[Homeland Security Today] Islamist jihadi "operatives deployed posing as refugees and radicalized refugees have conducted attacks inside Europe, [and] ISIS’s unprecedented social media capabilities and propaganda are also accelerating its ability to inspire global audiences," according to the August Terror Threat Snapshot released by House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas).
The "snapshot" is a monthly committee assessment of the growing threat America, the West and the world face from ISIS and other Islamist terrorists.
The latest "Terror Snapshot" also stated that:
Islamist terrorists have waged a deadly campaign of violence, particularly in Europe where ISIS-linked terrorists launched four separate attacks over a two-week period in July. ISIS supporters in France killed a priest in Normandy and dozens of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice; in Germany, they conducted two separate attacks. These strikes in Europe followed what was the deadliest post-9/11 Islamist terror attack on American soil in June;
ISIS and Al Qaeda continue to operate in safe havens that can serve as launching pads for external operations. ISIS’s unprecedented social media capabilities and propaganda are also accelerating its ability to inspire global audiences;
The Obama administration has continued to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees overseas despite an alarming recidivism rate among former detainees. Less than 80 detainees remain at the terror detention facility; around a third of them have reportedly been cleared for transfer; and
The Iranian regime continues to host senior al Qaeda members in Iran. Several Al Qaeda members involved in financial and weapons transfers are actively operating inside Iran.
"The recent ISIS attacks in France and Germany and the arrests of nine ISIS-linked individuals inside the US this past month underscore the acute threat we face from radical Islamist terrorists," McCaul said, nothing, "These jihadists have set deep roots in key sanctuaries across the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa, while extending their deadly reach across the globe using their operatives and supporters. Our enemies ‐ whether ISIS, Al Qaeda, or the world’s primary state sponsor of terror in Iran ‐ have clearly capitalized on several years of failed policies and passivity. Reversing this disastrous course is an urgent national security imperative for the United States and our allies."
[The Rise of the West] For years I've been predicting it. With absolute confidence, I've been claiming that its arrival is a certainty. So why do I feel so surprised, and a trifle disoriented that it is now happening? What is "it"? It's The Happening. I didn't invent this expression. I heard a couple of people use it at the recent New York Forum. Perhaps "The Convergence" would be more appropriate. Perhaps I could even give in to my Heideggerian vice and call it The Event (Das Ereignis). But I like The Happening.
I think you already know what I mean, but let's make it explicit. For years I have been maintaining, along with others, that the truth cannot be suppressed forever, that the whole edifice of lies would eventually crack and the Establishment crumble, that our people would rise up, etc. I predicted that at a certain point we would see things begin to "tip" as more and more individuals spoke forbidden truths. This is now happening. The Washington Post recently published a breathless article (by a non-White reporter) about how the Brexit vote has "normalized racism," by making the British more open -- horrors! -- about expressing their desire to "get their country back."
[Breitbart] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, notorious for using profanity liberally towards others in politics, told an audience of soldiers Friday that his recent meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry went well but that U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg was a "homosexual" "son of a bitch" who "really annoys me."
Duterte met with Kerry and Goldberg in late July to discuss the response to Manila winning an international court case against China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Kerry, he told the audience Friday, is "okay, but I had an argument with their ambassador, that bakla [homosexual]. Son of a bitch, he really annoys me." There is no record of Goldberg publicly identifying as gay, indicating Duterte meant to use the word purely derisively.
Duterte’s feud with Goldberg began while the former was still a presidential candidate. Goldberg issued a condemnation of a joke Duterte made on the campaign trail, suggesting that the gang rape of a young woman in Davao City, where he served as mayor for 22 years, was only a tragedy because he himself did not get to have sex with her first. "Any statements by anyone, anywhere that either degrade women or trivialize issues so serious as rape or murder, are not ones that we condone," Goldberg said at the time.
Duterte responded then to Goldberg that he would sever all diplomatic ties with the United States if he became president in response to Goldberg’s condemnation, and that he would give the United States "a shit" if Goldberg did not "shut your mouth." The rape remark landed Duterte in international news headlines and cemented his reputation abroad as loose-lipped and little concerned with maintaining a proper image.
[Hot Air] Last Thursday Israel's internal security agency, Shin Bet, indicted the director of World Vision in the Gaza strip for siphoning off millions in charity money and funneling it to Hamas. From the Washington Post:
Mohammed el-Halabi established a "systematic and sophisticated mechanism" to divert up to $50 million over the years to the militant group, which rules Gaza, creating fictitious humanitarian projects and doctoring inflated receipts in order to get the funds to Hamas, said the Shin Bet...
To divert the funds, the Shin Bet said el-Halabi initiated fictitious projects meant to help farmers, the disabled and fishermen.
He would falsely list Hamas operatives as workers on those projects and write up inflated receipts, according to the Shin Bet. Companies hired to carry out certain projects under fictitious tenders were "made aware" that 60 percent of the project’s funds were destined for Hamas, the Shin Bet statement said, adding that some of World Vision’s budget was used to pay the salaries of Hamas operatives.
BLUF: [Wash Times] If it were just a dereliction of duty or incompetence, it would not justify the massive cover-up by the Obama administration, which continues to this day. I believe the only justification for the massive cover-up was that Stevens was to be kidnapped and held hostage in exchange for the release of the "Blind Sheikh."
Author: James A. Lyons, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations.
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Don't be silly! Hostages are released as a goodwill gesture, not for $400 million in untraceable cash.
-Senator Tim Kaine
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Now that is a new theory that I haven't heard before.
So the AQ/ISIS want the blind sheikh back? That's enough reason to keep him in prison and shows why we tried him and found him guilty. But lets wait on that, youknowwho will probably give him a pardon and a plane ticket as a gesture of good will...and hope that ISIS will finally like us.
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Read "13 Hours" about a week ago and read nothing that gave any indication of reaction to a video or protests turned violent. The attack on the Diplomatic compound (not even a consulate apparently) showed the DSS reliance on unarmed contract Libyan security on the night of 9/11 anniversary to be very lax attitude given the prior threat environment. 5 DSS agents essentially indoors and only one monitoring in their security building. But, the first attack seemed a mix of an initial entry team of undetermined size and then pickup additions from proximate locals. The CIA compound QRF made up of the contract personnel was delayed repeatedly, and while the initial delay was understandable given it was the bulk of the security force for the CIA site with over 30 personnel, a SCIF and unknown other valued assets. But the subsequent delay was clearly driven by Langley and either chain of command delays/cross agency commo, or concerns about additional threats. IN any event, the delay almost certainly contributed directly to the deaths of Stevens and Smith. The eventual QRF action was finally covered by a ISR drone flown to the site and in orbit, and one wonders what intel about locals that provided. But, later attacks on the CIA compound were far more organized, and for me most telling, the accuracy of the indirect fires, the sounds reported clearly matching not RPG but the unique chunking sound of mortar tube indirect fires and TOT delays. They bracketed the target building in three rounds as I recall, meaning pre-registration by people who knew their weapon system very very well. That part was not amateurish, making me wonder what element of professional military was supporting the irregulars conducting the sloppy wave attacks? Spetznaz element providing C&C and indirect to local factions?
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They bracketed the target building in three rounds as I recall, meaning pre-registration by people who knew their weapon system very very well. That part was not amateurish, making me wonder what element of professional military was supporting the irregulars conducting the sloppy wave attacks? Spetznaz element providing C&C and indirect to local factions?
I believe it was common knowledge at the time that the Iranian Kuds were in town. It would have been in the Iranian and Russian interest to disrupt or intercept any potential shipment of arms to anti-Assad rebel forces.
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Kuds definitely fits and the arms buy strategy that Hilda was using to try and topple Assad mirrors the whole Reagan contra kerfluffle so nicely it makes me laugh.
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Kuds definitely fits and the arms buy strategy that Hilda was using to try and topple Assad mirrors the whole Reagan contra kerfluffle so nicely it makes me laugh. Posted by NoMoreBS
Yes indeed. I wish I had a 'clicker.' I could switch the channel. We've all seen this movie before, many times in fact.
More likely than not although I am not sure if the Russians had a dog in the fight yet.
On the other hand, during the six months I was in Tripoli, Libya, I frequented a coffee shop that often had big lumpy guys with thick necks and spoke Arabic with a decidedly Eastern European accent. Finally one night I tried a trick and said "Dobra Otra" to one of them and he answered in Russian before he caught himself...yeah I made sure I didn't go back there for a while. And when I mentioned it at the Embassy at a party for the new ambassador, the head of security gave me this Captain Obvious look like "so what else is new."
Yep Libya is and has been stiff with Russians, I don't know if it is the oil or the need to keep track of potential US BS from the administration.
[Daily Caller] Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine broke with nominee Hillary Clinton Sunday, saying the U.S. did not have the authority to launch airstrikes against Islamic State in Libya.
"I don’t think the current legal authorities are sufficient to wage this war against ISIL," Kaine said Sunday in an interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press." "I have very grave doubts about whether the legal authorities currently in place allow us to wage an offensive war against ISIL."
Kaine’s statement represents a break from Clinton’s position, which she explicated during a Democratic debate in November, 2015, The Wall Street Journal reports.
In response to a question on whether or not she thought the 2001 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) applies to the new fight against ISIS, she stated, "It certainly does."
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"I have very grave doubts about whether the legal authorities currently in place allow us to wage an offensive war against ISIL."
We all should have those doubts. This is an important Constitutional question: when do a series of individual military strikes become a state of War that require a Declaration of War by Congress?
"..That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons..."
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when do a series of individual military strikes become a state of War that require a Declaration of War by Congress?
You never really know. It is a dangerous game.
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[Daily Caller] A community college in Illinois is trying to defend itself after it decided to offer special classes only available to black people.
"College: Changes, Challenges, Choice" is a one-credit introductory course at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, and is intended to help new students "assess your purpose for college, assess your study strategies, set college and career goals, examine your values and decision-making skills, and develop an appreciation for diversity."
