[FOX] Newly released emails suggest a senior Hillary Clinton aide stage-managed her first hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack by feeding specific topics Clinton wanted to address to Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who at the time was acting chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
"We wired it that Menendez would provide an opportunity to address two topics we needed to debunk (her actions/whereabouts on 9/11, and these email from Chris Stevens about moving locations,)" Clinton media gatekeeper Philippe Reines wrote to Chelsea Clinton the morning of the Jan. 23, 2013 hearing.
If you listen to Rodrigo Duterte's now infamous rant against president Obama (start a minute 6) you might be forgiven for thinking it was Howard Zinn or Bill Ayers speaking, allowing for the accent. He spoke of the "lapdogs of America" who forget that "America has one too many [offenses] to answer for". He argued that the Philippines "inherited the [Muslim] problem from the United States" and since "everyone has a terrible record of extrajudicial killing ... why make an issue of it." He describes the massacre of the Indians, the oppression of migrants etc. as reasons for ordering the deaths of thousands proving, if there was any remaining doubt, that he learned the lesson of moral equivalence well.
From this Duterte concluded that he wouldn't listen to lectures from the SOB leader of such a country. It's almost as if he's been listening to Obama and Obama was hoist on his own petard. The Western left has the habit of preaching from a moral height while simultaneously describing its history as one unending crime. You've heard the teaching moments. "I live in a house built by slaves." "You didn't build that!" This whole country is stolen!
Say it often enough and someone will believe you. Somebody did. The trouble is you can't rise from the toilet to suddenly preach from a great moral height. It's possible to do one but not both simultaneously. Of course the liberal left can context shift and switch between sackcloth and ashes and the throne of moral superiority with the alacrity of Dr. Who. But Durterte isn't that nimble.
The clash between the two is tragi-comedy. Obama's planned teaching moment has complicated the problem of holding the Philippines against an expansionary China. The stark reality is that Duterte's Philippines is almost totally helpless against the Chinese military power and extremely vulnerable to Islamic terrorism. Who does Duterte think is keeping the Chinese away? The Philippine Navy? Nor will his hometown of Davao last very long against Islamic rebels without intelligence support and Sigint from the United States. Maybe Durterte believes that USA and Obama are two different things - I know, I do.
...The Era of Hope and Change has been one prolonged act of suicide. If anyone had said that Obama would manage to alienate Israel and the Philippines, lose Turkey, pay Iran a hundred billion dollars, preside over the loss of a won war in Afghanistan, lose billions of dollars in military equipment to ISIS, watch a consulate burn, restart the Cold War with Russia, cause Japan to re-arm and go the knife's edge with China would you have believed it? If someone had told you in 2008 millions of refugees would be heading for Europe and that the UK would leave the EU after Obama went there to campaign for them to remain would you not have laughed?
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A foundational tenet of leftism is that the scorpion, the black widow and the cobra have as much right to be in the crib as the baby. Then they are surprised when that gets turned back on them...
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"As it becomes more difficult for the establishment to sell America on the pig in a poke that is Hillary Clinton desperate measures are on the brink of being implemented. Now that the queen of mean is losing ground in even the cooked polls the meme that the election will be hacked are starting to appear more frequently. The objective seems to be that if you can';t beat him, cheat him and the Obama occupying government is prepared to mobilize the intelligence services and the Department of Homeland Security to stomp the big red, white and blue jackboot down on the will of the people.
Now that the DHS has already declared it's intent to intervene in the election to ensure that Hillary gets what she is entitled to. the intelligence agencies are also intervening to investigate a vast "Russian" conspiracy that even they admit that there is no real proof of.
And to top things off, the federal effort is being led by DNI James Clapper who lied his ass off to Congress over the NSA's mass surveillance programs."
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It seems the Democrats are obsessed with meddling, hacking and stealing elections. I recall awhile back that Obama sent minions to Israel to try to upset their election although it didn't work. Bernie's followers claim the primaries were stolen by Hillary and the DNC and that he is the rightful winner.
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Need more info than "Killed by head-on collision" to determine cause of crash. The CCTV captures only show the moment of impact too and the immediate aftermath. Any link to to the car actually veering?
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[Breitbart] Ahmed Alshami, owner of a Buffalo, New York deli, is being held on $2 million bail after being arraigned last week on food stamp fraud and burglary charges.
Alshami, who owns the IGA Community Express Mart along with his wife, Nadia Alhaj, was arrested on August 19 and arraigned on August 23 on charges of misuse of food stamps, third-degree burglary, and second-degree criminal possession of public benefit cards.
After his court hearing, Alshami’s daughter flipped off local reporters while his while was caught on camera yelling, "Are you happy now? F*ck you. F*ck America."
[Daily Caller] A string of violent stabbings connected to the MS-13 gang across Washington, D.C., is causing panic among residents.
Members of the Latino community in neighborhoods affected by the recent violence are speaking out on the dangers the vicious MS-13 gang, based in El Salvador, pose to the region. Residents are generally fearful to speak out about the gang, fearing retribution, which makes policing the gang difficult. Several recent stabbings connected to MS-13 are causing renewed concern among residents, reports WUSA9.
While two of the stabbings cannot be directly linked to the gang, residents are unnerved by the recent rash of violence in the city.
"I don’t know about the gang violence," Ernesteine McNeill, a resident near Columbia Heights, told WUSA9. "It’s just that there’s a lot of violence."
[Gateway] An Indianapolis man, identified only as Phillip, posted a Donald Trump campaign sign in his front yard recently.
He also put up a video camera and jerry-rigged the sign with fish string.
His camera caught the second attempted theft on video. A woman is seen in the footage grabbing the sign and attempting to run off with it. Unfortunately for her, she hit a snag.
Unaware the sign was attached to fishing wire, the would-be sign thief face-planted in the yard. She was then forced to flee without the Trump sign.
Phillip said people are free to disagree with his sign, but it’s his property.
[PJ] During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised to "bankrupt" the coal industry. Since April of 2105, six major U.S. coal companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the subsequent loss of more than 80,000 jobs.
The Daily Caller reports that 400 coal mines have been shuttered:
This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to "bankrupt" the coal industry.
A 2015 study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012 during Obama’s first term. During Obama’s second term, the industry employment in coal mining has fallen by another 33,300 jobs, 10,900 of which occurred in the last year alone, according to federal data. Currently, coal mining employs 69,460 Americans, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Much of the blame for the job losses is targeted at federal regulations aimed at preventing global warming, which caused coal power plants to go bankrupt, resulting in a sharp decline in the price of coal.
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What does the beginning of an economic collapse look like?
Do you see grocery stores closing? Do you see other retailers, like clothing stores and department stores, going out of business?
Are there shuttered storefronts along your Main Street shopping district, where you bought a tool from the hardware store or dropped off your dry cleaning or bought fruits and vegetables?
Are you making as much money annually as you did 10 years ago?
Do you see homes in neighborhoods becoming run down as the residents either were foreclosed upon, or the owner lost his or her job so he or she can’t afford to cut the grass or paint the house?
Did that same house where the Joneses once lived now become a rental property, where new people come to live every few months?
Do you know one or two people who are looking for work? Maybe professionals, who you thought were safe in their jobs? Friday’s anemic jobs numbers tell that tale.
Did your high school buddy take a job at the local convenience store because he could not find work in sales?
Is the pothole on your street getting larger instead of getting repaired? Is there more than one street light out in your town?
Don’t be fooled into thinking that the stock market is any indication of the health of an economy.
Is the town pool closed this summer much more than usual?
Have you seen a situation -- any situation -- and said, "Jeez, it wouldn’t take much money to fix that" -- but it hasn’t been fixed?
You may have witnessed many of these situations, but you tell yourself it can’t be an economic collapse because the stock market is at an all-time high.
Does that mean all is well? No, this is what a 21st-century economic collapse looks like in the beginning.
When I was first looking for a real job 40+ years ago my father taught me that a gov't gig didn't pay great but the security was invincible. Now it pays great AND the security is invincible.
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Your local hospital ER looks like a giant Cinco de mayo festival.
I resemble that remark.
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The only people secure in their jobs are public functionaries, and they make more than regular people in the private sector do.
Mickey Kaus said a long time ago - 'The deal used to be low pay in exchange for security.' It'song past time to alter the deal, and they should pray that it is not altered further.
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The unemployment rate highly touted by the Obummer administration is a number that can't be relied upon. The labor participation rate is the lowest since 1970. Many of the jobs are B.S. jobs. Jobs have been cut back and hours cut because of Obamacare; thus people have to work two or three jobs to make out. The stock market is good for Wall Street and not for Main Street.
We’re winning. I know it’s a farfetched idea right now.
There’s an Islamic terrorist attack every week or every few days. A bomb goes off. A man with a, quote unquote, history of psychiatric problems, takes a machete, a gun or a truck to a bunch of non-Muslims while shouting Allahu Akbar, and the media repeats the same old lies. You know the lies. I don’t need to repeat them.
How can we be winning then?
...The best weapon that the enemy has isn’t its firepower. It’s not even WMDs. It’s willful blindness in our society. It’s a narrative which says that the terrorists are a tiny minority of extremists and that if we reach out to the moderate majority, everything will work out. It’s a very seductive narrative.
...When you see the denial all around you, this is the important thing to remember. No lie, no spin and no scam can beat reality. Reality will always win. Reality is going to win.
Everything we’ve gone through since September 11 and even before that has been the reality distortion field, the one that says there’s no such thing as Islamic terrorism, colliding with reality.
If there are days when you get up and think that it’s hopeless, that people will never know the truth and that we’ll be going through the same motions, twenty years from now, don’t.
Every lie that has been told, every media story lying about Islamic terrorism, lying about Hamas and Iran, every piece of propaganda used to support the narrative, is the little Dutch boy with his finger holding back the flood.
But the flood is coming. In fact it’s already here.
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Got to agree with the premise of the article. A look back at history would indicate that Nazi Germany took over Europe and part of Africa and caused a great deal of death and destruction. Unfortunately, a lot of damage can be inflicted on us on our way to victory because of our willful denial of reality.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Monday she will not accept an invitation by Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, for a visit after rival Donald Trump created what she called a "diplomatic incident" in his foray there. Trump goes to Mexico, Hillary wants Mexicans to come to her? Apparently the check didn't clear...
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says two soldiers have been killed in the country's southeast in festivities with Kurdish murderous Moslems.
Anadolu news agency says the two soldiers were killed in ongoing operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK in the southeastern Hakkari province. The deaths follow a violent weekend in the province when at least 12 soldiers were killed and 26 maimed along with 104 "terrorists" killed or maimed, according to the governor's office.
