[The National Interest] IN THE wake of the Orlando and Istanbul attacks, President Obama reiterated his determination to "destroy" ISIS by executing a strategy that combines air strikes, American special-operations units and support for local ground forces. Both of the candidates campaigning to succeed him insist that the United States must do more: Donald Trump advocates that Washington "bomb the hell out of" the group, while Hillary Clinton promises to "smash the would-be caliphate." All three, however, are in violent agreement on one point: the overriding objective must be to destroy ISIS.
The insistence on the "destruction" of ISIS has become such a reflexive linchpin of America’s counterterrorism project that few pause to consider its strategic merit. But the nation with arguably the most experience and success combatting terrorism has considered it--and found it wanting.
Israelis live much closer to ISIS than do Americans. ISIS has pledged to conquer the Jewish state and incorporate it into its core caliphate. Yet surprisingly, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has rejected the option of taking the fight directly to ISIS. Instead, faced with an operational threat that could mean the death of hundreds of Israelis at any moment, it has embraced a strategy that has not even been on the U.S. policy menu. Adopting a page from the playbook the United States used to defeat revolutionary Soviet-led communism in the Cold War, Israel is preventing ISIS attacks through a strategy of patient, vigilant deterrence. Obviously, the United States cannot simply adopt the Israeli approach whole cloth. It operates in a different security environment than the Jewish state, which faces a multiplicity of terrorist threats on its borders. But there are important lessons that America can learn to enhance its national security.
Israel’s approach to ISIS is straightforward. Israel seeks to persuade ISIS not to attack it by credibly threatening to retaliate. If you attack us, the thinking goes, we will respond in ways that will impose pain that exceeds any gain you can hope to achieve. As Cold War strategists learned, making this work in practice is demanding. To be effective, deterrence requires three Cs: clarity, capability and credibility. Specifically, this means clarity about the red line that cannot be crossed, communicated in language the adversary understands; capability to impose costs that greatly exceed the benefits; and credibility about the willingness to do so. Failures occur when the deterrer falls short on any one of the three Cs. So, if I draw a red line, you cross it, and I respond with words rather than the decisive punishment threatened, I fail the third C. Whatever excuse I give for not executing my threat, and however earnest my claim that next time will be different, the blunt fact is that adversaries will find my threats less credible.
If that were not enough, as the great nuclear strategist Thomas Schelling taught us, successful deterrence requires more than just a threat. The flip side of the deterrence coin is an equivalent promise: if you refrain from the prohibited action, I will withhold the threatened punishment. If, for whatever reason, I decide to administer the specified punishment even though you have complied with my demands, I spend that coin--and can no longer use that threat to deter you. As the saying goes, if you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t--you might as well do.
[Reuters] The United States sells weapons around the world. It sells them to governments it approves of, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and others.
But it also sells to countries that - to put it in the best light - it has mixed feelings about: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Rwanda to name just a few. Israel presents its own unique challenges, being both a close military ally and a democracy, but with policies that drive Washington mad.
The decision on what countries get access to which weapons from U.S. manufacturers is made largely by the Pentagon, arms expert William Hartung explains, in close consultation with the industry. The consultation is so close, in fact, that the Pentagon often acts as a broker, helping to put deals together.
Congress rarely gets involved. The current discussion among lawmakers over whether to sell new weapons to Saudi Arabia after alleged human rights abuses in Yemen is extremely unusual and experts believe the sale will still go through.
Arms sales are about keeping foreign governments sweet and keeping other nations' manufacturers out. And once a country decides to go with U.S. weapons, they'll need ammunition, spare parts and repair services, forging a relationship that lasts for years.
But how does the United States make sure that the weapons it sells don't get resold, or fall into the hands U.S. enemies? And what role does the black market play? Listen to this week's episode of War College to get the answers.
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It also helps if the equipment is field tested in a real environment, often beating the competition. It's one thing buying cheap just to keep the population down, it's another when your neighbors threaten to come over the border armed to the teeth.
[AlAhram] A blast from a roadside kaboom hit a passing military vehicle near the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Friday and the Kurdish hard boy PKK was suspected to be behind the attack, security sources said.
At least one soldier was maimed, Dogan news agency reported. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's mainly Kurdish southeast has been hit with waves of violence following the collapse last year of a ceasefire between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The kaboom followed violence elsewhere in Turkey's southeast on Friday that left five security personnel and 20 Kurdish snuffies dead.
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[AnNahar] A middle-aged Somali-born holy man with a bright orange beard was this week put on a U.S. terror list, accused of heading 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 in East Africa.
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said Abdulqadir (also Abdiqadir) Mumin is "the head of a group of ISIS-linked individuals in East Africa," using another term for IS, and branding him a "global terrorist".
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[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has sacked another 10,000 coppers, judges, prosecutors and academics, according to a decree published Friday, as the state continued a purge within public services following July's failed coup.
A total of 7,669 police were dismissed in the latest swoop on suspected coup plotters or supporters, along with 323 personnel in the gendarmerie, which looks after domestic security.
A further 543 prosecutors and judges were also dismissed, bringing the total of those removed from the judiciary to 3,390, NTV channel reported.
The state's post-coup crackdown on higher education also continued, with 2,346 academics getting the sack, along with 28,000 others in education, including thousands of teachers.
Also Friday, the justice minister said tens of thousands of convicts who were tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! before the putsch had been freed, under an initiative apparently aimed at relieving pressure on prisons which are bursting with coup suspects.
To fill the gaping holes left in the judiciary, the state has invited judges and prosecutors who took early retirement to apply to return.
The latest sweep also involved the dismissal of more than 800 military personnel, most of whom were already under arrest. A total of 4,451 military personnel have been sacked since July, including scores of generals.
- 34,000 convicts released -
Announcing the prisoner release, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said it involved people tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for minor offences.
"As of yesterday evening, 33,838 prisoners and detainees have been released," Bozdag said during a ministerial meeting in Ankara led by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim that was broadcast live. The government said it was not an amnesty and that it would not apply to those tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for murder, terrorism or crimes against state security, nor would it involve any of those held in connection with the coup.
According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the total capacity of Turkey's prisons is 187,351 people.
Since July 15, the number of those in jug has swelled to more than 200,000.
Yildirim said that 40,000 people were tossed into the calaboose in July, of which 20,000 were remanded in jug.
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan born 26 February 1954. Stalin died March 2, 1953. Personally, I don't believe in reincarnation, but...
[Wash Times] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's son Eric Trump questioned Friday how Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton became enormously wealthy running a charity, which has become the focus of the campaign's allegation of pay-to-play corruption while she was secretary of state.
"The question I always ask is, what product were they selling? If we make a buck, we sold a bottle of wine or an apartment, or we sold a hotel room. What product were they selling to make $150 million," Mr. Trump said on Fox News... "Fox & Friends."
Host Ainsley Earhardt suggested: "Favors? The government?"
"Of course," responded Mr. Trump, who works on the campaign for his billionaire businessman father.
"This is the leadership we have in this country. Somebody sets up a foundation. They pocket hundreds of millions of dollars. They say they come out of the White House ’dead broke.’ Now they are worth $150 million," he said.
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Well, there's always self imposed exile. Just think of all the celebrities she can have around her, without dealing with messy day to day stuff interfering. As for making money, I understand accessing advance technology, like missile launching and satellite know how can bring a dime or two.
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What if she has concluded that becoming POTUS is the only way to avoid jail?
One of the key reasons why Caesar crossed the Rubicon was that he had been summoned to Rome by the government: he knew, they knew, everyone knew that by coming to Rome without his army, he'd be arrested and charged with some crime by his enemies. Didn't matter that everyone else was doing what he had done. Caesar couldn't run for counsel and couldn't be a tribune, the only ways to gain exemption from prosecution. So he crossed the Rubicon.
Hillary doesn't have a formal army behind her. But she does have the Foundation, all the people who owe her, and all the people who have purchased her favor. That's an army of sorts. She's running for POTUS because in part that's the only way to stay out of prison.
But it's not the only way. And she does have an army.
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I'm kinda, sorta, have a problem comparing Hillary to Julius Caesar.
[Reuters] The Clinton Foundation on multiple occasions during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state asked senior U.S. government officials to vet her husband's contacts with potentially controversial international figures, according to emails released by the State Department.
The emails, reviewed by Reuters, were part of a batch of nearly 400 messages recently released by the State Department after requests from the conservative group Citizens United, a group that has long been critical of the Clintons.
The exchanges show a top foreign policy adviser to the foundation sought guidance from the State Department on former President Bill Clinton's interactions with people including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian government officials and business leaders, and Gulnara Karimova, the socialite daughter of Uzbekistan’s late president.
The emails offer a glimpse of the intricate relationship between a private charity with a broad global mission and the State Department under the leadership of a secretary who is married to a former president.
Former government officials reached by Reuters said there was nothing inappropriate in the interactions of the foundation with the State Department over the potential meetings, some of which did not occur.
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Interesting, a Non-Governmental Foundation receives US Intelligence reporting and dossiers on foreign personnel ?
One might assume similar reporting was harvested for US Persons as well. Sort of habit forming, that vetting thing, once you've enjoyed the feeds.
Foggy Bottom must have dramatically improved their human intelligence collection capabilities over the years, or were they provided outside assistance ?
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If Hillary can't remember Jack $hit about anything because of her 2012 concussion (she became SOS in 2009), maybe Bill can. Anyway, if she can't remember anything about her server, security training or briefings, drone targeting, or anything else about her stint at State, she is not fit or qualified to be POTUS. Moreover, the government should be talking about criminal charges rather than her coronation. Both her and Bill are grifters and con artists--nothing either one of them should happen to say should be believed. I wonder if anyone really give a flip about a lying disgraced ex-POTUS, a lying unindicted ex-SOS, and their criminal enterprise--it certainly doesn't seem so. Have we really slipped this low as a country?
[Free Beacon] Newly released FBI figures show that last month saw the most gun-related FBI background checks of any August on record.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, conducted 1,853,815 checks in August. That’s over 100,000 more checks than the previous record set last August. It is also the 16th month in a row to set a record.
The number of NICS checks considered one of the most reliable gauges for how many guns were sold. Nearly every sale made through a licensed gun dealer, whether it’s made inside a store, online, or at a gun show, is required to complete a NICS check.
However, the measure is not a one-to-one recording of gun sales for a number of reasons. Most states do not require NICS checks on sales between non-dealers. Some states also use NICS checks in their concealed carry application process where no gun is sold.
"These statistics represent the number of firearm background checks initiated through the NICS," the FBI report noted. "They do not represent the number of firearms sold. Based on varying state laws and purchase scenarios, a one-to-one correlation cannot be made between a firearm background check and a firearm sale."
