No need to worry. The information is protected by the strongest encryption known to man: Clinton Foundation accountability- and traceability-proof accounting subterfuge methodology. Of course, if they do manage to penetrate it, they'll have all kinds of dirt they can use to influence her politics. Yeah, let's elect her. What could possibly go wrong if I choose to remain ignorant about it? Fair point: the Foundation security is so good that they have to restate their financials multiple times to the IRS -- even their own accountants can't get to the truth.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was among the organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the U.S. political apparatus ahead of the November election, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The attacks on the foundation's network, as well as those of the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, compound concerns about her digital security even as the FBI continues to investigate her use of a personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state.
A spokesman for the foundation, Brian Cookstra, said he wasn't aware of any breach. The compromise of the foundation's computers was first identified by government investigators as recently as last week, the people familiar with the matter said. Agents monitor servers used by hackers to communicate with their targets, giving them a back channel view of attacks, often even before the victims detect them.
Before the Democratic National Committee disclosed a major computer breach last week, U.S. officials informed both political parties and the presidential campaigns of Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that sophisticated hackers were attempting to penetrate their computers, according to a person familiar with the government investigation into the attacks.
The hackers in fact sought data from at least 4,000 individuals associated with U.S. politics -- party aides, advisers, lawyers and foundations -- for about seven months through mid-May, according to another person familiar with the investigations.
Thousands of Documents
The thefts set the stage for what could be a Washington remake of the public shaming that shook Sony in 2014, when thousands of inflammatory internal e-mails filled with gossip about world leaders and Hollywood stars were made public. Donor information and opposition research on Trump purportedly stolen from the Democratic Party has surfaced online, and the culprit has threatened to publish thousands more documents.
A hacker or group of hackers calling themselves Guccifer 2.0 posted another trove of documents purportedly from the DNC on Tuesday, including what they said was a list of donors who had made large contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
The Republican Party and the Trump campaign have been mostly silent on the computer attacks. In an earlier statement, Trump said the hack was a political ploy concocted by the Democrats.
Information about the scope of the attacks and the government warnings raises new questions about how long the campaigns have known about the threats and whether they have done enough to protect their systems.
The Clinton campaign was aware as early as April that it had been targeted by hackers with links to the Russian government on at least four recent occasions, according to a person familiar with the campaign's computer security.
U.S. Inquiries
The U.S. Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency are all involved in the investigation of the theft of data from the political parties and individuals over the last several months, one of the people familiar with the investigation said. The agencies have made no public statements about their inquiry.
The FBI has been careful to keep that investigation separate from the review of Clinton's use of private e-mail, using separate investigators, according to the person briefed on the matter. The agencies didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin said that he couldn't comment on government briefings about cyber security and that the campaign had no evidence that its systems were compromised.
"We routinely communicate and cooperate with government agencies on security-related matters," he said. "What appears evident is that the Russian groups responsible for the DNC hack are intent on attempting to influence the outcome of this election."
The DNC wouldn't directly address the attacks but said in a written statement that it believes the leaks are "part of a disinformation campaign by the Russians."
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks didn't respond to e-mails seeking comment about the government warnings. The Republican National Committee didn't respond to e-mail messages. A Sanders spokesman, Michael Briggs, said he wasn't aware of the warnings.
IDing the Hackers
The government's investigation is following a similar path as the DNC's, including trying to precisely identify the hackers and their possible motives, according to people familiar with the investigations. The hackers' link to the Russian government was first identified by CrowdStrike Inc., working for the Democratic Party.
A law firm reviewing the DNC's initial findings, Baker & McKenzie, has begun working with three additional security firms -- FireEye Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc. and Fidelis Cybersecurity -- to confirm the link, according to two people familiar with the matter, underscoring Democrats' concerns that the stolen information could be used to try to influence the outcome of the November election.
A spokesman for Baker & McKenzie didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. DNC spokesman Luis Miranda said the party worked only with CrowdStrike.
If the Democrats can show the hidden hand of Russian intelligence agencies, they believe that voter outrage will probably outweigh any embarrassing revelations, a person familiar with the party's thinking said.
So far the released documents have revealed little that is new or explosive, but that could change. Guccifer 2.0 has threatened to eventually release thousands of internal memos and other documents.
Line of Attack
Sensitive documents from the Clinton Foundation could have the most damaging potential. The Trump camp has said it plans to make the foundation's activities a subject of attacks against Clinton; the sort of confidential data contained in e-mails, databases and other digital archives could aid that effort.
An analysis by Fidelis confirmed that groups linked to Russian intelligence agencies were behind the DNC hack, according to a published report.
The government fills a crucial gap in flagging attacks that organizations can't detect themselves, said Tony Lawrence, a former U.S. Army cyber specialist and now chief executive officer of VOR Technology, a computer security company in Hanover, Maryland.
"These state actors spend billions of dollars on exploits to gather information on candidates, and nine times out of ten [victims] won't be able to identify or attribute them," he said.
Google Accounts
Bloomberg News reported Friday that the hackers who hit the DNC and Clinton's campaign burrowed much further into the U.S. political system than initially thought, sweeping in law firms, lobbyists, consultants, foundations and policy groups in a campaign that targeted thousands of Google e-mail accounts and lasted from October through mid-May.
Data from the attacks have led some security researchers to conclude that the hackers were linked to Russian intelligence services and were broadly successful in stealing reports, policy papers, correspondence and other information. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, denied that the Russian government was involved.
Russia uses sophisticated "information operations" to advance foreign policy, and the target audience for this kind of mission wouldn't be U.S. voters or even U.S. politicians, said Brendan Conlon, who once led a National Security Agency hacking unit.
"Why would Russia go to this trouble? Simple answer -- because it met their foreign policy objectives, to weaken the U.S. in the eyes of our allies and adversaries," said Conlon, now CEO of Vahna Inc., a cyber security firm in Washington. Publishing the DNC report on Trump "weakens both candidates -- lists out all the weaknesses of Trump specifically while highlighting weaknesses of Clinton's security issues. The end result is a weaker president once elected."
Russia Link
Russia has an expansive cyber force that it has deployed in complex disinformation campaigns throughout Europe, according to intelligence officials.
BfV, the German intelligence agency, has concluded that Russia was responsible for a 2015 hack against the Bundestag that forced shutdown of its computer systems for several days. Germany is under "permanent threat" from Russian hackers, said BfV chief Hans-Georeg Maassen.
Security software maker Trend Micro said in May that Russian hackers had been trying for several weeks to steal data from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, and that they also tried to hack the Dutch Safety Board computer systems to obtain an advance copy of a report on the downing of a Malaysian aircraft over Ukraine in July 2014. The report said the plane was brought down by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile.
The cyber attacks are part of a broader pattern of state-sponsored hacking by Russia focused on political targets, with a goal of giving Russia the upper hand in dealing with other governments, said Pasi Eronen, a Helsinki-based cyber warfare researcher who has advised Finland's Defense Ministry.
Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said certain types of firearms like the AR-15 are the kind of guns that should be banned. She added that people trying to purchase the weapon ‐ which is popular among American gun owners ‐ are "buying it do bad things." My AR-15 is hurt. It has never done a bad thing and feels left out now...
"Well, I think people need to have their voices heard, and what I've heard from people in New Hampshire is they think there's reasonable legislation that we can pass including things like looking at the types of weapons that so easy for people to get," the New Hampshire Democrat said on Mitchell in the Morning on Monday. Considering the hoops you have to go through to buy one, I guess this cock splash has never tried to buy it.
"The fact is, the AR-15, the gun that (Omar) Mateen used, that's a weapon of war; it's advertised as being able do technologically advances in killing people that previous weapons have been unable to do and somebody who is buying that kind of a weapon isn't buying it for target shooting," she said. "They're not buying it to go out and hunt deer. You don't need an AK-47 or an AR-15 to hunt deer. They're buying it to do bad things and we need to recognize that and address it." My .270, which is used for deer was modeled after the Mauser 7mm rifle which WAS a weapon of war. So is it only being used for "Bad Things" too? Also remember that the AR-15 is a very popular varmint and coyote rifle as well.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation says there are anywhere between 5 million to 10 million AR-15 rifles in the United States, according to CNBC. The gun used in the Olrando shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, a similar appearing rifle. Ooooo... scary looking like the AR! BAN IT!!!
They will keep beating this drum until we are completely disarmed.
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I may have told this anecdote already, but it bears repeating. My cousin met Shaheen when she was governor of New Hampshire about fifteen years ago. His description of her - 'She's as dumb as a box of rocks.'
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Yes, we buy it to do bad things. We buy it to not be a slave. We buy it to be responsible citizens of our Republic, not the feral Mob the Democrats lead. We buy it to safeguard our families and their futures, at the potential cost of our own. Even knowing that cost, we still buy it, learn it, practice with it and enhance the skills we hopefully never need.
As soulless vermin, she will never understand that. And that is the greatest tragedy of America, that our citizens have not been taught the truth about life, liberty and what made America the greatest nation on Earth.
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NH natives use AR-15s to chase off Massholes who are invading the state to avoid taxes but still vote for schifozas like Shaheen.
I saw a study a while back that indicated that wasn't just the Masshole effect - they pointed to other states like New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania as contributing to this problem (and being a NH native back when it was a red state, I'm calling it a problem).
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As soulless vermin, she will never understand that. And that is the greatest tragedy of America, that our citizens have not been taught the truth about life, liberty and what made America the greatest nation on Earth.
Well, some of them have been taught, and the notion scares them senseless. They'd rather be told what to do, and taken care of than be free.
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[UN.ORG] United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon today urged everyone to embrace healthier choices and lifestyles and to commit to unity with other human beings, regardless of ethnicity, faith, age, gender identity or sexual orientation. So twist yourself into an improbable position and contemplate your belly button.
"Practicing yoga can also help raise awareness of our role as consumers of the planet's resources and as individuals with a duty to respect and live in peace with our neighbours," Mr. Ban said, marking the second International Day of Yoga, since the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution last year dedicating 21 June to the practice. "All these elements are essential to building a sustainable future of dignity and opportunity for all," he added.
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Regretting that he cannot simultaneously operate a lighter...:
[Business Insider] On June 20, Gen. Mark Milley, the US Army chief of staff, ranked four nations as the most dangerous to US national security: Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
Meanwhile, BOEING just penned massive contract with Iran, one of the largest supporters of state sponsored terrorism in the world.
[Politico] One day after the deadliest U.S. mass shooting in nearly three years, the Senate voted down a pair of gun-control measures that were designed by Democrats to put Republicans on record on the charged issue.
The votes, which came in connection with GOP legislation to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood, marked the first roll calls on the Senate floor this year that would enact tougher restrictions on firearms. And despite a continued push from Democrats and gun-control advocates, as well as scores of fatal mass shootings nationwide -- from churches to community colleges to a center for people with developmental disabilities -- not a single lawmaker changed position from an ambitious gun overhaul effort that failed more than two years ago.
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'No gun sales to people on the 'Terror Watch List' seems to be such common sense that people don't want to listen to arguments against it. They refuse to understand that it would provide - as it stands - no protection against abuse and no recourse (or extremely difficult recourse) against errors.
I'm pretty sure the people who were pushing it were quite aware of its problems but figure it's a 'win-win' for them - if it's voted down (as it was) they get to demonize gun nuts for supporting terrorists, and if it's passed they would get to abuse it for all sorts of 'convenient' purposes.
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All the government would need to do is get the membership list for the NRA, and add i. t to the watch list.
