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Syria Cease-Fire Is Violated After Less Than an Hour
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Home Front: WoT
Report probes Saudi links of San Diego's 9/11 hijackers
Rolled over from yesterday because it was published late in the day.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/12/2016 17:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Actually, San Diego was an Islamist radical outpost in the decade leading to 9/11. Many Islamist activists (from CAIR, Holy Land Foundation, MSA, etc.,) operated from the city. The history is as interesting as the early AQ penetration of New York City, but a book has yet to be written on the subject.
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 || 09/12/2016 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The various 9/11 reports that have come out over the years have had one overwhelming conclusion: had the CIA communicated what it knew to the FBI in a timely fashion, the terrorists might have been stopped.

A scenario which has been repeated time and time again since 9/11. Projects generally involve sources. Sources are seldom shared.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't forget about the DOJ's "Gorelick Directive," that placed additional restrictions on an existing law about intel sharing between IC and LE.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/12/2016 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  The Saudis were lying with, and financing snakes...still are. The motive unknown...arrogant wahhabbi-ism or self-preservation the most likely candidates.

I really appreciate this newspaper investigating the links...

Many questions arise - the three that first come to mind are:

1. When will the 9/11 trial finally start? Perhaps all that classified information they are concerned about in that trial is classified due to the fact that is "political" and not capability related.

2. Why is no one else concerned about the fact that Saudi government money financed the 9/11 hi-jackers prior to the attack and when will the KSA be punished?

3. Why is Obama protecting the house of Saud with a veto?
Posted by: Tennessee || 09/12/2016 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Look at the Somali colony in SD and the concentrated living area they have established. Ask the Sheriff, former FBI SAC for that area. He knows all about it.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/12/2016 14:25 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria Cease-Fire Is Violated After Less Than an Hour
h/t Instapundit
A cease-fire in the Syrian civil war, negotiated by Russia and the United States, officially took effect at sundown on Monday after a weekend of intensified fighting and a vow by the president to retake the entire country.

But less than an hour into the truce, violations were reported. Several residents in the divided northern city of Aleppo said via text message that a government helicopter had dropped explosive cylinders on a rebel-held district. And in the southern province of Dara’a, a rebel faction said in a statement that it had killed four government soldiers.
Why do I've this vision of Lavrov showing a large squeeze bottle of Nuoc Cham up Kerry's proboscis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 14:26 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: DarthVader || 09/12/2016 18:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Congrats to everyone who had 1 Hour in the over/under. However, we may have get a ruling from the judges. You see, it's complicated:

* All fighting has to stop, except the Syrian govt can bomb two jihadi groups.

* If violence is "significantly reduced", then Syria has to stop, and the US + Rooshians will jointly bomb jihadi groups to be named later.

So, depending on the exactly who was getting bombed, the Syrians may be complying with the deal.

(And no, I'm not making this up. Go read the article.)
Posted by: SteveS || 09/12/2016 20:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton Wears A Catheter?
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the metal object that hit the ground while they were trying to stuff Hillary into her ambulance campaign van was some piece of medical hardware, possibly a catheter tube retainer of some sort.
Remember these images of Hillary Clinton with those strange lumps on her back under her roomy, loose-fitting coat-jacket, which are suggestive of a defibrillator vest?

Now a photo has cropped up, showing what appears to be a catheter beneath her pant leg.

The photo of Hillary at a campaign rally on August 10, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa, was taken by Steve Pope of Getty Images.

Look at Hillary's right thigh.

I cropped and enlarged her to get a better view of that right thigh. See that strange tube-shaped line running from her crotch, diagonally across her right thigh to above her right knee?

Sure looks like a Foley catheter:

A Foley catheter would explain why Hillary was late getting back to the Democratic presidential debate on December 19, 2015, in Manchester, NH. After the ABC telecast returned from a commercial break, only two of the three participants were onstage -- Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley. Missing was Hillary Clinton, who strolled in moments after the action resumed, repositioned her microphone and said "Sorry," but did not explain her absence.

According to The Boston Globe, Hillary had gone to the ladies' room during the commercial break. She even had a campaign employee on bathroom duty to make sure she could quickly get in and out of the restroom to return to the stage. But when the staffer let in O'Malley spokeswoman Lis Smith, instead of sharing the restroom with Smith, Hillary waited outside, which led to the delay returning to the debate.

Breitbart asks "Why would Clinton not share a bathroom with Smith?"

The answer: Because Hillary didn't want Smith to see she was wearing a Foley catheter.
Posted by: gorb || 09/12/2016 12:27 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I cropped and enlarged her to get a better view of that right thigh.

OMG the self sacrificing of some is beyond belief.

I bow.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/12/2016 16:38 Comments || Top||

#2  secret service guy #1:"Doesn't Hillary look taller after she came back out?"
SSG#2:"Naw, ran out of catheter catch bags and had to use some air lifts off a F-150; must have still had some air in them."
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/12/2016 22:13 Comments || Top||

#3  drink up!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/12/2016 22:18 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Border Crisis Reality Check (Video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 11:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good old KUSI. It's independent, not affiliated with ABC, NBC, CBS or FOX.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 12:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Former Huffpoo writer David Seaman on media HRC 'gaslighting' (Video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 10:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A pretty good video making some important points about the media. From a Leftist.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/12/2016 19:56 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Three veiled women shot dead after trying to blow themselves up in Mombasa police station while screaming Allahu Akbar
This Mirror article has photos and additional details about the article below.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/12/2016 09:25 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  Cool.
Posted by: charger || 09/12/2016 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps this is an attempt to show they are the equal of their brothers? The start of a Boomerette Liberation Front?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/12/2016 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Hope they didn't wipe their browser histories first.
Posted by: jpal || 09/12/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#4  #3

You mean like with a cloth?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/12/2016 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Bad headline. Their identity as "women" was established only by post-mortem exam. Veiled entities shouting "Allahu Akbar" bullet-riddled at Mombasa Cop Shoppe would have been more accurate.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2016 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Sometimes, the bits and pieces are eviscerated in the process. We'll have to wait for a DNA check. Though if they believed they were female, according to the WH, then they'll be so classified for the official Obama position.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 20:48 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't know if forensic investigators use this much, but normal human females have a single Barr Body visible in cell nuclei using routine histologic stains, while males have none. I remember we students checking mouth cell scrapings for this as an exercise: the female students were very easy to distinguish from the males just using this test. There are exceptions, of course.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2016 21:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
RT: Hummer drop test success. Bounce test fails.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2016 09:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anything is air droppable - once
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  well the end of the fiscal year is approaching and there ade always instances of dumping things....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/12/2016 21:50 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
h/t Instapundit
The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar--famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--has dominated linguistics for almost half a century. Recently, though, cognitive scientists and linguists have abandoned Chomsky’s "universal grammar" theory in droves because of new research examining many different languages--and the way young children learn to understand and speak the tongues of their communities. That work fails to support Chomsky’s assertions.

The research suggests a radically different view, in which learning of a child’s first language does not rely on an innate grammar module. Instead the new research shows that young children use various types of thinking that may not be specific to language at all--such as the ability to classify the world into categories (people or objects, for instance) and to understand the relations among things. These capabilities, coupled with a unique hu­­­man ability to grasp what others intend to communicate, allow language to happen. The new findings indicate that if researchers truly want to understand how children, and others, learn languages, they need to look outside of Chomsky’s theory for guidance.
Bye, bye Noam (pleasant).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 09:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  News Flash - another lefty is exposed as a bullshit artist.
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Not exactly--it sounded reasonable, and if it had panned out it would have been a legitimate claim to fame. It wouldn't have excused his vitriolic dishonesty in other fields, of course.
Posted by: james || 09/12/2016 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Numb Chimpsky is more of a BS artist and hypnotist than he is a language theorist. I assume now that whenever the Chimpster speaks, he is engaging in another cunning plan.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2016 15:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Then again, I think a lot of people thought Das Kapital sounded reasonable. I read that book three fucking times and finally decided it was bullshit. It took me long enough...
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 15:47 Comments || Top||

#5  It seems to me his work was useful to those developing computer languages, which must be some sort of comfort as his place in the pantheon crumbles to dust.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2016 17:46 Comments || Top||

#6  @TW
No not at all useful.
The most used programming languages have nothing chumpsky about them

If anything putting more "language" into code harms quality, readability and performance.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/12/2016 17:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank you, Bright Pebbles. I've learnt something useful today, so I'm happy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2016 22:54 Comments || Top||

#8  The thing isn't that his theory is wrong that has been well established for over 30 years (despite what the article says). It is that he constantly twisted his theory to try and fit the contrary evidence. Much like his political theories.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/12/2016 23:08 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Duterte wants US Special Forces out of Mindanao
[GMA] President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said the United States Special Forces based in Mindanao should leave.

"Kaya iyong mga Special Forces, they have to go. They have to go. In Mindanao, maraming mga puti roon, they have to go. I-review ko iyang foreign policy. Hindi ko lang masalita noon out of respect or I do not want a rift with America. But they have to go," Duterte said in a speech delivered before his new appointees at the Heroes Hall in Malacañang.

Duterte said this after showing photos of the atrocities committed by American troops against the Muslims during the Bud Dajo massacre in 1906.

"Mas lalong iinit. Makakita ng Amerikano 'yan, patayin talaga iyan. Kukunan ng ransom iyan, patayin. Even if you're a black or a white American, basta Amerikano ka," Duterte said referring to Abu Sayyaf.

Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella in a statement said that Duterte's recent pronouncement on the presence of US troops was a step in pursuing an independent foreign policy.

"The statement reflects PRRD's new direction towards coursing an independent foreign policy; he has made reference to the unrecognized, unrepented and un-atoned for massacre at Bud Dajo in Sulu by the Americans, hence our continued connection with West is the real reason for the "Islamic" threat in Mindanao," he said in a statement.