August’s numbers represent a return to seasonal trends after both June and July outperformed their previous figures. Though August 2016 saw more sales than any other August on record, it also saw fewer checks than any other month this year. Guns sales generally slow during summer months.
The slight retreat in the margin of record-breaking sales coincides with a presidential election that has largely focused on issues other than gun rights and gun control. Though the candidates have staked out opposing viewpoints on firearms, the issue took a backseat during the campaign in August.
Still, polling has begun to show the gun ownership rate rising as the more-than-year-long record setting trend continues. Nearly 110,000 Americans now report having a gun in their home.
[Free Beacon] There were 94,391,000 Americans not participating in the labor force in August, an increase of 58,000 people from the previous month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
The bureau counts those not in the labor force as people who do not have a job and did not actively seek one in the past four weeks.
The labor force participation rate, which is the percentage of the population that has a job or actively looked for one in the past month, remained steady at 62.8 percent in August. According to the bureau, this level of participation matches the level seen in 1978.
The unemployment rate for all Americans remained steady at 4.9 percent from July to August. This measure does not account for those individuals who have dropped out of the labor force and simply measures the percent of those who did not have a job but actively sought one over the month.
The "real" unemployment rate, otherwise known as the U-6 measure, was 9.7 percent, which remained steady from the previous month. Democrats such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen have said this measure accounts for discouraged workers and those working part time instead of full time for economic reasons and is more representative of the labor market.
There were 6,053,000 Americans working part-time in August who would rather have a full-time job but cited economic reasons for not having such employment. This number increased by 113,000 over the month.
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To these stats must be added at least 50% of government employees who produce nothing of real worth or actually destroy productivity with over-regulation.
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Where are the stats for those who are doing the work of wrecking the world?
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The administration is deliberately trashing jobs and the economy for profit. Teachers can't pay rent, lose their insurance, Vets and students lose benefits because credits aren't transferable to the state system. I had no idea the Department of Education had so much power but add that to the EPA's fiascos. Several coal plants + CA nuclear plants have closed because they meet new EPA regulations, idling the RR's, further trashing jobs especially in rural areas. Hanjin went bankrupt, showing cargo is slowing the lifeblood of America. Hedge fund traders are nasty selfish vultures.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel is to host a working group of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... as it weighs whether to probe alleged war crimes in the 2014 Gazoo war, an Israeli official said Friday.
The group’s arrival "shortly" will be unprecedented, he told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying the visit was intended to show the ICC team "how the Israeli judicial system works."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s front man declined to comment.
The trip is at the request of ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, whose office, in a brief statement, confirmed Friday it "is in talks with both Paleostinian and Israeli authorities about a potential visit."
Under its statutes, the ICC must be satisfied that the state in question is unable or unwilling to pursue the matter itself before the court opens war crimes proceedings.
Israel will seek to convince the visiting ICC team that it intends to see justice done over accusations it used excessive force in the July-August 2014 war in and around the Paleostinian territory and events immediately preceding it.
The official could not say if the group would be given access to the West Bank and Gazoo Strip, to which Israel controls all passage except across the largely closed Gazoo-Egypt border.
The 2014 conflict between Israel and Gazoo’s Islamist rulers Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and other factions killed 2,251 Paleostinians, including 551 children, according to UN figures.
On the Israeli side, 73 people were killed, mostly soldiers.
Israel and the Paleostinians have accused each other of war crimes.
Israel is alleged to have used force indiscriminately, while Hamas is accused of firing rockets at Israeli civilian population centers and of using Paleostinians as human shields.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Four hard boyz trying to attack a Christian colony on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's outskirts were killed during a stand-off with security forces Friday morning.
A civilian was also killed in the attack, security sources told DawnNews.
The Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... hard boy group grabbed credit for the attack.
Soldiers backed by Army helicopters exchanged gunfire with Death Eaters in boom jackets who entered the colony around 6am after hitting a security guard, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
All four attackers detonated their suicide jackets, Additional Inspector General Bomb Disposal Squad Shafqat Malik said, adding that rifles and five hand grenades were recovered from the attackers.
Two Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... soldiers, a police constable and two civilian guards were maimed during an exchange of fire with terrorists, ISPR said.
Two of the hard boyz took cover in under construction houses, one hid inside a house, and one was found outside in the colony, the AIG said.
The AIG termed the colony clear after a house-to-house search operation was carried out.
Army men at the site of the attack. ─ AFP
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Interesting. Getting four boomjackets together and four guys ready to do the deed to Christians suggests a pretty substantial organization. But if they'd wanted to make a bang, so to speak, they'd have used more guys, which the organizing of the thing suggests they could have found.
Not getting this.
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Ima thinkern the Jamaatul Ahrar was 'auditioning' for someone.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Yemeni Army’s “Rocket Battalion” launched several Qahir-1 ballistic missiles into southern Saudi Arabia on Friday night, striking the Saudi Army’s defenses at a military base in Al-Ta’if. Video footage of the Yemeni missile strike in Al-Ta’if was captured by the Military Media, a broadcasting wing for Hezbollah
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[GP] Hillary Clinton took the day off on Thursday.
Her next event is scheduled for Monday. In her absence the Clinton Campaign invited Joe Biden to headline a rally in Ohio. Only 200 people showed up... Including the paid union hacks.
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She will still get the democratic ideologues and the libtard wymns choice, baby parts selling crowd. Roe vs Wade has changed politics like nothing else, and HRC is a staunch Planned Parenthood supporter.
The graphic is unfortunate at too many levels to discuss.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] An unidentified person accessed an email account on Clinton's private server from an IP address associated with encryption tool Tor in 2013
The incident happened January 5, 2013, a month before the Democratic presidential nominee left the State Department
According to the FBI's review of the Clinton server logs, the user using three IP addresses that are known to serve as Tor 'exit nodes'
But the owner of the email account, whose name is redacted in the report, said she was 'not familiar with nor [had] she ever used Tor software'
Tor, which was developed with the support of the US government, is an encrypted privacy tool that is used to hide a person's history
It has been criticized for allowing hackers and criminals to evade law enforcement in the dark web
In another incident, top aide Huma Abedin revealed to an unidentified person that Clinton had fears she had been hacked
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Used a dark web browser? Knowing the dark web exists would indicate a fair level of sophistication. The whole thing is very phishy.
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All Tor IP addresses should be blocked by the firewall. Tor is nothing but a place for hackers to hide their real IP addresses. The fact that it wasn't blocked by the firewall is yet another indication that we are dealing with a felony stupid, extremely careless presidential candidate.
And what about a spam filter? No spam filter? Yet another indication...
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Seriously folks, anybody who's taken IT Security 101 at their local junior college, or even high school, should know these things. We couldn't expect Hillary to know them but she at least should have had some concept of security and hired someone who could implement some rudimentary measures to secure her server...unless she was afraid that such an individual might eventually be called to testify.
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I disagree Abu. Hillary was a Governors wife, a senator - on a number of high level committees, a First Lady, etc... She is not a newbie novice to government - far from it. For her not to know a least security 101 or at least know to get some decent advice from someone with experience in the field means she either dumber than a bag of hammers or complacent. And she's not stupid.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia group discontinued its regional tour late on Thursday and instead headed to Muscat to meet with the UN envoy, the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
After meeting with Iraqi President Fouad Masoum, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, and Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari in Baghdad, the Houthis left for the Omani capital, Muscat, sources told Anadolu.
The sources said the Houthis will be meeting the UN envoy to 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... Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who will be arriving in Muscat from New York on Saturday.
The regional tour by Houthis is aimed at seeking backing for their unilateral declaration of a "political council" to administer the crisis-hit, cash-strapped Yemen, included Iraq, Iran and Leb.
Peace talks
On Aug. 6, peace talks between Yemen’s warring sides ‐ the Houthi militia and the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi - ended without bringing any breakthrough.
Even before the Kuwait-based talks ended, Houthi militia and its allies in former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ’s General People’s Congress party signed an agreement to set up the political council to run the country in late July, further jeopardizing any efforts to close the gap between the two sides.
On his Twitter account, the Houthis’ spokesmen and head of its delegation Mohammed Abed al-Salam said "the delegation has returned to Muscat after an official visit to Iraq to open up horizons with the regional and international community, especially after the formation of the political council."
Military escalation Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... the UN envoy told the Security Council that the military escalation in Yemen will provide opportunities for holy warrior groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS to spread, and warning that they will wreak havoc in many parts of Yemen.
"However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the absence of the state in many parts of Yemen, in addition to the chaos created by war, will continue to facilitate the expansion of the terrorist groups which represents a real threat to the region," he said.
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If only because there's lots of money to be made in manufacturing ans selling weapons.
If you doubt the contracting and manufacture of weapons of war is the highly cultivated enterprise of government, just examine how rigorously the arms industry is protected from foreign imports.
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Your TAAS is essential to your national survival and is not particularly focused on fostering endless regime changes here and there. At least that is my opinion.
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I meant the way USA won't buy IMI staff that's better and (lots) cheaper then domestic.
Maybe because State and WH have played "go along with us or lose your supply of materials and spare parts" too many times to fail to grasp, what goes around, comes around. Besides the graft.
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When Saddam rolled south over the Mutla Ridge and took Kuwait City, I was privileged to make contact with a small aircraft spares outfit out of Schaumberg, IL with a contract at Ali al Salem. The business was started by a former USAF officer. His sons ran it at that time with the old man in overwatch. Their on-site PM was a retired USMC aviator. He was successful in launching the Kuwaiti Air Force 'down city streets' (due to runway cratering Ali by Saddam). They escaped and evaded to Saudi and eventually became the vanguard of the liberation.
The two brothers and some other mil retirees set up a command post in Crystal City where they could maintain FACECOM with DoS and Embassy Row. As a result they were instrumental in ending-running recalcitrant, do nothing DoS bureaucrats to gain the successful exfiltration and E&E of their staff at Ali. Thank you Amman and Manila. Nothing more need be said.
The Kuwaitis were very grateful to the outfit from Schaumburg. So much so that when Foggy Bottom began their re-arming - re-contracting schemes, the Kuwaitis told them 'Schaumburg please, forget everyone else.'
Lots of 'butt hurt' DoS types as a result of the Kuwaiti's insistence and the Schaumburg brother's aggressive, no bullshi* approach to getting stuff done.
It was fun to watch. Had I thought to have taken notes, a good book could have been written.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Islam Karimov, who crushed all opposition in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan as its only president in a quarter-century of independence from the Soviet Union, has died of a stroke at age 78, the Uzbek government announced Friday.
Karimov will be buried Saturday in the ancient city of Samarkand, his birthplace, the government said in a statement.
