Non-WOT until they have to release the "Allahu Akhbar" chant evidence from someone's cell video
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee is accused of using a machete to kill a woman and injure two other people in Germany on Sunday, Reuters reported, citing police.
The man was arrested after the attack, which occurred in the southwestern city of Reutlingen, according to German media.
The alleged assailant, whose name has not yet been disclosed, was known to police from a previous incident in which people were injured, a police spokesperson said.
Investigators believe the man acted alone.
"There is no danger to anyone else at this time," he told Reuters.
Authorities had yet to disclose a motive for the incident, BILD and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspapers reported.
The attack comes as Germany is on edge, following a rampage at a Munich mall on Friday night in which nine people were killed, and an ax attack on a train a week ago that left five wounded.
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Not terrorism. They just like to do that stuff. This is an additional and worrying angle. Anybody who just takes a notion to stab a few women for their dress, who decides on the spur of the moment to bash a couple of gays with a brick, has no trail, no connections, no...... Did I just say "no connections"? More coffee.
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Deutsche Welle has an update. Our possible "Syrian" (because who really knows?) quarreled with a woman, then hauled out a machete and killed her, slashed two others, and ran off. A man driving by stopped him by ramming him with his car, then waited for the authorities to arrest him.
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Tom Kratman wrote a book a few years ago, _Caliphate_, about life in Europe after the Muslim conquest and the American reconquista effort. I couldn't read it much beyond the first chapter because it was too intense, but at the time I wondered how the conquest could have happened. Now I know. And the Kindle version appears to be free today. link
[The National Interest] More than two months ago, an escalation in the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict without precedent since 1994 occurred in Nagorno-Karabakh. From the night of April 1 to April 2, combat operations continued until April 5, having begun in two parts of the contact line between the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. On that day, the parties agreed to an armistice, signed in Moscow. The four-day war answered many questions regarding military balance, while posing new ones. Since the threat of another escalation is not excluded, it makes sense to analyze the condition of the armed forces of Armenia, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan, taking into account the results of the short but bloody April war. But first, we must talk about the early history of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict.
Roots of the Conflict: The Early Twentieth Century
Bloody collisions occurred between Armenians and Azerbaijanis twice at the beginning of the twentieth century: from 1905 to 1907 and from 1918 to 1920. During those years, after the end of the First World War, the Soviet Union was taking shape. During this process, in 1921 the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, approximately 90 percent of its population Armenians who practiced the Christian religion, was allocated to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Some years later the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region (NKAR) was created, and was deprived of any direct land connection with the Armenian SSR.
Somewhat like the conflict, the article goes on and on.
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At this point, we should evacuate Incirlik, remove the nukes and hardware, all unnecessary personnel (permanently), and install self-destructs on everything for bug-out
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[Daily Caller] The release of Democratic National Committee emails by WikiLeaks Friday reveals that DNC officials planned anti-Donald Trump protests.
In multiple emails, DNC officials signed off and acknowledged the existence of two anti-Donald Trump protests in South Bend, IN and Billings, MT. The release of nearly 20,000 emails is the first in a WikiLeaks "Hillary Leaks" series.
On April 29, a DNC press staffer, Rachel Palermo, alerted Eric Walker, deputy communications director, about a Facebook page for an anti-Trump protest on May 2 in South Bend. "Whoo! Thanks to our interns for finding this out." Walker replies, "I like it, as long as the students feel safe getting involved. I imagine this demo will be nicer than the one in San Fran today."
That day in San Francisco protesters blocked off roads to an event Donald Trump was hosting. The Republican nominee ended up having to jump down from the highway and sneak around back to enter.
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Considering all the signs are premade and shipped to "protests", verified reports of paid "professional" protesters and busing of said such protesters to sites around the country, the DNC is only one of the organizers of these things.
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So, for the sake of argument and tin foil hat wearers everywhere, if campaign financing money was used to fund "professional" posters or the per diem and travel of....crowd agitators, bail bonds, things could get interesting.
His earliest specialty was hadith, or the words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, which form the basis of Islamic laws as well as guidelines for the daily life of devout Muslims. Over those years, he uncovered a long-forgotten history of female Islamic scholarship, blotted out by centuries of cultural conservatism: a tradition of women religious authorities stretching back to the days of the Prophet. As I recall, the New Testament is much nicer to women than the twelfth-century Church. Power-hungry men spinning what most could not read for themselves. Or understand.
He'd discovered nearly 9,000 women, including some who lectured, dispensed fatwas, and traveled on horse- and camelback in pursuit of religious education. The Sheikh's work on women scholars challenges bigots of all types. The Taliban gunman who shoots a girl for going to school. The mullah who bars women from his mosque. The firebrand who claims that feminism is a Western ideology undermining the Islamic way of life. The Westerner who claims that Islam oppresses women, and always has. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody knows the crayon is jam-packed with hatred of the infidel.
"Sheikh," I opened hesitantly, "I've never actually read the Quran." I've read most of the Bible, at least once, and there is a lot of killing in the Old Testament.
"Most Muslims haven't read it either," Akram said brightly, buttering his scone. "And even if they have, they don't understand it. The Quran is alien to them. Usually, they'll just go to the books of law. Or if they're interested in piety or purifying the heart, they'll read Ghazali"-a philosopher-"or Sufis like Rumi." Like reading Barclay's Bible Commentaries.
I knew, of course, that many graduates of the Muslim world's lesser seminaries hadn't really read Islam's scriptures. The boys in village madrasas, rocking back and forth, lisping lines from the Quran in classical Arabic, a language they didn't understand, might have been literally reading, but not much more. The suicide bombers and jihadist foot soldiers who had been promised a reward of seventy-two virgins in paradise were duped. Nowhere does the Quran mention such rewards for murder. Right. It's 72 Virginians. With baseball bats. Starting with Jefferson.
"Even people who go to good madrasas don't necessarily know it as well as they should," said Akram, briskly brushing scone crumbs off his khakis. "In fact, the Quran is often the weakest part of the madrasa curriculum. Far more effort and class time is given to the texts of jurisprudence or hadith."
The branches of Islamic knowledge that came after the Prophet's death, like law and philosophy, had only made the Muslim world's injustices and divisions grow, he continued. They'd moved mankind further from the source. The message of the Quran and the sunna, the example of the Prophet Muhammad, had been buried by a mountain of academic debate. But the fatwas are all rooted in the crayon, not in the minds of fallible men! Right?
Why not just go back to the Quran?
"People can be lazy." Consulting scholars and obeying their rules was safer and easier, said the Sheikh. "You don't need to read, or question, or think. You've got other people thinking for you. If you become open, it's a challenge." Chortle. They'd rather be democrats.
"You see, Carla, what's happened, really, is that we in the Muslim world have destroyed the whole balance. We've become obsessed with these tiny details, these laws. What does the Quran keep repeating? Purity of the heart. That's what's important! Why has cutting off a thief's hand-something it mentions once!-become of such importance to some people?"
Akram smiled conspiratorially. "People are really very shocked when I tell them that the four schools of law aren't really that important," he said. "If people would just read the Quran, most of these differences would finish." Sure, all the Bible scholars agree on everything!
Re-examining beliefs-most importantly, your own-lies at the heart of the Western secular tradition except for settled science. Disorientation is also a sign of the power of God, and a theme of some of the Quran's most ravishing passages. It's from a book, a non-fiction Pulitzer-prize finalist. But it's still an opinion.
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The bottom source line should be considered. Would anyone in their right mind believe for the briefest of seconds that the God of Abraham would take Moohamhead (piece of pork be upon him) as a prophet?
A child rapist, mass murderer, sex slaver, common caravan thief and moon god worshiper who finance his hordes with stolen good taken from the local Jews, Christians and even pagans who refused force conversion or death?
Hence the moniker "the pedophile for profit" accurately describes Shelkh's Mohammad. Studying past writings of his Islam is a moot point designed to justify its fraudulent existence.
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If the ulema and the ummah move in this direction, that would be lovely. But as Sheikh Mohammed Akram said, most people don't read the Koran...and very few of those that do will allow themselves understand it the way he does.
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Ideology serves people, not vice versa. Now imagine people who lost the ability for empathy, and can only cooperate with relatives. Now, I wonder, if they invent a religion - what it be like?
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The key word mentioned above is "lazy". As long as you are willing to get down on a rug and bang your head against the floor three times a day, you feel that effort which no other religion does is sufficient. The Imam handles the various Muslim doctrine interpretations for you each Friday afternoon at the local Mosque. And they are good at preaching passion for banging your head on the floor and leaving the rest of the brain washing up to them.
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I believe I found the perfect quotation
"I have never understood the gangster mind -- I simply know what to do about gangsters." LL
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The damage and destructiveness visited upon the world in the name of this religion is great and growing and those who do know the true meaning of the Quran (if there is such a thing) are not speaking out. How can one believe anything to be true about a religion that embraces and sanctions lying to infidels by its promoters?
There are many, many violence inducting parts of the Koran and then about an order of magnitude more of them in the hadith.
The sheikh mentions the medieval philosopher (or you could call him an anti-philosopher) Ghazali. At the time Ghazali was alive, there was a philosophic movement to try to harmonize the Quran and Aristotle (sort of like Thomas Aquinas and interpreting the violent phrases more humanly. Ghazali wrote a book saying they were distorting the Koran and that was then end of that.
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(CNN) The head of the Democratic National Committee will not speak at the party's convention next week, a decision reached by party officials Saturday after emails surfaced that raised questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary. Good looks will only take you so far.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose stewardship of the DNC has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process, will not have a major speaking role in an effort "to keep the peace" in the party, a Democrat familiar with the decision said. The revelation comes following the release of nearly 20,000 emails.
One email appears to show DNC staffers asking how they can reference Bernie Sanders' faith to weaken him in the eyes of Southern voters. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Hillary Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.
Wasserman Schultz is expected to gavel the convention in and out, but not speak in the wake of the controversy surrounding the leaked emails, a top Democrat said.
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dws isn't the biggest threat 'to keep the peace'
the biggest threat is that the Dem's will not be able to contain their anti American feelings
every 4 years they but (or maybe rent) thousands of flags and do everything possible to use approved phrases and every 4 years it gets harder to shut down the party base - in 2012, the party based basically booed God and booed Israel but it was a short incident and the cameras were focused on the stage-- there will be more cameras this time and more issues
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I think I'm actually going to enjoy watching it...as long as I have enough alcohol on hand.
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I recommend Willett, cask strength
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Let us forget the lying and treachery for now. To determine your penance, please try to concentrate on the number of really, really stupid things you have said since your last confession.
[Guardian] Ali David Sonboly finished his paper round on Friday evening, used a young woman's hacked Facebook account to issue a clumsy invitation to a local McDonald’s, then set off to kill anyone unlucky enough to take it up.
The 18-year-old was known to neighbours and schoolmates as a chubby loner who was shunned by classmates and shunned his local community in turn, rarely seen unless he was out on a paper round delivering a local free-sheet.
He had sought treatment for depression and psychiatric problems, police revealed after he shot nine people in cold blood, then killed himself. But his transformation into a violent killer still stunned those who had watched the uneasy teenager grow up.
Classmates, family friends and neighbours said the tall, withdrawn young man had always seemed more shy than violent. Police confirmed that he had no criminal record and had never crossed the radar of German intelligence services. "He wasn’t intimidating-looking, but a little strange in character," said Stephan Baumanns, the 47-year-old owner of the Treemans bakery and coffee shop, which sits near the entrance to the Sonboly family apartment. "He always seemed a bit nervous."
An anonymous person posted on a website - thought to be a chat room - that they went to the same school as Ali Sonboly
They wrote on a website, thought to be a chat room, that pupils 'always mobbed' Sonboly - which in German means 'bullied' - while he was at school.
