those.
There are several types including Amber alerts.
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Heh. Through various associations, but I think especially the school district, anytime the weather does something my phone turns into a high frequency vibrating flour sifter.
Makes me want to go for the batteries or framing hammer.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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.... of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS’s, far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on Wednesday with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline hard boyz in two years.
A front man for a US-backed alliance in northern Syria said it was poised to enter the city of Manbij, a week after launching an assault with the aim of cutting off the last stretch of Turkish frontier still under ISIS control.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A suspected member of banned Islamist Lion of Islam outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was killed in a shootout with police at Maloncha village under Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha district yesterday.
The identity of the dear departed could not be known.
Sub-Inspector Gofur of Gobindaganj cop shoppe said: "On information, members of Detective Branch (DB) of police raided a house at Malancha village where a gang of JMB men was holding a secret meeting in the dead of night for planning subversive acts."
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of police, the JMB men opened fire to them prompting the law enforcers to retaliate, triggering a shootout.
At one stage, the JMB men managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... Later, police recovered the body of an unidentified JMB man and recovered some local weapons and bombs from the spot
Mozammel Haque, officer-in-charge of the cop shoppe, said the body was sent to Gaibandha Hospital morgue.
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[DAWN] Pakistain has expressed its concern over growing strategic ties between India and the United States (US), a day after the two countries signed a number of agreements for security cooperation during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US.
Addressing a presser at the Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said that the US approaches Pakistain whenever it needs it, and abandons it when it doesn't need Pakistain.
"Pakistain will convey its concerns to US over the latest issues in the bilateral ties," Aziz said, adding that a high-level meeting is planned between Pakistain and US officials on June 10 in Islamabad.
"We firmly conveyed it to the US that maintaining effective nuclear deterrence is critical for Pakistain's security and only Pakistain itself can determine how it should respond to growing strategic imbalance in South Asia," he said.
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Quick way to help this continue: keep acting like Islamic nutcases
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[WEEKLYSTANDARD] The Department of Veterans' Affairs fired three bigwigs from the Phoenix VA health care system Wednesday, marking the first dismissals linked to the mismanagement in Arizona since the system's director was ousted in November 2014.
Associate director Lance Robinson, chief of Health Administration Service Brad Curry, and hospital chief of staff Dr. Darren Deering were all removed for negligent performance and failure to provide effective oversight for properly scheduled appointments, according to a news release from the department.
"We have an obligation to Veterans and the American people to take appropriate accountability actions as supported by evidence," Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said. "While this process took far too long, the evidence supports these removals and sets the stage for moving forward."
The VA proposed the staffers' termination in March, and Wednesday's announcement formalized the dismissals.
"Deputy Secretary Gibson is correct in saying the process took 'far too long'," said Republican congressman Jeff Miller, the chairman of the House committee on veterans' affairs, in a statement.
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Just be sure they get their bonuses and pensions.
[IsraelTimes] Homa Hoodfar, an anthropologist at Concordia University, has been detained at Evin prison since March
A Canadian-Iranian anthropologist, Homa Hoodfar, has been jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and held in Iran since Monday, sources close to the case said Wednesday.
Hoodfar, 65, is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and also holds Irish nationality. She is being held at Evin prison, family members said in a statement.
Hoodfar, who has written several works on women and society in Islamic countries, went to Iran in February to do research on women’s public role.
Hoodfar was arrested on March 10 a few days before her planned return to Canada. Her belongings were searched and she was held pending interrogation, the sources said.
Her passport was taken, and Hoodfar was interrogated, family spokeswoman Amanda Ghahremani said.
The Canadian government has said it is actively engaged in the case.
The jailing comes months after Canada renewed ties with Tehran that were broken off under the prior Conservative government.
"The authorities have not made clear whether Professor Hoodfar is being charged with espionage, sedition, or propaganda against the state. Her lawyer and family have not been allowed to see her, nor has the cause of arrest been explained to them," the family said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A commander of the Taliban group identified as Omran has been killed along with his 27 fighters during an operation in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan cops and with the support of the Afghan Air Force.
According to a statement by MoD, the operations were conducted in Greshk district of Helmand and some weapons and explosives belonging to the Death Eaters were also destroyed.
The statement by MoD further added that five Death Eaters were killed in a separate operation in Sar-e-Hawza district of southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
Helmand is among the relatively volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where anti-government armed myrmidon groups are actively operating and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
The Taliban group launched a major attack on various security posts of the Afghan cops late last month but the attacks were repulsed with the deployment of additional forces.
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[Ynet]. Khaled and Mohammad Mahmara were reported missing by their families two days before they killed four people and injured 16 in a terror attack in Tel Aviv.
The two Paleostinian Lions of Islam who killed four and injured 16 at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv were reported missing from their homes about two days before the attacks Paleostinian Security Forces said.
Cousins Mohammad and Khaled Mahmara, 21, who carried out the attack, were both from the town of Yatta, located south of Hebron.
The Paleostinian Security Services said that the two Lions of Islam didn't arouse suspicions of being Lions of Islam due to the short amount of time they were missing, and because every day the Security Services receive reports of missing family members.
IDF forces raided one of the terrorists' houses in Yatta following their deadly attack in Tel Aviv. According to reports, IDF forces searched the house and interrogated the family members. They surrounded and blocked off the entrances of the town, locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! several suspects, and mapped out one of terrorists' houses to prepare it for demolition.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that seven people were arrested in the West Bank by IDF and Israel Border Police who are suspected of being involved in nationalistic terror and violent disturbances. The suspects were sent to be interrogated by security services.
Not clear from this if they were involved with the Tel Aviv attack, or just made the mistake of being bad guys on the wrong day. Update at 9:45 a.m. ET: They were just simple rioters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails, as lighthearted boys are wont to do.
Taleb Mahmara, uncle of the two terrorists, was a fighter for the Tanzim terror organization
...Tanzim is the armed wing of Fatah, Yasser Arafat's old outfit...
and participated in a shooting attack which killed four Israelis south of Hebron in 2002. The terror cell which the uncle was a part of planned to carry out additional attacks, but was caught before they could be carried out. Taleb is currently imprisoned in Israel, and his house was demolished after he was arrested.
Paleostinian security forces said that one of the Lions of Islam who carried out the Sarona attack was known to them as a member of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, while the other one wasn't affiliated with any organization at all.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A quarrel over meal times during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan likely sparked an arson attack that destroyed a German refugee shelter, said a report Thursday quoting prosecutors.
The huge blaze in the western city of Duesseldorf on Tuesday completely razed a hall that housed 282 male asylum seekers, mostly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and North African countries, with 28 people suffering from smoke inhalation.