Abella said Duterte wanted the United States to correct the injustices they committed against the Filipinos, especially against the Muslims in Mindanao.

"The American silence on the matter lacks congruence with its "moral" position, in the light of actions taken in the past by the Germans who confessed and made atonement for the Holocaust, and Japan which made reparations for the atrocities it perpetrated among the peoples they conquered," Abella said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 08:51 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Abella said Duterte wanted the United States to correct the injustices they committed against the Filipinos, especially against the Muslims in Mindanao.

General MacArthur to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Time for D.C. to start using the Japanese-cutout.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/12/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh, but please continue the payments.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Guess I wont be going to the PI any time soon. But the reality is we force them to a standard of integrity and compliance when it comes to the Islamic extremists on Mindanao. Without the US SOF on the ground he will be free to deal with them like he has dealt with the drug dealers. In essence we will be there to protect the muzzies.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/12/2016 13:56 Comments || Top||

#5  No worries Pan. There's always Lewis or Smoke Bomb. You'll never be without work.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Without the US SOF on the ground he will be free to deal with them like he has dealt with the drug dealers.

And THAT, is a good thing. It is what has been missing for a long time. Go into their enclaves and put the b!tch slap on them. Stack them like cord wood.
Posted by: Jaiper Tingle8070 || 09/12/2016 17:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Go into their enclaves and put the b!tch slap on them. Stack them like cord wood.

Doubtful.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/12/2016 20:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
HRC Pantsuit ejects foreign object during 9/11 van boarding episode
[RightScoop] OK, so we posted the video of Hillary when the hot temperature apparently done her in. But now there’s a question about a weird object that seems to fall out of her pant leg in that same video.

Take a look:

Caution: No coffee whilst reading comments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 08:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Eeww.
Posted by: charger || 09/12/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I've been wondering for a while if those Hoover bags she wears aren't there to hide something underneath.
Posted by: gorb || 09/12/2016 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3 
#2, me too but I always assumed it was the cankles.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Heat sink retaining clip broke. This is what happens when you use cheap Chinese parts in critical applications.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/12/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Q: How do you fix problems like this?

A: Depends...
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 14:28 Comments || Top||

#6  attachment to hold Foley catheter in place?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/12/2016 17:33 Comments || Top||

#7  vice grips
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/12/2016 21:52 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
California to actually begin regulating bovine flatulence
[Natural News] Cow manure is producing too much methane, according to the California Legislature, which seeks to substantially reduce what it considers climate change emissions over the next decade and a half. Officials recently approved regulations on "cow flatulence and manure," both of which supposedly contribute to greenhouse gas releases.

The bill's author, Democratic Senator Ricardo Lara of Bell Gardens, approved the measure recently and agreed to give dairy farms more time to comply. Regulators hope to reduce methane emissions to 40 percent below 2013-levels by the year 2030, reports CBS News.

The measure also aims to "significantly increase" composting in order to reduce the dumping of food waste in local landfills, which officials say releases methane gases upon breakdown.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 07:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Start with the Caliphornia legislature.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/12/2016 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I've always wondered why some of that methane isn't trapped and burned to generate energy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Only ways you could reduce the 'emissions' from the current ruminant population of CA would be to starve them or put them down.

AA5839's comment springs to mind, too..
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2016 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Are they going to make a exception for San Francisco?
Posted by: gorb || 09/12/2016 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  The measure also aims to "significantly increase" composting in order to reduce the dumping of food waste in local landfills, which officials say releases methane gases upon breakdown.

If we had a Stupid-Ass Statement of the Day, that's your winner. It is true that when plant material breaks down in a landfill it releases methane and CO2. But the exact same thing happens in a compost bin, even with an official Green Hippie(tm) brand bin.

If you were awake in 5th grade science class, you'd know this. Hint: It's call The Carbon Cycle.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/12/2016 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm curious as to what all the "organic" farmers will use for fertilizer without manure?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/12/2016 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm curious as to what all the "organic" farmers will use for fertilizer without manure?

They just won't use '4-legged animal' manure, SB.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2016 14:22 Comments || Top||

#8  California beef / dairy industry relocates to Oregon in 3 ... 2 ... 1.
Posted by: magpie || 09/12/2016 17:10 Comments || Top||

#9  California wants to go full vegan.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/12/2016 17:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Ahhhh, so using the two leg variety they kill more people by disease and food born illnesses. Double win!
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/12/2016 18:31 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Sick African dictator 'eats his enemies' nads and brains to boost his sexual prowess'
[Mirror] The president of Equatorial Guinea may not be a household name - however those who have survived his brutal regime claim he is pure evil.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema, 74, has ruled over the country since 1979. Known as "torturer-in-chief", his rise to power saw him overthrow his uncle - Francisco Macias N'Guema - taking revenge after the ruler had his family murdered.

Since taking power, those who politically opposed him have been subjected to torture and oppression.

However many claim his depravity goes even deeper. It is alleged that Nguema is a cannibal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 07:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  hope he gets Creuztfeld-Jacob disease
Posted by: anon1 || 09/12/2016 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  He must have found the White House dinner menu quite boring.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't this one of the guys that the O touted as a great African leader?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2016 11:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Couldn't he just use Viagr@?
Posted by: gorb || 09/12/2016 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Statesman, torturer, cannibal
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2016 15:38 Comments || Top||

#6  For the celebs and noteworthy who we have record of saying they'll leave the country if Trump is elected - we have a relocation package for you!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 15:39 Comments || Top||

#7  With fava beans and a nice Chianti?
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 15:50 Comments || Top||

#8  a better photo:
Posted by: 3dc || 09/12/2016 15:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Ain't diversity grand?
Posted by: Jack salami || 09/12/2016 22:37 Comments || Top||

#10  #8

Did Obama sleep in that jacket?

Or did he use it as prayer mat when facing Mecca earlier in the day?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/12/2016 23:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Dems May Hold Emergency Meeting to Consider Replacing Floundering Hildebeest
[Gateway] Reporter David Shuster posted to Twitter Sunday evening that operatives in the Democratic Party have told him an emergency meeting by the Democratic National Committee is being considered to replace presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the heels of her case of pneumonia allegedly causing her to collapse Sunday morning at the 9/11 15th anniversary commemoration at Ground Zero in New York City.
Diazepam administered to rear quarter remotely from a Rigby .416
Clarification from dem operatives @HillaryClinton pneumonia: Expect emergency DNC meeting to CONSIDER replacement. #HillarysHealth
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 06:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't worry, the Wormtongues in your Ministry of Truth (aka MSM) will drag her dead corpse across the finish line.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't it means Bernee?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Hell to pay if it isn't. Michelle could break the tie.
Posted by: KBK || 09/12/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought Snake Plissken David Shuster was dead?
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Any switch would kill the Democrats chances at this point. Ballots are printed, a switch would confuse the hell out of their dumber voters and they will need every vote.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/12/2016 13:48 Comments || Top||

#6  All Dems that are considering to vote to replace her please report to the suicide prevention ward ASAP.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/12/2016 13:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Kaine, Hilda's running mate has been mentioned in the media. He is about as left as Obama. I'd say Hillary too but she seems like she is in it for the money. Kaines radical roots. There is Bernie but he seems like a long shot--he was treated pretty shabby by the DNC and Hillary the first time around. And there is Joe Biden.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/12/2016 16:59 Comments || Top||

#8  The fake Indian?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/12/2016 17:00 Comments || Top||

#9  It will probably be uncle Joe - who would be a stronger threat to Trump than Hillary is
Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 || 09/12/2016 20:53 Comments || Top||


Deplorably, Trump is going to win
h/t Instapundit
The presidential election was over the moment the word "deplorable" made its run out of Hillary Clinton’s unguarded mouth. As the whole world now knows, Clinton told a Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender fundraiser Sept. 10, "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ’basket of deplorables.’ Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic -- you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up."

Hillary is road kill.

She apologized, to be sure, but no-one will believe her: she was chilling with her home audience and feeling the warmth, and she said exactly what she thinks. The "Clinton Cash" corruption scandals, the layers of lies about the email server, health problems, and all the other negatives that pile up against the former First Lady are small change compared to this apocalyptic moment of self-revelation.

You can’t win an American presidential election without the deplorables’ vote. Deplorables are America’s biggest minority. They might even be the American majority. They may or not be racist, homophobic and so forth, but they know they’re deplorable. Deplorable, and proud. They’re the median family whose real income has fallen deplorably by 5% in the past ten years, the 35% of adult males who deplorably have dropped out of the labor force, the 40% of student debtors who deplorably aren’t making payments on their loans, the aging state and local government workers whose pension funds are $4 trillion short. They lead deplorable lives and expect that their kids’ lives will be even more deplorable than theirs.

Americans are by and large forgiving people. They’ll forgive Bill for cavorting with Monica "I did not have sex with that woman" Lewinsky in the Oval Office and imposing himself on any number of unwilling females. They might even forgive Hillary for losing tens of thousands of compromising emails on an illegal private server and then repeatedly lying about it in a way that insults the deplorable intelligence of the average voter. But the one thing you can’t do is spit on them and tell them it’s raining. They’ll never forgive you for that. They’re hurting, and they rankle at candidates who rub their faces in it.
From your mouth to the ear of G*d, David. But I'm not optimistic. It's the Fed bureaucracy which counts the votes. And we know they won't let a bunch of deplorables to contradict their betters.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 05:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As I said yesterday, it was a "dog whistle" to fire up the Democrat voter base. I suspect that there's a few, more... circumspect, efforts being made as well.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/12/2016 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the Fed bureaucracy which counts the votes.

