[NYP] Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is reportedly being vetted by Donald Trump as a potential running mate, was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014 after three decades in the military. Here he tells the real story of his departure from his post and why America is not getting any closer to winning the war on terror.
Two years ago, I was called into a meeting with the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and the director of national intelligence, and after some "niceties," I was told by the USDI that I was being let go from DIA. It was definitely an uncomfortable moment (I suspect more for them than me).
I asked the DNI (Gen. James Clapper) if my leadership of the agency was in question and he said it was not; had it been, he said, they would have relieved me on the spot.
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With the Fifth Column of Hussein in the Oval Office, abetted by Valerie Jarret, John Brennan having been "turned", and now Huma having "groomed" the presumptive Democratic replacement - the US Government is in a world of hurt - and we desperately need clear-headed leaders like Mike Flynn to go in an excise the malignant cancer of Islam from our Executive Branch.
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From the primary challenger: Paul Ryan, if you will not build a border wall for America, then I am asking you to tear down your wall. If you will not build a wall to honor the mothers and fathers of the dead, if you will not build a wall to protect our children, then, sir, you should tear down your wall and show everyone that you will live under the same conditions as they do.
People like Paul Ryan and Mark Zuckerberg love open borders so long as they stop at the property lines to their mansions. They ensconce their families with walls and fences, but then lecture us about how we have to be more charitable. And lectures us about how America 'is more than our borders.'
I like the guy already. And Paul is only at 43% in his home state and could lose his seat. Wouldn't that be a damn shame?
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The PROBLEM I have with Ryan is he is associated with McCain who often refers to the Senate as an Institution. I have a major problem with someone trying to classify what is supposed to be a group of representatives of the American people as members of an Institution instead.
[Huffpoo] Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Black Lives Matter on Friday of being "a terrorist group," claiming the activists are perpetuating a "war on cops" across the country.
Limbaugh’s remarks came in response to Thursday’s deadly attack on police officers in Dallas. The "ambush-style" gunfire at a Black Lives Matter protest left five officers dead and seven more officers and two civilians injured. People had gathered to deplore the deaths of two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, at the hands of cops earlier this week.
Limbaugh was joined on his radio show by Heather Mac Donald, author of The War on Cops, published last month. The book explores the so-called "Ferguson effect," which posits that all the protests over police violence have pressured officers into being less aggressive, thus leading to an uptick in crime. The theory has been widely debunked.
Limbaugh and Mac Donald both claimed it’s a "myth" that black men are disproportionately killed by police, despite actual evidence to the contrary. Mac Donald also criticized President Barack Obama for speaking out on the deaths of Castile and Sterling, suggesting that his rhetoric led to the Dallas attack.
"President Obama lied to the nation last night and he embraced the Black Lives Matter myth that there is a racist war by white officers against black civilians in this country," she said. "And we see the results."
Limbaugh criticized the president for hosting Black Lives Matter leaders at the White House.
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P2K is spot on. At its' core, the democrat party knows their candidate is the weakest they have fielded since Dukakis and has no support among white males. SO, minority turn out is essential. Trump has already done the work against Hispanics for them, now they need massive black turnout and a way to loop in the millennial idiots and the looney Bernie socialists. A few dead cops and burned buildings are just collateral damage on the way to the creation of the Peoples Paradise for Cretins that Hilda promises.
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Is it unreasonable to request that Citizen Activists/Anarchy news items be grouped? Dallas, Louisiana, Minn, Missouri and National events are all in separate sections.
[Telegraph] Dallas gunman Micah Johnson was planning a much bigger attack before he decided to shoot at a rally on Thursday night, killing five officers and wounding seven other people, law enforcement agencies have said.
A law enforcement source told WFAA that, based on the explosives material found at his home, they believe Johnson made the decision to attack the protest in downtown Dallas when he saw an opportunity.
"We think he was probably planning something bigger based on what we found at the house with the explosive materials," the source told the news station. "He had a bunch of explosive materials. He didn’t have the explosives created."
But I can go classic if need be. To wit:
Sail Ho! Mizzen the main mast and keep a weather eye on the auxiliary mast. Make hast and prepare the Evinrude, come around to the weather deck, and roll, roll, roll your dice, Clancy just got paid.
Write that and change a few words and Bingo! You got 2 Years Before the Mast, which is a semi-famous novel. Oh, put something in there about Salt Pork, Sea Biscuit and Man 'O War.
[GP] Several police officers have been injured by Black Lives Matter protesters who took over the I-94 freeway in St. Paul, Minnesota Saturday night over the deadly police shooting of Philando Castile, attacking police officers who tried to clear the road by throwing chunks of concrete, rebar, rocks, bottles, fireworks and Molotov Cocktails. The attacks have gone on for three hours.
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And just yesterday on CNN three black "leaders" were claiming Black Lives Matter is a very peaceful, non-violent organization.
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Oh, I forgot to add that police forces were created in early America to protect the upper class monetary interests. They should be abolished because the Constitution doesn't mention creating local police forces. It doesn't say anything about a National police force, either but we really need one.
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[Reuters] U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday he was concerned about how the State Department handles classified information but cast this as part of a government-wide challenge in the age of email, texts and smartphones.
FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday recommended against prosecuting Hillary Clinton or her aides for their "extremely careless" handling of classified information on the private email server that she used as secretary of state.
Comey said the FBI had found evidence that "the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that's found elsewhere in the U.S. government."
Asked about the FBI director's assessment, Obama told reporters in a news conference: "I am concerned."
"The advent of email and texts and smart phones is just generating enormous amounts of data," Obama added, saying that this, in turn was "putting enormous pressure on the department to sort through it, classify it properly."
Obama said that if one classified too much, the benefits of the information evaporated because it took too long to process. "It reflects a larger problem in government," he added. Clinton has said her use of a private email server was a mistake.
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Another load of B.S. from our esteemed leader. Had he wanted to do anything, he would have done something months ago instead of covering up. He knew Hillary was running an off-the-books home server and running classified info on it. He also knew she was lying about everything. He is covering his own a$$ and trying to salvage his legacy from the dumper. Both he and the Clintons are serial liars.
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Champ would have been notified of the arrival of the first NON '.gov' email she would have fired at him from an UNCLAS system. No competent Information Security Officer (ISO) would have failed to make the appropriate notifications and warnings.
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"Comey said the FBI had found evidence that "the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that's found elsewhere in the U.S. government.""
Generally correct - the problem is with the mid-level to super mid-level (think 04/05/06- level) bow ties. The junior ones don't know what they are doing and are untenured. The senior ones have learned that keeping on the right side of the security equation is helpful. The ambitious/arrogant ones in the middle believe their own BS - smartest ones in the room and I could really do great work except for the stupid DS rules.
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Ditto Billy... and no mention made of the Classified Laptops gone missing over the years.
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I found the culture at State incompetent for the most part. While there are good officers and Chiefs, the leadership that allowed the Iraqi refugees in unvetted, in spite of resistance from the FBI and DoD, were criminally negligent...and this culture of negligence (whether it be handling of classified info, or important policy decisions) is what blurs out the good officers deeds. Few if any of the lazy, self-important bad actors are ever held responsible for their incompetent deeds...even Rice could not clean it up.
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Line officers within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) and personnel detailed from the services were reliable. Many others, to include those detailed from Kronos, not so much.
My perspectives are very dated. Perhaps things have changed and improved over the past 20-25 years.
[LI] Suspension of disbelief is the term that came to mind when I watched FBI Director James Comey’s decision to recommend no charges against Hillary.
As Comey went through the litany of Hillary's misdeeds, lies, defalcations of duty, extreme carelessness, cunning and risks to national security, Comey made the case for any of a series of charges against Hillary. Then, with the reputation of the FBI about to be vindicated, Comey dropped the dreaded "however."
In House testimony, Comey again confirmed every factual point demanding prosecution, yet defended his decision not to recommend charges because he was treating Hillary just like he would any other citizen.
Can anyone seriously claim, as Comey has, that Hillary was treated as any other citizen would? It's laughable and requires the suspension of disbelief. Either Comey is the dumbest person on earth, or he thinks we are.
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I'm reading Gary Byrnes "Crisis of Character." It is about the stench placed on the WH by the Clintons and the cover up of Slick Willie's peccadillos. Hillary's email scandal reads about like Bills scandal. Wherever they are and whatever they do, they take a lot of people down with themselves. Those HillaryBots really should ask themselves: "Do we really want these people to have another go at the WH. Do we really want serial scandals again? Do we want them to occupy the WH and use it as their own personal piggybank with no oversight? Do we really want this culture of corruption again?"
[PJ] Israel has announced that it will be building 800 new housing units. Of these, 560 will be in Maale Adumim, a town of 40,000 located four miles east of Jerusalem, and 240 will be in three Jerusalem neighborhoods.
State Department spokesman John Kirby reacted with unusually strong language:
If it's true, this ... would be the latest step in what seems to be the systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions, and legalization of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution. We oppose steps like these which we believe are counterproductive.
Kirby added that Washington was "deeply concerned":
This action risks entrenching a one-state reality and raises serious questions about Israel's intentions.
It should be added that Maale Adumim and the three "East Jerusalem" (actually eastern, northern, and southern Jerusalem) neighborhoods are located on land that was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, and that Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War after Jordan attacked Israel.
The irony of this attack on the Dallas Police is that Chief Brown does not allow any officers to harm any black/white/brown/etc citizens with unnecessary violence. But if any black/white/brown/etc person messes with his officers, he will take you out.
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There really isn't any difference between this and a sniper. The had killed multiple people and would do so again if given the chance. If he was in the open the same call would be given for the sniper to take him out.
I have no issue with using an explosive robot to do the job in a confined space.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region-- The US army in Iraq has provided two Peshmerga brigades with 54 armored Humvee vehicles as part of an aid package to help Kurdish forces against ISIS holy warriors in the country.
Kurdish Peshmerga commander Rasoul Omar told Rudaw that other brigades are expected to receive similar equipment as part of an effort to upgrade the Kurdish military ahead of the anticipated djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... offensive.
"There will also be two long-range artillery units trained by the US army which will support Peshmerga offensives in other areas," Omar said.
Omar said the military equipment will have "substantial impact" on Peshmerga capabilities on the frontlines in Kirkuk as coalition troops are preparing for more offensives against ISIS.
The US is expected to provide Kurdish forces with a $415 million aid package to help it cope with the severe economic crisis gripping the Kurdistan Region. The central government in Baghdad has to date refused to allocate a budget for the Peshmerga Ministry as part of Iraqi defense forces.
Some 100,000 Kurdish recruits have been called or volunteered to serve with the Peshmerga troops patrolling nearly 1500 kilometers of front lines against ISIS murderous Moslems.
The ministry has been under increased pressure since early 2015 to pay its soldiers.
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I have read on another link here where there is over policing occuring in some places to raise revenue via fines. That article indicated that in one area where the population is 20 thousand, 32 thousand warrants were issued in one year.
But MSM would prefer instead to play the race card instead of working a little harder at true investigative journalism.
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Talking abourt, or reporting on the embers is not enough. One must vigorously blow on them to make the fire grow.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – The US-led coalition has carried out 303 air strikes against the Islamic State’s (ISIS) oil and gas facilities as part of Operation Tidal Wave II since 2014, and has cut down ISIS revenues to $15 million per month.
“Operation Tidal Wave II continues to reduce Daesh’s access to revenues from illicit oil and natural gas operations,” said the US-led coalition spokesman Colonel Christopher Garver.
“In our estimate, Daesh is [used to be] earning $300 million a month from illicit oil activities. That should have been approximately $30 million a month and we estimate that the reduction from Tidal Wave II operations cuts their revenues by a half to approximately $15 million a month,” he said.
The US-led coalition has carried out more than 303 airstrikes since September 2014, targeting ISIS oil and gas facilities.
Speaking to ARA News, Aymenn Jawad Al Tamimi, a research fellow at the Middle East Forum–a US think tank–said the airstrikes have a remarkable effect in the war on ISIS “because the group now controls fewer oil fields, and facilities have been damages and supply routes disrupted.”