Police said Thursday they had detained five men, several of whom had stayed in the shelter using false identity details.
Two were suspected of the arson attack -- a Moroccan and an Algerian, both aged 26 -- and were remanded in jug by a judge.
One of the men had allegedly poured a flammable liquid onto a mattress and set it alight.
Witnesses reported that there had been recurring tensions between followers of different religions in the Red Thingy-run facility.
"During this time of Ramadan, there was one group that wanted to strictly observe the fast, and another that insisted on the usual timetables and usual servings," said Ralf Herrenbrueck, front man for the prosecutors service.
"This had led on several occasions to disputes and altercations with officials of the German Red Thingy," he said in an interview with public broadcaster WDR.
"It got to the point where threats were made over what would happen if things didn't change, and one threat was obviously implemented."
Since the start of the year, police had been called 89 times to the 6,000-square-metre (65,000 square feet) hall, which was formerly part of the city's congress center, reports said.
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[Iran Press TV] The Iranian defense minister has called for a "comprehensive" ceasefire deal aimed at containing the violence in Syria, stressing, however, that any such agreement should not pave the way for terror groups to grow stronger.
Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan made the comments in a trilateral meeting with his Russian and Syrian counterparts, Lieutenant General Sergei Shoigu and Major General Fahad Jassim Freij, in Tehran on Thursday.
"Iran gives its approval to a ceasefire which has the necessary guarantees and will not lead to the strengthening of the snuffies operating in this country," said the Iranian defense chief.
Dehqan further called for "a firm fight" against all terrorist groups without making exceptions as well as a halt in the flow of foreign aid to the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... outfits operating in the country.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... he added that such anti-terror battles must go hand in hand with efforts on the diplomatic front with the aim of setting the stage for the Syrian nation to decide its own political future in peace.
The Iranian minister further slammed the United States, 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 some other regional states for supporting the snuffies under the guise of so-called "moderate opposition," saying such "fake and empty" attempts merely exposes the lies of imperialist powers that claim to be advocating anti-terror battles.
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Certainly does not look encouraging. If these numbers are sustained through November and the inmates win yet again, I suspect I will suspend involvement in this process for the balance of my allotted time. Life is much too short to waste on nonsensical endeavors such as this.
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First it was RINOS, then it was the Republican Establishment once we get thru with the circular firing squad the GOP will be down to roughly 10% of the voting population. After the war (WW Deuce, aka the Big One) The German population was subjected to the bizzare rites of de-natzification, good jobs and indeed food itself depended on having (forgiver me mein Deutsch) a clear past. The most sought after paper was the Pearl Schine, which made the past go away, if the past existed. It put you in the clear :)
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Should Hillary get indicted, the pardoner-in-chief has his work cut out for him. Probably already has the paperwork sitting on his desk, waiting for him to date & sign it.
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A lot of people here saying who is to blame for Trump losing an election that hasn't been held yet. But they don't say why. Well, here's why you can blame the GOP establishment types like the Bush, McCain, Graham, Boehner, Ryan, etc: They were complicit in turning California into a blue state via illegal immigration. Look at the chart and you see that California has 55 Electoral College votes. Subtract 55 from 304 and you get 249. Add 55 to 190 and you get 245. Not enough for Trump you say? OK, but what about the impact of illegal immigration on other states like New Mexico with five votes, Colorado with nine, Nevada with six. Then there's New York with 29 votes and it's Trump's home state. I think he might have a chance there. And if we could get Kasich out of his globalist funk to support Trump we might get Ohio.
Can you get a little more specific or do you just call Trump a racist and think that's gonna carry the argument for you?
You think George Bush was so great? 911 and the mortgage meltdown happened on his watch. So he invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and look at them now. Blame Obama for that? Yeah, it'd be nice if we could count on our government to maintain a consistent foreign policy throughout several administrations but we can't and Bush should have known that. So Jeb Bush was not a viable candidate. So who did that leave us? Little Marco? One in 38 Kasich? Who was that other guy? I've already forgotten him...
Then there was McCain, the Manchurian Candidate in 2008. And then there was Romney in 2012. Romney got me all excited when he talked about the 47 percent but then he didn't have the guts to stick with it. Not presidential timber.
Why don't you tell us, Glainter, what is your real agenda? Be specific, please.
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GU, for the record, I was a Cruz supporter. And with my money.
Now I'm behind the winner of the party primary.
The GOP establishment's power is safer with Clinton than they are with Trump, period. The whole beltway crowd is corrupt and needs to be removed. If you haven't noticed, voters who support Sanders, Cruz and Trump want to shake up Washington.
I didn't break it.
I want it fixed, and not in the way Bush or Clinton want it fixed.
Voting for Trump will be no worse than voting for the previous pathetic lot of Romney, McCain, or either Bush.
Sorry I had to explain this to you in public but it seems as if you are very emotional person.
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Yeah, and don't try telling me that New York is also Clinton's home state. She is a carpet bagger. She is a crooked old hag. She's taken money from Soddies, Russians and Chinese. She'd take money from any old john on the street. Her husband is a well known sex pervert, she knows it and she enabled him. She had a hard time beating Sanders and he is a self confessed communist. The campaign for the general election hasn't even started yet. When Trump gets done with her she is going to wish that she had stayed in Arkansas.
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As somebody who actually voted for Rand even after he dropped out, I find this pathological hate of Trump by the inside self declared elites to be disgusting.
Nobody I ever wanted (first round wise) in any election has ever won. Never once did I whine about it the way these douche bags are.
Xinjiang residents must give DNA, voice-print for passports
Authorities in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region are now requiring residents of one northern prefecture to provide DNA samples and other biometric data before they can be issued with travel documents, sparking concerns over the possible ethnic profiling of the country’s mostly Muslim Uyghur group.
The announcement was made by police in Xinjiang’s Ili (in Chinese, Yili) prefecture, who ordered residents to hand in their passports last year, with officials saying no new ones would be issued.
"The requirements for travel document applications have changed, with effect from June 1," the Ili Daily, the regional mouthpiece of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, reported.
Applicants for passports, police-issued exit permits, and travel passes to Taiwan and Hong Kong will now have to supply a DNA sample, fingerprints, a voice-print sample, and a 3D body scan image to receive their documents, the paper said.
Nobody will be issued with a travel document in Ili without the new biometrics, it said.
While the new rules are ostensibly universal, restrictions on passports have targeted ethnic minority groups in the past, making it harder for Uyghurs to book overseas vacations or go on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, travel agents in the region have told RFA.