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[IsraelTimes] Second assailant is moderately maimed as car attempts to ram into Border Police in Shuafat, officials say; no Israelis hurt
A Paleostinian assailant was killed in East Jerusalem Sunday night when he and a second man attempted to run over police and Border Police forces in East Jerusalem, security officials said.
According to authorities, troops were concluding an operation in the Shuafat refugee camp when the vehicle with the two Paleostinians attempted to hit them.
Border Policemen fired at the vehicle, killing one attacker and moderately wounding another.
No Israeli troops were hurt in the incident.
On Friday a Border Police officer sustained minor leg injuries when he was hit by a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint in the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya. The driver expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
The past 10 days have seen several arrests of knife-bearing Paleostinians in checkpoints in the Jerusalem area, who are thought to have planned attacks against Israelis.
A Paleostinian man was rubbed out by IDF troops on August 26 when he ran toward a guard post near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah. He was apparently unarmed, but did not heed the soldiers’ repeated orders to halt. A senior Paleostinian official later said the man suffered from mental illness.
It's always dangerous to have an imperfect grasp of reality, more so when you are untreated and your people are waging a low grade war against a vastly superior enemy.
Since October, 35 Israelis and four foreign nationals have been killed in a spate of car-ramming, stabbing, shooting, and bombing attacks. Some 215 Paleostinians have also been killed, most of them while attempting attacks, according to Israel.
Such an encouraginging ratio -- Darwin always wins.
Others were killed in festivities with security forces.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 11 foreign murderous Moslems were killed during an Arclight airstrike in southeastern Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Sunday. (Photo 438th Air Expeditionary Wing)
Acording to MoI, the Arclight airstrike was carried out late on Saturday evening in Speera District. "Yesterday evening, during an Arclight airstrike, 11 foreign country’s armed Taliban were killed and one vehicle with some amount of light and heavy rounds of ammunition was destroyed."
MoI further added that the Afghan National Police repelled an armed Taliban attack in which three armed Taliban were killed.
The incident took place in Khak Riz District of southern Kandahar province, MoI said, adding that Afghan National Police discovered and detected four roadside kabooms placed by enemies of peace and stability in Wam Dara village, Arghistan District of Kandahar province.
The anti-government armed holy warrior gorups have not commented regarding the report so far.
It is also yet not clear to which country the foreign murderous Moslems were belonging to but Pak turbans as well as murderous Moslems belonging to some central Asian States are actively operating in remote regions of the country.
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have stepped up operations to suppress the insurgency activities of the holy warrior groups who are attempting to expand insurgency as part of their spring offensive.
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[STLOUIS.CBSLOCAL] Multiple sources are confirming to KMOX news that Phyllis Schlafly has died.
Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in 1972, a pro-family conservative group focusing heavily on social issues -- it has about 80,000 members and, as of this week, Schlafly was still president.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in 1944 -- her masters from Radcliffe College in 1945 -- and a J.D. from Washington University in 1978.
Schlafly’s organization has been split this presidential election -- Schlafly supported Donald Trump, though many board members disagreed. She maintained her leadership of the organization.
She also fought nephew, Tom Schlafly, over the naming rights to his brewery in St. Louis. Schlafly contended her name juxtaposed with beer and libations would damage the conservative brand’s reputation. A judge disagreed.
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Met her once some years ago. A very intelligent and gracious lady.
She will be missed.
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In college in 1945, Schlafly applauded the establishment of the United Nations. Over the years, however, she disdained the UN. On the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in 1995, Schlafly referred to it as "a cause for mourning, not celebration. It is a monument to foolish hopes, embarrassing compromises, betrayal of our servicemen, and a steady stream of insults to our nation. It is a Trojan Horse that carries the enemy into our midst and lures Americans to ride under alien insignia to fight and die in faraway lands." She opposed President Bill Clinton's decision in 1996 to send 20,000 American troops to Bosnia. Schlafly noted that Balkan nations have fought one another for 500 years and that the U.S. military should not be "policemen" of world trouble spots.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Security Adviser of Afghanistan Mohammad Hanif Atmar has said there is no hope Pakistain will help Afghanistan with the peace talks with the Taliban group.
During an interview with Gandhara/RFERL, Atmar said "We have received messages from Pakistain as we have diplomatic relations. Our president has told them we have no hope that they will help us with peace talks.؛
Atmar further added "He told Pakistain that they promised they would go against those who do not want peace talks, but Pakistain did not do this. They lied to us."
Questioning Pakistain’s honesty in fight against terrorism, Atmar said "Islamabad said the Taliban leader was not in Pakistain, but then we saw Mullah Mansur had a Pak ID card when he was killed while traveling inside Pakistain.؛
"We asked them very clearly: "Why are you lying? This [grinding of the peace processor] would not be in your favor. Terrorism will backfire against you, and it already has." My hope is that Pakistain thinks logically and pays attention to this issue," Atmar added.
The Afghan government was expecting to participate in direct peace talks with the Taliban group soon after the Quadrilateral Coordination Group comprising of Afghanistan, Pakistain, United States and China started work.
Several rounds of QCG talks were held and the participating members had agreed to take actions against the groups pursuing violence but the Taliban group rejected the calls by the QCG and Afghan government to participate in direct talks.
The group announced its spring offensive in mid-April and staged numerous deadly attacks with the support of the Haqqani terrorist network based in Pakistain, forcing the Afghan government to withdraw from the talks and opt strict military actions against the group.
The Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for allowing the Taliban group and Haqqani terrorist network leaderships to use its soil for planning and coordinating attacks in Afghanistan.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Pakistain has opposed to opt a military option to resolve the issue despite admitting that the leaders of the Taliban group are based in the country and Islamabad could use certain leverages to force the group to participate in peace talks, including the pressure the country could build on the group on certain facilities it uses such as health facilities.
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At least 3 people are confirmed wounded in a grenade attack in Mogadishu, Somali capital on Monday as the city is expected to host IGAD heads of states next week.
A witness has confirmed the attack to Radio Shabelle, saying it happened after assailants hurled grenade on a tea-shop at Towfiq unction.
“The bombed was targeted government soldiers at the tea-shop in Towfiq intersection, injuring at least three unarmed civilians,” the witness said.
The attackers have managed to escape from the scene of the blast, before police arrived and launched a manhunt for th suspects, according to the witness.
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QUETTA: Suspected militants on Monday killed two police officials and a levies personnel in Mastung district of Balochistan.
"Armed men opened fire and killed an assistant sub inspector Abdullah along with his son in the Masjid road area of the city," said a senior police official.
The slain police officer's son was also serving as constable in the police department.
The assailants sped away on their motorcycle after the attack.
The bodies were shifted to district headquarter hospital Mastung, where a large number of relatives, family members and friends of the slain police officer arrived.
In a separate incident, gunmen opened fire and killed a levies personnel in the Kandao area of Mastung.
"The levies personnel was on his way home when attacked by unknown armed men," police said.
The body was later shifted to district hospital Mastung.
Police and levies personnel reached the spot to investigate the incident.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killings.
Mastung is a troubled district, where militants have been targeting security officials and police for more than a decade.
ALEPPO – Clashes erupted on Monday between Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s northern Aleppo province. The clashes broke out after ISIS militants tried to infiltrate into the YPG headquarters near the Tishreen Dam in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.
ISIS militants started the offensive by detonating a car bomb near a YPG security checkpoint in the area and firing several mortar shells on YPG positions there. Then a group of militants tried to break into a major YPG headquarters in the vicinity of Tishreen Dam.
“Our forces were able to repel the attempt after clashes that killed and injured dozens of ISIS militants,” YPG spokesman Habun Osman told ARA News.
At least 15 ISIS militants were killed in the clashes, while the YPG lost four of its fighters and several others were injured.
“Also, the YPG destroyed an ISIS armoured vehicle and seized a number of heavy machine guns,” the Kurdish official said.
The YPG leadership pointed out that 11 ISIS fighters were captured while trying to escape the clashes’ area near the Tishreen Dam on Monday midnight.
In December 2015, the Kurdish YPG fighters and allies of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expelled ISIS militants from the Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River, which has for long served as a supply line for the extremist group between its de facto capital of Raqqa and the northern countryside of Aleppo.
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HOMS – Subsequent to clashes with militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS), Syrian army forces on Monday regained control of a strategic hill in the central Homs province. Syrian regime’s army troops expelled ISIS militants from the Sawana hill in eastern Homs.
“Our forces killed at least 23 Daesh terrorists before the rest were forced to withdraw from Sawana on Monday evening,” Syrian army officer Fouad Hammoud told ARA News, using another acronym for ISIS.
Last Wednesday, the Islamic State group took control of the strategic Sawana hill –that overlooks the southwestern part of the ancient Palmyra city in Homs province– after bombing Syrian army positions with mortar fire.
“Today’s advance by our forces proved that the Syrian army is still in control of Homs province, and that Daesh movements are restricted,” the military official said.
The militant group captured last week some 11 Syrian army checkpoints in the vicinity of Palmyra city. However, ISIS fighters were forced to leave the checkpoints under airstrikes by Syrian and Russian warplanes, military sources reported.
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[ALLAFRICA] Al-Shaboobs have beheaded 2 respected traditional elders in a southern Somali town on Sunday for allegedly collaborating with Somali Federal Government in Baay region.
The elders, who have not been identified were brutally executed in the al-Shabaab controlled locality, located in the outskirts of Bardale district in Baay region, an official said.
"The elders were recently kidnapped from the houses in Bardale by Al-Shabaab. They have been beheaded at Turaburey area, 15Km north-west of the town," Bardale police boss said.
Mohammed Isack, Bardale police chief said he doesn't aware of the motive behind the murder of the two local elders, but promised an investigation into the case.
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let me save you the trouble, chief - they had mental problems and it had nothing to do with islam
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Actually Bov, I'm not certain their motives can ever be fully known.
Ankara-Six Syrian villages in Aleppo are now under the control of Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces as part of Operation Euphrates Shield which began on August 24, the Turkish Army announced.
The towns, al-Qadi, Kobbet al-Turikman, al-Battal hill, Aar hill, al-Suwaida, and Waqef in Aleppo northern countryside were cleared of ISIS terrorists.
The statement issued by the Turkish army on Sunday said that 83 terrorist sites were targeted by 293 bomb shells. In addition, F16 warplanes destroyed four ISIS locations in Qadi and Waqef villages.
The Turkish army reinforced its units on the Turkish-Syrian border, including armed forces and tanks brought from several Turkish districts to Kilis.
On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim delivered a speech announcing Ankara’s military successes.
He said: “Thank God, today, from Azaz to Jarablus, our 91km of borderline with Syria has been entirely secured.” He added: “All the terrorist organizations were pushed back – they are gone.”
Yildirim said Turkey would never allow the formation of an artificial state in the north of Syria. “We are there with Euphrates Shield, we are there to protect our border, to provide for our citizens safety of life and property, and to ensure Syria’s integrity.”