His younger daughter, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, said in a social media post Monday that he had been hospitalized in intensive care after a brain hemorrhage Aug. 27. On Friday, she posted again, saying: "He is gone."
Little other information was available. Media freedom and human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... have been harshly repressed ever since he became leader in 1989 while it was still a republic of the Soviet Union.
One of the world’s most authoritarian rulers, Karimov cultivated no apparent successor, and his death raised concerns that the strategically located country could face prolonged infighting among clans over its leadership, something its Islamic radical movement could exploit.
"The death of Islam Karimov may open a pretty dangerous period of unpredictability and uncertainty in Uzbekistan," Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee, told the Tass news agency.
Given the lack of access to the strategic country, it’s hard to judge how powerful the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan might be. Over the years, the group has been affiliated with the Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIS, and it has sent fighters abroad.
Under the Uzbek constitution, if the president dies his duties pass temporarily to the head of the senate until an election can be held within three months. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the head of the Uzbek senate is regarded as unlikely to seek permanent power and Karimov’s demise is expected to set off a period of jockeying for political influence.
Karimov was known as a tyrant with an explosive temper and a penchant for cruelty. His troops machine-gunned hundreds of unarmed demonstrators to death during a 2005 uprising, he incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! thousands of political opponents, and his henchmen reportedly boiled some dissidents to death.
He came under widespread international criticism from human rights groups, but because of Uzbekistan’s location as a vital supply route for the war in neighboring Afghanistan, the West sometimes turned a blind eye to his worst abuses.
Noting Karimov’s death, President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... said in a statement the US "reaffirms its support for the people of Uzbekistan."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces, backed by the Yemeni Republican Guard and Saleh Forces, managed to seize several Saudi military posts in the Asir Province of 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... on Thursday, Yemen-based al-Masirah News Agency reported.
Following the capture of these Saudi military posts, the Houthi forces and their allies confiscated a large cache of U.S. and Canadian weapons that belonged to the Saudi-led Coalition.
In addition to their advance in the Asir Province, the Houthi forces and their allies are quickly combing through the Saudi Army controlled Najran Valley, capturing several sites near the scenic provincial capital.
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Houthi forces and their allies confiscated a large cache of U.S. and Canadian weapons
(i) But AK-47 is still the most popular?
(ii) Canadian weapons?
[JSONLINE] A woman beaten to death with a lamp in an act of domestic violence. A man fatally stabbed during an argument outside a tavern. A man shot and killed while returning from a funeral for his grandfather.
Those are just three of the 24 homicides recorded in August -- what Milwaukee police have termed the "deadliest month" in 25 years. What would any of them have to lose by voting for Trump?
It is the highest monthly total since July 1991, when the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer were discovered, Milwaukee police said. Betcha the survivors don't. Milwaukee will remain Dem.
"We've had a slight increase in domestic violence homicides this year, but the biggest driver of our homicides is arguments and fights and retaliation among people with criminal records," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Thursday.
"Some of our challenge is simply consistently being able to deter armed offending through the criminal justice system," he added. "The penalties are too weak."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A blast caused by a fire at a weapons storage depot in eastern Baghdad on Friday set off rockets that hit neighboring districts, killing at least four residents and injuring 14 others, police and hospital sources said.
Video footage showed a large plume of smoke rising above the depot. A huge kaboom was followed by a massive shockwave. Women and children were heard screaming in the background.
Footage of the blast site showed a massive crater almost five meters (15 foot) deep and 20 meters wide. Many surrounding buildings and vehicles were heavily damaged.
The depot belonged to one of the Shi'ite paramilitary groups of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), a police officer said.
The PMF is a coalition of mostly Iranian-backed militias that are fighting ISIS, the hardline Sunni group that overran swathes of northern and western Iraq two years ago.
The rockets set off from the depot damaged houses, shops and cars at eight locations, and started a fire at a flour factory that was still burning two hours after it was hit, the police officer said.
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[RFE/RL] A court in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aqtobe has jailed a man for calling for a series of terrorist attacks to be carried out in Russia. The court said on September 2 that Almas Abdiraev was sentenced to four years and eight months in jail.
According to the court, Abdiraev tried to persuade two acquaintances to organize terrorist acts in Russia "as a response to Russia's military operations in Syria."
On August 31, Kazakh authorities said they had apprehended 11 Islamists in the Aqtobe region.
In June, the government said a group of 25 alleged Islamist militants carried out a series of attacks that killed five civilians and three members of Kazakhstan's security forces in Aqtobe. Security forces who encountered the group killed 18 gunmen and arrested seven others who still await trial on terrorism charges.
[THECOLLEGEFIX] Calling the University of Nebraska Lincoln a place that "values acceptance," the institution kicked off the fall semester with its newly installed chancellor essentially telling new students they should not say or do things that might be offensive or cause people to feel disrespected, calling the stance "nonnegotiable."
"We insist on a culture of respect, and we recognize that words and actions really matter," Chancellor Ronnie Green said during a speech at the new student convocation on Aug. 19.
While suggesting the university values free speech and freedom of expression, Green ‐ who took the helm of UNL this summer ‐ went on to declare: "We do not tolerate actions of hate and disrespect."
The policy, being called by campus leaders a set of "belief statements" on diversity and inclusion, is also spelled out on its website.
Green’s comments come as Christianity and conservatism -- even support of Donald Trump -- is accused of being intolerant, hateful and racist on campuses nationwide.
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[Pantagraph] WASHINGTON -- Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton relied on the judgments of her staff and others not to illegally send emails containing classified information to her private email server, and told FBI investigators she was unclear about a classification marking on official government documents.
The revelation came Friday as the FBI, in a rare step, published scores of pages summarizing interviews with Clinton and her top aides from the FBI's recently closed criminal investigation into her use of a private email server in the basement her Chappaqua, New York, home.
Clinton told the FBI she never sought or asked permission to use a private server or email address during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat, which violated federal records keeping policies.
Clinton has repeatedly said her use of private email was allowed. But over 3 ½ hours in an interview in July, she told FBI investigators she "did not explicitly request permission to use a private server or email address," the FBI wrote. They said no one at the State Department raised concerns during her tenure, and that Clinton said everyone with whom she exchanged emails knew she was using a private email address.
The documents also include technical details about how the private server was set up. It is the first disclosure of details provided by Bryan Pagliano, the technology staffer who set up and maintained Clinton's IT infrastructure. Pagliano secured an immunity agreement from the Justice Department after previously refusing to testify before Congress, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination.
Large portions of the FBI documents were censored. The FBI cited exemptions protecting national security and investigative techniques. Previous government reviews of the 55,000 pages of emails Clinton returned to the State Department found that about 110 contained classified information.
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I wonder if she realizes just how utterly incompetent her excuses are making her look. "I'm a complete and total idiot! Vote for me!" isn't exactly the smartest move she could make. But then, what else do we expect out of such a vile, inhuman harpy like her.
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It was a choice between appearing utterly incompetent and duplicitous or staring a federal indictment and potential conviction in the face; and the all but certain end of her political ambitions and career.
One can only hope that the lies and deception have finally caught up with her. Then again, she's been able to squeeze through plenty of times in the past with the media in her pocket, which helps a lot.
If the media cares at all about regaining its credibility, assuming that's even possible at this point, they will have no choice but to report this for what it is:
She's either a bald-faced liar or totally incompetent and either should exclude her from the highest office in the land.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Six suspected cases of meningitis have been identified in a Syrian town near Damascus that is under siege by government forces, the World Heath Organization (WHO) said Friday.
The suspected cases were diagnosed in the town of Madaya between Aug. 3 and Aug. 30.
WHO has already evacuated two of those infected, a child and an adolescent.
The UN agency said it was in contact with health officials about sending medicines and organizing the evacuation of the other four suspected cases.
An activist in Madaya, Abdel Wahab Ahmed, who works at a health facility in the town, told AFP that the mother and two sisters of the evacuated child had also become infected.
"The family has been placed in medical isolation in their home, after two weeks of treatment with the only medicines available failed," he said.
Several cases of meningitis are reported every week, according to WHO. Most of them are viral forms of the disease, which tends to be less severe than the bacterial form.
WHO was not in a position to say Friday which type of meningitis was suspected in Madaya.
On Aug. 19, the Red Islamic Thingy evacuated 18 people, including 13 sick children from Madaya, according to a doctor who treated the children.
Among the children was a 10-year-old boy who had been suffering from meningitis for a month.
Under a September 2015 accord, all evacuations from the government-besieged towns of Madaya and Zabadani have to be done in parallel with similar evacuations from Fuaa and Kafraya.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Death-row war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali ...Jamaat-e-Islamic Central Committee member and Saudi money man in Bangla. Currently waiting to be hanged.... has told the jail authorities that he would not beg the president to spare his life.
This means, the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader, whose atrocities during the Liberation War in Chittagong earned him the nickname ’Bangali Khan’, can be executed any time now.
Kashimpur Central Jail-2 Superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik told the Dhaka Tribune that Quasem had informed them of his decision on Friday afternoon.
"We asked him about his decision [to seek presidential clemency] and he said he won’t," Prashanta said.
Asked if they were prepared to carry out the death sentence, the jail superintendent said they would "follow orders from the higher ups".
Quasem had spent a huge sum of money to appoint a US lobbyist to make the war crimes trials controversial.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... (Army of Islam) launched a massive counter-offensive in the East Ghouta region of rural Damascus on Friday, targeting the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) controlled al-Reyhan Farms.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the Jaish al-Islam offensive would end as fast as it started on Friday, thanks in large-part to the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) fierce resistance and their local scouts that provided intel regarding the enemy’s movements near al-Reyhan Farms.
Video footage from the battle was captured by the Syrian Arab News Agency on Friday, showing several Jaish al-Islam casualties littered across the al-Reyhan frontline:
Jaish al-Islam has since retreated from the al-Reyhan Farms after suffering a large number of casualties and little progress at this volatile front.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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 al-Sham (ISIS) launched a fierce attack at the southern perimeter of Palmyra (Tadmur) on Friday, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) defenses in the al-Badiyah area.
ISIS began the offensive by attempting to seize the orchards at the southern part of Palmyra; however, the terrorist forces were unable to break-through the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses, thanks in large-part to the Russian Air Force’s non-stop Arclight airstrikes.
As a result of these Russian Arclight airstrikes, the Islamic State’s top commander in the Palmyra region of east Homs was killed.
According to the Islamic State’s official media wing, their top commander, Emir Yousif Sultan, was killed, alongside his bodyguard, after a Russian bomb struck the Badiyah area.