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John Koskinen holds the key. Deleting IRS 'Earning Income' recipients and those making over $500k per year will produce a fairly accurate 'watch list.'
After all conservatives, veterans, and those who advocate self-reliance are, by definition, more dangerous to the country than terrorists. At least in their minds.
h/t Instapundit
"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life." -- Frank Sinatra, as Maj. Bennett Marco
"His brain has not only been washed, as they say ... It has been dry-cleaned." -- Khigh Dhiegh, as Dr. Yen Lo
These lines from the 1962 classic film "The Manchurian Candidate" came to mind after I listened to President Obama’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
The president said, "I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office."
Really? She would be equal to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and himself? Notice President Obama didn’t say she is "more qualified," because that would diminish him, and when it comes to narcissism, Mr. Obama and the Clintons make Donald Trump look like a shrinking violet.
In his effusive praise of Mrs. Clinton, the president did not mention any specific accomplishments that might qualify her for the office. That is because there are none. There is a lot of symbolism, of course, but no substantive results as secretary of state, an unremarkable single term as a senator from New York, and eight years as first lady when, in 1993, she couldn’t get the Clintons’ health care reform legislation through a majority Democratic Congress. There is, however, a long list of dubious and possibly criminal "achievements."
[Michael Yon] Tim is a retired Marine infantry officer. I spent much time with Tim in various provinces in Afghanistan, such as Nangarhar, Kabul, Kandahar, Helmand, Nimoroz.
Good Lord almighty we went everywhere together, often alone or with just one other man, an ex-Aussie Soldier named Shem.
First time Tim picked me up in Kabul to take me to Jalalabad, Nangarhar, there was a bag beside me in the backseat filled with grenades. I said I'll just help myself to a couple of these.
We were going down roads sometimes passing burning and blown-up, shot up vehicles. IED holes, and people who obviously were Taliban and associates, yet somehow we got away with it. You had to be there to believe it.
I was not advertising this at the time due to the obvious peril, but we both learned a lot about the war which left both of us ahead of the curve when writing about it.
This morning I checked Tim's website and saw that he posted on the Orlando shooting. Our thoughts are parallel on this.
[Wash Times] Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is about to get another infusion of cash thanks to Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, and their activist allies within the entertainment industry.
Mr. Weinstein is hosting his second fundraiser for the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Monday night in New York City. Academy Award winner Mr. DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Matthew Broderick will serve as co-hosts for the event.
The New York Post, which first teased details of the event June 16, said roughly 50 guests will be in attendance at Mr. Weinstein’s Manhattan home. Donations will benefit the Hillary Victory Fund.
Fashion designer Anna Wintour teamed up with Mr. Weinstein for his first fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton. Attendees at that event were granted a picture with the former secretary of state for a $2,700 donation, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday.
Mr. Weinstein has also donated at least $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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Judging strictly by the TV ads during the California primary, the money is not being used very wisely. The Beest kept running the same ad over and over and over. It featured Morgan Freeman's voice. His voice was soothing and there was soothing music in the background. But he used a whole lot of fancy words to say absolutely nothing. After a few days it was extremely annoying.
[DW] An attack on the Jordan-Syria border claimed the lives of at least six Jordanian border guards and injured over a dozen others. A statement from Jordan's military Tuesday said, "At 5:30 a.m. a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district opposite the Syrian refugee camp, killing or wounding several Jordanian soldiers."
"Six soldiers have been martyred and 14 others were wounded in the terrorist attack," a Jordanian official said, calling the count a "preliminary toll."
The military said "a booby-trapped car" attacked a berm, which runs along the border. They said several other vehicles involved in the attack have been destroyed. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack was reportedly launched from the Syrian side. It reportedly took place a few hundred meters from the Rukban camp for Syrian refugees, where the borders of Syria, Jordan, and Iraq meet.
[Charleston Post and Courier] A scuffle over Confederate flags Saturday at The Battery landed two tourists in jail.
The S.C. Secessionist Party was putting on its weekly display of Southern flags. A woman walking by broke two small Confederate flags off a parked truck and ran away with them, according to a Charleston police report. Party founder James Bessenger, 27, took off running after her.
A man stepped in front of Bessenger and kept grabbing him so he couldn't chase the young woman, according to the report. Police were called.
Police identified the woman who broke off the flags as Lydia Folckomer, 22, of Brooklyn, N.Y. She told officers she grabbed the flags because they upset her.
The man who grabbed Bessenger was identified as her father, Paul Folckomer, 50, of Brevard, N.C. He told officers he grabbed Bessenger to keep him from chasing his daughter.
The daughter was charged with malicious injury to real property. Her father was charged with simple assault. They spent the night in jail and were released on bail Sunday afternoon.
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The father failed to teach his little girl that there are consequences for her actions. Now he will not only pay her court fees but his as well. Dumbass, one step away from a Darwin contender.
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Or, be serious, 49 pan. A father saw a man chasing after his daughter and stopped him. Nobody is going to do nada to him.
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Due process Grom...
Out-of-town agitators (from NY!) messin with a local man's truck then gettin in a tussle with the owner during a flag ceremony?
This bears further inspection!
I'm sure there was some slanderous name calling (battery) during which the owner was intimidated as well as the 'simple assault' wherein the woman was an accessory (or lure if you will) before the act.
I'll bet they were jailed for their own protection. Everybody loves a night in the tank.
[Breitbart] Hillary Clinton once threw a Bible at the back of a Secret Service agent's head, part of a pattern of unhinged rage that the now-presumptive Democratic nominee exhibited, as exposed for the first time in former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne's grueling insider account of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Byrne’s forthcoming book Crisis of Character--in which he details how the Clintons operated during his time in the U.S. Secret Service, where he protected the first couple for eight years in the White House in the 1990s. During three of those years, he was posted right outside the Oval Office. The book comes out next week.
"The First Lady had a different sort of liveliness," Byrne writes in an excerpt obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. "She once threw a Bible at an agent on her detail, hitting him in the back of the head. He bluntly let her know it wasn’t acceptable. He told me that story himself."
Byrne goes on to report that for Secret Service agents, being assigned to Hillary Clinton’s detail "was a form of punishment handed down by passive-aggressive middle management."
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He bluntly let her know it wasn’t acceptable. He told me that story himself."
Should have said nothing, complained of severe head pain, caught a ride to Walter Reed, and pressed formal assault charges. He would now be a wealthy retired Secret Service Agent and budding author.
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"Not surprisingly, Champ's people do not appear to be going anywhere." Hattip Besoeker
I had not consider that the departure of staff at the backend of an administration is the norm, even if a same party win seems likely, like the pizza index at the Pentagon, this should be a metric of how things are going. That there have ben no high viz departures yet begins to be troubling....
[Breitbart] Why is the Obama administration hiding the truth about the terrorist 9-1-1 phone calls?
The White House feigned ignorance that President Barack Obama had anything to do with the redaction of the transcripts.
"The decision about the release of the transcripts is one that was made solely by Department of Justice and FBI officials," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said to reporters during the daily press briefing.
He insisted that Obama had no role in the decision to redact the text of the text to distract from the motives of the attacks.
The text of the transcripts used the text [omitted] in the place of the shooter's references to the Islamic faith, being an Islamic soldier and replaced the word "Allah" with the word "God."
Earnest said that the Justice Department and the F.B.I had decided to redact the transcript "consistent with their assessment about the best way to advance the investigation."
He said that he hadn't seen House Speaker Paul Ryan's call for the administration to release the full underrated text so that Americans could have a clear-eyed understanding of the threat posed by radical Islamic terrorists.
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F.B.I had decided to redact the transcript "consistent with their assessment about the best way to advance the investigation"
Josh Earnest's statement above is as stupid as the original deliberate deception (redaction/edit).
While the FBI is all sorts of jacked up already on this crime. The local police killed Mateen, not the FBI (one of the local police was shot in the head doing so). The FBI shows up late, after interviewing this guy twice, and further - fails to follow up on the gun store owners report, seizes the 911 tape and not only redact it, but edits (changes Allah to God) the transcript of the tape? I don't buy it - even a first year FBI agent knows that editing a transcript is an intentional deception/lie and will get them fired - it kills an investigation, it does not advance it. It is obvious that DOJ directed this mess.
Ignorance, Incompetence, not buying that either - this was deliberate deception. Lynch should be fired for directing this edit to happen, stupidly propagating it, and for blaming it on the FBI. Same pattern of conduct at DOJ as deliberately deceiving the Judge on Obama's deportation amnesty policy. The head of this fish is rotten.
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But FBI is ignorant & incompetent, Tennessee. Did you know that after 9/11, when they got orders to investigate/detain people from ME, they detained several Israeli students?
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But FBI is ignorant & incompetent, Tennessee. Did you know that after 9/11, when they got orders to investigate/detain people from ME, they detained several Israeli students?
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While there are excellent individual agents and analysts...In regards to the FBI as an institution - I agree with you. When they refuse to learn the language of the threat, do not study the culture of the threat, and do not cultivate the authorities to address it...then they will remain mired in incompetence, ignorance and ineffectiveness...and we will continue to pay the price for this indifference.
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So now terrorists have to call 911 to tell their intent before hand so it will be clear to the lefties that a white guys is not doing the attack. Terrorists are tired of middles aged white guys getting all the credit. They now know the comprising POS in office will change the narative. They now need to call three news stations so their message will get our accurately.
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"FBI is ignorant & incompetent" - a long tradition of that in the US government, from 1812 when federal authorities couldn't be bothered to notify their military officers on the frontier that war had been declared against Great Britain, to February 1941 when the Martin-Bellinger assessment / prediction of the Dec 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was consigned to the round file so thoroughly that even modern historians don't mention it.
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WH directly involved? No need. The FBI et al know perfectly well what the boss wants and that maintaining plausible deniability is paramount. In this case, Justice didn't think it through and made the Administration look bad. Consequences will follow at the appropriate time.
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Everyone knew what was in the transcripts from news reports so even suggesting you would redact them was incredibly stupid, it just caused folks to read the transcripts looking to find what was so worth censoring.
h/t Gates of Vienna
A strange atmosphere hangs over Brussels. On the one hand, there is Donald Tusk, President of the European Council (representing all 28 EU governments), warning of Armageddon if Britain votes to leave the European Union on Thursday.
As he told a German interviewer last week: 'I fear Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilisation in its entirety.'
But you won't hear a squeak on the subject from most people in the vast glass-and-steel bureaucratic palaces across this city. As an EU fromage of great magnitude, Mr Tusk can get away with saying this sort of thing. Lesser Eurocrats are under strict orders to say nothing on the subject, for fear of adding any further heat to the issue. There has even been a ban on using the word 'Brexit' in official communications.
Given the whopping great perks and privileges bestowed on those who work for the European Union, no one is going to step out of line. In any case, most people here still cannot really believe that we pesky Brits really would have the temerity to abandon the Grand Project. But then, if you live in this hermetically sealed bubble -- a world of long lunches, long weekends and retail discounts worth 36 per cent -- your grasp of normality is somewhat distorted.
During a week here in the gilded capital of Europe, I have been amazed by the gulf between this place and the real world.
Just take the wage bill of the 47,000 people who work inside the bubble. Since 2010, it has been British policy to disclose the number of government officials earning more than our Prime Minister, who gets paid just shy of ÂŁ150,000. In Britain, the latest figure stands at 319.
And the equivalent number for the EU? According to documents leaked ahead of the last European elections two years ago, EU tax perks mean that at least 10,000 EU employees are taking home more than David Cameron.