Meanwhile, Turkish EU minister Omer Celik said that operation Euphrates Shield will continue because Turkey would not want to see headquarters and flags of Kurdish Workers’ Party and ISIS on the borders.
Celik added that Turkey doesn’t want to put its citizens under the danger of any possible rockets in the area stretching from the town of Rai to Jarablus.
His statement came as the U.S. embassy in Turkey announced that the U.S. military has attacked ISIS targets in Syria using mobile rocket launchers it has based on Turkish territory for the first time.
The announcement was done on the embassy’s official Twitter account: “Last night: U.S. HIMARS in place and in action. The latest step in U.S.-Turkey cooperation in the fight against #ISIS.”
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[SILIVE] Federal officials in New York are investigating an emergency alert system after a mistakenly truncated message about storm system Hermine wrongly advised TV watchers on Long Island of an ordered evacuation, authorities said Sunday.
The Saturday night confusion started after Suffolk County emergency officials used an aspect of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's alert system for the first time since gaining access to it after Superstorm Sandy. They had hoped to advise viewers that a voluntary evacuation had been ordered for Fire Island, a thin strip of land off of Long Island's southern shore and a popular summertime destination.
Instead, somehow only the first part of the message -- that an evacuation order had been issued -- was broadcast to viewers. That the order was voluntary and only applied to those on Fire Island didn't make it onto TV screens.
"It caused obvious and expected questioning," said Gregory Miniutto, chief of communication for Suffolk County's Department of Fire Rescue.
Lauren Lefebvre, a spokeswoman for the FEMA region that covers New York, said officials are investigating what caused the message to be shortened.
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ALEPPO – After capturing the Syrian border city of Jarablus, Turkish army forces continued their advance and entered Aleppo province, military sources reported on Sunday.
Whatever one thinks of the Turks, they have a real armed forces, good quality soldiers, and decent equipment. They have a real officer corps and decent tactical training. They may be the poor relations of NATO, right next to Greece, but they're NATO and not (for example) Syrian or Libyan. If the Turks want Aleppo, they're going to take Aleppo, and they're not going to be very gentle about it.
“At least 20 Turkish tanks and five armoured vehicles, accompanied by a large number of Turkish troops, have arrived in the northern countryside of Aleppo province,” spokesman for the Shamiya Front rebel group Saleh al-Zein told ARA News.
Also, hundreds of rebels from the Turkey-backed Sultan Murad Brigade and other Turkmen rebel factions accompanied the Turkish army in the advance towards Aleppo.
“The Turkish forces and allies have taken over al-Rae town north of Aleppo, turning the town into a military zone after claiming to have expelled ISIS militants from the area,” rebel spokesman al-Zein told ARA News.
“However, there has been no fight between the Turkish forces and ISIS in al-Rae, which shows that ISIS has actually handed the town over to Turkey,” he added.
This comes just one day after the Turkish government sent military reinforcements to the Syrian northern city of Jarablus, that’s been taken by the Turkish forces and allied rebels of the Euphrates Shield Brigades on August 24 without resistance from ISIS.
Subsequent to the Turkish advance in Jarablus, clashes erupted between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the pro-Turkey factions.
The SDF forces –that have recently liberated the city of Manbij from ISIS after nearly three months of clashes– said that ISIS has handed over Jarabulus to Turkey “within hours and without any resistance”.
Turkey has also vowed to continue fighting Kurdish rebels both on its soil and in Syria, considering them a threat to the territorial integrity of both countries.
“We will continue our operations (in Syria) until we fully guarantee security of life and property for our citizens and the security of our border… From the beginning we have been defending Turkey’s territorial integrity. We are also defending Syria’s territorial integrity. The aim of these terrorist organisations is… to form a state in these countries… They will never succeed,”
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[DAWN] SWABI: The district police on Sunday recovered two pressure-cooker bombs in Malikabad village, and later the bomb disposal personnel defused the bombs.
Javid Iqbal, district police officer, told media persons that they were informed by the secret agencies that the bully boyz were present in the region who were planning terrorist activities in the district.
He said the police, which had recently carried out a search operation in the area, soon reached Malikabad and found two bombs concealed in two pressure cookers during a search of a deserted house. "We had also recovered a bomb from the same area on Aug 25," he recalled.
Mr Iqbal said soon after recovery of the bombs, BDS staff was called to defuse the bombs to avoid any loss of life, he said, adding the policy by recovery and defusing the bombs had successfully foiled the planning of the turbans to carry out sabotage attempts in the district.
He said the bombs weighed five kilogramme each.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... police placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 36 suspects from the region in a pre-dawn strike and search operation. Police said all the arrested people had been shifted to secret locations where they would undergo interrogations and those proved innocent would be set free.
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: A woman was shot, allegedly by her cousin, on her wedding day on Sunday just a few metres from the wedding hall on Chakri Road, police said.
Amina Bibi, 27, was being driven to the marriage hall from a beauty salon when her car was intercepted by two cycle of violence riders.
Police said one of the motorcyclists had been identified as her cousin, Mohammad Zubair. He allegedly shot her while she was in the backseat of the car, killing her on the spot. The killers then fled.
SHO Yar Mohammad told Dawn the bride was shot four times.
A preliminary police investigation suggests that the dear departed’s cousin was opposed to her marriage, which was arranged by her parents outside the family.
A murder case has been registered with the Saddar Bairooni police, based on a complaint from the mother of the dear departed. The body was handed over to the family.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A coordinated attack by the Talibs on a military base in northern Baghlan province was suppressed by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
According to the local security officials in Baghlan, the attack on Juma Kandak military base was launched around 5 pm local time in Pul-e-Hashim Khan area.
The officials further added that the attack was repulsed at around 9 pm local time and at last two Taliban Death Eaters including a commander of the group were killed.
The slain Taliban capo has been identified as Qari Bilal brother of Mullah Younis and Qari syed Jan, the officials said, adding that 4 others were maimed.
The Taliban Death Eaters group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Baghlan is among the relatively volatile provinces in norht of Afghanistan where the Taliban Death Eaters are actively operating in a number of its remote districts.
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[All Africa] The main opposition political party in Botswana has rejected King Mswati III's appointment as Chair of SADC because of the restriction on democracy in Swaziland.
The King was appointed Chair at the Southern African Development Community Summit of Heads of State at the end of August 2016.
The Botswana National Front (BNF), which is seen as the senior partner in the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change, said in a statement, 'Currently, there is no constitutional democracy in Swaziland. Political parties remain banned in that country. King Mswati and his Queen mother Ntombi have absolute authority over the judiciary, legislature and cabinet.'
The Weekend Post newspaper in Botswana reported BNF saying, 'several trade unionists, journalists and others have been harassed, tortured, beaten, arbitrarily incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... , imprisoned and some without trial and worse some killed under mysterious circumstances with no action being taken against the known security agents.'
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Hmm.. Had to look at that statement for a bit. Didn't think Botswana had a king. Nope a Prez. so the king in question is Swaziland's. That would be the king that demands thousands of nude virgins to dance topless before him so he can choose an additional wife.
In Swaziland, girls begin the rite by gathering at the Queen Mother's royal village, which currently is Ludzidzini Royal Village.[1] After arriving at the Queen Mother's royal residence, the women disperse the following night to surrounding areas and cut tall reeds. The following night, they bundle the reeds together and bring them back to the Queen Mother to be used in repairing holes in the reed windscreen surrounding the royal village.
After a day of rest and washing, the women prepare their traditional costumes consisting of a bead necklace, rattling anklets made from cocoons, a sash, and skirt. Many of them carry the bush knives, which they had earlier used to cut the reeds, as symbols of their virginity.
The women sing and dance as they parade in front of the royal family as well as a crowd of dignitaries, spectators, and tourists. After the parade, groups from select villages take to the centre of the field and put on a special performance for the crowd. The King's many daughters and royal princesses also participate in the reed dance ceremony and are distinguished by the crown of red feathers they wear in their hair.
The present form of the Reed Dance developed in the 1940s from the Umcwasho custom, where young girls were placed in age regiments to ensure their virginity.[12] Once they had reached marriageable age, they would perform labour for the Queen Mother followed by dancing and a feast. The official purpose of the annual ceremony is to preserve the women's chastity, provide tribute labour for the Queen Mother, and produce solidarity among the women through working together.[1]
[NBCNEWS] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ... struggled to fight back a coughing fit while campaigning in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , Ohio, on Monday.
"I've been talking so much," Clinton said with a hoarse voice. "Every time I think about Trump, I get allergic."
The former secretary of state has suffered from coughing fits at times throughout the Democratic presidential primary, but has not had a public coughing fit recently. However the frog in Clinton's throat on Monday was one of the most aggressive she's had during her 2016 run and left her almost unable to finish her remarks.
After the event, campaign aides attributed it to allergies. Allergens were high in Northeast Ohio on Monday, according to pollen.com.
Clinton's conservative opponents have sought to raise questions about her health, though they have produced no evidence to indicate she is unwell.
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You are parched.
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"Clinton's conservative opponents have sought to raise questions about her health, though they have produced no evidence to indicate she is unwell."
Producing evidence - I thought that's the job of the press..silly me. Investigative reporting now consists of "How was your Labor Day?" and other hard hitting questions.
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#10 yes, certainly would be nice result. This is a spasmodic response. Singing, talking and yelling all will irritate vocalization process.The more she continues speaking the greater frequency of spasmodic attacks. Asthma, bronchitis and perhaps COPD will develop. Should she continue her days as a public speaker are numbered. Hallelujah!!!!.
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It's lung cancer, and the telltale weight loss that chemo / radiation / surgery would produce has been ruled out by her handlers as too difficult to explain at this time.
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When she coughs she also spits. Don't ask me what.
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Huma Hairballs
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And here I thought she wasn't going to do anymore campaign events until after the Debate, to "Rest". Keep pressuring her like this and she'll give out. I'm actually wondering about the debates, if Clinton can stand long enough.
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[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] The bombing of the Davao City night market on Friday could have been meant to divert the Duterte government’s ongoing military operations in Sulu against the 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... , an official of an Islamic rebel group said on Monday.
"The terror group (Abu Sayyaf) has its back against the wall and had to divert attention from Sulu to Davao," said Abu Misri Mama, spokesperson of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF), a breakaway faction of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Mama said the deployment of additional soldiers and military hardware to Sulu to finish off the Abu Sayyaf could be the reason for the kaboom.
Abu Sayyaf members have been tagged in the series of kidnap-for-ransom and extortion activities in Mindanao victimizing local and foreign victims.
Denying any BIFF involvement in the bombing that killed 14 people and maimed 67 others, Mama said they had nothing against the government’s war on illegal drugs and terrorism.