But while the class may want students to appreciate diversity, the school doesn’t practice what it preaches. Two sections of the class are specifically set aside exclusively for black students, who make up about 10 percent of Moraine Valley’s 34,000 students. The special classes were first reported on by The Chicago Tribune after it was notified by the parents of several students.
Moraine Valley says it’s simply trying to improve the odds of success for black students, who are typically less likely to graduate from the school.
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Try having a "whites only" class. You will have the wrath of the Dept. of Injustice down on you before you can blink along with the BLM protests. Another load of PC BS. Last I knew the name of this country was the United States. We held as an ideal unity and assimilation--not diversity and division. No wonder things are getting so screwed up.
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The comments section at the Tribune is closed. Remarkably, not a single comment. The Tribune writer waxes prolifically about how all this is okay and a necessary course given the problems of our times. It's all about fixing problems, doncha know.
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Let's be honest shall we? Moraine Valley should not be blamed. They're only doing openly what the Federal Government has been doing privately for decades.
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Interesting. I live in the West suburbs and always assumed Palos * was majority minority. That's because it's usually in the news on some minority issue. With this article I decided to do a racial makeup Google search on all the Palos (Hills, Heights etc.). They are all %95 White. Not at all what I assumed! No idea what is going on here and why past stories in the media were mainly minority ones.
[IsraelTimes] Robe-clad youngster calls for ’extermination’ of jihadist group’s enemies in video shared on German Telegram channel
A video posted on an 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.... Telegram account showcases what appears to be a small child dressed in body-covering robes who saws the head off a doll while calling for the destruction of the jihadist group’s enemies.
The brief clip was posted online on August 4 and shows the niqab-wearing child singing an Islamic State song and wielding a knife. The film was translated from Arabic by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Sunday.
According to a Heavy report, the video was released by an IS sympathizer on a German Telegram channel with the title "The new generation is raised." The Heavy report identifies the child as a prepubescent boy, whereas the MEMRI report said it was a girl.
"State of Islam, attack and defeat the religion of heresy and the gang of the military," the child, whose face is obscured by black robes, tells the camera. "Instill terror, exterminate the leftover remnants [of the army], and slaughter."
It’s not clear whether the army in question is the Syrian or Iraqi army, or both.
The child then utters a tiny "holy shit! Allahu akbar" -- Arabic for God is great -- and proceeds to saw the doll’s head off while the song, including the lyrics "My sword has been sharpened to destroy you" plays in the background.
Dropping the head to the floor, the child proclaims "The Islamic State will remain and expand!"
Videos released by the Islamic State last summer showed children practicing decapitation on dolls, mimicking the execution method preferred in the jihadist group’s propaganda videos.
In February the group released a video showing a jihadi training camp for children, where they are trained and reportedly taught to decapitate blonde-haired, blue-eyed dolls. Hundreds of children growing up under the grip of the jihadist group are indoctrinated in Islamic State training camps, in which they’re inculcated with the organization’s radical beliefs and trained to be child soldiers.
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Someone help me out here: I thought music was haram, yet these videos always have some jackass in the background singing about chopping off heads, winning the great battle, blah, blah, blah. What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.
[AlAhram] 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... , in a rare comment on its security operations, has confirmed it is working with German Sherlocks to track Islamist bandidosmurderous Moslems behind bomb and axe attacks in Germany in July.
A Saudi interior ministry front man, General Mansour al-Turki, said Saudi and German security experts had met and exchanged information over evidence showing that one of the attackers in Germany had been in contact through social media with a member of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... using a Saudi phone number.
Turki said the suspect was in an unspecified "country of conflict," but declined to say whether he was a Saudi citizen.
"The investigation is still ongoing between experts in both countries to try to find the parties to the case," Turki told Rooters in response to a question on a report by news magazine Der Spiegel.
Saudi Arabia, though it says it is always ready to work with foreign countries to fight terrorism, rarely speaks publicly on specific cases.
Islamic State has grabbed credit for an attack in Bavaria in which a 17-year-old refugee maimed five people with an axe before police shot him dead, and for a bombing in Ansbach, southern Germany, which maimed 15 people.
The 27-year-old Syrian, who carried out the Ansbach attack, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State on a video found on his phone, Sherlocks said.
Spiegel said traces of the chat indicate that both men had been influenced by, and taken instructions from, unidentified people before the attacks.
German foreign ministry spokeswoman Sawsan Chebli told a news conference on Monday that Saudi Arabia had offered to help Germany investigate attacks in Germany claimed by Islamic State.
"Germany and other western countries have been successfully working together with Saudi Arabia on fighting terrorism for a long time," she said. Information passed on by Saudi Arabia had been key in helping prevent terrorist attacks in Germany in the past, she said.
German interior ministry front man Tobias Plate said the government welcomed Saudi Arabia's offer and added that cooperation with the security authorities there was of "significant value" but he declined to comment on the status of investigations.
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[Dhaka Tribune] "This is Shazad Rouf aka Arko. I want to get this message to my family, Towhid Rouf ... and others ... and all my family members ... and those who support the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. , the taghut [one who oversteps boundaries] ... everyone.
People who do not support Allah’s Sharia [Islamic law] law, remember, only if you support Allah’s Sharia law, that’s when you can go to heaven. That’s the only way to go to paradise. That’s exactly what we did. We are here.
We emigrated from our homes, we had everything ... we had everything ... all for the sake of practising Jihad Fi Sabilillah [struggle in the way of Allah, including warfare]. That either we kill or we get killed and paradise is for us.
You have to understand the real thing here, that Jihad Fi Sabilillah is all about maintaining the Sharia. That’s exactly what we do.
You have to understand that you guys support Sheikh Hasina, the Murtad [apostate], you guys support democracy, that is why you guys are doing Shirk [idolatry] and that’s why I’m happy to call my family all Murtads, all Kuffars [unbelievers].
You can be safe and go to heaven ... and go to paradise. Allahu Akbar [Allah is greatest]! And remember small people ... small groups like us will get victory over the huge people. That’s exactly what’s going on. Small group of us ... we are getting Nusrah [support] from Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala [Allah most glorified, most exalted] and we are gonna defeat you, we are going to fight you until there’s no more Fitna [strife] ... and Insha Allah [Allah willing] we are ready with our weapons right now.
The police and RAB and whoever it is, all the Kuffars can come any time and we are ready to kill them and gain Jannat [heaven]. Fi Sabilillah [In the way of Allah].
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The loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and the Taliban militants have reportedly ended infighting amid growing pressures as a result of the Afghan and US forces raids during the recent months.
The infighting among the two militant groups which erupted over a year ago reportedly ended during the recent weeks as the loyalists of the ISIS terrrorist group as well as the Taliban militants received major setbacks in the restive provinces.
The commandos of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces and the US special forces in Afghanistan launched a major operation against the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group in Nangarhar provnce more than two weeks ago.
The operations were launched months after the Obama administration granted broader role to the US forces to target the ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.
The broader role approval by Obama administration came as ISIS loyalists attempted to expand foothold in Afghanistan by successfully consolidating operations with the main terror group in Iraq and Syria.
“They fought deadly battles with the Taliban before. But over the past two months, there has been no fighting among them,” Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri, who commands Afghan troops in the east, told the Wall Street Journal.
The top U.S. military commander in the country, Army Gen. John Nicholson, said the cease-fire between the militant groups in Kunar didn’t reflect a broader agreement. “There’s still a conflict even though they may have a local cease-fire in place,” he said. “There’s always been a live-and-let-live dimension to some of the social fabric.”
For now, local officials are skeptical the cease-fire will grow into an actual battlefield alliance. For one thing, ideologies differ. The Taliban want foreign forces to leave Afghanistan and Shariah law to be established, while Islamic State wants to create a global caliphate. Neither wants to relinquish control to the other group.
“The Taliban’s stance is that we are the only group and if you fight you should fight under us,” the governor of Kunar, Wahidullah Kalimzai, said. “They see themselves as the owners of the war.”
The Taliban group and ISIS loyalists declared jihad against eacah in mid-April last year as the two groups attempted to gain more prominance in the so-called holy war in Afghanistan.
Tensions among the two militant groups intensified earlier last year after Abdu Bakar Al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS called Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar “a fool and illiterate warlord”.
Goodness. No going back from that...
Al-Baghdadi has said that Mullah Omar does not deserve a spiritual or political credibility. While on the other hand Taliban fighters have been ordered by their leaders not to let Daesh flag raise in Afghanistan.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The family of a Moslem boy who was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohammed, who was arrested at his suburban Dallas high school in September and charged with having a hoax bomb. He says he brought the homemade digital clock to school to show his English teacher.
Ahmed showed off the clock, made out of a plastic pencil box and electrical wire and other hardware salvaged from his parents’ garage, on Monday during a news conference with his parents and attorneys.
Irving police later dropped the charge, but he was still suspended for three days. He never returned to the school; his family opted to have him take classes elsewhere.
The lawsuit names Irving Independent School District, the city of Irving and the school’s principal, and asks a jury to determine the damages. In November, the family asked the district and city to pay $15 million or else face a suit. District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver said in a statement Monday that attorneys for the district will review the suit and determine a course of action.
"Irving ISD continues to deny violating the student’s rights and will respond to claims in accordance with court rules," she said, adding that school officials for now will have no further comment.
The Mohammed family questioned whether the boy was mistreated due to his religion but the district has denied the claim.
The family has since moved to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , citing threats and a scholarship offered to Ahmed in the Persian Gulf country. Ahmed moved back to the U.S. last month for the summer to visit family and friends, and will do some traveling around the country, but will return to Qatar next month to start 10th grade at Qatar Academy, a private school in Doha.
"For the safety of my family, I have to go back to Qatar, because right now it’s not very safe for my family or for anyone who’s a minority," Ahmed said during Monday’s news conference.