Sense of threat
Ilshat Hassan, Washington-based president of the Uyghur American Association, said the new move appears to be aimed at making it harder for Uyghurs to obtain passports or other travel documents.
"One of the aims of these measures is to put obstacles in the way of Uyghurs applying for passports, and another is to give Uyghurs a sense that they are under threat," Ilshat Hassan said.
Citing the requirement for a voice-print, he said Uyghurs would be less likely to speak anonymously to overseas media once they had left China, because their unique voice pattern was on Beijing’s files.
"They would still be able to identify you by your voice-print, and they would be able to deal with you in the same way," he said.
Breach of privacy
New York-based rights activist Liu Qing said the rules are a breach of citizens’ right to privacy, regardless of who they are aimed at.
"So an administrative department has decreed that they can collect DNA samples from their citizens. What happened to a citizen’s right to privacy?" Liu said.
"If they want to collect citizens’ DNA, then they should at least ask people for their opinions, and then pass legislation," he said.
"This isn’t something that can just be ordered as part of administrative regulations."
He rejected the idea that the move is part of a bid by Beijing to stave off possible terrorist attacks.
"Collecting people’s DNA has nothing to do with fighting terror," Liu said. "The government is doing this to step up the sense of fear among the general public."
Uyghurs make up 25.6 percent of Ili’s three-million-strong population, while 36 percent of local residents are Han Chinese.
The leader of Venezuela's congressional opposition bloc was hit in the face and bloodied Tuesday as he attempted to make his way into a government building.
Photographs circulating online showed Congressman Julio Borges being attacked with a pipe by men he identified as government supporters. He spoke at a press conference after the attack with blood streaming down from his nose and mouth, and bloody stains on his button-down shirt. It was not clear what the pipe was made of.
Borges had been attempting to enter the headquarters of the country's electoral body in downtown Caracas with other opposition figures. Security was heavy, with lines of police looking on.
Borges accused police of pushing him toward gangs loyal to President Nicolas Maduro.
"Government supporters beat us with total impunity with pipes, stones, and explosives that went off in the middle of a group of lawmakers," Borges said. "Maduro, what we want is to vote."
The opposition is pushing for a recall referendum against Maduro this year. They accuse elections officials of dragging their feet to delay the process. Officials have accepted an initial round of signatures calling for a referendum, but the process has many more steps to go.
Borges said the officials refused to meet Thursday.
Across town, a smaller group of young people faced off with police. Students had planned to march from Venezuela's top university to elections headquarters, but hundreds of police in riot gear blocked the way. Students covered their faces with Venezuelan flags and threw bottles, stones and sticks while police lobbed tear gas.
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Students protesting against socialism. Amazing. I suppose it's what happens when you can't eat. Pity it takes such an extreme situation to get them to see the light.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two suspected muggers were killed in separate alleged shootouts with Rapid Action Battalion early yesterday in Dhaka’s Turag and Rampura areas.
The dead were Nazrul Islam, 37, son of late Abdul Aziz from Panchagarh, and Kamal Paevez, 42, son of Kenai Kazi from Gournadi, Barisal. RAB Legal and Media Wing Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan confirmed the Dhaka Tribune of the deaths.
RAB 1 Deputy Director Lt Commander Kazi Mohammad Shoaib said that around 2am yesterday, three hijackers on a cycle of violenceshot up RAB officials when the elite force challenged them at a check post near Prottasha bridge in Turag area.
In retaliation, RAB officials fired back, leaving left one of the three, Nazrul Islam, injured. The other two hijackers managed to flee.
The RAB official said Nazrul was member of a Dhaka based dope gang and was also involved in women trafficking and robbery.
Sub-Inspector Khagendra Chandra Sarker of Turag cop shoppe said he recovered Nazrul’s body from Tongi 50 bed hospital and took it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 3pm yesterday.
Turag police OC Mahbub-e Khuda told the Dhaka Tribune that Nazrul had a case filed against him with Tongi cop shoppe.
In Rampura, Kamal Parvez was killed during an alleged shootout between RAB 3 officials and a group of muggers in Rampura East Balurmath area around 12:30am yesterday.
According to RAB blurb, Kamal was a member of a group of muggers that hijacked a woman named Sheuli Parvez on Wednesday 4pm. When locals intercepted the four muggers on two cycle of violences, they started to shoot at the locals and a youth named Rimon received bullet wounds.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Kamal fell off the cycle of violence during the chase and the locals detained him, RAB said quoting Sheuli.
Later when RAB questioned Kamal, he revealed the names of his associates ‐ Habib, Babu and Sultan. Following the information, a team of RAB 3 along with Kamal went to their hideout where the hijackers sensed the RAB’s presence and started shooting.
Kamal was shot during the shootout and was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where duty doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! the RAB statement said.
SI Delowar Hossain said they recovered the body from the area and sent it to DMC morgue. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... it could not be ascertained if Kamal had any case against him with any cop shoppes.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... when Kamal’s family members went to DMCH to receive his body, Kamal’s wife Shwapna Begum claimed that her husband was a RMG scraps trader. She said on Wednesday evening, Sultan had called her and said Kamal was picked up by law enforcers. She then informed local police and RAB but they denied of any such arrest.
Yesterday morning, someone called her from Kamal’s phone and told her that her husband’s had received bullet wounds and was in DMCH. Shwapna Begum said she came to the hospital after the call and found that her husband was already dead.
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[NATION.PK] Æthiopia has said that its soldiers deployed in Somalia killed 101 Shabaab fighters who on Thursday attacked an army base used by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force fighting the Al-Qaeda linked group.
The Shabaab movement earlier announced a major assault on the base in Halgan in the central Hiran region of the arid Horn of Africa nation, via its Telegram messaging platform.
Æthiopian government front man Getachew Reda dismissed a claim by the Shabaab that they had killed dozens of soldiers, while losing just 16 of their own fighters.
"There was an attempt by al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... to attack our forces in central Somalia but... our forces killed 101 bandidosbully boyz and destroyed heavy weaponry," Getachew said.
"We are still assessing how many people got hurt on our side but their claim that they have killed 43 Æthiopian soldiers is an absolute lie. This is a figment of their imagination," he added.
"The Mujahideen fighters stormed the base and massacred many of the Æthiopians," the Shabaab claimed on Telegram, putting the corpse count among the troops at 60.
Casualty figures from this type of attack are impossible to verify independently. The Shabaab generally exaggerates, while the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) usually gives no details of losses among its ranks.
On its Twitter account, AMISOM -- comprising troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Æthiopia, Kenya and Uganda -- confirmed "an attempted Shabaab attack" but gave no figures.