Many are mere middle managers. Among the extra perks are the ÂŁ240 monthly allowance for stay-at-home spouses and the ÂŁ100-a-month allowance per child. On top of that, European taxpayers spend an estimated ÂŁ80 million each year in school fees for Eurocrats' children.
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...like a vast bankruptcy in the consent of the governed. Nice rituals, but well rigged and fixed. And then there's the ultimate spasms of 'you do what you are told' that the ruling class enjoys playing.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Premiums for popular low-cost medical plans under the federal health care law are expected to go up an average of 11 percent next year, said a study that reinforced reports of sharp increases around the country in election season.
For consumers, the impact will depend on whether they get government subsidies for their premiums, as well as on their own willingness to switch plans to keep the increases more manageable, said the analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Free staff is sure expensive
h/t Gates of Vienna
Under pressure from Republican leaders, the Justice Department on Monday afternoon reversed itself and released a full, uncensored transcript of the Orlando terrorist's 911 call on the night of the massacre, calling the morning’s furor over omissions in the document "an unnecessary distraction."
An earlier version of the transcript had deleted the word "Islamic State" and the name of ISIS leader "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." Omar Mateen made the 50-second 911 call in which he claimed responsibility for the terror attack and pledged allegiance to Islamic State's leader at 2:35 a.m. The call came just over a half hour into the June 12 slaughter at gay nightclub Pulse.
Here's the link to the report on Mr Tipi's website. Tipi is a hessian state MP for Merkel's party.
All of this hasn't been reported in the mainstream media but this verifies that a state MP is indeed reporting this event.
Not sure if/how the application of tinfoil hats and/or grains of salt is advisable.
An arsenal of weapons of radical islamists was excavated in NRW, North Rhine Westphalia. The "Top secret assignment" took one week and brought heavy war arsenal to the surface. This is what Hessian delegate Ismail Tipi (CDU) says.
According to information of the hessian CDU delegate Ismail Tipi a "top secret assignment" of the SEK in North Rhine Westphalia took place. In the cooler room of a vegetable vendor near a mosque, weapons were found and seized. "According to my information at this particular operation, an arsenal with heavy war weaponry was found.
The danger of arming of the fundamentalists and willing to resort to violence salafists in Germany is very high. This was shown clearly by this secret operation", said Tipi on Friday at a press conference.
The Extremism expert also assumes that more weapons stocking took place in other cities. For instance the Hamburg intelligence service for constitutional protection also speaks of a heightened number of supporters of armed jihad.
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Interesting in translation...the 'cooler room' is a grocer's walk-in refrigerator. I have no sense for how 'massive' is used as it's root is not found in the original news brief. The room may have been big or the weapon count, many. I do not have a sense that either is accurate.
More interesting is the reporting of this as one of many suspected weapon caches across the country. Consider then that Orlando went out to buy his weapons. Either there are not domestic caches in/near FLA, they were not made available to the OP out of concern for exposure, or Orlando was not a sanctioned member of a cell and while sponsored, acted as an individual. If it can be said that there is, then this is good news.
you probably can't hide a tank or a plane in a mosque but you might hide a small RPG launcher and its projectiles or a lot of rounds of ammo or some bombs or some suicide bomb jackets
This sounds like Ismail Tipi may not have actually seen anything or may not understand what he saw
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[Breitbart] The bloody violence in Chicago took no time off for Father’s Day as the final tally ended with 37 shot and 9 killed. The dead included a 17-year-old, shot with a rifle, and a Mexican man who was on his nation’s version of the TV show The Voice, shot three times in the head.
One of the last people killed during the weekend was a 17-year-old teen shot in front of a Catholic Church with what police claimed was a "high-powered rifle."
The teen was shot by an assailant who drove up next to him and immediately opened fire, leaving "literally dozens of empty shell casings on the street," according to Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy.
Chief Roy said the shooting was likely gang-related.
"It is not the whole population, but sometimes when there is a specific form of terrorism, you can seek out Islamic terrorism only among Muslims." We live in a World there this is not a pleonasm
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Pleonasm (pliːənæzəm); Greek: πλεονασμός, pleonasmos, from πλέον, pleon, "more; too much") is the use of more words or parts of words than is necessary or sufficient for clear expression: examples are black darkness, burning fire, or people's democracy. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology. That being said, people may use a pleonasm for emphasis or because the phrase has already become established in a certain form.
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Profiling is a major part of any police work. He looked suspicious so I pulled him over. He was driving a low rider car in Beverly Hills, it will get you pulled over. Driving a low rider truck anywhere in Florida will get you pulled over. It's profiling. So what. The police are charged with looking for something out of the ordinary and investigating it. It's all good.
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I remember wearing long hair in the 60's. Boy, that'd get you pulled over. But then, if you weren't breaking any law there was no problem.
[Express.co.UK] Omar Mateen had been in touch with a Frankfurt Airport worker denied access to America earlier this year.
The 57-year-old man was from Afghanistan and reportedly wanted to visit mass murderer Omar Mateen at his home in Florida.
American immigration officials denied him the right to enter the country.
In this day and age I'm almost afraid to ask if the officials were disciplined...
Now the FBI are probing Mateen's relationship with the Afghani man after he carried out the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others.
Frankfurt Airport was the site of an Islamist terror plot in 2011 when an airport post office worker shot and killed two US airmen and wounded two others.
German officials are working with the FBI to determine if Mateen was linked to a wider Isis network of terrorists in Europe.
The folks at Maxon Shooter Supplies and Indoor Range, who claim to be TAH fans, sent us a link to the story about them in the Chicago Sun Times, wherein the Times sent Neil Steinberg, one of their reporters, to write about his experience buying and firing an evil black, scary gun (known in journalistic circles as an assault rifle). Steinberg does the handwringing thing about guns and journalistic integrity thing during his drive to Des Plaines, Illinois to the Maxon "lemonade stand" as the owner described it to me. I call it the Hobby Store.
"Driving to Maxon Shooter Supplies in Des Plaines on Wednesday to purchase my first assault rifle, I admit, I was nervous. I'd never owned a gun before. And with the horror of Sunday's Orlando massacre still echoing, even the pleasant summer day -- the lush green trees, fluffy white clouds, blue sky -- took on a grim aspect, the sweetness of fragile life flashing by as I headed into the Valley of Death. Such melodrama! He sounds like a wannabe action writer. He's almost a Hemingway - our 'Hemingway'.
Earlier, in my editor's office, I had ticked off the reasons for me not to buy a gun: this was a journalistic stunt; done repeatedly; supporting an industry I despise. But as I tell people, I just work here, I don't own the place. And my qualms melted as I dug into the issue." Such prose!
He needn't have worried, after he filled out the paperwork paid for his Smith & Wesson M & P 15 Sport II there was a waiting period, during which his purchase was rejected by the gun dealer; Those pesky waiting periods!
"I was looking forward to shooting my new rifle the next day. I've shot guns. It's fun. I was worried though, about having fun with guns in the current environment of outrage and horror. Had I been co-opted by the purchase process? By the friendly staff at Maxon's? Brainwashed, I was!
"At 5:13 Sarah from Maxon called. They were canceling my sale and refunding my money. No gun for you. I called back. Why? 'I don't have to tell you,' she said." Neener-neener.
A few hours later, Maxon sent the newspaper a lengthy statement, the key part being: "it was uncovered that Mr. Steinberg has an admitted history of alcohol abuse, and a charge for domestic battery involving his wife." She deserved it, she sassed me.
Well, I didn't see that coming. Blindsided, I tells ya!
Of course, Steinburg thinks that's not the reason, he thinks it's some bias against journalists. Of course he does. Journalists are immune from the laws dontchaknow
Would-be terrorists can buy guns. Insane people can buy guns. But reporters . . . that's a different story. Gun makers avoid publicity because the truth is this: they sell tools of death to frightened people and make a fortune doing so. The fact I'm a drunken wife-beater has nuttin to do with it! I been wronged! I'm a victim here!
Or maybe the fine folks at Maxon don't like their guns in the hands of mean drunks who beat their wives.
I'm pretty sure that, if the sale had been approved, the headline would have read something like "Local gun dealer sells gun to wife beater" It was probably the editor's intent from the beginning that's why they chose Steinberg in the first place to make the purchase.
From the Maxon Facebook page;
Mr. Steinberg was very aggressive on the phone with Sarah, insisting he was going to write that we denied him because he is a journalist. "Journalist" is not a protected class, BTW. We contacted his editor and said that, while we don't normally provide a reason for a denial, in this case to correct the record before you publish, here's why; we pasted a couple links of press accounts of his past behavior and his admission of same. He's free to believe or disbelieve that's why he was denied, but that *is* why he was denied. There was no "We'll see you in court!!!!" type of language from us; we simply want to set the record straight. That it undermined his thesis and rendered the column incoherent isn't really our problem, is it? Thanks for your support.
Clarification: Steinberg did fill out an ATF 4473. He didn't lie on the form which asks the respondent if they have ever been *convicted* in a court of a domestic violence misdemeanor and, apparently, Steinberg wasn't convicted (even though you or I would have been convicted). He made a big deal about his arrest and his "come to Jesus" moment in the paper and in his book "Drunkard". Because he doesn't have a conviction, he also has a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card.
Steinberg didn't pop hot on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check because he doesn't have a conviction, and he didn't lie on his ATF 4473.
Everyone in Chicago knows about his escapades as a drunk and a wife beater because he wrote about it, the staff at Maxon knew about his past and they denied his purchase based on Steinberg's own admissions in his writings about it. The firearms dealer has the final say in whether you get a gun or not and because of Steinberg's local reputation, they decided not to take a chance on him. I hope that answers your questions.
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Copycatting the east-coast weenie -whatsisname?
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They burned this scam down 500 times faster than the race card. Fantastic...
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Is that 5:13, or 18:13, because a loser attention whore drunkard betting his reputation on accuracy needs to be quite a bit more sober on his recollection. Say, one paragraph lamenting his obligation of a journalist supporting something he has no belief in, and not more than two periods later stating how excited he would be to fire his new AR-15 assault bazooka with collapsible bayonet grenade lug.
Would-be terrorists can buy guns. Insane people can buy guns. But reporters . . . that's a different story.
*snort* maybe he should re-read that. Not even close to our Hemingway.
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He lost me pretty early on. Did he ever get to the part where he actually shoots a gun?
They don't sell guns to alcoholic wife beaters, and so informed his editors. But he has shot guns before and, given that he has a Firearm Owmers ID card, may actually own one or more. Had they sold him the gun, the story might well have been how easily an alcoholic wife beater, who hadn't actually been convicted, could legally buy a weapon.
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"Des Plaines on Wednesday to purchase my first assault rifle"
No you didn't. The way I understand it an Assault rifle is a fully automatic military weapon. YOu might have bought an assault weapon which is just a rifle that looks scary and was given a scary name.
[LATIMES] Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... will step into the campaign fray Monday with a foreign policy address that casts Donald Trump’s approach to the world as antithetical to American values.
Biden’s address to the Center for a New American Security opens as a defense of the B.O. regime’s foreign policy record, one that has "positioned the United States at the forefront of tremendous opportunity," he will say, according to advance excerpts.
But Biden will also target the presumptive Republican nominee, even if not by name, arguing that by turning inward, or seeking "sound-bite solutions in a world defined by complexity," the U.S. could "squander all of our hard-earned progress."
"I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s capacity to lead our world to a more peaceful and prosperous future. But our leadership does not spring from some inherent American magic -- it never has," he plans to say.
"It stems from our willingness to see challenges on the horizon and step forward to meet them first, our ability to lead by example and draw partners to our side. That’s what has always made America great."