Following the failed Islamic State offensive on Friday, the Russian Air Force carried out a number of Arclight airstrikes over the eastern Homs countryside, targeting the terrorist group’s positions at Sukhanah, ’Arak, and Taybah.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Footage emerged from the media wing of the Jund al-Aqsa terrorist group allegedly showing the repulsion of a Syrian Army assault on Ma’ardes.
In the latter parts of the video, modified drones belonging to Jund al-Aqsa could be seen dropping bombs on government positions in the troubled region of northern Hama.
Unfortunately for the jihadists, the bombs did not explode upon impact, but it is clear that the jihadist forces have been actively enhancing their capabilities in this conflict which could raise eyebrows about potential attacks on typically safe Western countries.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Rebel factions loosely affiliated with Jaish al-Fateh have reopened the frontline in northern Hama in a move strategically aimed at relieving pressure from their bully boy comrades in Latakia and Aleppo, thus securing Idlib province from any future aggression of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Idlib represents the functioning capital of Jaish al-Fateh while Hama city has been entirely under SAA control since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
Completely overwhelming the SAA, Jaish al-Fateh seized Suran and Taibat al-Imam, two large towns north of Hama city, in the matter of days. The Islamist coalition could also boast the downing of a Syrian helicopter which was operating in Hama on Friday afternoon.
News also broke that two Syrian soldiers had their heads chopped off by Jaish al-Fateh groups on Hama’s northern outskirts earlier today.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces, backed by the Yemeni Republican Guard, reportedly captured several points in the Mudfoun area of the Nihm District on Wednesday, expelling much of the Hadi loyalists to the Sanaa-Marib axis.
This Houthi advance on Wednesday, came just hours after the Saudi-led Coalition carried out a number of Arclight airstrikes over the Nihm District of Sanaa, killing and wounding several civilians process.
Hadi loyalists have repeatedly attempted to gain ground inside the Nihm District; however, their attacks are usually repelled and then countered by the Houthi forces and their allies.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has released the latest video of the American and Canadian hostages in a bid to force the Afghan government prevent imposing death sentence on Anas Haqqani.
A Taliban source told Rooters Wednesday that the timing of the release was aimed at pressuring the Afghan government not to execute Anas Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani ...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit... , founder of the feared Haqqani network.
The Canadian man Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlan Coleman are shown in the video warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners.
The couple was kidnapped by the bandidosholy warriors as soon as they visited Afghanistan late in 2012.
Earlier the couple appeared in two videos in 2013 asking the U.S. government to free them from the Taliban. The Colemans received a letter last November in which their daughter said she had given birth to a second child in captivity.
The release of the video comes as the reports emerged earlier this week suggesting Anas Haqqani has been sentenced to death by a primary court in Afghanistan.
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kill him "just a little bit"
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[Siasat] In a near rerun of the Dana Majhi incident in Kalahandi, a man here was forced to walk miles carrying his seven-year-old daughter’s body today as the ambulance transporting them allegedly left them midway.
The ambulance driver had allegedly asked the girl’s parents to get down after coming to know that the girl has died on the way to Malkangiri district hospital.
Barsha Khemudu of Ghusapalli in Malkangiri died while being taken by her parents in the ambulance from Mithali hospital from where she was referred to Malkangiri district hospital following deterioration in her health condition.
"The driver asked us to get down from the ambulance as soon as he came to know about the girl’s death on the way," Dinabandhu Khemudu, the girl’s father, said.
The matter came to light when locals inquired about Khemudu and his wife walking carrying the body of their daughter. The villagers then contacted the local BDO and medical authorities to get another vehicle to carry the body to their village.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom... Malkangiri district collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy has asked the chief district medical officer Uday Shankar Mishra to probe into the matter. The CDMO has filed an FIR at Malkangiri cop shoppe against the driver, a pharmacist and an attendant who were in the ambulance.
"It was totally illegal and criminal negligence on the part of the driver. Stringent action will be taken against persons responsible for the incident," Chakravarthy told news hounds, adding the district administration has provided immediate financial assistance to the girl’s parents.
When contacted, Mishra said the act was "inhuman". "After coming to know the incident, I immediately sent another vehicle which dropped the girl’s family at their village," he said.
Dana Majhi had to walk about 10 km from Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district along with his teenage daughter on August 24 carrying his wife’s body on his shoulders after allegedly being denied a hearse by Kalahandi district hospital.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A suspected robber has been killed in a "shootout" with police in Pirojpur Koraitola area under Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah district.
Good luck finding that one with a highly detailed map and a periwinkle magnifier...
The identity of the dear departed could not be ascertained yet.
Kaliganj cop shoppe Second Officer SI Imran Alam said: "A police team was patrolling in the area around 3am on Friday when they noticed some logs on the road.
"A group of 10 to 12 robbers hurled two improvised bombs targeting the law enforcers when they stopped their vehicle to check what was happening there."
In retaliation, police shot up the robbers that triggered a "shootout" between them.
At one stage, one of the gang members was caught in the line of fire
...right where he was placed...
and was struck down in his prime while the others managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... Kaliganj OC Aminul Islam said: "The body has been sent to Upazila Health Complex."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... a shutter gun, five improvised bombs, four machetes, a round of bullets, rope and a logs were recovered from the spot.
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And the shutter gun was successfully returned to its velvet lined case, to await its next deployment.
[DAWN] PAKISTAN is soliciting world support for its stance on the current situation in Kashmire. Pakistain’s stance is superior to India’s in terms of law, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and the wishes of the majority in the occupied Valley of Kashmire -- which happens also to be the majority in India-held Kashmire. The enduring but as yet unexercised right of self-determination of the people of the whole of the former Jammu and Kashmire through a plebiscite is based on resolutions of the UN Security Council.
The so-called accession of Kashmire to India has been condemned as invalid by a resolution of the UN Security Council. Whatever policy errors Pakistain may or may not have made the inalienable rights of the people of Kashmire cannot be derogated from.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... harshly criticized President Ghani during a gathering in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... following a deadlock in the Government of National Unity by CEO Abdullah’s remarks.
According to a video released online by Enayatullah Babar Farahmand, the Chief of Staff of the Office of the First Vice President, Gen. Dostum is seen as accusing President Ghani of allocating his authorities to himself.
Gen. Dostum further adds that President Ghani is not supporting him and has not trust to his works.
The First Vice President told his supporters that a clear and transparent decision is better than the ongoing game as he informed regarding the formation of a congress within the next 40 days.
He said he has several other things to say but did not elaborate further regarding his claims.
The latest remarks by Gen. Dostum came as CEO Abdullah earlier criticized President Ghani in almost a similar manner and said he is unfit for the office.
Abdullah made the remarks, calling President Ghani as unfit for the office, during a gathering in Kabul earlier this month as he was addressing a group of young people in his office garden.
The Chief Executive said he had struggled to achieve much progress with President Ghani during the two years of their government on the issue of electoral reform.
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Those were General Dostum's horses ridden by our men at Mazar-e Sharif. Dostum is the key to defeating the Taliban.
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I'm OK with that. He is a murderous thug, but we all have our little foibles.
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Dostum is from the minority Uzbek while Ghani is an Ahmadzai Pashtun. They have on occasion been able to set aside ethnic rivalries. But only on occasion.
[KOB] A foot chase with police in southern New Mexico ended Friday with one officer and the suspect dead, the Alamogordo Police Department said.
Alamogordo Police Chief Daron Syling said the officer, 33-year-old Clint Corvinus, was struck by gunfire Friday morning and died from his injuries at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center.
Two officers were on a routine patrol on the 600 block of South Florida Avenue when they made contact with a man, 38-year-old Joseph Moreno. The suspect, who had three active arrest warrants, fled police and police pursued, Syling said.
At some point shots were fired, and both Moreno and Corvinus were struck, Syling said. Moreno was pronounced dead at the scene.
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[Anadolu] Abu Sayyaf militants killed four members of a rebel group in the Philippines' Muslim south Friday, as a military offensive against the Daesh-linked rebels. Reports say that Abu Sayyaf gunmen attacked a camp of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the island province of Sulu. The fatalities included four MNLF militants and an Abu Sayyaf rebel.
The attack comes after the Abu Sayyaf issued statements threatening to launch attacks on military camps and communities in Sulu after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered troops to intensify operations against them.
MNLF militants have been known to play a role in efforts opposing the Abu Sayyaf, the group's commitment increasing after Duterte reached out to include the indigenous Moro front in the ongoing peace process. Last month, four Abu Sayyaf rebels died after a gun battle with MNLF militants in Kalingalang Caluang, Sulu.
The four MNLF militants killed Friday were reported to be from the faction of the group's fugitive founder Nur Misuari, who earlier this year began negotiations with the Abu Sayyaf that resulted in the rebels' release of 14 Indonesian sailors.
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moar pleeze
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bangladesh police raided a Death Eater hideout in the capital Friday, killing a suspected top Death Eater who helped plan the deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka that left 22 people dead in July.
Police said the slain hard boy was Major Murad, 35, who stabbed and injured three officers during the raid on a five-storey building in Dhaka's Rupnagar neighbourhood where the suspect had rented a flat.
"He was a senior member of the JMB (Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh) and trained the five gunnies who attacked the Gulshan cafe," Sanwar Hossain, a senior counter-terrorism officer in the Dhaka police force, told AFP.
Chief trainer
"He was smart and fluent in English. He was the chief trainer of the JMB and one of the planners of the cafe attack. He was rubbed out after he stabbed three of our officers who were trying to take him alive," he said, adding that the three coppers had been hospitalised.
The raid came days after police potted three suspected bandidosbandidos hard boys including the alleged criminal mastermind of the cafe attack, JMB leader Tamim Chowdhury, a Canadian citizen.
Police have blamed the JMB for a wave of murders targeting foreigners and members of religious minorities in which at least 80 people have been killed.
Since the cafe attack in July police have rubbed out at least 27 Death Eaters.
The ISIS grabbed credit for the Gulshan attack, releasing photos from inside the cafe during the siege and of the five men who carried out the deadly assault and were rubbed out at its finale.
But Bangladeshi authorities have rejected the claim, saying international Death Eater networks have no presence in the world’s third-largest Moslem-majority nation.
Critics say Prime Minister 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.. 's administration is in denial about the nature of the threat posed by gunnies and accuse her of trying to exploit the attacks to demonise her domestic opponents.
Earlier this week, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said during a visit to Dhaka that there was evidence to link the bandidosbandidos hard boys behind the recent spate of deadly attacks in Bangladesh to ISIS.
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I see and hear a lot of talk about how a national gun registration and/or confiscation would be the trigger that would spark a second American Revolution, as patriots rise up to resist the jackbooted thugs who are going door-to-door taking away people’s arms.