"The enemy was successfully repulsed," AMISOM said, claiming also to be "in pursuit" of the attackers.
Residents in the area close to Halgan said the attack began when a vehicle driven by a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at the entrance to the base, after which jihadist gunnies fought their way in.
"There was a huge blast and then heavy exchange of gunfire started," said Osman Adan, a resident living nearby.
Shooting had died down by mid-morning Thursday and local authorities confirmed the festivities.
"There was a major attack this morning at Halgan. Violent elements tried to break into the the base of the Somalian army and of AMISOM, but they were driven back and their bodies are everywhere," bigwig Guhad Abdi Warsame said.
"They lost and now we have complete control of the zone, the situation is normal," he added.
The Shabaab launched a similar "swarming" style attack a year ago and have since overrun forward operating bases manned by Burundian troops in Lego in June, Ugandan troops in Janale in September and Kenyan troops in El Adde in January.
While the countries contributing soldiers to the peacekeeping effort refuse to confirm casualty numbers, it is believed that scores of AMISOM soldiers were killed in each attack.
In the El Adde attack alone more than 140 Kenyan soldiers are believed to have been killed, although the Kenyan government has refused to confirm any numbers.
This is the first such raid on an Æthiopian outpost in Somalia.
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[Libya Herald] Two leading rescue NGOs operating in the Mediterranean Sea, MSF and MOAS, yesterday reported rescuing 955 migrants colonists departing from Libya. MSF reported 828 whilst MOAS reported 127 rescued at sea.
Maltese-based rescue NGO MOAS reported that the migrants colonists its ships rescued were initially spotted in distress in rubber boats by its camera drones from its Phoenix ship. They were then picked up its sister ship Responder. Post-rescue medical care was provided on-board by Italian NGO Emergency.
Ironically, MOAS had just launched its rescue ships into the Mediterranean for the 2016 season earlier this week. Moreover, Responder, is a new addition this year and was out to sea only Monday. Yesterday’s operation was its debut rescue mission. Responder went on to rescue another 27 separate migrants colonists who said that they had been at sea for two days.
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Governments with access to mx, cname and A records will be able to shut the internet down at will. Even online credit card/banking transactions could be shut down killing all online commercial activity.
This regime making this decision is the same knuckle draggers who could not build the Obamacare website right, and now they are making decisions regarding the entire cyber space realm.
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Foreign countries would also have the power to ration IP addresses and set pricing and expiration time frames. Watch pricing skyrocket.
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So, can somebody working from (say) China provide access that USG can't touch?
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Even online credit card/banking transactions could be shut down killing all online commercial activity.
Wouldn't this kind of shut-down also kill the ability to use a credit card in person, and not just online? Most modern commerce would thus stop immediately and almost totally.
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I have opted out of paperless financial statements from banks, etc. I want to hear from them, regularly, in the old fashioned way. In case the internet vanishes, I have some proof of a relationship on their paper. I still have typewriters, too.
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I also remember modems, not cable modems, but the old fashioned kind that you can plug one end into your computer and the other end into a phone jack. You get your computer to dial a phone number, it goes through the modem, over the phone lines and connects through another modem to another computer. I remember very well the days when credit card transactions were authorized that way, without the Internet.
I remember BofA's Home Banking system in which you could use a modem to connect to BofA. There was no Internet Explorer involved. You had to have a special BofA application on your computer to do it. But it worked pretty well. Back in those days I had a second phone line so I could do such things. Didn't have to worry about Chinese hackers.
Maybe Fred could buy a bank of modems. I'd chip in.
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Going even further back, if you have the patience, I remember when the big retail establishments used private, proprietary telecommunications networks and protocols to authorize credit transactions. Big computer companies like IBM and NCR were very big into it. No Internet, no browsers, no World Wide Web and no hackers.
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Just got back from the county tax collector's office, where I walked into their office, paid half a year's assessment with a paper check, got a paper receipt for it. Long story about numerous mishaps over the years for payments I tried using other methods. One thing I learned from one mishap is that there is no legal requirement for a check to be endorsed in order for the bank to issue payment to the bearer. So even if you get one of your canceled checks back, there may be no written evidence of just who cashed it.
[IsraelTimes] A Virginia man who authorities say joined 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 before surrendering to Kurdish authorities has been flown back to the US to face terror-related charges.
A judge on Thursday unsealed charges against Mohamad Khweis, 26, of Alexandria alleging he provided material support to murderous Moslems and agreed to be a jacket wallah.
Khweis was captured by Kurdish forces in northern Iraq in March. He told his captors he was a Paleostinian-American who had gone to join the Islamic State. But he told Kurdish television he became disenchanted with life in the Islamic State and made his way to the front lines to surrender.
At the time of his capture, US authorities and even Khweis’s own family appeared to be caught off guard that he had left the US to join the murderous Moslem group.
An FBI affidavit states that an Islamic State group member asked Khweis whether he was willing to serve as a suicide bomber. Khweis said he agreed, but he told US authorities that he believed the question was a test of his loyalty.
According to the affidavit, Khweis received training in Islamic law during his time there, but the affidavit makes no mention of military training. Khweis told Sherlocks that the only time he touched a gun in his time there was to move it off a couch so he could sit down.
Khweis told the FBI he developed an interest in joining the Islamic State in mid-2015, and that he left in December from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in December 2015, according to the affidavit. He sold his car before departing.
"The defendant was inspired to join ISIS because he saw that they had established an Islamic caliphate and were in the process of expanding it," FBI agent Victoria Martinez wrote in her affidavit. "The defendant stated that he knew ISIS used violence in its expansion of the caliphate, but he also stated that ISIS engaged in peaceful and humanitarian efforts."
From Turkey, he made contact with Islamic State controllers who smuggled him and others into Syria, and stayed in Islamic State safe houses in the Syrian city of Raqqa during the month of January, according to the affidavit.
At one of the safe houses, Islamic State officials said the recruits would be trained to return to their home countries and conduct attacks on behalf of the Islamic State, according to the affidavit. Khweis told Sherlocks he never agreed to participate is such an operation.
According to the affidavit, Khweis admitted burning his laptop and destroying two mobile phones before surrendering to the Kurds.
Khweis is scheduled for an initial appearance at US District Court in Alexandria Thursday afternoon. Court records do not yet list an attorney for him.
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[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that authorities have apprehended a third man involved in the terror attack at the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night in which two Paleostinians opened fire on customers at a cafe in the plaza, killing four and wounding 16.