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"ISIS has never been an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening." Vice President Joe Biden.
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Don't let him near Trump's women
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"squander all of our hard-earned progress"
Mr. Biden - in 2011 you were personally responsible for turning the killer Ali Musa Daqduq (responsible for executing 5 US MPs captured in Karbala - shot them in the back of the head with their hands zip tied) back over to the Iraqis only to see them release him to the Hezbollah (this hurt me personnaly). Concurrently, you turned your head and allowed Maliki to charge VP Tariq al-Hashemi with murder/and later the killing of Sunni protesters in Ramadi. How did this progress work our for ya? Mr. Biden your "progress" is directly responsible for the chain of events which directly led to the Sunni/ISIS uprising, rise of a Khalifah and establishment of the Caliphate.
Result - Christian genocide, Shia genocide, cold war with the Russians... Mr. Biden - blood is on your hands.
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Vice President Joe Biden will step into the campaign fray Monday with a foreign policy address that casts Donald Trump’s approach to the world as antithetical to American values.
Given how the "thetical" approach has been going lately, I'll take the antithetical, thank you very much.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says Muhammad Rashid arrived with Kurdish delegation, met with Israeli officials and Syrian rebels
Deceased Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat’s former money man Muhammad Rashid visited Israel on June 12 and held meetings with Israeli officials as well as figures connected to Syrian rebel groups, the official newspaper of the Paleostinian Authority, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, reported.
According to the report, Rashid traveled on a Canadian passport, arrived with a delegation of bigwigs from Iraqi Kurdistan, and stayed at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. During the visit, Rashid, who is a runaway from the PA, where he has been convicted of embezzlement, was said to have met with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and an IDF intelligence officer.
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[DAILYCALLER] A British Special Air Service (SAS) sniper took out two Islamic State bombers with a single shot, saving hundreds of lives in the process.
The SAS sniper took his shot from just over half a mile away, killing the terrorist driver in a split second.
But the story doesn’t end there. The bullet passed through the driver’s head and also hit his accomplice in the neck — an incredible feat, given these two targets were moving. The shot was one of the best in SAS history, according to an SAS source who spoke with the Daily Star Sunday.
“If the sniper had missed a lot of people would have lost their lives,” the SAS source said.
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Bravo - I will hoist a pint of ale here in Bangkok tonight, in honor of this trooper's "two-fer".
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If our political overlords would only let our soliders fight with WWII rules of engagement all these psycho killers would be dust and the rogue regimes would be on their best behaviour
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The bullet passed through the driver’s head and also hit his accomplice in the neck — an incredible feat, given these two targets were moving.
I'm waiting to read about such a sniper delivering a beacon 'package', to the vehicle, which then requests a kinetic download from the Overwatch drone.
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Mmmm...fat labs are easy Ship.
Got some boys down here be happy to build you strap-on snake gaiters. Beef, Pork, Kevlar or Kydex armor? No straps to mess with on the pre-curled Kydex units.
[NYDAILYNEWS] A 14-year-old boy placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for a hate crime assault on a Moslem man told police he and his friends were playing the vicious "knockout game," cops said on Monday.
The teen, whose name was withheld because of his age, was arrested for attacking Mohammed Rasheed Khan, 59, with two friends as the man left his Jamaica Ave. mosque near 205th St. in Hollis on June 1.
The boy admitted to Sherlocks that one of his friends suggested they play the "knockout game" -- a barbaric practice of trying to knock a random person unconscious with one punch, police said.
That's when the trio spotted Khan on his bicycle riding away from the Center for Islamic Studies.
Mama must be so proud...
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So when the target's a white man, it's simple assault. When it's a Muslim it's a "hate crime".
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About to find out his community is lower on the victim ladder than the Muzzies in this administration.
[BREITBART] Former Democratic Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, State Senator Ron Calderon has admitted that he took tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for legislative action as he submits a guilty plea to a federal corruption charge. Calderon faced a 24-count indictment before agreeing to the terms of the plea deal.
The United States Department of Justice details:
In the plea agreement, Ron Calderon admits accepting bribe payments from the owner of a Long Beach hospital who wanted a law to remain in effect so he could continue to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits from a separate fraud scheme and from undercover FBI agents who were posing as independent filmmakers who wanted changes to California’s Film Tax Credit program.
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[IsraelTimes] Scuba gear thought planned for sea-borne attack hidden in shipment of sporting goods sent by Paleostinian Authority
Israeli border agents confiscated a shipment of wet suits they suspected of being en route to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo Strip to be used for a seaborne attack on Israel, the Defense Ministry said Monday.
Bearing uncanny resemblance to an incident last year, the wet suits were hidden in a shipment of sportswear coming in to the coastal enclave from the Paleostinian Authority through the Kerem Shalom Crossing, the ministry said.
"The shipment was seized and an investigation has been opened to locate those involved," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Wet suits require a special permit to be imported into the Gazoo Strip, lest they wind up in the hands of Hamas’s naval commando unit.
During the 2014 Gazoo war, a team of five Hamas frogmen entered Israel from the shore and approached a nearby Jewish community before they were spotted and taken out by an attack helicopter.
Last month, Israeli authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle metal pipes and motors into the Gazoo Strip, which could have been used for building rockets and tunnels, the Defense Ministry said at the time.
In that case as well, the illicit materials were "camouflaged," stuck in alongside "textiles and jewelry."
This practice of hiding illegal goods among approved products has become the go-to method for smugglers. Earlier this year, electrodes were discovered hidden in butter from a Ramallah factory.
The authorities in Iran have thwarted a plot by Sunni militants to bomb targets in the capital Tehran and other cities, the intelligence ministry says.
The ministry said members of an "anti-Islamic terrorist takfiri group" had been arrested and explosives seized. The intelligence ministry gave no further details about the suspects.
"Takfiri" is a term used by officials in Shia Iran to describe Sunni extremists who declare other Muslims as apostates deserving of death.
Iran is currently helping both the Syrian and Iraqi governments battle the jihadist group, Islamic State (IS), which considers Shia to be infidels for their veneration of the Prophet Muhammad's family and other beliefs and practices.
Militants claiming to be defending the Sunni minority community in south-eastern Iran have also carried out a number of attacks against the state in recent years.
The intelligence ministry said the investigation by its agents - whom it described as "Unnamed Soldiers of the Lord of Ages" - was continuing "inside and outside" Iran.
"Updated information will be released to the great Iranian nation as soon as the proper conditions are established," it added.
The Fars news agency cited the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, as saying the bomb attacks had been planned for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Last month, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said 20 terrorist groups that had planned to carry out bomb attacks and cause insecurity had been dismantled.
Once upon a time they were Muslims like everyone else, but then Allah changd his mind, and suddenly Ahmadis were always intended for target practice.
[DAWN] A 50-year-old homeopathic doctor, belonging to the Ahmadi community, was rubbed out in his clinic in the Abul Hasan Isphani area of the metropolis on Monday evening.
It is the second such attack in the same vicinity within a month, police and a community front man said.
"Dr Chaudry Abdul Khaleeq was bumped off in an attack on his clinic," confirmed Malir SSP Rao Anwar.
The police official added the clinic was located in the slum area of Sikander Goth, in the limits of Sachal cop shoppe.
"He sustained a single bullet wound to his head," added Anwar.
There was no electricity in the area at the time of the attack. The officer was of the opinion that it was a assassination.
A Jamaat Ahmadiyya spokesperson confirmed while talking to Dawn that the dear departed belonged to their community.
"This is the second attack on our community in the same area," the spokesperson added.
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[Daily Excelsior] Police this evening achieved a major success when they tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a top Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) commander from North Kashmire Sogam town when he was purchasing eatables from the market.
The apprehended myrmidon commander has been identified as Abu Ukasha alias Hanzullah of Pakistain. One grenade and Rs 38,000 cash were recovered from his possession.
The myrmidon commander had infiltrated into Kashmire in November-December last year and was mostly operating form Handwara and Lolab forests. The official termed the arrest of the Pak myrmidon as a big success.
Sources said that two of his associates fled when police arrested the myrmidon commander from the market. One among them is believed to be local and another a foreigner.
Police accompanied by army later conducted an operation in Nagbal and Sheikh Nard forest area of Sogam during which a gunbattle broke out as the myrmidon fired at police and army joint party.
Security forces trapped one of Abu Ukasha’s associate, Abu Bakar who was also in the market at the time of his arrest but fled away.
The firing at Nagbal forest area continued for about an hour and it has stopped now. Security forces have cordoned whole area and they will conduct the searches in the morning. They, however, believed that the myrmidon has been killed but will only confirm when his body is recovered.
In the meantime, army and Police launched a massive operation in North Kashmire’s Bandipora district after they heard few gun shots form Sumlar forest area of the district this evening.
An army patrol had gone to the Sumlar forest area and they were fired at from a distance by myrmidons. More troops and police was rushed to the area and a massive operation has been launched in the forest area.
Security forces had launched an operation against a heavily armed 6 member myrmidon group belonging to LeT last week in Bandipora forests after the group was spotted in the area.
Army’s 14, 27 RR, 7-para commandos and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police had launched a massive search operation in Chuntmulla, Kudara, Sirinder, Kutapathri and Gabipathri areas of Bandipora.
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[NATION.PK] Former Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud’s brother and uncle are among six key members of the Lion of Islam group who have surrendered to the security forces in Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , officials said on Sunday.
"Ejaz Mehsud and Khair Muhammad Mehsud, uncle of Hakimullah, handed themselves to authorities late Saturday," an official said.
Both men surrendered at Lower Kurram’s Shaheedanu Dand, one of the three crossing points between Kurram and Afghanistan.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the official refused to comment on whether the two men crossed into Pakistain from Afghanistan or had been hiding on the Pak side of the border. Sources further said that at least four TTP commanders also surrendered to authorities and there was a possibility that more Taliban members could surrender in a couple of days. "All the surrendered men have been shifted to security forces’ fort in Tull area," a source said.
Some sources say Hakeemullah’s relatives may have entered into Pakistain as the authorities opened the crossing with Afghanistan on Saturday after days of festivities on the Torkham border.
The group has not yet commented on the development.
Taliban faced a serious rift after the death of Hakimullah and some Taliban sources had earlier said nearly 200 had been killed in festivities between the supporters of rival commanders Sheharyar Mehsud and Khan Said alias Sajna.
Hakimullah, who was in his thirties, had been killed in a US drone strike in North Wazoo Agency in November 2013. He was buried at an unknown location a day later.
He had succeeded his mentor, Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in August 2009. Hakimullah Mehsud, the young, ferocious and vengeful chief of TTP had survived at least two US drone strikes in the past. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... on November 1, 2013, his luck ran out.
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[CNN] A jacket wallah struck in the Afghan capital early Monday morning, targeting a bus full of foreign security contractors.
At least 14 people were killed and eight others maimed, said Sediq Seddiqi, front man for Afghanistan's Interior Ministry.
The majority of the victims were citizens of Nepal, he added.
The Canadian embassy confirmed that the victims worked for a security company that provided services to the Canadian Embassy, the embassy said in a tweet on its official Twitter account.
"Our thoughts with families and friends of victims," the tweet said.
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[VOX] The Daily Show's Trevor Noah thinks that banning suspected terrorists from buying guns may not be that good of an idea, even if it sounds like it is.
In the wake of the recent Orlando massacre, Sen. Chris Murphy and other Democratic lawmakers filibustered for 15 hours in order to force a vote on a new gun bill. If passed, the bill would give the government broad authority to block the sale of guns to individuals investigated for terrorist activity up to five years before the attempted purchase. The bill is widely backed by Senate Democrats, and the terrorist list ban has previously garnered support from President Obama.