Last time I checked, it was the state and specifically local residents that counted the votes. Even in the (in)famous 2000 race, the locals had to do it again by county in Florida.

And if it was a 'dog whistle' it only points out clearly the bigotry, hate, and intolerance of the Left's base. If you don't agree with them, you're not 'stupid' you're the enemy to be stereotyped and eliminated.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Complaints of irregularities are investigated by?
Or do you doubt the democratic cadre's ability to lodge complaints?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Like Hugh Hewitt said in one of his books, we have to win so BIG that it would be impossible to tilt the results by cheating. A toss up state will do Democratic because of fraud. A pro-Trump landslide state can't be tilted by fraud.

So win by a landslide, purge the federal bureaucracy of the true believers. And hopefully enough states will ride the coat tails to make a difference in local politics.

Embarrass the main stream media with a landslide with make McGovern/Nixon look like a photo finish.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/12/2016 10:31 Comments || Top||

#5  From what I've read today she could be replaced and even though ballots are printed the electoral votes to her would still be counted for her replacement.

Of course the confusion of folks looking for Biden or Sanders on a ballot and only finding Clinton would be massive and ensure the Democrats lose, and further that the dumber ones are convinced it was stolen because of the ballot mix-ups.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/12/2016 13:47 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll be interested in seeing the impact caused by the influence buyers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2016 13:58 Comments || Top||

#7  A very subtle dog whistle indeed, like "Hey! Fido! Come smell my ass."
Posted by: regular joe || 09/12/2016 14:04 Comments || Top||

#8  From what I've read today she could be replaced and even though ballots are printed the electoral votes to her would still be counted for her replacement.

Technically, you do not vote for the candidate, but a roster of Electors who have committed to vote for the candidate when the Electoral College convenes to cast their ballots. Gee, those stupid white (and sometimes slave-holding) founders may have been on to something. Listen to the silence on the Left that has for years talked about doing away with the College and just go with a direct vote.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 15:45 Comments || Top||


On Israeli TV, Hillary makes the choice for Trump clearer than ever
Hillary Clinton appeared on Channel 2 News late last week. She had the opportunity, once and for all, to distance herself from the views of Max Blumenthal, George Soros and her other far-left anti-Israel supporters, and to offer a change of course from President Barack Obama. Needless to say, she didn’t.
Tell me please, just how could it be any more 'clear ?'
Clinton did little more than repeat her often-mentioned but even more often-violated platitude regarding the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel. She failed to note how she single-handedly broke that bond in 2009 when she took office as US secretary of state and unilaterally ripped up the written commitment of George W. Bush ‐ a promise made by the president to prime minister Ariel Sharon in connection with Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza ‐ recognizing that the US no longer expected Israel to contract to the indefensible armistice lines of 1949.

She also failed to note how she broke that bond again just a few months later when she demanded that Israel immediately freeze any and all construction within Judea and Samaria, notwithstanding that the Palestinians were offering nothing in exchange for such a drastic concession. Oddly enough, she took great credit in the interview for implementing this freeze, something even Democrats now consider to be a mistake.

She also failed to note how she broke that bond again just a few months later when she demanded that Israel immediately freeze any and all construction within Judea and Samaria, notwithstanding that the Palestinians were offering nothing in exchange for such a drastic concession. Oddly enough, she took great credit in the interview for implementing this freeze, something even Democrats now consider to be a mistake.

Clinton did not, because she could not, attempt to defend her well-established record of favoring the Palestinians against the Israelis. Clinton offered no explanation for the receipt of massive payments from theocratic Arab nations by the Clinton Foundation and herself personally, and did not attempt to distinguish her policies and practices from those of Barak Obama. Indeed, she hailed those policies and promised to continue them.

Clinton took great pride in her role in achieving a nuclear agreement with Iran. Notwithstanding her acknowledgment that Iran is the world’s chief state sponsor of terrorism, she inexplicably proclaimed that the world is a safer place now that Iran has been enriched by billions of dollars, has acquired sophisticated anti-ballistic missiles and has been granted an unrestricted runway to nuclear capability.

According to Clinton, we are all better off for having traded billions of dollars and crippling sanctions for a piece of paper adopted by a rogue nation that, even if fully complied with, makes Iran a nuclear power in a decade.

...Because she has no record of achievement on Israel, her remarks to Yonit Levi, by necessity, focused on her criticism of Donald Trump. If there is still a line that can be crossed in American politics, she crossed it. Clinton accused a full half of Donald Trump’s supporters ‐ roughly a quarter of the population of the United States ‐ of being "deplorable."
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Video: Security Drags Hillary Clinton into Van After Exit from 9/11 Memorial
[Breitbart] Zedek Gazda, a New Jersey resident present in New York City Sunday morning, captured video of Hillary Clinton's security detail lifting her into a van after she left a 9/11 memorial ceremony early.

Clinton’s security team drove her to her daughter Chelsea Clinton’s apartment in Manhattan, where she emerged later, walking and talking to reporters. She has reportedly left for Chappaqua, NY without her press detail.

A statement from the Clinton campaign said that she "felt overheated."

"Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen," spokesman Nick Merrill said. "During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 05:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These episodes are coming without warning (classic Parkinson's). The Secret Service van will be readily at hand next time. No unsightly waiting rigidly against a post where prying eyes can video tape the episode. Play the tape again please, see! More camera security team blocking could have prevented this Gazda cock-up!

Gazda, Gazda, Gazda, Gaz? That's a Russian car company isn't it? There, it's the bloody Russians again. SEE !

Note the press was not permitted to follow. Medical assessment time was required. To the hospital or the residence? 'Odd Job' what say you? Your prognosis? Get a grip man and put those magazines away, hurry. She's nodding off and we're low on petrol.

'Well, er huh, two diazepam, one in the neck, if we can locate the neck. One in the arse.' Go for it. Give her ten minutes, a double G&T with lime, and KBO. Alright then, G&T's all around until we reach the residence.

Note the reassuring sidewalk press appearance at the residence. Sufficient time was provided for medication, recovery, new shoes, and assemblage of the fawning media. Baby pictures? A little girl off the street? Oh yes of course. Good thinking... whomever suggested that.

Nicely played ek se.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 5:45 Comments || Top||

#2  where she emerged later, walking and talking to reporters. She has reportedly left for Chappaqua, NY without her press detail.

Just enough time at the apartment for her body double to prep.

Posted by: Injun Wholusing2793 || 09/12/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3 

Chelsea Clinton's new $10million pad is New York's longest apartment - stretching an entire block from 26th Street to 27th Street off Madison Avenue.

Where to you want the press pool and photo op? 26th Street entrance ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 8:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Link to #3 above.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  First it was allergies. Then it was "overheating", whatever that's supposed to mean. Now it's pneumonia. So what is it really?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  From Slick Willy to Sick Hilly.
Posted by: charger || 09/12/2016 11:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Elevator doesn't appear to be large enough for a gurney.

Also, no '2nd Exit' shown on the floorplan. Don't think these 'quality' folks would resort to crawling out of a window in an emergency. Elevator (unless it's massively insulated and on emergency power) doesn't count for a Fire Exit, either. Didn't see a location for a 'Bat Pole', either, unless the Trash Chute counts.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2016 11:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Anybody else notice the Zeiss F133 lenses she was wearing when she left her daughter's apartment?
.
Posted by: OregonGuy || 09/12/2016 14:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Yes, OregonGuy. I thought those glasses looked weird. I just googled Zeiss F133 and found out why.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 15:16 Comments || Top||

#10  A LOE said she was thrown into the van like a side of beef. She was never too fond of LE, the SS or the military.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/12/2016 16:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Interesting. It seems that Zeiss F133 lenses are used to prevent certain types of seizures. Man, what medical condition *isn't* this horrible woman suffering from?
Posted by: Secret Master || 09/12/2016 16:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Zeiss F133s and a Foley catheter... hmmmmmmmm
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/12/2016 17:04 Comments || Top||

#13  It seems that Zeiss F133 lenses are used to prevent certain types of seizures

Blue lens glasses apparently mitigate some PD patients' dyskinesia.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/12/2016 18:03 Comments || Top||

#14  And in the video of her after leaving her daughter's apartment, she looked seriously bloated.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/12/2016 20:03 Comments || Top||

#15 
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/12/2016 21:34 Comments || Top||

#16  I'm livid that the Secret Service Potemkin Village enablers prevent camera angles. Would love to hear a former SS chime in on that angle.
Posted by: Jack salami || 09/12/2016 22:32 Comments || Top||

#17  I'm livid that the Secret Service Potemkin Village enablers prevent camera angles. Would love to hear a former SS chime in on that angle.

I get the anger, but more to the point of a TRUE free society, I'm livid that 95% of the press will continue to provide ACTIVE cover for the Clinton campaign rather actually "covering the election".

There should be a steep price to pay for such partisanship.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/12/2016 22:44 Comments || Top||


Home Depot Co-Founder: If You're Not Behind Trump, You're Electing Clinton
[Breitbart] Earlier this week on Fox Business Network’s "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus said to his fellow Republicans if you’re not behind Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, you’re electing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Marcus said, "If you’re going to stay neutral, you might as well vote for her because your lack of vote for Donald means she’s going to get elected anyway."

He added, "When I listen to Hillary Clinton and I listen to the economists who never in their life ever hired a human being or trained a human being, I say, I don’t know the world that they belong in. I know that when you have high taxes that you kill off jobs. Killing off jobs means hurting America. It means hurting the economic wealth of America ‐ and that’s not good for anybody."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 05:06 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had you purchased the Marcus model ten years ago you would have paid $37.22 per share.

The Market was off for the week, but Friday that same share of Home Depot sold for $127.74. You decide who knows more about business and prosperity. I'll go with Bernie Marcus.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 5:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I've been voting for president since Nixon.

