RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release emails "hacked" from Hillary Clinton's rogue Internet email server.
Agreed, this sounds a bit like a blackmail plot in a 1940s radio detective thriller or a soap opera. Except it isn't. We live in a world where blood gets spilled.
I've read through several reports about the possible Russian information release, ranging from the staid, professional analysis to the wild Hollywood excitement--breathless. One of the more interesting analyses appeared a few days ago on oilprice.com, a site devoted to analyzing the global oil industry and forecasting trends:
"Reliable intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been received that the Russian Government could in the near future release the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server from the time she was U.S. Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services."
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This is a speculation, a scenario. However, the U.S. military and NATO regularly use speculative scenarios to analyze verifiable as well as potential threats. They use scenarios to create field exercises to train troops for potential operations in non-speculative, for damn real on-going wars.
The truth is, Hillary Clinton doesn’t know what the Russians may or may not know—nor does Barack Obama. The FBI and CIA might have some good guesses, but they don’t know for certain. In the mirror world of intelligence, it is possible the Kremlin doesn’t know what it knows.
Two very accurate bits of information. Brain storming so-called "speculative scenarios" are particularly healthy and productive exercises.
"Not knowing what they know" is quite difficult to combat. When one has arrived at that point, the assumption must be made that everything is known and the damage assessment framed as such.
Thanks for posting my favorite likeness of the Beest.
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BDA modeling often begins with the worst (or Best) case scenario, as in "They know everything", and builds a weighted correlation matrix of events that might lead to that conclusion.
Risk-managed dependent event streams are often used in Project Management as the 'critical path', or are used with events as constraint variables in goal seeking Operations Research models.
If 'the Russians' do release incriminating detail, it won't be much. They 'shape' outcomes. Just enough to make Hilarity ineligible and Kerry (for example) less least desirable.
While many (here) would prefer a scenario wherein she, the Clintons, the Democrats and the Obama administration are crushed, shredded and salted, it is more likely that an information release will shape a more favorable, sympathetic and malleable candidate.
Some information will also be made available to closed circles, that will never make the public social forums. A typical extortion tactic when the threat of release is greater than the impact of release.
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My feeling is that Putin would prefer Trump as someone who is a pragmatic businessman he can deal with. Rather than Clinton who is hostage to numerous foreign interests who probably have some serious dirt on her.
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#2 As I've said yesterday, how can you blackmail somebody who's: (i) has no shame, and (ii) believes herself to be immune from persecution?
A most excellent question, since Hillary is way beyond the "a dead girl or a live boy" point. But America is certainly vulnerable to world opinion and outrage.
The opportunity here for anyone playing the Disinformation Game is that no one can refute whatever you decide to make up. Sure, you and the original parties know differently, but what are they going to say, "No, you're lying! Here are the *real* secret cables" ?
Examples? Talking smack about political opponents or friendly world leaders; Back channel discussion about how we knew in advance our latest drone zapp would destroy a kindergarten, a girl scout troop and a home for unwed bunnies as well as the latest Mr #3; The Iranian agreements are a plan to *bleep* the Saudis, and so on.
And all quite believable since it is either true or things people already suspect.
[USA Today] PHOENIX -- When Misty Lee Wilke realized the man she had been having a sexual relationship with was HIV positive, she ran him over with a Mustang.
The incident happened in April, but a home surveillance video of the crash was released this month.
The now-viral video of the vehicle mowing over a man on a bicycle was unlike anything Ronnie Foster had seen before.
"This was the first time that a security footage captured something of this much interest," said Foster, whose company provides surveillance-system services.
It was his business, BlueHorse Solutions LLC, that installed the surveillance system capturing the hit-and-run.
The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of "bacha bazi" -- paedophilic boy play -- to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults told AFP.
The ancient custom is prevalent across Afghanistan, but nowhere does it seem as entrenched as in the province of Uruzgan, where "bacha bereesh" -- or boys without beards -- widely become objects of lustful attraction for powerful police commanders.
The Taliban over nearly two years have used them to mount a wave of Trojan Horse attacks -- at least six between January and April alone -- that have killed hundreds of policemen, according to security and judicial officials in the province.
"The Taliban are sending boys -- beautiful boys, handsome boys -- to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen," said Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai, who was Uruzgan's police chief until he was removed in a security reshuffle in April amid worsening violence.
"They have figured out the biggest weakness of police forces -- bacha bazi," he told AFP.
The assaults, signifying abuse of children by both parties in the conflict, have left authorities rattled, with one senior provincial official who echoed Rogh Lewanai's view saying "it's easier tackling suicide bombers than bacha attackers".
The killings illustrate how bacha bazi is aggravating insecurity in Uruzgan, a remote province which officials warn is teetering on the brink of collapse, unravelling hard-won gains by US, Australian and Dutch troops who fought there for years.
"These bacha attacks have fuelled deep mistrust within police ranks," Seddiqullah, a police commander at a checkpoint near the provincial capital Tarin Kot, told AFP.
The insurgents are using boys as honey traps, said 21-year-old Matiullah, a policeman who was the only survivor from an insider attack in Dehrawud district in spring last year.
He said the attacker was the checkpoint commander's own sex slave, a teenager called Zabihullah. Late one night, he went on a shooting spree, killing seven policemen including the commander as they slept.
"He brought the Taliban inside and poked all the bodies with rifle butts to see if anyone was alive. I pretended to be dead," said Matiullah, who now works as a tailor, pointing out a gash on his forehead.
"As his Taliban accomplices gathered our weapons and ammunition, Zabihullah declared: 'Everyone is dead'."
The Taliban, who banned bacha bazi during their 1996-2001 rule, roundly denied deploying any underage boys for insider attacks.
"We have a special mujahideen brigade for such operations -- all grown men with beards," a Taliban spokesman told AFP.
The insurgents have long denied using children in combat, a claim repeatedly debunked by rights groups and the government.
Survivors of insider attacks who spoke to AFP, including Matiullah, suggest the Taliban are exploiting the institutionalisation of bacha bazi in police ranks for military gain.
Practically all of Uruzgan's 370 local and national police checkpoints have bachas -- some up to four -- who are illegally recruited not just for sexual companionship but also to bear arms, multiple officials said.
Some policemen, they said, demand bachas like a perk of the job, refusing to join outposts where they are not available.
Horrifying abuse at checkpoints makes the boys, many unpaid and unregistered, hungry for revenge and easy prey for Taliban recruitment -- often because there is no other escape from exploitative commanders.
Many who have tried to escape have been dragged back with trumped up charges of Taliban links, two senior provincial judges told AFP.
Boys have also spurred a deadly rivalry between policemen, with officials reporting incidents such as a public gunfight this year between two commanders in Gezab district as one of them angrily accused the other of "stealing" his bacha.
"To restore security in Uruzgan, we will first have to separate policemen from their bachas," one of the judges said. Tried using a crowbar?
"But if they are told to reform their ways, a common reply is: 'If you force me to abandon my boy lover, I will also abandon the checkpoint'. The Taliban are not blind to notice that this addiction is worse than opium."
Bacha bazi, which the US State Department has called a "culturally sanctioned form of male rape", peels away the masculine identity of boys in a society where the sexes are tightly segregated.
In conservative areas women are mostly invisible in public -- and often unattainable due to steep bride prices. Bachas supplant the role of women, adopting a feminine gait and sometimes wearing makeup and bells on their feet.
Many in Uruzgan see bacha bazi neither as paedophilia nor homosexuality, which is forbidden in Islam. If social norms had a pecking order, violating boys would be seen as far more ethical than violating women.
"Bacha bazi is pervasive sexual slavery of children, seen widely as a cultural practice and not a crime," Charu Lata Hogg, a director at London-based charity Child Soldiers International, told AFP.
"Since it is mostly practised by those in positions of power -- warlords, commanders, politicians -- it is hard to stamp out. It appears sustained partly by the fact that access to women is limited."
Insider attacks by child slaves have also been reported in recent years from neighbouring Helmand and Kandahar provinces, where bacha bazi is prevalent.
But the tactic appears more deep rooted in Uruzgan, where the boys are widely flaunted as a totem of affluence, with some officials openly displaying cellphone images to AFP of their "handsome bachas".
"Come see my beautiful bacha," said Naqibullah, a police commander in Dehjawze village near Tarin Kot, boasting that he had been holding the teenager for two years.
With a touch of kohl on his eyes, and bleached blond curly hair poking out of his embroidered hat, the boy sat in a corner of the checkpoint surrounded by opium farms, quietly refilling tea glasses for Naqibullah's guests.
"Commanders prowl neighbourhoods for young boys. We are scared of dressing up our children or buying new clothes that will make them attractive," said Nader Khan, a tribal elder in Dehrawud.
Khan's 13-year-old nephew was taken captive earlier this year by Naqibullah, a local commander not related to the Dehjawze official, when his family sent him to deliver bread for policemen. He was released only after angry tribal elders besieged the governor's office in Tarin Kot.
Governor Mohammad Nazir Kharoti told AFP he ordered Naqibullah's arrest but he was released in less than a month because he was needed for combat duty.
"It is difficult to implement the law 100 percent when we are faced with a war situation," Kharoti said, without elaborating on the case.
Afghanistan's interior ministry refused to confirm or deny that bachas were being used in insurgent attacks, but said it was committed to police reforms and acknowledged that "bacha bazi within the ranks of police is a serious crime".
The practice has put the United States and its NATO allies, who have spent billions of dollars to build Afghan forces, in a precarious position.
The US Congress last year voiced concern over "predatory sexual behaviour by Afghan soldiers and police", prompting watchdog agency SIGAR to launch an investigation that is still ongoing.
The head of a government-affiliated agency in Uruzgan showed AFP two letters from the attorney general in Kabul, one last year and another dated January, ordering a separate probe into sexual abuse and the illegal recruitment of child conscripts.
"We haven't been able to visit even one checkpoint to investigate," he said, speaking in hushed whispers in his own office.
"Do you think police commanders will leave us alive if we probe their crimes?"
On a hunch, I'm going to speculatively file this under WoT ops for now. AoS at 1730: I've moved it to non-WoT. The killer is insane and not identified as a terrorist.
Labour MP Jo Cox has been shot and killed in an attack in her constituency near Leeds today.
The 41-year-old mother of two was shot three times and attacked with a knife during the incident in Birstall, West Yorkshire, an eyewitness said.
Police have confirmed she has now died.
A 77-year-old man was also left with slight injuries. West Yorkshire Police have arrested a 52-year-old man.
Ms Cox was elected as MP for Spen and Batley in last year's general election, and was a rising star in the party.
MPs from all parties have been voicing their shock and sending their prayers.
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Considering the survival of the EU is pretty much at stake... and she was popular and for staying and the guy is supposedly against... am I too paranoid for saying the "Fors" took this as an opportunity for a political coup to force back public opinion for staying in the EU?
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Sounds like he's just a bit mad. I don't know if the Brexit issue set him off or if people are just guessing on that for lack of other motives (not a muslim for example).
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Brexit has nothing to gain from this. If the Remain folks try to use this it opens them to a terrible suspicion...don't even want to think about it.
So much for the oath to uphold the Constitution, eh? "Due process is what's killing us right now," said Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Morning Joe today in pushing for a bill to use secret watch lists to deny Americans civil rights. In place of due process, Manchin proposes a five-year suspension of civil rights and surveillance when the FBI fails to find anything wrong after "suspicion" arises ⌠just to be safe, of course.
In fact, Manchin admits that the watch-list ban wouldn't have worked to prevent the Orlando shooter from purchasing weapons, because the FBI had already taken him off those lists. That's why Manchin proposes that the government simply remove civil rights for five years from anyone who's been under FBI investigation:
MANCHIN: Really, the firewall we have right now is due process. It's all due process. So we can all say we want the same thing, but how do we get there? If a person is on a terrorist watch list, like the gentleman, the shooter in Orlando? He was twice by the FBI ‐ we were briefed yesterday about what happened ‐ but that young man was brought in twice. They did everything they could. The FBI did everything they were supposed to do. But there was no way to keep him on the nix list or keep him off the gun-buy list, there was no way to do that.
So can't we say that if a person's under suspicion there should be a five-year period of time that we have to see if good behavior, if this person continues the same traits? Maybe we can come to that type of an agreement, but due process is what's killing us right now.
What interesting times in which we live! Who would have guessed that we'd hear demands to demolish due process from liberals ‐ and on national television? (Hint: Everyone, eventually.) Manchin doesn't just want a watch-list ban ‐ he wants law enforcement to decide who gets to exercise civil rights, and when.
If Manchin's so keen on suspending explicit constitutional rights on the basis of suspicion, can we also eliminate the Fourth Amendment and conduct warrantless raids on people whom police suspect of being criminals? How about suspending the Fifth Amendment for people suspected of taking part in criminal conspiracies, or bypassing the Sixth Amendment rights to confront witnesses and defend one's self in a court?
Actually, Manchin's proposal would violate most of those, in one form or another, along with the Second Amendment.
Here's a better idea ‐ let's allow the executive branch to seize the records of legislators that they think might be corrupt or undermining America. Let's start with Joe Manchin! Who needs that pesky Constitution, anyway? It's killing us, man! Official suspicion is so much better than due process, at least for those who aren't the target of it. I say go farther than that. Seize their property, bank accounts and force them to house arrest until they can prove they are innocent!
Joe Manchin let the mask slip today. Let's hope that wakes up the rest of the country, before they find themselves the target of "suspicion" and spend five years ‐ or the rest of their lives ‐ dealing with the consequences of a government unmoored from due process.
To Joe and all those that want to suspend our rights: Just try it. You won't live long enough to regret it.
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Due process - in theory - allows the truth to come out because it can't be jiggered to get a predetermined outcome. In practice that's mostly but certainly not 100% true. That said, pols like Manchin (that'd be 99.999% of 'em) don't like the truth coming out, and they don't like processes that can't be controlled for desired outcome (by them.)
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Note that this is not some Leftwing wack-a-doodle in his mommy's basement.
This is not even so commie loving Ithaca professor.
This is a SENIOR DEMOCRAT in Congress!!!!!
The fascists are going so nuts that they're dropping the mask.
If any of you saw my earlier post, it is this kind of $hit that has scared my wife into wanting me to arm up.
Molon Labe, Sic Semper Tyrannis how long before the SHTF for real and all??
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Here we go. Obama's experiment of removing due process for men via Title IX across our public universities has been a major success - and has not gone unnoticed by the democrats. Prior to this experiment they never would have uttered such insanity. Now they feel they have a tried and true model with to achieve their goals combined with an incident seen as favorable for just such a move.