But perhaps it isn't so cut and dried, Noah points out.
Last night, in a segment about the Senate filibuster, he explained why the idea is actually pretty troubling. "It sounds like something that shouldn't be up for discussion," he said. "But it's not as formal as it sounds. It' a secret list that anyone could be put on at any time."
Noah acknowledged that though the legislation might seem comforting now, we might want to think twice before consenting to such a large expansion of governmental discretionary power. His fears may be well-grounded. According to watch list guidelines published in the Intercept in 2014, adding a person's name to the list requires neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence."
You can see her vitals here. Both ships are named after Order of Nakhimov 1st Class recipients from WWII. The Order of Nakhimov 1st Class is a Russian award for military leadership to be bestowed on naval officers. 79 were awarded the Order of Nakhimov 1st Class during WWII.
The Ivan Gren (Project 11711) large landing ship has arrived the port of Baltiysk for qualifications and training (landing operations, helicopters training etc) before it will join to the Russian Northern Fleet (till the end of 2016).
The ship is built in Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad. The vessel have a displacement of 5,000 tons and is able to carry up to 13 main battle tanks or 36 armoured personnel carriers or 300 marines. The Ivan Gren-class ship also carries two military helicopters Kamov Ka-27, developed for ferrying and anti-submarine warfare. The Ivan Gren is armed by six 30mm radar-guided automatic guns.
It has modern cranes for loading equipment, which also can be loaded on the ship through the bow ramp.
Some media call the Ivan Gren-class vessel: ‘Russian Misral‘ because it has been developed to replace the two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships that had been built for Russia by France but wasn’t delivered because of “Russian involvement” into the crisis in Ukraine.
In 2015, another Project 11711 large landing ship, the Pyotr Morgunov, was laid down at the Kaliningrad-based Yantar shipyard. It’s planned to be transfered to the Russian Navy in 2018. The landing ship will be allegedly armed with a 76-mm naval gun, two 30-mm AK-630 anti aircraft mounts and multiple artillery rocket systems.
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Quite the climb down going from 21,000 tonne LHDs to 5,000 Tonne LSTs. Will the Russian LSTs need their own dedicated tug boats, like the aircraft carrier?
The so-called “Benghazi Defence Brigades” (BDB) have warned villages and towns between Ajdabiya and Benghazi not to get involved in the fighting or likewise stand in their way towards Benghazi, otherwise they will be destroyed.
Claiming that they are fighting under the authority of Sadiq Ghariani and the Dar Al-Ifta in Tripoli, the BDB also today denied that they had been forced to retreat by units of the Libyan National Army (LNA), claiming instead they were still firmly in control of areas of that they had taken yesterday.
"Lies! All lies!"
However, despite their claims and reports that they had managed to capture a tank, four armoured vehicles and ammunition from the LNA, the Libya Herald has been told that they were forced out of the centre of Ajdabiya and are now south of the town.
They're just more selective in the towns they occupy...
This newspaper had also been informed that a number of Libyans from Tripoli have joined the unit. It is also reported that four LNA soldiers were killed today in fighting with the unit.
A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders, the United Nations refugee agency said on June 20 for the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
I've said it before and I say it again: the best place on the planet for Syrian refugees is in Syria. The best place for Libyan refugees is Libya. It's their home, their land, their culture, their faith. It would be far smarter for the West to set up displacement camps in these countries, protect them by any means necessary, and let the hard boys fight it out. Once they're done (and we could help with the killing of hard boys) then we could send all the good people back to their villages and cities.
But moving them to Germany? Norway? Minnesota? That doesn't make a bit of sense. They don't particularly like us Westerners, they don't particularly fit in, they don't have the language or training to get jobs, and so they'll not do well. Their kids will be radicalized, and we'll have problems.
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I've said it before and I say it again: the best place on the planet for Syrian refugees is in Syria
To be candid, after Israel been a subject to intense international (fueled by petrodollars and led by Euros) pressure for two generation re "Palestinian Refugees"*, I'm kinda happy West Europeans have an opportunity to study the subject at first hand.
* See Joan Peters: (1) Arab emigration under Perfidious Albione, (2) Population exschange.
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I adopt an HIV model for modern world.
People who have HIV don't die of it. They die of some other infectious disease - because they no longer have an immune system.
In my view, Islam is some other infectious disease. TransNational Progressivism (which rules over EU) is HIV.
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You get what you tolerate. You gave colonialism a bad name even though in most cases it follows the old Monty Python skit - what have the Romans ever done for us. It dragged stone and bronze age cultures into the 19th and 20th Century. It wasn't 'perfect', however it did avoid the hell all so often the places reverted to after decolonization. Another gift of the Left.
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So the best place for Mexicans is Mexico?
Yeah, I agree. Configure migratory settlement neutral areas managed by the UN with funds washed through the IMF. Each member nation would pay a fee per refugee head for their citizens of record.
Wait, why does this sound a whole lot like reservations for the American Indians? What a failed dismal relocation solution that was/is.
[ARA News] QAMISHLO – Subsequent to fierce clashes with militants of the Islamic State (ISIS), the Syrian regime’s army forces on Monday recaptured the Thawra gas field in the northeastern Raqqa province.
The Thawra gas field, located in the western countryside of Raqqa, has been under ISIS control for more than two years.
“The army has expelled Daesh [ISIS] terrorists from the al-Thawra gas field,” Syrian army officer Haider Hammoud confirmed in an interview with ARA News.
“The group has suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment before retreating from the field,” he said.
Gas and oil facilities are deemed a main financial resource for ISIS, especially in the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa.
In the meantime, the Syrian regime’s troops continued their advance towards the Tabqa airbase west of Raqqa, supported by a Russian air cover.
“For us Tabqa airbase is a main target in our military campaign in Raqqa,” the official told ARA News.
Haider added that the Russian air force has played a major role in the army’s progress in the western countryside of Raqqa.
“We are only 8km away from the airbase. The liberation of Tabqa will come soon,” he said.
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A total of 23 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were killed on June 19 in Turkish artillery shellings and U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, the Turkish Armed Forces has announced.
Turkish artillery units and armored combat vehicles shelled some 33 ISIL targets, including gun emplacements and Katyusha rocket and mortar weapons, reportedly in preparation for an attack in northern Syria. Coalition warplanes also conducted two air operations against ISIL targets.
According to initial examinations, 23 ISIL militants were killed in the operations. In addition, three buildings, one defense position and one anti-tank rocket were also destroyed.
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[CBC.CA] Sandford, who lived on East Coast, was jugged June 18 in Las Vegas
A British man accused of trying to take a police officer's gun and kill Donald Trump during a weekend rally in Las Vegas will not be released on bail.
Public defender Heather Fraley said Sandford appeared to be competent and hadn't been diagnosed with a mental illness but has autism and previously attempted suicide. He was living out of his car, didn't have a job and was in the country illegally after overstaying a visa.
Federal Magistrate Judge George Foley said at a hearing Monday that Michael Steven Sandford, 20, was a potential danger to the community and a flight risk. Sandford, who wore leg irons and appeared to tremble during the court hearing, is charged with an act of violence on restricted grounds and was assigned a federal public defender.
He has not entered a plea.
Public defender Heather Fraley said Sandford appeared to be competent and hadn't been diagnosed with a mental illness but has autism and previously attempted suicide. He was living out of his car, didn't have a job and was in the country illegally after overstaying a visa.
His mother told court researchers that he was treated for obsessive compulsive disorder and anorexia when he was younger, and that he once escaped a hospital in England, according to the public defender.
Fraley argued that Sandford should go to a halfway house because he didn't have a criminal history,
...but now he tried to kill a presidential candidate, which changes things.
but the judge said he should stay in detention ahead of a July 5 court date.
Secret Service agents said Sandford went to a Trump rally on Saturday at the Treasure Island Casino and approached a Las Vegas police officer to say he wanted an autograph from Trump. The criminal complaint said Sandford was incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! after grabbing the handle of an officer's gun in an attempt to remove it from a holster.
Reportedly given lessons at shooting range
Agents said Sandford told them he had been in the U.S. for about a year and a half,
How did he eat and put gas in his car if he had no job? And how did a seventeen year old Aspie with anxiety problems manage to fly to America on his own?
We'll see if our investigators are serious by whether they follow the money...
lived in Hoboken, N.J., and drove to the San Bernardino, Calif., area before coming to Las Vegas on June 16.
Sandford told officers he had been planning an liquidation for about a year
...a long time to plan such a thing...
and was convinced he would die in the attempt. He said he also reserved a ticket for a Trump rally in Phoenix, scheduled for later in the day, as a backup plan.
He told authorities that he went to the Battlefield Vegas shooting range the day before the rally and fired 20 rounds from a 9mm Glock pistol to learn how to use it.
No PTSD? How on earth did he manage that?
Police detectives who visited the range spoke with an employee who confirmed that he provided Sandford shooting lessons, according to the complaint signed by Secret Service Special Agent Joseph Hall.
About 1,500 people attended the Las Vegas rally, which was held in the Mystere Theater inside the casino. Attendees had to pass through metal detectors manned by Secret Service, police and casino security officials.
Sandford appeared in court on Monday to face a charge of "an act of violence on restricted grounds", and faces more than 10 years in prison and a $250,000 (£170,000) fine if convicted.
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Already a crowdfund effort for his legal defense. No money raised so far.
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Hard to figure what his motive might have been. Attempting suicide by cop? Disgruntled Trump University student? Or perhaps being used by someone wanting to get a chance to put 'Anybody but Trump' on the ballot? Or a scheme to get some positive Trump publicity, if the assassination was doomed to fail from the start?
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According to The Daily Mail, the lad grew up in a nice part of Surrey. And after years of spending thousands of pounds buying Robot Wars robots, he suddenly decided to sell them off to raise funds two years ago.
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What I mean by paranoid is you take some soft headed guy like this, put some ideas in his head, give him a little money, point him in a certain direction and...isn't that how the jihadis get their suicide bombers?
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KOBANE – In an unprecedented step on Monday 160 civilians were conscripted in Syria’s Kurdish city of Kobane for military service after ratifying the law of self defence duty in June beginning this month.
The new recruits will be trained at the martyr Kendal Efrin camp for 45 days by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and then serve for 9 months.
“The first group they take is just maybe 100 people,” said Idris Nasan, a former official in the Kobane administration. “They will serve 9 months and after that they are free to join the YPG or go home,” he told ARA News.
“They will not be used to fight ISIS, but will be used inside the city of Kobane and the nearby villages to replace some fighters at checkpoints. The YPG need more fighters for the places they liberate,” Nasan added.
However, some civilians in Kobane seem very critical of the conscription law introduced by the Self-Administration, suggesting the city has suffered too much from ISIS attacks, and a massacre carried out by ISIS in June 2015 that killed more than 233 civilians.
But others say that this massacre exactly shows the necessity of the service.
“You cannot send people to fight by force, people should have the right to choose,” Mohammed, a 25-year-old citizen of Kobane, told ARA News. “They should do it like in Iraq like the Peshmerga forces, if they want they can fight, if they don’t want they don’t fight,” he said.
Some youth have tried to escape to Turkey to avoid the service.
However, Ibrahim Kurdo, the head of foreign relations in Kobane administration said that the self defence duty “is not conscription”.
“We have been under threat for five years, and people realize that this self defence service was created for them to be able to defend themselves,” Kurdo told ARA News. “These new fighters will not fight in the frontlines, they are behind the frontlines,” he said.