I have bad news for everyone who’s waiting for national registration or a mass confiscation so they can get their armed rebellion on: a national database of gun owners already exists, and a national confiscation effort will never happen. Ever. Instead, you’ll hand over your firearms peacefully. All of them, even the ones you paid cash for to some random guy on Armslist in the dead of night. Oh. So it's a case of "use 'em or lose 'em." O-o-o-o-okay, I think there are a fair number of Americans who will understand the rules of that game...
Here’s a look at how it will play out in our not-too-distant future.
The NSA Knows Who You Are and What You Have
Second Amendment supporters have been so focused on this one little corner of the Bill of Rights that they’ve let the Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to protect citizens against unreasonable search and seizure, turn into dead letter. That's your opinion. While there exists a popular statement (in certain circles) that "the Second Amendment protects the First", the truth is that the 2A is pretty darned good at defending all of our essential rights.
The surveillance state that got started under Clinton picked up steam under Bush II, and Obama has expanded it even further. The NSA is tracking everyone, all the time, and they’re hooked into Facebook, Google, Amazon, and every other piece of web-based software that you’ve been using to shop for accessories for that AR you paid cash for (which your wife doesn’t even know you have).
If you don’t believe me, ...we do...
go read this article about just how much detailed info one private company, Facebook, has on you, including your web surfing, shopping, and even your driving and walking habits. Now think about the fact that the NSA is even less constrained by the law (and has way more resources) than Facebook and has access not only to Facebook’s detailed profile of you but to profiles created by many other sources, from your credit card company to your health insurance provider.
Oh sure, you may have gotten your hands on a few guns that would be impossible to trace, even by the NSA. Why would I skulk around like that? I'm a pretty open fellow. I don't mind that the Federales know that I and about 150 million other Americans own guns. By all means, make your plans to coerce us into doing your bidding. You only have to be off by one percent to spark a revolution.
Maybe you inherited a long gun from your grandpa, or maybe you met a guy in a gun show parking lot and paid cash and then never Googled anything related to that gun. So here’s a question for you: how many people like you exist, and how many of those type guns are suitable for urban combat against AR-15s with state-of-the-art optics? I know which of my guns are probably totally “in the black,” and I can’t imagine trying to mount an insurgency with any or all of them. I don't plan to mount an insurgency. Read on... I'm no tactician, but optics in a close quarters battle situation unless it is dark is asking to be shot first. Optics help in long ranges and in adverse conditions. Iron sights always work 100 percent of the time, and are must more accurate than people will admit. The writer has failed to note that civil war is already upon us. It is slowly, inexorably getting ever hotter as the government grows and finds new ways of separating you from your rights, and that includes your money. And as for tactics, I am absolutely sure that state paid thugs are better than your average gun owner in shooting their enemies in a situation where you can stack up four of five before making an entrance. But what about the approach march? Will they really cross a field 200 yards wide, armed, wound up and seeking to kill their target? What happens when the incident or site commander takes a slug to the head while riding to the area of operation? What happens after? Do paid thugs think they won't be organizing convoys to go shopping, or taking their kids to schools. And why do they think that the shooters only will be the only targets? Rule .308 applies to all statists and their allies. There was a remarkable statement in the Gulag Archipelago, in which Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn noted that the camp residents understood something there in the camps that they didn't understand on the night they were arrested: that if each and everyone of them had picked up a table leg, stick, brick, something and had bashed the head of the first Chekist who came through the door to arrest them, that no matter how murderous Stalin was in his blood-lust, he would have run out of Chekists, and the camps would be empty. There are plenty of Americans who understand that. And it only takes a few to get started.
The fact is, most guys who have the kind of hardware suitable for a Civil War 2.0 have been shopping on Gunbroker or Armslist, and/or have filled out FFL paperwork like law-abiding citizens. I seriously doubt there’s enough firepower totally hidden from the NSA to sustain any kind of real rebellion. Let us posit that all the above is true. Where's the advantage to the government not knowing you have guns? If anything, in such times, hiding your guns is not an option. Bringing them out and readying them for action is. As I said, use 'em or lose 'em...
So the registration ship has sailed. They know what you have and where to find you. Now, here’s how they’re going to get you to turn it over without a fight.
Hitting You Where It Hurts
When the government outlaws semi-automatic firearms, they won’t send cops or troops door-to-door to take them. No, first they’ll send out letters saying they know what you have, and that you have to turn it over by a given deadline or face a penalty. Nice fantasy. It didn't work in deep Blue Connecticut or New York.
It’ll be up to you to prove that you’re clean, and that you’ve handed over everything. They’ll have a list, and if they think you’re still holding, they’ll hit you with asset freezes. Let's suppose that's true. Okay, I'm a gun owner and you freeze my assets. Use 'em or lose 'em. Time for me to implement the plan our green moderator is suggesting. Remember when I said I wasn't planning on an insurgency? I'm not. But these acts will precipitate a revolution, one that I intend to win.
Imagine not being able to get any money out of your bank account or from your credit cards, because your assets are frozen. The federal and state governments already do this if you owe back taxes–a simple letter to your bank, and all of your cards stop working. The bank doesn’t care about you, and they don’t have the interest or resources to find out if the government’s claim against you is bogus. No, they’ll just freeze your assets until you get things sorted with the government and the government tells them to unfreeze it all.
The other thing they’ll do is take your children.
Do you think Child Protective Services is going to let your children live in a house with potentially dangerous firearms? No way. Your kids will get picked up at school and taken into custody, and a social worker will show up at your door with the cops. Only when a thorough search has been conducted and the authorities are completely satisfied that your property is 100% gun-free will they let you see your little ones again. After all, we have to protect the children. The government can only do this one individual at a time. What happens to the entire edifice when the average non gun owning individual sees what the government is doing? Will the officials who created, printed and typed those letters stop their own children from going to school, because when you bring a man's kids into it, there are no rules. You take a man's kids from him, he gets to decide which of your kids he takes. Everyone's a target, and the lead won't stop flying, ever. Most dangerous place in the world is the place between a mother and her threatened child.
You’re not going to shoot at those cops, either, because then your kids will just end up in the foster system as wards of the state. Nice bet. I doubt many cops, let alone operators would take those odds over a long enough stretch of time. How many cops will go along with this in the first place? They're parents too, and they love their children. How many cops refusing orders (whether voluntarily or because they understand intuitively that obeying those orders makes their children a target) does it take to bring down the system? The powers that might try to grab all the guns in the way you're suggesting can't do it without the cops. If the cops say 'no', it doesn't happen.
Not Nearly Enough for a Revolution
Oh, I’m sure there are folks reading this who are so off-grid that none of the above can touch them. Their guns are totally invisible to the NSA, their assets are all in the form of cash and physically held precious metals, and their kids are home-schooled on a well-guarded ranch. Those folks are, for the most part, a little touched in the head. No, you don't have to worry about them. You have to worry about well-connected, on-the-grid people like me who understand that even if I cooperate with you completely, I'm still one day going to end up kneeling in front of a drainage ditch. That's the kind of person you are. I know that today, this very instant, and that in turn informs what I'm going to do if you come at me.
But is that blessed group big enough to overthrow a determined US government? No, it ain’t. You don't know that it is, or isn't. There was no way the Bolsheviks could have seized the Russian government and transform things, but they did. At this point, you're just guessing.
The measures outlined above–a de facto gun registration database courtesy of the NSA and its private-sector allies, asset freezes for non-compliance, and the threat of CPS visits that hold your children hostage–will be sufficient to take well over 90% of the lawfully held guns out of civilian hands, all without firing a single shot. They didn't conceive of those sanctions in Connecticut, so we have no way or knowing what would not have worked. What we do know is that if those options were on the table in legislative negotiations, they were quickly swept aside as being too un-Constitutional, even for elected statists. I suspect that non compliance would be widespread, though I can't conceive of a specific number. Even if you found a way to get this past the statist pols in Springfield or Albany or Sacramento or Washington, there aren't enough guards in the country to protect all those pols and at the same time go out with CPS, etc., to grab all the guns.
The bitter truth is this: there will be no confiscation shock troops for you and your buddies to shoot back at, Really? How do you intend to enforce those CPS orders?
and we will discover too late that the rights-defenders’ fantasy–of one, crystal-clear moment when it’s time for everyone to rise up as one and take it all back–has been the establishment’s biggest ally and freedom’s deadliest enemy. Well put. I agree. But I think the writer misses the point that resistance doesn't always mean traipsing around the backwoods with the old trusty, rusty AK. Sometimes it means speaking aloud about the issues such as a growing and increasingly hostile federal government, just to provide an example. Educating yourself about economics and government is another. Guns should be the last resort, but they should be an option, always. Not all of us will traipse around in the backwoods. Not all of us need to. We have lots of choices as green mod points out. There are lots of ways to resist. And if only two percent of gun owners decide to shoot a police officer before going down, that's about three million casualties. You'll run out of willing police offers, NSA guards, TSA types, and National Guard soldiers well before that -- they'll quit or refuse to carry out your orders. See the words from the Gulag, above.
Why do you think they’ve let you have guns for this long? Because those guns have given you a false sense of security and kept you from doing something truly dangerous, like mass-organizing to pull all your money out of the big banks and to vote out the incumbents. They haven't enough trained crazies to confiscate your firearms? He's got a point -- but there's no reason why we can't do both...
So if you’ve sat idly by, fondling your firearms and watching the surveillance state expand while your paycheck shrinks, relying on your gun stash to bail you out when things hit bottom, then the joke’s on you. You’ve already lost the war, and when you hand over your weapons it’ll be the last (and mostly symbolic) step in a process of total subjugation that slipped up and swallowed you while you were distracted with building your gun collection. The writer's use of the word fondle is a gratuitous insult to the reader. It's the kind of statement you use in a bar if you're trying to provoke someone into busting one in your mouth, so I seriously doubt the writer would have done this in a meat space setting. All that said, my firearm remains in a case in condition 3. It remains so through transport to the range and back. It is cleared for cleaning. When not cleared or in the case, it is used for target practice. I do not "fondle", nor pose for a selfie or mugshot with a firearm. They have one dangerous, singular use, and when it is in my hands that is the use I concentrate on. Anything else is complete and utter irresponsibility.
You may hate me and everything I’ve said here, but deep down, you know I’m right. You're an ass. He's an ass, and also a warning. Be prepared, and don't go quietly into the Chekists' van.
Readers, do understand, the Feds and locals can pull records of all your gun purchases and get a legal search warrant for said weapons in a matter of hours.
Your weapons are not safe from law enforcement.
That said. Don't store unregistered weapons with registered.