I've voted FOR a candidate twice, '80 & '84. Every other time I've voted against a candidate.

This year will be more of the same. Trump was my 4th choice at best a year ago but he has never been behind any Democrat.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/12/2016 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I've voted FOR a candidate twice, '80 & '84. Every other time I've voted against a candidate.

This year will be more of the same. Trump was my 4th choice at best a year ago but he has never been behind any Democrat.


I agree. Trump may be a scumbag, but he's our scumbag. (No irony intended). Hillary was in the bribe-taking biz even before she was a pol. Why would anyone elect her for dogcatcher, let alone the White House?
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 09/12/2016 15:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I think Putin has the same position in that once bought he expects you to stay bought.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 15:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Can somebody please explain this concept to The National Review online? I stopped frequenting that site when so many of their writers inexplicably declared that they were too "moral" to vote for Trump, while disregarding that such a position works in the favor of electing the most immoral political wretch I've ever witnessed in the form of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/12/2016 22:31 Comments || Top||


Iraq
18 ISIS Turbans eat dirt in Ninevah
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh informed that 18 ISIS fighters were killed and seven others were wounded by an aerial bombardment south of the province.

The source revealed, “Today the international coalition air force bombarded ISIS headquarters in Shura area and Kahara village south of the province, killing 18 ISIS militants and wounding seven others.”

The source added, “The airstrike also destroyed five tactical units and a heavy cannon belonging to ISIS.”
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Forces Repel Militant Assault on Quneitra, Kill Nusra Commander
Syrian army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, managed to thwart an offensive by terrorists on a region in the country’s strategic southwestern province of Quneitra, killing an Al-Nusra field commander.

The Syrian Defense Ministry said that Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) terrorists launched an attack against the Tal Ahmar area of Quneitra, situated some 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the capital, Damascus, on Saturday, prompting a fierce gun battle with Syrian soldiers and fighters from popular defense groups.

One of Al-Nusra terrorists’ field commanders was killed by Syrian army artillery fire in the northern district of Al-Quneitra.

Scores of terrorists were also killed and injured in the fighting, and a considerable amount of their munitions destroyed.

Israeli military aircraft later carried out a number of airstrikes against Tal Ahmar in the wake of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham’s defeat.

Meanwhile, seven Israeli ambulances carried the wounded militants away from Jubata al-Khashab Village in southern Syria to a field hospital inside the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories to treat them, local media reports said.

There are also reports that Syrian army soldiers have lobbed a barrage of mortar shells at militant positions inside Turnejeh and Jubata al-Khashab villages, leaving seven terrorists dead.
Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  There is no way that Israel is going to allow an enemy to control Kuneitra and thus endanger Israeli settlers in Galilee.
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 || 09/12/2016 6:55 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
4 Bad Guys die in drone strike in Farah
At least 4 militants were killed in a drone strike conducted by the US forces in western Farah province of Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday.

Provincial governor’s spokesman Mohammad Asif Nang said the drone strike was conducted late on Saturday night in Khak-e-Safid district targeting the militants in the vicinity of Qarya-e-Surkh area.

He said a hideout of the militants was targeted in the airstrike a commander of the group was likely among those killed.

The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far.

Farah is among the relatively volatile provinces in western Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups are actively operating in a number of its remote districts.

The US forces in Afghanistan have stepped up airstrikes against the militant groups during the recent months.

The Obama administration granted broader role to the US forces based in Afghanistan to target the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group as well as the Taliban militants.

The broader role was granted amid deteriorating security situation in the country and following concerns that the militant groups are attempting to expand insurgency in the country.
Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran dismisses US claims of navy harassment in Persian Gulf
All lies!
A senior Iranian military commander Sunday dismissed claims from Washington that U.S. patrol ships have been harassed by Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf, saying Tehran acted according to international law.

“Iranian boats continue to act based on defined standards and are well aware of the international laws and regulations, so the claims are not only untrue, but stem from their fear of the power of Iran’s soldiers,” said Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, according to state news agency IRNA.

The Pentagon last week said seven Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps fast-attack boats approached the USS Firebolt on Sept. 4 with their machine guns uncovered, though not trained on the Americans.

But Jazayeri said the claims were exaggerated.

“When Iranian boats pass by them at a distance of a few kilometers, Americans claim that Iranian boats have approached them within a range of one kilometer,” he said.

“Iran’s marine corps will never be stopped by the propaganda of extra-regional enemies and their vassals in the region in guarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s sea borders and economic interests,” he added.
Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Point of information: the body of water in question is the Gulf of Rumsfeld.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/12/2016 1:39 Comments || Top||

#2  "...Who ya gonna believe, us or your lyin' eyes?"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/12/2016 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Then it shouldn't be a problem if we sink a few of them right?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/12/2016 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  @#3: Do ya really think the Waffler-in-Chief will give the OK for weapons free?

Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/12/2016 14:21 Comments || Top||

#5  One of these days an IRGC boat will cut it just a little too close and get rammed. Hopefully it will be an American destroyer rather than a PC that does the ramming.

The IRGC boat will become the second warship in modern history to be sunk by ramming. JFK'S PT 109 was the first.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/12/2016 14:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Glow worm was too small :(
Posted by: Shipman || 09/12/2016 15:41 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somali election talks on verge of collapse over row
The election talks in Mogadishu is reportedly on the brink on of collapse due to a standoff over the upper house of the next parliament power-sharing system. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Jubbaland and Puntland leaders have walked out of the National leadership forum (NLF) was overshadowed by the dispute.

No deal has yet been reached on the electoral process of the country as the time is running out and the election is set to take place in October 30, 2016.

Some of the regional states leaders say they want the upper house should be cancelled and shape a parliament similar to the outgoing federal parliment.

Somalia is approaching a critical period of parliamentary and presidential indirect election due to be held later this year, despite security and political challenges.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
French Police Arrest 15-Year-Old Suspected of Planning Attack
[AnNahar] French police have enjugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a 15-year-old boy suspected of planning an attack, Sherlocks said Sunday.

The teenager was arrested in eastern Gay Paree on Saturday and had been under house arrest since April for suspected links to Islamic holy warriors.

The police suspect him of plotting "in response to calls from Syria to attack La Belle France," one of the sources said, just days after a separate plot to blow up a car packed with gas canisters was allegedly foiled in central Gay Paree.

Investigators are looking into calls made by a French member of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, Rachid Kassim, for supporters of the group to strike French targets.

The source said the 15-year-old had been in touch with Kassim using the encrypted messaging app Telegram. Kassim has regularly appeared in IS propaganda videos calling for attacks on French targets.

Investigators believe IS operative Kassim had been in contact with one of the women arrested last week over a car found abandoned a week ago near Notre Dame cathedral, a major tourist draw in central Gay Paree.

He has been linked to at least one of the two teen jihadists who executed an elderly priest in a Normandy church in July.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Turkey announces recruitment for police service
More on this story from yesterday.
Turkey has announced a recruitment of candidates for police service, Sabah newspaper quoted the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu as saying Sept.10. He said that 20,000 people will be selected for the police service and 10,000 of them will serve in the police special forces.
Background check, question 1: what did you do during the coup?
Currently, around 276,000 policemen serve in the structures of Turkey’s Interior Ministry.

In total, more than 7,000 policemen were dismissed in Turkey as part of the fight against the movement of Fethullah Gulen who is accused of being involved in the military coup attempt in the country.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
Baghdad Bomb and Bullet Bulletin: 2 die


2 die in bomb attack in Madain

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior revealed that seven persons have been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad.

Sharing further details with Iraqi News, the source informed, “An improvised explosive device exploded, at noon today, near a sheep market in Madain district in southern Baghdad, killing two persons and wounding five others.”

“Security forces rushed to the area and evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital and the bodies to the forensic medicine department, and cordoned off the area and barred approaching it,” the source added.
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Arabia
Soddy airstrikes Kill at least 21 in Yemen
At least 21 civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen Saturday, Reuters agency quoted witnesses as saying.

They said at least 15 civilians were killed when war planes targeted workers drilling for water in the Beit Saadan area of the Arhab district north of Sanaa, and that 20 other people were wounded.

Residents said Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed the site and killed four workers. The planes conducted a second raid when residents of the village rushed to the scene, killing at least 11 more and wounding 20.

Saturday’s attacks were the latest in a series of strikes that have hit schools, hospitals, markets and private homes.

Local media put the number of dead and wounded at the water-drilling site at around 100 and published pictures of burned bodies and mangled equipment, and videos showed workers collecting mutilated bodies and carrying them away in blankets.

In the second attack Saturday, residents reported an air strike hit the home of Sheikh Maqbool al-Harmali, a local tribal chief in Hairan district of Hajjah province, killing six civilians.
Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: 776 Pregnant Women Test Positive for Syphilis in Midlands
[All Africa] MORE than 770 pregnant women tested positive for syphilis between January and June this year in the Midlands province, an official in the ministry of health has revealed.

Provincial monitoring and evaluation officer in the ministry of health and child care, Tuso Tanda, said some 22,200 pregnant women were tested for syphilis with 776 testing positive.

He said out of those who tested positive, 529 women were treated for the sexually transmitted disease.

"We had 22,206 pregnant women tested for syphilis between January and June this year and out of this number 776 tested positive," Tanda said at the third quarter of the National Aids Council stakeholders meeting in Gweru last week.

Gokwe South and North had the highest and lowest positivity rate at 7,2% and 0,5% respectively.

"Positivity rate for syphilis among pregnant women was at 3.5% in the second quarter of 2016 with positivity rate being highest in Gokwe South (7.2%) followed by Kwekwe (6.3%)," he said.

Health experts say about 50 percent of pregnant women with untreated early syphilis end up with a baby who is infected.

According to World Health Organisation, over a million pregnant women are infected with syphilis worldwide.