“But there’s no alternative in the end to retaking [oil-rich] Deir ez-Zor
...Syria's sixth largest city and the country's oil capitol.
The reduction by half is possible, but in the end the bulk of the loss will come from recapture of Deir ez-Zor oil fields,” he said.
However, Al Tamimi said ISIS oil revenues never reached $300 million dollar per month. “At maximum revenues topped $40-50 million a month,” he said.
Despite the financial losses, the Islamic State is still trying to fight back, also against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Manbij that now control more than 50 per cent of the city on border with Turkey.
“Desperate counter-attacks near Manbij resulted in major ISIL [ISIS] losses. Coalition-partnered SDF now establishing firm foothold in the city,” US anti-ISIS envoy Brett McGurk said on Twitter on Thursday.
“We’ve seen Daesh [ISIS] fighters leaving these previously defended towns to attempt to reinforce Manbij. As the pressure increases against Daesh in Manbij, they are demonstrating more desperation to keep Daesh strategic crossroads open for access outside Syria,” Colonel Garver said.
Due to the setbacks on the ground, as a result of successes by the Iraqi army, and Kurdish forces in both Syria and Iraq, ISIS has carried out attacks on civilians in the Middle East and in the West to show their supporters that they still have the ability to strike against their enemies.
“They are the force that’s conducting attacks like we saw in Paris, like we saw in Brussels. They’re inspiring attacks like we saw in San Bernardino and we saw in Orlando. And this is a force that needs to be dealt with. These are people that they need to not only be defeated on the battlefield, but they’re ideology needs to be broken and defeated as well,” Colonel Garver added.
“We still have to break the caliphate. We still have to show that they are not worth following from the worst of humanity around the globe, but they would want to do that in our capitals anyway. They would want to do that in Western countries,” he concluded.
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[ARA News] DUHOK – The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) on Wednesday executed six of its own militants on charges of “treason”, after accusing them of leaking security information to the US-led coalition.
Informed local sources told ARA News that ISIS has arrested six of its own security members of the al-Hisba department in the city of Mosul in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province.
“The ISIS leadership suspected that the al-Hisba members were leaking confidential information to the western coalition – whose airstrikes have recently killed top jihadi officials. After interrogation, the Mosul Sharia Court issued a decision to publicly execute the six suspects,” media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News in Mosul, citing an ISIS official.
“The six jihadis were beheaded in front of dozens of ISIS officials in central Mosul,” al-Malla reported.
This comes just three days after the US-led coalition renewed its airstrikes on headquarters of the Islamic State (ISIS) in northwestern Iraq, killing and wounding dozens of militants, including top jihadi leaders.
Muhammad Ahmed al-Bajjari, head of ISIS military operations in northwestern Iraq, was killed in an airstrike by the coalition forces in Mosul city of Nineveh province. “Al-Bajjari was killed along with several other ISIS fighters. He had played a main role in planning ISIS military operations against the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi army in the vicinity of Mosul,” director of the Nineveh media centre Raafat al-Zarari told ARA News on Saturday.
Another coalition strike has reportedly killed the head of Islamic Police [al-Hisba] in Mosul, known as Hatim Taleb al-Hamdouni.
“More than 30 ISIS jihadis were killed in the past two days, including top ISIS officials like Hamdouni and al-Bajjari,” local media activist Farad Mirani told ARA News.
ISIS suspects that some of its own members have been leaking information to the coalition’s forces about confidential locations of the group’s leaders.
By intensifying its air campaign against the radical group, the western coalition’s bombardment in Nineveh province has caused heavy losses in ISIS ranks. According to observers, this could facilitate a ground progress by the Kurdish Peshmerga and allied Iraqi forces against ISIS.
[ARA News] AFRIN – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) have killed dozens of civilians in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, activists and eyewitnesses reported on Monday.
The radical group has captured over 40 civilians while trying to escape the ISIS-held town of Um al-Housh in Aleppo countryside.
“ISIS terrorists have mercilessly slaughtered them at the entrance of the town, threatening the residents that anyone who would try to leave without permission will face a similar punishment,” local media activist Salem Hamdan told ARA News.
The victims were trying to reach areas held by the western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern countryside of Aleppo, before ISIS militants captured and slaughtered them.
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[AlAhram] A policeman was rubbed out by unknown assailants in El-Arish, North Sinai Saturday afternoon, Egypt's Ministry of Interior announced in a statement.
The 41-year-old police sergeant, Galal Mohammed Soliman, who was assigned to the "vehicle department," was bumped off outside a cop shoppe.
[DAWN] WE can’t stop the squawking and bleating and barking and squealing that’s about to come, but we sure can tell them what we think of them. So, by way of semi-catharsis, a word to the four who would rule us all.
Nawaz ‐ Really? I mean, really? You have a damaged ticker, fine. You’re miffed some folk think you’d fake heart problems to distract from your Panama woes ‐ fair enough.
Some of us would be annoyed if we were in your place. But someone’s gotta tell you: you’re slipping into African-dictator realm of out-of-touchness.
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NATO leaders agreed 9 July on a set of decisions to project stability beyond the Alliance’s borders, including starting a new training and capacity building effort in Iraq and the use of AWACS surveillance aircraft on the Turkish sky to support the strikes by the coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
“To the south we see failed and failing states. And millions left homeless and hopeless by terrorist groups like ISIL,” NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg told a news conference on day two of the NATO Summit.
“This instability has a direct impact on our societies. The scale of the challenge demands that we take action.”
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In particular we will be keeping a friendly eye on Sukhois and Migs.
Officer is in critical condition after being shot in the back. The perp fled but was caught and is in custody. He has a long prison record including for illegal possession of a firearm.
Authorities are mystified as to the motive. Really.
Update at 12:45 a.m. ET from SAT2014, who submitted the following from South Africa Today:
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army managed on Saturday to regain control over Maidaa town in Eastern Gouta in Damascus countryside, blocking a key support route used by the terrorist groups in the area.
The Syrian army also pressed the terrorist groups in Aleppo northern countryside, advancing in Lairamoun city which lies in the vicinity of the Castello highway.
A number of Nusra Front (Qaeda branch in the Levant) bad boyz were potted by the Syrian army that ambushed them in Daraa northern countryside.
One of the notorious commanders of the ISIS terrorist group was killed in festivities with the Syrian army soldiers in the Eastern province of Deir Ezzor, FNA reported.
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[ARA News] DAMASCUS ‐ At least 15 Moslems in the southern Indian state of Kerala are missing and may have joined the ranks of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), local media reported on Saturday.
Relatives of the missing individuals said they had received messages on WhatsApp suggesting that the missing people had reached the place of "divine rule...Islamic State," according to the Indian Express.
The 15 missing are all young, and include five married couples, one with a two-year-old child.
According to local sources, the missing people knew each other, and some of them had previously worked in the Gulf states.
"They had never been associated with any political or religious organization. But, over the last two years, they had turned orthodox, with the men sporting long beards," an unnamed source told the Indian Express.
In the meantime, Kerala’s state police chief urged caution over the reports and said that "we can’t come to any conclusions" on their whereabouts.
"[Their] families have not approached local police with a formal complaint,’’ said Loknath Behera, Kerala’s director general of police.
According to earlier reports, a total of 23 Indians had left to join ISIS in either Syria or Iraq, 17 of them from southern states.
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At least 16 militants fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province.
Local officials said the airstrike was carried out by the foreign forces in Achin district where the loyalists of the terror group are actively operating.
The provincial government media office in a statement said at least three commanders of the terror group were among those killed.
The statement further added that some weapons and ammunition belonging to the loyalists of the terror group were also destroyed.
The anti-government armed militant groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as at least 12 loyalists of the terror group were killed in a similar raid in Kot district of Nangarhar last week.
The US forces stepped up airstrikes against the ISIS loyalists earlier this year after they were granted more authorities by President Barack Obama.
The increased raids against ISIS loyalists followed amid concerns that they are attempting to expand foothold in the country besides attempting to consolidate operations with the terror group in Iraq and Syria.
[IsraelTimes] Army launches manhunt to find perpetrators; victim maimed by gunshot to the shin; incident occurred near Tekoa
An Israeli man was moderately maimed in a drive-by shooting attack on Saturday night near the West Bank settlement of Tekoa outside of Bethlehem, the army said.
The victim, a man in his 30s, received initial treatment on the scene before being taken by military ambulance to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for further care, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the shin, according to a spokesperson for the hospital.
"Multiple bullet holes were identified on the vehicle," the army said.
The man’s wife and five children were in the vehicle with him during the shooting, a spokesperson for the Etzion bloc said.
The Israel Defense Forces launched a manhunt to locate the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attack, a military spokesperson said.
The army closed off the village of Sa’ir, south of Tekoa, as an "additional security measure" during its search for the suspect, an IDF spokesperson said.
Paleostinian media reported that following the closure, festivities broke out between IDF soldiers and residents in Sa’ir.
The shooting attack took place at what’s known as the "T" junction on the highway connecting the Efrat and Tekoa settlements in the Etzion bloc.
The Tekoa settlement was closed off immediately following the attack, according to a message sent to residents.
[ARA News] RAQQA – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) on Friday launched an offensive on headquarters of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the northern countryside of Raqqa, killing and wounding a number of ISIS jihadis, military sources reported.
The YPG hit an ISIS security centre south of Suluk town in northern Raqqa, using heavy weapons and mortar fire.
“At least 18 Daesh terrorists were killed in the operation,” a YPG spokesman told ARA News, using another abbreviation for ISIS.
The official added that the Kurdish troops also seized a large deal of ammunition and light weapons after driving out ISIS fighters from the village of Shakrak in Raqqa’s northern countryside.
“Under heavy blows by our [YPG] forces, Daesh militants were forced to withdraw from Shakrak,” he said.
In the meantime, ISIS militants responded to the Kurdish attack by bombing the YPG-led town of Ain Issa north of Raqqa, where at least four YPG fighters were heavily injured.
“Supported by allies from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the YPG was able to repel the attack on Friday midnight,” the YPG media office told ARA News. “The town is completely secure now, after the terrorists retreated towards their strongholds inside Raqqa city.”
[ARA News] TEL ABYAD – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) has launched a car bomb attack in the city of Tel Abyad in Syria’s northern Raqqa province, killing at least ten civilians and wounding a dozen more, activists and security sources reported on Friday.
“ISIS jihadis infiltrated into Tel Abyad city and launched the attack, targeting a populated market downtown,” local activists told ARA News.
The blast claimed lives of ten civilians, including women and children, beside injuring 11 others.
Since the liberation of Tel Abyad city at the hands of the Kurdish YPG forces and allied fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) nearly a year ago, ISIS jihadis have succeeded to infiltrate into the city several times, launching suicide attacks and killing dozens of civilians.
Kurdish security forces of the Asayish, in cooperation with local committees, have installed new security checkpoints around the city to prevent future attacks by ISIS.
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Navy investigators blamed human error and an improperly programmed valve for a March incident in which eight sailors were injured when a cable used to catch a landing E-2C Hawkeye snapped on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
According to a Navy report obtained by The Virginian-Pilot through a Freedom of Information Act request, maintenance personnel missed at least one and possibly two “critical steps” while working on an engine that helps operate the carrier flight deck’s cables, which are called cross deck pendants, after a previous landing. As a result, the engine failed to slow the aircraft, instead causing the pendant to break “at or near” the Hawkeye’s tailhook.
The Navy did not find evidence of willful dereliction of duty or negligence by the maintenance workers. The report said that while there was a “lack of procedural compliance” while troubleshooting an error code from a previous arrested landing, “the sailors involved reasonably believed they had properly and conscientiously completed the complicated procedure.”
The Eisenhower Strike Group could not be reached for additional comment Friday. The strike group left Norfolk Naval Station on June 1 for a seven-month deployment and on June 28 began flying combat sorties in support of Operation Inherent Resolve from the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Navy has said. Video of the incident at the link. One helluva pilot to recover from the cable breaking.