The post read: 'I know this f****** guy, his name is ali sonboly. he was in my class back than (sic). we always mobbed him in school. and he always told us that he would kill us.'
He was put through a trade school in his early teenage years when it became apparent he was unlikely to complete the standard German Abitur exams.
But he ended up failing at his school too, blaming bullying by 'Turkish and Arabic' schoolmates as being the reason for his poor educational performance.
Yesterday it was suggested that this might have been a Sunni-Shia thing. But the Guardian article made it clear the outgoing younger brother had no problems in the same community, so perhaps it was that any excuse will do for those inclined toward "mobbing".
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This is typical of lefty thinking. People are basically good, so if they do something bad then someone or something must have driven them to it. Poverty, society, bullying - something. It takes a more level head to accept that people are ***not*** basically good.
An explosion occurred in Ansbach, Germany, Sunday evening, according to German media. At least one person is dead and as many as 10 others are wounded, German media is reporting.
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yeah - I posted for tomorrow's links
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Police say this is not an accident. The person killed looks like to have been the culturally enriching one.
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Frank, European Conservative -- thank you for being on top of these stories for us.
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It looks like a major attack was avoided. Maybe the explosive did go off too early? I'm sure he was waiting for the nearby festival to finish and target exiting people. In that case he could have killed dozens.
Note there is also a US base in Ansbach.
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Perpetrator is a 20yo Syrian national who was denied asylum but allowed to stay temporarily because of the war in Syria.
He wanted to enter the festival (2500 people) but was refused entry.
He carried an explosive which killed him and injured 10 people.
That could have been a major terror attack.
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27yo Syrian living in a government-paid flat, attempted 2 suicides before (without bomb).
Walked with a backback of explosives, was refused entry to the festival because he had no ticket, then went kaboom in front of the entrance.
He could have killed dozens.
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[NYP] President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother wants to make America great again -- so he’s voting for Donald Trump.
"I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart," Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo. "Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him." I suspect Paul Manafort is attempting to make that happen as we speak.
Obama, 58, a longtime Democrat, said his "deep disappointment" in his brother Barack’s administration has led him to recently switch allegiance to "the party of Lincoln."
The last straw, he said, came earlier this month when FBI Director James Comey recommended not prosecuting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of a private e-mail servers while secretary of state.
"She should have known better as the custodian of classified information," said Obama.
He’s also annoyed that Clinton and President Obama killed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, whom he called one of his best friends.
Malik Obama dedicated his 2012 biography of his late father to Khadafy and others who were "making this world a better place." "Um, Mr. Manafort, hold the phone a sec, okay?"
"I still feel that getting rid of Khadafy didn’t make things any better in Libya," he said. "My brother and the secretary of state disappointed me in that regard."
But what bothers him even more is the Democratic Party’s support of same-sex marriage.
Miami (CNN) Tim Kaine took the stage alongside Hillary Clinton in Miami Saturday and offered his first greeting to voters as a vice presidential nominee -- in Spanish.
"Bienvenidos a todos," the Virginia senator said, a phrase that translates to "welcome to everyone."
Clinton and Kaine's first joint appearance as running mates at a campaign rally here marked the official unveiling of the Democratic ticket. The duo will face off against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
Right off the bat, the contrast that the Clinton campaign will seek to highlight between Kaine and the Republican ticket during the general election was clear.
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'Welding' must be strictly for liberals. Anyone remember the mocking Dan Quayle took when the media discovered he had been a welder in the Indiana National Guard ?
[True Pundit] While the FBI and Attorney General Loretta Lynch continuously dodge questions about the current whereabouts of Noor Zahi Salman, True Pundit has located the spouse of the Orlando mass killer.
Salman, AKA Zalman, has been missing from the public eye for weeks. And when we first learned of her whereabouts, we were somewhat astonished especially knowing that she is/was the target of a federal grand jury convened to possibly indict her as an accomplice to her mass-murdering and allegedly deceased husband. As such, it would be almost unheard of for Salman to travel outside the United States. But that is where she is, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Last week, Salman was traveling in the Middle East, specifically Amman Jordan, according to our intelligence sources (not the FBI). That is a long way from Florida and a possible US indictment as a murder accomplice. Again, international travel is rare for such suspects who have been interviewed by the FBI as a suspected part of such a crime. But Salman is no quiet, innocent homemaker. She and her attorneys have much leverage and apparently, she is employing it. True Pundit, within hours of Mateen’s rampage at Pulse Nightclub, identified the gunman as a paid informant of the FBI. Such informants are usually paid $100K or more. The evidence gathered since then has been rather overwhelming proving Mateen worked with and for the FBI prior to the shooting. Salman is the key to unraveling the truth. While the FBI would never divulge this fact, Salman could. One prime-time TV interview and the FBI’s Orlando charade collapses. And therefore, it only benefits the US government to allow a suspected accomplice to murder travel the world while the US case grows cold.
Federal sources said Salman’s family is from Palestine, close to where she was located traveling in Jordan. The United States does not have an extradition treaty with the Palestinian Authority. Our question is: Will the United States ever see Salman again?
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"Right now, I don’t know exactly the answer to that," Lynch candidly replied. "I believe she was going to travel but I do not know exactly her location now."
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Ok.
Who it was who put chips on 'US government bundles Mrs. Mateen to Middle East to avoid awkwardness of investigation and trial' come pick up your prize.
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DOJ - "we were keeping a close eye on Mateen, it was just that he was so shifty...you know you just can't win them all. We will do better the next time."
Us - "well, his wife helped at least we will have a small chance at justice...where is she?"
DOJ - "it has been stressful for her lately...she is on vacation..."
Us - "if anyone needs to be on the no-fly list it ought to be her"
[Clarion Project] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.
Appointing a Muslim Brotherhood Front Leader Who Supports Hamas
In 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state’s Immigration Commission. A Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.
Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was "founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America." A Chicago Tribune investigation in 2004 confirmed this, as well as MAS’ crafty use of deceptive semantics to appear moderate. Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, "Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood."
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trailing wife Abedin was raised in Jeddah, KSA. Maybe one parent is from Iran and one from Pakistan, but she is most likely Sunni.
Kaine is an idiot - so incompetent that he shut down Virginia's rest areas on the highways. Kaine and Obama campaigned for his hand-picked successor Creigh Deeds - who was thumped in the next governors election as push back against Kaine's failures. Kaine was helped into the senate during the 2012 presidential election cycle...not sure he is too popular amongst most Virginians.
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Good to know, Tennessee. I wonder why she picked him -- perhaps because as a former governor he has some idea of how governing is done, however poorly.
[AnNahar] Europe's toughened borders are prompting migrants colonists to switch focus to the United States, but their trek is being thwarted in Central America, where a bottleneck has formed, according to the International Organization for Migration.
In Costa Rica, a makeshift camp has sprung up housing hundreds of Africans and Haitians. Elsewhere in the country smaller numbers of Afghans and Paks are biding their time to head north. They are being stalled by Nicaragua, which strictly closed its border eight months ago to migrants colonists without visas, mainly to stop the flow of thousands of U.S.-bound Cubans through its territory. But that closed-door policy has also trapped what are called "extra-continental" migrants colonists -- those coming from outside Latin America.
There are an estimated 2,000 such migrants colonists in Costa Rica. Their number has increased since March, since the EU did a deal with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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[AlAhram] Beni Suef security directorate facilitated a reconciliation between Moslems and Christians in a village in the Upper Egyptian governorate after Christians were attacked there on Friday, Al-Ahram Arabic reported on Saturday.
According to Al-Ahram Arabic, the security forces managed to control the situation, which was caused by a rumour that a church was being constructed, before it deteriorated.
On Friday, a group of Moslems in a small village in Beni Suef gathered after noon prayers, and went to the houses owned by Christians attacking them by rocks, after a rumour spread that one of the buildings had been turned into a church.
A video clip showing Christian families reacting to the attack while standing at their balconies went viral on Friday in Egypt.
The head of the local security directorate reportedly sat with the elders from the village, both Moslems and Christians, and they agreed on reconciliation and that the Christians would not turn a house into a church unless they received official authorisation.
This is the most recent sectarian incident involving Moslems and Christians in the past four weeks in Upper Egypt.
At least three festivities have erupted in different villages in Minya governorate between Moslems and Christians recently.
Sectarian festivities frequently occur in the countryside over news or rumours that an unauthorised church has been built or repurposed.
A draft unified law for building houses of worship is expected to be discussed by the House of Representatives.
Fundamentally transformed, even if nothing visible comes from it.
[IsraelTimes] A retired Saudi general visited Israel this week, heading a delegation of academics and businessmen seeking to encourage discussion of the Saudi-led Arab Peace Initiative.
According to a report in the Haaretz daily, the delegation led by Dr. Anwar Eshki met with Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, and several Knesset members from the opposition.
Such a visit by former general Eshki, who was once a top adviser to the Saudi government, is an extremely rare occurrence. "While this wasn’t an official visit, it was a highly unusual one, as Eshki couldn’t have traveled to Israel without approval from the Saudi government," the newspaper report said.
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....This actually has some significance, though not sure how much. A Saudi isn't going to make General unless he has some serious sponsorship in high places, and even after he retires he's not going to risk losing it. So it's reasonable to assume he's there with the blessing of the House of Saud...
Mike
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The usual sticking point is the fate of the "Palestinian refugees". If they are defined to be those who actually resided in Palestine before the creation of Israel and who fled (and who are therefore at least 68 years old, 89 if they were adults at the time) a resolution of it is possible. If it is defined to include all their descendants no resolution is possible.
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Good summation, Grins Snese4215. I seem to recall that the House is working on a bill to define Palestinian refugees as only the generation that fled in 1948.
[AnNahar] Protesters furious over the death of a yoot in jug attacked police and burnt cars in a fourth night of unrest in northern suburbs of Gay Paree.
Ten people were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and four officers slightly injured in the violence in Beaumont-sur-Oise and two other towns nearby, local authorities said Saturday.
At least 1,500 people had taken to the streets of Beaumont-sur-Oise on Friday to protest at the death of Adama Traore, a 24-year-old who died on Tuesday shortly after he was arrested.
A few days ago the BBC characterized him as "a young black man," and there are apparently a number of footballers of the same name, all seeming to hail from either Mali or Ivory Coast.
Some wore T-shirts bearing the slogan "Justice for Adama, you will never have peace without justice".
Later in the night, some people fired buckshot and crude homemade devices at police, an AFP news hound said. They also started a fire in factory that makes palettes and torched dustbins and 10 vehicles, local authorities said.
Police reinforcements were called in to help the 150 officers already on duty.
Authorities said an autopsy revealed Traore was suffering from a serious infection at the time of his death and that his body showed few signs of violence. He was taken into custody after interfering in the arrest of his brother in an extortion case, according to a source close to the investigation. But his sister Assa accused police of causing her brother's death.
"My brother was killed, he was subjected to violence," she told news hounds.
According to local prosecutor Yves Jannier, Traore "fainted during the ride" to the cop shoppe, and paramedics were called immediately but were unable to revive him. Jannier said the infection had "impacted several organs", while the medical examiner had found scratches but no "marks of significant violence" on the man's body.
[TheLocal.de] Calls for compulsory school Islam classes after axe attack.
Local authorities are calling for classes on Islam to be brought in at schools across the country after a radicalized Muslim youth attacked passengers on a train with an axe on Monday.
“It is appropriate to bring in classes on Islam in state schools or schools overseen by the state,” Gerd Landsberg, head of the association of local councils, told the Rheinische Post on Wednesday.
In this way the state can gain more control over the upbringing of Muslim youths, Landsberg said.