Speaking at the site of the attack a day later, Netanyahu said: "This nation is strong. They will not defeat us. In this place yesterday four innocent Israelis were murdered. We mourn them. Life is already returning to its routine around us, and that’s a good thing."
Netanyahu noted that the security establishment took a series of steps in the 24 hours since the attack, including "cordoning off the West Bank village of Yatta, the terrorists’ hometown, catching a man who collaborated with the terrorists, revoking work permits of hundreds of members of their family, and freezing thousands of entry permits into Israel for Ramadan."
He also slammed the Paleostinian Authority for failing to condemn the attack but praised Israelis’ strength and resilience.
"I heard unequivocal condemnation from all the most important capitals in the world," said the prime minister. "I didn’t hear such condemnation from the Paleostinian Authority. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... I heard the cries of joy in Gazoo. That shows who it is that we are facing."
Earlier Thursday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman ordered a moratorium on returning Paleostinian attackers’ bodies to their families for burial and called to expedite the process of razing terrorists’ home to within 24 hours.
[Ynet]. The IDF said Thursday that it has revoked all permits for Paleostinians to visit Israel and travel abroad during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, after two Paleostinian turbans killed four Israelis and maimed 16 others in Tel Aviv.
COGAT said that all 83,000 permits have been frozen for Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gazoo to visit family in Israel, attend Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem or travel abroad via Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport.
In addition, the military said it has frozen Israeli work permits for 204 of the attackers' relatives, and is preventing Paleostinians from leaving and entering the West Bank village of Yatta, home to the attackers.
COGAT said entering or leaving will only be permitted for humanitarian and medical cases.
[Ynet]. Ahmad Mussa Mahmara, the father of one of the attackers, said his son has two uncles serving life sentences in Israeli prison.
"We didn't expect this. My son is young and has been in Jordan for the past four years, and just came here for the past five months. He does not have any political affiliation," Mahmara said.
The military interrogated Mahmara Wednesday night at his home, where his son was staying. Soldiers took measurements of the home in preparation for demolishing it, the military said.
[IsraelTimes] Defense officials tell cabinet ministers that the gaps in the West Bank security fence in the Tarkumiya-Meitar area, through which the two murderous Moslems from yesterday’s deadly shooting in Tel Aviv are believed to have entered Israel, will be closed up in the near future.
The budget to seal the gaps has been approved, officials tell the security cabinet in a meeting this afternoon in Tel Aviv’s Hakirya complex. Work on the fence will begin on June 28, with forces on the seam line to be bolstered by additional troops in the meantime.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces are cracking down on metal workshops in the West Bank suspected of manufacturing a crude homemade gun, which has emerged as the weapon of choice for Paleostinian attackers in months of deadly assaults on civilians and soldiers-- including in this week’s Tel Aviv shooting that killed four Israelis.
Welded together from spare parts of various weapons and pipes, it looks like a short-barreled sub-machine gun, with a long magazine.
The weapon, known by its street name "Carlo," was used by the two Paleostinian gunnies who killed four people and maimed five others in a popular Tel Aviv area filled with crowded shops and restaurants on Wednesday night, as well as in several other attacks since the current round of violence erupted in September.
"There has been an increase in security operations in and around the West Bank area to try and find factories where the weapons are made," police front man Micky Rosenfeld told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
He said the quality of the workmanship varies from gun to gun, depending on the materials and the manufacturer.
Paleostinians have used them "in a number of terrorist attacks over the past few months," Rosenfeld said.
According to an Israeli intelligence official, the homemade gun has become the weapon of choice for Paleostinian gunnies, ousting the Kalashnikov that has traditionally been in use.
Carlo’s popularity stems from availability, he added.
"Real weapons" are now hard to find and expensive in the West Bank due to raids carried out by Israel as well as those undertaken by forces of the Paleostinian government, which rules about a third of the territory.
Carlo is somewhat based on the Swedish "Carl Gustav" sub-machine gun because it’s easy to copy with the materials at hand, the intelligence official said. Hundreds are believed to be in circulation, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he wasn’t authorized to talk to news hounds.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops have jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a would-be jacket wallah in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, the security authorities said Thursday.
The detained would-be bomber has been identified as Dr. Mohammad Qasim and the Afghan cops have confiscated a suicide kaboom vest along with some weapons and explosives from the suspect.
No further details have been given regarding the suspect and the potential target he was looking to attack.
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Wouldn't a suicide bomb be a violation of the doctor's Hipocratic Oath>
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In a US firm near Chicago, that I used to work at, we had two brothers, both named Dr Mohammad Qasim (from Pak). I couldn't understand any parents, whatever the reason, giving 2 of their children the same name.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key member of the Haqqani terrorist network was killed in a drone strike in southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province of Afghanistan.
According to the provincial government media office, the Arclight airstrike was carried out late on Tuesday night in Sarwaza district.
The key Haqqani network member killed in the raid has been identified as Sirajuddin Khademi who was reportedly providing logistics support to the fighters of the terror network.
The Arclight airstrike also destroyed some weapons belonging to the terror network but local civilians casualties were reported in the raid.
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[Iran Press TV] The UN says the Syrian government has given approval for humanitarian convoys to reach all besieged areas in the country by the end of this month.
"We were informed by our team in Damascus that basically there has been permission, an approval... by the government of Syria for all 19 besieged areas," Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, told news hounds in the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday.
The UN envoy made the remarks after the weekly meeting of the Syria humanitarian task force, which has for months been attempting to boost aid supplies to millions of Syrians trapped in hard-to-reach areas across the country.
This comes as the task force has recently come under pressure by some Western countries, including La Belle France and Britannia, to start air-dropping aid into besieged areas.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... De Mistura voiced hope that a surge of road convoys in the coming weeks would make dangerous and costly air deliveries unnecessary.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The conflict 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... looks set to be ending after all sides unconditionally agreed to a roadmap drafted by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... that will see a ceasefire in the wartorn country, sources in Kuwait have been reported as saying.
Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper has seen the plans which are made up of four proposals: finding an administrative body to organize the works of ceasefire committees, form field parties across battlefronts of each governorate, link the committees to the field parties on different levels, and establish safe and secure areas across these battlefields.
The roadmap comes after 50 days of talks and a series of previous ceasefire violations that were continuing to increase in their intensity Saudi ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Saeed Al- Jaber told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
Jaber added that the proposed deal had been discussed in detail by government officials Abdul Aziz Jabbari, Col. Saleh al-Zindani, Col. Lashkar-e-Zaer ‐ and Hamza al-Houthi, Salim al-Maghles and Col.Ahmed al-Maane’ from the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias.