Mama said the BIFF was sympathizing with the families of the blast victims, some of whom were from Maguindanao and other parts of Central Mindanao.
"We sympathize with you, hoping that the perpetrators are identified and punished," he said./
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[ALLAFRICA] Two Moroccan nationals deported by La Belle France last month were planning major terror attacks in the eastern French city of Metz, according to a Moroccan paper. They were in contact with 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.... (IS) gang and planned to attack a restaurant and a gay nightclub and use vehicles to run down pedestrians, as in the Bastille Day attack in Nice, the Arab-language daily Assabah reports.
The two men, Redouane Dahbi and Ayyoub Sadki, planned to attack the Place de la République in the heart of Metz, Assabah claims without naming any sources.
IS had promised to provide them with weapons to commit the attacks, in particular against nightclubs frequented by young people, it says, adding that Dahbi was planning to attack a big restaurant in the town centre and L'Endroit, a gay nightclub.
That attack would have been an attempt to emulate June's attack that killed 50 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
The pair also intended to set fire to buildings with a large number of residents and to drive vehicles into crowds, as Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did in Nice, Assabah says.
The pair were extradited to Morocco on 26 August at the request of the Moroccan authorities, who "saved La Belle France from a fatal blow", according to the daily.
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[ALLAFRICA] Security personnel in Mandera county are still on high alert although the area has not witnessed any major attack in two months. County commissioner Fredrick Shisia on Saturday told the Star on the phone the security agents are not leaving anything to chance and are working round the clock to ensure all loopholes used by al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... to carry out attacks are completely sealed off.
"We have managed to seal most of the loopholes. That is why al-Shabaab have been unable to penetrate and attack us," he said.
Shisia said security has been increased, especially along the Kenya-Somalia border. "Terror-related crime have reduced drastically over the past two months due to the continued cooperation with the Jubaland government," he said.
He praised residents for cooperating with the security agents, saying they have won their confidence "We have also received a lot of political goodwill from the area leadership. This has gone a long way in enhancing security," Shisia said.
He said the security agencies and residents should not be complacent as a result of the current calm. "Al-Shabaab murderous Moslems have not gone to sleep but are exploiting every available opportunity to attack us. We must remain alert," Shisia said.
He said al-Shabaab have been flushed out of Lafey subcounty where they have been carrying out attacks on vehicles plying the Mandera-Wajir route.
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[ALLAFRICA] The internet has been restored in Gabon after being cut off for five days, but social media still remains blocked, following the announcement last week of President Ali Bongo as the winner of the presidential elections, BBC reports.
The internet and social media platforms were blocked after the re-election of Bongo in a close fought presidential election that saw Bongo defeat his main opposition candidate, Jean Ping by a mere 5 000 votes.
There has been no official explanation by the government why the internet was cut off, with many TV stations choosing to broadcast anything but news on the protests happening across the country.
BBC Africa reported that there was an increasing tendency by African governments to block social media during elections, with research by the Portland Communications saying that African tweeters were more political than in other continents.
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AS: They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train
And though it's smoky and it's crowded
They're too civilized to complain
DK: When they've got two weeks vacation
They hurry to vacation ground
AS: What do they do Danny?
DK: They swim and they fish,
But that's what I do all year round
ALL: So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go
DK: Don't want no jailhouse,
AS: Shotguns,
DK: Fish hooks,
AS: Golf clubs,
DK: I got my spears
AS: So no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... a "son of a whore" on Monday as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... when they meet in Laos.
The acid-tongued Duterte bristled at warnings he would face questioning by the US president over a war against drugs in the Philippines that has claimed more than 2,400 lives in just over two months.
"You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum," Duterte told a news conference shortly before flying to Laos to attend a summit.
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Actually from some photos of Obama's mother on the internet... that might not be a curse - rather a description of the situation.
esp. Marshall Davis estate photos.
2) Here's a fun exercise to confirm Google's bias - go look up this story by searching for 'Duterte Obama', then add 'whore', letter by letter. Marvel at the suggested third word, and the obvious one which never appears, even when you fully spell out 'whore'. 219,000 estimated results and this is not even autofilled.
Pfft! He is his own world, nay, his own universe. You just don't understand greatness.
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Another triumph for the All-Star Diplomacy Team of Kerry and Obama. The only people that like us are the Kurds and they haven't finished stabbing them in the back ... yet.
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Everyone knows he's going to spend the rest of his presidency golfing and going through the motions so why talk to him. Any treaties will be held up or overturned. Allies don't trust him and enemies have an opportunity to embarrass him without cost.
[NYPOST] Two people were killed and three others maimed early Monday at the J’Ouvert carnival in Brooklyn ‐ sparking pandemonium hours before the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade.
At least four people were shot and one person was stabbed despite a beefed up police presence a year after an aide to Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo was killed by a stray bullet at the raucous annual event.
The first shootings happened about 4 a.m. at Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, where a male in his late teens or early 20s was shot in the chest and died at Kings County Hospital, sources said.
A 72-year-old woman was shot nearby as she sat on a bench, sources said. She is expected to live.
About 25 minutes later, a 22-year-old woman was shot in the eye just a block away, police sources said. She also died at a hospital.
A woman was also stabbed at Empire Boulevard and Ocean Avenue, but police said she refused medical attention.
The shootings erupted while as many as 40 cops ‐ aided by powerful lights -- were stationed only feet away, sources said.
Dozens of panicked people stampeded over each other during the chaos ‐ with dozens hurtling themselves over barricades and taking cover behind anything solid, including garbage cans and cars.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Yorkshire Ripper is said to be planning to convert to Islam after he was promised protection in prison from Moslems.
Peter Sutcliffe served 32 years at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital before he was moved back to prison, at HMP Frankland, in August.
According to the Daily Star the murderer is keen to convert to Islam after he was told he could access a special diet and be taken under the wing of Moslem gang members.
Sutcliffe has had death threats since he was moved to the high security prison in County Durham.
According to the Daily Star, one Moslem inmate told Sutcliffe he was a marked man in prison and would be dead within a month unless he had friends to protect him.
It is understood that the gang has arranged for Sutcliffe to have a meeting with a prison imam ‐ a Moslemholy man ‐ in the next few weeks.
It is thought to be the same gang that befriended Levi Bellfield, who now goes by Yusuf Rahim.
HMP Frankland is also home to Ian Huntley, and only takes prisoners with sentences of four years or more, whose release would be dangerous to the public.
Sutcliffe, who has been in Broadmoor since 1984 after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia following his life sentence in 1981, will continue to have his mental health assessed in prison and could be returned to a psychiatric hospital if there is a change in his condition.
It has been estimated that the move will save the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants sought people to recruit to the organization in the villages around the Turkish capital of Ankara, according to an informatory note sent by police to the Ankara Fourth Heavy Penal Court. The militants also looked for someone to join the jihadists in order to make heavy weapons, such as mortar shells, according to the note.
The 22-page note sent by Ankara police regarding a case against al-Qaeda which concerns a total of 26 suspects, said a significant portion of the suspects were fighting alongside ISIL militants in Syria.
According to the note, which described the activities of the 26 suspects until 2014, one of the militants was arrested over his links to an al-Qaeda-affiliated group in 2010 and carried out propaganda activities on behalf of ISIL after being released.
Osman Çolakoğlu, codenamed “Ebu Muhammet Saykan,” was arrested on Jan. 16, 2010, and organized meetings and disseminated propaganda in the Çubuk and Çamlıdere villages of Ankara upon being freed. He reportedly went to Syria often and his last trip was on Sept. 17, 2013, after which he didn’t return to Turkey.
Another suspect, Oğuzhan Gözlemecioğlu, attempted to recruit militants for the jihadists in Ankara, as well as organizing meetings. He provided ISIL with transfer services and was one of couriers of the group, according to the note. He went to Syria on May 25, 2013, with his family.
ISIL also looked for experts to make heavy weapons in Ankara. Burak Musab Güler searched for someone who could make mortars, the note said. He also provided guidance to the militants going to Syria or arriving in Turkey.
According to the police’s informatory note, several militants sold objects they had illegally obtained in Syria in Ankara. Mustafa Canöz, codenamed “Uveyş,” and Zeki Sancaktaroğlu, codenamed “Musab-Halit,” sold computers and phones in order to send money to the jihadists.
Another suspect, Halil İbrahim Gözlemecioğlu, went to Syria in December 2013, the note also said.
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The Turkish border with Syria was cleared of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants on Sept. 4, after the Turkish-supported Free Syrian Army (FSA) took control of all regions from Azaz to the west to Jarablus to the east.
The news came 12 days after the Turkish army launched Operation Euphrates Shield, aimed at improving border security, supporting coalition forces and eliminating the threat posed by terrorist organizations, especially ISIL.
The FSA liberated new villages on Sept. 4, a day after the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) entered Syria’s al-Rai district from the Elbeyli district in the Turkish border province of Kilis. Syrian opposition forces removed ISIL militants from the villages of Tuwayran, Khaliliye, Bab Lemon, Hajj Wali and others in the al-Rai region.
With the new FSA-controlled belt extending three to five kilometers inside Syrian territory, ISIL’s physical contact with the Turkish border has been totally eliminated.
“From Azaz to Jarabulus, 91-km of our border has been completely secured. All terrorist organizations have been repulsed and they have gone,” Yıldırım said during a televised speech while visiting the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.
Ankara-backed FSA forces have started moving south to capture al-Bab from ISIL, Doğan News Agency reported Sept. 5.
On the other side of the operation, FSA fighters reached 24 kilometers south of the Turkish border inside Syria and arrived in a region west of the Euphrates River.
Meanwhile, the military has announced that FSA fighters seized control in seven more villages as a part of the operation on Sept. 5. It added that the Turkish artillery units fired 99 shots at nine targets in the 13th day of the operation.
A total of 1,698 shots were fired at 392 targets since the beginning of the operation on Aug. 24, according to military.
On Sept. 4, FSA took control of the villages of Ganime and Suwaya, west of Jarablus, as well as al-Qadi, the last ISIL-controlled village along the Turkish-Syrian border.
Less than two weeks after Operation Euphrates Shield was launched, the Turkish proxies have taken an area totaling nearly 600 square kilometers from ISIL and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Turkey regards as a terror organization.
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I first read that as "Mirage planes" and thought, good luck with that. 'Miraa' is another word for 'khat'.
Somalia has stopped the entry of Kenya’s miraa planes into its airspace effective Tuesday, spelling doom for the sector. Aviation minister Ali Ahmed said this on Monday without giving reasons for the decision that will stand until further notice.
“Any violation on Somali airspace and disregard of this notice will have equal consequences,” he said in a letter copied to Internal Security and the Civil Aviation Authority.