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IMO, the most important thing to learn about Islam & Muslims is: shoot first.
[Ynet] Police say two people who tried to abduct a British serviceman outside a Royal Air Force Base three days ago were probably part of a larger team.
Norfolk Police said Saturday the serviceman only saw two people, including one with a knife, but that others were likely involved.
The serviceman was running near the RAF Marham base in Norfolk when he was grabbed by a man who tried to force him into a van. The man had an accomplice carrying a knife but the serviceman escaped unharmed.
The incident Wednesday shared some elements of the 2013 attack on soldier Lee Rigby, who was stabbed to death on a London street in by two al-Qaeda-inspired bully boys.
Police are asking for help locating two suspects, said to be of Middle Eastern origin
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Operations announced foiling an ISIS that was launched using a number of booby-trapped vehicles south of Mosul.
The commander of Nineveh Operations General Najjim al-Jabouri in a statement said, “International coalition troops managed to foil an attack launched by ISIS, which was targeted at al-Gadaa and al-Awsaja villages in the western area of al-Qayyarah, south of Mosul.”
“The security forces also killed dozens of ISIS members who were trying to sneak into Qayyarah,” he added.
Jabouri further said, “The coalition troops also shelled eight rockets launching pads in Qayyarah,” adding that, “Forces from security directorates and the army’s 15 brigade are deployed around al-Gadaa and al-Awsaja anticipating similar attacks.”
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[HERALD.DAWN] Pakistain remains a deeply challenged state. It has unsatisfactory relations with three of its four immediate neighbours. It has a strategically loser relationship with the US. It is in danger of becoming a strategic burden for China. It is under international pressure on a range of issues including its India and Afghanistan policies, its policies with regard to terrorism and extremism, nuclear and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... issues. Its internal governance and degree of corruption in its leadership are seen as criminally irresponsible by both external observers and the people of Pakistain. In these circumstances, the absence of a full-time political heavy weight as a foreign minister may be regarded as the least of the challenges facing Pakistain today. Nevertheless, it involves a gratuitous cost.
Our current foreign policy adviser, 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... , is said to be a "de facto" foreign minister. But without the automatic protocol attached to a foreign minister, his status and reception abroad have to be negotiated. Moreover, neither he nor the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi are members of parliament which takes away from their political weight at home. The prime minister ‐ who is absolutely no "foreign policy" prime minister ‐ holds the portfolio. No credible explanation is offered. It is merely reported that he "is in no mood" to make anyone a full time foreign minister!
Incidentally, Aziz was twice promised the presidency and twice let down. He has been divested of his responsibilities for even the external aspects of national security which has further undermined his authority and effectiveness. That he is an internationally respected eminence seems to have counted against him. His predicament is just one reflection of our general state of affairs.
The above indicates a general lack of purpose among the politicianship which has willingly or reluctantly handed over substantive direction of foreign policy to the military and intelligence establishments. Their performance is a matter of historical record and can today be gauged by the national and international media headlines every day. They are simply not designed and therefore not qualified for the job. India-centricism has become a substitute for the arduous and complex job of formulating and implementing a foreign policy appropriate to the challenges of the 21st century - in which the price of failure can be existential. The Chinese are expected to bail us out forever even though as an emerging global power it has its own global interests and priorities that will not always comport with the institutional priorities of the security establishment of Pakistain. A day could arrive when China may not feel compelled to keep India out of the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group or even a reformed United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Security Council. Do we have any effective policy planning to deal with or avert the costs of such a scenario? Can the China Pakistain Economic Corridor be a magic wand for us? Can a soft state ever develop soft power? To all three questions the answer is a flat "no!"
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all true, that's why the only solution is to fire up the rubes in Indian Kashmir
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Turkish minister chided the country’s Western allies on Saturday for not sending any representatives to demonstrate their solidarity with Turks following last weekend’s failed military coup.
Western leaders have pledged support for Turkish democracy since the July 15 coup attempt but have also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the scale of purges against supporters of the coup and of the US-based Moslemholy man Ankara says was behind it.
Turkish authorities’ mass purges of the armed forces, police, judiciary and education system, targeting followers of a US-based Moslemholy man, Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan has accused of criminal masterminding the failed coup.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the reclusive 75-year-old Gulen denies the charge.
"We are very surprised that our allies have not come to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to visit even after one week has passed," Omur Celik, the minister for European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... affairs, told news hounds in Ankara.
Celik added that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... needed to collaborate with Turkey, a reference in part to the struggle against ISIS bully boyz in Turkey’s southern neighbors Syria and Iraq.
Turkey has the second biggest armed forces in NATO and is also negotiating to join the European Union.
Coup’s outcome
Earlier on Saturday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has ordered the closure of more than 1,000 private schools and extended the period in which some suspects can be detained without charge, in his first decree since declaring a three-month state of emergency.
Erdogan declared the state of emergency late on Wednesday saying it would enable authorities to swiftly and effectively root out supporters of last weekend’s failed military coup in which at least 246 people were killed.
The state of emergency allows the president and government to pass laws without first having to win parliamentary support and also allows them to curb or suspend rights and freedoms as they deem necessary.
The first decree signed by Erdogan authorizes the closure of 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions over suspected links to the Gulen movement, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday.
Erdogan has also approved the extension of the period in which certain suspects can be detained to 30 days from a maximum of four days, Anadolu said.
The period has been extended to facilitate a full investigation into the coup attempt.
Parliament must still approve the decree but requires only a simple majority, which the ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan and in power in Turkey since 2002 commands.
In an address to politicians late on Friday Erdogan vowed to bring to justice supporters of the Gulenist "terrorist" movement.
He also inspected damaged parts of the parliament building in Ankara that were strafed by the coup plotters during last weekend’s violence.
According to the authorities, 10,410 people have been detained — mainly soldiers, including 283 Presidential Guard officers, but also police, judges and civil servants. Of these, 4,500 have been formally placed under arrest.
Prosecutors said Turkey had set free 1,200 soldiers, all privates, detained in Ankara after the military coup, as authorities were seeking to swiftly sort out those who had fired on the people from those who did not.
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We could have at least sent a card. Congrats on Your New Purge or something.
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He had some quote that went ... Ride the train to democracy and change to Islam. Something like that.
His plan seems to have worked out. The Turks are willing victims.
[DAWN] QUETTA: Six people, including a five-year-old girl, were maimed in a kaboom on Double Road in the Sariab area on Friday.
According to sources, the bomb was placed on the middle of the road and it exploded by remote control. The blast rocked the entire Sariab area on the outskirts of the lovely provincial capital.
SSP Naddem Abbas said that security personnel might be the target of the blast.
The injured were taken to the Civil Hospital, where the condition one of them is stated to be critical.
Some vehicles were damaged and windowpanes of nearby buildings were smashed by the impact of the powerful blast.
Police have taken a suspect into custody for interrogation.
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(IraqiNews.com) BAGHDAD- Iraqi Defense Ministry announced on Saturday the assistant of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed and a number of his associates were injured during an operation carried out by forces of Tigris Operations towards the north of Diyala province .
The Defense Ministry, in a statement, said, “The members of the first regiment of Tigris Operations gunned Hashim Nassif Jassem al-Hayali, the assistant of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, apart from injuring a number of his aides at Mukhisa, towards the north of Diyala. ”
“The operation was based on accurate intelligence,” the statement added. Not to mention accurate shooting.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A clash has reportedly taken place during the funeral of a Taliban leader in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan.
Sources in Parwan province have said at least nine people were killed and several others were maimed after the clash broke out during Mullah Shakoor’s funeral.
The sources quoted by RFE further added that the incident took place in Syed Khel district, leaving at least 9 dead and 15 others maimed.
The local government officials have not formally confirmed the casualties so far and have said several people were enjugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! following the incident.
Mullah Shakoor was reportedly killed in a mine kaboom last week days after he was appointed as the group’s deputy shadow governor of the group in Parwan.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including the Taliban Lions of Islam are actively operating in a number of the remote districts of Parwan province.
The Taliban Lions of Islam often conduct insurgency activities in parts of this province, including suicide kabooms on government workers and security forces.
This comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the group announced its spring offensive in April this year and vowed to carry out more attacks as the group’s insurgency enters its 15th year.
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DARAA – The Islamic State radical group (ISIS) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the assassination of a prominent Syrian rebel leader in Daraa province, southern Syria.
Shakir Nabbut al-Rashwani, commander of the Homs al-Waleed rebel group, was reported dead when militants bombed his car in the al-Balad district of Daraa city.
ISIS released a statement on Saturday midnight, claiming responsibility for the assassination of the rebel leader.
Al-Rashwani had earlier led several offensives against ISIS militants in southern Syria, in which dozens of ISIS fighters were killed.
“The terror group has attached an explosive device to al-Rashwani’s car, and then detonated it, killing him and three other rebels,” media activist Muhammad Obedo told ARA News in Daraa.
“The explosion took place in the al-Balad district near the train station on Saturday afternoon,” the source added.
“Shakir Nabbut al-Rashwani was a main enemy for ISIS in southern Syria. He led rebel operations against this barbaric group in Daraa province and killed many of them. His death came as a shock to all rebel factions in Syria,” spokesman of the Shamiya Front Saleh al-Zein told ARA News.
“We promise him that we’ll continue this struggle until cleansing Syria from ISIS and pro-Assad militias,” al-Zein said.
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The Military campaign in Idlib and its countryside, north-west Syria, continues and this has led to the disruption of citizens’ daily lives. According to what an activist in the local council Abu Rabee told Asharq Al-Awsat, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has responded to this by bombing the towns of Fua and Kefraya, and has threatened to invade the two cities if the campaign is not stopped.
He explained that the bombing which targeted Kefraya and Fua is a warning against an escalation that would lead to the two towns being invaded in the event that the campaign targeting Idlib continues, and this would spell the end of the agreed upon truce.
Jaysh Al-Fateh and the regime’s forces reached an agreement for a cessation of hostilities between them in September last year in the city of Zibdani, Damascus which the regime’s troops tried to invade by launching a large military campaign that lasted three months. This coincided with a similar truce in the towns of Kefraya and Fua which were blockaded by Jaysh Al-Fateh in an attempt to invade the two towns.
The opposition believes that the escalation of bombing to include civilian areas, markets, mosques and hospitals in Idlib aims to force civilians to flee and leave major cities in a bid to replicate what happened in the northern Aleppo countryside.
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[DAWN] Two more people died in India-held Kashmire on Friday, police said, as anti-India protests and festivities with government forces persisted despite a strict curfew in place for a 14th straight day.
One man died from injuries suffered earlier and another man died in fresh firing, said a police officer.
Authorities tried to prevent protests by barring people from Friday prayers in most of the big mosques but they prayed in small neighbourhood mosques instead, and the protests and festivities began afterwards.
Kashmire’s largest street protests in recent years erupted after Indian forces killed a top krazed killer leader on July 8. At least 48 civilians, mostly teens and young men, have been killed.
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[DAWN] SHANGLA: A man, aided by his brother, killed his five months pregnant wife here for 'honour', accusing her of infidelity, local police said on Saturday.
Minat Sajida, a resident of Dandai area of Besham tehsil of Shangla district, was rubbed out after her husband accused her of having extra-marital relations, the dear departed woman's brother told local police.
Afzal Khan, Station House Officer (SHO) of Dandai cop shoppe, said the victim's brother claimed his sister had been married to Bajreen for 14 years and they had four children. But Bajreen believed he was not the father of the child she was expecting, he added.
The police officer confirmed that the woman was five months pregnant and was killed using a pistol. Both Bajreen and his brother are missing since the murder.