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#1  Durned Goats!
Posted by: Injun Wholusing2793 || 09/12/2016 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  But syphilis is old news. Whaddabout Zika?

Haven't several Americans been infected with Zika?

More worrisome - I killed a small, blackish mosquito in my bathroom a few days ago. It had already feasted on somebody's blood. But there's more West Nile in north Texas than Zika.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/12/2016 12:38 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The enemy’s identity
[DAWN] ’THEY are not us, they are them.’ These days, this is the narrative in vogue in Pakistain. But, suddenly, the interior minister evoked an outdated narrative, drawing comparisons that blur the line between our enemy and us: ’The enemy looks like us.’

Pakistain’s Senate echoed with this phrase after the minister uttered it once again in his concluding remarks in a debate on the country’s recent security turmoil. He was explaining the reasons behind the slow progress on investigations into last month’s suicide kaboom in Quetta. By saying that the enemy looks likes us and lives within us, he perhaps wanted to explain that even the enemy eats and sleeps like us. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
he failed to impress the enraged opposition leaders, who understood similarities between ’us’ and the ’enemy’ in their own way.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa North
Sirte battle pauses as IS feared in rear areas
The beard shavings and discarded IS costumes discovered in recent weeks by triumphant Bunyan Marsous fighters were not necessarily left by terrorists fleeing for their lives. There are grounds to believe that as BM’s grip on Sirte tightened, an unknown number of fighters slipped away to regroup away from the town,

In addition, it has long been suspected that the April IS attack on Abu Grain, just outside Misrata, was more than a pre-emptive strike at the largely Misratan BM forces gathering to advance towards Sirte.

The position was retaken from IS after almost three weeks. The concern is that the terrorists may have used their control of the key crossroads to evacuate men and weapons including, it is suspected, some of their senior people.

There have been at least three terrorist attacks on the supply route between Misrata and Sirte in the last two weeks. This has obliged BM commanders to restrict traffic movements to daylight hours and to set up a series of extra check points.

BM spokesman Mohammed Al-Ghasri has said that fears that not all terrorists have been cleared from behind the front line in Sirte has also forced a closer sweep of areas taken from IS. This, he admitted, was delaying the final advance.

Yesterday BM reported that it had found an IS field hospital in a three-storey house. It published footage including a bloodstained massage couch and drugs and equipment that appeared to have been looted from the Ibn Sina hospital. Boxes of medication, dressings and syringes were strewn around the rooms where the terrorists had been treating their wounded. It was unclear if any dead or injured IS had been found there.
Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
Five dead in strife-torn India-held Kashmir
[DAWN] A police officer and four Lions of Islam were killed in separate incidents Sunday in India-held Kashmire as hundreds of residents clashed with security forces in the region hit by weeks of deadly unrest.

Indian soldiers shot and killed four Lions of Islam as they tried to cross the heavily militarised border that divides the disputed Himalayan region between India and Pakistain, an army official claimed.

"They tried to infiltrate into Nowgam sector and were intercepted. Four Lions of Islam were killed and their AK rifles were recovered," army front man NN Joshi claimed, referring to the area northwest of the main city of Srinagar.

An unknown number of Lions of Islam later killed a police officer in Poonch sector south of Srinagar, an officer in the area's police control room told AFP.

Security forces were called in to hunt down the hard boys, sparking a fierce and ongoing gunbattle, the unnamed officer said, without giving more details.

The encounters with Lions of Islam came as stone-pelting residents protesting against Indian rule of the region clashed with troops in Pulwana and two other places in the southern Kashmire Valley, leaving scores injured, coppers said.

A curfew has been lifted from much of the region since protests broke out over the death on July 8 of a popular young rebel leader in a gunbattle with security forces. But the unrest shows few signs of abating, with residents continuing to take to the streets, while schools and most businesses remain closed, hitting the region's economy hard.
Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Kashmiri police in IHK face public wrath amid anti-India uprising
[DAWN] Before the crack of dawn and before the protesters hit the streets to resume demands that India leave Kashmire, he dressed like an ordinary man and made sure not to carry anything identifying him as police.

He joined six passengers in a shared taxi outside his village in a lush pine forest near the militarised boundary that divides the Himalayan region between India and Pakistain.

A young woman asked if he was a policeman, warning that it could mean trouble for all of them if he was found out by the anti-India protesters who regularly check IDs at highway roadblocks.

"I couldn't lie," the officer said. He managed to convince them he could pass undetected. "But deep down I was shattered, and scared, given how hard it is to hide one's identity in this place."

As India-held Kashmire (IHK) enters a third month of tense conflict marked by violent street festivities and almost daily protests, Indian government troops backed by local police are maintaining a tight security lockdown throughout the region.

That's left the local Kashmiri police, tasked with patrolling the streets, gathering intelligence and profiling anti-India activists, feeling demoralised, afraid and caught in the middle between the Indian authorities who employ them and the friends and neighbours who question their loyalties.

The plainclothes officer in the taxi ─ one of 12 police officials who spoke with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity for fear of both public reprisal and official retribution ─ managed to avoid detection until he reached his precinct in the main city of Srinagar.

But a few days later, he said, his colleague wasn't so lucky. He was slapped and beaten, his clothing torn, at one of the protesters' ad-hoc checkpoints, "let go only after some elders intervened".

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#1  I once called a distant relative on the rez for the first time. She mistook me for a cop calling her to get her to send money to buy a bus ticket for one of her miscreant relatives, back to the rez. This relative said my voice sounded like it was coming from some kind of official.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2016 15:28 Comments || Top||

#2  On the rez again, once was walking the dogs along the railroad in the village...A wandering German shepherd joined my dogs...add to this my beaver fur hat and we got mistaken for a RCMP police raid...
A lot of coke was then flushed down the toilets...
Posted by: George Gurly-Brown7324 || 09/12/2016 23:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
‘Anything is legal’ in war: Giuliani defends Trump ‘taking’ Iraqi oil
[RUDAW.NET] Rudy Giuliani, advisor to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, defended the candidate’s statement that the United States should have taken Iraq’s oil, saying that in war "anything is legal."

"Leave a force back there and take it, but make sure it’s distributed in a proper way," Giuliani said in an interview on Sunday with George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s This Week, when asked to explain an earlier statement from Trump arguing that the US should have taken Iraq’s oil.

When asked by Stephanopoulos if that was legal, Giuliani, a lawyer and former mayor of New York, chuckled while replying, "Of course it’s legal. It’s a war. Until the war is over, anything is legal."

Last week, Trump said the US would have been right to "take the oil" in Iraq as a "spoil of war," to keep it out of the hands of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).

"If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and wealth of that oil," Trump said during NBC News’ Commander-in-Chief Forum.

Giuliani explained Trump’s position that ISIS got rich off of oil and that, had the US secured it and held some control over its distribution, "we would not be dealing with ISIS today. They wouldn’t exist."

He also said that distribution of oil was a major source of dispute among Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites -- another reason why Americans should have taken control of the resource.

But Giuliani did distance himself and Trump from the notion of taking the oil as a spoil of war. "He didn’t say we should take it for ourselves necessarily. He said we should secure it, so it doesn’t get taken by terrorist forces," he explained in the interview.
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#1  ‘Anything is legal’ in war

Except loosing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 5:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't recall winners facing facing 'war crimes' trials.

Last week, Trump said the US would have been right to "take the oil" in Iraq as a "spoil of war," to keep it out of the hands of the Islamic State

It's just another version of Scorched Earth.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  "He didn't say we should take it for ourselves necessarily. .."

Yes he did Rudy. And he has said as much on more than one occasion. God almighty, the Trump defenders never miss an opportunity to offend their audience 's intelligence. Clarify. ..spin...whatever. ..just save your horseshit for someone else.
Posted by: Phack Smith9251 || 09/12/2016 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Ok, he did. So what? You want ISIS to have control of the oil? Maybe the Russians. Perhaps Iran?

Good God, Phack, are you that clueless that you have no sense of world affairs, world politics, and world balance? You think it would be evil for the United States to keep a strategic resource out of the hands of terrorists?

Why don't you explain to us how this should work, sport?

AoS moderator
Posted by: Steve White || 09/12/2016 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  OK, first of all, Stephanopoulos is not a journalist or a news man of any sort. He is a Democrat party apparatchik so anything that any honest man like Giuliani says to him is going to be twisted to fit the Democrat narrative of the day.

So now, was flying airplanes into the Twin Towers legal? How about shooting innocent civilians in Paris? Or bombing an airport terminal in Brussels? How about shooting up a gay bar in Orlando?

You don't win wars with lawyers. You win wars with soldiers, sailors and airmen who have orders simply to kill people and break things until the enemy either surrenders unconditionally or until all of them are dead.

You do not engage in wars just because you have some cockeyed image of yourself as the world's policeman. You fight wars to eliminate threats to the freedom and safety of the American people.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 12:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Having said that, I would have preferred taking Soddy oil instead of Iraqi oil.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 12:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Ok, so he did. So what? You want ISIS to have control of the oil? Maybe the Russians? Perhaps Iran?

Holy reducio ad absurdum there Strawman. Pointing out Guliani's total misrepresentation is hardly advocating for terrorist control of Iraqi resources.

Why don't you explain to us how this should work,sport?

Since you asked, it's probably a good idea to steer clear of that whole Empire thing all together. Perhaps, you could describe the favorable outcome if the Iraqi's were to be told that their primary resources were no longer in their control?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 09/12/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Perhaps, you could describe the favorable outcome if the Iraqi's were to be told that their primary resources were no longer in their control?