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IMO, what they get away with in schools is a lot more, long-term, dangerous than gun confiscation. Because, “There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”.
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If anyone has doubts about the damage one man can do, they should read: Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper, Hardcover – January 27, 2009 by Tom McKenney (Author). Granted, the book is about the Civil War but the tactics that were used probably would apply today. The rifle was made for Hinson by a Southern gunsmith and was state-of-the art for the time--it would not have been on the books today. Hinson racked up over 100 kills of blue coats from moving sniping positions. He was never caught as many of the locals helped him (as aspect of guerilla warfare). He was dishing out retribution because his two sons were beheaded by Yankees and their heads mounted on Hinson's gateposts as a message.
I suspect there are many people left and right who have guns in this country. I read the other day that about 44% of the households in this country have firearms in their homes. That is a large amount of guns. Estimates of about 300M guns exist in this country. I doubt the government has anywhere near that many firearms for their LOE branches of government. Why does this author think that everyone who works in law enforcement in the government would go along with the government? Consider also local law enforcement such as the sheriffs. These are elected officials by the people. They would be less likely to support gun confiscation schemes by the federal government.
Lastly, I don't think anyone knows how many "off-the-books" guns exist but I'd bet there are plenty. Not everyone exists on, likes, or cares about Facebook or other social media. Not everyone spills their guts about every they have or do on FB--in fact they might even think it sucks as I do.
We have a history and a culture of firearms. We also have a history and culture of revolution. Our forefathers today would have been considered then about the same way they would today--as criminals and lawbreakers. Our forefathers risked everything for a free country. We don't need another King George telling us what to do from Washington today.
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I just finished McKenney's book earlier this summer. A riveting and fantastic saga of the Civil War in Kentucky and the area we now know as the Land Between the Lakes.
I'm currently finishing Ian Johnson's 'A Mosque in Munich.' Another fantastic book that [among other things] explains the origins of the Muslim Brotherhood, our own Kabuki dance with so-called 'Muslim moderates,' and precisely how the dance began.
I believe someone here in the Burg recommended both.
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Gee, with an entire Army in Iraq it wasn't till the locals decided to cooperate in the Anbar Awakening that the momentum swung around. Even before and after our forces retired to base camps. Notice how Chicago has the toughest gun laws and one of the largest gun deaths rate. Notice how on edge cops are now with just a few shootings.
Now all those grabbers have to go home at sometime. Their families are there as well. Until they erect base camps for them and their families, they're not going to be out of harms way. They know it. They'll be a tough team breaking down someone's door. Not quite as much walking from their front door alone to their car.
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This appears to be a well thought out exercise in fantasy. I'm a boomer and we are a large group. We have had our training in war and survived that war. Now we are looking at the end of our lives and how we take care of our children and grandchildren when we pass.
I have already had my three score and ten years so I like many know I have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. What I have to look forward to is being in a hospital with tubes in every hole in my body, dying over a 2 day to 2 week period or dying defending what I know is my family and country and within a matter of minutes being killed quickly and honorably.
As far as kicking in my front door there is a simple way to assure that everyone would get at least three of the insurgents. I have passed this on to many people I trust to reveal it when and if the time comes. Right now if I make this public knowledge our soldiers would be slaughtered when they kick in doors in the middle east.
The author's estimate of the number of firearms is lacking. The latest estimates are 350 million firearms owned by 145 million people. It is also estimated those 145 million people own 17 trillion cartridges that fit those firearms. The US civilians own more small arms than the combined armies of China, India, Russia and the US. Let's assume the feral government actually picked up 99% of the firearms that would still leave 3,500,000 firearms in civilian hands. I was buying guns in the 1950's and remember those times. If you were 18 years old you could buy a long gun with only a 4473 form being filled out. The dealer kept it and did not furnish it to anyone unless asked to do so. Every dealer I knew hung onto the records for the required amount of time and then burned them. During that period the US firearms dealers sold about 80 to 100 million surplus firearms. Most of the 22 M German 98K Mausers went to the US, almost all of the Japanese long guns went to the US and a huge number of French rifles and English Enfield #1 Mark 3 rifles were also sold here. The US civilians own most of the small arms used in WW-2. There is virtually no paperwork on these weapons. Further a millions of sub machine guns and machine guns were sold as DEWAT (deactivated war trophies) which were mostly deactivated by welding a plug in the barrel. These were sold with no paperwork at all because they were not guns anymore. Most of the owners just simply bought a new surplus barrel and installed it. Those who kick in doors may be facing some old geeser with a functioning MG-42 at point blank range.
Lastly if our (already insolvent) government went after gun owners the country would have to be locked down for at least a month. The cost of the country locked down for a month or more would cause the economy and the government to collapse. Further since we are entitled to a trial by jury (just think how many jurors this would take) and must be furnished with an attorney; the incredibly massive amount of cases would preclude a speedy trial and 95% of the cases would have to be dismissed. Law enforcement will not kick in doors in their own communities, everyone in the military has taken an oath to defend the constitution, foreign soldiers would stand out like sore thumbs and be shot on sight and lastly the Korean War, Vietnam War and all the wars in the middle east have trained 21 million veterans who have already fought for their country.
If anyone in government actually believes it is possible to pick-up the firearms in the US by force they are smoking some powerful drugs.
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I haven't seen so much snot run out of an asshole since I ate that spicy Mexican food with a head cold.
I suppose our game master would be a bit different if the NSA were tracking anal beads or 50 Shades of Gray - or whatever they want - especially after running this sloppy dungeon.
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Because she and the Donks want to be the only ones to rig this election? Doesn't like competition? She stuck in a "Cold War" mentality and wants a hot war?
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Because there must be an external enemy with whom domestic enemies are conspiring. Islam is untouchable (if only because of their contributions to Clinton Fund). Ditto for China. The usual suspects - not in election season. Plus, like every good progressive, she can't stomach Russia's betrayal of progressivism.
[DAWN] At least 13 people were killed and 41 others injured when a jacket wallahwent kaboom! near the entrance of Mardan's district and sessions court on Friday, police said.
The Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... (JA) grabbed credit for the attack.
The suicide kaboom comes just hours after gunnies attacked Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Christian Colony, an attack also claimed by JA.
District Police Officer (DPO) Mardan Faisal Shahzad said the attacker detonated a hand grenade before exploding his boom jacket. The bomb contained 8 kilograms of kaboom, the DPO said, adding that security arrangements at the site of the attack helped mitigate the damage.
The DPO said four lawyers and three coppers were among the dead. He lauded the bravery of the coppers who tried to stop the suicide bomber from making his way inside the courthouse.
"Police fired at the attacker, then the second kaboom took place," the DIG said. "The attacker was deterred by the firing. His plan was to get inside," he said.
An emergency has been imposed at hospitals in the area.
People from the legal community have been targeted several times in the last few months.
Last month, 73 people, most of them lawyers, were killed after a suicide bomber struck the emergency ward of Quetta's Civil Hospital. The lawyers had gathered to mourn the death 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... Bar Association (BBA) president Bilal Anwar Kasi in a gun attack earlier in the day.
The Quetta attack was claimed by Jamaatul Ahrar and the bully boyIslamic 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, but Balochistan Chief Minster Sanaullah Zehri hinted at the involvement of Indian spy agency RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... The attacks in Peshawar and Mardan come a day after Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa gave an exhaustive rundown of progress made against bully boyz in the country's northwestern region in Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... which was launched in June 2014.
He highlighted that Pakistain had suffered a cumulative loss of $106.98 billion in the war on terror between 2001 and 2015. "We are not doing it for anyone but ourselves," he stressed.
He said 3,500 holy warriors had been eliminated during the course of Operation Zarb-e-Azb, while 2,272 soldiers were and 537 personnel had embraced martyrdom, including 18 officers, 35 junior commissioned officers and 484 soldiers.
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Last week the ATF issued a new rule which reclassified smokeless powder as a high explosive, which would subject its manufacture and sale to much tougher rules, resulting in higher prices. The linked article says that were the new rule to be imposed, it would be without warning, effectively killing the ammunition supply for both civilian and military customers. It appears on the face that the cost of manufacture and sale for foreign suppliers such as Russian, Privi Partizan and Fiocci would stay the same, but their cost of transport and storage would be in line with domestic manufacturers.
Funny how that would work. Domestic ammunition producers would be forced to stop and retool their manufacturing and distribution processes overnight, while our foreign enemies could continue as before. Once they stop laughing their asses off at us, and applauding the domestic enemies that imposed these new rules.
Since the latest rush of new gun laws imposed on the governed in California has taken effect, it already has fundamentally changed how firearms are privately bought and sold there. I saw this before in New York and then in Maryland in which new Constitutional gun laws went into effect and changed gun prices. There were bargains to be had, but the new rules imposed background checks on most sales.
I seriously am thinking of dropping California for another western state, probably Arizona. Arizona has a much freer firearms market, and unlike Nevada is not currently under threat for more gun laws.
Prices for pistol ammunition were steady across the board. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
Pennsylvania: .40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic): Taurus 740: $200
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.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, FSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .16 per round
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.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (11 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016))
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.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Hotshot, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, Steel Casing, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .23 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (9 Weeks)
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Texas (246, 240): Bushmaster: $600 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
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Texas (73, 73): DPMS: $900 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $700 (7 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (33, 34): Rock River Arms LAR-8: $1,250 ($1,500 (1Q, 2015), $700 (49 Weeks))
Virginia (46, 40): DPMS: $1,000 ($2,750 (32 Weeks), $800 (43 Weeks))
Florida (79, 74): DPMS: $1,000 ($1,950 (18 Weeks), $500 (47 Weeks))
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Chris---it was good to see your article again on Saturday Rantburg. I appreciate your insights on firearms issues. Well done.
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When an organization like BATFE comes up with an idiotic proposed rule to control a hazard that is not a problem to push an agenda, you have a toxic combination evil, arrogance, and ignorance. The problem is that this organization is not reformable. It also seems that from previous capers like that seen here that O&Co is pushing their anti firearms agenda, using BATFE, even if it affects DOD procurements of ammunition for our troops. The cancer is again shown to affect the brain of the body politic.
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Gun haters were able to buy 150 firearms to destroy. It helped satisfy their urge to "do something" symbolic and it made them feel good. The people turning in old, cheap, broken down guns got money to upgrade to better things. Many, if not most, were Second Amendment supporters.
That was good for a laugh Badanov. Crude guns are not difficult to make as is gunpowder. Primers are somewhat more difficult to make. I wonder if the gun grabbers would pay $150 for a cheap homemade gun? One could turn a good profit.
p.s. What do you think of establishing a well run, and reasonably priced, whorehouse near a college town - so the poor male students don't have to date Rosie Palm or take unreasonable chances?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Following a major rebel offensive in Syria’s central province of Hama, a number of troops serving with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) have been taken into custody as prisoners of war by Islamist factions.