Leaving the other four children as bereft as true orphans -- a very risky career choice in a Third World country that lacks even Dickensonian orphanages. Good job, Dad!
"In the last eight months, three honour killing incidents occurred within the precincts of Dandai cop shoppe and most of the culprits were nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and sent to prison," the police official told Dawn.com.
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DAMASCUS – A Syrian regime fighter jet on Saturday attacked an office for the Violations Documentation Center (VDC) near the capital Damascus.
“Two missiles fired by a Syrian government fighter jet hit the VDC office in the Ghouta district of Damascus countryside on Saturday,” the centre said in a statement.
“According to confirmed evidence, the attack occurred during airstrikes on civilian areas in Doma city in eastern Ghota. The attack led to considerable material damage and the destruction of the office,” it said.
VDC office director, Thaer Hijazi, said that “Doma city and the rest of eastern Ghota cities are under a heavy attack for a week now, where the frequency was noticeably increased during the last week.”
“Yesterday the main city market was attacked resulting in nine deaths, while today the attack started at noon and in the beginning focused on the city outer neighbourhoods but moved to the city centre later.”
The Syrian regime air force launched Saturday a total of twelve airstrikes in the vicinity of Damascus, resulting in 70 injuries and 4 deaths.
“In the afternoon, one of the VDC offices was attacked by two missiles launched from Syrian government jet fighters. The attacked building hosts other civil organization offices like the Local Development Office, The Hurras Network, an office for Rising for Freedom, and an office for the Syrian Non-Violence Movement. The attack did not result in any human casualties but considerable material damage and the destruction of the office.”
The Violations Documentation Centre condemned the bombardment of its office in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, considering it to be in line with the other systematic and continuous hostile activities carried out by the Syrian government against the civilians in the Ghota area.
“The VDC ensures the continuity of its independent legal work in documenting the violations against human rights and the International Humanitarian Law in the Ghota and the rest of Syria from all parties to ensure the fulfilment of its main objective of bringing about justice for the victims and hold perpetrators for the war crimes accountable,” the centre said.
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"This just in. Another attack violation has occurred in...OH SHIT!"
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Van Houten's lawyer said he expected Brown's decision because of political pressure, and said he will challenge decision in court
She was previously denied parole 19 times between 1979 and 2013
Given that she's now 0-20, there might not BE any more pay comin' for that lawyer, which could explain the appeal.
Mike
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She will never see parole. And rightfully so. My uncle was a juror on that trial. He was a very private and loving family man. He was a non violent, peace loving man that lived a life of music and making others lives better. His wife was a school teacher and two wonderful kids. Until the jury summons, they lived the storybook American dream. The trial killed him. He died of cancer at a very early age, only a few years after the trial ended. The Manson crew destroyed everyone involved with them, to include those that has to judge them. The entire Manson crew needs to rot while here on earth and then with gods help they can rot in hell for all eternity...
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Once in a great while even Brown gets it right.
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ZAKHO – Leadership of the Islamic State (ISIS) started relocating its headquarters in the city of Mosul in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province in a bid to minimise losses in its ranks after the US-led coalition intensified its airstrikes on the city, while the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi army troops on Sunday continued their advance in Mosul suburb.
Activists and eyewitnesses in the city of Mosul –main ISIS bastion in Iraq– reported that the militant group has relocated the centres of al-Hisba police, the Sharia Court, the weapons stores and security headquarters.
“The group has moved those key departments to other districts of Mosul believed to be safer,” media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News in Mosul.
“ISIS has also relocated its weapons arsenal. The new stores are positioned inside populated neighbourhoods that are rarely exposed to airstrikes,” the source reported.
The move comes as an attempt by ISIS to avoid further losses in its ranks, as dozens of its jihadis have been killed recently either under airstrikes by the US-led coalition or under bombardment by the ground troops of the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi army.
“This procedure by ISIS was expected,” said Raafat al-Zarari, head of Nineveh media centre.
“The group has recently suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment under airstrikes and shelling, especially after several confidential strongholds for the group in Mosul were uncovered and became an easy target for the coalition and its allies,” al-Zarari told ARA News.
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"So he packed them all up and they moved to Beverly"
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Feel the sudden the need for a carton of Winstons.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... fiercely rejected Donald Trump's depiction of an America in crisis on Friday, arguing that violent crime and illegal immigration have plunged under his leadership to their lowest rates in decades.
Looking to November's election, Obama said, "We're not going to make good decisions based on fears that don't have a basis in fact."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s air defense system has destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Saturday, security sources told the Arabic website of Al Arabiya News Channel.
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With WHAT? Iron Dome? Patriot? Mossberg?
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday summoned a director general (DG) of foreign ministry to brief the court on the efforts the ministry had made with regard to the production of 24 Indian prosecution witnesses in Mumbai attack case.
ATC judge Sohail Ikram ordered the DG of South Asia Desk to appear in court on July 27.
During the hearing, the ATC judge asked the FIA officials about their progress on procuring the attendance of Indian witnesses.
The FIA officials informed the court that they could not directly interact with the Indian High Commission for summoning of witnesses as it was South Asian Desk of the foreign affairs ministry’s job.
Earlier, Pakistain asked India to allow 24 witnesses in the case to appear before ATC in Islamabad in an effort to conclude the trial.
The Indian government was asked to send the witnesses to Pakistain to testify against the seven suspects, including the alleged criminal mastermind, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi ...an asset of the Pak govt and a big turban in Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is actually a redundant statement. Zak was the criminal mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai attack. Despite what India's provided there is not enough evidence in this world for a Pak court to convict him or even to keep him in the calaboose for very long... The ATC has been trying Lakhvi and the other suspects including Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younus Anjum since 2009.
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Jeddah- Civil rights organizations in Yemen called on the swift intervention of international forces and human rights organizations to pressure Houthis and ally ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh to allow the documentation of cases of abduction and arbitrary arrests.
Houthi militias had recently closed down all windows of communication between the captives and their families.
Civil rights organizations and institutions in Yemen have long been enduring Houthi hostility which had sieged and limited the free work of those organizations.
With difficulty in documenting cases of abduction rising, civil rights organizations estimate that the number of cases of abductions by mid-2016 have reached 17 thousand, six thousands of which have gone undocumented or justified.
Some reports of civil rights organizations operating under insurgency-held territory reveal the intolerable size of suffering and torture those held captive by Houthi militias are suffering.
Some extreme near death cases have been documented and will soon be presented before the United Nations.
Houthi insurgents imposing charges on the families of those detained as to cover the pharmaceutical costs for the prisoners’ alleged chronic diseases, which most relatives have denied the prisoners having.
Cases of electrocution, Plier usage and fire have been reported by Houthi-held captives.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean in May likely broke up in midair after a fire erupted in or near the cockpit, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Friday.
However it remains unclear whether the blaze was triggered by mechanical malfunction or a criminal act, Egyptian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Times.
Last Saturday an Egyptian-led investigative committee reported that the word "fire" could be heard on EgyptAir flight 804’s cockpit voice recorder before it crashed.
But the forensic and aviation officials in Cairo who spoke with the Times said that both the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, combined with the distribution and condition of recovered debris and human remains, had led them to their latest conclusion.
EgyptAir flight 804 was carrying 40 Egyptians, 15 French people, two Iraqis, two Canadians and one passenger each from Algeria, Belgium, Britannia, Chad, Portugal, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Sudan.
The Airbus A320 was en route from Gay Paree to Cairo when it disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean.
The crash followed the bombing of a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula last October, killing all 224 passengers and crew.
ISIS grabbed credit for that attack, but there has been no such claim linked to the EgyptAir crash.
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So still, it could have been smoking in the pilot's lounge or a device tucked into the front wheel well. Which is more likely to cause rapid disassembly?
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Salahuddin Operations Command announced arresting 63 ISIS members who sneaked among displaced people from Sharqat district north of Tikrit.
The commander of Salahuddin Operations Major General Jumaa Anad in a statement said, “The joint security forces, in the least few days, have arrested 63 ISIS members who sneaked from al-Sharqat district along with the displaced people. The arrests was carried out based on intelligence information.”
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s prime minister is seeking to speed up the implementation of death sentences, his office said Saturday, despite persistent concerns over flaws in the judicial system that hands them down.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the formation of a committee "to determine the obstacles and causes that result in the delay in the implementation of death sentences," a statement said.
The committee is to make recommendations to "speed up the ratification of those sentences and their implementation," it said.
Iraq has for years faced widespread criticism from diplomats, analysts and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups who have said that, due to a flawed justice system, those being executed are not necessarily guilty of the crimes for which they were sentenced to die.
Following a bombing in Baghdad that killed nearly 300 people earlier this month, the justice ministry announced that five people had been put to death in a statement linking the timing of the executions with the blast.
Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International subsequently repeated calls for a halt to executions in the country, saying that more than 100 had been carried out so far in Iraq this year.
"Amnesia Amnesty International has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to halt executions," it said.
"Death sentences are frequently handed out by courts following grossly unfair trials marred by the use of ’confessions’ extracted under torture," Amnesty said.
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A powerful blast ripped through a military convoy transporting African Union peacekeeping forces in southern Somalia on Saturday, killing at least two people. A local sources told Radio Shabelle over the phone that a bomb planted at a roadside near El-Waregow area has struck the AMISOM convoy, destroying one armored vehicle.
In the aftermath of the blast, AMISOM soldiers opened fire on a nearby crowd, killing at least two unarmed civilians, while several others were wounded, some critically. The AU forces closed off a wide area around the scene at El-Waregow, 30Km away from Marka city after the land-mine explosion, and kicked off a comb-out searches for the suspects, according to the sources.
The AMISOM convoy left Barawe and en route to were on their way to Marka at the time of the roadside bomb attack, which was the latest in series of assaults in the region.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – An informed source informed that three civilians were killed and thirteen others were injured in the explosions of improvised explosive devices at Dawra and Diyala Bridge.
According to information shared by the source, it was stated, “A civilian was killed and six others were injured in a bomb blast near shops in al-Seha neighborhood at al-Dawra area in southern Baghdad.”
The source added, “Another bomb exploded near a popular restaurant in Diyala Bridge area southeast of Baghdad, killing two persons and injuring seven others.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that and IED explosion in southern Baghdad toady morning killed one army man and injured four others.
“An army patrol was passing through Arab Jabbour village in al-Dwara when the blast took place and killed one army man. Four other received serious injuries,” informed the source.
Adding further the source said, “Security forces rushed to the area and evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead body was sent to the forensic department. Forces have cordon off the area and blocked it from any human traffic.”
[THELOCAL.DE] The lone teenager who shot dead nine people in a gun rampage in Munich was "obsessed" with mass killers such as Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik and had no links to the Islamic State group, police said Saturday. "Well, yeah, he was a Moslem mass murderer and not a right-wing Nazi, but he was inspired by a right-wing Nazi,"
Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on the continent in just over a week, after the black-clad gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping centre on Friday evening before turning the gun on himself.
"There is absolutely no link to the Islamic State," Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said.
He said the assault was a "classic act by a deranged person" and described an individual "obsessed" with mass shootings.
He said German investigators saw an "obvious link" between Friday's killings and Breivik's massacre of 77 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting rampage on the nearby island of Utoya exactly five years earlier.
Most of the victims in Friday's attack were foreigners.
Munich prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch said the 18-year-old German-Iranian student - named as David Ali Sonboly - had suffered depression, while media reports said he had undergone psychiatric treatment.
The teenager had 300 rounds in a rucksack when he targeted the busy Olympia shopping mall, just minutes away from the flat he shared with his family, according to authorities.
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inline is right on point -no matter what, it is some white guys fault
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Lies! Damn Lies! Munich gunman inspired by Zionism!!!