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I was trying to figure out why I have been so frustrated this election cycle. Just why I am so angry, almost hurt feeling. It came to me today. I have reached a true point of clarity. The answers I have come to don’t make me any happier, but I do understand the how and why of my feelings, like a beacon it has become clear.
I wonder just what the hell happened in America. While I was gone in the military things changed. They changed radically. I can no longer call someone Black, white, brown, by the color of their skin. I’m racist or a Bigot. If I say he is that black guy, or Mexican guy over there, I am just wrong. But being identified as that white guy over there is ok. Double standards never work for me, but here we are knee deep in them. But this is deeper than that.
There is systematic process of silencing the over 40 year old middle class white guy. All hate speech laws are directed at this group. We no longer live in a world where stick and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me, my mother taught me that and by the way and I have more respect for her than any of you reading this. We live where people think they are some kind of special snowflake. Where their feeling outweigh my rights and everyone else’s for that matter. Where we have to curb our speech, bite out tongue as to not offend some snowflake with our words, because words hurt. Well, they only hurt if you let them. Stop letting them, grow the fuck up, get out of your mothers basement, off social media, and join the real world, its pretty nice out here.
The challenge with this is that this is a direct attack on my right to free speech. Laws have been passed that tell me I can not express my Christian belief that homosexuality does not fit in my belief system, that I believe it is an unhealthy life choice. When I express this I’m called a homophobe, hater, bigot, and my words are a crime. I did not call for the death to gays, of even that they can not live and thrive in our society. I said it does not fit in my beliefs, no one has the right to control my beliefs. I’m not a homophobe, it is bullshit that I even have to defend myself and my beliefs. If you don’t like them, exercise you right to not listen to me or just go fuck yourself and your feeling. The US government is now prosecuting people who publically disagree with a scientific hypothesis of global warming. It is not a fact, not proven to be a fact any more than the fact in Galileo’s time that the sun revolved around the earth. A scientifically flawed, but generally agreed on, and politically mandated belief. A flawed science that was believed by the masses, scientists, and leaders, and when Galileo spoke his mind on another theory, he was arrested, and instead of being sentenced to death, he was place in house arrest in Florence Italy. For his thoughts, not actions, he cannot affect the movement of the stars any more than we are responsible for the fraud called global warming. Disagreement should never be a crime, we have a constitutional right to free thought and free speech. But not if you are an over 40 white guy. These laws restrict MY constitutional right of free speech as guaranteed in the 1st amendment to the constitution of the United States of America.
So my feelings are hurt, just like the snowflake I described earlier. But if that all it was I would man up and ignore it, like when Obama says America’s problems are all related to the middle aged white man. I disagree with him, but when I do I am a bigot and hater. But this is a bit different. Laws have been placed to limit MY free speech. Someone has decided that my free speech is hate and a crime, and when the black community in St Louis kills people and burns down their neighborhood it is a 1st amendment right for them to do so. And my being critical of the blacks burning their homes and businesses is bigoted, yet another crime. My desire to live a heterosexual Christian life is mocked, laws are passed to restrict my openness and restrict my worshiping. Only as a Christian white guy are these laws enforced against. The Muslim call to prayer is taught in some of America’s schools where Christian children are forced to mock pray to Allah, to show them it’s good. Speak out against this and you’re talking hate speech, a crime. Wear a cross to school and your expelled. I have no constitutional protection of free speech. I am “allowed” to speak, as long as it fits the national narrative and is derogatory to only the white middle aged man.
So we are in the constitutional finality, the fourth turning, I believe our constitution is now reduced to paper with no real meaning. Special interests have perverted peoples good will into bastardizing this document and reducing its meaningless drivel. Less pointed than a picture drawn with a broken crayon and less direct than the meanderings of an intellectual idiot. Once they have reduce the ability to speak freely, and we are almost there, the second amendment is next. Our President, the man that is supposed to support and defend the constitution with his very soul has called me a gun toting, bible clutching bigot. Isolating me from any value in any conversations. I’m that guy, clutching his guns and bible. Discount him, his speech, by the way, is now not protected by the constitution. I have only one word or warning to share on this.
Today they are coming for me, I will fight with every ounce of being in my soul to defend this constitution. Because I know, when they finish me, ridicule me, jail me, kill me, or finally silence me somehow, they will, just as sure as the sun rises come for you next….
Until then, I am not hiding and I am not alone.
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Fred, thanks, I feel much better now...
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I think this guy is just preparing the battlefield so that if this happens his lefty army of trolls can start sewing suspicion on conservatives to get them on the watch list. Sickening really.
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Well, Joe - Hillary is under FBI investigation, so . . . .
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Excellent 49 Pan. While you were away serving (many thanks for you service) America was tribalized by Obama. But not everyone - just the Dem constituencies. To matter in America today, to have access to the corridors of real power you must belong to one of these tribes. Otherwise, you're an outlander who's presence threatens the health of the combined tribes. You must be marginalized at all points. To find out if you belong to one of the annointed tribes, all you need so is look at the questionnaires the DNC sends out after elections. Ya know, to get the pulse of the volkes. Every demographic under the sun is listed except one. Male. The African American male can select African American. The White female can select female. Guess who has been frozen out? RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
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49 Pan, I believe what we are seeing is peek liberalism. They are turning against each other and others are aligning against them and their slander. I feel we are a bit Weimar Republic with the decadence and madness but luckily we are not the Fascists the left always claims and so we will recover.
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49 Pan, a colleague of mine recently expressed nearly the exact same sentiments as your post. Interestingly, he is an immigrant from Bosnia. It took him and his wife over a decade to be granted full citizenship. He repeatedly expressed his sincere pride but humblally warned the direction the US has taken reminds him of the corruption he witnessed that (in part) led to civil war. He ominously said that a corrupt government will always try to silence it's citizens in order to take away their rights. He went on to say the vilification of those that defend the second ammendment is a prime example of tyranny in its infancy.
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Excellent rant, 49PAN. Expresses what we feel, and well articulated.
Here is what I see: O&Co have their agenda that they came in with in 2008. His foreign policy is a disaster. He has sh*t on our allies and cozied up to our enemies and adversaries. He is not respected by other governments, so he has failed in this regard.
On the domestic front, he has tinkered with everything and basically damaged the basic institutions of this country that have been painfully developed over many years. He has got away with things, because of the passivity of the Congress.
But domestically, he is failing there, too. So what does he do? He attacks the opposition by the Alynski playbook. Accuses us of racisism, homophobia, etc etc. Things that you cannot defend yourself against with the kind of ad hominem attacks he does. Reason does not apply here.
Law abiding citizens cannot defend themselves unless they are going beyond the law. And he will make laws that will make us outlaws. He is softening up his enemies. Been doing this for years. He cannot control anything but the citizens. Look at the feds record of stopping terrorist attacks in this country. It is a joke. He does not care about the attacks. They are a convenient excuse for furthering his agenda.
He is putting good citizens in an untenable position: be a good dhimmi or be an outlaw. It has come to this.
But there is a fly in the ointment. The government is bankrupt. Once entities quit buying govt securities, the currency collapses. There is no where to go.
But find comfort in this: Europe is in the same boat, maybe worse. Merkel is trying to do the same thing with refugees in Germany. It is a giant slow motion suicide of countries.
We are heading over the cliff of the crisis. What happens on the other side could be good, if we can get it together, or really bad, if we can't. But this nation will never be the same.
Well, look on the good side. Yellowstone has not gone off......................yet.
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[Breitbart] Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump says the Orlando terrorist may have been born in the United States, but "his ideas were born from someplace else," and stressed the need for America to be respected and a smart country in dealing with the threat of terrorism.
"We have to be respected. We're not respected by these people. They come into our country. They want to take it over," Trump told his supporters during his campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday.
Trump pointed to Germany as an example of a country that let in thousands of refugees from the Middle East, but is now having increased assaults and crime.
"They're leaving. They're crime rate is through the roof," Trump said of the German people. "And you see what's happening to women," he added of the alleged sexual assaults by the migrants and refugees.
"It was a horrific mistake," he stressed. "If Germany had it to do again, I don't think she would ever admit it and lets see how she does in the next election...I'm sure they would have put up billions of dollars to do what I said -- safe zones."
"Anything is cheaper and anything is better than what's going on now," he added. "But you look at what’s going on in Paris...all over...they don't want to talk about it."
"We don't have to have these problems," Trump said of America not ending up like Germany, touting his proposal to ban certain people from entering the United States. "What I'm saying is it's a temporary ban in particular for certain people coming from certain [places with terrorism]."
"We have to put a stop to it until we find out what the hell is going on," Trump stressed. "We don't know even a little bit what's going on and we have to be the smart country now."
"We have to check other places" and mosques, Trump suggested, "It's going to eat our country alive. We can be weak and we can be ineffective like we are now," about not solving the problem.
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Zeroing in on 'ideas.' An approach rarely taken by the current leadership.
Ideology: 1. a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. "the ideology of republicanism" synonyms: beliefs, ideas, ideals, principles, ethics, morals; doctrine, creed, credo, faith, teaching, theory, philosophy; tenets, canon(s); conviction(s), persuasion.
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The grave of a somewhat confused man, a Harvard grad, dreadfully poor motorist, drunk, and member of the Kenyan independence movement, author of "Problems Facing Our Socialism" East Africa Journal, killed in a car crash.
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#2 You can say exactly the same thing about Obama. Except I'm not so sure about the born in America for Obama. The guy is a ghost with little identifiable past.
Newly released surveillance video shows heroic student security guard Jon Meis disarming suspected gunman Aaron Ybarra during a 2014 shooting at Seattle Pacific University in Washington state.
The dramatic video, released by the King County Prosecutor’s Office, shows Meis charging at Ybarra, hitting him in the face with pepper spray and then taking him down to the ground, pulling the gun from his hands.
The video starts with Ybarra, armed with a long gun, walking into the building and pacing around. He then shoots a woman as she walks down the stairs. The woman stumbles off as Meis appears, stopping the gunman.
[Wash Times] The most recent Islamic act of war, in which self-professed Islamic State jihadi Omar Mir Seddique Mateen slaughtered 49 people and injured scores of others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., should be a game changer. The deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, should finally convince our leadership that dealing with the Islamic threat must no longer be business as usual.
Don’t hold your breath.
President Obama has run national security policy only to serve his leftist agenda, not American interests and security. After nearly eight years of deliberate U.S. inaction and impotence, the Islamic State now leads the global jihad, including within our own borders. And it should surprise no one that the president will never fight the war in any meaningful way.
Nor will Hillary Clinton, who worked in lockstep with Mr. Obama during the years she served as secretary of state and still believes in his failed approach.
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This poor woman shares the same last name with Candy Crowley. Monica is correct about Obean's failed leadership. A vote for Hillary, if she manages to stay out of the calaboose, will be a vote for an Obama 3rd term or worse. Under her husband, Janet Reno was responsible for the murder of a child and his mother at Ruby Ridge and she burned out the men, women, and children at the Branch Davidian complex in Waco. Young voters probably don't know about such things.
[PJ] Oh sure, all year I've been playing the "Bernie or Hillary?" game with all the other default-Democrats in my social and professional circles. But this is no longer some kind of game. Our lives are on the line. Although I voted for Hillary in the primary, I now cringe inwardly with shame and embarrassment at having done so, and in November I will vote for Trump.
Why? Yes, I know that Trump is an a**hole, Trump is a clown, Trump is a motormouth buffoon. You don't have to convince me of that. But he's also the only person saying anything about putting the brakes on Islamic extremism, and in light of what happened last night in Orlando, suddenly that is the only issue that really matters when it comes to the health, well-being and safety of the queer community.
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The reality of once they are done with me, they will come for you has come home to roost for them. They gay community as well as the feminist/leftist have long supported Islam. Now they know they were a tool. Its not to late.
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The exact opposite, rjschwarz. JosephMendiola would have given us the source of the article and up to a three line summary plus, perhaps, a laconic comment containing a cultural reference(s) to the movies/televisions shows of his baby boomer youth, his college years in Michigan, one of his favourite pop singers, and/or the ghosts and such of Guam.
Shomoger Shinenter5202 gave us an entire 1300 word article -- an article germane to the War on Terror focus of Rantburg, though not necessarily to this thread -- plus all the extraneous text that Select All sweeps up, but no link. Had he submitted it as an article under Afghanistan on Page 1: War on Terror, I would have had no complaint (except for having to clean up the extraneous text). But he has his foot on the first step of the learning curve, and I hope he will persevere.
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It doesn't matter--Joseph should have been knocked back a long time ago. His posting is consistently unreadable. If he can find that information, he can format it properly.
[Daily Caller] During a Democratic-led filibuster Wednesday, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson claimed that the terrorist attack in Orlando was "very likely anti-Hispanic" because most of the victims had "Hispanic surnames."
"My home is in Orlando. I was there right after the shooting," Nelson said. "As I suspected at the time that this was going to be a combination of ISIS inspired, you know a hate crime, anti-gay and very likely anti-Hispanic because 44 of the 49 had Hispanic surnames."
According to a survivor of the Orlando terror attack, the shooter Omar Mateen spared black clubgoers. "Are you guys black?" the survivor said Mateen asked as he made his way through Pulse nightclub.
Sen. Nelson is a liar trying to stir up more racial hatred.
You can read the victims' names at
http://heavy.com/news/2016/06/orlando-pulse-terror-attack-shooting-victims-names-list-photos-profiles-bios-pictures-ages-families-rip-tributes/
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The queen of the Ready Reserves,
Sandwina worked down at the wharves;
Now, per prior service,
She shirks at the circus,
Just juggling a trio of dwarves.
It's a long way from November, but Trump is gonna need GOP pols to endorse him in order to win. If he doesn't do what's necessary to get their support (i.e. beg), he will lose in a landslide. Normally, I'd get all riled up about GOP pols not supporting the presidential candidate. But this being Trump, I won't be too disappointed if he loses. Not because I disagree with him, but because he's a scumbag. It's kind of like the way Tony Soprano can't get too worked up about Chris Moltisanti coughing up blood after a car accident, despite the fact that Moltisanti is his nephew.
The poll finds 70 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump, including a 56 percent majority who feel this way "strongly." Negative ratings of Trump are up 10 percentage points from last month to their highest point since he announced his candidacy last summer, nearly reaching the level seen before his campaign began (71 percent). The survey was conducted Wednesday through Sunday among a random national sample of U.S. adults, coming after last week's primary contests, but with the large majority of interviews completed before Sunday's massacre at an Orlando club. There's a tiny bit of hope here, but Trump's negatives are just off the charts. The issue here isn't his lack of political correctness, but his scumbaggery. Nobody likes a scumbag, whether he's on your side or not.