They would revolt and kill 4000 Americans?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 13:16 Comments || Top||

#9  DepotGuy, we would be completely justified taking at least enough oil to pay for our war effort and any misguided nation building that followed. You might call it reparations. Indeed, they would no longer be in control of their resources. Tough shit. They lost. But, as I said, we went after the wrong oil field. The threat was, and still remains, Soddy Arabia. But as long as we are ruled by the Bush/Clinton dynasty that is totally beholden to the House of Sod, the Soddies won't have to worry.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 13:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Perhaps, you could describe the favorable outcome if the Iraqi's were to be told that their primary resources were no longer in their control?

When were those resources *ever* in their control?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/12/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#11  ..and hasn't that been part of the squabble among the post-Saddam in house factions, who gets who much to sale?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 15:51 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Kenya: Female Jihadists Attack Police Station
[All Africa] Kenyan police have killed three women involved in an "apparent terror attack" on the main cop shoppe in Mombasa. The jihadists concealed knives and a Molotov cocktail under their niqabs.

At least two coppers were maimed in the attack, which also caused a fire in the building, authorities said on Sunday.

The three women entered the busy cop shoppe saying they wanted to report a stolen phone.

"In the process one hurled a petrol bomb at the report office as the others confronted two officers and stabbed them," Mombasa County police chief Peterson Maelo told journalists at the scene. The women had hidden the weapons under their Buibui robes, traditionally worn by Moslem women in Mombasa.

A witness of the scene said one of the women had jumped onto a counter and stabbed an officer in the thigh before being shot.

"All the three attackers have been killed and the two coppers have been rushed to hospital," Maelo said, labeling the incident as "an apparent terror attack."

The authorities put out the fire and blocked the building.

No group immediately grabbed credit for the incident. In the past, Kenya has been targeted by the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
group, including the attack on the Nairobi's Westgate Mall in 2013 and the Garissa University massacre last year. The Somali-based group claims the attacks are the retribution for Kenyan anti-terror efforts in Somalia.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rebel artillery pounds Kurd positions in Afrin
AFRIN – Syrian Islamist rebels bombed the Kurdish town of Afrin northwest of Aleppo province, local sources reported on Sunday.

Militants of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, a former al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, launched a mortar attack on the Jinderis district in Afrin.

At least nine civilians were killed and dozens more were reportedly injured in the attack.

“Over 20 mortar shells fired by the jihadists of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as Nusra Front, hit residential buildings in the Jinderis area on Sunday evening. Most of the casualties were children and women,” member of the Kurdish defence force of Afrin, Alwan Sulaiman, told ARA News.

The official said that the attack comes after the Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) made new gains against Islamist rebel groups in Aleppo countryside.

In the meantime, local rescue teams continued on Sunday midnight to search for survivors under the ruins of the destroyed buildings in Jinderis district.

“We believe that more civilians are still stranded under the rubble. The rescue teams are still working on finding them,” media activist Dijwar Omar told ARA News.

“Some of the injured are in critical condition. The death toll may rise in the next few hours, as Afrin suffers from an acute shortage of medical supplies,” the source said.
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Iraq
ISIS Top Dawg, 20 others die in Iraqi attack in Duhok
DUHOK – The Chief of Media Operations in the Islamic State (ISIS), Abu Muhammad Furqan, was killed in an attack by Iraqi army forces, officials said on Sunday.

Iraqi security officer Ali Daqqa told ARA News that a special forces unit from the Iraqi army raided a building in the Baaj district where Furqan and other ISIS-affiliated media workers have been hiding.

“At least 20 ISIS media workers and officials were hiding in that building. They were all killed in the operation,” the official confirmed.

Abu Muhammad Furqan was responsible for the ISIS media operations, including the production of ISIS propaganda videos. He was the director of the al-Furqan jihadi channel, and an influential member of board at the ISIS-linked Amaq News Agency and the jihadi Naba’ newspaper.

Although the death of Furqan came as a shock to the radical group as he used to operate from confidential locations, observers believe that his death won’t have a huge influence on the ISIS media machine.

“Dozens of highly trained journalists are working for the extremist group,” Iraqi researcher Randa Khalaf told ARA News.

“Of course Abu Muhammad Furqan had gained the trust of the ISIS leadership due to his successful work and commitment to the group’s agenda. However, replacing him won’t be difficult, as ISIS relies on several media channels to deliver its messages and official statements to its audience worldwide,” she said.
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Africa North
LNA seizes Sidra and Ras Lanuf in lightning attack
In a lighting strike this morning, the Libyan National Army (LNA) has taken control of the neighbouring Sidra and Ras Lanuf oil terminal towns from the central region Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) headed by Ibrahim Jedhran. LNA forces also took the south and east gates at Ajdabiya. In Zuweitina, however, where the PFG has been in control of the oil terminal, there was still fighting between the two sides, Colonel Ahmed Al-Mismari, the LNA spokesman, said this morning.

“We got to Sidra and Ras Lanuf without almost any resistance”, he told the Libya Herald, although one member of the PFG had been killed and an empty oil tank had been set on fire by them. There had been no LNA casualties. They fled, leaving all their weapons, he added. These included three tanks, two armoured vehicles as well as other vehicles, mortars and Kalashnikovs.

However, while PFG spokesman Ali Al-Hassi admitted that there had been clashes this morning, he has denied that the LNA had taken Sidra and Ras Lanuf.

The appropriately named Operation Al-Barq Al-Khatif (“Sudden Lightning”) was launched at 5 am this morning, Mismari explained, and had been planned well in advance. “We worked on it. It was not a sudden move,” he said. The operation had consisted of four separate advances, he explained, all of them under the direct control of General Khalifa Hafter. He would not give numbers involved but said that the attacking forces had been “very large”.

He added that air strikes west of Ajdabiya were still taking place, and that the road between Ajdabiya and Benghazi would remain closed until further notice.

The head of Magharba tribe in Ajdabiya, Salah Al-Atewish, has meanwhile called on all members to support the LNA.

Ras Lanuf and Sidra include not only the terminals but also a 220,000-b/d refinery, a petrochemical complex, a military and a civil airport and oil company buildings but are also home to some 25,000 people.

In a separate development, Mismari also divulged that there has been further fighting in Benghazi’s Ganfuda district today, including a number of air strikes.
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Afghanistan
12,345 kg of explosives exported for Kabul attacks from Pakistan seized
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan police forces confiscated 12,345 kg of explosives material exported from Pakistain as the bad boy groups were looking to use the materials for a series of attacks in capital 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....
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the explosives material, Ammonium Nitrate, were seized by police forces soon after the truck carrying the materials entered Afghanistan from Torkham crossing.

According to a statement by MoI, the murderous Moslems were looking to transport the explosives material to Kabul in a bid to use them for Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

The statement further added that a suspect has been jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in connection to the transport of the explosives material and is in jug of the police forces for further investigation.

The anti-government armed bad boy groups including the Taliban Death Eaters have not commented regarding the report so far.

Taliban Death Eaters and murderous Moslems belonging to the other Death Eater groups frequently use Improvised Explosive Device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces but the ordinary civilians are often targeted in such attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  OMG that is a LOT of explosives.

Where on earth do these idiots get their hands on so much stuff?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/12/2016 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  There's quite a few fertilizer plants in Pakistan; sometimes the raw materials get diverted.


/innocent look
Posted by: Pappy || 09/12/2016 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Mind the pale yellow bags in particular.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  How many tons of ammonium nitrate does Pakistan produce anyway?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2016 15:23 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
8 militants die in Rajanpur operation
[Dawn] DERA GHAZI KHAN: Eight suspected militants and an official of the security forces were killed on Saturday during an ongoing combing operation in the mountainous tribal area of Rajanpur along the border between Punjab and Balochistan.

According to the ISPR, the military’s public relations wing, the security forces were carrying out the combing operation in the Gayandari area on the provincial border. Several ‘feraris’ (fugitives) had been arrested and arms and ammunition seized from them, it said.

When contacted, the Rajanpur district coordination officer, who is the senior commandant of the border military police, said the operation against anti-state elements was under way in the tribal area, but he was not authorised to give more details.

The border military police and the Rangers are jointly conducting the operation.

Rajanpur District Police Officer Irfanullah Khan said his department was not taking part in the operation.

It was not clear as to when the operation was launched.

Some people living close to the area claimed that the security forces were using helicopter gunships to evict the militants from their mountainous hideouts.

A military operation was carried out in April in the riverine area of Rajanpur in the aftermath of the killing of seven policemen and kidnapping of 24 others by the ‘Chotoo gang’ of bandits.

Later, its ringleader Ghulam Rasool Chotoo surrendered along with his 15 accomplices to the military authorities in the Kacha Jamal area.

After the last month’s bomb explosion in Quetta in which a large number of lawyers lost their lives, Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif held a meeting where it was decided that combing operations would be carried out to eliminate those involved in the attack.

The Punjab government has sought the deployment of Rangers in the province for two months to assist the police and their counterterrorism department.

A summary in this regard has been sent to the chief minister and will be forwarded to the interior minister for approval and deployment of Rangers through the provincial apex committee coordinating the implementation of the National Action Plan against terrorism.

A resident of the Gorchani tribal area told Dawn that Gayandari was located between the Bugti and Mazari areas along the provincial border. He said local rumours had been circulating about the presence of hideouts of Baloch fugitives in the area.

He said reports of shelling on the hideouts were also circulating in the tribal area of Rajanpur.
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Polio official gunned down in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a senior member of the polio eradication campaign in Peshawar, police said on Sunday, in the latest attack on immunisation teams.

Attempts to eradicate polio in Pakistan have been stunted by militant attacks on inoculation teams that have claimed more than 100 lives since December 2012.

Doctor Zakaullah Khan, a seasoned member of Peshawar's polio vaccination campaign was killed late Saturday when gunmen on a motorbike opened fire near his house, a senior police official told AFP.