A former Somali lawmaker has narrowly escaped an assassination bid after bomb fitted into his private car went off outside a hotel in Mogadishu on Saturday evening, police said. The explosion which was aimed to assassinate Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ainte who served as a legislator in former Somali parliament happened near Wehliye hotel near Somali parliament building in Mogadishu.
Somali police officer has confirmed the attack, saying Mr. Ainte was in the hotel at the time of the car bomb blast. No one was killed or injured in the failed attack.
Afterwards, Somali police personnel have arrived the scene of the blast, and kicked off a combine-out searches for the suspects, but no arrests were made, according to the eyewitnesses.
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] A cache of more than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials, leaked in advance of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Abel P. Upshur ... 's nomination at the party's convention next week in Philadelphia, details the acrimonious split between the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's former rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... Several emails posted by Wikileaks on its document disclosure website show DNC officials scoffing at Sanders and his supporters and in one instance, questioning his commitment to his Jewish religion. Some emails also show DNC and White House officials mulling whether to invite guests with controversial backgrounds to Democratic party events.
Although Wikileaks' posting of the emails Friday did not disclose the identity of who provided the private material, those knowledgeable about the breach said last month that Russian hackers had penetrated the DNC computer system. At the time, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... said the breach was a "serious incident" and a private contractor hired to sweep the organization's network had "moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network."
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So the fix was in for Hildabeast from the get go. Bernie never saw the bus coming before it was too late. Then he caught the bus at the last moment just before he was about to get run over. His progressive followers don't seem to be too happy with this whole affair--they seem to think Bernie "sold out." They also believe there was widespread voter fraud on the part of the Hillary campaign--they even assert "we wuz robbed. The election was stolen." Republicans better watch out for widespread Dem voter fraud. They'd best hire some of the best computer types and election fraud experts ASAP.
[DAWN] Iranian forces have foiled a "terrorist" bid to infiltrate the country from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the official IRNA news agency said on Friday, in the latest report of tension at its borders.
The elite Revolutionary Guards (IRCG) intercepted on Thursday morning "a terrorist group trying to infiltrate the country using Iran’s border with Turkey", IRNA reported quoting a regional commander.
One suspect was killed and one nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! while the other two fled back towards Turkey, said Alireza Madani, a commander in the West Azerbaijan province that borders Turkey. They were intercepted near the city of Salmas and two military rifles were seized, he said.
"Based on the intelligence acquired by the IRGC, the four bully boyz were counter-revolutionary elements who lived in Turkey. They wanted to launch terrorist activities in Iran but their plans were aborted," Madani said.
He gave no further details about the incident, which comes after Turkey declared a state of emergency in the aftermath of a failed coup.
West Azerbaijan province in north-western Iran lies across the border from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish province of Van, often the scene of festivities between Turkish forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The group, which has been demanding greater rights and self-rule, has staged near-daily attacks against the Turkish security forces since a two-and-a-half-year truce collapsed last July.
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[DAWN] Two powerful roadside blasts, caused by as many improvised bombs (IEDs), rocked the Kalam valley on Friday, killing a soldier and wounding five others.
Government sources said that one IED went kaboom! when an army vehicle reached the Bahan area of Kalam tehsil at around 2pm. A soldier, identified as Arif, was killed, while two others were maimed.
Earlier, a roadside IED went kaboom! at about 11am when a vehicle was passing through the same area. Three people -- Ghagra tehsil nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... Syed Salar Jehan and his two relatives Syed Imad Jehan and Shehzad Niazi -- were maimed in the kaboom. They were taken to hospital.
The sources said that it was not clear whether the nazim was the target of the IED.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra condemned the attack on security forces and expressed his shock and sorrow over the loss of the precious life.
In a statement, the governor expressed sympathies with members of the bereaved family and the injured and termed the attack a cowardly act of terror.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A passenger who allegedly had an Isis flag tattooed on his arm was removed from a Norwegian flight to Greece.
Cabin crew suspected the man's inking was of the terror group's symbol or a verse from the Koran, on the 9pm flight from Stockholm's Arlanda Airport to Heraklion on Thursday. They reportedly refused to fly with him on board and the captain removed the man and his female companion, causing delays to the flight.
The plane departed just over an hour later, at 10.05pm.
Darko Ali, a station officer at the airport's border police, confirmed that crew and passengers 'reacted to another passenger for some reason and it created some concern'.
'The captain decided that the person would not be allowed to remain on the plane and wanted the person to leave.'
Mr Ali told German newspaper Expressen: 'He was not welcome on board the plane and we helped him to leave the airport.'
Mats Eriksson at Stockholm Police said that despite police being present when the man was escorted from the plane, 'this is not a police matter.'
'The pilot has full authority to remove whoever he wants from the plane,' he told The Local.
He stressed that the man was not suspected of any crime or detained by police.
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"we helped him to leave the airport."
Scandinavian understatement?
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A judge decided last year's poll will be void and banned Lutfur Rahman from standing in an upcoming election.
Rahman, who became the UK's first Muslim mayor when elected in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 2010, was ruled to have used "undue spiritual influence" to religiously blackmail the Bangladeshi community to vote for him
He was also found to have unfairly smeared his opponent in the election, Labour's John Biggs, a racist.
Judge Richard Mawrey, who also found Rahman had given money to Muslim groups to help secure re-election - even giving cash to those who had not applied for grants - said: "Mr Rahman will remark this decision is about racism and Islamophobia but this is nothing of the sort.
"He has carved a successful career of ignoring and flouting laws and silencing critics with claims of Islamophobia. But they have not been silenced and neither will this court.
"This is the result of the ruthless ambition of one man and the real losers here are the citizens of Tower Hamlets and especially the Bangladeshi community.
"The result of this has been to isolate that community and create resentment from other communities.
"He has accused his opponents of dividing the community but if anyone was it was him.
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apparently a year old?
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Apparently. But you are otherwise batting 1.000 today, and it's nice to be reminded of a win for the good guys.
[LATimes] Where does the LA Times get these people? They wanted to write for the New York Times but the spouse was from Laficornia...
For the last few years, reasonable people of various ideological leanings have been lamenting the scourge that is the word “problematic.” Cropping up particularly in online discussions about social justice and unacknowledged privilege, “problematic” is sort of like “utilize” for the Smuggy McSanctipants set. It’s an unnecessary expansion on a better, simpler word, a piece of linguistic overreach favored by those who are trying to sound smarter and more sure of themselves than they are. For instance, the augmented-reality game “Pokemon Go” has been attacked for a lot of sins, such as excluding people with limited mobility and inserting itself into inappropriate locations. For those who can’t come up with such specifics but still think the game portends the end of the world, “problematic” covers a lot of bases. It does? Problematic is a word similar to conundrum. It's just another way of expressing the word problem as an adjective.
And the sentence looks the same whether the noun or the adjective is used.
Or even if it's utilized.
Urban Dictionary, that indispensable compendium of vernacular terms and usages, defines “problematic” as “a corporate-academic weasel word used mainly by people who sense that something may be oppressive, but don’t want to do any actual thinking about what the problem is or why it exists.” Waitaminnit! Describing something an individual calls a problem as problematic is not thinking? In my estimation if you write something -- anything -- you are thinking, and it does not matter what words you use. Writing is always thinking.
Ah, Urban Dictionary - where I always go to improve my erudition.
That may be a little harsh, because these days a great number of people are doing a great deal of useful thinking about all manner of oppression. But it’s hard not to agree with the definition's essence: “Problematic" is a weasel word. "Allow me to erudit!"
What’s more, as I’ve observed it, “problematic” tends to get used in inverse proportion to the seriousness of the offense. Problem is a base word. When studying Slavic languages you get used to the notion of base words. All of their differing versions mean nothing except a means of properly expressing a thought through using the correct syntax and spelling. So it is with the word problematic. It is the adjectival (See what I did there?) version of the base word problem. It means nothing more nor less than the base word, but for its length and spelling. Feel free to ponder the differences between Slavic language versions of "problematic." What would be the fine difference between "otproblematic" and "izproblematic?" "Pereproblematic" would span whole regions of problematism. "Pereproblematiruyushchi" would perhaps be a continuing problematic span? Maybe if it's been rendered problematic it would be "problematirovanni." If it happened suddenly it could be "zaproblematirovanni." Chekhov and Tolstoi really missed out when problematic wasn't a part of the Russian language.
We don’t hear “problematic” applied to police shootings of unarmed black men or to legislation preventing transgender people from using certain bathrooms. (The operative description of those issues would be, respectively, “actual problem” and “stupid.”) We certainly don’t hear it when the topic is international finance or the NFL because most people who use “problematic” can’t be bothered to follow such things. In the last few months the word has been applied, with some fanfare, to Calvin Trillin, who published a poem about Chinese food in the New Yorker that was deemed racist, and to Taylor Swift’s new boyfriend, whom fans are unhappy about because ... I have no idea. Important to note here, since she brought up the subject: Meghan is white. I didn't even have to Google a mug shot because I knew she was white based on her name and the subject matter. Meghan is one of those female small tyrants who hate her own racial class so much that if she saw jihadis bearing down on her armed with AKs and bomb belts, she would break out the old pompoms and pleated skirt to act as cheerleader, right up until the moment the first round struck her in the chest. As she lay bleeding out, she would never blame the f*ckers who shot her. It will always be her political opponents who will be blamed for her personal demise. That is what she wants for her readers. She is a petty, fascist-worshiping, left-leaning tyrant who has had a hand in opening the gates to let the barbarians in. And that, my friends, is problematic. Calvin Trillin? He's still alive? He's so old, he was God's grandmother's prom date. And he wrote a poem about chop suey or chow mein or General Tso's chicken that was published in The New Yorker? They still publish The New Yorker? And people look at it, even without Charles Addams cartoons? Wow. I'm snowed.
“Problematic” as the rallying cry of sanctimonious posturing is nothing new. In 2013, Gawker named it one of the worst words of the year. If you can't agree with Gawker's opinion who can you agree with?
The satirical Tumblr site, everythingsaproblem, hilariously sends up “call out culture” with pitch-perfect deconstructions of identity politics that require “problematic.” Example: According to everythingsaproblem, the type of cuddling known as spooning, which one culture critic called a “fundamentally sexist arrangement,” represents the “deeply problematic way that power structures propagate themselves.” Those attempting to control words and thought are the sanctimonious ones. Power structures utilize the spoon position to propagate? I thought they used the missionary position?
Until recently, my problem with “problematic” mostly had to do with the moralizing, condescending and reliably humorless people using it. I actually never keyed in on it before. I occasionally got wrought up about people who utilized constructs like "myself and..." someone else in the nominative case, or people who use "in order to" instead of just "to." Now that I'm alerted, though, I'll keep a lookout for moralizing, condescending and reliably humorless people writing about it.
But when I thought more about it (and, yes, I recognize that sitting around thinking about “problematic” might itself be called problematic), I realized what we really need to do is look at so-called problematic things through a different lens: not as something we've labeled and figured out but as the exact opposite. That would mean unlabeled and unconsidered? Having considered once, can one unconsider? I suppose it's possible, though men couldn't do it. I think it remains a woman's prerogative to unconsider.
Think about it: I just did.
Much of what is deemed problematic is really just complicated, it's interesting. I totally disagree. Have you ever actually read anything Calvin Trillin's written? I thought not. There's a reason God's grandmother left the prom with that other guy. Of course, that was several Big Bangs ago, and nobody talks about it...
In a less fragile and reactionary culture we might call these things “worthy of discussion.” In a slightly more Bolshevist culture they'd just shoot you.