While in Texas, Ahmed said, he has to wear a hat, sunglasses and a hoody. "I can’t walk out of the house without being covered up because I might get shot because that happens here," he said.
The teen’s parents, Mohammed Elhassan Mohammed and Muna Ibrahim, have not found work yet in Qatar, so the family of eight is living in government housing and on food vouchers.
Among the claims made in the suit, which was brought by the teen’s father, is that the boy’s right to equal protection under the law was violated and that officers arrested him without probable cause.
Ahmed was a victim of systemic discrimination by the school district and state Board of Education that has marginalized Moslems and other minority groups, the suit claims.
"History tells us that when we have stood tall and proud for equality and freedom, we have grown as a nation," the suit says. "When we have given in to fear and hate, we flounder."
The suit adds, "In the case of Ahmed Mohammed, we have the opportunity to take a stand for equality and for justice, two things that should prevail above all else."
The Irving school district is also under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over an alleged pattern of discrimination against minority students.
The district in February sued the Texas Attorney General to keep the justice department’s investigation private.
Ahmed’s story brought an outpouring of support from President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... , other politicians, corporate executives and NASA scientists.
"When I went to the new school, they asked me, ’are you that clock kid?’ I told them yeah, I was. My identity was stripped," Ahmed said.
A.k.a Clock Boy.
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The kid's wearing a hoodie to hide his face? It's gonna be 102 this afternoon, in Irving, Texas - just like yesterday and tomorrow.
Yeah, he'll blend right in!
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We made that and C3H5N3O9 (plus a few more fiery concoctions) in our youth here, Shipman. Used them successfully at remote locations with much joy and backslapping by all. (Final mixed the second item on-site)
Just stuff you did when you weren't raised as a snowflake. Lucky we didn't kill ourselves, too.
Chemistry professor(s) NOT involved.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwait’s arrest of a Filipina maid on the accusation of belonging to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has brought back the controversy about the tricks and approaches adopted by the myrmidon organization to recruit maids.
ISIS exploits the maids’ economic, legal and social status, tricks them and communicates with them to later use them in violent operations.
Kuwait said on Friday it tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a Filipina, Linavi Ozoilo, whom it accused of joining the ISIS group through its affiliate in Libya and who planned to launch an attack. Authorities said she "confessed she was ready to carry out any terrorist attack once circumstances and means were ripe in order to undermine security and stability in Kuwait."
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... witnessed a similar case in October 2015, when Saudi security forces arrested a Filipina maid identified as Gioi Aban Bali Nang. She was in charge of sewing and preparing boom belts after being recruited for the organization by an ISIS member called Yasser Mohammed al-Barazi.
Hmoud al-Thayadi, a researcher on terrorism, told Al Arabiya that ISIS tries to diversify its tactics when attracting elements - particularly housemaids - that it recruits to serve its aims.
Similarities and differences
In the Saudi case, Gioi Aban Bali Nang was recruited by a cell inside Saudi Arabia, Thayadi explained, adding that the cell exploited the fact that she had beat feet from her sponsor to recruit her.
In the Kuwaiti case, the housemaid was recruited by the group from outside Kuwait and this is worthy of attention, Thayadi said as her husband was attracted to the group before she arrived in Kuwait and therefore she was also influenced by her husband who went to fight with ISIS in Libya.
Thayadi said ISIS works on exploiting people who have certain circumstances, recruits them and then uses them by providing ideological justifications.
He noted that the danger here lies in the fact that it cannot be predicted who the elements to be recruited will be.
"The organization exploits gaps and weaknesses in society. It does not mind to employ any element that it believes will be of gain to it," Thayadi said.
Instinctive dimensions
According to Thayadi, the role of these elements is often related to logistics. For instance, Lady Joy sewed boom belts while Linavi Ozoilo was taking photos of sites which the organization wanted to target.
Thayadi said that most of the time, such members do not stay for long in the organization as the latter quickly assigns a mission to them; hence, this calls for social awareness to be able to identify them.
He added that ISIS’ exploitation of weaknesses and gaps in society calls on the latter to be more attentive to any violations which housemaids may commit and also calls on closely monitoring teenagers and resolving any social problems they confront.
He added that ISIS depends on two instinctive aspects, the sexual and the brutal one. The former depends on the idea of slaves and facilitating sexual practices and it’s used to attract young men while the latter depends on violence and the desire to practice it in its worst forms.
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Why?
They're already abused workers and sex slaves. This gives them a choice to get out.
[Ynet] Another Israeli-Arab has been indicted for supporting ISIS; the difference this time is that he never went to Syria, and supported the organization on Facebook and social media; he didn't go to Syria because his wife wouldn't let him.
Wise woman.
An indictment was filed against Wassim Hutaba, 29, for allegedly expressing support for ISIS on social media. He is from the Arab village of Reina.
According to the indictment from the Northern District Prosecutor's Office, Hutaba announced that he doesn't believe that he is beholden to the laws of the State of Israel ‐ a state he calls a "kufar state" ‐ and justified ISIS attacks around the world, calling them "legitimate responses to Western attacks on Islam."
As opposed to other indictments filed against Israeli citizens who have expressed their support for ISIS in the past, Hutaba didn't go to Syria, didn't leave Israel, and didn't pledge allegiance to ISIS.
According to his testimony, he considered pledging allegiance to the terror group, but decided not to because of his wife's resistance to the idea. She was worried that he would be jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , and said that him joining would negatively affect the family.
Very wise woman.
Hutaba added that those are the same reasons he decided against carrying out an attack in Israel.
Her wisdom ought to be prized above rubies.
According to the indictment, Hutaba was investigated by the Shin Bet in December, and was warned not to engage in anything which might harm the security of the State of Israel, including supporting ISIS. Nevertheless, he continued to go onto ISIS web pages, read ISIS publications, and watch videos of ISIS carrying out attacks.
None of which constitute actual support...
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... he was in constant contact with ISIS recruiters and supporters both in Israel and abroad, and posted messages of praise and support of the organization, leadership, and teachings.
Ah. There it is.
He also posted a picture of the ISIS flag flying over the Temple Mount and one overlaid over a map of the world. The pictures received a lot of likes and shares.
On the day of the deadly terror attack in Belgium in March, Hutaba posted a status saying "you acted without consideration and thought that it was your right to prevent free women from wearing the Hijab, so is it not our right to go out and kill you invaders with beheadings? Of course it is. The equation is simple and clear; as you kill so will you be killed. Just as you kidnap so will you be kidnapped. Just as you hurt our security, we will hurt your security. Those who started are wrong. The way to protect your security is by stopping all your acts of wrongdoing and your influence on our nation."
Tareq Katib, Hutaba's representative, said in response that "they have connected him to support for a faceless myrmidons organization. The trial will be postponed for another two weeks. The suspect claims that what he wrote on Facebook is religious and not in connection to ISIS."
An interesting choice of argument under the circumstances.
Dozens of Israeli-Arabs have joined ISIS in Syria, and approximately six Israeli-Arabs have been killed fighting with the terrorist organization, with the last one reportedly killed two months ago.
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[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] An Ohio man accused of shooting another man in the leg during a fight over presidential politics last month has turned himself into police.
Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... .com reports 45-year-old Darnell Hall has been charged with felonious assault.
He appeared Saturday in Cleveland Municipal Court, where his bond was set at $15,000.
The July 25 shooting at Winston’s Bar in Cleveland came after the two men started arguing about the presidential election. Police say Hall left the bar, returned and opened fire, striking the 60-year-old man once in the leg.
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Because they come from the same political swamp as the nazis, Stalin and such. All dissent MUST be put down and all people MUST tow the party line or pay the price. Violence is one of the tools to make people fall in line.
It has come to the point where if you are standing up to them, bring a gun. And lots of friends. And make sure they have guns. And plenty of ammo.
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If Darnell had slammed the guy with a beer mug during the argument it would have been a Drunk and Disorderly misdemeanor with $1000 fine and 3 days in the tank.
Now the charge is premeditated felonious assault for 7-10. The gun in a bar component makes it Federal I think.
Was it Politics, was it alcohol, was it the gun, or was it Darnell Hall?
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"Was it Politics, was it alcohol, was it the gun, or was it Darnell Hall?"
Yes, #4 Skid.
Embrace the power of "and."
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The Dem Party is the religion is the party of peace and tolerance. Read another story where a Dem took a crowbar to one of Trump's supporters. The Dems always criticize you for what they are or do--projection I guess or just plain skullduggery.
[IsraelTimes] Bedouin resident of south to be charged with coordinating transportation for workers entering Israel
A 25-year-old Bedouin man from the south of Israel was jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! by police and was to be charged Monday for allegedly running a "taxi" service to transport Paleostinian workers without entry permits into and around Israel.
The unnamed man, a resident of the Bedouin town of Lakiya, was allegedly in contact with a resident of the Paleostinian Authority, and together they coordinated pickup and travel for the illegal workers. The accused allegedly hired Israeli van drivers to transport the workers.
Several of the drivers have been arrested over the past few weeks, and have testified against the alleged ringleader, who was taken into custody a few days ago. He was to appear in Beersheba District Court on Monday for an arraignment hearing.
A police spokesperson said Monday that "actions against illegal workers will continue, concentrating on those who transport them and those who shelter them."
Tens of thousands of Paleostinians work in Israel each day, on hard-to-obtain permits given out by the IDF. Israeli authorities estimate that the actual number of Paleostinians who enter Israel for work has on occasion reached double the number of those who actually have permits.
This is what apartheid does not look like.
In March the Knesset approved a tough new law to keep out illegal Paleostinian workers, as part of measures aimed at tackling a surge in attacks against Israelis.
The legislation means that the Israeli employer of a Paleostinian who has entered the Jewish state without the permit could face several years in prison.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi air force has received a new batch of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the United States, bolstering the country’s fledging air force amid more than two years of fighting with ISIS, a front man said Monday as attacks in and near Baghdad killed six people.