Negative views of Trump have risen among a wide range of groups, jumping by double digits among liberals and conservatives and among both Republican women and Democratic men. But his standing has also worsened among two key voting groups: independents and white Americans who do not have a four-year college degree.
Trump's net favorable rating (favorable minus unfavorable) among non-college whites has flipped from a plus-14 in May to slightly negative minus-7 in the latest survey. Among independents, Trump's net rating has shifted from from -19 last month to -38 in the latest survey, returning him to roughly the same standing as in April (-37).
Zhang Fe, you forgot to submit a URL. I had some free time, so I googled the first paragraph, and came up with the Washington Post. Normally, however, we just delete articles submitted without a link.
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So ZF, does this mean that you are stupid enough to believe that Hillary will do a better job of defending our borders and at least holding our own with the adherents of Islam?
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I'm not totally convinced Trump's negatives are as strong as the polls suggest. There are a lot of people who would be embarrassed to be thought of as supporting him but would vote for him. I saw that with Nixon. And Lord knows, we've voted in scumbags before.
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'Scumbag'.....hmm? 'Scumbag' really doesn't look so awfully bad when stacked up against a traitorous, lying, thieving, criminal conspirator, and potential accessory to murder.
If it's the only choice I'm given, I suspect I'll stick with 'scumbag.'
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I have read and talked to people who say that Trump is crass, outspoken, not PC, on the attack, and a jerk (these are some of the milder things) but they will vote for him. They would probable, if polled, say they have a negative opinion of him. Don't trust the polls, they can be bought too.
I feel that this election is so far outside the usual that nothing pundits and prognosticators will mean anything no matter if they turn out wrong or right.
I'm basing my view on one piece of personal anecdotal evidence.
My wife who may be the nicest person in the world has told me that I should get a gun license.
She has objected to guns in the house strongly for the 40 years we've been together. This has been totally personal, she's not a gun grabber at all. Things have descended to such a state that, with no prompting at all, she suggested strongly that I become armed.
She can't be the only one that feels this way. This type of reaction is not something that the establishments will ever see coming. Chaos is not far away if we continue on this road.
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Define "scumbag" -- real estate developer? I'll grant you that.
But he only screws financiers, where as the lawyer/political class are the kind of scumbags who screw everybody and everything they can get their hands on.
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Anyone thinks someone like the Pope could fix this country, please raise their hand.
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TW, considering that my wish list has been developed over the course of 50 years the problem will be limiting my selection. My wife is in the "In for penny in for a pound" mode. When she sees some prices that may change quickly.
Of course, living in Massaholia could prove problematic.
Since I'm a traditionalist I won't be looking for any plastic rifles. AR15s are butt ugly in my estimation.
Might look at Marlin or Henry in .357 with a revolver to match.
I'm probably going to end up with a 9mm pistol of some kind, there are a million to choose from.
Wrist issue precludes a .45 and probably the .357 if I'm honest.
Can't imagine not getting a .22 rifle and pistol also.
Can you see where my problem might develop? 8^)
Oh, and I didn't even mention shotguns.
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Sometimes it takes a jerk, or a scumbag, to do the things that need doing and which the timid souls are unable to do.
Sometimes a person is called a jerk or a Nazi or a racists or whatever because he is saying things that nobody else has the guts to say. Example: Judge Curiel is a member of a racist organization and therefore unfit to sit on the bench.
But the bottom line here is that these polls are not crystal balls. You wanna bet your house, your car, your savings account on Hillary in November? Go for it. Just don't come to me on the street begging for spare change when it gets cold in January.
I was very pleased with the long-range accuracy of the Marlin; given .357 Mag jacketed softpoint is not noted for its exquisite ballistics, I expected 1-2 foot shot groups at 100 yards. Instead, they held to 4-6 inches. Not quite sniper rifle performance, but plenty good enough.
"Wrist issue precludes a .45 and probably the .357 if I'm honest."
Shooting .38 Special in the revolver helps that, in my experience.
"Can't imagine not getting a .22 rifle and pistol also."
Unthinkable.
"Can you see where my problem might develop? 8^)"
"Might"??? Hope you have plenty of $$$, you're going to need it to satisfy your craving.
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re: #21, Dave, I can afford the guns, it's the addition to the house to hold them all that's worrisome. ;^)
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Thank you, 49 Pan and Skidmark. If it becomes necessary, that's very good to know! But at the moment I still have two black belts at home -- Mr. Wife and trailing daughter #1. :-)
"Hey, don't be a schnook!" trumpet mordant
Crusaders: "Your Donald's a ssserpent!
A nattering nudnik
Who'll trash the republic!
So vote for our crook -- it's important!"
[POLITICO] Donald Trump has his own theory on how a trove of Democratic National Committee opposition research on him appeared to make its way to the public -- the DNC itself leaked it.
The file, which the Washington Post reported was stolen by Russian government hackers, was published Wednesday afternoon by The Smoking Gun and Gawker, which said it received the document from an anonymous source who identified himself only as "Guccifer 2.0." But Trump saw the release differently, accusing the DNC of releasing the research as a diversionary tactic.
"We believe it was the DNC that did the ’hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader," Trump said in a statement released Wednesday. "Too bad the DNC doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s, 33,000 missing emails."
The comprehensive, 211-page document lays out multiple lines of attack against the billionaire, attacking him as "loyal only to himself" and as a man with "no core." It lists, with thorough sourcing, Trump’s various positional shifts on key issues and checkered personal history, including accusations of infidelity and allegations of rape against him by his wife, Ivana Trump.
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Anything's possible in this election. It will get weirder and weirder in the run up to the election.
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They would not have released the info when it couldn't get maximum airplay. If they had released it during a slow news week I would have been inclined to agree with Mr Trump on this.
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In fact a really clever politician would have hacked HIllary's opposition research and then released it themselves (after vetting out the worst if necessary) during a busy news week.
I don't think Trump did this mind you, but I wouldn't put it beyond Putin.
[AlAhram] US authorities on Wednesday warned that threats against Muslims would not be tolerated, after alleged incidents in the wake of the Orlando gay club massacre, which was carried out by a Muslim gunman.
Officials asked the public to help in the investigation of Sunday's carnage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando -- the worst mass shooting in American history, which left 49 people dead and 53 others wounded.
Gunman Omar Mateen was killed in a shootout with police.
The city -- reeling from the mass shooting, the murder of a singer who competed on TV reality show "The Voice" and the death of a toddler in an alligator attack at a Disney resort hotel -- was bracing for the first club-related funeral later Wednesday.
"Civil rights violations are a priority for the FBI," assistant special agent Ron Hopper told reporters. "We will investigate reported incidents against individuals based upon any class, any protected class, to include race, religion, and sexual orientation."
US attorney Lee Bentley chimed in: "Making these threats is not only wrong, in most cases, making these threats is illegal. Stop it. Any threats like this detract from what we're doing in law enforcement."
Members of the small Muslim community in Mateen's hometown of Fort Pierce say they have endured profanity-laced taunts in recent days -- and even death threats.
"We're scared," Bedar Bakht, a taciturn Pakistani in his 50s who worships at the same mosque attended by Mateen, told AFP.
"He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized," said Obama, who was set to visit Orlando on Thursday to show solidarity with survivors and relatives of the dead.
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Members of the small Muslim community in Mateen's hometown of Fort Pierce say they have endured profanity-laced taunts in recent days -- and even death threats.
Toughen up Buttercups. If you were a Christian, it would be far worse. Or if you were Trump or a Trump supporter, it would be far worse.
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"Muslims anticipate backlash after tomorrow's massacre of infidels"
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"We will investigate reported incidents against individuals based upon any class, any protected class, to include race, religion, and sexual orientation."
This "protected class" crap has got to cease. But it won't, because designating particular groups of people-- Muslims being the latest addition-- as "protected", and therefore deserving of special favor by the government, is the primary means by which the Pander Party acquires and maintains political power in this country.
"Members of the small Muslim community in Mateen's hometown of Fort Pierce say they have endured profanity-laced taunts in recent days -- and even death threats."
Tough shit. You don't like people being angry with you? Then stop slaughtering innocent Americans who are guilty of nothing more than not being Muslim.
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However, it's OK to demonize white Americans for those few who actually owned slaves over a 150 years ago. If you hold 'America' as damned for that, we can hold other communities to the same standard worthy of scorn, suspicion, and intolerance for the jihad against infidels.
Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn't carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk.
Abell added that they thought the man was "very suspicious," so they called the local FBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn't have the man's name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy.
"We gave them information and everything that took place, and that was the end of the conversation," he said.
There was a follow-up conversation with agents, Abell said, but the FBI never visited the store or investigated further.
That was the end of it until he saw the news about the Orlando shooting that took place early Sunday morning and images of the man identified as the killer: Mateen, the man who Abell said was in the store.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army and Armed Forces on Wednesday continued combating gunnies organizations in several provinces of the country, SANA reported.
Hama
Army units conducted intensive operations against gatherings and axes movements of ISISgunnies in the eastern countryside of Hama.
A military source told SANA that an army unit clashed with a group of ISISgunnies at the axis of al-Mab’ouje ‐ Akareb in the eastern countryside of Salamiyeh city, killing and injuring scores of them and destroying their weaponry.
Another army unit destroyed, in a special operation, a mortar launcher for ISIS terrorist organizations in Qleib village in the eastern countryside of the province.
On Monday, an army unit destroyed machinegun equipped-vehicles for ISISgunnies and killed 7 of them in the vicinity of Ekeirbat town.
Raqqa
Syrian Army Air Force destroyed vehicles for ISIS to the north side of Zakia crossroads and the south side of Tabqa city in the countryside of Raqqa province, according to the source.
Aleppo
The Syrian army and allies killed dozens of Nusra Front (Qaeda branch in the Levant) and "Fateh Army" gunnies while frustrating their attempt to advance towards Khalsa-Zitan axes in the province's southern countryside.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Iraqi Ministry of Defense revealed on Wednesday about the casualties of at least six (6) people in an explosion of an improvised explosive device in northern Baghdad.
In a statement, a copy of which was received by Iraqi News, the ministry stated, “An improvised explosive device exploded, at noon today near a popular market in al-Hussieniyah area in northern Baghdad. One person was killed and five others were injured in the blast.”
“Security forces rushed to the blast area and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for immediate medical attention. The body of the deceased has been sent for forensic examination. A security cordon was imposed in the incident area,” the statement added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Wednesday, Iraqi Ministry of Interior stated that an employee in the Ministry of Justice was killed along with her son in an attack by unidentified gunmen in her house, southeast of Baghdad.
The Ministry, in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Iraqi News, said, “This morning unidentified gunmen stormed into a house of an employee of the Ministry of Justice in al-Zaafraniya, southeast of Baghdad, and opened fire at her and on her son- killing both on the spot.”
The statement added, “Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the bodies of the deceased to the forensic department. An investigation has also been instituted for finding the circumstances, leading to the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Baghdad Operations Command announced on Wednesday that two soldiers were killed and three others were injured in a suicide bombing that took place near an army post south of Baghdad.
Command’s spokesperson Saad Moen, in a statement issued to the media )copy also obtained by Iraqi News), said, “A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up near an army post on the international highway near al-Yusifiya [area],” adding, “Two soldiers were killed and three others were injured in the explosion.”
“Security forces cordoned off the blast area and while transferred the injured to a nearby hospital. The body of the two deceased soldiers were sent for forensic tests,” he added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Ministry of Interior revealed on Wednesday, that six (6) people were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast southwest of Baghdad.
The ministry in a statement, a copy of which was received by Iraqi News, said, “This evening, a bomb exploded near markets at al-Dawanem southwest of Baghdad, killing two (2) people and injuring four (4) others with different injuries.”
The statement added, “Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for further medical treatment and the bodies of the deceased were sent for forensic tests.”
[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Police in a U.S. town bordering Mexico have apprehended an undocumented, Middle Eastern woman in possession of the region’s gas pipeline plans, law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch. Authorities describe the woman as an “Islamic refugee” pulled over during a traffic stop by a deputy sheriff in Luna County, New Mexico which shares a 54-mile border with Mexico. County authorities alerted the U.S. Border Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) has been deployed to the area to investigate, sources with firsthand knowledge of the probe confirm.
The gas pipeline plans in the woman’s possession include the Deming region, law enforcement sources say. Deming is a Luna County city situated about 35 miles north of the Mexican border and 60 miles west of Las Cruces. It has a population of about 15,000. Last year one local publication listed Deming No. 1 on a list of the “ten worst places” to live in New Mexico due to high unemployment, poverty, crime and a horrible public education system. The entire region is a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), according to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center due to the large amounts of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and marijuana smuggled through the state by Mexican traffickers. Specifically, the renowned Juárez and Sinaloa cartels operate in the area, the feds affirm in a report.
Judicial Watch has broken a number of stories in the last few years about Mexican drug traffickers smuggling Islamic terrorists into the United States through the porous southern border. Last summer high-level sources on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border offered alarming details about an operation in which cartels smuggle foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso. Classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the U.S. government, the foreigners get transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20.
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Do you know the way to San Jose?
Follow pipeline 14782N and take a left at Albuquerque.
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The 'Stainless Steel Cylinders' from yesterday's article concerned me some, but don't know the full story.
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and never will with this regime
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No big deal - happens all the time I'm sure. How 'bout those Penguins!
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The 'Stainless Steel Cylinders' can easily be Thermos-like containers for water. NM is hot for Border walkers this time of year.
Of course they could also be nuclear material containment devices to be used with the intent of a gas explosion as a distribution mechanism for the material (a marvelous distraction really, pipeline damage at a critical juncture which cannot be repaired due to toxic debris).
Or a water bottle packed with mine tailings from Chernobyl or some such.
Critical details like size, purpose and intent are unlikely to be published. Could be she's an apprentice pipefitter on the way to a repair with oxy/acl.
MANBIJ – Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday announced the death of the ISIS-led Hisba police in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Abu al-Hayjaa, head of the Islamic State’s Hisba police force in Manbij city north of Aleppo was killed in clashes with SDF fighters.
The SDF confirmed in a statement, obtained by ARA News, that Abu al-Hayjaa was killed along with dozens of other ISIS militants in an offensive by the SDF-led Manbij Military Council inside the city of Manbij, near the border with Turkey.
“Subsequent to fierce clashes on with ISIS militants, our forces captured the Hatabat district in Manbij city on Wednesday,” a spokesman for the SDF told ARA News.
“Al-Hisba chief Abu al-Hayjaa and four of his escorts were killed in the clashes. Also, over 27 other members of ISIS were killed under heavy bombardment by our forces,” the official said.