But discussion — you know, where people take turns talking and listening — has gone out of style. When one side wants to use the media, the courts and the legislatures to impose their personal political views and social conditions on others, the need for conversation is over. And so, conversations will not get back into "style" until tyrants like Meghan back off for good from attacking their political opponents. Myself and lots of other people find people like Meghan Oppresive™.
Instead of talk we have the indignant tweet, the Tumblr account filled with reaction gifs of celebrities rolling their eyes and, I only look at Tumblr for the dirty pictures.
of course, the mic drop, which signals that whatever was just said is the final word on the matter and no one need respond or dissent. With so many pre-packaged, automated responses to choose from, there scarcely seems any need to go to the trouble of having an actual conversation. The only thing Meghan has gotten right in this whole missive. The problem for Meghan is that she lacks self awareness sufficient to recognize she and her ilk don't want a conversation. They want silence, submission and surrender to their political peccadilloes. They attack language usage, as if it were their own personal preserve to make decisions they have no business or right to make.
Except that actual conversations can be fun. Crafting cogent arguments is generally more stimulating than just lobbing the “problematic” grenade and calling it a day. As powerful as any one word can be, it could be even more powerful when it’s connected to others to form sentences. “Problematic” isn’t an idea. It’s a mask for a sad lack of ideas. Allow me to introduce the top Sad Sack of Ideas, Megan Daum. Isn't she great? [Golf clap]
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In search of an effable villain
They sniff at themselves by the billion:
A whiff of vanillin!
"I smell Calvin Trillin...
Quick, bring me my salts penicillin!"
FBI says trio's plot to travel to Syria to join 'violent jihad' thwarted
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Three Palm Beach County men who planned to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State have been charged with knowingly conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS, federal authorities said Friday.
Gregory Hubbard, 52, Darren Jackson, 50, both of West Palm Beach, and Dayne Christian, 31, of Lake Park, were named in a federal criminal complaint as being ISIS sympathizers.
A reminder that not all terrorists are named Mohammed...
According to the complaint, Hubbard expressed support for ISIS, described as ISIL, and told an FBI confidential informant that he wanted to travel to Syria and join ISIS to engage in a "violent jihad."
The FBI said Hubbard introduced the informant to Christian and Jackson, both of whom provided weapons and firearms instructions to them for the purpose of traveling overseas to join ISIS.
"Christian stated that he was in contact with a Syrian national inside Syria who was a member of ISIL," the complaint said.
We might not be able to arrest that "Syrian national", but perhaps we can drone-zap him?
The FBI said Hubbard and Christian used the phrase "soccer team" as code when referring to ISIS and "playing soccer" when referring to joining ISIS.
"Both Hubbard and Jackson stated that they felt persecuted because of their Islamic faith and that they thought the other individuals at the shooting range were training to kill Muslims," the complaint said.
The FBI said Hubbard purchased an airplane ticket to Germany, where he planned to board a train to Turkey and then on to Syria.
Special Agent Brian King listed several examples of the trio's support of ISIS, including during a meeting between Hubbard and the informant at a restaurant and while Christian and Hubbard discussed a potential target at Christian's gym.
Hubbard and the informant were eating at a restaurant in December when a news report on the mass shooting at San Bernardino, California, came on the television. The informant said the shooting was a tragedy, but Hubbard "grew upset, stood up suddenly and loudly exclaimed that he did not care how many Americans and infidels were killed." Hubbard also said he didn't care if others noticed his outburst.
Later that month, Christian spoke about wanting to follow a man who had worn a U.S. Marines shirt home from the gym and shoot him.
"Christian said that he could hide in the bushes outside the victim's house for two hours and wait for him to come home and then 'pop,'" the complaint said.
Hubbard was arrested Thursday at Miami International Airport as he prepared to embark on his overseas trip. Jackson was arrested after dropping off Hubbard at the airport. Christian was arrested while he was at work. The FBI said Christian also admitted to buying four guns in the last year, including an AK-47 assault rifle. He was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
An arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 5.
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Donald, spend your money on taking Hillary down. If you are not careful, she will slice and dice you. She's had far more experience in this arena than you--there are bodies across the world from Arkansas to the Mideast that are not around to testify.
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Tis a moot point. Cruz’s and Kasich took a pledge to back the GOP candidate. Instead they pouted off like petulant college children to their safe spaces.
Carlson and Cruz where honestly intriguing to me. But after watching several Cruz speeches I was beyond baffled and the gross diodes of flat out lie that he poured out to his lower informed supporters. No insult here to the wonderful Burg supporters... And I liked the guy.
And remember the attack on Trump's wife came from a PAC member working out of Carly Fiorina's own office. Their was no call from the indignant Teddy to fire her staffer. He would have had to admit who she was working for.
Kasich? A man who can't even figure out how to chew with his mouth closed. Nice guy that even in his own rosy world but I'm willing to wager a healthy bet that the dead algae in my pond have a rational myriad more of function IQ that Ohio's answer to Lurch.
If you have wandering dogs you kennel them up.
Trumps musings over these two is likely a passing reflection on what to do with idiots. Don't know if I approve but to flippantly disregard why is to miss the majority of the mood of the largest voter turn out in GOP history.
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It's a pendulum.
The harder he pushes them away now, while the memory is still fresh, the faster they will return in early October, dragging their advocates with.
I still hope for a Bernie swing as well.
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#17 Yes, I agree. It is a mute point.Every chance a rock is hurled about aimlessly. He said she said. Move along. I get the same every day from my liberal cousins. The Washington post is planting every negative it can every day. USA Today was also but suddenly a complete about face. I don't expect that to last. Circulation has dropped for both and prices have gone up. USA Today is going where the money is. Full page Trump just a few days ago (July 18th). This is a positive historic moment in American history. Enjoy the ride or lament and moan on the sidelines with Debbie Wassermann Schultz and Whoppi Goldberg. Hey, some on the Republican side will move to Canada with the Democrat's if Trump wins. Bye Bye....
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FWIW, I concur with Michael Mann's comment. Also, would like to emphasize that the Bloomberg article, which reads like a cat bringing a rat in the house as a trophy, is sourced this way: "The person close to Trump’s thinking ...." That's about as weaselly worded as I can imagine, protecting from charge of libel. Easily a person who hates Trump, not on his staff, but psychically puts her/himself in Trump's frame of mind, supposedly, and, keying off passages from his extempore Friday, says or writes what the article claims to report.
Trump's point Friday was that Cruz attacked his wife. He did, see Mann above. Trump was seriously joking about PAC-ing Ted. "The person close to Trump's thinking" -- namely, anyone who saw the video -- decided he was just serious are reported out the same. Dishonest.
Tactically, now IS the time to forewarn political enemies so they are not emboldened, later, to snipe. I think that's what Trump was doing Friday at the presser from which this Bloomberg story was fabricated. And yes, when you have a bat, let potential opposition see you warming up with it. Cruz and Kasich are not even in Trump's league. They flatter themselves that their punching up at Trump, or threatening to, has merit. But they needed little demonstration and got one.
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and, FYI, Michael "Gimme your guns" Bloomberg is endorsing the Hildabeest. "Firewalls of journalistic integrity"?
Ahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahhahhah
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Republicans held their convention in Ohio and yet the governor of Ohio, who signed a pledge to support the nominee, couldn't be bothered to show up and support the nominee. Maybe he'd be more comfortable this coming week in Philadelphia. And as for Cruz...weasel.
Anybody remember what Harry Truman said? If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
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Cruz walked into the kitchen and he told the chef his recipe sucks.
Cruz Sr has an amazing LEGAL immigrant story.
His son US Senator Ted Cruz said he did not authorize the Mrs Trump image. As mentioned above that seems to have come from Carly Fiorina.
To respond by attacking Cruz's wife AND father made any cooperative agreement TOTALLY null and void.
You make a deal with me and due to a misstep you knee jerk into slandering my immediate family I will never HONOR anything supposedly signed on the lines of mutual respect, which now no longer exists.
Still don't get it???
That just shows why everything stateside for this generation is a bloody mess.
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AND if a higher power determines you need another 8 years of hell, there is nothing you can do about it.
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The most ironic thing is Trump tore up the pledge on live television back in March, yet people are still harping on about it as if Cruz/Kasich did it. Which just goes to show Trump knows how to set narrative I suppose.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS group bandidosLions of Islam clashed Saturday with US-backed fighters in Syria’s Manbij, a monitor said, as a 48-hour deadline passed for the bandidosLions of Islam to leave the battleground town.
The ultimatum was issued Thursday by the Manbij Military Council, part of the Arab-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance that is fighting ISIS with support from a US-led coalition.
The bandidosLions of Islam are accused of using civilians as human shields in Manbij, located in the northern province of Aleppo on ISIS’ main supply route between Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "The 48-hour period is over, and there will be no more opportunities like this one for ISIS (ISIS)," a Manbij Military Council commander told AFP on condition of anonymity.
ISIS has "not responded" to the SDF’s offer and had instead "attacked our positions" in Manbij, he said.
"We will intensify our attacks on their remaining positions in the town," the commander said, adding that the SDF was working to "secure safe passages" for civilians in Manbij looking to flee.
The ultimatum came after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor, said that at least 56 civilians, including children, were killed on Tuesday in coalition air strikes near Manbij.
Coalition front man Colonel Chris Garver said on Friday that ISIS had "used civilians as human shields and as bait" in order to draw the fire of the SDF towards civilians.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said there were sporadic festivities inside Manbij and raids by the US-led coalition on the town as the deadline approached for ISIS to leave.
"ISIS is fiercely resisting attempts by the SDF forces to advance inside the city and is pushing children towards the frontlines in spite of the deadline," he said.
The coalition front man said that the jihadists were mounting an exceptionally tough fightback in Manbij.
Fighting has grown more intense as SDF units move into the city, he said, "which is sort of different than what we saw in Ramadi and what we saw 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... " two Iraqi cities from which jihadists were ousted this year.
"It’s a fight like we haven’t seen before," said Garver.
He estimated that the SDF had taken back roughly half the city, an area still housing at least 2,000 civilians.
Garver said he could not confirm that the SDF had issued an ultimatum to ISIS fighters to leave Manbij.
He said that Tuesday’s air raid was called after the SDF "observed a large group of ISIS (ISIS) fighters in a convoy who appeared to be readying for a counterattack."
"The strike was against both buildings and vehicles," said Garver.
Afterwards, the front man said, the coalition received both internal and external reports "that there may have been civilians in the area who are mixed in and among the ISIS (ISIS) fighters."
The US-led coalition has opened an investigation into the reports of civilian deaths, which have sparked condemnation including from Syrian activists and opposition groups.
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the presidential guard regiment will be disbanded, Anadolu reported.
"There will not be any presidential guard as we do not need it any more," the agency said citing the prime minister as saying.
At least 246 people, excluding members of the security forces and civilians, were martyred and more than 2,100 others were wounded as they protested the coup attempt.
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probably they will replace the Presidential Guard with a more heavily armed group and call it something else
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"The Sultan's Own", with historically correct xylophones in the marching band.
BLUF: Money.
With economic power will come political power, and the veterans of the Castro regime will have nothing left to show for sixty years of poverty and sacrifice. The ‘reform’ faction in Cuba hopes that an interim twilight period between total socialism and total capitalism will allow them to do what other ex-communists have done, and shift their political control in a socialist context into political control and economic power as Cuba changes. They hope for the kind of privatizations and investments that leave the current elite holding the sources of wealth.
The problem with that theory is that Cuba isn’t a China or a Vietnam, where there is enough wealth-creating power to unleash so that a process of economic reform can be managed in such a way that it shores up rather than undercuts the power of the current rulers. Cuba is too small and too poor.