Newly leaked pictures reveal at least two of the Syrian soldiers were decapitated shortly after their capture. Jund al-Aqsa (Syrian al-Qaeda group) and Jaish al-Izzah (U.S. backed rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ) were responsible for the beheading, according to information obtained by al-Masdar News.
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[DAWN] KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa has been attacked once again, and once again a familiar set of questions have arisen about the seeming ease with which multiple jacket wallahs and fidayeen attackers were able to arrive at their targets in the heart of the province. A day earlier, the ISPR chief had asserted that significant successes have been notched up in the fight against militancy, but the attacks in Mardan and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. have reinforced that a long and complicated fight still lies ahead. While the military is keen to discuss its successes in the various operations ongoing across the country, perhaps it should also be more candid about the extant threats and the terror networks that are still operational. The need for a more realistic outlook is essential for the public, otherwise the incongruity of a military claiming successes while attacks continue in various parts of the country will only add to the national confusion.
While responsibility for yesterday’s attacks cannot yet be known definitively, the claim by Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... does seem credible. Alarmingly, not only does the banned TTP faction appear to have a growing reach, from Quetta to Peshawar, but its resources, manpower and organizational capacity seem to be growing. Pak security officials point the finger of blame at Afghanistan, where TTP turbans have apparently found sanctuary in the eastern region bordering Pakistain and where sections of the state and intelligence apparatus are evincing a renewed hostility towards this country. Addressing the evolved TTP threat has not proved easy because it involves everything from military strategy to national security and foreign policy to border management. Unhappily, not only does the necessary military and civilian cooperation here appear non-existent, but there is perhaps a fundamental divergence over the path ahead. While the civilian government rightly emphasises a policy of peace and reconciliation with neighbouring countries, it seems to have neither the space nor the inclination to deal with a tough set of national security and foreign policy challenges. Yesterday, the anomalous situation was on display yet again as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... inaugurated one more road project and talked about Pakistain being on the path to prosperity -- while Peshawar and Mardan were bleeding yet again.
Where the civilian government may be out of ideas or lack space, the military establishment seems far too keen on externalising blame rather than working towards understanding the sustained and simultaneously evolving murderous Moslem threat. Wherever the Jamaatul Ahrar leadership may be based, the attacks are taking place deep inside Pakistain. Why is the intelligence apparatus always one step behind the murderous Moslems? Peshawar and Mardan were no lone-wolf attacks and likely required a network of individuals to facilitate the attackers. While the bravery of security personnel helped limit the damage, it is virtually impossible to stop a suicide bomber who has already been deployed. But why are turbans still operating with relative ease?
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Note the US sat companies want to sell better images but ITAR prohibits it.
Digital Globe (DGI) asked and filled out all the forms to sell get permission to sell higher resolution images over 2 years ago and hasn't heard a boo from the ITAR folks. The NRO and House and Senate are mad. A House Senate conference committee ordered the ITAR bureaucrats to give DGI a yes or no or maybe answer by July 20th. The House the Senate the NRO and DGI didn't hear a peep.
The ITAR rules are even keeping the NRO from sharing their images with the BRITS or AUSSIES! Seriously! They are really upset. Also, they can't encourage private companies like DGI to loft sats that can provide images they can use and buy if they can't sell the images to even allies.
The NRO is now so made they have arranged an emergency House Senate Intelligence Committee meeting on Sept 9th to discuss the whole image resolution and ITAR rules. (Some discussion has even circled about no longer considering space based images as ammunition. This would take the issue out of the ITAR bureaucrats hands.)
Private companies like Insight really could use hi-res for their very useful analysis too! Orbital Insight
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Congress should zero out ITAR's travel and entertainment budget. That should get somebody's attention. After that, start cutting their budget towards zero.
That's supposed to be what Congress is for.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A powerful kaboom killed 12 people and maimed at least 24 others at a night market late Friday in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown in the southern Philippines amid a security alert due to a major offensive against Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... gunnies in the region, officials said.
Regional military commander Lt. Gen. Rey Leonardo Guerrero said it was not immediately clear what caused the kaboom at a massage section of the market, which was cordoned off by police bomb experts and Sherlocks.
Police Chief Superintendent Manuel Gaerlan said witnesses gave contrasting accounts, with some saying that a cooking gas tank went kaboom! while others suggested it may have been some kind of an explosive.
Police set up checkpoints in key roads leading to the city, a regional gateway about 980 kilometers (610 miles) south of Manila.
TV footage showed plastic chairs strewn about at the scene of the blast, where witnesses said the bodies of some of the dead lay scattered a few hours after the kaboom. Ambulance vans drove to and from the area following the blast.
Full alert
Police forces in the capital Manila went on full alert at midnight following the deadly blast.
Duterte, who served as a longtime mayor of Davao before assuming the presidency in June, was in the region but has not issued any statement. His front man, Ernesto Abella, urged the public to be vigilant.
"While no one has yet grabbed credit it is best that the populace refrain from reckless speculation and avoid crowded places," Abella said. "There is no cause for alarm, but it is wise to be cautious."
Philippine forces were on alert amid an ongoing military offensive against Abu Sayyaf turbans in southern Sulu province, which intensified last week after the gunnies beheaded a kidnapped young villager. The gunnies threatened to launch an unspecified attack after the military said 30 of the gunnies were killed in the weeklong offensive.
Some commanders of the Abu Sayyaf, which is blacklisted by the United States and the Philippines as a terrorist organization for deadly bombings, ransom kidnappings and beheadings, have pledged allegiance to the ISIS. The military, however, says there has been no evidence of a direct collaboration and murderous Moslem action may have been aimed at bolstering their image after years of combat setbacks.
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That picture prompted a trip down memory lane to olden days when burlesque theaters existed. Ah, fond memories from youth--when visits to a burlesque theater were considered a rite of passage for young men. Such visits were often brought about with the help of fake IDs as entry to such bawdy houses were age-restricted. Pasties and G-strings and the comedians seem rather tame by today's standards. I wonder how many R-burgers have been to a real burlesque theater?
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BTW, some of these Burly queens got rich practicing the art of tantalizingly removing articles of clothing. Mind you, they raised this to an art. They acted more on the imagination more than anything else. If things started to appear to get too risqué, the lights came down and the blue lights came on and then the lady was off the stage and the next act came on. These ladies, such as Gypsy Rose Lee would be equivalent to rock stars today.
It is surprising how many of our best comedians got their start as comedians in burlesque theaters. Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Red Buttons, Milton Berle and Phil Silvers are among the comedians who got their start in burly-cue.
[THEGUARDIAN] A Clinton Foundation laptop and a thumb drive used to archive Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu B. Washburne ... ’s emails from her time as secretary of state are missing, according to FBI notes released on Friday.
The phrase "Clinton could not recall" litters the summary of the FBI’s investigation, which concluded in July that she should not face charges. Amid fierce Republican criticism of the Democratic presidential candidate, the party’s nominee, Donald Trump released a statement which said "Hillary Clinton’s answers to the FBI about her private email server defy belief" and added that he did not "understand how she was able to get away from prosecution".
The FBI documents describe how Monica Hanley, a former Clinton aide, received assistance in spring 2013 from Justin Cooper, a former aide to Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , in creating an archive of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Cooper provided Hanley with an Apple MacBook laptop from the Clinton Foundation ‐ the family organization currently embroiled in controversy ‐ and talked her through the process of transferring emails from Clinton’s private server to the laptop and a thumb drive.
"Hanley completed this task from her personal residence," the notes record. The devices were intended to be stored at Clinton’s homes in New York and Washington. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Hanley "forgot" to provide the archive laptop and thumb drive to Clinton’s staff.
In early 2014, Hanley located the laptop at her home and tried to transfer the email archive to an IT company, apparently without success. It appears the emails were then transferred to an unnamed person’s personal Gmail account and there were problems around Apple software not being compatible with that of Microsoft.
The unnamed person "told the FBI that, after the transfer was complete, he deleted the emails from the archive laptop but did not wipe the laptop. The laptop was then put in the mail, only to go missing. [Redacted] told the FBI that she never received the laptop from [redacted]; however, she advised that Clinton’s staff was moving offices at the time, and it would have been easy for the package to get lost during the transition period.
"Neither Hanley nor [redacted] could identify the current whereabouts of the archive laptop or thumb drive containing the archive, and the FBI does not have either item in its possession."
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Well...the Muslum Brotherhood or the KSA wouldn't need it, she's already sold out to them.
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Un-be-Funking-Believable. People should be in Prison for this. HILLARY CLINTON should be in prison for a very, very, long time.
Yet she got off scot-free.
I take some hope in the fact that she was never charged - so double jeopardy would not apply were she to be charged by a more honest Justice Department.
[Libya Observer] Oil won’t be pumped out of the oil fields we control until the workers get paid the three-year-delayed salaries and until the health and housing facilities of the workers get improved, the commander of the Petroleum Facilities Guard in the south, Mohammed Khabasha said.
Khabasha told the press that they informed all the relevant authorities as well as the Presidential Council of the UN-proposed government about their demands, yet none replied.
"We control the oil fields al-Feel, al-Goulf, al-Khansa, Sinawen, and al-Wafaa, and we can assure that the gas pipeline from the south to Mellitah Oil & Gas complex in Zuwara is still working as normal as before." He added.
"We have nothing to do with the reopening of al-Rayana pipeline as it is not under our control." Khabasha indicated.
Zintan municipality as well as its military council and notables announced that they will reopen al-Rayana pipeline. The announcement took place at the end of the National Peace Festival in Sabratha last Saturday.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] At least 16 members of the extended family of a Yemeni mosque imam were killed on Wednesday in an air strike on their family home in northern 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... by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, a Rooters witness, a medic and a resident said.
It was the latest in a series of raids by the coalition, which is providing air support to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in his fight against Iran-allied Houthis who have seized much of the country since 2014.
They said missiles struck a house of the imam, identified as Saleh Abu Zainah, in Saada, the capital of Saada province in northern Yemen, home of the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... group which hails from the Zaydi branch of Shi’ite Islam.
The imam, his family, his two sons and their families, all died in the attack, including at least four children, they said.
A front man for the Saudi-led coalition had no immediate comment on the report.
Pictures taken by a Rooters photographer showed men digging up the body of a child from under the rubble.
"The air raid happened in the morning and because the house was made of mud, it took us until noon to be able to dig the bodies out," said Nayef, a resident who helped remove the rubble to recover the bodies.