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The Bunyan Marsous says that its forces have been making progress during the day in Sirte against the so-called Islamic State (IS), moving through the town’s western district of Zafran, some four kilometres from the centre Sirte. It claimed it had inflicted “heavy losses” on IS, both in terms of men and equipment. However, it too had suffered losses. It put these at two dead and 18 wounded.
Misrata Central Hospital, however, reports that it received five bodies of “martyrs” during the day and treated 37 soliders wounded in the fighting. The figure is up from yesterday’s toll of three dead and 29 injured.
MCH also pointed out that today’s dead came not only from Misrata but also from Mizda, Sebha and Tripoli. The wounded, it added, were from across the country.
Fresh supplies of medications and medical equipment donated by various groups have meanwhile been arriving at the hospital over the past couple of days. However, the hospital is working round the clock because of the fighting in Sirte. The administration has called on staff to work overtime because of the current situation.
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Yesterday the man in this video from the NY Daily News called and asked if he could come and interview us about the basic principles of how an AR-15 works. We acknowledged his offer so that we could prove that an AR-15 is indeed a great and safe weapon as stated in the video.
After the video was filmed there was another Q&A type conversation on how things work in other countries, what are some of the things others believe would be a step into the right direction of gun control.
To our knowledge we did not know that Mr. Kuntzman would completely turn things around and make our establishment look like one of anti-gun advocates. We have received dozens of phone from all over the country in regards to the article. Many of these callers expressed disgust with the article and told us to stay away from the media.
I can assure everyone that we do not support mental health screenings like they do in Europe and we don't think that government officials should take away guns from people as it was portrayed in the article.
Currently we are doing everything we can to take this article down because after reading it we are just as disgusted about it as all of you are. Our team here at Double Tap would like to sincerely apologize for the misunderstanding and report that we are doing everything in our power to get this article removed.
I implore all of our supporters to share our apology with everyone in-order to help defend ourselves from the media who is doing anything in their power to blemish the face of all gun owners and attempting to add more rule to the fire of the attempt of the liberal gun-grabbing agenda.
To those that are writing negative reviews about us, please understand we had no intentions of having this article cause such an issue, nor intentions of us looking like anti gun advocates but, to educate which in turn did the complete opposite due to Mr. Kuntzman.
If anyone has anymore questions or concerns please feel free to come in or call us we will gladly discuss this issue with you. And for the record, if you get a bruised shoulder or PTSD from shooting an AR-15 you may be a Katie Couric, liberal with ought testicular fortitude.
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"To those that are writing negative reviews about us, please understand we had no intentions of having this article cause such an issue, nor intentions of us looking like anti gun advocates but, to educate which in turn did the complete opposite due to Mr. Kuntzman. "
Memo to all Second Amendment defenders: don't ever, EVER cooperate with a Progressive operative like Kuntzman in an effort to educate the public, for it will ALWAYS end with them twisting your words to mean the opposite of what you intended.
Don't trust the MSM. Ever. They are not on our side, and they have no regard whatsoever for the truth.
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They are ALL Katie Couric
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"They are ALL Katie Couric"
I wish I'd said that.
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For wat it's worth, I suspect we're only one more shooting incident away from some type of military style weapons prohibition. I suspect it will come in some form of Class-III addendum, with a very high licensing fee and lengthy processing wait.
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Sounds like a good idea Alan. I doubt the MSM would have any objection. After all, it's been over 40 years since anyone used an M1 in a 'terror' related incident.
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I don't agree that one more will do it. And I suspect the next one is going to be a Beslan or Mumbai type attack. Besides, the anti-human vermin we refer to as politicians are not that far from triggering a very nasty push back.
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I read part of the original article was convinced the writer was a very sheltered, hysterical woman.
In his 'In defense of my article' he pretty much calls himself just that.
Between the 'could not adequately defend personal ownership' and the 'brass casing flying across my face' deals I wondered if the whole thing was being made up, except the range and interviewee were specifically noted.
I'm quite certain if using a professional range's firearm, the boss would make sure the ejection port would be on the correct-handed side.
I believe the clarification, and that kuntzman is an attention needing drama queen who would say he bruised his pinky if a Manhattan was served in the wrong glass.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Tuesday the brother of Zeenat Rafiq who was burnt alive by her family for marrying a man of her own choice on Mast Iqbal Road, Chungi Amar Sidhu.
Police had registered a murder case under Section 336/ B of the Anti-Terrorism Act and 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code against her mother, Parveen Rafiq, brother Anees and brother-in-law Zafar on the complaint of Zeenat’s husband Hasan Khan.
According to Hasan, they had eloped, but he reluctantly allowed Zeenat to return to her family home after her family promised they would hold a celebration and not harm her.
Police had arrested Parveen, who shouted on the murder day in the street that she had killed her daughter for honour, and after two days Zeenat’s brother-in-law Zafar was also arrested.
Police on Tuesday also arrested the third nominated accused.
Anees in his statement said he was not present at home when the incident took place and his mother had committed the crime.
Cantonment Division Superintendent of Police Tariq Mastoi told Dawn Zaneet’s brother was arrested from a relative’s house.
He said even though Anees denied his involvement in the murder, circumstantial evidences revealed that more than two persons were involved in strangling and torching Zeenat. He said Zeenat’s mother was distorting the fact in her statements as she could not commit the crime alone.
Anees will be presented before the court on Wednesday (today) for physical custody.
He said police also arrested Zeenat’s brother-in-law Mushtaq who had brought Zeenat from her in-laws after she had eloped with Hasan. He said Mushtaq worked in a private organization and he was not present in the house at the time of the incident.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... mobile call data showed that Zeenat’s brother was at home when she was set on fire, he added.
The investigation officer said Zeenat’s mother confessed to killing her daughter by strangling her with her dupata and then torching her.
He said she claimed that she had taken the extreme step against her daughter for bringing bad name to the family. She also confessed that when her son-in-law brought her back for reception after reconciliation, she had started planning to kill her.
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was fired after lamenting that the death toll in Sunday’s jihadist attack on the Pulse LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was lower than it could have been.
[SeanHannity] As we continue to learn details about the terror attack that took the lives of 49 people at a popular Orlando nightclub, we're now learning that the attack might have been preventable. A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security has come forward to claim that the department scrubbed records that tied Muslims to terrorism, records that might have prevented the attacks in both San Bernardino and Orlando.
Philip Haney was a founding member of the DHS, beginning his work for the department in 2003. His job, as he explains it, was "connecting the dots" between individuals, organizations, and networks across the country that may have had ties to terrorism.
In 2009, six years into his tenure with the department, Haney claims critical information about U.S. based Muslims with terror ties, which represented years of painstaking work, were deleted from the DHS's records.
"It was directed from DHS headquarters," Haney said on Tuesday's Hannity. "It's important to keep in mind that that was one year after the November 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror trial in American history, that irrefutably proved that these individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood front groups were in direct financial support of Hamas."
It was during this trial that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust were named as un-indicted co-conspirators in funneling money to the terrorist organization Hamas.
According to Haney, orders to purge DHS records came down shortly after President Obama took office in 2009 and then again in 2012. He believes that both the San Bernardino and Orlando attacks might have been prevented had the purges not occurred.
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According to Haney, orders to purge DHS records came down shortly after President Obama took office in 2009 and then again in 2012. He believes that both the San Bernardino and Orlando attacks might have been prevented had the purges not occurred.
Its long past time that we require those that defend the Islamic ideology defend their support of it. IF I were a public official and to publicly declare that green apples provide salvation, its more than fair that the public at large that learned of such a declaration could ask for clarification of what such a belief entailed.
So when you keep seeing the FBI letting this obvious Jihadist Threat off at every opportunity, and when you see them become like the IRS with refusing to disclose who made key decisions like closing the file, rmemeber: they did this intentionally, but don't want you to know who did it.
The FBI will soon put up a brick wall of resistance to Congressional inquiries into this case. On Obama's orders, they will not disclose whom their orders came from.
Because, of course, the orders came from Obama and his inner circle of Fndamental Change."
(IraqiNews.com) Babel – Security forces on Wednesday arrested thirty-one (31) people, wanted for various criminal charges, during a number of security operations conducted at different parts of the province.
According to information shared by a security source, which is also received by Iraqi News, it was mentioned, “This morning, detachments from Babel police carried out raids and search operations at different areas of the province and were able to arrest thirty one (31) people wanted for various criminal charges.”
The information also revealed, “The operations covered the majority of districts in the province,” adding, “The arrested people were sent to competent authorities for completion of the legal procedures.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province inforned on Wednesday that five people were arrested on charges of ‘terrorism’ at northwest of the province.
According to information shared by a security source, “A force belonging to the National Security [Agency] was able to detain five persons, mostly wanted individuals on charges of terrorism, while they were trying to sneak into the province at the checkpoint K1 (15 km northwest of Kirkuk),” adding, “Intelligence information led to the arrest of the wanted persons.”
The information added, “The detainees were transferred to a detention center for interrogation.”
The US-led coalition said in a press statement on Wednesday that on June 13, the Syrian Democratic Forces-led alliance of SAC completed their first phase of the operation to free Manbij, and that now the second phase to liberate the city will start.
“Operating on multiple fronts, the SAC have secured the routes to and from Manbij. For the SAC, civilian safety is a critical concern, and as a consequence people are returning to the already liberated inhabited villages,” the US coalition said.
“Since the operation began the Coalition has conducted more than 190 airstrikes in the vicinity of Manbij and in the last four days destroyed three command headquarters, which is encouraging ISIL’s retreat into the city,” the coalition added, using another acronym for ISIS.
According to the US-led coalition, the Manbij operation will prevents threats to Turkey, Europe and the United States.
“The Manbij City operation, coupled with the Coalition-supported Syrian moderate opposition efforts to clear Da’esh [ISIS] from the Turkish border and the Mar’a Line, continues to attrite Da’esh forces and minimize the threat to Turkey, the rest of Europe, and the United States,” it said.
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The hunt for a renegade nephew of Kuwait's emir has turned up a gun disguised as a pen in his home, adding yet another layer of mystery to a bizarre case involving two other ruling family members and others.
Police officers who raided the home of Sheikh Athbi al-Fahad Al Sabah found the James Bond-style weapon, with what appeared to be a trigger in the pump of the pen, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
The pen, found along with a Kalashnikov rifle, a handgun and ammunition, made the front page across Kuwait on Tuesday, with the prominent newspaper Al-Rai calling it an "assassination device."
It's unclear why Sheikh Athbi would own such a weapon, though he once ran Kuwait's National Security Office, the nation's intelligence agency.
Sheikh Athbi has been on the run since May 30, when prosecutors say he, two other ruling family members and four other individuals were found guilty in a plot to publish anonymous Twitter posts sharing fabricated videos of judges receiving bribes.
He received a five-year prison sentence, which can be appealed.
The videos appear to be tied to a larger ongoing political scandal involving faked videos suggesting high-ranking officials were planning a coup.
Prosecutors imposed a gag order on the case, and ruling family members have apologized on state television.
[AlAhram] Egypt's aviation ministry said on Wednesday it had indentified debris from the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people aboard.
A committee investigating the crash said in a statement that a ship contracted by the Egyptian government to take part in the search for the twin black box recorders and the wreckage of Flight MS804 had "identified several main locations of the wreckage."
Images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee, the ministry added in the statement.
"The search team and Sherlocks on board the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots," the statement read.
The Airbus 320 jet dropped off radar screens on 19 May while en route from Gay Paree to Cairo.
Egyptian Sherlocks said Monday that less than two weeks remain before the batteries of the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders run out and stop emitting signals.
They can't put longer-lived batteries into these? And better yet, have them transmit continuously to the cloud via satellite?
The black boxes could help Sherlocks form a clear picture of what caused the crash; whether a technical failure or foul play.
There have been several instances where the recorders from crashed planes were found after their batteries had expired.
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They can't put longer-lived batteries into these?
It seems it should ping occasionally, but it also seems it would be much better if it would ping more for a while in response to some kind of interrogation signal.
[IsraelTimes] New legislation mandates 3-5 year prison terms for supporters of terrorism, up to 15 years to anyone who aids attackers
The Knesset on Wednesday passed a series of sweeping anti-terror reforms that for the first time enshrine into law penalties for terror attacks. The far-reaching bill passed with 57 politicians in favor and 16 opposed.
The legislation, lauded by backers for enabling Israel to effectively confront terrorism but lambasted by opponents as a setback for civil rights, puts an end to years of deliberation -- including 30 Knesset committee meetings stretching over three different governments. It merges two private member bills and three government-sponsored bills and will replace all previous anti-terror laws and regulations, including those from the pre-state British Mandate era.
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[Ynet] Bassam Mahmoud Baraka turned himself and his family in to Israel during the first week of June; he brought his laptop and secret maps showing tunnel infrastructure in the Strip.
A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, member involved in building tunnel infrastructure, Bassam Mahmoud Baraka, turned himself and his family in to Israel during the first week of June, according to Gazook sources.
Baraka, a son of a senior member of Hamas in Gazoo, crossed the border into Israel with his wife and children and with valuable equipment, namely his laptop and secret maps apparently showing part of the tunnel infrastructure in the Gazoo Strip. According to sources, on the day of his disappearance he arrived at the home of his wife's parents and said he was going out to run errands and would return in the evening. He then went with his family towards the border and there gave himself up with his equipment to Israeli security forces. The Red Thingy officially informed his family in Gazoo that Baraka is in Israel.
Sources in Gazoo reported that an kaboom heard in central Gazoo Strip near the border fence with Israel on Tuesday. The sources in Gazoo said that the Israeli Air Force attacked the area, and the IDF front man said, "The IDF carried out a trial run on the Gazoo border." No injuries were reported in the incident.
Israel has worked extensively on the Gazoo border in an attempt to expose Hamas attack tunnels and has already discovered two of them over the last few months.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Bahrain religious scholars (Ulama) denounced the repressive, terrorist acts practiced by the authorities against the people and their religious and political components in the context of commenting on the regime's decision to suspend the activities of the Islamic National Association of al-Wefaq and dissolve al-Tawiya and al-Risala Islamic associations.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Bahrain Ulama considered that the recent developments as a war declaration on the peaceful political opposition, the people's will and aspirations, and the cultural and religious existence of the Shia sect in the country.
The statement added that the regime's terrorist escalation reflects its illogical approach and sectarian as well as arrogant policy in face of the peaceful and opprerssed people who moved to demand that the authorities grant them their legitimate rights.
The regime is mistaken if it thinks that such repressive acts can eradicate the popular mobility, and al-Wefaq association is not mere headquarters that can be closed or a number of people that can be enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , yet it reflects the people's will, mobility and ambitions, according to the statement which also hailed the vital role of al-Tawiya association in sustaining the bright Bahraini thought.