That the Obama White House thinks that a deal with Castro under the circumstances is a diplomatic victory and a trophy to go in the trophy case is not a mark of wisdom—though one can hope that the people who arranged it are smart enough to know that, and are only making a big deal out of it because of all the aging hippies and Sandernistas out there who will hail this as a glorious victory for working people everywhere.
But it remains the case that under the current circumstances it is in America’s interest to do what we can to offer a soft landing to a failed regime and a failed polity in a neighboring state. We don’t want Cuba to collapse in poverty, anarchy and ruin. We don’t want the Cuban people to starve—and to build rafts. We don’t want order to break down. Transition will clearly come; something that is unsustainable won’t last forever. And though we may have to hold our noses to do it, when the time comes it will be better for U.S. interests to work with the heirs of the Castros to arrange a transition that they can live with. We may need to acquiesce in the creation of some new Red Tycoons in Cuba as the price of a peaceful transition.
Why not let the people stand the Red Tycoons against the wall, as was done in Romania, and have some less-tainted folks step up?
The same, by the way, is true in Venezuela. In that horror of a failing state, the idiots who have created this disaster may deserve a terrible fate at the hands of the people they have done so much to ruin, but it is in everyone’s interest to organize as smooth a transition as possible when the time comes. Anarchy, chaos, urban street fights among armed gangs, or in the worst case, episodes of civil war—none of this is good for the Venezuelan people, Venezuela’s neighbors, or the United States.
Two important countries in our neighborhood are melting down; dealing with that is likely to take much more of the next President’s time than most people now think. Pragmatic and levelheaded policy is what we are going to need, and getting to a good place isn’t going to be easy.
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It was all about Legacy™ and screwing American safety and principles, like the Iran deal
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My impression is that there is a well developed, intelligent and very capable opposition in Venezuela, which actually won the recent election.
Also it is said that the daughter of the ex dictator is now a billionaire.
Is it really necessary to support the old guard in Venezuela and make them all rich?
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^Absolutely. The populace has to be so totally against the regime's policies, ideals, and status that they rise up themselves to Ceausescu the regime before we intervene. By feeding, aiding, and extending their submission we aren't doing them any favors in the Macro sense
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that was for #6. Grom snuck in ahead of the "submit" button
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MUD the opposition commando, is barely unified, overly cautious and nearly as incompetent politically as the PSUV is economically. There will be no recall election this year, the CNE (election board) along with TSJ (high court) can, does and will override any initiative by the MUD controlled Nationally Assembly. There is still guiso to be had, and heck maybe the Wiley Chinee will come thru at the last minute and keep the game rolling along until oil hits $100 again. Of course there is the off chance of famine... Which is bad politics. If the regime somehow pays the upcoming October Vene Bonds there will be famine in February. If the regime balks and defaults maybe something can be worked out with the IMF, which would likely mean a change in government.
All of the state oil companies (PDVSA) bonds lack collective action classes has does some of Venezuela's sovereign debt, so it could be vulture city.
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It [Cuba] gets more oil than it needs [from Venezuela], and sells the surplus.
The arrangement is coming unglued because Venezuela is running out of other people's money? Cuba ran out of other people's money long ago. Socialism and communism has a built-in self-destruct button that has made it unworkable wherever it's been tried.
[DAWN] Two powerful kabooms on Saturday destroyed crowds of minority Hazaras in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... who had gathered to protest over a power line, killing at least 80 people and leaving 231 others maimed, Afghan public health ministry said.
Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for twin kabooms. The bombings, apparently aimed at sowing sectarian discord in a country well known for Shia-Sunni harmony, came as thousands of Hazaras gathered to protest over a multi-million-dollar power line.
"As a result of the attack 80 people were martyred and 231 others were maimed," the interior ministry said in a statement.
"Based on initial information, the attack was carried out by three jacket wallahs... The third attacker was bumped off by security forces."
The Taliban, who are in the middle of their annual summer offensive and are more powerful than IS, strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! any involvement in the attack.
IS claimed the bombings in a statement carried by its affiliated Amaq news agency, calling it an attack on Shias.
One of the march organisers Laila Mohammadi said she arrived at the scene soon after the blast and saw "many dead and maimed people".
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see this is where you get it wrong watching western TV - all these #BLM, #OccupyWallstreet, #NoBloodForOil marches - cops just standing around looking tolerant (coz rules).
Here you are in primitiveland thinking a march or demo is gonna work - only marches or demos that are ok are the ones against dishoonrable wives, heretics, Christians and other kuffar. Stay safe, arm up, coz y'all Hazaras are on the list.
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thousands of Hazaras gathered to protest over a multi-million-dollar power line.
reeeaaally?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The anti-terrorism proposals of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump make him the better option for Europe and Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday.
Orban, who has built razor-wire border fences to stop migrants colonists, said in Romania that Trump's ideas about the need for the best intelligence services and his opposition to "democracy export" were also applicable in Europe.
"I am not Donald Trump's campaigner," the Hungarian leader said at a cultural event in Baile Tusnad, Romania, an area with a large Hungarian population. "I never thought that the idea would ever occur to me that he is the better of the open options for Europe and Hungary.
"I listened to (Trump) and I have to tell you that he made three proposals to stop terrorism. And as a European, I myself could not have drawn up better what Europe needs."
Orban, who returned to power in 2010, has often been criticized by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the United States and others for his policies to centralize power, control civic groups and increase government influence over media.
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... visited Hungary in 2011 as secretary of state, and expressed US concerns over the independence of its courts and the press and government corruption.
EU ’fooling itself’
Orban, whose speech was broadcast live on Hungarian state media, blamed the West for intervening unsuccessfully in countries like Egypt and Libya. While Hungary was not "indifferent" to the state of political and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , he said its stability was most important.
"If I'm asked what is Hungary's strongest expectation regarding Turkey today, we will put stability first," Orban said. "If Turkey becomes unstable, many tens of millions of people from that region will hurtle toward Europe without any sort of filtering, screening or control."
Orban was again very critical of the EU leadership in Brussels.
"Europe's current politicianship has failed," Orban said, adding that the EU was "fooling itself" if it still viewed itself as a "global actor," saying that era had ended with the vote by Britannia to leave the 28-nation bloc.
Orban again said individual countries in Europe should have more authority to make their own decisions on specific issue like migration.
"Our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels," Orban said. "The babus bureaucrats in Brussels are an obstacle for us, not Islam."
Answering questions after his speech, Orban said Europe needed to set up its own army.
"A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration," Orban said, according to his office.
Orban did not directly address comments by Trump that called into question US commitments to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's mutual defense clause, but said he had changed his mind about NATO being enough in its current form to ensure the peace in Europe.
Hungary shut its borders with Serbia and Croatia last year, greatly stemming the flow of migrants colonists coming from Turkey through Greece and further north into the EU.
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Unidentified armed man have shot and killed a Muslim clergyman in Yemen’s port city of Aden on a day which also featured fresh Saudi bombardments, leaving some people dead.
Local sources said gumen, carrying firearms fitted with silencers, attacked Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Zuhri as he left al-Rahman Mosque after leading dawn prayers Saturday, the Huna Aden news website reported. Sheikh Zuhri was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his gunshot wounds, it added.
In the capital Sana'a, a grenade exploded outside a mosque as worshipers were leaving after midday prayers. There were no injuries or casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the explosion under a parked car by the Bilal mosque in western Sana'a.
Takfiri militants have exploited Saudi attacks on Yemen over the past 16 months to strike at various targets and wreak havoc.
The Houthis have controlled Sana'a since 2014 when former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi stepped down and fled to Aden before taking refuge in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia launched a ferocious military campaign then to restore Hadi to power and crush the Houthi movement. More than 9,400 people have reportedly been killed in Saudi airstrikes.
Hadi loyalists and allies from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia control Aden and have pledged to win back control of the capital.
ISIL said it carried out an attack on a mosque in Sanaa last September that killed 10 worshipers.
Early Saturday, warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in Nihm district of Sana'a Province as well as the city of Sirwah, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
On Friday, at least 20 civilians sustained injuries when Saudi warplanes struck areas close to Hajar dam in Majz district of the northwestern Sa’adah province.
People had reportedly massed near the dam to cool off amid simmering summer temperatures when the airstrike took place.
(IraqiNews.com) KIRKUK – A security source in Kirkuk informed on Saturday that five ISIS members were killed and nine others injured towards southwest of the province.
The source, while speaking to Iraqi News, said, “The Peshmerga forces today foiled and ISIS attack at the Valley of Oil area, 30 km southwest of Kirkuk. At least five ISIS members were killed and nine others were injured. An ISIS vehicle was also destroyed. ”
Seeking anonymity the source said, “ISIS, through these attempts, are trying to prove that it is still capable of attacking the security forces. The outfit has suffered miserably on the hands of Peshmerga forces and the international coalition aviation.”
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[IMAGES.DAWN] Social media sensation Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered by her brother last week, has been deleted off Facebook. Her official page that hosted her photos and videos is no longer available, and her account on Instagram - also owned by Facebook - has been deleted.
As per Facebook policy, any personal account that belongs to a deceased individual is automatically made into a memorialized account where friends and family can share memories on the timeline.
However, "pages with a sole admin whose account was memorialized will be removed from Facebook if we receive a valid request," states Facebook's help centre.
The reason for her accounts' deletion is unknown.
Obviously because Facebook received a "valid request"...
One plausible explanation could be that since Qandeel was the sole admin and many may have reported her accounts after her death, they were removed.
Another explanation could be that Facebook received a request for deletion of her accounts from the government; the company has, on multiple occasions rolled over removed or blocked content on requests by the state.
Like I was just saying...
That's the end of her videos and photos, folks.
Qandeel Baloch's claim to fame were her risque Facebook and Instagram uploads which many found objectionable. The 26-year-old, popular was strangled to death by her brother at her Multan residence. He was arrested by police in Dera Ghazi Khan and confessed to killing his sister in the name of 'honour'.
All that remains of her online persona is her Twitter handle.
Perhaps the Wayback Machine captured her work?
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[MEDIAITE] Part of the cache of emails from top DNC officials reveals that DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... took issue with the negative coverage coming from MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, going so far as to email NBC’s Chuck Todd to tell the anchor that it "must stop."
The email was sent on May 18 to Todd with the subject "Chuck, this must stop." In the email, Wasserman Schultz forwards Todd an article from Breitbart’s Ian Hanchett glossing the criticism Wasserman Schultz had received from the Morning Joe co-host. Brzenzinski is quoted as saying that Wasserman Schultz "should step down" over her poor handling of the Democratic primary.
"Chuck, see below. I would like to discuss this with you today. Can you reach out to Luis to schedule a call? Thanks," Wasserman Schultz writes.
Just before contacting Todd, in an email to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda, Wasserman Schultz was more forceful, writing, "This is the LAST straw. [...] This is outrageous. She needs to apologize."
Todd replied to Wasserman Schultz with the hours that day he was available to speak, and she agrees to have Miranda set up a call.
Todd told Mediaite that the email was not remarkable. "I think it’s clear what it was. Someone complaining about coverage," he said. "Something that happens daily from every campaign we interact with."
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And... she's been hired as a HRC functionary: "Honorary Chair"
there oughtta be a lightning strike any time the Hildabeest says "honor" "honorary", .....
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I hear she will take over the important job of wiping Chelsea's butt. Humma is tired of doing it, but since Chelsea isn't competent to do it, someone has to...
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Does little Miss Debbie know where Ft. Marcy Park is? No matter, Hildabeast does.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi forces are digging a trench on the northern outskirts of Fallujah a month after taking it back from ISIS, security officials said on Saturday, raising concerns about repopulating the deserted city.