Somalia is the largest market for Kenya’s miraa; more than 16 planes carrying the plant enter Somalia every day.
Farmers had been struggling to sustain markets following miraa export bans by several European states two years ago.
President Uhuru Kenyatta announced in April that a budgetary allocation of Sh1 billion would cushion miraa growers from the challenges of the ban. The historical assent, which was witnessed by Deputy President William Ruto and Meru leaders, gave legal backing for farmers and traders to grow, harvest and sell miraa produce without any hindrances.
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[RAPPLER] Although the government declared a state of lawlessness, authorities have released little concrete information about the kaboom that killed at least 14 people in Davao City’s night market Friday, September 2, 2016.
On Saturday morning, September 3, radio station DZMM said the 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... grabbed credit for the blast in an interview with a self-proclaimed front man for Al Harakatul Al Islamiyah, the formal name used by the Abu Sayyaf.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Bodies of 13 Lion of Islams, who were killed in Kalyanpur, Narayanganj and Mirpur raids, are still at the mortuary of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
The bodies still remain at the mortuaries basically for two reasons--the DMP authorities are yet to receive reports of various tests carried out on the bodies and family members are yet to claim those, said Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media wing) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
Talking with the Dhaka Tribune, the DMP official said: "The reports of various tests carried out on the bodies of the 13 snuffies have not yet been received. We will take further decision after getting the test reports.
"Moreover, no members from their families officially claimed the bodies. The authorities will finalise whether the bodies would be handed over to their families after receiving the test reports."
DMCH forensic department Assistant Professor Dr Sohel Mahmud said: "The bodies of 13 Lion of Islams, who were killed during police raids in Kalyanpur, Narayanganj and Mirpur, are still at our morgue.
"We have requested the DMP authorities to take necessary steps to take back the bodies of the snuffies as the mortuary’s normal activities are being hampered due to a dearth of space in it."
Of the 13 Lion of Islams, nine were killed during police raid in the capital’s Kalyanpur area on July 26.
Verifying their fingerprints with those in the Election Commission’s database, police identified eight of terrorists. They are‐Abdullah, Abu Hakim Nayeem, Taj-ul-Haque Rashiq, Atiquzzaman Khan, Shazad Rouf Arko, Md Motiar Rahman, Md Jubayer Hossain, Raihan Kabir.
The remaining four bodies are of snuffies who were killed in Narayanganj and Rupnagar raids.
Three Lion of Islams, including Tamim Chowdhury, the criminal mastermind of Gulshan attack, were killed in Narayanganj on August 27 while Tamim’s second-in-command Murad was killed at Rupnagar in Dhaka’s Mirpur area on September 2.
On the other hand, the bodies of five Gulshan attackers are still at the morgue of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka. According to police source, the fingerprints of Gulshan attackers have also been verified.
They have been identified as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Sabeh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam Payel and Shafiqul Islam Ujjal.
The body of chef Saiful Islam, who was first identified as one of the suspects, also remains at the CMH mortuary.
When contacted, OC (Investigation) of Gulshan cop shoppe Salauddin told the Dhaka Tribune: "The six bodies are still at the mortuary of the CMH as none from the families of the five snuffies claimed those.
"Only Saiful’s family verbally wanted to take his body, but they did not file any written application in this regard. We will help the family members if they want to take the body."
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[TIMESOFISRAEL] Former Gazoo prime minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... is likely to replace Khaled Mashaal as head of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group’s politburo in upcoming elections, according to Arab media reports Monday
All other contenders for the position are said to have withdrawn, leaving Haniyeh as the sole candidate.
"There is almost an agreement inside the leadership of the political bureau that the two (other) expected candidates running for the presidency of Hamas would withdraw and therefore, allow Haniyeh to chair the movement," an informed source told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
Haniyeh, 53, left the coastal enclave via the Rafah crossing Monday en route to 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... to attend the hajj, according to Hamas radio. He is also expected to visit The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... before taking up residence in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i capital of Doha.
The head of Hamas’s political bureau is expected to live outside of Gazoo, as traveling in and out of the Strip is difficult.
Mashaal has lived for the last several years in Qatar.
Haniyeh was the prime minister of the Gazoo Strip from the 2006 elections until he was dismissed on June 14, 2007 by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . He has continued to act as Gazoo’s de facto political leader.
He was elected vice-president of the Hamas political bureau in 2012.
Mashaal, 60, has led the Hamas political bureau since 1996. He is a veteran politician with close ties to regional powers Qatar, Egypt and Turkey. He has been key to Hamas’s attempts to break out of political isolation following its violent takeover of Gazoo in 2007.
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At least 30 PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by Turkish jets in northern Iraq Sunday, the military announced Monday, Anadolu reported.
According to a statement by the Turkish General Staff, warplanes carried out airstrikes in the country's Gara region, hitting two terrorist targets.
The PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU -- resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July last year. Since then, more than 600 security personnel have been martyred and more than 7,000 PKK terrorists killed.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A previously unknown member of the Gay Paree terror attacks cell managed to evade capture until July despite regular public posts on Facebook from Belgium, according to intelligence documents.
Isil had plans to conduct follow-up attacks in "several locations" after the Gay Paree attacks, but had problems finding recruits for strikes in the UK, an expert who viewed intelligence documents has told the Telegraph.
The mystery Moroccan suspect, called Abid Tabaouni, is believed to have been part of a three-man unit ordered to take part in an even wider series of attacks than those that left 130 dead in and around Gay Paree on November 13.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A military source in Anbar province informed on Monday that the security forces killed two ISIS members in possession of 10 explosive belts, to the north-west of Fallujah.
Sharing details the source said, “A team of the 16th Regiment of Anbar tribal fighters killed two ISIS fighters while crossing the Euphrates River heading towards the north-west of Fallujah.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The force found ten explosive belts in possession of the two slain terrorists. They were defused without causing human or material loss in the ranks of the force.”
It may be mentioned here that the security forces liberated the city of Fallujah and the surrounding areas from ISIS grip nearly a month ago.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Anbar Operations Command announced that 100 booby-trapped houses were dismantled and dozens of explosives defused in western Fallujah.
Commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi said, “Security forces dismantled 100 booby-trapped houses and defused dozens of explosives and mines left over by ISIS. The dismantling and the defusing operation was carried out during a raid and search operation of the liberated areas in al-Nasaf and al-Halabesa in western Fallujah.”
“Security forces are working to secure all the areas in the western sides of Fallujah in preparation for the return of the displaced people. Police, army, emergency regiments, tribal fighters and bomb squads are working to locate booby-trapped houses and dismantle them in order to guarantee the safety of civilians,” Mahalawi added.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The Command of al-Hashd al-Shaabi in Anbar announced that 60 ISIS members were killed in an airstrike launched by the international coalition aviation, which was targeted on an ISIS convoy to the west of Ramadi.
Intelligence director of al-Somoud brigade, Captain Nazim al-Jaghifi, said, “The international coalition aviation launched an airstrike targeting an ISIS convoy of 12 vehicles at Wadi al-Fahemi in western Haditha district. As a result of this, 60 ISIS members including the photographer of Camp Speicher Massacre Abbas Mazhar Abbas.”
“Meanwhile, security forces identified some of ISIS casualties from Fahemi. They are Osama Tamr al-Jaghifi, Omar Alaka, Adi Abdel Razek and senior leader Falah al-Rawi,” he added.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Head of the reconstruction committee in Anbar Provincial Council Arkan Khalaf al-Tarmouz announced that the cost of bridges destroyed by ISIS in the cities of Anbar in the last two years reached 200 billion US dollars.
Tarmouz said, “The number of vital bridges that were destroyed by ISIS in Anbar exceed 84 and their reconstruction cost was around 200 billion US dollars,” adding that, “Majority of these bridges linked the cities of Anbar across the Euphrates river and they were destroyed in the last two years.”
“The destroyed bridges will take almost three years for complete reconstruction if the Iraqi government doesn’t provide the needed financial aid,” Tarmouz added.
(IraqiNews.com) Erbil – KRG’s Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs have begun documenting crimes committed by ISIS against the Christians, Shabaks, Kakais and Turkmen.
The Head of the ministry’s directorate tasked with documenting and exhuming mass graves and dealing with the victims of war crimes, Baravan Hamdi, said, “The ministry has been collecting evidence for the Yezidis genocide over the last few months.”
“The directorate has now opened up the opportunity for the other victim minorities including Christians, Shabaks, Kakais, and Turkmen to file complaints and testify in a Kurdistan Region court on the atrocities they faced at the hand of the IS militants,” Hamdi added.
ISIS massacred and kidnapped thousands of people from different religious minorities and bulldozed their homes in a systematic attempt to eliminate the communities during their advance into the Iraqi and Kurdistan Region territories back in mid-2014.
[ARA News] ZAKHO – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday beheaded a Syrian man in the northeastern Raqqa city on charges of ‘apostasy’, activists and eyewitnesses reported.
The ISIS-led Hisba police arrested a 51-year-old man in Raqqa. “Hours after his arrest, the Sharia Court issued a statement accusing the man of apostasy,” local media activists Ibrahim al-Raqawi told ARA News.
“The man was beheaded in front of hundreds of people in the al-Maari square on Monday afternoon,” al-Raqawi reported.
According to local sources, ISIS militants have been forcing the people to gather in public squares to witness the punishment of people accused of violating the rules of the group’s self-declared Caliphate.
“Over three years of ISIS control in Raqqa, we have seen dozens of execution cases. Even children are demanded to attend such brutal acts by ISIS,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Most of these civilians are being brutally punished on baseless charges. ISIS is just trying to keep people terrified in order to show that it’s still in power in Raqqa,” he said.
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HAVANA TIMES -- Ever since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, different US governments have used every kind of violent method to try and pull the plug on the Revolution.
Starting from the Bay of Pigs; the boom in armed groups who carried out all kinds of atrocities, such as the hateful murders of farmers, teachers, literacy teachers; the cruelest acts of sabotage against the Cuban people, such as the murders and forced disappearances of Cuban diplomatic employees abroad; bombs in Cuban hotels so as to damage national tourism, without caring about how many innocent people had to die in the process; as well as hundreds of assassination plots against key revolutionary leaders, mainly against Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.
This whole series of attacks, plus their rigid economic, commercial and financial blockade which has caused many difficulties and shortages among the Cuban people, hasn’t managed to achieve anything but unite our people even more with regard to the Revolution.
The current US president Barack Obama, undoubtedly an intelligent man, realized that the US would never be able to reverse by violent means Cuba’s history so that our country once again becomes a capitalist state with a multi-party political system. He thus decided to change strategy and work instead on winning over different sectors in Cuban society, making them believe that socialism isn’t the best thing for them and that they should head towards capitalism instead. When you are as far left as Cuba, and you see Barack Hussein Obama as a right-wing pro-capitalist force, you know you've entered Bizarro World. How many dark-skinned Cubans are in positions of high authority in Cuba?