A medic said rescue workers were concerned about fresh air strikes when they arrived at the scene and found aircraft still hovering overhead.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Danish man who shot two police during a drug raid in Copenhagen earlier this week was an ISIS group member, the militant-linked Amaq news outlet said on Friday.
“The perpetrator of the attack that targeted the police in Copenhagen is a soldier of the ISIS and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the countries of the coalition,” it said, referring to an international alliance battling ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Mesa Hodzic, who injured 2 officers and civilian in Copenhagen raid, died Friday from gunshot wounds sustained during arrest.
The 25-year-old, named by local media as Mesa Hodzic, shot two coppers and a civilian on Wednesday during a routine drug raid, and died Friday of gunshot wounds he sustained during his eventual arrest.
Danish police said on Thursday that Hodzic had links to the radical Islamist group Millatu Ibrahim and that he sympathized with IS, but that there was no evidence that extremism had inspired the shooting.
Copenhagen police on Friday had no immediate comment on Amaq’s claims.
Hodzic shot the coppers, one of whom is at death's door, when they stopped him during a drug raid on the Christiania neighborhood, which was founded by squatting hippies in the 1970s and has a long history of openly trading drugs.
He was critically maimed when police opened fire during his arrest early Thursday in a suburban area near Copenhagen’s airport and died the following day.
Violent past
In addition to three counts of attempted murder, he had faced preliminary charges of possessing a firearm and trafficking 48 kilos (106 pounds) of cannabis, 2.7 kilos of skunk -- a powerful type of marijuana -- and over 1,800 joints.
He was described by police as a regular in Christiania, where he reportedly came cycling on Wednesday to collect the day’s takings from a stall in the neighborhood’s infamous open air cannabis market, which is controlled by criminal gangs.
The 25-year-old came to Denmark from Bosnia and Herzegovina aged four, and was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in 2010 along with his father and brother on suspicion of repeatedly stabbing a man with a kitchen knife, but was later freed, according to Danish news agency Ritzau.
He had also been arrested on suspicion of committing a violent assault with a knife in 2007.
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ISIS soldier. A mid-level mafioso. Odd.
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Not surprising. The Mafia started out as a 'liberation organization."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb on Friday indicted two Syrian intelligence officers it accused of involvement in a deadly 2013 double kaboom in the city 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... , a judicial source said.
The double bombing killed 45 people, and a series of indictments have already been handed down against Lebanese and Syrians accused of involvement.
The indictment names Captain Mohammed Ali Ali, an official in the Paleostine branch of Syria’s intelligence services, and Nasser Jouban, an official in Syria’s political security branch.
The two men, neither of whom is in jug, are accused of helping to prepare the attack, placing explosives in cars and assigning a Lebanese cell to carry out the bombing, which also maimed hundreds.
The attacks targeted two Sunni mosques in Tripoli, which has frequently experienced tensions between Sunnis and Alawites who belong to the same religious minority as Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... and tend to support his government.
The indictment alleges the attacks also involved other high-ranking Syrian officials, who are accused of directing Ali and Jouban to organize them.
The blasts in the northern city were the deadliest attack in Leb since the country’s 1975-1990 civil war and raised fears that the conflict in neighboring Syria could be inexorably seeping across the border.
Leb’s political landscape is largely divided between parties that back Assad and those who support the uprising against him that began in March 2011.
The division has stoked tensions in Leb and created a political stalemate that has left the country without a president for more than two years.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Friday that Iran is not respecting international law when it continues to back the Syrian regime, the Lebanese Shiite holy warrior group and political party Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia group, urging Tehran to change its policies.
"We see Iran intervening in Syria and supporting Hezbollah and the Houthis, and it is behind some of the operations threatening national security of the region," Jubeir, who is currently visiting Japan, said.
"We do not see changes in Iran’s policies," he added. "We see that it is trying to send in arms to Bahrain, Kuwait and 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... . Iran should decide if it is in war or the opposite?
If it is in war and it does not respect international law and goes on with its plans, then it not possible to be able to deal with it."
He also urged Iran to return to the "family" of international community to weave new relations with regional countries.
"We wish from Iran, a great nation with great history and great people, to be able to change its policies which it built in 1979 so it can be a new member in the international community, weaving new policies with it."
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[RFE/RL] A group of women who blamed Vladimir Putin for the Beslan school massacre have been sentenced to either community service or fined.
On September 2, a court in Beslan found the women guilty of violating the law about holding public gatherings and sentenced three of them to 20 hours of community service, while two others were fined $305. Another woman, who did not wear an anti-Putin T-shirt but stood with the demonstrators to express support, was also sentenced to 20 hours of community service.
The women's protest was held on September 1, the 12th anniversary of the 2004 hostage tragedy that left 334 people dead, including 186 schoolchildren. As a school bell rang near the ruins of the school, the five mothers whose children either died or were hostages at the school took off their jackets to reveal shirts that read "Putin is the Executioner of Beslan."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has swept ISIS bully boyz and Kurdish YPG militia from an area of northern Syria, but Syrian Kurdish forces have still not met a Turkish demand to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Turkey launched a cross-border offensive into Syria last week, saying it had a dual aim of driving away bully boyz and ensuring Kurdish militia forces did not fill the void that was left by extending their control of territory along Turkey’s border.
Turkey is concerned that Syrian Kurdish militia fighters could embolden Kurdish bully boyz waging an insurgency on its soil.
Turkish warplanes renewed air strikes on ISIS sites in northern Syria on Friday, CNN Turk reported, the latest attacks since Turkish-backed forces began the incursion on Aug. 24. Turkish officials have said Turkish-backed militia forces in recent days have struck westwards, in bully boyz areas.
Erdogan told a news conference early on Friday that the operation dubbed "Euphrates Shield" had been successful in clearing ISIS and Kurdish YPG from a 400-sq-km (150-square mile) area.
But he dismissed claims that the Kurdish YPG, which Ankara calls a terrorist group, had withdrawn to a Kurdish-controlled canton to the east of the Euphrates River. The YPG says it has done so and US officials agree that is mostly the case.
The outlawed Kurdish krazed killer PKK has squandered the opportunity for a political grinding of the peace processor with Turkey by continuing its insurgency against Ankara, Turkey's prime minister said on Friday.
The autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has launched a spate of attacks since a ceasefire broke down last year, returning to arms in its three-decades-long insurgency in southeast Turkey.
’Squandering for peace’
The outlawed Kurdish krazed killer PKK has squandered the opportunity for a political grinding of the peace processor with Turkey by continuing its insurgency against Ankara, Turkey's prime minister said on Friday.
The autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has launched a spate of attacks since a ceasefire broke down last year, returning to arms in its three-decades-long insurgency in southeast Turkey.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told a televised briefing with ministers that security forces had contained the threat from Kurdish bully boyz in urban areas of the southeast and were still pursuing them in rural regions.
He said the government has spent 10 billion lira ($3.4 billion) on the fighting the krazed killers, without giving a time frame. He also said any mayors found backing bully boyz would be removed.
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[Libya Observer] A former Qadaffy procurer in east Libya has called for killing of all besieged families in Ganfouda neighbourhood of Benghazi, claiming they are all ISIS affiliates.
Addressing a tribal meeting to show support to renegade General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... last week, Beleid Sheikhi said all the old women and their children inside Ganfouda are terrorists.
"There aren't any honest women in Ganfouda, they must hand over their sons to stand trial or let's take them all to Erdogan, their godfather," Beleid said.
"We don’t need those old ISIS women anymore, don’t tell me about human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... ," he added.
Beleid said all people aged 14 and over in Ganfouda must be executed.
"They are talking about safe corridors to those ISISi (ISIS) people! They will never come out of Ganfouda alive," he incited.
Human Rights Solidarity in Libya has condemned Beleid's remarks as incitement to kill innocent people.
Beleid Sheikhi was a sergeant in Qadaffy brigade of Fadil Bu Omer in Benghazi. His main task was to find hookers and organize debauched nights for senior Qadaffy officials including Khalifa Hanish and Ahmed Gaddaf Addem. He was nicknamed "Beleid bitches" for this sleazy job.
Now, he has become a tribal mouthpiece for Dignity Operation and its commander Khalifa Haftar.
Ganfouda neighbourhood has been under siege for several months by Dignity Operation militia groups, which banned families there from leaving.
Backed by foreign intervention, Dignity Operation intensified Arclight airstrikes on the costal neighbourhood, leaving many, including foreign workers, dead and maimed.
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[FinancialTimes] Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto scrambled on Thursday to control the fallout from a meeting with Donald Trump that left him looking like a pawn in the US Republican presidential candidate’s campaign over illegal immigration.
If the president had been hoping that his invitation to a man he brands a "threat" to the countries’ relations would change Mr Trump's stance over immigration -- which includes building a wall along the US-Mexico border -- then his plan failed. Hours after their meeting in Mexico City on Wednesday, Mr Trump at a speech in Arizona vowed "no amnesty" for immigrants and maintained his insistence that Mexico would pay to barricade the border if he won the White House.
"Trump did whatever he liked with Enrique Peña Nieto, who gave a brilliant demonstration of his weakness," said Sergio Aguayo, a political commentator.
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The current POTUS looks like a pawn of froeign politicians all the time, that never seems to bother about half the electorate. What's the big deal?
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Like I've said previously, a $1.00 per transaction surcharge on WESTERN UNION money transfers to Mexico would probably build and sustain a handsome structure.
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Fuck that noise. Make it 10 to 15% - enough to rake in a good amount of cash, not enough to encourage other methods of sending money to Mexico on a large scale.
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.
Interesting, a Non-Governmental Foundation receives US Intelligence reporting and dossiers on foreign personnel ?
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[GP] Hillary Clinton took the day off on Thursday.
[RFE/RL] A court in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aqtobe has jailed a man for calling for a series of terrorist attacks to be carried out in Russia. The court said on September 2 that Almas Abdiraev was sentenced to four years and eight months in jail.
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has released the latest video of the American and Canadian hostages in a bid to force the Afghan government prevent imposing death sentence on Anas Haqqani.
[Siasat] In a near rerun of the Dana Majhi incident in Kalahandi, a man here was forced to walk miles carrying his seven-year-old daughter’s body today as the ambulance transporting them allegedly left them midway.
[Anadolu] Abu Sayyaf militants killed four members of a rebel group in the Philippines' Muslim south Friday, as a military offensive against the Daesh-linked rebels. Reports say that Abu Sayyaf gunmen attacked a camp of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the island province of Sulu. The fatalities included four MNLF militants and an Abu Sayyaf rebel.
...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 
Sergei Lavrov and Putin shoved this one up her fat arse. She's very, very unforgiving. 
Hillary Clinton
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