Imtiaz Ahmad, a provincial spokesman for the immunisation campaign, also confirmed the killing.

The Jamaatul Ahrar militant group on Sunday claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a statement, sent to AFP, the group's spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan vowed to carry out more attacks.

Opposition to all forms of inoculation grew after the CIA organised a fake vaccination drive to help track down Al Qaeda's former leader Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad. He was killed there by US forces in 2011.

Despite the attacks, Pakistan hopes to be removed from the list of polio-endemic countries by 2018 by achieving its goal of no fresh cases for a year. It is one of only two countries in the world where polio, a crippling childhood disease, remains endemic.

In April gunmen shot dead seven policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in Karachi.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rebel forces repel ISIS attack on Hasakah
HASAKAH – Clashes erupted in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province on Sunday after militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) tried to infiltrate into headquarters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), military sources reported.

ISIS militants hit a SDF security checkpoint in the vicinity of Shaddadi city south of Hasakah with a car bomb attack, where at least four SDF fighters were injured. Then a group of ISIS militants tried to infiltrate into the SDF headquarters in the area, which led to clashes between the militants and SDF forces.

“Daesh terrorists were trying to storm the SDF headquarters after carrying out a car bomb attack on one of our security checkpoints in Shaddadi suburb,” a spokesman for the SDF told ARA News in Hasakah, using another acronym for ISIS. “However, our forces were able to repel the attack after heavy clashes on Sunday evening.”

The clashes between the SDF and ISIS reached the villages of Tal Shaer, Fadghami, Kashkash and Ziyanat in the suburbs of Shaddadi.

At least 12 ISIS militants were killed and five others were arrested, while three SDF fighters lost their lives and four others were injured in the clashes, according to informed sources.

In mid February 2016, Kurdish YPG units and allied fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the liberation of Shaddadi city in Hasakah province from the Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants, after months of battles with the radical group. ISIS militants had evacuated their headquarters in Shaddadi under heavy bombardment by the Kurdish-Arab alliance of the SDF. “More than 275 ISIS militants were killed and 33 ISIS vehicles were destroyed at the hands of the SDF fighters in the battle for Shaddadi,” the SDF spokesman Talal Silo had told ARA News at the time.

The progress came after the SDF units, supported by an air cover from the U.S.-led coalition, cut off the main supply route for the ISIS radical group in al-Hawl near Syria’s northeastern border with Iraq. However, since then ISIS has been trying to infiltrate into the area, launching mortars and car bomb attacks. The group uses its bases in Deir ez-Zor province to attack Hasakah.

Furthermore, the SDF alliance had seized control of a key gas facility and main financial resource for the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province in early February, 2016. The western-backed forces regained control of the Jibisa gas facility, located about 12km east of Shaddadi city in southern Hasakah.
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Iraq
Anbar Antics: 5 die


Iraqi warbirds hit ISIS positions on Baghdadi Island

(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A military source in Anbar province informed on Sunday, that the international coalition air force has bombarded a gathering of ISIS members in al-Baghdadi Island, west of Ramadi.

Sharing more detail the source revealed, “The international coalition air force bombarded a gathering of ISIS terrorists in al-Baghdadi Island (90 km west of Ramadi), killing a number of them.”

“The bombardment came in preparation for the military operation that will be launched to liberate the islands of Heet and al-Baghdadi in the next few days,” the source added.

It may be mentioned that the islands of Heet and al-Baghdadi have been under the control of ISIS since mid-2014, while the coalition air force and the Iraqi Air Force are continuing to target ISIS gatherings and hideouts in the two islands.

5 Iraqi kops die in ISIS attack in Rutba

(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The Shia militia of al-Hashd al-Shaabi in Haditha announced that five members of the Federal Police were killed in an armed attack launched by ISIS west of Ramadi.

The Intelligence Director of al-Somoud brigade Nazim al-Jaghifi said, “This evening, ISIS attacked the headquarters of the Federal Police 3rd regiment west of Rutba district, killing five members of the Federal Police.”

“The victims include the regiment’s commander,” Jaghifi added.
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Afghanistan
Pressure growing on Taliban to join peace talks, ex-top Taliban leader
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A former top Taliban leader has said the group is under pressure to revive peace talks with the Afghan government months after the group rejected calls by the Afghan government to participate in direct peace talks.

Agha Jan Motasim has told the New York Times that the main motives behind growing demand to revive peace talks are latest mounting pressures and changes in the situation of the country.

Motasim was the finance minister in the Taliban regime and a close aide former Taliban leader supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

He said the Taliban leaders have agreed to revive peace talks during a meeting in Quetta city, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province of Pakistan.

According to Motasim, the feasibility of peace talks revival is high and some Taliban leaders have asked him to mediate for the launch of peace negotiations.

The Taliban group rejected to participate in direct peace talks with the Afghan government earlier this year and opted to continue to its insurgency by launching their spring offensive in mid-April.
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Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Dared to Kill Protesters
All major opposition political parties yesterday vowed to defy President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
's threats against demonstrations, saying they are prepared to die on the streets for their freedom.

Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party, Joice Mujuru's People First, the Welshman Ncube-led MDC, People's Democratic Party led by Tendai Biti and other members of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) representing all of Zim-bob-we's opposition parties said yesterday that following Mugabe's deadly threats against opposition leaders, they had met and resolved to resume the demonstrations on an even higher note.

Addressing the Zanu PF central committee meeting on Friday, Mugabe warned the opposition, in particular MDC-T leader, Tsvangirai that he would unleash his full wrath on them if they continued with street protests against his rule. He said his patience was running out and that no one should blame him for whatever would befall the opposition leaders.

MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, however, said in view of Mugabe's threats and police brutality, opposition parties had met on Friday and agreed to turn up the heat on the 92-year-old Zanu PF leader.

"We will up our game against Mugabe. We are not afraid of him or his police. He must know that we are not about to negotiate with him for our constitutional rights and as Nera, we have resolved to continue with demonstrations," he said.

Mwonzora accused Mugabe of being delusional and forgetting that he was the one who signed the 2013 constitution into law, that he now wanted to violate.

The MDC-T said it would stand in defiance and let the police decide whether or not to harm demonstrators in the wake of statements by Mugabe, which seemed to give the police a free reign.

"It's the choice of the police whether or not they should shed blood of innocent protestors. That there are murderers in the system will not stop us from sending a message and taking action which will benefit the future of Zim-bob-we," said Mwonzora.

Tsvangirai's spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka said Mugabe was caught up in an "embarrassing time warp," as he was failing to understand that demonstrations were permissible in the new constitution.

"He is living out of his time; an analogue politician in a digital age, a Remington typewriter in an internet cafe. President Tsvangirai is not moved at all by these threats from an old man shocked to the core by the resurgence of people power," Tamborinyoka said.

He accused Mugabe of always blaming Tsvangirai for whatever problem he faced including family issues.

"He is haunted by the ghost of the man who has taught him electoral defeat to the extent that even where the people speak he sees not them but the ghost of his political master, the only man who makes him quiver like reeds in a howling storm," Tamborinyoka said.

Zim-bob-we People First (ZimPF) said following years of experience working with Mugabe, their leader and former Vice President, Joice Mujuru, was well aware that the Zanu PF leader was not a person to negotiate with.

"The people who have been in Zanu PF and are now with ZimPF know from experience that you cannot negotiate with Mugabe. The only language he understands is the demonstrations, so we are not going to attempt to negotiate with him," ZimPF spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire said.
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#1  Translation: A falling out among thieves.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/12/2016 11:35 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
DeKurdification: Turkey removes 24 mayors over links to Kurdish rebels
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Sunday ousted 28 mayors accused of links to Kurdish murderous Moslems or US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, replacing them with state-appointed trustees in a major shake-up under emergency powers after a failed coup.

The mayors have been suspended from their posts on suspicion of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is waging a deadly insurgency in the southeast or Gulen, who is blamed for the July 15 failed coup, an interior ministry statement said.

They have been replaced by state-appointed trustees, similar to how administrators are appointed to head a company that goes into bankruptcy.

Twenty-four of the outgoing mayors are accused of links to the PKK and four of links to Gulen, the ministry said.

The reclusive holy man denies charges of criminal masterminding the coup.

The move is the most important step yet taken by new Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu since he took over from Efkan Ala in a surprise reshuffle earlier this month.

Soylu said the move meant that local municipalities would no longer be controlled by "bully boyz or those under instructions from Qandil," referring to the PKK’s mountain base in northern Iraq.

The move was taken within the three-month state of emergency imposed after the coup. The incumbents had been elected in 2014 local polls.

The municipalities affected -- mainly in the Kurdish-dominated southeast -- include hugely important urban areas known as centers of PKK activity such as Sur and Silvan in the Diyarbakir region and Nusaybin in the Mardin region.

The mayors of the cities of Batman and Hakkari in the southeast have also been replaced. The interior ministry said 12 of the mayors suspended are already under arrest.
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Bangladesh
‘Dead Azimpur militant commited suicide’
[Dhaka Tribune] Shamshed Hossain, a suspected Death Eater killed during a drive in the capital’s Azimpur area on Saturday night, killed himself slitting his throat with a sharp weapon, said Dr Sohel Mahmud, chief of the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College (DMCH).

The forensic expert came up with the information on Sunday while talking to news hounds after conducting autopsy on the body of the slain Death Eater at the DMCH in the afternoon.

"The Death Eater died due to excessive bleeding as an injury mark was found on the left side of his throat," said Dr Sohel.

Five more injury marks were also found on Shamshed’s body, he said.

The samples of Shamshed’s blood, hair and urine were taken for DNA test, Dr Sohel added.