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two things jumped out at me:
upon landing the crew goes to full throttle in the event of a cable failiue so the cable didnt fail right away
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the cable didnt whip around as is generally the case; that is probably why no deaths
helluva job of flying
(i think the a/c is a D model, looking at the props)
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re:above; notbut i but there a significant sphincter clenching event happening just about the time the crew saw the speedometer was not winding down and road in front was.
good ship Hummer aint got none of them fancy Martin- Baker one timey elevators.
[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) recently brought Raja Ubaidur Rehman back from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... through Interpol.
Rehman had allegedly uploaded objectionable pictures of his former wife on Facebook after creating her fake ID.
’AN’, a working woman, told the FIA Lahore Cyber Crime Wing that she got divorce from Rehman last year. Rehman before leaving for Saudi Arabia for work posted her objectionable/obscene pictures after creating her fake ID on Facebook in order to "create hurdles in her second marriage". AN’s suitor left her after her obscene pictures surfaced.
Acting on her complaint, the FIA investigated the matter and found the charges against Rehman "true". On FIA’s request, Interpol enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Rehman who was working in Saudi Arabia as driver and handed him over to it. The FIA charged Ubaidur Rehman under Section 36 of the Electronic Transaction Ordinance (privacy of information or illegal access to an information system). Under the law he may face imprisonment up to seven years if proved guilty. Rehman has been sent to jail on judicial remand.
There has been at least 50pc increase in Facebook-related complaints filed in the FIA this year compared to 2015.
"Although we have taken up the complaint of the woman in question, in the absence of relevant law the agency faces problems to get the suspect convicted," FIA Lahore Cyber Crime Wing head Shahid Hasan told Dawn.
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[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. on Saturday said the peace initiatives taken by Afghanistan with Pakistain are not successful as Pakistain differentiates between good and bad gunnies "in practice".
"Our regional initiatives with neighbours are beginning to yield significant cooperative dividends. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the exception is with Pakistain," the Afghan president said during his speech on second day of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... summit.
He added that despite clear commitments to the quadrilateral grinding of the peace processor, "Pakistain's dangerous distinction between good and bad gunnies is being maintained in practice."
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... , in its special meeting here, has resolved that the party will begin mobilizing workers and civil society against corruption and launch a protest movement to ensure the accountability of the Sharif family.
The PTI meeting, chaired by Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... at chairman’s secretariat on Thursday, also decided that an important party meeting would be held on July 20 to give a final shape to the mass mobilization campaign.
Mr Khan told the meeting that the party would continue contesting and protesting against the rulers to ensure that corruption was checked and rulers held accountable.
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[DAWN] Last month, an accountability court was converted into a full-fledged eCourt. This new eCourt will hopefully allow for the secure trials of hardened criminals, ensure the protection of witnesses and the speedy disposal of cases, legal experts say.
In just one month, the accountability court has disposed of a Modaraba case in 20 days, recording the testimonies of 23 witnesses via Skype.
An Electronic Court ‐ or eCourt ‐ is any location where legal matters are decided, provided a judge is present, which has a developed technical infrastructure. This infrastructure could be anything that allows the court proceedings to function more smoothly, such as presenting evidence, filing judicial records or hearing testimony remotely.
For example, on one day, an accountability judge was scheduled to record the statements of seven witnesses. Witnesses travelled to the courtroom from Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , Taunsa Sharif and other remote areas, but police expressed their inability to produce the accused.
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[IsraelTimes] 103 violent acts by Paleostinians documented in June, including shooting in Tel Aviv and murder of 13-year-old girl near Hebron
Terrorist attacks on Israelis last month remained relatively low in volume but resulted in the highest number of fatalities since January.
Five people died as victims of such terrorist attacks in June, the Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, wrote in its monthly report, published earlier this week. In total, 103 such attacks were documented, compared to 101 in May -- the lowest figure on record since March 2015.
The fatalities were the result of two attacks ‐ a shooting in Tel Aviv’s Sarona compound, in which four Israelis were killed, and the murder of a 13-year-old girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, in her home near Hebron.
The attacks last month resulted in 21 injuries to victims, including one serious injury.
The report for June also listed an attack attributed to Jewish terrorists, in which two cars were set on fire near the predominantly-Arab city of Nazareth in the Galilee and three others were spray-painted with hate speech, including: "We will murder you."
Attacks along Israel’s fence with Gazoo saw a sharp decline from 16 in May to a single attack last month. Of 103 the attacks documented in June, 86 involved Molotov cocktails, 10 featured an explosive charge and two were shooting attacks.
In Israel and the West Bank, attacks began increasing in August, when 171 of them were documented, and rose sharply in September and October, with 223 and 620 attacks recorded in those months respectively. But the overall number of attacks decreased to 326 in November, 246 in December, 169 in January, 155 in February and 123 in March.
Aden-The Saudi-led Arab coalition air campaign successfully targeted the ‘Giants’ camp of an insurgency armed division. The camp is located in the Harf Sufyan District of the Amran Governorate located north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
A local source in Sanaa told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that around five air raids carried out by the Arab coalition had targeted stockpiles of artillery and a flock of military vehicles, which were being prepared to be moved to Yemeni northern borders with Saudi Arabia.
Sources also pointed out that airstrikes were not only restricted to the camp, yet had effectively taken down insurgency hubs anchored in the Bani Shihab zone located in al Maton District, a part of al Jawf Governorate.
The air raids came in support to the ongoing Popular Resistance efforts on averting a militia-led offensive against national army locations.
As for the Hadramaut province, east of Yemen, the local national army forces applied strict security procedures to the 2nd military zone in the Mukalla city as of Friday.
Military sources in the Hadramaut Governorate told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the forces are being deployed across all neighborhoods, streets and inner city areas as to secure the city and to prevent any terrorist attacks occurring.
Army forces had also increased the number of checkpoints laid out across the city’s vicinity.
Major General Faraj Salmeen al Bahsani of the 2nd military zone made multiple visits to all army camps encompassing Mukalla city and its suburbs.
Maj.Gen.al Bahsani lauded the units for their efforts, appreciating the devotion displayed by officers and soldiers during the holidays.
The army’s sacrifices and fulfillment of duties had helped in cementing further security and stability, sources cited Maj.Gen.al Bahsani saying.
Al Bahsani had also met with leaderships and officers assigned to the military 2nd zone. In the meetings held, he expressed his pride and appreciation for the conformed unity displayed by the military units in camps and on checkpoints.
[ARA News] HOMS ‐ Militant fighters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) launched a new offensive to regain positions in the Syrian ancient city of Palmyra in Homs province. Violence resumed on Saturday in Palmyra, which was regained by Syrian army forces ‐supported by Russian air cover‐ from ISIS faceless myrmidons in March.
Subsequent to festivities with the Syrian army forces, ISIS faceless myrmidons on Saturday captured three security checkpoints east of Palmyra, according to military sources and local activists.
"ISIS fighters launched a surprise attack on Syrian army checkpoints in eastern Palmyra. The group has used mortar fire and heavy weapons in the attack, forcing the regime troops to evacuate at least three security checkpoints," media activist Amro al-Hussain told ARA News in Palmyra.
The source reported that the Syrian army forces withdrew towards their headquarters inside the city of Palmyra, after seven of their soldiers were killed and more than 15 others were maimed in the offensive.
ISIS jihadis have reportedly advanced in the Sawami area in Palmyra suburbs, pushing the Syrian army back towards the city centre.
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[DAWN] WHATEVER you say about Pakistain’s foreign policy and its de jure head, Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , you will have to concede both are pretty consistent, and if this consistency of thought and policy comes at unimaginable cost to the nation so be it. Towards the end of last week in an interview to Rooters, the prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, answered the critics of the country’s policy who say Pakistain does not crack down on all murderous Moslem groups and is only targeting those attacking Pak defence forces.
Rooters reported his words thus: The military has acted "without distinguishing between ’good and bad’ Taliban" but [Aziz] suggested that seeking a large-scale crackdown on all at once would overstretch the armed forces and lead to more terrorist attacks.
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"Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies? When the United States attacked Afghanistan, all those that were trained and armed by Us were pushed towards us."
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi called on Niniveh locals to prepare themselves for liberating their cities from ISIS terrorists, warning the corrupted officials who trade the Iraqis' blood.
Abadi considered that ISIS is now in a weakened position and that soon it will be widely defeated.
"The terrorist ISIS gangsters are facing clear defeat. After the victory of our heroic forces in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... ISIS could not even escape from the desert," he said in a meeting with Interior Ministry officials on Friday.
"ISIS major defeat will happen soon," he declared, "We will raise the Iraqi flag in Nineveh as we did in Fallujah."
Abadi believes the deadly recent attack in Karrada aimed at avenging our Iraqi forces’ victories.
"The terrorist attack in Karrada aimed at avenging our great victory in Fallujah that caught the world’s attention."
"They depend on cowardly kabooms and targeting civilians. By doing this, they want to prove that they are still alive and have influence in order to get financial support and attract other forces of Evil to join them."
He also issued a warning to those officials who are involved in corrupt deals.
"There are people who are trading the blood of the Iraqi people for political gain at a time when we should be united against terrorism that targets all of us."
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Ninevah Natterings?
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There can only be one Frank, BadMan holds the franchise.
[Ynet] The B.O. regime has reported that ISIS's traffic on the popular site has plummeted 45% in the past 2 years; the State Department is distributing anti-ISIS imagery.
ISIS's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the B.O. regime says, as the US and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images and statements about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the bully boy organization.
Among the images: A teddy bear with Arabic writing and messages saying IS "slaughters childhood," ''kills innocence," ''lashes purity" or "humiliates children." A male hand covering a female's mouth, saying ISIS "deprives woman her voice." A woman in a black niqab (veil), bloody tears coming from a bruised eye, and the caption: "Women under ISIS. Enslaved. Battered. Beaten. Humiliated. Flogged."
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#DontUseTwitter
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[Al Arabiya] Saudi-led Arab Coalition has targeted on Friday a congregation of Iran-backed Houthi militias and their allied forces belonging to toppled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Mokha port city west of Taiz province, killing 17 and wounding dozens others.
Heavy clashes were also taking placed between Houthis and Saleh allied forces, and the Yemeni Army-backed Popular Resistance committees in the eastern, northern and western fronts in Taiz.
The clashes followed after a Houthi attack against the Popular Resistance committees and Yemeni Army sites in Tha’abat, Juhaimilya and Bazir’a neighborhoods east of Taiz.
On Tuesday, Houthis fired a rocket in a residential neighborhood of Marib city, east of the capital, killing seven children.
The fresh clashes and the Marib attack followed after Hadi government and Houthi negotiators took a break from peace talks after two months of UN-backed negotiations that have made little progress.
The talks are due to resume on July 15 in Kuwait.
The conflict in Yemen has killed more than 6,400 people dead and wounded 30,000 since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015.
Saudi Arabia aims to restore exiled Hadi to power and assert government control over large parts of the country that had been taken over by the Houthis in 2014.
[Asharq Al-Awsat] The Syrian regime breached the truce that it announced by carrying out large-scale bombing that targeted areas inhabited by civilians yesterday in rural Idlib and Hama, killing dozens and prompting residents to flee.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 22 civilians including a child were killed yesterday in an air strike carried out by either Syrian or Russian fighter aircraft on the town of Darkush which is located in Idlib province in north-western Syria, near the Turkish border. The Observatory earlier reported that 15 civilians had been killed and 40 wounded in the town which is under the control of Al-Nusra Front (Al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria) and other factions.
It also pointed out that the death toll is likely to rise as a result of the critical conditions of some of the injured and the fact that many people are missing. The village of Al-Sheikh Bahr in northern Idlib was also bombed, and this led to dozens of deaths and injuries. At the same time, warplanes bombed areas on the outskirts of Marazita; a village in the southern countryside of Idlib. However, there were no reports of injuries.