Bahrain Ulama finally asserted that the popular mobility will continue because it is based on religious and human grounds despite all the regime practices which would reinforce the popular conviction of the necessity of change and reform.
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OWG Amerika's BFF Rising Iran to attack Bahrain [+ Emirates?] = OWG Amerika's BFF Rising China to attack Taiwan + Japan???
I've said it before - China is NOT going to wait until 2030 or 2050 for the US to give Taiwan back, nor as per its desired strategic access for the PLA in the East China Sea agz Japan. Iff China doesn't make a serious or major mil move agz Taiwan + ECS by the time the Bammer leaves office in Jan 2017, it will during a POTUS Trump or POTUS Hillary Admin, i.e. 2018 < 2020.
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Don' fear a US-Russia or other US war - FEAR MORE A US-LED WAR IN DEFENSE OF OUR REGIONAL ALLIES.
SUCH A WAR WILL VERIFY, OR NOT, THE BAMMER'S = AMERIKA'S SELF-PROCLAIMED, SELF-ALLEGED STRATEGIC WEAKNESS AGZ OUR FELLOW OWG "CO-SUPERPOWERS", + THEIR STRENGTH RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan and Pak authorities have agreed on a ceasefire at Torkham following three days of intense tensions that led to heavy festivities on numerous occasions.
The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal confirmed that a ceasefire was agreed following the meetings with the Pak authorities.
"Productive meetings with relevant Pak leadership on Torkham issue. Agreed on ceasefire, deescalation of tension, draw down of military buildup and steps forward for an amicable solution," Zakhilwal said in a short message posted on his Facebook account.
In the meantime, the local media in Pakistain reported that construction work on Torkham gate also started following the ceasefire announcement.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the Afghan officials have not commented in this regard so far which was the main cause of deadly festivities over the past three days.
At least three Afghan border guards bit the dust during the festivities and numerous others were maimed and the Pak authorities confirmed the death of a senior army officer.
Although, the exact number of casualties of the Pak forces has not ascertained so far.
The festivities in Torkham started late on Sunday night after the Afghan border guards interferred to stop the work on the construction of the gate along the zero point of Durand Line.
The Afghan officials condemned the act by the Pak forces and called it against the bilateral agreement as the two nations must consult before starting work on any installation along the zero line.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network and deputy chief of the Taliban group Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... has said Taliban is open to talks only if such negotiations are in line with Sharia.
He did not elaborate regarding his statement suggesting that the talks could be held in line with Sharia but the Taliban group and the Haqqani terrorist network have long been demanding the complete withdrawal of foreign forces and establishment a strict Sharia rule in the country.
In a rare audio message, obtained by the local media in Pakistain, Sirajuddin said "The Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan] is not opposed to talks if they are held in line with Sharia and if the international community agrees to this."
Sirajuddin further added "Our Political Commission deals with the issue of negotiations. If we were opposed to talks, we would have not formed this commission," according to The Express Tribune.
"This was a consensus decision of the Taliban leadership," he said, adding that "The international community has imposed a puppet administration on the people of Afghanistan. They are now asking and even forcing us to join it. We cannot accept this demand. The 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.... administration has no power as it cannot implement any decision."
The audio message by Sirajuddin has been released as Quadrilateral talks involving Afghanistan, Pakistain, China and United States failed to revive the peace talks.
The Afghan government was forced to opt a strict military option against the Taliban group after the group rejected calls for peace talks and staged a deadly attack in capital Kabul in April this year.
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[Iraq Sun] Even as the humanitarian crisis unfolds during the fierce battle to recapture Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Iraq, another humanitarian disaster is developing in northern Iraq.
More than 14,000 Iraqis have now been forced to flee their homes following a renewed offensive by Iraqi forces against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , and more are leaving every day.
Mosul has been under IS control since June 2014.
According to UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, civilians living southeast of the city have been walking through minefields at night to escape the fighting as Iraqi security forces edge closer to the city.
Frederic Cussigh, head of the UNHCR's field response unit in Irbil, said there were reports some refugees had been "trapped, severely injured or killed in minefields on their way to safety."
Camps set up to receive them are rapidly filling up.
An eventual assault on Mosul could result in a displacement of upward of 600,000 people, the UNCHR warned.
The current offensive in Fallujah, by comparison, has displaced 43,000, and humanitarian agencies there are already warning of being overwhelmed by refugees' needs.
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Police in the western province of Ghor have said that local armed men in Feroz Koh city of the province have allegedly killed a woman on charges of escaping from home.
The incident happened on Monday after the armed men allegedly took the victim from her house and shot her.
Meanwhile, women's rights activists have said that the incident was tragic and that the legal and judicial bodies must step up efforts to prosecute the criminals who murdered the woman.
The victim who is known as Aziz Gul was engaged to a man two years ago but it was called off.
"When the police heard about the incident, the police department swiftly took action and reached the village where the incident happened. But when the police reached the village, they had already buried the body. Investigations have been launched into the issue.
We have arrested one person in connection with the incident, however the main killer is on the run," said Abdul Hadi Chehel Ghori, head of the crime department of the Ghor police department.
"Such cases must be referred to the court so that the court can decide, but not to illegal courts," AIHRC official in Ghor Farida Naseri said.
"Our expectations from the legal and judicial organs is for them to ensure the trial of perpetrators involved in such cases, so that it can be a lesson to others," Naseri said.
Reports indicate that the police department in Ghor has arrested a man on charges of plotting the murder. However, the main criminals are still on the run.
Rights groups have expressed shock over the tragic incident.
The provincial office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has condemned the incident as an unforgivable crime.
The Taliban and illegal armed groups have often been blamed for open trails in the country.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 70 fighters have been killed in less than 24 hours of fierce festivities between pro-regime forces, forces of Evil and rebels in Syria's Aleppo province, a monitor said Wednesday.
Pro-regime fighters -- backed by regime and Russian air strikes -- retook the villages of Zaytan and Khalasa to the southwest of Aleppo city after losing them several hours earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
European fighters on the ground The Syrian government said on Wednesday French and German forces were present in northern Syria, an accusation denied by Germany.
Syrian state media said the government strongly condemned the presence of French and German forces in Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobani, and Manbij.
"Syria...considers it explicit and unjustified aggression towards (Syria's) illusory sovereignty and independence," state news agency SANA quoted the foreign ministry as saying.
Germany's defence ministry denied that German special forces were in northern Syria and said repeated claims by the Syrian government to this effect were not and had never been true.
"There are no German special forces in Syria. The accusation is false," a ministry front man said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Police in western Bangladesh said Wednesday they have armed villagers with bamboo sticks and whistles in an effort to deter radical forces of Evil from attacking people of minority faiths.
Officers said they wanted to empower people to act against forces of Evil who have killed dozens of secular activists, Hindus and other minorities across the country in recent years.
The move comes after a Hindu priest was found slaughtered in a rice field in western Bangladesh, the latest in a series of gruesome murders targeting secular campaigners and religious minorities in the mainly Moslem country.
"We want to change the scenario. We want the people to be cautious, safe and united against militancy and other crimes," said Ehsan Ullah, police chief in the western district of Magura, which has a large Hindu population.
Ullah said the sticks and whistles were aimed partly at raising morale among local people.
"Almost all recent (militant) attacks took place during a time when roads were empty and the local community was busy with farming or asleep," he told AFP.
Police denied the scheme could be open to abuse, despite concerns from some human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists that the move could trigger mob lynchings.
The ISIS group has grabbed credit for the Hindu priest's murder and other recent attacks.
But authorities instead blame homegrown murderous Moslem groups and say ISIS and other international group have no presence in Bangladesh.
Last Friday the police launched a crackdown on murderous Moslem groups in Bangladesh in the wake of the violence, arresting more than 11,000 people in recent days.
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Bengalis may wield their bamboo;
To Britons such things are taboo:
"Of licking we're skittish;
No sticks, please, we're British!
To all that, we've said, 'Toodle-oo.'"
A number of experts said on Wednesday that the Taliban has suffered heavy casualties on the battlefields against the Afghan forces and as a result the group has changed its war tactics.
At the beginning of their fighting season this summer, the Taliban launched widespread attacks in Helmand, Uruzgan, Kunduz, Faryab and number of other provinces – but now, since the death of their former leader Mullah Mansour, they conduct smaller, focused attacks against security checkpoints, officials said.
Experts believe that the Taliban, with this new tactic, suffer fewer casualties but that casualties are higher among government forces.
Experts have said the Taliban is now conducting "guerilla" attacks – which also include mass kidnappings on highways.
"Because the Taliban is being defeated, they turn to guerilla attacks. Afghan forces must stand seriously against the armed oppositions and terrorists and fight them," MP Syed Hussain Sharifi Balkhabi said.
"As you all witnessed, how many innocent passengers were killed and kept hostage by the Taliban? All these activities are their sign of weakness," said Habiba Danish another MP.
Parliament members believe that ignoring the Taliban's new tactics will increase casualties among security force members and also civilians. They said the Taliban will also use civilians as human shields.
"We are trying to respond to any terrorist activities. Our forces have a strong morale and people are with us," said Dawlat Waziri, the defense ministry spokesman.
"Even if Taliban change their war tactics we are after them and no matter where, if they create problems for our people, will we respond to them with force," said Sediq Sediqqi, the interior ministry's spokesman.
Security institutions said that in addition to providing security for the country's highways and that of passengers, security forces are currently conducting 22 pre-planned military operations in 17 provinces across the country.
The security institutions did however confirm that the Taliban and Daesh have sustained heavy casualty tolls in the ongoing operations.
A Turkish military center in Somalia is expected to train Somalian troops to fight against Al-Shabaab armed group. Following a military base in Qatar, Turkey’s second overseas military base will be in Somalia, at the coast of the Gulf of Aden.
This is part of a long-standing interest in Somalia by the Turks.
Why on earth does Turkey care?
According to an agreement approved by the United Nations, almost 1,500 Somalian military personnel will be trained by Turkish military trainers.
The military base in Mogadishu is a part of Turkey’s pledge to build up the national army for the Somali government, which will fight against the al-Shabaab extreme organization as well as other regional extreme groups. According to government sources the initiative was a part of a framework agreement between the countries on defense industry cooperation signed last year.
On January 25 in 2015, Mogadishu and Ankara reached an agreement to increase military cooperation, which lasted almost a year until it was approved by the Defense Committee of the Turkish Parliament on December 9, 2015.
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Note also in that story that Turkey is building an aircraft carrier and that Libya plays into Turkey's game as a restart of the same game the US Marines halted with Jefferson's Barbary War.
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Would we or the Euros actually allow such a thing to occur 3dc?
How hard would it be to totally destroy any and all maritime "assets" (other than anchors) and their port facilities if we really wanted to? I don't doubt that deluded Muzzies dream of such things, but really?
Venezuela’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that a law to accept humanitarian medical aid violates the constitution, as the health crisis in the oil-rich country keeps on worsening.
However, rejecting humanitarian help for fear of intervention is nothing new in Venezuela. It already happened in 1999.
For the “humanitarian aid corridor" -- a plan that read like the current equivalent of the Berlin airlift during the Cold War -- it was a bad Monday: not only it was rejected it at the Supreme Court, but also before the Organization of American States.
Speaking during an OAS event, the Venezuelan ambassador before the organization, Bernardo Alvarez, explained that the Nicolas Maduro government not is only worried about legal matters when it comes to humanitarian aid, but that it also fears that the aid would entail foreign intervention.
“We believe in humanitarian aid but in a different one,” said Alvarez. “Not using it in the framework that (the Venezuelan opposition) wants to use it, which hides an unacceptable desire for (foreign) intervention”.
During the OAS event, held in Santo Domingo, Secretary General Luis Almagro reiterated that the organization will discuss, again, the Venezuelan situation at a Permanent Council meeting scheduled for June 23rd.
The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Hall struck down the aid law after a public request by President Nicolas Maduro, a familiar pattern when it comes to bills approved by the opposition-dominated National Assembly -- all of which have been struck down by the partisan governing body court.
The highest court in the land ruled that the law “usurps” matters that are the exclusive domain of the executive power and that it also violates ten articles in the Venezuelan Constitution.
Forces backed by Libya’s unity government said on Wednesday they had consolidated positions on the edge of Sirte, repelling sniper, tank and mortar attacks as they seek to dislodge ISIS militants from its North African stronghold.
Fighting resumed on Wednesday near Sirte’s port, which government-backed forces captured last week. Security sources also reported intense clashes in the “700” neighborhood and around the Ouagadougou conference hall, just south of a 5 km by 5 km area still controlled by ISIS.
The campaign in Sirte is led by brigades from the western city of Misrata that are aligned with Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). They launched a counter-attack against ISIS just under a month ago, rapidly taking back positions on the coastal road west of Sirte and advancing to the outskirts of the city.
In their statement on Wednesday, the brigades said they had “resisted ISIS attacks that used mortar fire and tanks backed by snipers positioned on tall buildings”.
They said they had been working to clear areas now under their control from mines and explosives and were preparing to launch a radio broadcast that would “respond to the widespread lies and deceptions of Daesh (ISIS)”.
Five brigade members were killed and more than 30 wounded on Tuesday, officials said. More than 120 have died in the past month’s fighting, with more than 500 wounded.
The brigades say they have inflicted heavy losses on Islamic State, though the militant group is still thought to have hundreds of fighters inside Sirte.
Most of Sirte’s residents have fled, with dozens more families leaving the city last week as the GNA-backed forces advanced.
The GNA is meant to replace two competing governments that were set up in Tripoli and eastern Libya in 2014 during a conflict between loose alliances of rival armed factions.
ISIS took advantage of the political turmoil to start building a presence in Libya the same year. It took full control of Sirte in 2015, but has struggled to retain territory elsewhere in the country.
The GNA has been gradually trying to extend its authority since arriving in Tripoli in March.
Western powers see the GNA as the best chance of uniting Libya’s factions and defeating ISIS, and have been providing intelligence assistance to the brigades advancing on Sirte.
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Seems the Libyans could use air support more than intelligence assistance.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... warned Russia on Wednesday that US patience on the Syria conflict and the issue of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's fate is "running out."
"Russia needs to understand that our patience is not infinite, in fact it is very limited with whether or not Assad is going to be held accountable," Kerry said during a visit to Norway.
"We also are prepared to hold accountable members of the opposition" who have been involved in continuing violence, he said after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.
"It is very clear that the cessation of hostilities is frayed and at risk and that it is critical for a genuine cessation to be put in place. We know that, we have no illusion," Kerry said.
"This is a critical moment and we are working very. very hard to see if we can in the next week or two come to an agreement that has a capacity to more fully implement a ceasefire across the country and deliver humanitarian access in a way that then provides for a genuine opportunity to bring people to the table and start talking about a transition," the top US diplomat said.