The US has tried this many times before using different techniques with our youth, but it hasn’t been successful. Furthermore, they’re trying to win over the Afro-descendent sector, which is very large here in Cuba, for their counter-revolution.
You have to be very naive, or seriously compromised by the imperalist policy against Cuba, to write articles such as that by Mr. Alberto N. Jones entitled "The persistence of racism in Cuba", published on Havana Times on August 25th.
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I was in Cuba 30 years ago. I recall the roads were paved in the white part of town and unpaved dirt in the black part. No street lights in the black part either.
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Now all the streets are breaking up, street lights only in the tourist zones. My wife carries flashlights and batteries to our sister congregation along with the usual aspirin, Advil etc.
[FOXNEWS] A teenager who plotted to run over and behead a police officer as part of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... movement-inspired attack on an Australian Veterans' Day ceremony was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison.
Sevdet Besim, 19,
You mean his name wasn't 'Bruce'?
had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison after pleaded guilty in Victoria state's Supreme Court in June to one count of planning for a terrorist act.
On Monday, the court instead ordered Besim to serve a 10-year prison term, with the possibility of parole after 7 ½ years.
Prosecutors said Besim was involved in a plot to attack last year's services in Melbourne or the neighboring city of Dandenong marking ANZAC Day, the annual commemoration of the 1915 Gallipoli landings in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . The campaign was the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I and hundreds of thousands of people attend commemoration services around Australia.
Police said Besim was motivated by an murderous Moslem ideology and had expressed support for the Islamic State group.
In court documents, prosecutors said that Besim and a British accomplice had also discussed packing a kangaroo with explosives and painting it with the Islamic State symbol before setting it loose on Australian coppers. The documents don't suggest the alleged kangaroo plot was linked to the ANZAC Day plot.
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[CNN] The sophisticated ISIS network that plots foreign strikes had planned for the carnage in the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks to be far worse, to occur in other European countries as well and, Sherlocks believe, had planned to follow them up with strikes in several locations, CNN has learned.
CNN has obtained thousands of pages of documents and photos from internal European investigations and gathered information from sources close to the Gay Paree investigation that together provide new details about the highly organized terror group intent on attacking overseas targets.
These documents reveal new information about two captured operatives who Sherlocks believe intended to attack La Belle France. They also point, chillingly, to the existence of another suspected terrorist -- never before named publicly -- who authorities claim is linked to the Gay Paree terror cell and was on the loose in Europe for months after that attack. That man, identified by authorities as Abid Tabaouni, was only tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in July.
A useful map, graphic, photos of various desperate figures, and a good deal more reportage can be found at the link.
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A British warship will arrive off the Libyan coast in the next few days in a dramatic attempt to intercept and arrest people smugglers as the flow of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean for Italy reaches record levels.
HMS Diamond, a Type-45 destroyer equipped with a 4.5-inch gun, missiles and fast-firing cannon, will join an EU flotilla, Operation Sophia, tasked with catching smugglers at sea. Formal authorisation for the mission was given by Brussels in June. Last week the mission was widened to include intercepting weapons traffickers and training Libya’s coastguard.
But the plan to deploy HMS Diamond was met with scepticism by Crispin Blunt, head of parliament’s powerful foreign affairs committee, who is due to grill British officials about Libya policy later this week.
Blunt said that without Libyan cooperation naval forces could achieve only partial success, with the smugglers having impunity to operate inside coastal waters. “The smugglers are taking advantage of the fact there is no coherent government in Libya,” Blunt told the Observer. “Until there is a political settlement in Libya that encourages a Libyan government to accept assistance in its territorial waters, I fail to see how this can be effective.”
His comments echoed a House of Lords report in May that questioned whether the operation could ever deliver its mandate to prevent people smuggling, with suggestions that the search and rescue operation actually increased the number of crossing attempts. Operation Sophia began last year and until now has concentrated on rescues and intelligence gathering. Its ships arrested 71 smuggler suspects who are now being dealt with by the Italian courts.
The change to targeted interception has been delayed for months as Libya’s new government refused permission for warships to enter its territorial waters, or to provide forces of its own to arrest smugglers on land. The new strategy carries a risk of armed confrontations in the Mediterranean – the Operation Sophia commander, Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino, warned in a leaked report earlier this year that interception missions meant that warships should operate in pairs: one to intercept, the other to return fire.
HMS Diamond joins HMS Enterprise, which last week rescued 700 migrants off Libya, and more than a dozen EU vessels. Enterprise is a survey vessel which began working with GCHQ officers to identify networks in June 2015.
Operation Sophia has used electronic eavesdropping over the past year to build up a picture of migrant smuggling, which is concentrated on the west Libyan coast either side of Tripoli. Mobile phone conversations between gang leaders are tracked, and the Italian-led force is able to identity “blooms” in conversations, indicating that smugglers are poised to send large numbers of migrants to sea.
But in a cat-and-mouse game, the smugglers have changed tactics. After EU navies began seizing wooden smuggling boats, the smugglers have deployed rubber rafts imported from Europe and Turkey. The Operation Sophia report noted one consignment of 20 rubber boats, found in Malta, was allowed to go to Libya because Maltese customs had no powers to seize it. At sea, Credendino says that the smugglers now employ “jackals” – gang members in fishing boats acting as sentinels, tipping off the smuggling boats if they spot naval units in the vicinity.
Libya’s waters are already filling with foreign warships, with the American assault ship USS Wasp mounting airstrikes in support of Libyan forces battling Islamic State at its main base in the coastal town of Sirte. Libyan naval officials are suspicious of western operations in the Mediterranean, with coastguards involved in a confrontation with a Médecins Sans Frontières rescue vessel.
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The answer is sea based.
The question where were those aircraft based? Land or sea?
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Okay, sending the most sophisticated ship in the British fleet to ferry third class immigrants to Italy (?) is silly. This is a mission the LCS could actually perform well.
[ALLAFRICA] A witness says 5 people were died and several others hurt when a remote-controlled landmine blast destroyed a vehicle near Afgoye on Sunday.
The kaboom happened at Wayo-arag village, 8Km south of Afgoye district in Lower Shabelle region, according the witness who asked not to be named.
The bus was completely destroyed by the bomb, killing five people who were onboard on the spot. No group or individual claimed credit for the IED attack.
The vehicle has been travelling from Muri to Afgoye town at the time of the attack, the witness said while giving a phone interview with Radio Shabelle.
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[THENATIONONLINENG.NET] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... members are planning to infiltrate security agencies, it was learnt yesterday.
Part of the plan is to insert an Improvised Explosives Devices specialist into the Army, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) said.
In a statement issued by its front man Tony Opuiyo, the DSS disclosed the increasing desperation and sophistication of criminal elements, noting that about 21 suspected assasins, fraudsters, kidnappers and others have been picked up during various operations across the country.
"In response to the regrouping of Boko Haram elements in Kano State, the Service in concert with the military, carried out coordinated operations in the State which led to the apprehension of two high profile members of the sect, namely Ibrahim Ustaz Abubakar and Idris Audu (aka A.Y.A.).
"Audu is an IED specialist who was being groomed to penetrate security agencies in the country; Audu had already perfected plans to seek for recruitment into the next recruitment scheme of the Nigeria Army before his arrest.
" On 22nd August, 2016, one Samuel Asuquo, a kidnap kingpin was incarcerated Please don't kill me! by the Service at Nasarawa Bakoko village in Cross River State; Asuquo was the criminal mastermind of the kidnap of three Australian staff of Lafarge Cement Company, for which his gang received ransom N150m.
"Similarly, on 30th August, 2016, the trio of Bamaiyi Mustapha (aka Dan Borno), Aminu Isa and Hassan Shehu, members of a notorious kidnap gang operating around the Abuja-Kaduna axis, were arrested at Lafia, Nasarawa State.
"The gang had earlier kidnapped five Igbo women and collected N13m as ransom; they were subsequently arrested by the Service while planning a high profile kidnap in Abuja.
According to the DSS, a sacked embassy driver who was threatening the Ukrainian ambassador, was arrested for posing as the Accountant-General of the Federation. Two others who cloned the telephone number of the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, in a bid towards actualising high level fraud.
"This Service has arrested one Abbas Mohammed at Asokoro, Abuja; he was sending several threat messages to the Ukranian Ambassador to Nigeria.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to host talks in Moscow between the Israeli leader and the ineffectual Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu's office said on Monday.
It said in a statement Netanyahu, at a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, "presented Israel's position whereby he is always ready to meet (Abbas) without preconditions and is therefore considering the Russian president's proposal and the timing for a possible meeting".
A spokesman for the ineffectual Abbas, who is on a visit to Europe, declined immediate comment.
The last Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014.
With his eye on shifting big-power influence in the Middle East, Netanyahu has visited Russia for talks with Putin three times in the last year, and the two also speak on occasion by phone to discuss regional issues.
Update from The Times of Israel, in which the Palestinians firmly reject yet another opportunity:
A report that Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... agreed to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow was swiftly denied by senior Paleostinian officials Monday.
Russia’s Interfax news agency earlier Monday reported that the Paleostinian envoy to Moscow had conveyed Abbas’s willingness to sit with Netanyahu during a meeting with Russia’s Middle East envoy, Mikhail Bogdanov, in Amman earlier in the day.
Such talks would be the first public summit between the two leaders since 2010, and a sign of progress to jump-start moribund peace talks amid a flurry of international diplomatic initiatives, including an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to host face to face talks in Moscow.
But a senior Paleostinian Authority source denied the Russian report to The Times of Israel, saying Ramallah has yet to receive a response from Israel to its preconditions -- that Jerusalem commit to a settlement freeze and a prisoner release. Those preconditions, the source said, would have to be met before a direct meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu could take place.
The source emphasized the entire Paleostinian leadership was united in its demand that Israel commit to the preconditions, and expressed "puzzlement" that the report of Abbas’s ostensible willingness to meet Netanyahu first appeared in Russian media, rather than a Paleostinian outlet.
Another source from Abbas’s office also denied the Russian report, telling The Times of Israel that "we don’t want a meeting just for the sake of a meeting, but something to advance the grinding of the peace processor."
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior, Iraq, informed that one policeman was killed and four others were injured in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad.
Sharing details the source informed, “This morning, an explosive device exploded targeting a police patrol while it was passing through Tarmiya district in northern Baghdad. One police officer was killed and four others injured in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad.”
“Security forces rushed to the area and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital and the body to the forensic medicine department,” the source further added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Unidentified gunmen on Monday attacked the residence of Ann Nafaa Awse, the Minister of Construction and Housing, in Baghdad.