Defense Ministry’s front man, Brig. Gen. Tahseen Ibrahim, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the new batch consisted of four fighter jets. Ibraim did not give more details or say when the next shipment will be delivered.
With the new arrivals, Iraq has now eight F16s in service, out of 36 fighter jets the US agreed to sell to Baghdad.
I keep thinking the Iraqis would be better off with a few squadrons of A-29 Super Tucanos. Not nearly as flashy as an F-16 but cheaper, easier to fly and maintain, and will do everything they need done.
Also Monday, a bomb went off at an outdoor market in the town of Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, killing four shoppers and wounding 11, a police officer said.
Two more non-combatants were killed in another bomb kaboom in a commercial area in Baghdad’s western Eskan neighborhood. That attack also maimed eight people, another police officer said.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the ISIS group, which often targets commercial areas and large gatherings.
Iraq has been going through its worst crisis since summer 2014 when ISIS Lions of Islam captured much of the country’s north and the west, including the second-largest city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . Despite major ground loses since last year, ISIS still controls key areas.
Iraq heavily depended on aging Russian-made Sukhoi Su-25 jets. In 2014, the country received Sukhoi Su-25 jets from Russia and Iran to help combat ISIS.
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F16 maybe not the most useful option for Iraq but what is the profit margin? Follow the money. Somebody getting a kickback?
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I think we would be better off to try to foist off the F-35 on a bunch of the ME rubes and see if we can cut our losses and find some way to make a real airplane that fights instead of wanders around at 20,000 feet with a bunch of million dollar missiles and smart bombs.
I think the reason the USAF hates the A-10 is because bullets are cheap and they like to spend ALL of their appropriations early.
[Swedish article] Summary: 5 cars burnt last night. 30 in the last two weeks. The Rosengård area is central to the city. (Editorial) Dominated by Moslem immigrants, the police avoid going there.
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Welcome to the Islamic Car'B'Q club, Sweeden. You have been missing the fireworks for a long time.
France usually has 500 burnt a night but you will get there!
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Actually engineer in me is curious. Firebombs thrown? If so from the street or a car?
Burning rag stuck in the gas cap?
Something burning placed under the car?
Do the perps ever touch the car? If so how and how long.
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Like the simplest response would be to have something like the internet doorbell on your car. If it is touched a video camera is turned on and calls your cellphone for streaming video. Add on's are easy to consider from violent self-destruct systems to remote controlled firing systems. devices like these in your car
Their moral narcissism ("virtue signaling") is more important to them than their citizens' safety.
Of course, their wives/mothers/daughters haven't been attacked (yet), and their cars haven't been burned. (And even that might not make a difference.) >:-(
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Looks like plenty of spare parts will be available for my 1997 SAAB 900s & my SAAB 2004 9-5.
ADEN: Suspected members of Al-Qaeda shot dead an army colonel in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan on Sunday, a military official said.
The gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at Col. Abdullah Shamba, killing him immediately before driving off, the official said. Shamba headed a local anti-Al-Qaeda militia in Abyan, the source added.
Late on Saturday, Saudi-led coalition jets attacked Al-Qaeda positions in Abyan’s provincial capital of Zinjibar and in the nearby town of Jaar, military sources said.
Government forces backed by the Arab coalition began an all-out offensive in March against terrorists in south Yemen, recapturing main cities they had held.
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At least two US soldiers sustained injuries in an explosion in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The NATO-led Resolute Support mission said the two soldiers sustained minor injuries after their vehicle struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). “2 US soldiers suffered minor injuries when an IED struck their vehicle while conducting a force protection patrol near Jalalabad Nangarhar,” the alliance said in a Twitter message.
This comes as at least five US soldiers have sustained injuries during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan late last month. reportedly partnering with the Afghan special forces during an operation in Nangarhar.
The Afghan commandos launched a major operation against the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar more than two weeks ago and cleared the restive Kot district from the presence of ISIS militants.
The operations were launched amid concerns that the terror group is attempting to expand insurgency activities in the country. The group claimed responsibility behind a deadly bombing in Kabul that left at least 80 people dead and over 200 others wounded.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National Accord said Monday they had seized a new sector near the ISIS’s command center in Sirte.
The pro-GNA forces have been engaged in a military operation since May 12 to retake the coastal city located 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Sirte has been a stronghold of the holy warrior group since June last year.
On Monday, the loyalists said they had seized an area of guest houses close to the Ouagadougou conference center, the complex from the era of slain dictator Moamer Qadaffy where the gunnies have their headquarters.
The field hospital of the pro-GNA forces near Sirte posted on Facebook that four people among its ranks were killed and 32 maimed on Monday.
Pro-GNA forces entered Sirte in June, but their progress slowed as the gunnies hit back with sniper fire, suicide kabooms and boom-mobileings.
Since Thursday pro-government forces have been battling to reach the conference center.
"Our forces have targeted ISIS snipers and their mines," the statement said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The guest houses are east of the Al-Dollar district, which the pro-GNA forces took last week and where VIP guests attending events at the Ouagadougou complex used to be accommodated.
On Sunday, the loyalist forces said they would soon begin a final assault to retake Sirte from ISIS.
The United States has since last Monday been carrying out air raids on ISIS positions in the city at the GNA’s request.
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[AlArabiya] Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency is reporting that an aerial operation against Kurdish rebels in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country has killed 13 Kurdish militants.
It says F-16 fighters were dispatched on Sunday after intelligence that members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were operating in the countryside around Siirt province.
Turkish forces have been fighting the PKK for decades, with armed clashes resuming after a 2½-year cease-fire collapsed in mid-2015.
A truck driver was reportedly killed in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Monday after the PKK detonated an improvised device that had been planted on the roadside, Anadolu said. Security forces have begun an operation in the area against those responsible.
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An explosion rocked Kabul province earlier today leaving at least one person dead and three others wounded, security officials said.
The incident took place around 6:30 am local time in Bagrami district after an explosive device planted in an army vehicle went off in Hussain Khel area.
The district police chief Mohammad Ayoub confirmed that one person was killed and three others were wounded in an explosion that targeted a Ranger vehicle of the Afghan army.
No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
This comes as at least five policemen lost their lives in a similar attack in the outskirts of Kabul late on Friday evening.
The provincial governor’s spokesman for Logar province Salim Saleh said the commander of the Public Order Police forces was killed along with four others as they were travelling on a highway to Kabul.
Earlier two were killed and two others were wounded after a magnetic bomb planted in a vehicle went off in Kote Sangi area of the city.
One of the victims was the head of the Human Resources department of the Afghan parliament who was travelling in the vehicle.
[AnNahar] The Turkish government said Monday a total of 216 soldiers, including nine generals, were still on the lam after last month's failed coup attempt.
"There are 216 runaway soldiers in total from the Turkish armed forces and the gendarmerie," Deputy Prime Minister and top government front man Numan Kurtulmus told news hounds after the weekly cabinet meeting.
"Nine of them are generals," he added. Thirty runaways were from the gendarmerie and 186 from the army.
Kurtulmus however dismissed claims that some of the runaway soldiers joined the ranks of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Death Eaters. He said this was merely "speculation" following a report in the opposition Sozcu daily that 60 plotters including three generals had taken refuge with the PKK in northern Iraq.
[Ynet] Indonesian authorities said on Monday that several suspected bully boyz placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Batam island last week were part of a group that has "dozens of members" and has been active for two years.
Anti-terror forces arrested six men on Friday on suspicion of planning a rocket attack on neighboring Singapore.
National police front man Boy Rafli Amar said the group mostly recruited members online and was taking instructions from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian who has joined ISIS in Syria.
[Rooters] It was social media chatter that gave him away. Changing his profile picture on the LINE messaging app to a banner pledging "Indonesian support and solidarity for ISIS" probably didn't help.
Had it not been for all that, Gigih Rahmat Dewa's plot to launch a rocket attack on the city-state of Singapore from a nearby Indonesian island might never have been uncovered.
Gigih, 31, and five accomplices were arrested on Batam island on Friday after an investigation that showed how much Indonesia's Islamist militants now rely on social media, including with a Syria-based Islamic State jihadi who allegedly directed them to stage attacks.
It also underlined how militants in the world's most populous Muslim nation, once tight-knit under the Jemaah Islamiah group and internally focused, are splintering into smaller gangs loosely linked to Islamic State with increasingly regional ambitions.
"The men in Batam seem to have been radicalized over social media, specifically using Facebook, rather than directly," said police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar.
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...I once worked (briefly) with the Singapore military - they were very quiet, very polite, and very, very good. Annoy them only at your own risk.
Mike
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"We need a PBS-style pledge drive to replace equipment lost!"
As battles rage between security forces and Taliban fighters in Helmand, reports indicate that government troops are faced with a serious shortage of military equipment.
According to TOLOnews' Wali Arian and Abdullah Hamim who reported from the first line of the battle, commando troops have retaken parts of Nad Ali district that were under the Taliban's control but the army troops have not been able to maintain the cleared areas due to a lack of equipment and other supplies.
Military officials said air attacks have been effective in suppressing the Taliban in Helmand but if the problems are not addressed the troops will lose many parts to the insurgents.
"Taliban is now far from Chah Anjir area. They are far from here," said Karam Khan, a commando.
Arian meanwhile said the commando troops were trying to prevent Taliban from getting closer to Lashkargah, the capital city of Helmand.
"We took army troops to this area last night. They need equipment, they need food, they need everything, but their way is closed. If they [army troops] are left there, who will give them food, who will give them equipment?" said Bashir, another commando.
Meanwhile, a number of Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers complained about the lack of facilities and equipment in their war against terrorists.
"This is not our fault; this is government's fault and weakness. This is my weapon which stops during our operations. We do not get bullets, rockets, grenades and other equipment. We are concerned about this," said asoldier in Nad Ali district.