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[Iraq Sun] A resolution of the Paleostinian issue is no longer a key concern of Arab countries, a senior Israeli official confirmed on Wednesday.
It is also of little interest to Israel, the official said.
Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold was speaking to a packed conference in Jerusalem when he revealed the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict is no longer a barrier for Israel in building already-budding relations with the Arab world.
Mr Gold elaborated on behind-the-scenes relations with Arab nations which he said must remain clandestine to respect the Arab public's "sensitivities." Dore has met on a number of occasions unofficially and officially with leaders and officials of Arab countries that have no diplomatic ties with Israel.
Quoted by the Times of Israel, the top diplomat described the 49-year occupation and conflict with the Paleostinians as being "pretty close to the bottom," as far as issues Israel and Arab countries are discussing.
An Israeli rapprochement with Sunni Arab states will take place before a peace agreement with the Paleostinians can be reached, Gold was quoted as saying, confirming this was the "strategy" of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"That is the strategy. Twenty, thirty years ago everyone said, solve the Paleostinian issue and you'll have peace with the Arab world. Increasingly we are becoming convinced, it's the exact opposite. It's a different order we have to create. And that's what we're going to do."
Dole said he looked forward to the day when Israeli journalists can walk in Arab cities and the coverage that will emanate from it.
"It is very gratifying to get that kind of coverage. But we have to be very careful with our Arab neighbors. They have sensitivities," he said. "They have populations which may not always look favorably upon that coverage."
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I'm the new kid here but my guess is the gulf states hate Iran more than they hate Israel. And absent American power need Israel as a counterbalance to Iranian power. Starting maybe in Yemen?
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[NYPOST] A House committee passed a resolution Wednesday to condemn and censure IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... Commissioner John Koskinen.
On a partisan 23-15 vote, the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee moved to deny Koskinen his government pension and get him out of office.
Spearheaded by chair Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Republicans say Koskinen lied to Congress about ex-employee Lois Lerner ...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it... and allowed key email evidence to be destroyed in an investigation of how the IRS targeted conservative groups.
"Mr. Koskinen’s misconduct deserves condemnation and censure from the Congress," Chaffetz said.
The measure now heads to the full House.
Chaffetz called the move "a helpful first step" toward the ultimate goal of impeachment, a rare rebuke that would require Senate passage. Chaffetz is pushing for impeachment in a separate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 22.
Koskinen, 76, came out of retirement in December 2013 to clean up the IRS after an independent audit found the agency was using improper criteria to screen politically active groups for tax-exempt status.
Rep. Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... (D-Md.) panned the censure resolution as "bogus" because "there was no lying to Congress and no obstruction of justice."
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This piece of crap deserves full prosecution and upon conviction the full loss of benefits while he spends the rest of his days behind bars.
Vote Trump if you ever want to see anything approaching even one-tenth of the above take place.
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Get back to me when Lois Lerner is executed for treason.
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Censure seems tame but Congress has no stomach for impeachment. One of them might be next and zap there's goes their cushy job for life. At this point the lines between RINOs in Congress and lefty Donks is about a dimes worth of difference. If put to a vote outside of Washington, censure would not be the issue. The voters would be collecting tar and feathers and a rope.
To be fair, though, this long, rambling article does raise some good points: we do need to decide whether we're at war or merely chasing criminals; and we do need to decide-- and declare-- who the enemy is.
Though the author rightly and emphatically answers the first question (we're at war), he drops the ball on the second.
Islam is at war with us. Indeed, Islam, from its inception, has been at war with everything that is not Islamic. At times, that war has "gone hot" in armed struggles for conquest and subjugation; at other times, it has "simmered on the back burner", dormant until Islamic forces can recover the strength and will needed for another push forward.
But hot or cold, Islam's war against all that is not Islamic is perpetual. And we in the West are the present focus of its imperialistic, totalitarian struggle.
Islam is at war with us, but we do not want to face that fact because we shrink before its enormous implications. We do not want to be at war with Islam, simply because we are afraid.
The enemy is not the "jihadist strand of Islam" as the author claims; the enemy is Islam.
All of it.
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Crimes can only be punished after the fact. In war, you have the offense / defense options.
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"We do not want to be at war with Islam, simply because we are afraid." has there ever been a war before where one side truly had the ability to eliminate the other but instead tolerated provocation after provocation after provocation.
A senior Iraqi commander was killed by sniper fire from ISIS militants near the northern ISIS-held city of Mosul, the extremist group’s main bastion in Iraq.
The U.N. refugee agency warned that thousands of civilians have been newly displaced from that area.
Iraq’s Defense Ministry said late Tuesday that Brig. Ahmed Badr al-Luhaibi, the commander of Brigade 71st of Division 15, was killed by a sniper during an operation to retake a village south of Mosul.
The statement lauded al-Luhaibi as a “knight” and said his death would “increase our determination to clear” the entire province of Nineveh, where Mosul is the provincial capital, of ISIS militants.
ISIS group captured Mosul — Iraq’s second-largest city —during their June 2014 attack that took hold of large swathes of northern and western Iraq and also almost a third of neighboring Syria. The city, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, became also the largest city in the extremist group’s self-declared caliphate on the territories the militants control.
Along with a major offensive to retake Fallujah, a city in western Anbar province, Iraqi troops have this week resumed small-scale operations to drive ISIS militants out of areas to the south and southeast of Mosul.
In late March, government forces backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition launched a military operation aimed at clearing areas between Makmour and the adjacent Qayara areas outside of Mosul, to the east of the Tigris River, and to cut one of the supply lines to the nearby ISIS-held Shirqat area.
But retaking Mosul itself is not likely to come anytime soon.Iraqi and U.S. officials have refrained from giving a specific time for a Mosul operation, saying it would take many months to prepare Iraq’s still struggling military. Some of the U.S. and Iraqi officials have said it may not even be possible to retake it this year, despite repeated vows by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
The UNHCR said on Tuesday the fighting outside Mosul has displaced over 14,000 Iraqis since March. Of that number, more than 8,000 people left from villages east of the Tigris, putting additional pressure on existing camps for refugees and the displaced.
Since April, 6,700 more Iraqis have crossed into Syria’s northeastern Hassakeh province using local smuggling networks. Some of those refugees managed to escape Mosul.
Frédéric Cussigh, head of UNHCR’s field response unit in the northern, semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region, warned that there are no safe routes for those escaping war.
The civilians and “families use secondary routes, mostly at night, crossing dangerous terrain,” he said, adding that the U.N. refugee agency has reports that some of the people have been “trapped, severely injured or killed in minefields on their way to safety.”
The UNHCR warned that the eventual assault on Mosul could result in a massive displacement of about 600,000 people.
In Fallujah, the United Nations says about 50,000 civilians remain trapped inside the city while about 42,000 people have fled since the military operation began in late May. Aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council say the number of those who have fled Fallujah is closer to 30,000, lower than the U.N. estimate.
The conflict in Iraq has forced 3.3 million people to flee their homes. Iraq is also hosting up to 300,000 refugees who have fled the civil war in neighboring Syria. Most are living in camps or informal settlements.
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The statement lauded al-Luhaibi as a “knight” and said his death would “increase our determination to clear” the entire province of Nineveh, where Mosul is the provincial capital, of ISIS militants.
That sounds very "Crusaderish". I'm hoping they haven't microaggressed ISIS
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But retaking Mosul itself is not likely to come anytime soon.Iraqi and U.S. officials have refrained from giving a specific time for a Mosul operation, saying it would take many months to prepare Iraq’s still struggling military.
Besides, Falllujah is closer; it's full of Sunnis and the IEDs in Baghdad are coming from there.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that the ISIS supply lines between the areas of al-Halabsa and Fallujah have been cut down.
According to a statement issued by the press office, a copy of which was also received by Iraqi News, it was stated that, “Today, the Federal Police forces managed to cut the ISIS supplies between al-Halabsa and Fallujah region,” adding, “This came after the forces had gained control over the Fallujah Barrage.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Joint Operations Command revealed on Wednesday that the security forces managed to liberate a village and an orchard, southeast of Fallujah, from ISIS control.
In a statement, a copy of which was also received by Iraqi news, it was stated, “At afternoon today, the security forces managed to free al-Talea village and al-Tikriti orchard southeast of Fallujah from ISIS control. The security forces are now advancing to liberate the center of Fallujah.”
Yesterday, media officials with the Ministry of defense announced liberating Fallujah Dam from the ISIS control and raising the Iraqi flag over it, while emphasized cutting ISIS supply lines between al-Halabesa area and central Fallujah.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Anti-Terrorism forces on Wednesday liberated Zankora village from the ISIS grip.
According to information shared by a security source and also obtained by Iraqi News, it was stated, “The [security] forces from the Anti-Terrorism directorate managed at noon today to liberate Zankora village in northern Fallujah from the ISIS control. The Anti-Terrorism forces then headed towards Albu Risha area to liberate it”
On Saturday, Joint Operations Command announced about beginning the liberation operations of central Fallujah, while pointed out to the security operation that were carried out by the Anti-Terrorism force. Iraqi forces, ISIS battle it out south of Fallujah
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Violent clashes erupted between the Iraqi joint security forces and ISIS members towards the south of Fallujah.
According to information shared by a security source, “Today, violent clashes broke out between security forces, belonging to the Anti-Terrorism Directorate, Anbar Police and the Federal Police, and the ISIS elements, at al-Shuhada, the Industrial Neighborhood and the Jabil region towards south of Fallujah.”
The information also pointed out that, “The clashes are still going on,” adding, “The international coalition aviation and the air force are bombing targets and shelters for ISIS towards south of Fallujah.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday about four villages- al-Tala, Bostan al-Takrit and Raikan, located at southeast of Fallujah.
The officials said in a press statement obtained by Iraqi News, “The [Army’s] Seventeenth Division managed to liberate fur villages- al-Tala, Bostan al-Takrit and Raikan towards southeast of Fallujah and raise the Iraqi flag there.”
Noteworthy, violent clashes erupted between the security forces and ISIS elements in the southern axis of Fallujah, according to information shared by a security source.
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CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS
and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society
9 June 2016
ENSO Alert System Status: Final El Nino Advisory / La Nina Watch
Synopsis: ENSO-neutral conditions are present and La Nina is favored to develop during the Northern Hemisphere summer 2016, with about a 75% chance of La Nina during the fall and winter 2016-17. 26 named storms in the Pacific in 2015; so far its been quiet in 2016 in the Pacific
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Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn't carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk. My emphasis added. Appears, I say again.... appears there was no, or inadequate follow-up by the Bureau on the phone call, probably from a cell phone in a fairly identifiable time frame. CCTV from adjacent businesses, word search on the internet? Did LE contact other gun shops or body armor vendors? Very curious. Hat tip to poster Anguper Hupomosing Good job by the store employees to call the FBI; too bad this didn't lead to an arrest before the shooting.
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] The self-proclaimed "Spam King," Sanford Wallace, has been given a 30-month jail sentence, a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and five years' probation.
The 47 year old pled guilty back in August to sending more than a half-million spam messages through Facebook in violation of a court order that prevented him from accessing the social network following previous spamming efforts.
Wallace, from Las Vegas but sentenced in San Jose, will also undergo a mental health evaluation and will not be allowed to own or use a computer without the court's permission during the five-year probation period that will follow his sentence.
Twitter can be done on cell phones...
The two-and-a-half-year sentence is a little less than the maximum three years he was facing, a sentence that was itself reduced from 10 years following a plea deal.
Some of the details of that plea deal have now been made public. Although he was facing 11 charges ranging from fraud to damage to a protected computer, he pleaded guilty to electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court.
Wallace was barred from using Facebook after a previous spamming spree, but according to court documents obtained Facebook users' account information by setting up more than 1,000 fake websites which encouraged users to click on a link. If they did, the site grabbed their friend lists.
Using two aliases ‐ David Frederix and Laura Frederix ‐ he then spammed more than 550,000 Facebook users over the course of three months with over 27 million messages.
"Spamford" Wallace has been a prolific and notorious spammer since the 1990s, when he grabbed credit for junk fax and email campaigns. In 1997, ISP EarthLink successfully sued Wallace for $2m over his spamming activities.
He also ended up in court for spamming MySpace and for running a huge spyware ring, although this is the first time he has been convicted of a crime.
The judge's decision in this case comes more than six months after the planned December sentencing date. No explanation was given for the long delay. Or why two of Wallace's lawyers quit back in 2014. One lawyer did note, however, that Wallace simply refused to communicate with him. Which is ironic seeing as over-communication is what has led to his jail sentence.
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Aid has been locked out from rebel-held areas of Aleppo for the longest period since the Syrian civil war began due to an escalation in air strikes and bombardments, driving up food prices and hampering efforts to ease the plight of residents.
“For the last few weeks we have not been able to bring supplies into (Aleppo) city itself,” said Christy Delafield, senior communications officer for Mercy Corps, which runs the largest non-governmental aid operation inside Syria.
Delafield told Reuters in a phone interview from Turkey that hourly shelling has stopped aid delivery for a long time now.
Aleppo, Syria’s largest city before the civil war with a population of more than two million people has been divided for years into rebel and government sectors. Capturing Aleppo is one of President Bashar al-Assad’s key strategic objectives. Assad said in a speech that Aleppo would be a “graveyard” for the ambitions of his regional foe, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has backed rebel groups.
The opposition-held part of Aleppo has been cut off from the outside world by the escalation in air and artillery strikes on the only road in, putting hundreds of thousands of people under effective siege.
Between 200,000 and 300,000 people are still thought to live in the rebel sector, the Syrian Observatory said, in harsh conditions made worse by the latest attempt to besiege them by cutting off the Castello Road, named after Aleppo’s old castle. The route has been dubbed the “Road of death”.
The road had long been under sniper fire, but attacks from the air and artillery sharply increased less than two weeks ago, with more planes flying and new rockets and guns moved into range.
The international focus in Syria in recent weeks has partly turned towards the conflict with ISIS fighters, as both the government and its enemies have made gains at the expense of the ultra-hardline Islamist militants on several fronts.
But the separate hope of foreign powers — that the wider civil war could also be resolved — has broken down, with Aleppo potentially the biggest battlefield of all. Hundreds of people have been killed there since peace talks broke off.
Mercy Corps, which reaches about 570,000 people monthly in Syria and more than 75,000 people in Aleppo city, has been distributing flour to bakeries and food parcels to families which rely on them for sustenance.
As aid stocks run down in Aleppo, food prices in markets have risen, putting extra strain on the limited finances of people weakened by more than five years of civil war.