Jaish Al-Fatah, a coalition of factions that include Al-Nusra Front and Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham, controls the entire province of Idlib except the besieged towns of Fua and Kefraya. Tens of thousands of residents live in Idlib and the regime has expanded the range of its shelling that targeted areas in the town of Kafr Takharim in the northern Idlib countryside, and this resulted in people being injured.
This is what he and the left want: a federal police, not beholden to states or villages, that take over what states do. Such a federal police would be run by Washington, and we know who runs Washington.
And how well. And how honestly. President Barack Obama is harnessing the increasing attacks on police in Dallas — and the periodic shootings of people by stressed cops — to push his agenda to federalize state and local police forces. Just think: We could have a national police force that works as well as the Department of Homeland Security.
“I want to start moving on constructive actions that are actually going to make a difference,” he said during his evening press conference in Poland when he was asked about the Dallas attack.
Those actions, he said, would be based on the recommendations of the panel that he picked after the 2014 street riots in Ferguson, Missouri. The panel offered “practical concrete solutions that can reduce — if not eliminate — the problems of racial bias,” Obama said.
The dramatic shootings are an opportunity to push that agenda, Obama said. “If my voice has been true and positive, my hope would be that… [the panel] surfaces problems, it frames them, it allows us to wrestle with these issue and try to come up with practical solutions,” he said.
Obama began touting the panel’s recommendations in March 2015. The report, titled “President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Report,” was published in May 2015.
The report urges the federal government to federalize police training and practices, via the use of federal lawsuits, grants and threats to cut federal aid. So far, Obama’s deputies have cajoled and sued more than 30 police jurisdictions to adopt federal rules in a slow-motion creation of a national police system, similar to the slow-motion creation of a federal-run health-sector via Obamacare.
Obama also used the press conference to insulate his federalized police program — and his allies in the Black Live Matter movement — from popular rejection after the five police were murdered by the anti-cop African-American in Dallas.
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He is freaking Stalin.
The left is Evil, evil, evil.
They will never stop.
End their reign or prepare to defend yourselves.
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Headed up by Lynch of course. Laws applied based on party affiliation and leaders exempt from all laws.
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hmmm - thats's been tried, with interesting results: Geheimestaatspolizei, Okhranka, Stasi, Santebal,3rd directorate not to mention whatever the Norks and Chinese have...
but hey, wtf, just like socialism, we haven't quite got it right yet, it'll be all good this time, POSOTUS sez so..
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The efficiency of centralized control must not be debated.
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We've got way too many Federal police now. Even the Library of Congress has its police (merged into the Capitol Police awhile back.) Librarians with guns? Having a police force seems to be a status symbol for various agencies.
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Wasn't it just last summer we were talking on the 'burg how more civil unrest would be stirred up, a federal police force pushed for, followed by martial law being declared, followed by Obama the emperor?
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You take a few soft headed individuals, put some ideas in their heads, provide them with guns and then...POOF!...you have a national police force. Then you have your socialist police state. You can persecute your enemies and protect your friends all across the country. Game over.
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You must Federalize in order to professionalize. Like airport security.
[DAWN] The year’s first case of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has been reported in a two-year-old boy from North Wazoo.
According to an official of the National Institute of Health (NIH), "Fata was once called a hub of poliovirus because in 2014 as many as 179 polio cases were reported from there but the situation has changed since operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... was launched. Only 16 cases were reported from the area last year.
"No case of polio was reported from Fata during the first half of this year. The first case which has been confirmed should be considered to be from Afghanistan because the family remained there for two years and recently returned to Pakistain.
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[DAWN] A dedicated Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) aircraft has been deputed to transport Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and his London camp office back to Pakistain, PIA front man Danyal Gilani said on Friday.
"Due to the prime minister's health issues, PM Office had partly been shifted to London where a camp office had been set up," said a statement issued by the airline.
"Now that the PM has recovered after his surgery and is allowed to travel, the whole camp office has to be shifted back to Pakistain. On PIA's regular flights, so many seats were not available, due to which the only option was to depute a dedicated aircraft," the statement said.
The statement did not, however, mention a date for the PM's return to Pakistain.
Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... flew to London earlier this week for Eid holidays and will likely return to Pakistain with the premier.
Local media reports claim the prime minister is scheduled to return to Pakistain on July 9 after doctors gave him the go-ahead.
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"Pilot? Why is this plane named the 'Gen Zia ul Haq Express'?"
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At least six soldiers were killed and tens wounded in a twin explosions at a military base near the International Aden Airport on Wednesday, SABA news agency reported.
Local Yemeni sources said a car bomb was detonated at the entrance of the al-Saolaban military base in Khormakser district. Seconds later, a second vehicle drove inside the base and exploded too.
After the explosions, clashes launched between the soldiers and the gunmen, who entered the base from the backward gate, the sources said, stressing gun battles are still going on in the base.
Since being under occupation forces' control, Aden and southern provinces are witnessing growing insecurity trouble and increasing existence of al-Qaeda and ISIL elements.
Yemen
The Yemeni army and popular committees continued striking the KSA-led mercenaries, inflicting heavy losses upon them, as the Saudi warplanes kept raiding the various provinces.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Iraqi army and popular forces have taken back al-Qayara air base in Southern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... after heavy festivities with the ISIS terrorist group, FNA quoted Nineveh province's governor-general as saying on Saturday.
"The Iraqi security, tribal and anti-terrorism forces could take full control of the air base after heavy festivities with the ISIS bad boys," Nawfal Hamadi al-Sultan said, and added, "The faceless myrmidons fled towards al-Qayara town after they came under the pro-government forces' heavy attacks, and left their weapons and equipment at the base."
"The pro-government forces have now deployed at the air base and plan to use it as a platform to launch military operations against the ISIS in Mosul in the future," he added.
Media reports said on Thursday that the ISIS terrorist group declared state of alert in Mosul in anticipation of the Iraqi army's advances and its imminent attack on the city after the Iraqi flag was hoisted in the city center.
After the Iraqi flag was hoisted on Bab al-Toub market in the center of Mosul by unknown parties, the ISIS called its bandidosDeath Eaters to go on alert, the Arabic-language al-Sumeria News quoted an unnamed security source as saying on Thursday.
He noted that this is for the first time that the ISIS takes such a measure since two years that it captured Mosul city.
"The gunnies destroyed the ISIS's flags and took and made several arrests, taking their prisoners to an unknown place," he added.
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[DAWN] THE small Gulf kingdom of Bahrain is once again simmering due to sectarian polarisation and political deadlock. Though the situation has been far from normal ever since a pro-democracy movement was crushed by the state in 2011 with Saudi help, recent events have put the ruling Al Khalifa on a collision course with the popular opposition. Tensions increased after the state revoked the citizenship of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, Bahrain’s top Shia holy man, in June. This has led to street protests in the island kingdom, which has a Shia majority. According to the UN, 250 Bahrainis have been stripped of their citizenship for "alleged disloyalty to the kingdom", a euphemism for political opposition. The Al Khalifa have also cracked down on Al Wefaq, the main opposition group, while prominent government critics such as Sheikh Ali Salman and Nabeel Rajab, have faced arrest and imprisonment.
The rulers have accused Iran of stoking tensions in Bahrain. While senior figures within the Iranian establishment have reacted sharply to the revocation of Ayatollah Qassim’s nationality, the fact is that Bahrain’s opposition movement is indigenous and non-sectarian, demanding civil rights and participatory government. It is also true that after the 2011 protests, the ruling family has shown very little tolerance for dissent, whether it comes from Shia or Sunni citizens. But as the opposition is mostly Shia and the royal family Sunni, the political deadlock is given an ugly sectarian colour. Unfortunately, intolerance of dissent and iron-fisted rule are hallmarks of most Arab regimes, particularly the sheikhdoms of the Gulf. Bahrain seems to be following the Saudi example, as the Al Saud have kept a tight lid on their own Shia opposition in the Eastern Province. Instead of using force and intimidation, moderate elements within the Bahraini royal family, such as the crown prince, should reach out to the opposition and introduce political reforms. Should they fail to do this and intensify their crackdown, the possibility of further instability on the island is very likely.
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Bahrain’s opposition movement is indigenous and non-sectarian, demanding civil rights and participatory government
til they get in charge
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[ARA News] QAMISHLI ‐ The Syrian Kurds and their allies declared the northeastern city of Qamishlo [Qamishli] as the new capital of the federal system in Northern Syria and Rojava, a Kurdish leaders and member of the Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) told ARA News.
While the war between the Syrian government and opposition factions continue, Syrian Kurds are finalizing their plans to establish a new federal system for northern Syria while at the same time fighting the radical group of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in Manbij border pocket.
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A deadly bombing plot by the anti-government armed militants was foiled by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in a populated area of Kabul city.
Security sources said a suspect was arrested as he was trying to plant an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Gozargah area of the city.
The sources further added that the suspect was arrested by security personnel belonging to the Afghan Public Order police forces.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as the security forces thwarted a major attack plot by the anti-government armed militants in another populated area of the city few days ahead of Eid.
The explosives were seized from Haji Yaqoob area of the city before the militants manage to detonated it.
Earlier, at least 33 people were killed and over 80 others were wounded in a twin suicide attack in the outskirts of the city.
The anti-government armed militant groups have been attempting to increase attacks main cities of the country, including capital Kabul.
The Taliban group has vowed to carry out more attacks as they announced their spring offensive earlier in the month of April.
A federal agency has issued a report suggesting the U.S. military could save as much as $5.7 billion every year by replacing some forces personnel with government civilians.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) used a model which either cut or replaced about 80,000 active-duty positions with civilians. The report, published Tuesday, claims the move would not be new to the Department of Defense (DoD) and could help the military focus on core roles.
The CBO outlined three scenarios: a one-for-one civilian replacement for certain service members, a four-for-five civilian to military replacement, and a two-to-three civilian to military replacement. These, according to the report, could eventually save between $3.1 billion to $5.7 billion annually.
The CBO report also noted that the federal government would realize savings outside the DoD by replacing military personnel serving in departments such as Veterans Affairs, Treasury, and Education.
Daniel Wasserbly of defense and security intelligence group IHS Jane's believes a move to cut military strength is unlikely.
"CBO is brainstorming ideas to save money and this is an interesting one, but it's unlikely to be implemented because it would mean a controversial reduction in military end-strength.
"The services, particularly the U.S. Army, are in the process of reducing their ranks after growing significantly to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. The service chiefs, and some in Congress, fear cuts may already be too deep,"
Wasserbly said the U.S. army has set out plans to drop 490,000 soldiers proposed in the 2015 budget down to 450,000 by the end of 2018. And within the CBO report, downsides to reducing the number of active-duty military are highlighted.
"Achieving the costs savings depends on cutting military end strength. An action that would reduce the Department of Defense's ability to surge troops in a protracted conflict."
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Really? Or are we replacing military with Civil Service employees, a.k.a. union members, with expanded benefits that will be paid in future by taxpayers and union kickbacks to politicians in the present?
Short reply: government money saving plan is an oxymoron.
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From the beginning, the Founders understood that the military experience was different from civil society, that's why the granted Congress the authority and power to make all laws governing land and naval forces. It's not the same.
You can't give two weeks notice and be 'out of here'. You are subject to an entire set of separate laws and disciplines. No civilian government employee is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice stateside, no Article 15 or Courts Martial.
Not to mention, the uniform personnel are on duty 24 hours a day. They don't have overtime. If something needs to be done, it's not a question of calling the personnel office for a 'mother may I".
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Think an Army of TSA and DMV employees
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Think an Army of TSA and DMV employees
They certainly have the weaponry and ammo.
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More like an army of Gestopo made up of every activist, community organizer, agitator, an pissant dictator you can imagine. All owing their loyalty to their cause or tin plated patron who see the country as a hinderance deserving of no loyalty. It will be, in truth, everything the left accuses it of being now.
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RWR: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Second on the list: "I'm from the government and I'm here to save you money."