Jaber said all parties had conceded to the Saudi roadmap and that the implementation and supervision of the roadmap would be the responsibility of the UN, as well as representatives from both sides of the conflict.
Mohammed Saeed Al Jaber added: "Saudi Arabia is playing a pivotal role in advancing the political process in Yemen, as it has gathered, since an early stage, all Yemeni parties in Dhahran in the south, and worked hard to convince them to sign several major agreements.
"The two sides signed seven agreements that included a cessation of hostilities in seven provinces. They also agreed on the formation of two committees, a military one involving four persons representing the government and the Houthis. These committees will be responsible for the truce and cease-fire process."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 30 Æthiopian troops were killed Thursday in an attack on a base for African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeepers in central Somalia, a Somali military official said.
A jacket wallah detonated his explosives-laden vehicle early Thursday at the gates of the Æthiopian military base there before gunnies entered the base, said Mohammed Mohamud, a military officer in the town of Halgan, where the attack happened.
The corpse count is likely to rise, he said. The Islamic bad boy group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... claimed it had killed 43 Æthiopian soldiers in the attack. But the Æthiopian Communications Minister Getachew Reda told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the assault was repelled and that more than 100 of the attackers were killed.
He did not say how many Æthiopians were killed or injured. Æthiopian troops are pursuing the Death Eaters who fled led during the firefight, he said.
The African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM, said on Twitter that there had been attempted attack on a base run jointly by the Somali national army and African Union peacekeepers. The attackers were "successfully repulsed" and some of their weapons seized, it said. Al-Shabaab, which has ties with al-Qaeda, is fighting to impose a strict version of Islam in this Horn of Africa nation.
Despite losing a lot of ground in recent years, the gang continues to carry out lethal attacks in many parts of the country, including near the seat of government in the capital Mogadishu. African Union peacekeepers are trying to prevent al-Shabaab from threatening the authority of the weak, Western-backed federal government in Mogadishu.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar –Anbar Police Command on Thursday informed that the joint security forces have stormed into areas towards the south of Fallujah city. The police command further informed that during the next few hours, results of some important military operations carried out so far would be announced as well.
Anbar Police Chief Major General Hadi Zereeg in a statement issued to the media, which IraqiNews.com also got hold of, stated, “Anbar police forces along with the army and the anti-terrorism forces, stormed into several areas towards the south of Fallujah by noon today. During the operations, they managed to gun down a dozen ISIS members.”
“The Tactical Regiment of Anbar Police is carrying out combat operations against ISIS and it is almost a certainty that the presence of ISIS would be completely wiped out from the city of Fallujah. Moreover, in the hours to come, results of some important military operations will also be announced,” Zereeg further added.
Earlier today, Fallujah Liberation Operations Command announced that the security forces will storm the center of the city within the next few hours.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Leaders of al-Hashd al-Shaabi in Anbar province announced on Thursday that the ISIS members have started to evacuate their families from the city of Fallujah through the southern axis.
The commander of the 1st regiment of Karmat Fallujah brigade, Colonel Mahmoud Mardi al-Jumaili, in a press statement issued to the media and also received by IraqiNews.com, said, “Intelligence information emphasized that the ISIS has begun evacuating the families of its members from the city of Fallujah through al-Gomhorya Bridge and they are moving towards somewhere near al-Amiriyah.”
Continuing further Jumaili added, “The security forces are checking the names of the displaced people from the city before evacuating them to the IDP camps.”
It may be mentioned here that the leaders of al-Hashd al-Shaabi on May 2016 had announced that the security forces began the second phase of Fallujah liberation operation from ISIS control.
Iraqi forces capture ISIS communications near Fallujah
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The Shiite paramilitary force, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous) announced on Thursday about locating the ISIS communications center, which is situated towards the north of Fallujah city.
The military spokesperson of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Jawad al-Talibawi, in a press statement, which has also been obtained by IraqiNews.com, said, “Today, a force belonging to the Asa’ib [ahl al-Haq] found a communications center of ISIS in the village al-Sajr towards north of Fallujah city.”
“The center has central communication devices, in addition to Icom and coding devices, laser discs and ISIS banners,” Talibawi further added.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Iraqi joint security forces liberated Albu Souit, located towards south of Fallujah city, a security source said on Thursday.
The source, in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, said, “Security forces and tribal fighters managed to liberate Albu Souit area near al-Ameriyat, south of Fallujah city, from ISIS. The forces were able to destroy a number of booby-trap vehicles and they also managed to raise the Iraqi flag over one of the liberated buildings of the area.”
“The security forces continue to advance in the southern areas of Fallujah,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar –Federal police captain Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat on Thursday announced that the Federal Police forces have not only managed to gun down four ISIS members during military operations in Fallujah city, but have also successfully liberated five villages to the north of the city.
Jawdat, in a statement issued to the media and also obtained by IraqiNews.com said, “The Federal police successfully liberated five villages- al-Salam, al-Gouza, Abu Gaza, Hussa and Khitla,” further adding, “The forces detonated 30 explosive devices and four booby-trap vehicles during the operations.”
He added, “The Federal Police managed to kill four ISIS members during their advance into the axis of the river towards the center of Fallujah.”
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[GEO.TV] A 24-year old woman was admitted to hospital with serious burn injuries after being set on fire reportedly by her husband and mother-in-law, Geo News reported on Thursday.
Nadia was being treated at the Jinnah Hospital where she was shifted by her neighbours who said the victim was doused with kerosene oil before being set ablaze.
Medics said the patient was at death's door.
Abdul Waheed, father of the victim, said her daughter married to Saleem a year and a half ago and was living with her husband and mother-in-law since then. He said the couple frequently fought.
The District Police Officer (DPO) said family of the victim has not yet approached the police but expressed his resolve to bring the elements responsible for the crime to justice.
The husband and mother-in-law are said to have fled after the incident.
The incident was reported a day after Zeenat Bibi, 16, was set on fire in Lahore, a little over a week after she wed 20-year-old cycle of violence mechanic Hasan Khan against the wishes of her family. Her mother Perveen Bibi has admitted to the killing, though details of the brutal murder remain unclear.
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[GEO.TV] The husband of a 16-year-old Pak girl who was murdered by her family for marrying him vowed Thursday to do whatever it took to get justice for his young wife.
Zeenat Bibi was set on fire Wednesday in Pakistain’s cultural capital of Lahore, a little over a week after she wed 20-year-old cycle of violence mechanic Hasan Khan against the wishes of her family. Her mother Perveen Bibi has admitted to the killing, though details of the brutal murder remain unclear.