Ministry of Construction and Housing, in a statement, said, “The residence of Ann Nafaa Awse, Minister of Construction and Housing, was today attacked by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad. The house was damaged severely in this cowardly attack.”
“The attack was an attempt to stop the ministry’s reform work and by targeting the minister, who has the confidence of the Iraqi people, just goes on to share the cowardly mindset of certain people,” the statement added.
[REUTERS] At least nine people were killed in Baghdad late on Monday in a car kaboom claimed by 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.... near a hospital in a central district, police and hospital sources said.
A jacket wallah had targeted a gathering of Shi'ite Moslems in the Karrada district, according to a statement circulated online by the Amaq news agency, which supports the ultra-hardline Sunni Death Eater group.
The police and hospital sources said 20 people were also maimed in the blast and they expected the corpse count to rise.
The fight against Islamic State, which seized a third of Iraq's territory in 2014, has exacerbated a long-running sectarian conflict in Iraq, mostly between the Shi'ite majority and the Sunni minority.
The Death Eaters have lost ground in the past year to U.S.-backed government forces and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias, but such bombings show they can still strike outside the territory they control in northern and western Iraq.
Monday's blast occurred not far from the site of an Islamic State suicide kaboom in July that killed 324 people in one of the deadliest bombings of its sort in Iraq since U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein 13 years ago.
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Yeah, no new news, to us Ranters, but maybe there is some news to those who did not live it - the younger voters. So you gotta ask yerself - why is the Daily Mail running this old news now?
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Russian hackers, Anthony Weiner.... Any media diversion from HRC's email or medical condition is probably a welcomed diversion to her campaign team.
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Saddam's TV networks showed the movie 'Wag The Dog' over and over for a while after that, as I recall.
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Wasn't Wag the Dog written during the Clinton Administration. I don't remember if it was about bombing Saddam or Bosnia but for many there was a pretty clear connection at the time.
KARACHI: Police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have arrested five suspects involved in sectarian killings in the metropolis.
Speaking at press conference at CTD Civil Lines, the senior officer claimed the held suspects were involved in killings of religious scholars, doctors and prominent personalities on sectarian grounds and were planning to target ‘prominent religious scholars’ before Eidul Azha.
"They were allegedly involved in targeted killings of Mufti Ghulam Akbar, Mufti Kamran Husain, Hafiz Mohammad Sajid, Dr. Fazlur Rehman, Maulana Yasir and others."
"Arrested suspects are foreign trained," additional inspector general of police, CTD, Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi said.
“Karachi has become a battlefield for proxy war of foreign countries who wanted to destabilise Pakistan generally and Karachi particularly,” elaborated the counter-terror force chief.
Abbasi said the CTD has “spotted” such elements who planned to recruit the people and send them abroad for training.
"One of the suspect's is a master mind of sectarian killings," he claimed, adding that he was born in Sukkur and migrated to Karachi and has done his masters in economics.
Sharing the initial investigation report of the held suspects, the CTD Sindh chief said that the gang of militants had killed Hafiz Sajid, owner of My Choice Bakery in Shah Faisal Colony, because the victim had served as a “guard” of Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi.
He further added the suspects had also recently gunned down Mufti Kamran and Mufti Ghulam Akbar inside a seminary in Gulshan-i-Iqbal who were affiliated with the banned Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat
The suspects also confessed to their involvement in killing of homeopathic doctor Fazlur Rehman recently in the Landhi area over sectarian ground.
Moreover, the suspects were also involved in the murder of Maulana Habib Rehman, who was gunned down in Gulistan-i-Jauhar earlier this year.
The held suspects have also revealed their involvement in targeting Maulana Muhammad Yasir last year in February in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
This gang of sectarian militants was also involved in targeted killings of two brothers, identified as Mohammad Tauseef and Mohammad Tanveer who were “active” members of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in Khokhrapar.
Earlier in 2013, the suspects also gunned down Esa Baloch near Russian consulate in Clifton over suspicion of him being affiliated with Jundullah.
Furthermore, this group targeted Qari Ghulam Sarwar outside a seminary in Block-19, F B Area in limits of Samanabad police in “revenge” of killing of Allama Taqi Hadi in year 2013, revealed the CTD Sindh head.
Earlier in year 2012, the gang members also gunned down Muhammad Imran in New Karachi who was associated with banned Sipah Sahaba Pakistan.
[PHILSTAR] The military forces have matched each sub-leader of the 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... Group with a battalions of troops after the rebels splintered into factions to escape, an official said on Monday.
Maj. Filemon Tan Jr., front man of Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), said the manhunt operations are occuring alongside offensive to crush the murderous Moslems, who have been blamed for the spate of recent kidnappings and beheadings.
"Each battalion is running after different group leaders and the operations there go simultaneously. It's relentless. It's just a matter of time as kung sino and makabunggo agad," Tan told newsmen here.
At least two military brigades with more than 10 battalions have been combing the jungles while additional forces are arriving in Sulu, Tan said.
He said additional three more battalions of troops are on their way to Sulu.
The troops are scattered at certain target areas to look for top Abu Sayyaf men, including big shots Radulan Sahiron and Alhabsy Misaya.
"The landscape (in Sulu) now, the Abu Sayyaf group splintered. Their purpose is to evade so that they cannot be traced," Tan said.
The military official said there is a possibility the Abu Sayyaf would be blending in with the civilian populace to escape.
The military official also said they will not hesitate to utilize batteries of cannons if there are areas that could be reached and if ground intelligence reports could confirm the presence of the Abu Sayyaf.
"If there is positive confirmation it will be bombarded with cannons as troops go along with the operation," Tan said.
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Other than the jodhpurs, she could be my high school English teacher (including the boots).
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"What's not to like?"
For me it's the winning smile....
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Surmounted by cumulonimbus
(jet black, like her boots), she's all business.
"I'm nobody's bimbo."
In whites, arms akimbo,
She captains the Knights of the Limbus.
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An alchemists' conference. St. Louis.
"So, colleagues, what booze shall we brew us?"
An old Moorish seer
Sneered, "Surely not beer!"
Cue hooting from Mary the Jewess.
[Ynet] The owner of a chain of sporting-goods stores has been charged in an Israeli court for selling to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, scuba gear, weights and workout clothing at a discount to Hamas's bully boy wing.
The southern district's district attorney for criminal matters filed an indictment on Sunday with the Be'er Sheva District Court against a Gazook merchant who smuggled diving equipment into the Strip without a permit and sold it to Hamas's military wing. In addition, he has been accused large quantities of sports equipment and clothes.
The defendant, 40-year-old Abed Skalla, is also charged with, inter alia, four counts of committing security offenses by contacting a foreign agent, providing services to an unauthorized association, and aggravated fraud.
Skalla is alleged to possess sporting goods stores and a sewing workshop in the Gazoo Strip. According to the indictment, from 2008 to 2012, he smuggled scuba-diving equipment that he had purchased from an Italian company from Egypt to Gazoo via tunnels. In 2009, he allegedly sold to a member of the Hamas naval police 200 diving fins and 15 diving masks and more similar equipment in 2012.
He is further charged with having sold about 75 sets of sports clothing to the person responsible for Hamas's Nukhba Unit--an elite section of their military wing--for their operatives. At Skalla's brother's request, the items were allegedly sold at a substantial discount. He is also charged with selling hundreds of sets of sports clothing in recent years to Hamas bully boys.
The indictment further specifies the contacts between the defendant and Hamas bully boys. In 2008, Skalla allegegedly sold to a senior commander a facility intended for weight-training for his cell.
In 2014, a shipment arrived for the defendant at the port of Ashdod. It was stopped on entry to the Gazoo Strip, as it contained diving masks that are forbidden for import into Gazoo. They were returned to the truck driver, who alerted Skalla that four pallets had not been imported. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the defendant allegedly managed to get about 60 of the forbidden masks into the Strip.
In May of 2015, Skalla is alleged to have sold $30,000 worth of sports equipment to Hamas's bully boy wing for $27,000.
[Libya Herald] At the headquarters of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in Whitehall, London today, Hate Speech International (HSI) launched its report: "Who pays for ISIS in Libya?". The report is authored by James Roslington and Jason Pack.
Founded in Norway, HSI is an independent network of journalists researching extremism, hate speech and hate crimes.
Contemporary terror groups such as ISIS rely on money for their survival. This enables them to pay their soldiers and administer territory under their control as in Syria and Iraq, the HSI report says.
The report maintains that the key causative dynamic of the rapid defeat of ISIS in Sirte was possibly their pour financing. The ISIS financing model has always been predatory rather than productive. It has been dependent on loot, taxes, smuggling, corruption and coerced donations, the report explained.
Therefore, the report maintains, ISIS was only sustainable so long as it acquired progressively more territory to tax and plunder.
ISIS in Libya was initially set up based on seed capital from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, it explains. Additional funding was thought to have come from the hijacking of a Central Bank of Libya van in Sirte in November 2013. It was believed to have contained the equivalent of US$ 55 million.
Moreover, as many ISIS members in Libya had initially been anti-Qadaffy militias, Libyan state salaries had also acted as another source of start-up capital. The militias were also able to obtain large amounts of weapons and ammunition from the General National Congress (GNC) by benefiting from defence and interior ministry expenditures on vehicles and supplies.
After its initial rapid expansion and success in Derna and Sirte, the ISIS leadership anticipated that it would gain control of at least some of Libya’s oilfields replicating the Iraq and Syria financing model ‐ which would have extended its existence in Libya.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the report explains, the financial basis of ISIS in Libya dwindled as it ran into greater resistance over 2015 and 2016, and due to mismanagement and extreme brutality. And as it’s middle eastern parent faced its own financial difficulty, it was incapable of bailing out its Libyan branch.
Unlike it’s Syrian and Iraqi parent, ISIS in Libya was unable to export oil by smuggling it by land to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . The Libyan branch of ISIS was always dependent on extracting wealth and taxes from areas under its control. This wealth and tax and territory were finite in Libya curtailing the strength of ISIS, the HIS report explained.
The size and finite wealth generating capacity of Sirte and to an extent Derna, meant that the finances ISIS could raise were short-lived. ISIS’s presence in Libya acted as a disincentive to investment in the city as more and more inhabitants fled.
ISIS also failed to expand its money-raising activities into drug and, antiques, and human trafficking, despite media reports to the contrary.
The report says that by early 2016 ISIS had expanded to its natural limits. Territorially, it had reached the outskirts of Misrata in the west and territory controlled by the Libyan National Army and the Petroleum Facilities Guards in the east. Moreover, it’s brutality had turned off other potential allies.
In view of these inherent limitations, the report contends, ISIS was dependent on the vacuums and fault lines caused by Libya’s legitimacy and political splits which could allow it to expand.