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This is absolutely ridiculous - this is from the same group of rationalizers that convinced big Army the contractors were the way to fight the last war...CIA had contractors that jacked up the interrogations...logisticians had contractors that paid the enemy for the privilege of passing through their AO - paying them for the privilege to fight. Civilians that refused to deploy.
We need more green and blue suiters, not less, and get rid of the white civilian contractor army and replace it with real soldiers, marines, and airmen. This is insanity.
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...this is from the same group of rationalizers that convinced big Army the contractors were the way to fight the last war.
The Army was never so 'convinced.' It the Army could have ridded itself of contractors, it would have done so instantly, possibly sooner. Manpower and expertise in specific technical areas, information systems and the like, were the justifications for contractors.
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Besoeker - You are correct the original rationalization for contractors was the need for expertise...in the short term. But, as the war drug on...we should have expanded the green Army...but, it was easy politically to hide the true numbers on the ground in Iraq/AFG by stating that only 100K green was on the ground, never mind that 100K white army that is supporting it, as well as the fact that General or Colonel So and So needs an important high paying job when they retire next spring...
The impact of contractors making 100K plus serving alongside Sgts/Cpls making 35-40K doing the same job down range was also an un-needed distraction to morale and a drain on qualified green-suiters as the experienced green suiters cashed in early to take high paying contractor jobs.
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Your second para rather directly speaks to monetary reward as motivation. I began as an 18 year old 'slick sleeved' private making $91. per month mamy years ago. Where that training and experience eventually took me should be my own business, not the envy of those seeking benefits or rewards.
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Should be.
I know a soldier, who is not the envious type, mention that on return from his first Iraq. When what you said was pointed out, and that a number of ex-military take their learned skill set into the private sector and get paid more for the same job they did in the military, and that it just so happens you had the same skill set, he understood and conceded the point.
Losing an experienced employee is frustrating, especially if I know I cannot counter the offer. It was pointed out to soldier that this was his first rodeo where the contractor likely has a lot of experience and shown skill; that a rookie QB does not get paid the same as Tom Brady.
On the other had, with soldier's MOS, he has access and use of equipment totally unavailable to contractor.
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Besoeker I appreciate your service as a contractor and I am not throwing rocks at you, but war should never become a "business" and money should never be the prime motivation.
Prime example - Afghanistan became a debacle once contractors and third party foreign nationals became involved. We lost billions...paid directly to the threat who sat aside our supply lines and contracts. We inadvertently fund (present tense) the Taliban. Thousands and thousands of containers of US and coalition materiel captured by the enemy because we contracted out our supply chain. Result - we contracted our way to a stalemate.
At least four Taliban insurgents were killed during a clash in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, local security officials said Saturday.
Officials in 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces said clashes between the Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents erupted in Imam Sahib district.
The officials further added that four Taliban insurgents were killed and three others were wounded during the clash.
According to the officials, the local residents and members of the Afghan security forces did not suffer any casualties during the clash.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the incident so far.
Kunduz is among the volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban militants are actively operating and have intensified insurgency activities during the recent months.
The group managed to briefly take control of the strategic Kunduz city last year and launched numerous attacks this year with an aim to capture the city after announcing its spring offensive earlier in April.
Earlier, at least four Taliban insurgents were killed in a drone strike carried out by the US forces in Afghanistan in Chardara district.
[WAPO] Now that President Obama has abandoned his plan to greatly scale back U.S.-involvement in the Afghan war, military commanders are drawing up plans to help Afghan forces hammer Taliban insurgents.
At a media briefing here in Kabul on Saturday, Gen. John W. Nicholson said the president has given U.S. military commanders "all the capabilities" they requested to transition American forces back into more offensive posture in America's longest war.
"While the American forces would not be in an offensive role per say, if the Afghan forces are conducting offensive operations, we can support them," said Nicholson, who commands the U.S.-led coalition. "Previously, we would support them primarily when they were on a defensive role, so as a commander, working closely with my Afghan comrades, this is a big difference.
"It enables them to retain the initiative against the enemy ... whereas before, we were preventing defeat, now we are able to help them gain and retain the initiative."
On Wednesday, Obama announced he was shelving plans to reduce U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan from the existing 9,900 down to 5,500 by January. Instead, Obama said 8,400 troops will remain here into 2017, leaving it up his successor to tweak troop levels further.
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Obama’s decision “enables us to plan in advance for subsequent phases of the Afghan campaign plan, and where (Afghan forces) might use these authorities going forward,” Nicholson said.
No mention that it's being done to assist a certain presidential candidate, though.
[AlAhram] A car kaboom Saturday blamed on Kurdish holy warriors killed two Turkish soldiers and one civilian in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's troubled southeast, security sources said.
At least 10 people were maimed in the attack on a post of the Turkish gendarmerie outside the city of Mardin which was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the sources said. The gendarmerie is a branch of the Turkish army which looks after domestic security.
The PKK has staged near daily attacks against the Turkish security forces since a two-and-a-half-year truce collapsed last July.
The government has launched military operations against the group inside urban centres in southeast Turkey which activists claim have caused needless civilian casualties.
The army said Saturday that the day before security forces had killed 17 PKK holy warriors in festivities in Semdinli in the southeastern Hakkari province and also two holy warriors in Baskale in Van province.
The PKK in June claimed a bombing outside police headquarters in Midyat, also in Mardin province, that killed six people, including a pregnant policewoman.
Meanwhile the bully boy Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) -- seen as an splinter group of the PKK -- had claimed a boom-mobileing in the centre of Istanbul in June that killed 11 people.
At least 3 people were killed in a remote-controlled land mine blast targeting a military convoy carrying Ethiopian troops of AMISOM contingent in Somalia on Saturday.
A witness who declined to be named, told Radio Shabelle the IED struck the AU troop’s convoy as it passed Rabdhure town, heading to Hudur, the provincial capital of Bakool. According to the eyewitness account, the Ethiopian military convoy missed the IED by a whisker then the AMISOM soldiers opened fire on nearby perps residents, killing at least 2 civilians.
No group has yet claimed credit of the attack on Ethiopian army convoy, though such roadside attacks are linked to Al Shabaab who target SNA as well as other AMISOM forces in Somalia.
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[IBT] The UK is set to send 50 additional troops to Afghanistan increasing the current number from 450 to 500. The extra personnel will also perform advisory and training roles but will not participate in any combat operations.
In addition to that, the government has confirmed that the mission would be extended up to 2017. This is also the first time Prime Minister David Cameron has increased the size of the troops since the Nato withdrawal began.
At the Nato summit in Warsaw, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "These deployments show Britain taking a leading role in NATO, protecting the security of our Baltic allies. We can do this because we are increasing defence spending every year for the rest of the decade." The British troops were originally scheduled to leave war-torn Afghanistan by 2015 but then delayed it by another year. The Ministry of Defence also confirmed the £70m ($90.6m) package a year to Afghanistan would continue until 2020.
The UK government's latest move somewhat echoes US President Barack Obama's earlier announcement that the departure of American soldiers would be slowed down. British soldiers ended their 13-year combat mission in 2014 but stayed back to train the Afghan security forces in their fight against Taliban.
Cameron is expected to make the formal announcement at the Warsaw conference underscoring Britain's relevance in the geopolitical scenario, especially in the wake of the Brexit vote. The British prime minister is also poised to meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani over the matter.
"The aim is to build the capacity of the Afghan national defence and security forces. It is a Nato mission. It's not mission creep. They are not engaged in a combat capacity. They are engaged in training and mentoring," said Cameron's spokesperson, reported the Guardian.
[SunStar] Three people, including two New People's Army militants, were killed in an encounter with Philippine troops in the province of Zamboanga del Sur.
Wesmincom spokesperson Filemon Tan, Jr said the clash happened Tuesday afternoon in Bayog. He said troops backed by militiamen were conducting security operation when they chanced upon a group of militants within Supon village. The gun battle that followed resulted in the deaths of two NPA militants and a militiaman.
The slain militants were identified as Ka Nilo and Ka Cherry, both members of the NPA's Sandatahang Yunit Pampropaganda (SYP)-KARA.
Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
Long piece at Quartz: the author proposes that the Age of the Drones is coming. Drones will be autonomous, cheap and controlled by the few, the elites, the "Drone Lords", who won't need the rest of us. Guns won't work against them, he believes.
I think he's wrong: when drones become that cheap and ubiquitous, ALL OF US will have some. We may need a few drone wars to figure out all the new rules, but figure it out we will.
"Death thus to tyrants" will still be a rallying cry.
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Asymmetrical warfare will ascend in importance here.
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The likeliest future: poverty and civic unrest will be the cheapest and most widespread condition. The elites are fools if they believe they don't need the rest of us.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Police reopened Friday the seat of the US Congress in Washington after an emergency lockdown had been imposed due to a security alert.
"The incident requiring staff to lockdown has concluded," U.S. Capitol police announced at about 9:45 a.m. "Staff may return to normal operations. Thank you for your cooperation."
Police had previously indicated that agents were searching for an individual, without providing further details, local media reported.
Republican Congressman Dennis Ross told the daily The Hill that an employee had been seen in the building wielding a firearm.
Soon after 9 a.m., cops sent a note telling Congressional staff to "close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows." The same orders applied to tourists at the Capitol Visitor Center.
Capitol police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the lockdown had been ordered "out of an abundance of caution."
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Republican Congressman Dennis Ross told the daily The Hill that an employee had been seen in the building wielding a firearm.
More likely a rapper who got lost on his way to the White House.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The General Command of the Army and Armed Forces announced in a statement on Saturday that the truce enforced in the past two days has been extended for another 72 hours from 1:00 am on July 9 to midnight on July 12.
The truce applied on July 6, which covered all the Syrian territory, lasted from 1:00 am on Wednesday until Friday midnight.
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Fred are you inviting snark?
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Fred? Invite snark?
Jeez man, Fred's from the belly of the beast, he co-invented snark on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Saigon (now Kimchee).
[Manila Times] Indonesian and Malaysian militants have joined the Abu Sayyaf in fighting Philippine security forces in Basilan province in the Muslim autonomous region.
Abu Sayyaf chieftain Isnilon Hapilon is now the leader of Daesh's new battalion in the Philippines, the Katibah Al-Muhajir or the "Battalion of Migrants" comprised mostly of Indonesian and Malaysian jihadists. Malaysian media quoted Singapore-based terror expert Rohan Gunaratna as saying that the new battalion in Basilan was set up because of difficulties faced by Daesh recruits in going to Iraq and Syria.
Gunaratna was quoted as saying, "Now we have seen that in the Philippines, IS has created Katibah Al-Muhajir, the Battalion of Migrants. They are (made up of) Malaysians and Indonesians. There are about ten Malaysians (there now)."
Last month, Daesh released a video telling its Southeast Asian supporters to head to the Philippines if they found it difficult to come to Iraq and Syria. Gunaratna said, "The Philippines can be a very important launching pad to reach Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore because southern Philippines is very centrally located."
The Philippine military hasn't confirmed the new Daesh battalion, but security forces had previously killed several foreign jihadis in Basilan. Basilan province has reportedly become the center of power of the Abu Sayyaf after it pledged allegiance to the caliph of Daesh and named Hapilon as its new chieftain. Hapilon, alias Abu Abdullah, took over from Abu Sayyaf founder Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani who was killed in a police shootout in December 1998.
In a video released by the Abu Sayyaf late last year, more than two dozen gunmen, including children, led by Hapilon were shown hiking in the Basilan hinterlands of Basilan while chanting "Dawlah Islamiyah (Islamic State)" and reciting an Arabic vow of allegiance.
In the video, Hapilon was shown with Abu Harith Al-Filibbieni, reportedly the deputy commander of al-Ansar Infantry Division of Daesh, and Mohd Najib Husen (Hussein), alias Abu Annas Al Muhajir, a division head of the Ansar al-Sharia of Daesh. Husen was with other Malaysian jihadis – Mahmud Ahmad, Muhammad Joraimee Awang Raimee, Amin Baco and Jeknal Adil.