Early reports suggested she had been burnt alive though police now say she may have been asphyxiated first, with a post-mortem report not expected until later this month.
Bibi´s charred remains were buried by her husband´s family before dawn after none of her relatives sought to claim her body.
Speaking to AFP on Thursday, a visibly distraught Khan said: "I am determined to continue the legal proceedings against the family. I am after them, and my family is supporting me.
"It is my destiny now to bring her justice ‐ if the accused are condemned it will bring calm and peace to my soul."
Khan, who said he had met his wife while they were students at high school, also suggested that Perveen had been helped in the murder by her brother and son, and was covering up for them.
The case has drawn widespread outrage even in a country used to so-called "honour killings", which account for hundreds of deaths every year. It was also the third such case involving burning over a three-month span.
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So they'll give him her 13 year old sister as reparations?
[ARA News] MANBIJ – French special forces arrived in northern Syria to assist the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) in order to retake the 98-km pocket of Manbij from the radical group near the border with Turkey, French officials confirmed on Thursday.
The French commandos are not participating in combat at the Manbij battlefront. They are restricted to advisory and training roles, according to a French defence ministry official.
“The offensive at Manbij is clearly being backed by a certain number of states including France. It’s the usual support – it’s advisory,” the official told AFP on Thursday.
Also, about 300 American special forces are in northern Syria to support the Kurdish-led SDF troops in the fight against ISIS with advisory and training.
France has earlier acknowledged a ground deployment of around 150 members of its special forces in Iraq’s Kurdish region.
SDF storm ISIS positions in Manbij, jihadis evacuate headquarters
Under heavy shelling by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), hundreds of militants from the Islamic State (ISIS) have evacuated their headquarters in the city of Manbij in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, military sources reported on Wednesday.
The Western-backed SDF troops closed most of the roads leading to Manbij after taking over dozens of villages to the north, east and south of Manbij city.
The only route that ISIS militants could use to escape was the western exit towards Aleppo.
The ISIS evacuation movement started on Tuesday, when dozens of ISIS vehicles were seen exiting the city through the western suburb of Manbij towards Aleppo.
“Those were most likely defectors who escaped the fighting fronts in the south and east of the city. Also, a number of Sharia officials are believed to have escaped Manbij under the ongoing offensive by the SDF against ISIS there,” media activist Alwan Halabi told ARA News.
The SDF-led Manbij Military Council reportedly broke into several ISIS security centres in Manbij city on Wednesday, and engaged in clashes with ISIS militants.
“The clashes have eventually reached the city itself after more than a week of fighting ISIS in the countryside of Manbij,” SDF officer Habun Osman told ARA News. “A large number of ISIS terrorists have already escaped the city, using the western exit. This means that the collapse of the group in Manbij is very near.”
“We, the SDF, will soon announce the full liberation of Manbij from ISIS,” the Kurdish official said, adding that the US-led coalition’s air forces have played a key role in enabling the SDF fighters to advance on the ground.
Also, the Syrian Democratic Forces have facilitated the evacuation of nearly 200,000 civilians from Manbij and its surroundings.
“After retaking key areas near Manbij, such as Al-Qaraa, Muhtaraq and Buzkej, the SDF troops were able to help more than 200,000 civilians evacuate the area and head to more stable towns. This was to prevent the terror group from using the people as human shields in the ongoing clashes,” a spokesman for the SDF told ARA News.
Manbij constitutes a key pocket of 98-kilometers for ISIS militants. “As to why the Manbij pocket is important, it represents a major border crossing point where foreign fighters can cross into Syria from Turkey,” US-led coalition spokesman Colonel Christopher Garver told ARA News.
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U.S.-backed forces fighting ISIS near the Syrian-Turkish border said on Thursday they had reached the militants’ last main route in and out of their stronghold in the area, the city of Manbij, as a French official confirmed that French special forces are offering training and advice to fighters in northern Syria.
Monitors confirmed that the Syria Democratic Forces – an alliance which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia and Arab allies – had advanced to within firing distance of the road, one week into a campaign to push the militants out of their foothold along the frontier.
Washington hopes the operation will choke off ISIS’s last major link to the outside world – the militants have used the border for years to receive supplies and manpower, and more recently to send back fighters for terrorist attacks in the European continent.
“We have reached the road that links Manbij and Aleppo, from the west,” Sharfan Darwish, spokesman for SDF-allied Manbij Military Council, told Reuters.
Darwish appeared to be referring to the highway between Manbij and ISIS-held al-Bab, further west. That highway also leads onto Aleppo.
A statement from the Manbij Military Council said its forces had already cut ISIS supply lines leading north, east and south from the city, and were now close enough to Manbij itself to be able to fire on ISIS extremists.
Darwish would not comment on whether the SDF was planning an assault on the city itself. He told Reuters on Wednesday forces was poised to enter, but were being cautious due to the civilian presence there.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the SDF were in firing range of the main road leading west, positioned less than a kilometer away from it. They were effectively in control of all highways into Manbij, it said.
Civilians in the city and surrounding countryside were fleeing the fighting, the Observatory added.
It said more than 130 ISIS militants had died since the Manbij offensive was launched, as well as more than 20 SDF fighters.
The U.S. military said on Wednesday the SDF had suffered about a dozen killed and more than 100 wounded.
The official with the French Defense Ministry said Thursday French forces are with SDF.
“The offensive at Manbij is clearly being backed by a certain number of states including France. It’s the usual support — it’s advisory,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. He did not provide other details.
In a round-table interview last week, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French forces were participating. “We are helping with arms, we are helping with aerial support, we are helping with advice,” he said.
The U.S. also has around 300 Special Forces embedded with the SDF in northern Syria.
The SDF, which is also fighting against ISIS in neighboring Raqqa province, is backed by U.S.-led air strikes and assisted by U.S. special forces.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s state-run news agency said the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and Turkish artillery fire against ISIS targets in Syria have killed 18 militants.
Anadolu Agency, quoting unnamed security officials, said that the ISIS targets were attacked after Turkish authorities on Wednesday determined that the group was preparing to strike Turkey from northern Syria.
It said Turkish and coalition strikes also destroyed two gun-mounted vehicles, various mortar and artillery positions as well as a building used as a defense shelter.
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Right in my own city. My guess: chemicals of some kind.
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma City man was arrested Wednesday on a complaint of terrorism hoax for making terroristic threats. A bomb squad is searching his home on Thursday.