“Any time we are unable to access the city we have seen a corresponding increase in prices in markets,” Delafield said, adding that they have already seen less diversity in available food and price rises in some, but not all, staples.
On Tuesday, the price of one kg of sugar had risen 63 percent to 425 Syrian pounds ($0.90) from 260 Syrian pounds ($0.55) in February.
One kg of potatoes had risen almost 70 percent to 135 Syrian pounds from 80 Syrian pounds in mid-May, and a can of beans had risen 50 percent to 150 Syrian pounds from 100 Syrian pounds in mid-May.
Aleppo has been at the center of a military escalation which saw Geneva peace talks break down in April when the main opposition alliance withdrew over what it described as a worsening situation on the ground.
Humanitarian workers complain that a lack of safe access is limiting work in rebel-held areas of Aleppo and the surrounding countryside. Two Aleppo medical facilities supported by international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were hit by air strikes in the past two weeks.
“The world is turning a blind eye to the carnage in Aleppo,” said Muskilda Zancada this week, MSF’s Syria head of mission.
International humanitarian law prohibits targeting of civilian infrastructure in war, but the frequency with which hospitals, schools and other places where civilians gather such as markets are being hit in Syria is causing despair among humanitarian workers and residents.
The Syrian government and their Russian allies have repeatedly denied their air strikes deliberately target civilian infrastructure such as hospitals.
[IN.REUTERS] 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... 's powerful deputy crown prince held a full day of meetings with U.S. politicians on Wednesday, part of a visit aimed at restoring frayed ties with Washington and promoting his plan to wean the kingdom away from oil revenue.
Mohammed bin Salman, son of Saudi Arabia's King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... , is expected to meet U.S. President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... on Friday.
Lawmakers said his discussions on Wednesday, including meetings with the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and House Speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... , emphasized his push to help end Saudi dependence on oil by 2030.
"I know that there are tremendous cultural challenges that he'll have to overcome, but if he's 50 percent successful, it will be something," said Republican Senator Bob Corker, who chairs the Foreign Relations committee.
The "Vision 2030" plan relies on an expanding private sector, selling shares in the Saudi state-owned oil company and reducing government subsidies. It faces obstacles in the kingdom's conservative religious establishment and a population used to government largesse.
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Are they concerned their 'investment' in Hillary's campaign won't pay off?
[LEGALINSURRECTION] The fourth day of the “Freddie Gray” trial of van driver Officer Caesar Goodson is most notable for the implosion of the state’s “rough ride” theory of the case for lack of evidence.
Prosecutors were compelled to throw this theory into the mix for the first time on the first day of Goodson’s trial after it appeared the foundation had been pulled out from under their preferred “failure to provide timely medical care” theory of the case.
Goodson is charged with depraved-heart murder,manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment in the death of Freddie Gray.
The state has presented three different theories of the case in their prosecution of Freddie Gray, which we’ve covered at length in prior posts, including:
Theory #1: Murder by Failure to Seatbelt, and Theory #2: Murder by Failure to Provide Medical Care now seem to be out of reach for the prosecution, leaving them desperately clinging to their final theory for why Caesar Goodson should be sentenced to prison for 30 years, Theory #3: Murder by Rough Ride.
The difficulty with this third theory, as with the other two, is that prosecutors do not appear to actually possess any evidence they can introduce in support of their theory.
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The State's case implodes, let's see if the DoJ picks it up.
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like George Zimmerman became a "White Hispanic"
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If he gets acquitted, there will be riots. The prosecution will have to raise that point very subtly.
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The guy was obviously killed by the ride in the van. Sliding around on the floor and hitting a wall head-first because he was handcuffed and not able to hang onto anything. Probably during a firm braking maneuver. He went into the van in one piece, he came out dead. He was in police custody the whole time. What's so hard?
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What makes it hard gorb, IIRC Freddie the Faker has had a history of throwing himself around in police custody so he could claim brutality. He may have gotten a bit too rambunctious.
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#6 - and surveillance video of the van ride showed none of the actions you ascribe. In fact the other "passenger" in the back first said it was a smooth ride. This guy killed himself by stupidity
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Ah. Thanks for the explainers and the links. I never would have thought of they guy trying to hurt himself.
Still, he should have been belted or harnessed in place to protect both the passenger and the police. And given this evidence, it seems a video camera in the back of the van would keep lawsuits at bay, too.
[Breitbart] Chic gal pal? Mild mannered politician’s wife? Harmless clotheshorse? Saudi plant? Innocent aide? Handler? Answers? No, I believe I've seen quite enough.
Huma Abedin is Vice Chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. But Huma is more, much more than that. She is the person closest to the most powerful woman in American politics and perhaps the next President. Huma has been described variously as Hillary’s "body woman," a sort of glorified go-to personal maid, gentle confidant, and by others as an Islamic spy. She may be all of these things, because as we shall see, Huma Abedin has an interesting and complex career history.
Abedin was deeply involved with the establishment of Hillary’s private email server, which was used for all of her work as Secretary of State. Now, since we know Hillary had hundreds of classified or top-secret documents on her vulnerable server (despite her early lies saying she did not), any faith in Huma’s judgment -- at the very least -- has been demolished. You will soon ask yourself, "how did this woman get a security clearance?"
She was born Huma Mahmood Abedin in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her father, Syed Zainul Abedin, was Indian and born in New Delhi. In the early 1970s, he was affiliated with the Muslim Students Association at Western Michigan University. The Muslim Students Association or MSA was started in 1963 by Saudi Arabia’s biggest charity, the Muslim World League, a group formed and funded by the Kingdom to spread Islam throughout the world.
Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, was born in Pakistan. Saleha received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
Two years after Huma was born, the family moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and with the patronage of Abdullah Omar Naseef of the Muslim World League, founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs with offices in Saudi Arabia and London, England. In the 1980’s Syed Abedin was a counselor of the Muslim World League. After his death in 1993, his wife Saleha took over and serves as director of the IMMA (Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs) and as the editor of that organization’s academic magazine, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. More recently she still edits the Journal and is also a part of the administration of Dar Al-Hekma Women’s College.
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Its far past time that adherents to that ideology stated quite clearly where they stand. Nobody who identifies as a Muslim deserves a free pass in regard to how they stand on Sharia, terrorism, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc.
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It appears Stone has already done quite a bit to reveal what Hillary's "body woman's" background. We have far too many unelected officials, advisory committees, lobbyists and influence peddlers wielding too much influence in Washington--some are not even citizens of the U.S. but people from countries hostile to America.
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Reference Abedin...raised in Jeddah, SA. Saudi influence = Sunni influence. Thus, Hillary's allergy to the words radical Sunni extremist, jihadist, radical islam...
Hillary's closest advisory is an apparent Sunni...most likely Wahhabi... Raised in Jeddah it is likely Huma studied Ibn Taymiyyah and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab...and now the Saudis brag of being the largest contributor to Hillary's campaign.
Saudi funding of Hillary's campaign and foundation must be studied closely...to the second and third orders. This appears to be absolute craziness.
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Given the recent, albeit salacious, descriptions by a long time mistress to Bill Clinton about the "Warden's" lifestyle, Huma has obviously established an enormous personal connection to Hildabeest as well. From such a position it seems likely that the KSA could directly effect policy from a Clinton White House. Thus the 20% funding claim seems somewhat reasonable.
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Faux pairs and the swapping of hostages!
Could Hilly run under such auspices:
Trans-national lobbies
And Saudi wahhabis?
Could Brennans make omelettes from ostriches?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s government is confused by international condemnation of the invasion of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... resorting to the usual justification and blaming the media instead of confronting the situation.
The government issued a detailed statement to refute Arab media reports on the military campaign to liberate the city from 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 (ISIS). The statement said the media has exaggerated individual violations.
Perhaps some media outlets have fallen into the trap of sectarian and political polarization when addressing the campaign. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... before we even talk about Arab and international public opinion, and their comprehension of all these violations that have been documented by videos and testimonies, does this excuse even convince the government?
Sectarianism
The Fallujah battle depicts one of the real faces of the sectarian struggle in the region. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi was forced to accept Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, as leader of the fighting Iraqi forces, which mainly consist of sectarian Death Eaters who have committed grave violations.
Could the goal of liberating Fallujah not have been possible without adding a sectarian dimension by including Soleimani as leader?
Media reports from inside the city show how its residents are trapped between the villainy of ISIS, which has ruled them for several months and is using them as human shields, and sectarian members of the Iraqi forces and militias, who have been filmed humiliating and executing people there.
Eliminating ISIS is a goal that brings everyone together, but the Fallujah battle in this sectarian context, with all the abhorrent violations associated with it, has increased tensions and confused aims.
People in Fallujah and surrounding areas have been punished by those fighting to liberate the city. This will produce a bigger tragedy than the past two wars that Fallujah experienced during the presence of US forces in Iraq.
It seems no lessons have been learnt. Ten years ago, battles were launched to eliminate al-Qaeda in Fallujah, but the accumulating mistakes - whether from the US command or Iraqi government, which is protected by Iran - resulted in the emergence of ISIS.
Today, battles are being fought while committing similar mistakes, if not worse. Between American retreat and Iranian maliciousness, the whole of Iraq will not be safe from atrocities.
It is an experience that we are tired of seeing repeated, and it seems citizens are the only ones paying the price. What is happening in Fallujah today is not media exaggeration, but a repetition of previous mistakes that happened in the same place, except this time with a more sectarian approach. How will the battle be successful when Soleimani gave it the green light?
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It's not a far stretch to assume Fallujah - what'll be left of it, anyway - will end up seeing a demographic shift to the Shiite side of the equation.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 21 loyalists of 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 (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in the latest operations conducted in East of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were conducted jointly by the Afghan ground and Air Forces in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
MoD further added taht the loyalists of the terror group were targeted in the restive Achin district which was once a stronghold of the terror group in Nangarhar.
The loyalists of the terror group have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as at least 15 loyalists of the terror group in separate Arclight airstrikes carried out in Achin district earlier.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... provincial governor’s front man, Ataullah Khogyani, said at least 10 ISIS loyalists were killed in a drone strike in Achin district late on Monday night.
The Afghan forces as well as the US forces are regularly targeting the loyalists of the terror group in this province in a bid to curb their activities.
The Afghan government earlier a strategy to fight the loyalists of the terror group in Afghanistan.
In the meantime, the US forces stepped up Arclight airstrikes against the ISIS loyalists earlier this year after they were granted more authorities by President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... The increased raids against ISIS loyalists followed amid concerns that they are attempting to expand foothold in the country besides attempting to consolidate operations with the terror group in Iraq and Syria.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sources have revealed how Iran's Assembly of Experts has elected the well-known hardliner Ahmad Jannati in its rank to head the council of holy mans, which is responsible for selecting the successor of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Although not well-known in the West, Ali Asghar Hejazi is a very powerful man in the Iranian leadership.
The shadowy holy man’s high position, heading up security for the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives him direct access to the Islamic republic’s most authoritative figure.
In the previous three decades, he served in several senior intelligence roles.
The older Hejazi has been also been busy. Recently, he helped an ally and hardliner take a post in a top governmental council.
Sources revealed how Iran’s Assembly of Experts last month elected the well-known hardliner Ahmad Jannati in May in its rank to head the council of holy mans, which is responsible for selecting the successor of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
A majority of the 88-member council voted on Tuesday in favor of Jannati, keeping the council in the hands of ultra-conservatives, countering the gains by reformists and moderates during the February elections.
Jannati’s election came as a surprise. He had previously been the minority holder in the council, and sources said that he was about to lose the election until the older Hejazi met the chairman of Iran’s expediency council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservative without all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012... , who is also the former president of Iran.
The source said that a decision was taken then to knock another candidate, known only as "Sejadi," off the list of the assembly’s key figures.
This move paved the way to Jannati to jump in the council’s rank. His new status puts him on the list to run for the Assembly of Expert’s top post ‐ its presidency.
Primed for power
A source said "We can now disclose that alongside his official position, Hejazi serves as a prominent link between Iran’s leadership and the murky operations of the Quds Force, the special forces unit of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards."
Despite his high profile, one of Hejazi’s children manages to maintain a very secretive, yet important role. Uncovered information reveals that his son, Mohammad Hassan Hejazi, is a key Quds Force operative.
The 29-year-old serves as a high-ranking field operative in a unit responsible for intelligence gathering and reconnaissance for the Quds Force’s activities abroad. In the last few years, he headed covert operations in several countries around Europe, South-East Asia and in the Middle East.
Growing up amongst Tehran’s wealthy, connected elite, Mohammad Hassan reportedly has a taste for luxury ‐ with a passion for expensive cars and fine dining. He is also not afraid to pull strings in the capital’s corridors of power.
While the young Hejazi lacks a dazzling social media presence like some of the internet-famous Rich Kids of Tehran, his ilk are commonly nicknamed "Aga-Zadeh," or "spoiled brats."
Like many other Quds Force operatives, Mohammad Hassan is known to use aliases and fake passports to conduct his operations.
If his powerful father stays in his position - and the son continues on this same path - it would seem likely that the young Hejazi could soon become one of the leading and most influential figures in the Quds Force.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Abdullah Alimi, head of the Yemeni government advisory delegation in Kuwait, warned over "politic of procrastination and waste of time by the Militias delegation, expressing his "fear that the consultations devolve into a mirage.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, resumed his separate meetings with the delegations of the government and the militias in the peace consultations in Kuwait.
Earlier he said that Yemen's warring parties have discussed forming military and security committees to oversee a transition period aimed at ending 14 months of fighting,
"Discussions continued on security and military issues, including the details of military and security committees," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement early Wednesday.
The UN envoy had tried to push the two sides to release half of all their prisoners before the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which began on June 6. The main sticking point in talks remains the form of the government that would oversee a transition back to normality once a peace deal is reached.
One of the main obstacles, according to sources, is the rebels attempts to undermine the international legitimacy of President Hadi’s government.
On Tuesday, the Envoy halted the submitting a roadmap to resolve the war-torn country's crisis. according to a source close to the Yemeni governmental delegation in the Kuwait talks.
The delay is due to "the [Houthi] rebels' intransigent stance which their last statement has revealed and which took negotiations back to square one," a source said.
The source added that the "rebels' statement, which was issued two days ago and which came following the return of their delegation head Mohammad Abdelsalam from Saada, reflects the true stance of the rebellious 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 ... movement as it shows it's not serious about the consultations despite the efforts exerted by the U.N. and the countries sponsoring the political settlement process."
Both rival delegations - on one side the Iranian-backed Houthi militias, and on the other the internationally recognized government of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi - had both received a copy of the roadmap and discussed it with their leaders.