The militants explained in the video that they had previously done the bayah, but did it again in front of their new leaders. It is not known when the video was recorded, but it was released just after the military claimed in December that Husen was slain during operations in Basilan.
In Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur provinces, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and the Ansarul Khilafah also pledged allegiance to Daesh. Militants in Indonesia and Malaysia, including the Jemaah Islamiyah, have also done the same.
The jihadists also released a video of the Daesh's Alhayat Media Center which shows the Philippines as among countries in Southeast Asia they were planning to expand its 'caliphate'.
The Abu Sayyaf is now using the Daesh flag and also the Khilafah Islamiyah Movement and other radical groups in Lanao del Sur where local militants of the Ghuraba (Strangers) – both the Ghuraba and Khilafah Islamiyah Movement are led by a militant named Humam Abdul Najid, who was implicated in the 2013 Cagayan de Oro City bombings.
The Ghuraba is reportedly harboring foreign rebels, including an agent of the Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, a group believed to be the original name of Daesh.
[DAWN] Forty years earlier, Alvin Toffler, in his famed book Future Shock, had warned of unpredictable consequences of rapid, technological change and its unsettling psychological effects. Western society is undergoing a revolutionary structural change from an industrial society to a post-industrial society. Basically the world has suddenly shrunk and is spinning too fast. The dizzying acceleration, he said, leaves people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation" -- future shocked.
Future shock makes things difficult enough but the recent mass migration has tipped, or almost tipped, the balance. Once homogeneous societies of the West are being forced to instantly incorporate and assimilate diverse peoples. Tolerance, multiculturalism, and liberalism are under stress. Western populist leaders reject open borders, instead promising to defend ’traditional’ values and ’make the country great again’. Hence, Brexit and Trump.
Illiberalism is far stronger in Moslem countries. In Pakistain, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and now Bangladesh, people care less about ’freedom’ -- as defined by liberals -- and even more about national identities, historic enmities, sectarianism, tribal bonds, territorial symbols, and traditional cultural values. Far from dying out, such atavistic attachments are becoming stronger.
Again, this comes from excessively rapid change. For millennia, Moslem societies had been in more or less steady equilibrium but the systemic transformation made possible by technology and communication has destroyed the autonomy of life in villages and towns, and forced diverse peoples and individuals to live in close urban proximity where they now compete with each other. The Green Revolution allows far larger populations to be sustained than once imaginable.
In today’s complex and uncertain world Moslems, more than others, try to conjure up some perfect golden past. Many want to turn the clock back by 1400 years. Inspired by visions of past greatness, a multitude of Moslem political-religious movements are out to recreate the Medina state. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , and Ikhwan-ul-Moslemeen are some notable entrepreneurs in this business. With terror as their strategy, these holy warriors have spilled far more Moslem blood than that of others.
Liberals everywhere are fighting an uphill battle -- and winning only rarely. It is so much easier to be backward looking, narrow, prejudiced, parochial, tribal, sectarian, and nationalist rather than be accommodative, global, and universal. It is even more difficult in Pakistain. While erasing the last 300 liberals may be a noble goal in the eyes of some, it is unlikely to solve a truly large and vexatious problem.
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[RFE/RL] Eight members of an armed group and one law enforcement officer were killed in clashes in Dagestan. Russia's National Counterterrorism Committee said that three officers of the Federal Security Service were also wounded during the ongoing clashes in a rural area south of the regional capital, Makhachkala.
It said the armed group was responsible for attacks on police, civilians, and for what it called acts of terror.
Security officials said a police operation continued in a nearby area of forests and mountains on July 8 to take care of any remaining militants.
Given the sorry state of Democratic regard for even the most fundamental notions of computer network security, I'm surprised the Russians don't run the DNC networks themselves...
The Democratic National Committee's computer network was breached by Russian government cyber operations that have had access to the group's communications and databases since at least last summer, NBC News confirms.
The sophisticated Russian groups, which have previously targeted the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, specifically concentrated on the DNC's research units and had access to all of the committee's internal communications, including chat and email applications.
The DNC's opposition research unit, which sources indicate was specifically targeted by the hackers, is tasked with compiling unflattering information on Republican opponents -- particularly presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump -- to potentially use against them in the course of a political campaign.
DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on MSNBC's MTP Daily that the problem was addressed "aggressively and swiftly."
In which Hilarity realizes that without the black vote she's ruined this November...
Hillary Clinton used a CNN interview on Friday to completely embrace the Democrats’ claim that white people and cops must change to help reduce the number of African-Americans killed in tense exchanges with cops.
“I will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have ‘The Talk,’ about, you now, how to really protect themselves [from police], when they’re the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with police,” Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.
How about getting all the folks in the underclass listening to successful people in the working and middle class? That might do a lot more good...
“We’ve got to figure out what is happening when routine traffic stops, when routine arrests, escalate into killings … Clearly, there seems to be a terrible disconnect between many police departments and officers and the people they have sworn to protect,” she said.
Federal policing guidelines are needed because “we have 18,000 police departments… [some of which need more training to] go after systemic racism, which is a reality, and to go after systemic bias,” she said.
This is where she endorses Champ's idea of a federal police. It's the next big Democratic thing after gun control...
It's become obvious that gun control won't happen, but Alinskyites gotta have something to alinsky about.
You got federal police, you got the tool to collect the guns.
“We’ve got to start once again respecting and treating each other with the dignity that every person deserves,” she said.
You could start by respecting the heartland...
Neither Blitzer nor Clinton suggested that African-American communities have a role in reducing police-encounter deaths, which usually occur in tense engagements between a few cops and a few suspects with extensive criminal histories.
100% endorsement of the victim game...
Clinton suggested that people who disagree with her agenda are racists.
Of course she did...
“There is so much more to be done… we can’t be engaging in hateful rhetoric or incitement of violence, we need to be bringing people together … we need more love and kindness.”
Unless it's hateful rhetoric against conservatives and Christians...
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I blame democrats for ALL of this.
All of it.
From slavery to ghettos to racial idiocy we face right now.
Democrats suck. Liberals are dumb idiot fascists, and it will be easier to find a Lithuanian Jew than a democrat in Heaven after this.
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I follow some acquaintances on Facebook just to get a glimpse into the thinking of the Dark Side. Hillary has a lot of fellow travelers. Probably more than enough to get her elected.
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One more idiot starts preaching to me that I need to be ashamed of being "white" (which I am only part of and have Cherokee in there as well) is gonna get a frying pan to the face.
I'm so sick of this crap. It is only emboldening those that wish to stir up a race war and making those that don't start arming up because they know they are the targets.
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Of course Hillary blames whites and cops. That is what she and the other Donks do. She is whoring for votes by spreading the seeds of division. Same model "O" uses There are plenty of "useful idiot" whites who will respond to her (faux) guilt.
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We are closer to an open race/class war in the US now than we were in the 50's, because the minority population has seen one political party essentially encourage their sense of entitlement and victimhood, blind to their failings and disproportionate criminal behavior. Democrats don't offer a single standard for behavior but rather preferential standards for clients. This is the dynamic to balkanize the country and it is already happening. Yhey will come to regret this, but sadly, far too late to stop what they have unleashed I fear...
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk Province stated, that air strikes southwest of Kirkuk have left with 27 casualties to ISIS.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “Today, a number of warplanes targeted ISIS’ legal court and Diwan al-Hisba in the center of Hawija district, killing 14 ISIS members and wounding 13 others.”
The source added, “The air strike was conducted in coordination with the intelligence services that located the ISIS members.”
[IBT] Two Russian pilots have been killed after their helicopter was shot down by Isis (Islamic State) fighters over Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Mi-25 helicopter was brought down over Palmyra, Homs yesterday (8 July).
The crew had successfully thwarted advancing terrorists, but were struck as they returned to base.
An official statement from the Ministry of Defence said: "On July 8, Russian military pilot-instructors Evgeny Dolgin and Ryafagat Khabibulin, were conducting a calibration flight on a Syrian Mi-25 (export version of the Mi-24) helicopter loaded with ammunition in the province of Homs.
"The crew received a request from the Syrian command group to help defeat the advancing terrorists and fire for effect. The captain of the aircraft, Ryafagat Khabibulin, made the decision to attack.
"Having spent their ammunition, while turning back to the base, the helicopter was shot down by terrorists from the ground and crashed in an area controlled by the Syrian government. The crew did not survive."
The Ministry said that both pilots will posthumously receive state awards for their actions Mail Online reports. A statement from IS (Daesh), translated by the ISIS-affiliated Amaaq news agency, confirmed the attack. It read: "By Allah's grace alone, the soldiers of the Khilafah launched an attack with heavy weapons on Nusayri regime locations east of the silos in Tadmur city.
"The Mujahidin managed to take control over three checkpoints of the apostates, where afterwards, one of the knights of the shahada managed to advance with his booby-trapped BMP and blow it up amid a gathering of elements from the army and the Rafidi militia elements that support them, killing and injuring dozens.
"In the meantime, the soldiers of the Khilafah shot down a Russian helicopter as it attempted to raid their locations, which led to destroying it and killing those on board and all praise is due to Allah."
To date, 10 Russian military personnel have died during the Syria conflict.
[DAWN] DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three people, a local lawyer among them, were bumped off here on the first and second day of Eid (Wednesday and Thursday).
Official sources said that local lawyer Shahid Abbas Sherazi was rubbed out by two motorcyclists in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... city on Wednesday evening.
Soon after the incident, enraged residents blocked various roads in the city to protest against the killing. They placed the body of the slain lawyer on the road near Kotli Imam Hussain and demanded immediate arrest of his killers.
In another incident of murder on Thursday, motorcyclists rubbed out two brothers hailing from North Wazoo Agency.
Sources said that the two brothers were going to Dera city to buy medicines when they were targeted. Police have registered cases against unidentified attackers and launched investigation.
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(IraqiNews.com)) Baghdad – Iraqi Ministry of Health announced that the toll of the suicide bombing attack at al-Karrada in central Baghdad has reached to 292.
Minister Adeela Hamoud,in a press statement, said, “The ministry instructed the forensic department to work as usual on Eid al-Fitr vacations and called the citizens to take up DNA tests in order to identify their relatives.”
The statement added, “The minister is staying with the victims’ families at the forensic department to follow up and accelerate the process of DNA sampling and matching.”
“Blood banks have received over 4270 donors, while the number of wounded reached to 200, including 23 persons still at ministry’s hospitals,” the statement added.
Hammoud continued, “The overall toll of al-Karrada bombing reached to 292, including 177 unidentified persons.”
ISIS gotta ISIS
Tripoli and Benghazi, 9 July 2016:
As Misratan warplanes joined Banyan Marsous artillery attacking the main IS redoubt in Sirte, there are reports that a mass grave has been found on a farm on the southern edge of the town.
It is not yet known how many bodies have been buried in the spot near a farm building where locals are reported to have said that the terrorists took some prisoners for questioning.
The Banyoun Marsous operations room announced that ten IS fighters had died in fighting yesterday while seven Misratan fighters had been injured and taken the the city’s Central Hospital. However, Sirte field hospital said that one Misratan had also died in the fighting.
Most, if not all of the known terrorist dead yesterday were perished in an apparent attempt to break out the encirclement.
No details have yet been released of any casualties on either side during today battles. But the IS headquarters in the extensive complex of buildings that comprise the Ouagadougou Centre has been the main focus of the attacks.
There is a suspicion that the senior IS leadership has already quit Sirte. Libyan adherents, who may originally have belonged to Ansar Al-Sharia, are thought to have been changing their clothes and appearance and seeking to slip away or conceal themselves in the town. It is surmised that the remaining terrorists are largely foreigners, not least from Tunisia.
A public appeal went out today for flak jackets and ammunition. Last month the call was for drugs, anaesthetics and dressings. Misratans are increasingly bitter at what they see as the failure of Faiez Serraj and the Presidency Council to send them the supplies and armaments that they need.