“It’s a natural right to defend yourselves, if there is no protection, people will be eliminated and finished,” he added.
[Ynet] The Saudis have come to Israel with a non-negotiable peace plan; Gilad Sharon asks type of country would concede to demands which put access to Jewish places of worship at risk, and which turns the clock back to 1947.
The Saudi Peace initiative is a trap. The initiative calls for an Israeli withdrawal to the borders of June 4, 1967 and for a solution to the problem of Paleostinian refugees in accordance with UN resolution 194.
In return, there will be peace and normalization between Israel and the nations of the Arab League
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Show me the money. Who is paying who and how much to bring in millions of Muslims into non-Muslim nations. Are they paying the Clinton Foundation? Soros? Is the payee the Saudies? Or is it just pure evil eminating from the oval office?
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A 21-year-old man was attacked on the 59th St Columbus Circle platform
Row began as a dispute between two groups on a northbound A train
As victim left the train a 21-year-old man slashed him across the neck
He was rushed to hospital and is expected to survive, attacker was arrested
Police say knife attacks in the city have soared by 20 per cent this year
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This is, to hear the locals tell it, the most enlightened and tolerant place on Earth. Still waiting to hear hos it's the gun's fault on this one...
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A symbolic beheading?
Possibly the attacker suffered thru childhood from lack of male guidance due to his father's death or incarceration due to a gun crime.
The celebrated ‘Daughter of the East’ took over the mantle of leadership of the country’s most populous political movement in her bare twenties when her father and Pakistan’s first democratically elected Prime Minister was put to gallows for a murder he did not commit, setting a precedent that continues to splotch legal narrations.
Captivity in blistering temperatures, corporal and psychosomatic torments by the death-dealing martial law regime could not fracture her resoluteness towards forming a government suggestive of the inclination of the masses.
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[Gulf Today] Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot and killed a Philippine Army colonel in front of his house while he celebrated Father's Day with his family in Zamboanga City. Police chief Luisito Magnaye identified the victim as Cristobal Julian Perez, the personnel head of the army's First Infantry Division based in the town of Lubanga, Zamboanga del Sur.
Magnaye said one of two motorcycle-riding gunmen gunned Perez down outside his house in a village in Zamboanga City late on Sunday night. He said Perez was a veteran in the anti-terror campaign that led in the killing of of Malaysian bomb expert Mohammad Najib Huesein alias Abu Sabas in Basilan in 2015. At that time, Perez was the battalion commander assigned to Basilan to rid the island province of the Abu Sayyaf and other terrorist groups.
Magnaye said that Perez went home to celebrate Father's Day with his wife and their three children on Sunday. Shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, his wife told the police that Perez left the house after receiving a telephone call from an unidentified person. While conversing with the suspected gunman, shots suddenly rang out, based on the testimony of the victim's widow.
[Al Ahram] Kuwait's foreign minister said Monday that a deal to grant thousands of stateless people in the Gulf emirate Comoran nationality had not been struck despite recent reports.
Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah, in comments published in the Al-Qabas daily newspaper, denied rumours circulating in Kuwaiti media on the agreement.
"If we sign an agreement with any country, the foreign ministry is obliged... to complete the necessary legal procedures in accordance with the constitution," the minister said.
Comoran External Affairs Minister Abdulkarim Mohammed said in Kuwait last month that his country was ready to consider taking thousands of stateless people denied citizenship there.
Local media in Kuwait recently suggested that a deal was in the works and reported scams involving large sums charged for assistance in obtaining Comoran citizenship.
More than 110,000 stateless people, locally known as bidoons, have been living in Kuwait for decades claiming the right to citizenship in the oil-rich emirate and the generous welfare benefits that accompany it.
But the government describes them as "illegal residents" and says only 34,000 qualify for consideration for citizenship.
Impoverished Comoros consists of three islands in the Indian Ocean with a population of just under 800,000 people, nearly all of them Sunni Moslems.
Despite the country's distance from the Middle East and North Africa, it is a member of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... as well as the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Several years ago, Comoros offered thousands of bidoons in the United Arab Emirates citizenship in exchange for generous aid packages in a deal similar to the Kuwait proposal.
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Impoverished Comoros consists of three islands in the Indian Ocean with a population of just under 800,000 people, nearly all of them Sunni Moslems.
i.e.: Muslims without oil
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"Stateless"?
Is that an euphemism for Palis that have worn out their welcome?
[DAWN] Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Monday termed Hindu faceless myrmidons organizations the biggest hurdle in Pak-India peace dialogue.
"In our eyes, the biggest hurdle is Hindu Death Eater organizations and their influence and relations with the current government," said Nisar.
The interior minister also termed Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s statement regarding Pak-India ties as ’surprising’.
"If the Indian government is serious about mending ties with Pakistain, than they should declare exactly what forces do not want better ties between the two countries," said Nisar in a statement released by the interior ministry.
Nisar also stated that the prime minister’s good relations with any other head of state are linked to our national interest.
"The Indian minister should not take it as the PM’s personal interest," he elaborated.
"Indian seriousness over the issue can be gauged by Prime Minister Modi’s speech to the US Congress."
Pak and Indian foreign secretaries were scheduled to meet to discuss modalities regarding the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue agreed upon during Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's visit to Islamabad for the Heart of Asia conference in December.
The Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue stalled following the attack on Indian Air Force's Pathankot base.
The dialogue was to take on matters related to peace and security, Jammu and Kashmire, Siachen, Sir Creek, Wullar Barrage, Tulbul Navigation Project, economic and commercial cooperation, counter-terrorism, narcotics control and humanitarian issues, people to people exchanges and religious tourism.
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If we can only get rid of all the people who wouldn't bend over and spreed it for Islam...
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced on Monday launching the liberation operation of Zankoura area in northern Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).
The ministry said in a statement, a copy of which was received by Iraqi News, “This morning the liberation operation of Zankoura was launched at Abu Risha in northern Ramadi, under the supervision of the Army Chief of Staff, aides to Army Chief of Staff for Operations and the commander of the army’s Ground Forces.”
The statement further added, “Forces belonging to Anbar Operations’ Commando Brigade and the Tactical Regiment of Anbar police, backed by the artillery of the army’s 16th Brigade, Iraqi Air Force and Iraqi Army Aviation, also participated in the operation.”
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And who do we thank for the orphans?
What god sends a girl out on four pins,
Or gives Cohan cancer?
The tapdancing answer --
An adequate one? -- Myrtle Corbin's.
[ABCNEWS.GO] Bahrain's government on Monday stripped a leading Shiite holy man of his nationality, a move that brought hundreds of protesters into the streets and prompted warnings of unrest.
The Bahrain News Agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that Sheikh Isa Qassim had played a key role in creating an bully boy sectarian atmosphere and had formed groups that "follow foreign religious ideologies and political entities," an apparent reference to Shiite-majority Iran.
The move was welcomed by Bahrain's Sunni-led allies but condemned by Shiites, and could serve as another flashpoint for regional sectarian tensions stoked by the rivalry between Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Iran.
After the decision was announced, several hundred of Qassim's supporters gathered outside of his house in the mostly Shiite village of Diraz, carrying posters and chanting religious slogans. Sayed al-Wadaei, director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, said in a statement that the decision will escalate tensions and may lead to violence.
The tiny island nation off the coast of the Arabian Peninsula has been in turmoil since a 2011 uprising backed by majority Shiites demanding greater rights from the Sunni-led monarchy. Bahrain crushed the protests with the help of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Sunni allies suspicious of Iran and opposed to growing Shiite influence in the region.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said the decision to strip the holy man of his citizenship "takes Bahrain into the darkest days" since the 2011 crackdown.
[Al Ahram] The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned Bahrain's government of armed struggle, after the Gulf kingdom stripped the spiritual leader of its Shia Moslem majority of his citizenship.
"The Al Khalifa (rulers of Bahrain) surely know their aggression against Sheikh Isa Qassim is a red line that crossing it would set Bahrain and the whole region on fire, and it would leave no choice for people but to resort to armed resistance," said Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, the elite special forces arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, in a statement published by Fars news agency.
"Al Khalifa will definitely pay the price for that and their bloodthirsty regime will be toppled," he said.
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[AlJazeera] Julian Huxley once wrote that "a nation is a society united by a common error as to its origins and a common aversion to its neighbours". If there is any truth to Huxley's remark, the recent bloody border clashes between the Afghan and Pakistani military forces illustrate the common aversion of the Afghans towards their antagonistic eastern neighbours, Pakistan.
The incident, which left three border guards and two children dead on the Afghan side of the Torkham crossing in eastern Afghanistan, stirred anger throughout the country. Transcending internal differences, Afghans poured into streets in protest and some began marching towards Torkham to render support to the Afghan National Army. A video clip has gone viral on the social media, showing a group of men, claiming to belong to the Taliban forces, declaring war on Pakistan and urging others to join in defending Afghanistan's honour and territorial integrity.
Yet others think that Pakistan was testing the waters and was trying to take advantage of what it perceived as a vulnerable moment in Afghanistan. A year that has been marked with the highest military and civilian casualty figures and increased political discord in Kabul would probably be an opportune time to settle the disputed border issue. In either case, Pakistan's calculus proved wrong. The seemingly disarrayed, multiethnic Afghan nation came together and showed a common aversion to their aggressive neighbour.
Beyond a show of unity in the face of foreign aggression, however, the phenomenon signals a wider shift of dynamics in the two neighbours' historically thorny relationship. The majority of Afghans believe that since the days of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invasion in the 1980s, Pakistan has been playing a ruthless game of manipulation with both the Afghans and their largest benefactor, the US.
Some argue that Pakistan's interference in Afghan's internal affairs is driven by its insecurity about the Durand Line, the disputed border demarcation upon which the Torkham crossing sits. As soon as Kabul accepts it as the official dividing line, the argument goes, Pakistan will stop its meddling.
Pakistan's ambitions, however, are greater. Their doctrine of gaining "strategic depth" in Afghanistan, which is justified by their fear of an attack from India, is one of the reasons for Islamabad's relentless efforts to install a puppet government in Kabul. The ISI intelligence agency's grossly misguided Taliban project eventually gave birth to various groups of Pakistani Taliban, the survival of al-Qaeda and the harbouring of various Central Asian and Chinese radical groups.
But Pakistan could not have become a godfather of sorts to most of the world's terrorist organisations had it not been for the puzzling acquiescence, over the past 15 years, of the United States. Whether it was a case of prolonged underestimation, a strong and generous Pakistani lobby in Washington, or simply a chaotic AfPak strategy - or lack thereof - the US did not challenge Pakistan's behaviour in any serious and consistent manner. Since 2002, the average annual US aid to Pakistan has been roughly $2bn. In 2010 alone, Pakistan received about $4.5bn in military and development aid from the US. Yet, public opinion polls in Pakistan show that the majority of Pakistanis view the US as an enemy.
But, finally this spring, American policy-makers felt the fatigue from Islamabad's double games. In March, the US Congress began to voice doubts about the continuation of the flow of US aid to Pakistan. Congress passed a bill imposing strict conditions on a $450m aid package to Pakistan and opposed the financing of eight F-16 jet fighters that would be granted to Pakistan through the Foreign Military Financing scheme.
Other disconcerting events of late include the US shift of policy, indicating the end of favouritism to Pakistan, and the opening of Chabahar port, a collaboration of Iran, India and Afghanistan that could isolate Pakistan in regional trade activities.