Displaced residents are waiting for Fallujah’s streets and buildings to be cleared of ISIS explosives before returning, while the troops that retook the city are gradually being replaced by local police and tribal fighters.
Even as attention has shifted north recently to an expected offensive on djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraqi forces have continued to pursue ISIS fighters, estimated in the several hundreds, in western Anbar province, where Fallujah is located.
The ultra-hardline snuffies regularly launch suicide kabooms against security forces near Fallujah as well as near Ramadi and Hit further to the west from the open desert or farmland areas to the north.
The trench north of Fallujah extends about 5 km east from the Euphrates river towards the main highway from Baghdad, an hour’s drive away, said Major General Saad Harbiya, an army commander. It is about one meter deep and 1.5 meters wide, he said by phone.
Harbiya said the barrier was meant to keep forces posted outside Fallujah from entering the city proper following allegations that homes and public buildings had been looted and burned after the ISIS defeat.
Keen to avoid a repeat of systematic looting after the recovery of cities like Tikrit and Baiji last year, government forces say they have managed to limit abuses to a few isolated cases 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... long a bastion of Sunni Moslem insurgency and seen as a launchpad for kabooms in Baghdad.
Berms made of rubble and burnt-out cars went up on many roads inside the city after ISIS was routed in late June in order to confine an array of Iraqi forces to their separate areas of operation.
Mayor Issa al-Issawi, who fled following the ISIS seizure of the city in January 2014, said the trench was built for security reasons but would hinder efforts to restore life to the city, which once had a population of around 300,000.
"Fallujah is now divided and we cannot work comfortably. This is not how things should be done," he said.
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Sultan Knish thinks as clearly as he writes, and Judge Williams is worth writing about.
Judge Barry G. Williams once again handed the Freddie Gray lynch mob a decisive defeat, shredding the prosecution’s case against Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking police officer targeted by the mob.
Judge Williams stated firmly that, the court “cannot be swayed by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion.” Instead he insisted that it had to follow the law. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who became a national figure by heading the Freddie Gray lynch mob, did not even bother to show up. She knew what was coming. And she had no interest in following the law.
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Law Enforcement, black, white, brown, yellow who try to bring law and order to the street do so because they have seen first hand what lack of law and order can do to people on the street.
They don't just wear the shield they are "The Shield".
[BBC] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has detained the nephew of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen, in connection with the failed coup attempt, state media report.
Muhammet Sait Gulen will be taken to the capital, Ankara, from Erzurum, the eastern region where his uncle was born, the Anadolu news agency says.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... blames the coup attempt on Mr Gulen.
Earlier, the president extended the period in which suspects can be detained without charge to 30 days.
A statement carried by state media also ordered the closure of more than 1,000 private schools and more than 1,200 associations.
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[Breitbart] The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker’s full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.
Most sources at this point suggest that Ali David Sonboly ‐ the Munich attacker who targeted children and killed nine yesterday ‐ is not connected to radical Islam, but the BBC has gone to extraordinary lengths to try to keep any reference to his heritage out of its coverage, opting to name him only as "David Sonboly".
Other news organisations including the Wall Street Journal, Independent, Daily Mail, and Sky News named the attacker as "Ali David Sonboly" or "David Ali Sonboly". CNN even referred to him simply as "Ali Sonboly".
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Reminds me of the Home Security Company teevee advert where the hapless burglar is always someone who looks just like me, only wearing a watch cap and 50 years younger.
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The media playing this as a lone gunman rightwing style attack. I have yet to see a single reference to him persecuted in school because he was a shiia, and he appeared to have specifically targeted sunni muslims.
Immigrants bring their hatreds with them. If this isn't terrorism, then neither are the numerous sunni-shiia-sunni massacres across the Middle East.
(IraqiNews.com) SALAHADDIN – A security source in Salahaddin province announced on Saturday that six civilians were killed and about eight others injured in a bomb blast that targeted the families escaping ISIS control in Sharqat Island towards the north of Salahaddin province.
Speaking to Iraqi News the source said, “An explosive device planted to the side of a road in Sharqat Island exploded at noon today, while families escaping ISIS control from the district were heading towards Baiji. Six civilians were killed and eight others were injured.”
Seeking anonymity the source said, “ISIS is planting explosive devices on the paths of the families fleeing their control. Taking risks, several families every day, are escaping through these roads and bomb blasts like the one day have claimed a number of innocent lives.”
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[SAT] South African taxpayers have footed the bill of almost R10 million for President Jacob Zuma’s legal fees and exorbitant legal counsel, the Democratic Alliance said on Saturday.
“Our research reveals that since 2009 President Zuma has spent an inordinate amount of taxpayers’ money on keeping himself from facing justice. This is despite there being no basic services for the millions of South Africans who so deserve them, DA federal executive chairman James Selfe told reporters at a press conference in Port Elizabeth.
Specifically, since November 2013, this included advocate’s fees of R4,795,000; attorney’s fees of R400,000; correspondence fees, etc of R300,000; administration fees of R4000; and cost orders of R1,200,000, among others.
“This is the hallmark of frivolous expenditure for one man. This is set to rise since the president and his cronies at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) take this matter to the Constitutional Court. This is indicative of how much the ANC state has become preoccupied with protecting President Zuma and that alone,” Selfe said.
Venezuela's economic crisis has sent a huge but largely ignored wave of people into Colombia, and many more could be on the way, Martin Gottwald, the United Nations Refugee Agency's representative in Colombia, said.
No exact figures are available, but the number of Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia is already "quite large," and Colombia should prepare itself for more, Gottwald told AFP in an interview. "The avalanche is probably going to increase, with or without the reopening of the border."
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro closed the countries' border in August 2015 after an attack on an army patrol. He blamed right-wing paramilitaries from Colombia. Venezuelans are sneaking across the border even when it is closed, driven abroad by the economic crisis, violent crime and a health care system teetering on the brink of collapse.
The leftist leader briefly reopened it last weekend to allow Venezuelans to stock up on food, medicine and other basic supplies amid severe shortages in Venezuela.
Gottwald said a sizeable number of Venezuelans who entered Colombia probably never returned. He urged the Colombian government to start putting contingency plans in place for the "worst-case scenario."
[DAWN] Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said Pakistain's 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... must know that "Kashmire can never become a part of Pakistain".
"Whole India wants to tell Pak premier in one voice that his and Pakistain's dream (of making Kashmire its part) will never come true," Swaraj said during a presser.
The Indian minister also accused Pakistain of backing bully boyz with the help of UN designated hard boyz and notorious figures like Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , in order to turn the valley into a living hell.
"The Pak PM says his prayers are with people of Kashmire. I must remind him that Pakistain has never prayed for the people of the valley but has given them pain in the form of terrorism," said Swaraj.
She also condemned Nawaz Sharif's condemnation of separatist commander Burhan Wani's murder and asked him why he described Wani as a martyr despite knowing that he was a part of the 'terrorist group' Hizbul Mujahideen.
Nawaz Sharif, while addressing a public gathering on Friday after his party's victory in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (Pakistain administered part of Kashmire) elections, said: "We are waiting for the day Kashmire becomes Pakistain."
"Their movement for freedom cannot be stopped and it will be successful. You are aware of how they are being beaten and killed. All our prayers are with them and we are waiting for the day Kashmire becomes Pakistain," Nawaz had said.
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The reporting media source is probably more noteworthy that the article.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) — WikiLeaks released over 20,000 emails on Friday allegedly sent from the accounts of U.S. Democratic National Committee officials, including dozens of off the record media correspondence.
Some of the most interesting emails to read are those exchanged by DNC staffers as they decide how to respond to media inquiries, and then their off-the-record and deep background responses to numerous national media outlets. The emails contained off the record correspondence with reporters at the Washington Post, Politico, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.
The emails, according to WikiLeaks, covers the period from January 2015 through May 25, 2016. Wikileaks said this is just part one of the Hillary Leaks series.
An internal email from DNC spokesman Eric Walker mocked a Buzzfeed news report analyzing the DNC and the Republican National Committee’s potentially weak cybersecurity.
Another email shows DNC staffers’ fake craigslist job posting made for women who wish to apply to jobs at one of Trump’s organizations. The fake position, titled a Honey Bunny, requires the prospective applicant to, among other tasks, refrain from gaining weight, be open to public humiliation and be alright with groping or kissing by her boss.
Another email between DNC national finance director Jordan Kaplan and DNC’s Northern California finance director Erik Stowe has Kaplan coarsely describing a conference call with President Barack Obama on National Small Business Week as related to “small business sh*t.”
Wikileaks has not revealed the source of the leaked emails.
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Debbie Downer off the speakers list for the convention. 30,000 Bernsters ready to protest. Too big to bury. Interesting to see if the talking heads mention it this morning. Should be a hot week in Philly.
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Another email shows DNC staffers’ fake craigslist job posting made for women who wish to apply to jobs at one of Trump’s organizations. The fake position, titled a Honey Bunny, requires the prospective applicant to, among other tasks, refrain from gaining weight, be open to public humiliation and be alright with groping or kissing by her boss.
Projection.
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The fake position, titled a Honey Bunny, requires the prospective applicant to, among other tasks, refrain from gaining weight, be open to public humiliation and be alright with groping or kissing by her boss.
Huma responded to the ad. Awkward
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The MSM is in collusion with Hillary and the DNC. Golly gee; who would have known (sarc)?
Until they don't anymore, of course. And laws can be changed easily enough when the legislature knows that rubber-stamping is required.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will strongly adhere to democratic principles and rule of law, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Saturday, referring to the government’s crackdown in the aftermath of a failed military coup.
"From the very beginning, I wanted to say that despite what has happened a week ago in Turkey, that we will continue to strongly adhere to democratic principles and apply rule of law and not much really has changed. I know there are question marks," he told a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu.
The government’s widening crackdown in the aftermath of a failed military coup has spooked investors, who have dumped the lira currency and sold stocks.
Obama denies any US involvement in Turkey coup bid
President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... on Friday denied any US role in Turkey’s failed coup and insisted that an extradition request for a US-based Moslemholy man accused of orchestrating the putsch would have to go through normal channels.
Obama, speaking at a news conference, said he told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a call earlier this week that the United States had no prior knowledge of the abortive coup.
"Any reports that we had any previous knowledge of a coup attempt, that there was any US involvement in it, that we were anything other than entirely supportive of Turkish democracy are completely false, unequivocally false," Obama said.
"He (Erdogan) needs to make sure that, not just he but everybody in his government, understands that those reports are completely false," Obama added. "Because when rumors like that start swirling around, that puts our people at risk on the ground in Turkey and it threatens what is a critical alliance and partnership between the United States and Turkey."
Reports of US involvement in the coup attempt, which were also denied earlier this week by the US ambassador to Turkey, appear to be partly fueled by the fact that holy man Fethullah Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.
Erdogan accuses Gulen, a charismatic former ally, of criminal masterminding the plot against him. In a crackdown on Gulen’s suspected followers, more than 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended, detained or placed under investigation.
Gulen has condemned the attempted coup and denied any involvement in it.
Obama, reiterating what US officials had said earlier this week, said he told Erdogan his government must first present evidence of Gulen’s alleged complicity in the failed coup. An extradition request would then receive the review required by the Justice Department and other government agencies just like any other petition.
"America’s governed by rules of law, and those are not ones that the president of the United States or anybody else can just set aside for the sake of expediency," Obama said. "We’ve got to go through a legal process."
An unobjectionable comment, but not what we expect from his highness, President Obama the First.
Serdar Kilic, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, told a news conference on Friday that his country had submitted the "necessary documentation" for Gulen’s extradition. But US Justice Department front man Peter Carr said he could not yet give a "hard yes or no" on whether the materials submitted by Turkey constituted a formal extradition request.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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