The Misratan Coastguard is for instance maintaining the coastal blockade off Sirte with no help from the Libyan Navy. Moreover one coastguard commander told a journalist that no money at all was coming from Tripoli. The vessels were fuelled and kept at sea thanks to local donations, particularly from businesses.
[The Last Refuge] The Falcon Heights, Minnesota police shooting of Philando Castile is based around an entirely false narrative. Castile and Ms. Diamond Reynolds (Facebook video uploader) were pulled over by police because Castile matched a BOLO Alert for an armed robbery suspect from four days prior.
Unfortunately, the false statements in the video ‐ which have gone viral, and are being pushed by the mainstream media - have created a backlash against police officers.
Saint Anthony, MN, Police Officers Jeronimo Yanez and Joseph Kauser pulled over Mr. Castile and Ms. Reynolds because the driver, Philando Castile, matched the suspect profile in an armed robbery which occurred on July 2nd, at a convenience store, only a few blocks from where their car was pulled over.
The armed robbery occurred on July 2nd 7:30pm (Sat). The CCTV images were given to media and LEO by detectives on July 5th (Tuesday). A BOLO (Be On Look Out) alert was issued the same day, Tuesday July 5th. Philando Castile was pulled over on July 6th.
From the radio dispatch of Officer Jeronimo Yanez:
"I’m going to stop a car. I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over."
"The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery. The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ’cause of the wide set nose."
A minute and a half later, the recording captures the first report that there was a shooting. (link) Be advised, this story is 'single source' and unconfirmed. Stacy McCain provides significant depth and followup here. And the UK Daily Mail, of course, does the investigative reporting that American reporters won't do. Gateway Pundit picks up story.
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he also apparently didn't have a CCW permit (only his girlfriend said that after the fact) and photos appear to show him with a gun on his left thigh, not in a holster (another lie). He had 52 moving violations
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Perspective - an officer responding to a BOLO for an armed robbery suspect matching the description of Mr. Castile observes a pistol in Castile's lap...of course the officer is going to pull his service weapon...and a mess...an armed encounter ensues. Unlike the BLM agitprop narrative, this officer wasn't just out looking for black folks with tail lights out to execute for no good reason.
The President and the media's rush to judgement and agitation in these situations make them culpable for the deaths that follow.
We await the rest of the story to determine whether this was a good shoot or tragedy.
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It still hasn't been confirmed if Castile did in fact possess a CCW permit. I have personally doubted the claim. Any legitimate CCW training will dedicate considerable time instructing the protocol as what to do and what NOT to do in those situations. First, don't blurt out "I have a gun". Simply hand over your permit along with your ID and wait for instructions. Finally, and this is the important part, once LE has established you indeed have a gun -keep your hands visable. Based on the video and comments from the passenger Castile failed to follow those simple steps.
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The Sheriff of that County said he never applied for one. Yesterday's news said he had 52 moving violations cited. I doubt any LEO would issue to someone with that kind of disregard for laws?
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Unconfirmed report that while Ramsey County didn't issue his permit, neighboring Robbinsdale did.
More info at Snopes, including a security tape image of the robber, who bears a striking resemblance to Castile.
Question, if you have a MN CCP, can you carry a handgun in your lap while driving?
Fellow sure had a long, repeated history of driving after revocation - I'm surprised he wasn't finally jailed for that.
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"First, don't blurt out "I have a gun". Simply hand over your permit along with your ID and wait for instructions."
Respectfully disagree. If the cop see a gun BEFORE you tell him - things are about to go sideways. You can't yell "look at my CCW" faster than the officer can draw down on you. The officer won't hear what you are saying - tunnel vision/auditory occlusion kicks in. My COA - interior light on, hands on steering wheel, eye contact w/officer " I have a handgun in the car located...". Wait for additional instructions.
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[IsraelTimes] Up to 300,000 Syrian refugees living in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... could be given citizenship under a plan to keep wealthy and educated Syrians in the country, a Turkish newspaper reported on Saturday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said on July 2 that Syrian refugees in the country would be offered nationality "if they want it" -- the first time such an idea had been proposed at the highest level.
Nationality would be given step-by-step, with initial plans for 30,000 to 40,000 Syrians gaining citizenship, the Haberturk daily said.
In total, Turkey is targeting giving Turkish citizenship to up to 300,000 Syrians, it added.
Turkey is hoping such a move would allow skilled Syrian refugees to become citizens, the paper said. Educated refugees from other countries could choose to become nationals as well.
Family members of those chosen to become Turkish citizens could also get the right to become nationals, it added.
The usual obligation of living in Turkey for at least five years before gaining citizenship could be waived for Syrians, Haberturk said.
Syrian refugees who become Turkish nationals would then be able to vote in elections one year after being awarded nationality.
The report appeared to generate anger among many social media users, with #suriyelilerehayir ("No to Syrians") the top trending topic in Turkey on Twitter on Saturday.
Erdogan has championed an "open door" policy for Syrians fleeing the over five-year civil war in their country. More than 2.7 million Syrian refugees now live in Turkey where they have guest status, according to the Turkish government.
The proposal to grant Syrians citizenship comes after a widely-praised move by Turkey in January this year to allow Syrian refugees to be given work permits.
Turkish media this week quoted labor ministry statistics as saying 5,502 Syrians had been granted work permits since the scheme was adopted.
Activists have accused Turkey of effectively shutting its borders to any more Syrians this year but Ankara insists it will always take in those maimed and fleeing danger.
In March this year, Turkey signed a deal with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to stop refugees making the dangerous route from its western border to Europe via Greece which has led to a reduction in the number of boats leaving Turkey.
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.....and the non-wealthy, uneducted? Well, there's Sweden and Germany - off you go now
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[DAWN] Police on Friday claimed to have killed a Lion of Islam linked with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... (TTS) and a gangster from Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... in an ’encounter’ in the Manghopir area.
The police said those killed were planning to carry out terror acts in the metropolis during the Eidul Fitr holidays.
The officials added that the gangster, identified as Khalid alias Khhudai, was involved in the murder of at least 42 people, while the TTS Lion of Islam, Rehmatullah, had allegedly killed coppers, army and paramilitary troops besides political workers.Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -West SSP Pir Mohammed Shah told Dawn that TTS and Lyari gangsters had developed a ’nexus’ to carry out criminal activities in Karachi. The police had received reports that the faceless myrmidons and gangsters had joined hands after developing "links" with faceless myrmidons in Wadh, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , said Manghopir SHO Ghulam Husain Korai.
The two suspects were bumped off in an exchange of fire with police in the early hours of Friday when the law enforcers along with the operatives of an intelligence agency conducted a targeted raid in Zebu Goth near Pakistain Restaurant, off the Northern Bypass, in the Manghopir area.
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Odd one there Doris.
Yes, fatty hump, droopy ears and just look at that nose ring!
Yep, must be getting near Zebu Goth.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeera Operations, Major General Qassim al-Mohamadi, stated that a weapons cache belonging to ISIS was destroyed and four terrorists were killed in a coalition air strike west of Ramadi.
Mohamadi said “The international coalition air force destroyed a weapons cache and a mortar detachment and killed 4 ISIS members in al-Dolab area west of Heet (70 km west of Ramadi).”
Security forces and tribal fighters presently control the Heet District after liberating it from ISIS occupation 2 months ago.
[DAWN] An NGO worker from an organization working in the education sector supported the idea of teaching the Holy Koran at informal education centres, saying it would help reduce the burden on parents who would ordinarily have to hire a qari, or send their children to a madressah for this purpose. Looks like a qari unemployment program.
"This will reduce the amount of political influence holy mans who teach the Holy Koran will be able to exert, as well as reducing fears that they are teaching something else along with the holy book, if the idea is adopted," the NGO representative said, on condition of anonymity.
He said that although there were several Hafiz-e-Koran (those who learn the Holy Koran by heart) in society, many of them had never even read the translation of the holy book in their life. "However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... we still respect them as if they are learned people," he deplored. If they knew what it actually meant, instead of just memorizing a long bunch of magickal words, they might discover it doesn't make any sense. Can't have that.
The draft bill, along with the sets of books that will be used as part of the curriculum, have been submitted by Mr Rehman before the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for review.
The CII has distributed the books to its members and various office-bearers of its research cell. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... it seems that some holy mans are apprehensive about the move, fearing that it may threaten their monopoly over teaching of the Holy Koran.
There are even reports that some members have already begun raising concerns within days of receiving the set of books for the proposed curriculum.
"We are looking at the Urdu translation that has been written in the 12 books thoroughly and carefully," said a CII official. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... he added that certain members had expressed dissatisfaction over the idea on the grounds that it will not be beneficial for students.
"This is just like reading a medical college textbook over the Internet -- one cannot become a doctor this way," the official said, adding that the accent and disciplinary strictness of a teacher cannot be replicated by just any Urdu teacher at the primary or secondary level. "This idea will fail," he concluded.
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Why anyone would ever teach that horse shit is beyond me. It's child abuse.
[ARA News] HASAKAH ‐ The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Saturday denied the news that PKK military commander Bahoz Erdal was killed in Syria.
A spokesperson of the unknown Tel Hamis brigade told Anadolu Agency (AA) that Erdal’s car was blown up on Friday in Qamishli city in northeastern Syria, with his guards. The news was quickly denied by the PKK.
"Our Commander Bahoz Erdal is on his duty in the mountains of Kurdistan," said Bahtiyar Dogan, the official spokesperson of the People’s Defence Forces (HPG), accusing the Turkish media of spreading lies.
"We know that no one believes such false news. It’s obvious that these news are merely produced to hit the morale of our forces and interrupt their advance," he added.
The only reported kaboom on Friday was one car of the Syrian Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), that was damaged by exploding ammunition, injuring two members of the YPG, the local Kurdish police said in a statement.
According to Ilhan Tanir, a Washington-based analyst and journalist specialized in Turkish politics, the Turkish government has repeatedly announced the death of Bahoz Erdal.
"When you look at archives you can see about every year the similar ’breaking’ news out there [that Erdal is killed]. It is of course possible he has been indeed hit but just to be on the safe side it is better to wait for confirmation," he told ARA News.
"It’s also important to remember that the AKP government desperately needs some kind of victory, real or imaginary. They need to change the news cycle for positive. Otherwise Turkish administration only makes headlines by their apologies, diplomatic defeats and security vulnerabilities. Turkish government needs some positive spin in news cycles even if it lasts only 24 hours," he concluded.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – At least 21 militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) were killed and dozens more wounded after clashes broke out between the group and Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria, military sources reported on Tuesday.
“Clashes erupted when ISIS militants tried to infiltrate into the recently liberated town of Shaddadi in the southern countryside of Hasakah,” a YPG spokesman told ARA News.
“Our [YPG] units responded to the attack with heavy weapons, killing and wounding dozens of Daesh terrorists,” the Kurdish official said, using another acronym for ISIS.
The YPG media office reported the death of 21 ISIS militants, whose corpses were collected after the clashes stopped on Tuesday evening. It added that over 30 other militants were injured and some of them were taken by the YPG as hostages.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – The Syrian northeastern city of Hasakah witnessed heavy clashes between the Kurdish security forces of Asayish and pro-regime troops on Sunday midnight.
At least one pro-regime fighter was killed, while two Kurdish female members of the Asayish security were injured in the Hasakah clashes.
“The background of those clashes are unclear yet, but apparently the movements of the pro-Assad militiamen in the Kurdish districts of Hasakah have provoked the Asayish forces,” a local media activist told ARA News.
An Asayish officer told ARA News that the pro-regime militiamen were trying to infiltrate into a Kurdish security checkpoint, which led to clashes between both sides.
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[DAWN] A Bangladeshi teenager who police say was a suspect in last week's deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe has died in jug, with his family insisting he was a hostage and alleging torture by security forces.