"Government cannot supply weapons, food and other equipment for us. We move forward with the help of the commando troops, but then we are informed that we will not be supplied with food and weapons, therefore how will we be able to keep and maintain the cleared areas," said another soldier.
According to TOLOnews reporter, Taliban has placed mines around the areas that are under their control and they are using civilian houses and gardens as shields in war against the Afghan troops. This has prolonged the war, Arian said.
He also said that the war has intensified in relatively secure areas in Helmand – including Nawa district.
[ARA News] HOMS – Russian warplanes on Monday launched several airstrikes on the countryside of Syria’s central Homs province, targeting strongholds of the Islamic State group (ISIS).
This comes after ISIS militants made gains east of Homs after clashes with Syrian regime’s army forces.
ISIS militants were able to infiltrate into headquarters of the Syrian army on the Palmyra road east of Homs on Monday.
“At least 23 regime forces were killed at the hands of ISIS fighters after the group infiltrated into an army base in the eastern countryside of Homs province,” local media activist Omar al-Hussein told ARA News.
“Russian fighter jets backed the Syrian regime forces to push ISIS back by bombing ISIS fighting positions,” the source reported.
A Syrian army officer confirmed that at least nine ISIS fighters were killed under the Russian strikes.
“The terror group eventually withdraw from eastern Homs after suffering losses in manpower and equipment,” the official told ARA News in Homs. “Nine terrorists were killed and five others were taken as hostages by the army forces. The airstrikes also destroyed three ISIS armoured vehicles.”
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At least 43 militants including loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group renounced violence and surrendered to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the militants belonged to 4 groups led by militant commanders Mohammad Ayoub, Mohammad Wali and Juma Baz.
A statement by NDS said the militants were conducting insurgency activities in Achin, Nazian, and Ghani Khel districts before they surrendered to the Afghan forces. The statement further added that the militants opted to join peace process amid ongoing operations which have considerably weakened the capabilities of the militant groups fighting the Afghan forces.
The Taliban militants and ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.
Both Taliban insurgents and ISIS loyalists are actively operating in a number of the remote districts of Nangarhar province including the restive Achin and Nazian districts.
The surrender of the militants in the mentioned districts comes as the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are busy conducting a major counter-terrorism operation in this province. The operations were launched more than two weeks ago in Kot district to eliminate the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group who were attemtpign to expand operations in this province.
At least 12 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed and 19 others were wounded during the ongoing military operations eastern Nangarhar province, in the restive Achin district.
The provincial government media office in Nangarhar in a statement said the militants were killed during the military operations ‘Qahr’ which have been launched to suppress the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar.
The statement further added that the operations are being conducted with the help of the ground forces as well as the Afghan Air Force in the districts where the loyalists of the terror group are active.
The Afghan commandos launched a major operation against the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar nearly two weeks and cleared the restive Kot district from the presence of ISIS militants.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior revealed that a bomb explosion earlier today morning near a fruits and vegetables market at Yusufiya in southern Baghdad killed two persons and injured ten others.
“Security forces rushed to the incident area and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital and the dead bodies to the forensic department. Later, the forces cordoned off the,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior informed that an IED blast this evening at al-Dawra in southern Baghdad killed three members and injured seven members of al-Hashd al-Ashaeri.
According to information shared by the source, it was mentioned, “An improvised explosive device exploded this evening targeting a convoy of al-Hashd al-Ashaeri in Abu Eitha village in al-Dawra area in southern Baghdad, killing three members and wounding seven others.”
“Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the dead bodies to the forensic department,” the source added.
[Dhaka Tribune] After almost a month of the dreadful Eid day attack in Shokalia, the ferocity of the snuffies that day has surfaced in a footage acquired by a law enforcement agency
In the footage from a CCTV camera installed near the Sholakia Eidgah, it was seen that a holy warrior in a blue panjabi
...a quick google of the term will give you images of the long shirt with mandarin collar, split sides for ease of movement, and more or less embroidery on cuffs, collar, placket, and/or yoke, dear Reader. Also called punjabi and, apparently, shalwar kameez...
repeatedly hacked at a police official with a sharp weapon while another holy warrior in pink panjabi was collecting the official’s gun. The policeman was attacked when he stopped the two snuffies at a check-post.
On July 7, snuffies went to Sholakia, Kishoreganj to carry out their attack at the country’s largest Eid congregation but faced obstruction nearly 300 yards away from the Eidgah as a police check-post was set up near Sabujbagh Residential Area.
In the footage, it was also seen that the two snuffies who attacked the police at the check-post managed to escape as there was no other police officials near the area.
A holy warrior named Abir Rahman, a student of North South University, was killed during a shootout with the police while another holy warrior Shafiul was locked away You have the right to remain silent... with injuries and later admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
Shafiul was killed in a reported shootout between his associates and a RAB team when he was being taken to Kishoreganj for further investigation.
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[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say ’extremely radicalized’ 16-year-old girl from Gay Paree spread calls by IS to carry out attacks
Gay Paree prosecutors say a counterterrorism judge is questioning a 16-year-old French girl who allegedly supports the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and is suspected of trying to perpetrate an attack.
The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office says the girl was using a social media app to spread calls by IS to commit violent acts.
Deputy prosecutor Laure Vermeersch said Monday that the judge may decide to file preliminary terrorism charges against the teenager who was incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! last week in a Gay Paree suburb and has been held in jug since then.
The Sherlocks said the girl was "extremely radicalized" and was the administrator of a chat group dedicated to IS propaganda on the Telegram app, which has been used by suspected jihadis to communicate.
Vermeersch said no specific targets had been mentioned by the teenager.
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air-drop the tart in Raqqa. Let her know what she's really useful for to ISIS. No return
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[FireAndreaMitchell] Seizures are no laughing matter. If this individual handler of Hillary Clinton is carrying around a Diazepam pen for Clinton, then the public has the right to know. Diazepam is prescribing to people with recurring seizure and stroke."
Drugs.com - Diazepam is a benzodiazepine (ben-zoe-dye-AZE-eh-peens). It affects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced in people with anxiety. Diazepam is used to treat anxiety disorders, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, or muscle spasms. Diazepam is sometimes used with other medications to treat seizures.
Certainly hope the big black fellow has a good prescription drugs plan. I'd wager those plungers are quite expensive. Best of luck to him and a speedy recovery.
Sadly, that one's a no brainer for the media; there's a fair amount of evidence that JFK was dependent on painkillers and the media knew it and never said a word.
Mike
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@#1: Your linked article has a photo [LINK] of Bill with a dude wearing a gray UnderArmour shirt. Appears to be the same guy trailing HRC (pbuh) with the pen.
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HillaryBot's neural networks have been showing signs of numerical instability lately. Examples: the weird cackling, inappropriate facial expressions and difficulty with movement.
Makes sense to have a handler with a tranquilizer dart nearby. Last thing you want is your presidential candidate executing uncommanded excursions in public.
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According to what we DO know, she fell and broke her elbow.
Then she fell and had a concussion and a blood clot requiring blood thinners
Then she fell and had another concussion.
And now we have these moments of cognitive disarray.
She's had a stroke and probably more than one.
AND the guy with the Diazepam? Well that is no surprise given her history of concussions and falls and such.
Of course there is the urban legend that she was in a plane crash in Iran and had another concussion and other injuries...anyone have any good evidence of that?
#12
A bullet grazed her head while dodging sniper fire in Bosnia.
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Only a matter of time till she's like Walken in Things to Do in Denver
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No surprise here. If you were campaigning against Trump, a few Valium in one's pocket offers some (false) reassurance.My belief, however, is that she has Parkinson's - having been aroundseveral people with that disorder. A terrible disease.
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she fell and broke her elbow.
Then she fell and had a concussion and a blood clot requiring blood thinners.
Then she fell and had another concussion.
And now we have these moments of cognitive disarray.
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Oh, the imagery, Iblis. That was not nice. Now I need to hit my brain with 50 ppm chlorine solution.
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I just picture a hog killin' AP.
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I heard she caught that bullet.
With her teeth.
I have been thinking Parkinson's or something like it, like booze damage. She has been behaving two beers in as normal for a while now, and she was really doing the It's a Small World during the crowning. It is ok for Bill to go up there and shake like a leaf in November, can't have Grandma shaking and spacing out.
Actually a bit surprised when that protested totally blanked the career politician and had to have the handler reminder her how to behave.
Battlefield 4 amongst the cuprits, but I suspect Arma 3 is one as well.
DUBAI: Authorities in the UAE have warned the public that “criminal groups propagating radical ideologies” could spread violent ideas and rebellious behavior among young people through video gaming. "What country is this?"
"Dunno, but let's free the sh*t out of it!"
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) issued the warning in a statement carried by state media.
It urged parents to prevent teenagers from establishing relations with strangers through chat channels in games. More importantly with your crazy uncle who lives near the border...
Criminal groups “are trying to recruit young people and adolescents through some electronic games,” WAM quoted Mohammed Al-Zarooni, the TRA’s director for policy and programs, as saying.
He said the groups identified weaknesses in their targets through conversations and then exploited them by directing them to commit crimes.
In particular, some criminals used war games to encourage the use of weapons. ISWYDT
*Furrowed eyebrows* "At the UAE, we care..."
[AnNahar] Syria's brutal conflict has now claimed the lives of more than 290,000 people, a monitoring group said on Monday, giving its latest corpse count for the devastating five-year war.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 292,817 people had been killed between March 2011 -- when the conflict erupted -- and the end of July.
The toll represents an increase of just over 10,000 people since the monitor gave its last account on May 26.
Among the dead are 84,472 civilians, including 14,711 children and 9,520 women, it said.
The Observatory also documented the deaths of 50,548 non-jihadist rebels and Kurdish militiamen.
Another 49,547 hard boyturbans including non-Syrians were killed.