The Afghans' reaction to the recent border incident represents the culmination of over three decades of frustration with Pakistani malfeasance. They have fought the British and Soviet empires against all odds. If pressured and humiliated further, the Afghans might take on Pakistan.
While the killing of the former Taliban leader, Mulla Mansour, the imposition of conditions on aid to Pakistan and the expansion of military role in Afghanistan are positive signals in the US policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, staying the course will be the determining factor in changing Pakistan's behaviour.
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Pakistan and their benefactor the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have played us for fools since 9/11. Bush and Obama are both responsible. If Clinton wins...this will continue.
The Pakistani ISI trained, directed and funded the Taliban that fought us in Afghanistan - acts of war. They rape our supply lines with impunity - and we intentionally turn a blind eye - an act of stupidity on our part. They consider us fools.
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The Chinese have been backing the Paks for decades. It doesn't get any play because they've been a) circumspect about it and b) investing in Afghanistan.
[Al Ahram] 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.... Lion of Islam group launched a counter attack against fighters trying to capture the Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, inflicting heavy casualties on the U.S.-backed forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the murderous Moslems said.
The monitor said the ultra-hard line murderous Moslems won back three villages south of the besieged city in a surprise assault against fighters from the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces, in which at least 28 SDF fighters were killed.
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in a surprise assault against fighters from the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces
I've really got to ask, why is there such a vague sense of these guys and their operational C2?
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MANBIJ – The Manbij Military Council said on Monday that the Islamic State group (ISIS) tried to break the siege on Manbij city, by attacking the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from another frontline, military sources reported.
ISIS fighters on Monday morning attacked forces of the SDF from the side of al-Bab, Jarabulus and the village of Arima. The clashes continued until the afternoon, and were repelled by the SDF forces, costing ISIS many losses in lives and material.
Speaking to ARA News, Heval Shiyar, a local commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said that al-Bab is the only city from where ISIS can operate freely and reach the Turkish border from Raqqa.
The operation to capture Manbij city has been slowed down in an attempt by the SDF troops to avoid civilians casualties.
“We can enter the city of Manbij easily, but the only obstacle for us is civilians. We have helped 7,000 to 8,000 people to escape the city,” Shiyar told ARA News on the Manbij frontlines. “That’s why the operation goes slowly towards the city.”
“We have information from local sources that the city is full of civilians, that’s why any movement will hurt them,” he added.
So far, SDF fighters have entered the suburbs near the western entrance of Manbij, and the fighting is continuing.
According to the US-led coalition, they have carried out 10 air strikes on 19 June, destroying six ISIS tactical units and five ISIS fighting positions.
“Manbij will be a big test. It will be one of the most strategic blows to ISIL [ISIS] yet because it is their hub of foreign fighters,” American anti-ISIS envoy Brett McGurk said last week.
“It is their main kind of access route from Raqqa. And so I suspect they will fight for it. But we feel pretty good about the plan — not only the military plan, but importantly the post-ISIL plan,” the envoy added.
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At least 12 Taliban insurgents were killed in separate ambushes of the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.
According to a statement by MoI “Eight armed Taliban were killed in an ambush of the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army in Sayed Abad village, Nad Ali District of southern Helmand province, yesterday morning.”
The statement further added “In the meantime, the joint forces confiscated one PK machine gun, one AK-47 rifle and some amount of ammunitions from the scene.”
“In a separate report, four armed Taliban were killed and five other armed Taliban were wounded in an ambush of the Afghan National Police in Mati Kali village, Gilan District of Ghazni province, yesterday evening,” the statement said, adding that the Afghan police foces confiscated some amount of ammunitions and three motorbikes as well.
The statement also added that the Afghan National Police detected six roadside bombs which were placed by enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan in the main road of the Gilan District of Ghazni province.
[RUDAW.NET] In an expected development, the largest political bloc in Kirkuk’s provincial council rejected on Sunday efforts to establish a semi-independent region in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... voting in favor of a reintegration with the Kurdistan region.
The Brotherhood bloc, with 26 seats of the 41-seat provincial council, officially announced its opposition to the proposal, originally put forward by Kirkuk’s Kurdish governor Najmadin Karim.
Karim has said the registered voters of the disputed province will have three options at the long anticipated referendum; staying with the Iraqi government, reintegration with the Kurdistan region or simply becoming a semi-independent region.
According to the Iraqi constitution a province can become a semi-independent region if it wins two-third of the votes at the provincial council even without a public vote.
"Supporters of a semi-independent region now can only hope for a referendum which could be called for when they have the signed support of at least 10 percent of the registered voters within two months," said Bokan Abdulla, a legal scholar in Kirkuk.
But the voter consent for a referendum will unlikely to be needed as the Kurdistan region is up for a public vote, most probably before the end of this year, in which also residents in Kirkuk will have the opportunity to make their voice heard.
"We are committed to the constitution article 140 and returning to the Kurdistan region," said Muhammad Kamal, a veteran member of the provincial council in Kirkuk addressing a presser. The constitutional article 140 addresses the so-called disputed territories across Iraq.
Though roughly over half of Kirkuk’s population currently consists of Kurds, the Turkmen and Arab communities are relatively sizeable in the disputed city, which ultimately makes their vote crucial to any referendum.
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[Iraq Sun] South Korea’s Intelligence agency has said that 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.... (ISIS) Death Eater group has gathered information on 77 U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air force bases and has asked its followers to attack them.
According to reports, the National Intelligence Service has said that information on people from 21 countries has also been released by ISIS which includes personal information of one South Korean welfare organization employee. The person is now under protection.
The NIS has reportedly said that the United Cyber Caliphate, which is ISIS’ hacking organization, has collected information on U.S. air base in South Korea including Osan Air Base.
They have also reportedly collected addresses and Google map details and released them through the Telegram messaging service.
According to reports, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), in a statement on June 20 said, "Through constant vigilance and regular exercises with our South Korean counterparts, we remain prepared to respond at any time to any emerging threats. USFK remains committed to ensuring the highest degree of security on the Korean Peninsula."
According to NIS, in the last five years, 50 people suspected of being part of terrorist organizations have been deported from South Korea.
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[NATION.PK] After about three years of constant efforts, Pakistan has ultimately completed the construction of a massive trench in Balochistan alongside its porous border with Afghanistan to keep separatists, smugglers and militants from sneaking into the country.
Flood it and bring in the alligators...
“Excavation work on several-hundred-kilometre-long trench on Chaman-Kandhar border has been completed,” Deputy Commissioner Chaman Khuda-e-Dad Aga told media.
The strategic project of 1,100-kilometre-long trench with the cost of Rs14 billion was initiated along Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan by Frontier Corps in 2013.
The 11-foot-deep and 14-foot-wide ditch on the entire stretch of the border is contributing in efforts by the security forces to have a proper border management, an official of the provincial Home Department said.
In the next phase, the project will be extended to the entire over 2,400-kilometre-long border and after its completion, travel between the two countries will only be allowed through officially-designated crossing points.
The FC, at the beginning of the project, had maintained that the trench would “not only help in effectively controlling the movement of drugs, arms and ammunition smugglers but will also help in stopping the intrusion of terrorists and illegal immigrants”.
“Proper management on all of our international borders is an essential need for a peaceful Pakistan,” Balochistan government’s spokesperson Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said. “In accordance with our laws, we are making our efforts to discipline cross-border travelling withAfghanistan and other countries.”
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And the U.S. calls Pakistan a third-world country! They seem to have this border-thingy figured out!
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Balochistan = Afghanistan's corridor/gateway to the sea + sea trade. Islamabad fears a POTUS Trump will do what the Bammer covertly desires + but is too PCorrect to do at this time, i.e. separate Balochistan from Pakistan, + merge or coop wid Afghanistan.
[Al Ahram] A Cairo court rejected on Monday an appeal by Egypt’s prosecution on rights campaigner Mina Thabet’s release order, confirming that he will be let out of jail on EGP 10,000 bail.
The activist is being investigated, among other charges, on accusations of inciting protests against redrawing Egyptian-Saudi maritime borders, inciting violence to overthrow the regime and change the constitution, inciting attacks on cop shoppes, joining a terrorist organization and disturbing social peace.
Thabet, who is the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms' minorities and marginalised groups programme director, was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on 21 May from his home during a raid by plainclothes police, according to the NGO.
The documents found with Thabet include papers on the socialist political party Bread and Freedom, documents about minority rights relating to international law, the civil and political rights of minorities, in addition to a poster that says that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, that lie in the Red Sea off Sinai, are Egyptian.
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[Al Ahram] A Harvard professor who caused a huge splash when she unveiled a small fragment of papyrus that she said referred to Jesus being married now says it's likely a forgery.
Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King presented the piece of papyrus in Rome in 2012. The fragment, written in Coptic, includes the phrase, "Jesus said to them, My wife."
Right from the beginning, it sparked controversy and debate among scholars. Doubts about its authenticity were raised almost immediately.
King said it is more likely than not that the fragment is a modern forgery. She cited an investigative article published last week on the website of The Atlantic magazine that raised questions about the owner of papyrus, Florida businessman Walter Fritz. The Atlantic also was the first to report her concession that the papyrus is likely a fake.
"If you ask me today which direction am I leaning more toward -- ancient text or a modern forgery -- based on this new evidence, I'm leaning toward modern forgery," King told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The Atlantic found inconsistencies in Fritz's story about how he came to acquire the papyrus and in a document he gave to King purporting to authenticate it.
"This evidence does make a difference in judging whether it was a forgery or not, and it pushes the evidence toward it being a forgery," King said.
A valid telephone number could not be found for Fritz. In an email sent to the AP on Monday, Fritz included a letter he sent to The Atlantic in which he denied forging, altering or manipulating the papyrus or its inscription.
Mark Goodacre, a professor of religious studies at Duke University, said doubts about the fragment were raised within hours of King showing the text at a conference in Rome.
"When you show something like that to people who spend their entire lives staring at these things, a lot of them could straightaway tell there was something fishy about it," Goodacre said.
He said he credits King with having "a lot of guts" to acknowledge that she was likely duped.
King said she has always maintained that the fragment wasn't evidence about whether Jesus was married.
"It's at most a part of the early Christian story about should Christians marry, and so on and so forth," she said.
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Incomplete translation. It actually reads: "Jesus said to them, 'take my wife, please'".
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Wonder what the 'findings' will be when only the fiction section of libraries are unearth two thousand years from now.
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Its like when someone suggests a different possibilty for let's say ancient Egypt and the pros say "oh, but we have this inscription that says ......". Like the ancients never engaged in propaganda. And I'm not talking about aliens did it and similiar crap
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Taxpayer money was involved. Clawback her salary. RICO Harvard. Treble damages.
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Archaeologists claim an enlargement
Of ancient Arabian parchment
Reveals ball and chain
Behind Allah, quite plain,
Concealed in a black sack-like garment.
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A coy dealer of antiquities
A lay scholar, if you please
Came upon a papyrus
From the land of Osiris
To set sacred hearts to seize.
Why is it, he sadly asked
That poor Jesus was said to be tasked
To a life full of omen
Without a fine woman
In whose light he would have gladly basked?
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Maybe the biggest clue that it was a forgery was thar it said "on June 21, 32 AD, Jesus said ..."
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Some religious scholars believe he was married to Mary Magdeline. She was the only woman known to travel with him. They believe the story where he turned water into wine at the wedding where his mother was ordering the servants around was his wedding. I don't know, I wasn't invited.
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Did Mary of Magdala clan have beacoup cavalry + warriors???