Zakir Hossain Shawon, 18, a kitchen assistant at the Holey Artisan Bakery, was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! after last week's deadly siege by suspected forces of Evil in which 22 people, including 18 foreigners, died.
Police killed five attackers and arrested Shawon together with another man over "suspicious activities", treating him as a suspect -- a claim vehemently rejected by his family, who claim he was taken hostage like other victims.
He died in the intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital late Friday after five days in the clinic, police and his family said.
Shawon's father Abdus Sattar demanded an investigation into his death, saying his "innocent son and the main breadwinner of his family" died due to torture.
"His whole body had marks of torture. There were marks of curdled blood in many places. One of his eyes and two knees were blackened. His wrists were blackened. It seems he was hanged by ropes tied to his wrists," Sattar told AFP.
Nur Khan Liton, the head of Ain o Salish Kendra, a leading human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group, said there were doubts about Shawon's involvement in the attack, which was claimed by the turbanIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
"IS has named five attackers and police have identified all five. And he was not among the five," he said.
"If he was treated as an associate or helper of the attacker, police must present evidence or information." Police and military representatives denied that Shawon had been tortured in jug.
"He was held because of suspicious activities. We did not have any opportunity to interrogate him since he was injured and hospitalised," Dhaka police front man Masudur Rahman told AFP.
The teenager's father said he spoke with his son hours before the July 1 carnage when Shawon called to say he had received a bonus payment for Eidul Fitr.
He had planned to travel home to celebrate the occasion with the family in Dhaka's suburb.
Instead his family saw him in hospital following the attack in Dhaka's upscale Gulshan neighbourhood. "He could not recognise me or his mother and thought we were his brother," the father said.
"He would cry out in his sleep, pleading with someone, "Please don't hit me. Let me go," he added.
Eid attack
Meanwhile the country's police chief said Saturday that Lions of Islam from Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a local turban group blamed by the government for the cafe siege, were behind a separate attack on an Eid gathering.
Bangladesh's home minister last week said the banned JMB carried out the Gulshan cafe attack despite the Islamic State group claiming responsibility.
Attackers carrying bombs and machetes killed at least three people at a huge prayer rally marking the start of the Moslem festival in the northern town of Sholakia on Thursday.
"(The perpetrators) are members of JMB. They did it (the attack) in Gulshan and they also did it here," Inspector General of Police Shahidul Hoque told news hounds in Sholakia.
Police have arrested one person over the Eid attack.
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[DAWN] THE tradition of swara is as ancient as Pakhtunwali. Still practised in pockets of Afghanistan and Pakistain, the custom entails handing over a girl in marriage to an aggrieved family as compensation to settle a feud. The nuptials are conducted sans pomp and show. Usually one girl is offered but the number can go up to three.
In Persian, swara means a woman riding a horse. Another source for the word comes from Arabic, in which ’uswara’ means bangles, a word that symbolises women. As per Pakhtun culture, swara is a woman on horseback, belonging to the guilty party (either his sister or daughter) who travels to the enemy camp accompanied only by women of her own family, thereby placing herself at the latter’s mercy. The gesture is symbolic of asking for a truce.
According to the original Pakhtun tradition, the woman was treated honourably and sent back on the same horse with gifts and a mantle, ie a scarf signifying that her honour remained intact.
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – A prominent jihadi and Emir of the Islamic State in Manbij was reported dead in an attack by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday.
Abu Khalid al-Tunisi, ISIS Emir (prince) of Manbij, was killed along with a number of his escorts when the US-backed SDF fighters hit his car in Manbij city, military sources reported.
The Tunisian jihadi has been leading ISIS operations in Manbij city on the Syrian-Turkish border after the group’s military commander was killed in earlier clashes with the SDF.
“The death of Abu Khalid al-Tunisi was confirmed after our forces bombed his car in Manbij city,” a spokesman for the SDF told ARA News. “At least four ISIS militants were accompanying al-Tunisi when we targeted their car with an artillery shell. They were all killed.”
The Syrian Democratic Forces have recently recaptured the entire countryside of Manbij, including over 110 villages and farms, after heavy fighting with ISIS militants.
Supported by the US-led coalition’s airstrikes, the SDF has advanced towards the ISIS-held city of Manbij after launching a new operation five weeks ago.
Since the start of the battle for Manbij border pocket in northern Syria on 31 May, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have reportedly killed a number of prominent jihadis from the Islamic State group (ISIS), including Manbij governor Osama al-Tounsi, jihadi commander Dahham al-Hussein, and ISIS senior leader Abu Hamza al-Ansari.
[Rudaw] The liberation of Manbij is near as Islamic State (ISIS) knows they are defeated and are trying to blend in with the civilian population to escape the city, said Shervan Derwish, spokesperson of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
“ISIS militants are wearing civilian clothes and leaving their weapons in peoples’ homes in order to escape,” Derwish said in an SDF video posted to YouTube. “They are carrying razors in their pockets in order to be able to quickly shave off their beards in order not to be identified.”
“They know that there is no hope and we are taking over,” he added. “They are leaving.”
The SDF continues to advance into the city, evacuating civilians as they go. On Friday, the SDF announced that a sniper battalion had arrived in Manbij to participate in the final push for the city.
Syrian Democratic Forces launched an operation to liberate Manbij from Islamic State under the umbrella of the locally formed Manbij Military Council in early June. The SDF are a multi-ethnic force dominated by the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG).
Routing the Islamic State from Manbij will cut the extremist group off from the border with Turkey, thereby limiting its ability to bring in supplies and fighters. It will also bring the Kurds closer to connecting their cantons of Kobane and Efrin.
[ARA News] MANBIJ – More than 14,000 Syrian citizens have been able to escape the city of Manbij
...a city in the Aleppo Governorate, 30km west of the Euphrates. In 2004, its population of nearly 100,000 was mainly Arab, Kurdish and Circassian Sunnis...
which is still held by the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group. The civilians headed to nearby areas recently liberated by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
This comes after the SDF opened humanitarian corridors between the war-torn city and its liberated countryside.
Most of the families that escaped Manbij city have been received by their sons who are fighting in the ranks of the SDF-led Manbij Military Council, who had earlier fled Manbij and formed the council to fight against ISIS.
According to the leadership of the SDF-led Manbij Military Council, the delay of liberating the city came due to the fear for the stranded civilians inside the city.
[ARA News] ALEPPO – Militant fighters of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on Wednesday launched an offensive on a Kurdish district in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, using mortar shells, amid attempts to infiltrate into the district, activists and military sources reported.
Nusra fighters, supported by Islamist rebels of the Ahrar al-Sham Movement, targeted populated areas in the Sheikh Maqsoud district with mortar fire, killing at least four people and wounding a dozen more.
“The injured were transferred to a field hospital for treatment. Some of them are in critical condition,” a medical source in the Sheikh Maqsoud hospital told ARA News. “Rescue teams are still searching for survivors under the rubble.”
The Islamists also targeted a security checkpoint for the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) at the entrance of Sheikh Maqsoud district.
“Clashes broke out when a number of terrorists tried to infiltrate into the district. Nusra and its allies launched the mortar attack in order to cover the infiltration attempt, but we were eventually able to repel the offensive,” YPG officer Ali Hamo told ARA News.
The official added that Nusra and its allies were forced to withdraw after six of their fighters were killed and four others were wounded.
The Kurdish district of Sheikh Maqsoud has been under siege by Syrian Islamist rebels for years, and violence has recently intensified in the district as the Kurdish YPG forces have been trying to push back Islamist fighters of the Nusra Front (al-Qaeda branch in Syria) and the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham.
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love me some alliteration....
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Is that the one wanting a like or as? Or is that a Sarah Palindrome? Able was eye to see Elba from my front porch in the north.
A retreat from proactive policing has unleashed mayhem in the city.
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Long piece at City Journal, clearly worth the read. This piece has created some buzz in the political community. Demoralized, short-handed cops, bad agreement with the ACLU, corrupt police leadership, even more corrupt city leadership, and a long, hot summer. What could wrong? What's going wrong now: murder. Lots of them.
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Thanks for posting this here.
City Journal is a fine publication. This article is quite succinct in what we face - the root of the problems.
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...I'd submit that with the current Chicago leadership, this is a feature, not a bug. The victims are overwhelmingly black and poor, and as long as it stays that way no one will lift a finger.
Mike
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Chicago ought to be called "Dodge City." Visit or live there and you'd better be good at dodging bullets. Another liberal paradise (sarc. on).
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60yrs ago or so, there were two cops to a squad car. I believe that this is the way to handle the problem in Chicago.
As far as Sanger is concerned. We should offer free LTIUDs and not pay any support to additional children.
[DAWN] Activists of Pakistain Peoples Party on Friday held a protest demonstration in connection with July 5, 1977 and set an effigy of late Gen Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... on fire for toppling the elected government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... , the first elected prime minister of the country.
The protesters were led by party’s former provincial president Syed Zahir Ali Shah while several big shots of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , including Senator Rubeena Khalid, Zulfiqar Afghani and Saeed Ahmed, were also present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, Zahir Shah said that the military dictator had deprived the nation of an elected setup for his lust for powers.
He said that ZAB was the first elected prime minister who served the country with national zeal and enabled the poor people to raise voice for their rights.
He warned that some remnants of Zia ul Haq were still out to suppress the voice of the poor, but PPP would not let anyone do so.
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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
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[NYP] Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is reportedly being vetted by Donald Trump as a potential running mate, was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014 after three decades in the military. Here he tells the real story of his departure from his post and why America is not getting any closer to winning the war on terror.
[Huffpoo] Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Black Lives Matter on Friday of being "a terrorist group," claiming the activists are perpetuating a "war on cops" across the country.
[Telegraph] Dallas gunman Micah Johnson was planning a much bigger attack before he decided to shoot at a rally on Thursday night, killing five officers and wounding seven other people, law enforcement agencies have said. 
[GP] Several police officers have been injured by Black Lives Matter protesters who took over the I-94 freeway in St. Paul, Minnesota Saturday night over the deadly police shooting of Philando Castile, attacking police officers who tried to clear the road by throwing chunks of concrete, rebar, rocks, bottles, fireworks and Molotov Cocktails. The attacks have gone on for three hours.
[LI] Suspension of disbelief is the term that came to mind when I watched FBI Director James Comey’s decision to recommend no charges against Hillary.
[PJ] Israel has announced that it will be building 800 new housing units. Of these, 560 will be in Maale Adumim, a town of 40,000 located four miles east of Jerusalem, and 240 will be in three Jerusalem neighborhoods.
[DAWN] WE can’t stop the squawking and bleating and barking and squealing that’s about to come, but we sure can tell them what we think of them. So, by way of semi-catharsis, a word to the four who would rule us all.
[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) recently brought Raja Ubaidur Rehman back from 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
President Barack Obama is harnessing the increasing attacks on police in Dallas — and the periodic shootings of people by stressed cops — to push his agenda to federalize state and local police forces.
[DAWN] The year’s first case of 
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[DAWN] A dedicated Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) aircraft has been deputed to transport Prime Minister 
[IBT] The UK is set to send 50 additional troops to Afghanistan increasing the current number from 450 to 500. The extra personnel will also perform advisory and training roles but will not participate in any combat operations.
[SunStar] Three people, including two New People's Army militants, were killed in an encounter with Philippine troops in the province of Zamboanga del Sur.
[Manila Times] Indonesian and Malaysian militants have joined the Abu Sayyaf in fighting Philippine security forces in Basilan province in the Muslim autonomous region.
[RFE/RL] Eight members of an armed group and one law enforcement officer were killed in clashes in Dagestan. Russia's National Counterterrorism Committee said that three officers of the Federal Security Service were also wounded during the ongoing clashes in a rural area south of the regional capital, Makhachkala. 
[IBT] Two Russian pilots have been killed after their helicopter was shot down by Isis (Islamic State) fighters over Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Mi-25 helicopter was brought down over Palmyra, Homs yesterday (8 July).
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[DAWN] A Bangladeshi teenager who police say was a suspect in last week's deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe has died 
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