The report says that if ISIS is defeated soon in Sirte, it will be more as a result of its own weakness rather than any compelling anti-ISIS battle plan by the Presidency Council/Government of National Accord affiliated Bunyan Marsous forces and its Western allies.
The report also warns that top ISIS commanders are believed to have escaped Sirte, south into the Libyan desert possibly with large amounts of cash. It is possible that they may set up along Libya’s southern arms, drugs and human trafficking routes, embedding themselves within tribal and ethnic conflicts in the southern region.
The financial realities of Libya and the absence of sovereign institutions and a coherent state security apparatus will always make Libya a fertile petri dish for jihadist organizations seeking to multiply rapidly, concluded the report.
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Why don't you HSI guys get right on down there and do an audit?
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The ISIS financing model has always been predatory rather than productive It has been dependent on loot, taxes, smuggling, corruption and coerced donations, the report explained..
like phil b explained
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So ISIS financing and government financing differ how?
Local officials in Helmand said the first convoy of security forces traveled through Helmand-Kandahar Highway on Monday after it was cleared of mines and insurgents following a large-scale military operation conducted by Afghan troops over the past few weeks.
The road has not yet been reopened for civilians, but local officials said it will soon be open to the public.
Reports indicate that the highway was closed for traffic for one month due to clashes and the presence of Taliban.
Helmand governor Hayatullah Hayat said in a ceremony that parts of the road have been destroyed by the militants.
"The military operation continued for three weeks to reopen the highway. We have defused hundreds of mines [planted by insurgents]. The road is not the one you used to travel through; the enemies of this soil have destroyed it," he said.
Meanwhile, a number of Helmand residents said acres of agricultural land located along both sides of the highway has been damaged due to the war.
"We are faced with a lack of water. Our trees and lands are dry and they need irrigation," said Jan Mohammad, a resident of Helmand.
[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] A possible US drone strike killed seven suspected al-Qaeda operatives in central Yemen, a security official said.
The official said a missile fired by what was "probably an American drone" hit an apartment building in the al-Wadi area of Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, killing seven people late on Sunday.
The United States, which rarely acknowledges its years-long unmanned drone campaign in Yemen, is thought to have carried out dozens of strikes against what it says are al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) members.
AQAP and 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.... (IS) group have exploited a power vacuum created by the conflict between the government and 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 ... rebels to expand their presence in the Arabian Peninsula country.
The US has vowed to continue its campaign against AQAP, which it considers to be the al-Qaeda network's deadliest franchise.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Detectives have detained four suspected female suicide-squad members, including a mother and two daughters, of banned myrmidon outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) from Baraigram of Sirajganj
The detainees are ‐ Fulera Khatun, wife of one Abu Sayeed of Baraigram, their daughters- Shakila Khatun and Salma Khatun, and Razia, wife of Rafiqul Islam of the same village.
In a press briefing on Monday, Detective Branch Officer-in-Charge (OC) M Wahiduzzaman, who led the drive with Second Officer Sub-Inspector Rawshan Ali, said a police team on Sunday night raided listed JMB leader Faridul’s house, which was kept under surveillance after he had gone missing last year, and detained the four with jihadi books and a computer.
District Police Superintendent Miraz Uddin said the detainees are members of JMB suicide squad and they have confessed that they were ready to use boom jackets on call from JMB high ups.
He said from the information found in the seized computer, police came to know that the detainees used to practice Kung Fu and Karate fighting styles watching photos.
Allude to detectives detained four more female JMB members raiding another house in Masumpur village of the district town on July 24.
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[CNN] Deadly kabooms rocked Syria Monday, hours after the United States and Russia discussed an end to the violence during G20 talks.
At least 40 people were killed and dozens more maimed in a series of co-ordinated kabooms across the country, Syrian state media reported.
The blasts happened in government-held areas of Damascus, Homs and Tartous, as well as at a Kurdish checkpoint in Hassakah.
ISIS grabbed credit for that attacks, according to a statement by the ISIS-affiliated Amaq agency.
Of those killed, 30 died in two kabooms on a main highway bridge near Tartous, on the Mediterranean coast.
Another four people died when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! at an army checkpoint in the government-held al-Zahraa neighborhood in Homs, according to Gov. Talal Barazi.
A jeep carrying six suspected bully boyz blew up after a soldier stopped the vehicle on a highway near Damascus. The soldier was killed. Police Gen. Jamal A-Bitar told Syrian TV he believes the car was on its way to carry out an attack in the capital.
And in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern city of Hassakah, a jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killed five Kurdish security forces at a checkpoint.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is claiming success in its campaign to eradicate ISIS from its border regions.
The terror group has reportedly lost control of the last strip of its territory along the Syrian-Turkish border, according to sources and the Turkish state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu.
The border town of Jarablus, which Syrian rebels and Turkish forces recently recaptured from the terror group, is a critical location for supplies, money and fighters coming in and out of ISIS-held areas.
Azaz is another key border city that was formerly held by ISIS.
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[KCRA] A third bombing hit 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.... , Afghanistan, after two others that killed nearly two dozen people and injured nearly 100 on Monday.
It was unclear how many casualties the third blast caused or whether it had any connection to the earlier bombings.
The latest attack took place behind the Kabul bank in the Shar-e-Naw area of the city, according to a police officer at the scene. The police officer described one kaboom carried out by one attacker inside a car.
Taliban faceless myrmidons grabbed credit for the first two kabooms Monday near the Afghan Ministry of Defense in Kabul that killed two dozen people.
Saleem Rasooli, head of Kabul hospitals, told CNN at least 24 people had been killed in the attack, which also injured 91 others.
The afternoon attack included an initial bombing, followed by a suicide kaboom, said Sediq Sediqi, front man for the Afghan Ministry of Information.
The first blast was a magnetic bomb and the following suicide kaboomer was wearing an Afghan national army uniform, said Fraidoon Obaidi, chief of the Kabul police Criminal Investigation Department.
Among the dead, which included both security forces and civilians, were the head of Kabul's second police district and his deputy, Obaidi said.
Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahed tweeted that the Taliban had carried out the attack, the latest of several kidnappings and bombings blamed on the hardline religious terrorist group.
Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. conveyed his condolences to the victims' families and denounced the methods of terrorist groups.
"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the security and defense forces of the country and thus attack highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people," Ghani said in a statement issued by his office.
The increased violence has heightened security fears in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city.
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Paraphrasing Billy Squire: Nobody wants you I'm waiting for "veiled women" to douse these guys with acid...
(IraqiNews.com) Salah al-Din – A local source in Salah al-Din province informed on Monday that a veiled woman killed two ISIS members in Sharqat, something of which the ISIS has warned earlier.
Sharing details the source said, “A veiled woman carrying a pistol killed two members of ISIS who were standing in a checkpoint in Sharqat, north of Salah al-Din.”
“The incident surprised the organization and forced them to issue an alert of similar attacks.”
It may be mentioned here that a veiled woman attacked an ISIS member in Mosul a few days back, prompting the organization to take up precautionary measures, preventing the entry of any veiled woman.
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ok does that mean the wyminnz have to be uncovered now? Jeez, see how you just can't be sure about the hijabeens, whats a Muzzie to do...on a serious note, this was bound to happen, turn the bad guys tactics against them
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There are reports that the wimminz have to de-burka at security zones.
[BREITBART] A gang of migrants colonists in the German town of Essen have engaged in Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... -style sex attacks at a festival where police have received reports of at least ten separate incidents.
Yet another festival in Germany has been the scene of migrant crime as roving gangs of migrants colonists sexually attacked multiple female victims on Friday and Saturday. The festival in the town of Essen known as "Essen Original" had gone over two decades without any major incident and was largely considered a family friendly event. That changed this weekend as police made at least seven arrests of migrants colonists who had groped and harassed several women German paper Westen Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
Police presence at the festival this year was the highest it has ever been and they report that the three-day festival was completely overshadowed by "men with apparent migration background" molesting and attacking various girls in large groups in the same vein as the Cologne attacks on New Year’s Eve.
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Hemingway, you crashed and burned again.
AoS, moderator
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[DAWN] Two security personnel were killed in roadside kaboom blasts in Lower Chamarkand near the Afghan border, 70km from Ghalanai, the headquarters of Mohmand tribal agency, on Sunday.
Assistant Political Agent Haseebur Rehman Khalil said two improvised bombs (IEDs) planted by miscreants went off in the Chamarkand area, killing two security personnel.
Local administration officials said that soldier Zar Badshah Khattak was going somewhere with personnel of the Bomb Disposal Unit when an IED went kaboom!, leaving him dead.
In another incident, Khasadar Force personnel were busy in a search operation with security forces when an IED went off, killing Khasadar Nabi Khan. After the incidents, security forces conducted a search operation in the area, but no arrest was reported till late in the night.
Security has been beefed up at check-posts in the entire agency and security forces are patrolling roads to check the movement of suspects.
Earlier, several personnel of the Khasadar Force have been killed in the line of duty, but their families have not been paid any compensation. Officials say that the personnel were not killed while performing their duty.
Local rustics have urged the authorities to pay compensation to the families of the personnel killed in the line of duty.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... security forces seized weapons and explosives during search operations in Kamali Haleemzai and Safi areas.
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[WSJ] Growing populist forces shook Europe’s pillar of stability this weekend, as an unprecedented defeat for Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... ’s conservatives in Germany signaled more political tumult across the continent.
For the first time in postwar history, Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democrats finished behind a populist challenger to their political right in a state election. Riding a wave of discontent with her migration policy, the Alternative for Germany--a three-year-old anti-immigrant party--beat the chancellor’s party in her home state, spurring her allies to debate Monday whether she should change course.
Beyond Germany, more political crossroads are approaching that could jolt Europe--as the migrant influx, terrorism fears, and antiestablishment sentiment complicate the recovery from years of economic problems.
A week from Sunday, an election in the city-state of Berlin is likely to deliver Ms. Merkel another setback, according to opinion polls. Two weeks after that, polls show voters in Austria’s second-round presidential election could crown postwar Western Europe’s first right-wing, populist head of state.
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Populists’ Advance in Germany Jolts Europe's Politicians And Media
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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At least 3 people are confirmed wounded in a grenade attack in Mogadishu, Somali capital on Monday as the city is expected to host IGAD heads of states next week.
[SILIVE] Federal officials in New York are investigating an emergency alert system after a mistakenly truncated message about storm system Hermine wrongly advised TV watchers on Long Island of an ordered evacuation, authorities said Sunday.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called 
At least 30 PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by Turkish jets in northern Iraq Sunday, the military announced Monday, Anadolu reported.
[ALLAFRICA] A witness says 5 people were died and several others hurt when a remote-controlled landmine blast 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
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