IMO iff Jesus as a "descendant/heir of David"
[Saul?] had political, ethnic, + familial right to claim the throne of Judea, by extension his relatives should have had some kind of potent military arm to back his claim up - ditto as per the Magdalene whose clan's own alleged claim to the throne of David helped justify or validate's Jesus'??? This was occurring at time when the so-called Zealots were gaining in numbers + influence which would decades later manifest itself in open armed rebellion agz Rome.
700 non combatants detained by ISIS in Aleppo
AFRIN – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched an arrest campaign in northern Syria, and captured more than 700 civilians, local sources reported on Monday.
ISIS jihadis have broken into several villages in the countryside of Jarablus, Azaz and al-Bab in the northern Aleppo province, and arrested hundreds of civilians, most of them were reportedly from the Kurdish minority in the area.
Al-Shahba documentation centre reported the arrest of 96 civilians in the Shawi village, 107 in the Weran village, 86 in Ghandoura, 37 in Sur Sanbat, 143 in Arima, 119 in al-Raee, 27 in Tel Jerja, 74 in Kawikli, six in Kayiba, four in Qabasin and two civilians were captured in the Kalben village.
“The majority of those arrested by ISIS militants on Monday were Kurdish civilians,” member of the Shahba documentation centre Muhammad Kalo told ARA News.
Also, the extremist group executed on Monday 12 civilians for trying to escape the ISIS-held villages in Jarablus countryside.
“They were shot dead for trying to escape before ISIS captured them,” Kalo reported, citing eyewitnesses.
According to local media activists, ISIS is using civilians as human shields in the battles against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
“The terror group is sending civilians to the battlefronts in northern Syria in order to use them as human shields to claim that the western-backed SDF troops are killing innocent civilians,” Kalo told ARA News.
“The ISIS use of civilians as human shields has affected the performance of our troops,” SDF commander in Manbij Adnan Abu Amjad told ARA News.
“Our goal is to protect civilians against ISIS, and we are aware of the group’s brutal strategy of using those civilians as human shields, that’s why we’re being extremely careful during our military operations,” the official said.
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[Huffpoo] 'Free State of Jones' - Three quarters of a century ago, "Gone with the Wind," a film that mythologized an Old South of wealthy planters and obedient slaves, premiered in Atlanta amidst great fanfare and public interest.
This week, a very different sort of film about the South of the Civil War and Reconstruction era ‐ "Free State of Jones" -- will have its premiere, and as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the War and Reconstruction and struggle through our own time of social and racial divisiveness, the public would do very well to take the film’s measure.
That is because "Free State of Jones," challenges our many misconceptions of the Civil War and Reconstruction and can promote a dialogue about what may have been possible more than a century ago ‐ and what is very much possible in our own day. "Free State of Jones" is based on a true story of interracial resistance to the Confederacy in Civil War Mississippi.
It is the story of how a white farmer from humble origins named Newton Knight came to see how the Confederacy favored the rich planters at the expense of men and women like himself and chose to organize a rebellion aimed at establishing a terrain of freedom, a "free state," in the county of Jones.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Monday, Nineveh Operations Command announced that the second phase of liberation operations in the areas south of Mosul had successfully concluded.
The Media Officer of Nineveh Operations, Brigadier General Feras Bashar Sabry, said in a press statement that was obtained by Iraqi News, “The second phase of the military operations [launched to liberate the areas south of Mosul] had finished after achieving all its goals,” noting that, “The operations resulted in the liberation of a number of villages including al-Nasr, Kharaeb Jabr and Kharaeb Shamam.”
Sabry added, “The third phase of the operations will be launched in the coming few days in order to liberate al-Haj Ali and its surrounding areas and the left side of the eastern bank of the Tigris River,” stressing that, “The joint [security] forces had finished its preparations to liberate those areas.”
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Iranian intelligence officials have foiled 'the biggest terrorist plot' to ever target Tehran and other provinces across the country, state TV claimed today.
Several suspects have been locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and are under interrogation over the plot after agents seized ammunition and bombs, the report said.
It's thought they had planned a co-ordinated bombing attack including suicide bombs across the nation, according to TV reports attributed to Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
Iranian intelligence officials have foiled 'the biggest terrorist plot' to ever target Tehran (picture, file image) and other provinces in the Islamic Theocratic Republic, the country's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported today
The Fars and Isna news agencies quoted Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, as saying the attack was planned in the holy month of Ramadan.
The official IRNA news agency quoted the ministry as saying: 'One of the biggest takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... -Wahhabi terrorist plots was discovered and foiled,' using terms applied by Iran to Sunni turban groups
They added: 'A series of kabooms prepared in various areas deep inside the country and especially in Tehran and some other provinces... were foiled, the forces of Evil were arrested and a number of ready-made bombs were recovered.'
The agency also said the attack was supposed to come on the anniversary of the death of the Prophet Muhammad's wife, Khadija, on Thursday.
The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, told the ISNA news agency the plot included plans for 'suicide kabooms in Tehran'.
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[NATION.PK] At least eight people were killed and 18 injured Monday morning when a cycle of violence bomb went kaboom! in a crowded market in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, local authorities said.
"Our initial information is eight people were martyred, and 18 others were maimed, all the victims are civilians," the Badakhshan provincial governor’s front man Naweed Froutan told AFP, adding that the corpse count is set to rise.
The district governor of Keshim, where the attack took place, gave a higher toll of at least ten killed and 30 maimed.
"It was a cycle of violence bomb kaboom inside a main market in Keshim district of Badakhshan province," Abdul Salam Paiman told AFP, adding that some of the maimed were at death's door and all had been taken to hospital.
No one has yet grabbed credit for the blast in the remote, mountainous province.
It was the second major attack to shake Afghanistan Monday. The Taliban grabbed credit for an earlier suicide kaboom in the capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... that killed at least 14 Nepali security guards.
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At least 33 Taliban insurgents were killed in the latest counterterrorism operations conducted by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were conducted with the support of the Afghan Air Force and artillery units of the Afghan army.
A statement by MoD said at least 10 of the militants were killed in Dehrawood district of Uruzgan province and 7 others were killed while 4 more were wounded in Dawlatyar district of Ghor province.
The statement further added that 10 more militants including two commanders of the group were killed in a separate raid conducted in Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand province.
At least 6 militants were killed during an operation in Syedabad district of Wardak province and 3 others were wounded, MoD said, adding that a suspected militant was arrested and 30 sacks of explosives were confiscated in Logar province.
Accoding to MoD, at least 5 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces also lost their lives during the same operations.
The anti-government armed militant groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior revealed on Monday, that nine (9) people had been either killed or wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device northeast of Baghdad.
According to information shared by the source, and obtained by Iraqi News, it was stated, “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded near a popular market in al-Shaab area northeast of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding eight others with several injuries.”
The information added, “Ambulances rushed to the area of the incident and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive medical treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Monday, a source in the Ministry of Interior said, that 13 soldiers were either killed or wounded in a suicide bombing by an explosive belt in northern Baghdad, while expected the casualties’ number to increase due to the intensity of the explosion.
According to information shared by the source, and followed by Iraqi News, it was mentioned, “This morning, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in front of the gate of al-Taji Camp in northern Baghdad, killing three soldiers and wounding ten others with several injuries.”
“Ambulances rushed to the area of the incident and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while imposed strict [security] procedures in anticipation of similar attacks,” the information added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Baghdad Operations Command announced on Monday, that the security forces killed the ISIS military commander for south of Baghdad in eastern Baghdad.
Baghdad Operations Command said in a press statement followed by Iraqi News, “A force from the army’s 23rd Infantry Brigade managed to kill the ISIS military commander for south of Baghdad Seif al-Din Sattar, also known as Abu Fatma.”
The statement added, “The ISIS leader was ambushed, along with a number of terrorists while they were trying to plant a number of explosive devices in al-Obeidi area in eastern Baghdad.”
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[DAWN] On a live TV talk show some nights ago, applauded campaigner and journalist Marvi Sirmed was verbally accosted and threatened with force by a bearded bulwark of what has become Islam in this country.
Marvi had the gall, the complete and appreciable bravado, to simply agree with another speaker Barrister Masroor on the show. Masroor had commented that when it came to honour killings in Pakistain, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) seemed slumbering in an inebriated stupor.
For agreeing with his words, Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Fazl's (JUI-F) Hafiz Hamdullah called Marvi a "whore", vowed to "strip her" if she didn’t quieten down and tried to physically assault her.
While the questionable language was omitted from the transmission, it circulated widely on social media after Marvi posted about her experience.
Her claims were backed by the other panelists on the show.
I don’t know about you but if someone airs an incitement to rape on national television -- in a country where religious celebrities provoke murderers and hate-mongerers -- I consider such threats to be a clarion call for rolling out the legal books and restraining orders, and doing some rigorous rethinking of why these men represent our social and political system.
The ’holy man’ in question here, Senator -- yes, Senator -- Hafiz Hamdullah, went on to say that he would not "allow" Marvi to speak.
Errrr, who died and decided to make you king of the oafs?
Marvi is a strong, opinionated woman; she is not the kind to take this type of abuse lying down. Unfortunately, that is how most men here like to give anything to a woman. But Marvi rebuffed Hamdullah (I refuse to use any sort of scholarly title for such a man) in full.
The audacity of a woman in Pakistain, a woman I say, to dish out some sweet scorn? -- of course, she ought to be pillaged and shown a knuckle or two. Such was Hamdullah’s reaction and aggression, that he had to be tackled and led out of the recording.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the show continued airing, stacking up ratings in a world where sensationalism is our favourite kind of televised past-time.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said certain types of firearms like the AR-15 are the kind of guns that should be banned. She added that people trying to purchase the weapon ‐ which is popular among American gun owners ‐ are "buying it do bad things."
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Business Insider] On June 20, Gen. Mark Milley, the US Army chief of staff, ranked four nations as the most dangerous to US national security: Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
[DW] An attack on the Jordan-Syria border claimed the lives of at least six Jordanian border guards and injured over a dozen others. A statement from Jordan's military Tuesday said, "At 5:30 a.m. a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district opposite the Syrian refugee camp, killing or wounding several Jordanian soldiers."
[Charleston Post and Courier] A scuffle over Confederate flags Saturday at The Battery landed two tourists in jail.
[Breitbart] Hillary Clinton once threw a Bible at the back of a Secret Service agent's head, part of a pattern of unhinged rage that the now-presumptive Democratic nominee exhibited, as exposed for the first time in former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne's grueling insider account of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
[Breitbart] Why is the Obama administration hiding the truth about the terrorist 9-1-1 phone calls? 
The folks at Maxon Shooter Supplies and Indoor Range, who claim to be TAH fans, sent us a link to the story about them in the Chicago Sun Times, wherein the Times sent Neil Steinberg, one of their reporters, to write about his experience buying and firing an evil black, scary gun (known in journalistic circles as an assault rifle). Steinberg does the handwringing thing about guns and journalistic integrity thing during his drive to Des Plaines, Illinois to the Maxon "lemonade stand" as the owner described it to me.
Joe 
[BREITBART] Former Democratic 
The authorities in Iran have thwarted a plot by Sunni militants to bomb targets in the capital Tehran and other cities, the intelligence ministry says.
[Daily Excelsior] Police this evening achieved a major success when they 
Kurram Agency
Wazoo
John Hinkley-lite ? 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Huffpoo] 'Free State of Jones' - Three quarters of a century ago, "Gone with the Wind," a film that mythologized an Old South of wealthy planters and obedient slaves, premiered in Atlanta amidst great fanfare and public interest. 