According to police, Wednesday morning, an employee at social media site “MeetMe” called police to report that someone posted a threatening message to his profile. The message reads, “To all you capitalist scumbags, your greed and selfish ways have forced us to come out of the shadows and reveal our true nature. Judgment Day will come this week at the Penn Square Mall and the Outlet Mall. May Allah be with those who believe and there will be mass bloodshed and horror as I Allah will take vengeance on the scumdogs of the Western world.”
Police were able to identify that user as 28-year-old Brian Loyd Carey. He was arrested at his parents' mobile home in the 9000 block of N.W. 10th, and booked into the Oklahoma County Jail on a terrorism hoax complaint. A bond has not been set.
Officers secured the perimeter of the mobile home due to the possibility of explosive devices. A bomb squad responded and cleared the home after a search waiver was obtained.
On Thursday, a bomb squad is searching Carey's home at Ann Arbor and N.W. 10th. Ann Arbor is blocked in the area.
Wali, an Afghan National Army soldier, who was shot dead by the Taliban in Ghazni province, was not only the sole breadwinner in his family but he was also killed just two days before his wedding in Kabul.
Wali's mother said that her life now has no meaning as the Taliban has destroyed all her joy.
"It was Wednesday when I called him and his phone was switched off. I was told that he had been detained by the Taliban and later I got the news that they killed my son," said Bibi Aesha, Wali's mother.
On Tuesday night, the Taliban shot dead 12 people including Wali – all for working for security institutions in Andar district of Ghazni province.
"I painted his room and his wedding was in two days and we got all the preparations but unfortunately.....," said Adam Khan, Wali's brother.
"What the Taliban has done - no one else will do, I never saw such kinds of horror and killing," said Mohammad Asif, Wali's father-in-law.
Wali was on his way from Paktiya to Kabul where he was to marry and start his new life with his bride-to-be but before he reached his destination, the Taliban killed him.
[DAWN] An American company will build six nuclear reactors in India under an agreement announced after a White House meeting between Indian and US leaders on Tuesday.
The United States also recognised India as a "major defence partner", on a par with America’s closest allies, for defence-related trade and technology transfers.
During their two-hour-long meeting and a working lunch, US President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also urged Pakistain to "bring the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai and 2016 Pathankot terrorist attacks to justice".
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The United States also recognised India as a "major defence partner", on a par with America’s closest allies, for defence-related trade and technology transfers.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Police says it will choose the site of funerals for Paleostinian hard boyz hailing from East Jerusalem.
The decision, announced Wednesday, follows the publication of videos showing funerals for young Paleostinians who were killed as they stabbed Israelis, which turned into mass rallies celebrating their actions and calling for new attacks.
In future, funerals will not take place in the dear departed attackers’ villages and neighborhoods, police say, but in Moslem cemeteries elsewhere. Police officials will limit participation to close family members.
Last month, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan froze the return of assailants’ bodies to their families after the funeral of one attacker in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber turned into a demonstration in support of his actions.
Two Paleostinian families from East Jerusalem are already appealing to the High Court of Justice against the decision.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk said on Thursday that at least one civilian was killed while three others were injured towards the southwest area of the province after a bomb blast rocked the area.
Issuing a press statement under the condition of anonymity, the source said, “An explosive device, which was planted near al-Riyad (40 km southwest of Kirkuk), went off targeting families escaping ISIS. The blast resulted in the death of one woman and injuring three others.”
“IEDs are targeted regularly on civilians who are fleeing from the ISIS-controlled areas,” the source further added.
[ARA News] ERBIL – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday stoned an Iraqi woman to death on charges of committing adultery, local sources and eyewitnesses reported.
The ISIS-led Islamic Police [al-Hisba] detained a woman in al-Tahrir district in the city of Mosul, accusing her of committing adultery. The Sharia Court then decided to stone her to death in public.
“Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Zahraa mosque in eastern Mosul to witness the execution of the woman,” media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News.
Eyewitnesses reported that ISIS jihadis obliged a number of civilians to participate in stoning the victim.
“They called on people to take part in the execution, saying we’re in the holy month of Ramadan and we should show commitment to Allah’s Sharia and that the woman deserved death for committing adultery,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Raafat al-Zarari, head of the Nineveh media centre, said that ISIS members are now heavily deployed in the residential neighbourhoods of Mosul city.
“Since the start of Ramadan, the ISIS jihadis have been observing the movements in the streets and looking for people who broke their fast in order to punish them,” Zarari told ARA News. “When they find no offenders to their strict rules, they create some baseless accusations in order to punish the people, like the case of the woman stoned in al-Tahrir district.”
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Here's an ugly footnote to Wednesday's terror attack in Tel Aviv: The two gunmen now automatically qualify for monthly salaries from the Palestinian Authority.
Britain's Type 45 destroyers are some of the most powerful "small" warships ever put to sea -- unless that sea is as warm as the Persian Gulf, where the ships are routinely deployed.
[Ynet] Unconfirmed reports on an Iraqi news site "Alsumaria New," indicate that the leader of 
Citing local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province, the Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya also reported that Baghdadi and other leaders of the Islamist group were 
[Breitbart] Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has declared that if Germany closes its borders Germans will degenerate through inbreeding.
[Daily Caller] Obama had been in town to tape his segment for “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” (VIDEO: Obama Tells Fallon — Presidency Is A ‘Serious Job … Not Reality TV’)
[Zero Hedge] Widespread reports continue to pour in from all over the nation of "glitches" with the food stamp system. It is eight days into the month and large numbers of people still have not received their benefits, and in other instances it is being reported that EBT cards are simply not working correctly. So what in the world is going on here? On downdetector.com there are scores of reports of problems with the EBT system from people all over the nation. Could this simply be another example of government incompetence, or is something else at work here?
[PJ] WASHINGTON -- The State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism for 2015 note that Iran got cozier with Hamas last year while the U.S. admittedly "cannot certify" that Syria complied with the chemical weapons disposal deal that the Obama administration forged to avert acting on the president's red line.
[LI] At the same time, he asked Congress for $1.8 billion in funding for the resources to combat the Zika virus, the pathogen spreading rapidly through the Americas that can cause birth defects and neurological problems. In a rare display of fiscal restraint, Congress granted $622 million (mainly from unused Ebola response money).
[Breitbart] The lawyers' association to which Judge Gonzalo Curiel belongs was co-founded by a man who publicly bragged about Hispanics taking over California and all of the state's governmental institutions - and insisted that whites should go back to Europe. The group, the California La Raza Lawyers Association, has been widely defended as "not pro-Mexican" by mainstream media outlets, though the outlets failed to report the inflammatory statements of the man listed first as a founder, Mario Obledo.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] South African archbishop Desmond Tutu nominated imprisoned Paleostinian political figure 
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
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