A total of 104,656 pro-regime fighters were killed, among them 57,909 soldiers and 1,306 turbans from Leb's Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , which is fighting on behalf of Damascus.
The monitor said that 3,594 of those killed have been unidentified.
The Britannia-based Observatory depends on a network of sources inside Syria to gather its information on the conflict.
It estimates that thousands more people are missing or have disappeared into detention centers run by various gangs.
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We should always remember that Islam is the Religion of Peace.
That does appear to be a killing rate of approximately 5,000 a month, or thereabouts. Practically all of the dead are said to be other Moslems. And remind me again what all the dead were fighting FOR? For the Greatness of Allah, of course. For the Greater Glory of Allah.
5,000 /month times five or six years seems awfully slow, don't you think? Maybe they aren't really trying.
Harder hours were places like Tarawa and Antietam with 5,000/hour, that was hard work. Not piddling around 5,000/month. Moslems seem pretty laid back actually.
Almost ....peaceful. Just 5,000/month. Allah is Beneficent and Merciful.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] If the Turkish public want the death penalty following last month’s failed coup In which the Reichstag was burned in Ankara, you remember...
then political parties would follow their will, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday.
Sultan Recep I has repeated this theme a number of times in recent days. How long until his loyal subjects make his their will known?
"If the nation makes such a decision (in support of death penalty), I believe political parties will abide by this decision," Erdogan said during a unity rally in Yenikapi square in the touristic Sultanahmet district.
"It is the Turkish parliament that will decide on this (death penalty) given the illusory sovereignty rests with the nation... I declare it in advance, I will approve the decision made by the parliament," Erdogan said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and specializing in pediatrics in a rebel-held northern Syria province has been destroyed in a series of Arclight airstrikes over the weekend that killed 13 people, including four staff and five children, the international medical charity said Monday.
The group, known by its French acronym MSF, said that two of four Arclight airstrikes directly hit the hospital in Millis, in the northern province of Idlib and put it out of service. Six other hospital staff members were maimed in the broad daylight Arclight airstrikes Saturday.
The bombing of the hospital that serves as a reference center specializing in pediatrics also destroyed the operating theatre, intensive care unit, pediatric department, ambulances and a generator, the charity said. It was not clear which government had conducted the Arclight airstrikes and the MSF statement did not specify.
Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon front man, said the US has not conducted any Arclight airstrikes near Idlib.
MSF said the hospital attack deprives 70,000 people in Millis and surrounding areas of essential medical care. The hospital, supported by MSF since 2014, used to receive 250 patients per day, many of them women and kiddies.
"The direct bombing of another hospital in Syria is an outrage," says Silvia Dallatomasina, medical manager of MSF operations in northwestern Syria. She called for an immediate end to attacks on hospitals, pointing that four out of five UN Security Council members are participants in the war in Syria.
Hospitals, mostly in rebel-held areas, are regularly attacked. In July alone, the U.N. said it has recorded 44 attacks on health facilities in Syria. Syria’s government and Russia, a major ally that has been carrying out Arclight airstrikes in Syria since September, deny targeting health facilities.
In recent days, a number of attacks were reported on medical facilities amid increased violence, and ultimately increased pressure on the health facilities, in northern Syria.
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I suppose the bombings have nothing to do with the 14.5 mm AA guns or the tank parked in the sideyard.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libya’s state oil company on Sunday called on rival armed factions to avoid damaging the oil terminal in Zueitina, following reports of possible festivities at the eastern port.
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it was concerned by reports of "imminent conflict" between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) in the vicinity of Zueitina.
The PFG signed a deal late last month with Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) to reopen Zueitina and two other ports that it has been blockading.
The LNA opposes the GNA, and its chief of staff has threatened to target tankers that do not have the approval of a rival government based in eastern Libya.
"I ask both sides to withhold from actions that could damage the infrastructure, including using the facilities as a physical shield," NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in a statement.
"I also ask both sides to give NOC safe passage now, before any operation commences, to move the oil in storage at the port to a safe location."
Petroleum Facilities Guard front man Ali al-Hassi said his force had received threats from the LNA, and that since the announcement that the ports would reopen, groups that Hassi called "rebel gangs" had been targeting Zueitina in a bid to take control of oil terminals and fields.
LNA did not immediately provide a comment.
Fighting, political disputes and bully boy attacks have reduced Libya’s oil production to a fraction of the 1.6 million barrels per day the member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was producing before the 2011 uprising against Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...
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"Have to"? Y'all misunderstand your relative importance in the universe.
[Hurriyet] The massive rally on Aug. 7 which united all different segments of Turkish society to denounce the July 15 failed coup attempt will force the United States to revise its stance on Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Islamic scholar believed to be behind the putsch, Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Numan Kurtulmus told news hounds following a weekly presser on Aug. 8.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has accused Gulenists ... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag... within the army of staging the attempted coup on July 15 and urged its ally to extradite Gulen from the U.S. to be prosecuted in Turkey. Kurtulmus said the U.S. will surely revise its stance on Gulen after hearing the voice of 79 million Turks gathered in Istanbul and other cities on Aug. 7.
"The leaders of the United States have to make a choice," Kurtulmus stressed, adding they will either side with the coup plotters or with the 79 million Turks who stood against the coup. "I know American officials are smart and I am sure they realize that this [stance on Gulen] is harmful to U.S. interests," he said
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I choose coup plotters for 100 Alex.
Yeah nothing like a contrived Triumph of the will theatrics to persuade the US to hand over Gulen. Do they really take us for easily swayed doofuses?
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A local source in Mosul informed on Monday that ISIS beheaded seven people of the city.
Sharing details the source said, “The outfit beheaded seven people in the industrial district in Mosul on charges of spying and cooperation with the security services.”
“This came after the Sharia court issued death sentence against the dead. ISIS members wrapped wire around the necks of the accused and cut their heads off,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
The source informed, “The execution was carried out in front of the citizens of the city.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A local source in Kirkuk province informed on Monday that a number of ISIS leaders towards the southwestern regions of the province turned against the outfit’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and expressed their commitment for al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
“This is a serious blow to the ISIS,” the source said, adding, “The new coup would have a major role in the split of the organization.”
“There is a real conflict between the outfit’s leaders in Nineveh and there are efforts to topple al-Baghdadi after the losses suffered by the ISIS in Iraq,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A Kurdish security source informed that the Peshmerga forces received six families who were fleeing from the ISIS-controlled areas towards northwest of Kirkuk and later transferred them to the IDPs’ camps to the east of the province.
According to information shared by the source, it was revealed, “33 civilians from six families including women and children escaped from the areas controlled by ISIS to the areas under the control of Peshmerga forces at Kabiba village in Dibs district northwest of Kirkuk.”
“Peshmerga forces received the families and provided them with water and food, and transferred them to the IDPs’ camps east of Kirkuk,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A al-Hashed al-Shaabi official announced on Monday that ISIS executed three men, all residents of Hawija in southwest of Kirkuk.
Jabbar Maamouri in a press statement, said, “ISIS today execute three men- all brothers- by shooting them dead in a village in Hawija southwest of Kirkuk. They were charged of targeting ISIS members.”
Mamouri added, “ISIS execution rates of civilians have reached high levels in the recent weeks.”
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Negative interest rate sales are getting ridiculous!
Police in the eastern town of Marj have launched a hunt for one of the managers of the local branch of the Bank of North Africa who fled the scene after shooting a customer dead.
According to reports, the customer, named as Fawzi Al-Shihi, and bank staff were involved in an argument over the shortage of cash in the bank which then degenerated into a brawl.
The bank’s security staff moved to calm tempers and initially appeared to have done so. However, the bank official had a gun on the premises and used it to shoot the customer dead.
According to local police, Marj residents have been horrified by the event, the full details of which have been handed to the public prosecutor.
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'...as a result of this most unfortunate incident I find myself in the charge of $25 M of your US dollars. If you will kindly send me your pertinent information...'
Which very blue state will they settle in, pushing out one of the established senior politicians to give her the seat? Not many places he would be happy living in, though I s'pose they'd really be living in Virginia...
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They will linger around... forever... just like the clintons... like a turd you cannot wipe away from your ass.
They are now permanent fixtures of this place now. People who hate it and are held on a pedestal because of it.
They are National viruses that cause sickness.
The most useless and ignorant people on this planet are on display as role models. Is there any wonder?
Imagine...a lecture circuit. Big money, different locations, the glitz of the red carpet, keep your own hours, north in the summer, south in the winter, or just stay in Hawaii and leave when Barry and the Boys are in town.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ship to Gazoofront man Dror Feiler told AFP that the Finnish-flagged Estelle was in Israel’s northern port of Haifa, still afloat but unfit to put to sea.
"Last time we had a person who checked the boat, it was maybe one year or nine months ago, the condition of the boat was not good, to put it mildly," he said in English by phone from his home in Sweden.
"It’s in salt water and we don’t know the condition of the engine, we don’t know the condition of the sails," he said. "We will demand that the boat will be put into seaworthy condition so we can sail."
Israeli-born activist Feiler was one of 11 Swedish nationals on the vessel when the Israeli navy commandeered it in 2012 as it neared the coast of the blockaded Gazoo Strip.
He had previously renounced his Israeli citizenship and held Swedish nationality.
The Swedes, along with activists from Norway, Canada, Spain, Italia Greece and Finland, were locked away Please don't kill me! and later deported.
In its ruling on Sunday the Supreme Court said the state impounded the ship illegally and awarded its owners legal costs of 40,000 shekels ($10,500, 9,400 euros).
"In light of everything that was said in the ruling, the judges... ordered the release of the ship immediately," a justice ministry statement said.
Well okay then. Tow it beyond the twelve mile limit...
Feiler said Ship to Gazoo would now file a claim for damages.
"They kept the boat for four years and now the court is stipulating that it was illegal so we shall try to get economic compensation," he said. "It’s much larger (than the court expenses)."