On Monday, the UN's envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, met with members from the delegations attending the Kuwait peace talks to discuss security measures.
Ahmed was to present a three-point plan to the parties negotiating an end to the war, which began in late March last year and has led to the deaths of thousands.
The first component of the proposal will reportedly involve preliminary procedures, most significant of which is the annulment of the "Constitutional Declaration" enacted by the Houthi militias in February 2015, and reverse every subsequent change in state institutions as a result.
The second component involves the setting up of an internationally-backed military council consisting of military leaders who have not been involved in the war. It will also include the withdrawal of forces from Area A, which includes the capital Sanaa and the security belt around it, and the return of the government to the capital within two months.
According to the terms of the deal, when the Houthi militias withdraw from Sanaa and handing over their weapons, a national unity government will be formed, and it will issue a general amnesty and start a process of reconciliation.
The third component foresees a two-year transition period which will see the resumption of a political process.
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[DAWN] The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared that the killing of a woman in the name of honour is against the law of the land and also an un-Islamic act.
The research cell of the CII, in a statement issued on Tuesday, decried the killing of women by male members of their families but also granted such men the benefit of "emotional reaction".
The statement said: "There are laws in the country that deal with obscenity and other moral crimes. Therefore killing someone over such misdeeds cannot be allowed even if it is in the name of honour."
But it added that "emotional reaction" was part of human nature, particularly in a situation in which one was provoked after witnessing immoral acts of a close relative.
At the same time, the statement said, no one could be allowed to kill a person despite witnessing a moral sin.
"Every accused should be brought before court and it is up to the court to declare the accused guilty or innocent," it said.
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Unidentified Unknown gunmen on Sunday killed a senior Somali intelligence officer in a drive-by shooting in Hamarweyne district, Mogadishu, a witness said. Gunmen in a private Rickshaw have opened fire at the vehicle of Abdullahi Ibrahim Isbimo, killing him on the spot. One of the security guards of the slain official was also killed in the attack.
The drive-by-shooting attack took place at Salam village in Dharkenley district in the early hours on Wednesday morning, according to the eyewitness who spoke to Radio Shabelle by phone. The Gunmen later escaped from the scene. Security forces have arrived at the scene and are carrying out investigation to find out the culprits.
No group has by far claimed the responsibility for the attack.
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[DAWN] THE outpouring of anger and revulsion at the recent spate of murders of young women who tried to exercise their basic rights will go to waste if the causes of increase in such cases are not seriously tackled.
The first thing to be noted about these murders is the escalating level of brutality. The young woman from Murree who was severely tortured before being set ablaze by her closest relatives was punished for refusal to marry against her wishes.
In Kasur a young woman paid with her life for arguing with her husband and the latter was helped by his female relatives to burn her alive.
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Send the complaints to Hillary. She will represent the rights of these women as she did while Secretary of State.
[MCCLATCHYDC] A 4-year-old Northern California child found himself on the terrorist watch list that’s now at the center of the congressional gun-control debate.
Identified as Baby Doe in court filings, the boy was one of more than 1 million people added to the federal government’s secret database that’s grown by leaps and bounds since it was established by the Bush administration in 2003.
At least he won't be able to have a BB gun...
This is the same watch list that many Democrats want to use to screen out potential gun buyers. The possibility of error alarms civil libertarians and Second Amendment activists alike as Congress considers the proposal, which is popularly marketed as “no-fly, no-buy.”
“If it’s too dangerous for you to board an airplane, it’s too dangerous for you to buy a gun,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
The bill written by Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , D-Calif., would allow the Justice Department to block gun sales to watch-listed individuals, whom she called “known or suspected terrorists,” if authorities have a “reasonable belief that the weapon would be used in connection with terrorism.”
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I have a big problem with this whole 'watch list' concept. Not with the list itself, but with the lack of any process to appeal - or in many cases to even find out that you are on it and that it is why you can't get on the plane.
#2
NO! It would be too easy for the Executive Branch to develop an "enemies list" and put whomever he/she wanted on the list. There goes your 2nd Amendment rights.
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The elimination of all due process is the brass ring here.
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That's HELL NO, John.
Instant gun control, since there's no process for getting on or off the list; they can put everyone that has ever had or wants a background check on the list.
Hey presto, you can't buy a gun.
The evil minions of the left are experts in Catch-22.
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If someone is a "known terrorist" he or she should be either dead or in jail. If someone is a suspected terrorist keep an eye on them either until you have enough evidence to charge them with a crime or until you are satisfied they are not a threat. That's kinda simple, isn't it?
Oh, and if you don't have enough agents to keep an eye on all the terrorists that Baraq let's into the country from places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechnya then tell fucking Baraq to stop letting those people into the country.
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Nevermind that this wouldn't do a single thing to actually solve the problem of terrorist attacks like Pulse.
These are secret lists. There is no criteria for getting on the list and not process for getting off the list.
Lois Lerner can simply place all the conservative organization members (and posters to Rantburg) on the list. After all this administration considers conservatives just as dangerious as actual Islamic terrorist.
Someone once told me that when the left gets the presidency they will do every single thing they accused the Bush administration of doing. How true.
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Trump needs a 'win' with the NRA for political reasons. Let them work out some sort of deal and get it before the Congress. It could be something as innocent as an amended 4473 (background check), or local law enforcement approval as is done with sound suppressors. Let's see what they come up with.
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Besoeker...WADR Bullshit.. As a reminder, Trump at one time said he supported a ban on "assault weapons ". Then with no explanation of a pivot point - wasn't. So excuse those of us that are skeptical of a man whose proven not to have any true foundations other than to his personal advancement. Mr.Trump and President Obama are making Orlando into a gun control issue. Fucks him.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – On Wednesday, three ISIS members were killed in armed clashes with the residents of a village in western Kirkuk, after a villager was executed by the slain militants.
According to information shared by a security source, information also collected by Iraqi News, it was stated that, “Armed clashes broke out at noon today between ISIS members and the residents of al-A’waj al-Hamran village in al-Riyad area (45 km west of Kirkuk), resulting in the killing of three (3) ISIS members.”
“The clashes broke out after the ISIS members executed one of the residents of the village on charges of collaborating with the security forces,” the shared information further.
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It's cheap and efficient. These three won't be back to the village to cause trouble.
[AlAhram] Iran on Wednesday accused a British-Iranian woman incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in April of seeking to overthrow the Tehran government, an allegation dismissed by her husband as "complete nonsense".
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an employee of the Thomson Rooters Foundation, was accused of being "involved in the soft overthrow of the Islamic republic through... her membership in foreign companies and institutions," Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said, quoted by the Mizan news agency.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, was arrested at Tehran airport on April 3 as she prepared to return to Britannia with her daughter after visiting family in Iran, her husband Richard Ratcliffe said last week.
Iran does not recognise dual citizenship and, if put on trial, she will be considered an Iranian.
According to a Guards statement, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was "identified and arrested after massive intelligence operations" as one of "the heads of foreign-linked hostile networks".
She was alleged to have conducted "various missions... leading her criminal activities under the direction of media and intelligence services of foreign governments".
"Further investigations are being done and her case has been sent to Tehran for legal proceedings," the statement added.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held in a furnished room in a prison in the southeastern city of Kerman, it added.
Her husband, who last spoke to his wife on May 30 and has said she was held in solitary confinement for 45 days, on Wednesday scoffed at the charges levelled against her.
"It's complete nonsense. It's taken them 70 days to come up with this, and it's still not clear what it means anyway," he told AFP.
"Her father has appointed a lawyer. The next step is to discuss with her father what the lawyer knows. And I'll probably go to the Iranian embassy," he added.
Their two-year-old daughter, whose British passport was taken away, has stayed in Iran under the care of her grandparents.
Britannia's Foreign Office said it has raised the case of Zaghari-Ratcliffe "repeatedly and at the highest levels" and will continue to do so at "every available opportunity".
"We have also been supporting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family since we were first made aware of her arrest. Minister for the Middle East, Tobias Ellwood, has met personally with the family to reassure them that we will continue to do all we can on this case."
The husband, who said Zaghari-Ratcliffe was initially told a "passport problem" was the cause of her being detained at Tehran airport, organised a rally outside the Iranian embassy in London on Friday demanding her release.
Her employer, the charitable arm of financial information and news giant Thomson Rooters, coordinates training programmes for journalists around the world.
Chief executive Monique Villa said Wednesday that Zaghari-Ratcliffe had travelled to Iran on a family holiday.
"Nazanin has been working at the Thomson Rooters Foundation for the past four years as a project coordinator in charge of grants applications and training, and had no dealing with Iran in her professional capacity," she said.
"The Thomson Rooters Foundation has no dealings with Iran whatsoever, does not operate and does not plan to operate in the country."
In 2012, an Iranian court found the Rooters news agency guilty of "propaganda against the regime", and "publishing false information in an effort to disturb public opinion" in a report portraying female ninja students as assassins.
Iran withdrew the press credentials of all staff at Rooters' Tehran bureau over the story and suspended the work of the news agency, part of the New York-based Thomson Rooters group. It was given permission to reopen the bureau the following year.
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On his Facebook page, Peshwaz Azad Waise writes that he attended Chantilly High School in Chantilly, Va., and graduated from George Mason University in 2010. He lists Washington, D.C., as his current residence. In a brief video on YouTube, he says he supports renewable energy.
Texas is quite a distance to go to hand out Korans...I wonder if he's a registered Democrat?
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The Denton Police Department issued this news release on the arrest of Peshwaz Azad Waise this morning.
The Denton Police Department is currently working a terroristic threat offense that occurred this morning. A lone male suspect has been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and taken to the Denton Police Department jail. The suspect’s vehicle remains at the scene at this time. Due to the nature of the threat, we are taking extra precautions prior to impounding his vehicle.
Denton police were responding to a call for service last night. While in transit to the location, responding officers were contacted by 28 year old Peshwaz Azad Waise. He was speaking irrationally and making comments about God and Allah. The officers continued on to the original call for service, as Peshwaz was not in violation of any law.
University of North Texas Police later responded to a disturbance at the IHOP restaurant on the southeast side of their campus. Upon arrival, they spoke with Peshwaz who was still speaking irrationally. He was issued a notice of trespass and instructed to leave UNT property.
Sometime later, Peshwaz showed up at the Center for Women at 207 N. Bonnie Brae. He went inside and began insisting they take the Koran from him. He told them to give the Koran to the chaplin or chapel "or die." He left prior to law enforcement arriving.
Peshwaz later arrived at the Denton County Court House at 1415 E. McKinney. He went inside and was stopped at the security checkpoint. He told security officers he was "the King."
Sheriff’s Office deputies were summoned and they escorted him outside the building. While being detained, Peshwaz became agitated and said, "I’m imposing the death penalty (on the officers who were dealing with him.)" He later told them, "Anybody who touches me is going to bleed."
Denton Police officers obtained an arrest warrant for terroristic threat for Peshwaz. He was placed under arrest and transported to the Denton City Jail. He remains in jug at this time.
He has not yet been arraigned. His vehicle, a silver Nissan Versa, is being processed in the parking lot of the court house for precautionary reasons.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Peshwaz Azad Waise, 28, was arrested Wednesday morning at the Denton County Courthouse on East McKinney Street on charges that he made terroristic threats. Police took him into custody after he entered the courthouse and expressed the desire to distribute Korans to county officials.
The Koran is the holy book of the Moslem faith.
The incident began shortly after 8 a.m. when police were called to another location, 207 N. Bonnie Brae Street, where Waise allegedly threatened someone, according to Denton police front man Orlando Hinojosa.
Waise left the scene before police arrived and drove to the courthouse. Hinojosa said Waise passed security and attempted to give Korans to judges in the courthouse.
Waise was arrested and taken to Denton City Jail. Denton Police is leading the investigation. Officers used a robot to check the suspect's car for explosives, but found none.
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Sheriff’s Office deputies were summoned and they escorted him outside the building. While being detained, Peshwaz became agitated and said, "I’m imposing the death penalty (on the officers who were dealing with him.)" He later told them, "Anybody who touches me is going to bleed."
The United Arab Emirates has announced the end of the war in Yemen for Emirati troops, though it may continue to keep its forces there for counterterrorism operations.
His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, carried the announcement on his official Twitter account late Wednesday.
He was quoting the UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, who had given a speech earlier saying the "war is over for our troops."
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.
RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release emails "hacked" from Hillary Clinton's rogue Internet email server.
The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of "bacha bazi" -- paedophilic boy play -- to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults told AFP.
So much for the oath to uphold the Constitution, eh? "Due process is what's killing us right now," said Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Morning Joe today in pushing for a bill to use secret watch lists to deny Americans civil rights. In place of due process, Manchin proposes a five-year suspension of civil rights and surveillance when the FBI fails to find anything wrong after "suspicion" arises ⌠just to be safe, of course.
You can say exactly the same thing about Obama.
[PJ] Oh sure, all year I've been playing the "Bernie or Hillary?" game with all the other default-Democrats in my social and professional circles. But this is no longer some kind of game. Our lives are on the line. Although I voted for Hillary in the primary, I now cringe inwardly with shame and embarrassment at having done so, and in November I will vote for Trump.
Yesterday the man in this video from the NY Daily News called and asked if he could come and interview us about the basic principles of how an AR-15 works. We acknowledged his offer so that we could prove that an AR-15 is indeed a great and safe weapon as stated in the video. 
Sounds like a good idea Alan. I doubt the MSM would have any objection. After all, it's been over 40 years since anyone used an M1 in a 'terror' related incident. 
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police 
[SeanHannity] As we continue to learn details about the terror attack that took the lives of 49 people at a popular Orlando nightclub, we're now learning that the attack might have been preventable. A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security has come forward to claim that the department scrubbed records that tied Muslims to terrorism, records that might have prevented the attacks in both San Bernardino and Orlando.
[AlAhram] Egypt's aviation ministry said on Wednesday it had indentified debris from the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people aboard.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network and deputy chief of the Taliban group 
A number of experts said on Wednesday that the Taliban has suffered heavy casualties on the battlefields against the Afghan forces and as a result the group has changed its war tactics.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] US Secretary of State 
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
Quite frankly, I've been hoping for much more. 
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] The self-proclaimed "Spam King," Sanford Wallace, has been given a 30-month jail sentence, a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and five years' probation.
Aid has been locked out from rebel-held areas of Aleppo for the longest period since the Syrian civil war began due to an escalation in air strikes and bombardments, driving up food prices and hampering efforts to ease the plight of residents.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] The fourth day of the “Freddie Gray” trial of van driver Officer Caesar Goodson is most notable for the implosion of the state’s “rough ride” theory of the case for lack of evidence.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s government is confused by international condemnation of the invasion of 