Gazoo has been under an Israeli blockade since 2006. It was tightened in 2007 after the Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, seized control in Gazoo.
The Estelle voyage was one of several unsuccessful attempts to breach the cordon since 2010, when Israeli commandos killed 10 Turkish activists while defending their lives in a raid on a flotilla seeking to run the blockade.
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Oooohhh, it's been in port for four years without maintenance? I sure hope it doesn't sink - fifty miles out to sea.
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Won't go anywhere, nor should it. It's a suit against a government official carrying out her duties. I believe the common law principle is "you can't sue the king."
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Again, Hillary was only the SecState, NOT USDOD SECDEF NOR POTUS WHOM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN AT BENHAZI AS PER US MILITARY RELIEF OR ATTEMPTS AT SAME.
The argument that Obama, etal. knew but left the final military or relief decision to Hillary is super-legalism for the Boids.
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Please, please, please hurry with a civil damages suit that can force and disclose the examination of the citizen defendant's state of mind, by professionals.
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Willie and Gertie were larking
Yep, them kids just be sparking
When they go romp about
On their lonely redoubt
O'er the bay where the big ships be parking.
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A shock. A reaction. Galvanic.
Man pulls on his pants in a panic.
"She opened her Zenith,
And out popped a p----!"
"Well, natch. It's a Trans-Oceanic!"
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An ursine young lady person from Jersey,
Named (merciful heavens!) Sir Percy,
Liked playing at milkmaids
With all of the gay blades
In Shaftesbury Ave every Thursday.
[ARA News] MANBIJ – US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are moving closer to capturing the Syrian border city of Manbij, but still heavy fighting is continuing. ISIS continues to use snipers and took civilians hostage to stop the advances of the SDF.
In an official statement on Manbij, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced Monday a new initiative to open humanitarian corridors for civilians detained by ISIS, and to allow the ISIS militants to leave the city.
The Islamic State group (ISIS) has earlier rejected two initiatives to open the way for civilians to evacuate the war-torn area. And it’s unlikely that the remaining ISIS fighters will leave the city–protected by civilians used as human shields.
Speaking to ARA News, the SDF official Dr Nasr Haj Mansour said that the SDF forces are tightening the siege on ISIS militants in the Manbij city centre.
“Dozens of ISIS militants detaining thousands of unarmed civilians in an area which is not up to 9 per cent of Manbij city, and using them as human shields,” he said.
“The SDF is making progress and trying to open safe corridors for civilians, where some of those being detained have arrived to SDF-held areas,” Haj Mansour said.
A SDF source told ARA News the fighting continued in Manbij on Monday.
“Fierce clashes are going on covered by US air strikes, while the smell of dead bodies is everywhere, and SDF forces started with sweeping operation inside the city,” the official sources said.
“ISIS control only 300 square meters and using civilians as protection, but landmines are hindering the progress of the operation, and a number of SDF fighters lost their lives while storming the houses,” he added.
Berivan Lawend, a female SDF fighter inside Manbij told ARA News the battle is not over yet. “Manbij is almost finished, and the comrades are advancing, the operation is successful. There are not many days left, but I cannot say this exactly.”
ARA News reporter Wladimir van Wilgenburg on Monday witnessed heavy fighting and ongoing airstrikes in the city of Manbij. The biggest threat is the ongoing presence of ISIS snipers in the city. SDF fighters have been using the help of coalition airstrikes and their own snipers to try to hit the ISIS positions.
Nevertheless, there was celebratory gunfire on Monday evening in the city of Qamishli celebrating the liberation of Manbij. But SDF sources denied the liberation.
According to the SDF official Dr. Nasir Mansour, ISIS is still resisting.
“They collected civilians and started using them as human shields, and there are heavy clashes,” he said. “There are around hundred of ISIS fighters left, but also 1,000 civilians trapped. We should be careful in order not to harm civilians.”
French fighter fighter of the SDF Roj William spoke to ARA News on the frontline, saying that the battle for Manbij could be over soon.
“We are getting towards the end of the fight for the city, in a few more days it will be over,” he said.
While the battle goes on against ISIS in the small remaining pockets of the city, Manbij civilians are suffering from the lack of international support.
Warda (60), a civilian from Manbij, said that they only have bread and water in a camp for displaced civilians from Manbij.
“We have been here for 25 days,” she said complaining about the lack of support.
Another displaced civilian asked for medicine and money, showing her husband who was injured in the fighting.
Nevertheless, the civilians say life was worse under ISIS.
“ISIS terrified the people, cut off hands and heads, forcing women to cover themselves,” she told ARA News.
The SDF has asked for more international aid for the displaced civilians from Manbij.
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[ABCNews] Evan McMullin, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, will run for president as a third-party conservative alternative to Donald Trump, GOP operatives working to back the candidate told ABC News today.
Who?
The operatives working on McMullin's bid resigned from Better for America in order to push his candidacy. Better for America, a 501(c)(4) organization that cannot officially endorse or back McMullin's bid, has been working for months on trying to select a candidate and get on ballots throughout the country. In some states, like Texas, they will likely have to sue to get on the ballot. A 501(c)(4) is an issue-based nonprofit that can raise unlimited funds and does not have to disclose its donors.
It's an extreme uphill climb, but his supporters are confident McMullin, 40, can act as a disruptor who they hope can peel off some red states in a race where some Republicans are still resistant to Donald Trump.
Oh, so they want Hillary to win...
McMullin’s candidacy, backed by some Republicans, shows how the "Never Trump" movement is still working to upend Trump even with less than three months left until the general election. McMullin may be a long shot, but will have a legitimate organization behind him.
McMullin, who resigned this morning as chief policy director of the House Republican Conference, will file today and in a statement told ABC News exclusively:
"In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties, it’s time for a generation of new leadership to step up. It’s never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us. I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a conservative choice for President."
The group says prominent Republicans will back McMullin, who has some well-known GOP operatives working behind the effort, including Republican consultant Rick Wilson and Florida-based pollster and operative Joel Searby. Better for America has been funded in part by John Kingston, a Boston-based conservative donor who bundled for Mitt Romney.
McMullin was born in Provo, Utah, and earned a bachelor’s degree in international law and diplomacy from Brigham Young University and a master’s of business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Amazing how so many of that faith gravitate toward careers in intelligence.
McMullin served as a Mormon missionary in Brazil and volunteer refugee resettlement officer in Amman, Jordan, on behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was in training at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He completed his training and volunteered for overseas service in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, spearheading counterterrorism and intelligence operations in some of the most dangerous nations, according to the group.
Once he left the CIA in 2011, McMullin went to work for Goldman Sachs in the San Francisco Bay Area and in 2013 became a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and later the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference. Former Klingon doing his little part. We're all painfully aware his effort has absolutely nothing to do with becoming president of the United States. He's hoping to peel off a few Mormon votes in western states so as to deliver those to Hillary.
It's odd that he left it for so late in the season...
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Both the JOHN GOODMAN + TOM SULLIVAN SHOWS on Fox Radio have had Pundits on denoting that the US Political System has been absolutely rigged in favor of the GOP-Dems Candidates + no other, + how the Fed Courts have been an miserable fsilure at protecting genuine Third-Party POTUS Candidates from being shunned out from the beginning. 'TIS MAKES A FARCE OF TRUE, INDEPENDENT COMPETITIION.
THIS MUST CHANGE, espec IN LAW.
THE GEOPOL + IDEO DAMGERS THAT LIE AHEAD FOR America 2017 -2025 MAKES CAHNGE IMPERATIVE.
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A campaign going nowhere. Maybe it's one of those ego things where he we be able to put on his resume that he ran for POTUS--good ice breaker (or not).
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Um, Mr. McMullin - no disrespect, but you oughta try to run for president of your homeowner's association or maybe City Council...just something...before you try for the top prize.
[AnNahar] A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a teenaged Ethiopian asylum seeker to psychiatric care for fatally stabbing a Lebanese Swedish young woman working at a youth refugee housing center in January.
The teen, identified in court documents as Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, had been charged with murder but the district court in the southwestern town of Gothenburg found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault.
"Youssaf Nuur, through his heedless behavior, caused Alexandra Mezher's death. He is therefore guilty of involuntary manslaughter," the court wrote.
A court-ordered examination found Nuur was mentally unstable, and this may have meant that he did not know that the stabs to Mezher's thigh would cause her to bleed to death, the court said.
Mezher, a 22-year-old of Lebanese origin, was stabbed as she tried to break up a fight in the center for unaccompanied minors.
Nuur also attacked another person who tried to help Mezher, resulting in the conviction for aggravated assault.
Nuur neither denied nor admitted the events, telling the court he had no memory of what had happened.
After undergoing psychiatric care, Nuur was ordered deported from Sweden and banned from returning before 2026.
Nuur's exact age has not been determined. He told the court he was 15, but the prosecution argued that he was at least 18. After examining bone x-rays and dental records, the court sided with the prosecution.
A lawyer for Mezher's family, Hans Gaestadius, told news agency TT they were "disappointed" by the verdict as they had hoped for a murder conviction, and they planned to appeal.
The January 25 killing sparked outrage in Sweden amid a flare in violence linked to the migrant crisis, especially at overcrowded reception centers.
According to the Swedish Migration Agency, the number of threats and violent incidents at asylum facilities more than doubled from 2014 to 2015 as Sweden witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals.
A country of 9.8 million, Sweden took in more than 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015, putting it among the EU states with the highest proportion of refugees per capita.
It has since tightened its asylum rules, which has curbed the migrant flow drastically.
After the killing, questions were raised about safety at the reception center, where Mezher had been working alone at the time of her death.
But a study by the Health and Social Care Inspectorate -- a government agency responsible for supervising health care and social services -- found no shortcomings in routines.
However, the company that runs the center no longer allows employees to work alone.
[Dhaka Tribune] A jacket wallah in Pakistain killed at least 70 people and maimed more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the southwestern province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the emergency department to accompany the body of a prominent lawyer who had been shot and killed in the city earlier in the day, Faridullah, a news hound who was among the maimed, told Rooters.
Abdul Rehman Miankhel, a bigwig at the government-run Civil Hospital, where the kaboom occurred, told news hounds that at least 70 people had been killed, with more than 112 maimed, as the casualty toll spiked from initial estimates.
"There are many maimed, so the corpse count could rise," said Rehmat Saleh Baloch, the provincial health minister.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Islamist holy warrior Pak Taliban group, grabbed credit for the attack in an email.
It was not immediately clear if the group had carried out the bombing, as it is believed to have grabbed credit for attacks in the past that it was not involved in.
"The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (TTP-JA) takes responsibility for this attack, and pledges to continue carrying out such attacks," said front manEhsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... in the statement.
Only last week, Jamaat was added to the United States’ list of global terrorists, triggering sanctions.
Television footage showed scenes of chaos at the hospital in Quetta, with panicked people fleeing through debris as smoke filled the hospital corridors.
Bodies lay strewn across a hospital courtyard shortly after the blast and pools of blood collected as emergency rescuers rushed to identify survivors.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish authorities have detained at least 10 foreign nationals suspected of ties to a U.S.-based holy man whom The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... accuses of criminal masterminding the July 15 failed coup, a bigwig said Monday.
At least four of them had been formally placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! pending trial while a fifth person had been released, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told news hounds after a Cabinet meeting. One of the suspects was detained on Saturday after entering Turkey illegally from Syria, the deputy premier said. Kurtulmus said at least one wanted foreign national was on the run.
He didn't provide details on their nationalities, but said the number of foreigners detained could increase as the investigation deepens.
Turkey's government launched a sweeping crackdown targeting followers of U.S.-based Moslemholy man Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of behind the coup attempt by renegade soldiers within the military. Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has denied involvement.
Nearly 18,000 people have been detained or arrested in the crackdown, mostly from the military. Tens of thousands of people have been suspended or dismissed from jobs in the judiciary, media, education, health care, military and local government.
The scope of the crackdown has alarmed European countries and rights groups, who have urged restraint, triggering criticism by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... who has angrily complained of a lack of support from Turkey's allies.
The government is demanding Gulen's extradition from the U.S. Washington has said it would need evidence of the holy man's involvement, and says the extradition process must be allowed to take its course.
On Sunday, Turkey held a mass rally in Istanbul to denounce the attempted coup, which two main opposition party leaders attended in a show of unity.
Kurtulmus, citing police figures, said as many as 5 million people had attended the rally, which he described as a strong expression by the Turkish people of their demand that Gulen be returned to Turkey to face trial. Turkey also is pressing for the extradition of other U.S.-based Gulen supporters.
"I have no doubt that U.S. officials will review their stance (on Gulen)," Kurtulmus said. "Either they will continue to protect three or five bandidos, or they will act in a way that will allow them to win the hearts of a nation of 79 million people."
Kurtulmus said the government doesn't believe Gulen's movement would be capable of staging another military coup, but didn't rule out possible acts of sabotage by his followers, including cyberattacks. Kurtulmus said, however, that Turkey was taking measures to counter any possible threat.
"I can confidently say that there is no longer a threat of (another) coup," Kurtulmus said. "But this organization will continue ... to take action to harm Turkey."
Also Monday, Kurtulmus announced that the government had lifted a decision to cancel all civil servants' leaves which had forced many to return from vacations or cancel travel plans. The ban was imposed soon after the coup attempt to allow authorities to investigate officials' possible links to the Gulen movement.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi informed on Sunday that 25 ISIS members were killed in northern Ramadi city.
Mahlawi in a statement issued to the media, said, “A force of the 10th Division surrounded around 25 ISIS members in poultry fields in Thar Thar desert north of Ramadi.”
Mahlawi added that, “The force killed all the terrorists, most of whom were foreign nationals.”
It may be mentioned here that the security forces have liberated Khalidiya Island last week, while dozens of terrorists fled towards the desert of Thar Thar.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Al-Hash al-Shaabi in Anbar confirmed that the percentage of damage in al-Waleed port along the Syrian borders after being liberated from ISIS has reached to 100 per cent.
Colonel Shaker Obeid al-Delimi said, “Waleed border port is fully destroyed due to the destruction of all governmental buildings, storehouses, checkpoints and all buildings in the border port with Syria west of Anbar.”
Delimi added, “Security forces, after liberating al-Waleed border port, destroyed dozens of secret tunnels and hideouts used by ISIS west of Anbar.”
“The fighters of the Desert Falcons Regiment are controlling the liberated areas in Waleed border port with Syria. Military troops are needed to be deployed along the border line between Iraq and Syria from Waleed Port towards the liberated Rutba district,” he said.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi informed on Monday that ISIS hideout has been destroyed in airstrike north of Ramadi.
Mahlawi in a press statement, said, “The international coalition aviation in coordination with Anbar Operations bombed a hideout of terrorists in Ramadi Island. The hideout was destroyed and two terrorists were also killed in the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Federal Police Command announced killing nine ISIS members at Khalidiya Island in eastern Ramadi, apart from diffusing 12 improvised explosive devices and 30 booby-trapped houses.
Federal Police Chief Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat said, “The 6th Commando brigade killed five ISIS members and diffused 12 improvised explosive devices and 30 booby-trapped houses, in addition to detonating three booby-trapped houses in Khalidiya Island.”
“The Field Engineers further dismantled a booby-trapped tunnel network and three explosive belts near river bank in Khalidiya,” he added.
Jawdat also said, “The 4th Commando brigade killed four ISIS members and detonated a vehicle at Kartan in Khalidiya Island.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Western Desert Falcons brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi announced killing dozens of ISIS members while they attacked Waleed border port west of the province, and added that ISIS was forced to withdraw its fighters to the Syrian territories.
Commander of the 1st regiment of the Western Desert Falcons brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi Colonel Shaker Obeid al-Delimi said, “Security forces from the Western Desert Falcons brigade repulsed an ISIS offensive from the Syrian territories targeting al-Waleed border port between Iraq and Syria. The clash resulted in the death of dozens of ISIS members.”
Delimit added, “ISIS was forced to withdraw its members towards the Syrian territories because of this huge losses.”
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Regime and rebel forces have sent in hundreds of fighters and extra military equipment to join the crucial battle for Syria’s second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said Monday.
Fighting is intensifying as both sides prepare for what Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said would be a decisive battle for the northern city.
"An estimated 2,000 Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian fighters as well as Lebanese fighters from (Shiite movement) Hezbollah have arrived in Aleppo since Sunday night," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The Monday edition of Al-Watan, a Syrian daily close to the government, said the army and allied forces had received "the necessary military reinforcements to launch the battle to retake the areas from which it withdrew."
Al-Watan said a Paleostinian loyalist militia had sent "huge reinforcements" to Syria’s army battling to defend a cement factory south of Aleppo.
Citing a source on the ground, the newspaper said military warplanes "are carrying out a barrage of air strikes targeting the gangs."
Forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... are on the defensive in Aleppo since an opposition alliance overran key territory south of the city at the weekend.
The coalition of rebels, Islamists, and Lions of Islam seized territory in a military academy on Aleppo’s edges on Saturday, breaking the government encirclement of eastern districts, home to an estimated 250,000 people.
"Hundreds of fighters, specifically from the Fateh al-Sham Front (formerly Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch), and others arrived in Aleppo city from other parts of the province and Idlib province," said Abdel Rahman.
Fateh al-Sham Front -- which changed its name from Al-Nusra Front after breaking off ties with Al-Qaeda -- leads the Army of Conquest, which has played a major role in the fight for Aleppo.
Late Sunday, the Army of Conquest pledged to "double the number of fighters" to recapture all of Aleppo city.
"Both sides are amassing their fighters in preparation for the great battle of Aleppo... which is existential for both the fighters and their backers," said Abdel Rahman.
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#1
the great battle of Aleppo
May it exceed the battle of Verdun
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah rammed his vehicle into a large group of army reinforcements in south 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 Sunday, killing at least 10 soldiers, an Al Arabiya News Channel correspondent reported.
Another seven soldiers were maimed in the attack targeting troops who had been sent from the main southern city of Aden to Lahij province to fight krazed killers, the sources said.
A military official said it was unclear whether the attack had been carried out by al-Qaeda or ISIS, both of which have gained ground in the south and claimed deadly anti-government assaults in the past.
Late on Saturday, coalition jets attacked Al-Qaeda positions in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... 's picturesque provincial capital of Zinjibar and in the nearby town of Jaar, military sources said.
Government forces backed by the Arab coalition began an all-out offensive in March against jihadists in south Yemen, recapturing main cities they had held.
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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.
[The Rise of the West] For years I've been predicting it. With absolute confidence, I've been claiming that its arrival is a certainty. So why do I feel so surprised, and a trifle disoriented that it is now happening? What is "it"? It's The Happening. I didn't invent this expression. I heard a couple of people use it at the recent New York Forum. Perhaps "The Convergence" would be more appropriate. Perhaps I could even give in to my Heideggerian vice and call it The Event (Das Ereignis). But I like The Happening.
Let's be honest shall we? Moraine Valley should not be blamed. They're only doing openly what the Federal Government has been doing privately for decades. 
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The family of a 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi air force has received a new batch of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the United States, bolstering the country’s fledging air force amid more than two years of fighting with ISIS, a 
[AnNahar] The Turkish government said Monday a total of 216 soldiers, including nine generals, were still 
[FireAndreaMitchell] Seizures are no laughing matter. If this individual handler of Hillary Clinton is carrying around a Diazepam pen for Clinton, then the public has the right to know. Diazepam is prescribing to people with recurring seizure and stroke."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] If the Turkish public want the death penalty following last month’s failed coup
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