Earlier, the suspected Death Eater was killed and eight people, including five coppers and three female Death Eaters, were maimed in the encounter during a drive in Azimpur area on Saturday night.
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#1  Worst case of suicide we have ever seen: shot
Himself 3 times, in the back.
Posted by: Nguard || 09/12/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
What the Benghazi attack taught me about Hillary Clinton
[FoxNews] Last month, I retired from the State Department after 25 years of public service as a Foreign Service officer. As the Deputy Chief of Mission for Libya, I was the last person in Tripoli to speak with Ambassador Chris Stevens before he was murdered in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on our Benghazi post. On this, the fourth anniversary of the Benghazi tragedy, I would like to offer a different explanation for Benghazi’s relevance to the presidential election than is usually found in the press.
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#1  If Mrs. Clinton was unable to fulfill her security obligations to the federal employees she was legally obligated to protect as secretary of state, how can we trust her with the security of our entire country? I won’t.

But it is her turn! Not to mention, Trump is a vulgarian with anti-progressive views!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 5:10 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
13 soldiers martyred, 94 militants killed in past 24 hours, MoD claims
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 13 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers bit the dust during the latest counter-terrorism operations, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday.

According to an operational update by MoD, the soldiers bit the dust while combating the internal and foreign gunnies in various provinces of Afghanistan.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Ghazni, Paktia, Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, Pashtun-infested Logar, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Ghor, Takhar, Baghlan, Kunduz, Balkh, Sar-e-Pul, Jawzjan, and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces.

The operations were conducted with the support of the artillery units of the Afghan army and close air support of the Afghan Air Force, MoD, said adding that 4 loyalists of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were among those killed and at least 49 others were maimed.

According to MoD, at least 70 of the hard boyz were killed during the operations in Tarinkot city of southern Uruzgan province and at least 7 vehicles of the hard boyz were destroyed.

MoD said the ISIS loyalists were killed in Achin and Deh Bala districts of Nangarhar province.

At least 6 hard boyz were killed and 42 others were maimed during a separate operation conducted on Dulina-Pasaband highway located inGhor province, MoD added.

The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including the Taliban murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the reports so far.

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Europe
French PM: 15,000 in the process of being radicalized
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday there would be new attacks in La Belle France but proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
to boost security was not the right way to deal with threats.

The French capital was put on high alert last week when French officials said they dismantled a "terrorist cell" that planned to attack a Gay Paree railway station under the direction of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
"This week at least two attacks were foiled," Manuel Valls said in an interview with Europe 1 radio and Itele television on Sunday.

Valls said there were 15,000 people on the radar of police and intelligent services who were in the process of being radicalized.

"There will be new attacks, there will be innocent victims...this is also my role to tell this truth to the French people," Valls said.

In an interview newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), Sarkozy said La Belle France needed to get tough on snuffies by creating special courts and detention facilities to boost security.

"He is wrong about trying to wring the neck of the rule of law," Valls said.

Sarkozy proposed to systematically place French citizens suspected of having bad boy links in special detention facilities.

"And don’t tell me it would be Guantanamo," Sarkozy said in the interview. "In La Belle France, any administrative confinement is subject to subsequent control by a judge."

Guantanamo, opened by former President George W. Bush, was used to hold prisoners rounded up overseas when the United States became embroiled in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

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#1  ...but proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to boost security was not the right way to deal with threats.

So, you have a magic wand which will make all of this disappear? This is stunning insanity / denial of the problem.
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 11:13 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
31 ‘IS supporters’ killed in 10 months
[Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcers have dealt Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh’s new faction a severe body blow over the last ten months, killing leader Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and 30 of its operatives. Two other identified members of the deadly group have died by their own hands ‐ one in a suicide mission and another to evade arrest.

The dead gunnies were involved in attacks carried out and claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group since October last year.

Militant Md Tarek Aziz alias Musa died in a suicide kaboom on an Ahmadiyya mosque in Baghmara, Rajshahi on December 26.

Md Shamsher Uddin alias Abdul Karim, who rented safe houses for New JMB operatives in Bashundhara, Kallyanpur and Narayanganj, killed himself during a police raid in Dhaka’s Azimpur area on September 10.

Nine of the 31 gunnies belonging to the outfit were killed before the July 1 Gulshan attack and another eight have been killed in raids since August.

The government does not recognise the killed gunnies as IS members because they say the international terrorist group does not have an organizational structure here. Instead, it labels the gunnies as members of New JMB.

After the police operation in Narayanganj that killed New JMB coordinator and Gulshan attack criminal mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury on August 27, and Tamim’s second-in-command in a Mirpur raid on September 2, Sherlocks identified Maulana Abul Kashem as the group’s spiritual leader.

Detectives say the once-mighty JMB, which was formed in 1998 and banned in 2005, has now split into three small groups due to the detention of its second ameer Maulana Saidur Rahman in 2010 and the execution of five top leaders, including its founder Shayakh Abdur Rahman, in 2007.

Law enforcers are now looking for Kashem ‐ a former leader of the main JMB and former principal of Okhabari Madrasa in Dinajpur, and a dozen other coordinators and top leaders of the New JMB including Nurul Islam Marjan. Detectives claim they have also identified a number of foreign and local financiers and patronisers of the group.

Tamim, 30, a Canadian citizen who came to Bangladesh on October 5, 2013 via Dubai, is believed to have formed the new Death Eater outfit. Tamim is believed to have met Kashem in July last year. During the meeting, Kashem gave Tamim the nom de guerre Abu Bakar al-Hanif.

Dabiq, the IS’s propaganda magazine, published an interview of al-Hanif and referred to him as IS’s chief in Bangladesh.

In the interview, he said attacks were being planned against India and Myanmar where he said Moslems were being persecuted, from their base in Bangladesh. But this process will take time due to the presence of Hindus in Bangladesh, Hanif said.

The group began its operations last year by killing Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio in Kaunia, Rangpur on October 3, according to the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit that deals with militancy-related cases.

But according to IS news agency Amaq, the group’s first attack was the killing of Italian citizen and NGO worker Cesare Tavella in Gulshan on September 28. Police recently pressed charges in the case against a number of BNP leaders and activists who allegedly hired gunnies to target and kill an expatriate.

Amaq lists 26 operations carried out until August 23, when a Hindu grocer survived a machete attack in Narsingdi. During this time, the deadliest single attack, which left 23 people including 17 foreigners dead, took place at a Gulshan eatery on July 1.

Other victims of the attacks include non-Sunni and non-Moslem preachers, liberals and law enforcers.

Even though IS did not claim the July 7 attack on police near the Sholakia Eid congregation and another attack on a Hindu college teacher in Madaripur on June 15, Sherlocks believe the same group was behind those attacks.

Some attacks, including Death Eater-style strikes against Christians, Hindus, Shias, two Hindu temples in Dinajpur and grenade attacks on Navy mosques in Chittagong, have not been claimed by any group.
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Afghanistan
Nangarhar Top Kop dies in roadside bomb attack
Nangarhar officials confirmed that the provincial police chief Brigadier General Zorawar Zahid was killed on Sunday evening when his vehicle hit a roadside IED in Hesarak District.

The incident took place Sunday evening when Zahid was reportedly on his way to a check post.

Zahid was the police chief of Nangarhar and had previously served in Ghazni in same capacity.

He is the second brigadier general to have been killed in a week in Afghanistan.

Last week, brigadier general Raziq of the Afghan National Army Support Brigade was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul city.
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The Grand Turk
Erdogan vows to ‘save Turkey from the terror of PKK’ in Eid message
[RUDAW.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
, in his Eid message, vowed to "save The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
from the terror" of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

"We are determined to save Turkey from the terror of the PKK, working hand in hand with our security forces and our brothers in the region. PKK, just like FETO, doesn't have the power to fight against the determination and strength of our nation," he said, comparing the PKK to the Gulen movement, which Turkey calls the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).

Erdogan added that Kurdish parties in Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed forces the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers branches of the PKK, will suffer the same defeat.

"The same ending is awaiting PKK branches in the region, such as the PYD and YPG," he said.

"Finishing the organization called ISIS [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....
] in Syria as well as disabling it in our country is our obligation to our people," the president continued.

"Operation Euphrates Shield is the first step to the completion of this duty. Nobody can stop us to do whatever is needed to destroy these organizations, which are threatening the future of our nation, regardless of who might be backing them."

Turkey launched its military operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria at the end of August with the assistance of local militias fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA). The operation aims to clear ISIS from the Syria-Turkey border areas and to stop Kurdish forces from advancing west of the Euphrates River.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurds, Iranian troops slug it out near Bolfat
ERBIL – At least six members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and two Peshmerga fighters were killed in renewed clashes in western Iran, according to officials. Also, Iranian bases near Bokan were attacked by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
The Kurds do seem to have a lot of enemies right now. Might be a better strategy to have a truce/hudna with one or two while they fight the others...
“A group of our Peshmerga fighters were ambushed by the Iranian forces near the Bolfat area when they were preparing to conduct a series of political activities on Sept. 6,” Mouloud Swara, member of Central Committee and Representative of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-I) in UK, told ARA News.

“It started when one of our comrades stepped on a blast mine, which had been planted by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. After the initial explosion, Iranian forces started shelling and shooting at the Peshmerga group,” he said.

“The Peshmerga responded to the attack and the fire exchange lasted for at least 20 minutes. The group of Peshmerga succeeded to repel the attack and left the area. As a result of these clashes two Peshmergas named Azad Ali and Amir Nadir were killed and one Peshmerga was injured,” Swara reported.

At least six Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed and four were injured in the clashes.

“Iranian military forces have lately increased their military activities in the western part of the country, especially in Oshnawieh, Sardasht and Piranshahr. Tehran frequently puts pressure on political parties in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, asking them to put pressure on the Iranian Kurdish parties, amongst them our party, to bring an end to their political activities inside Iran,” the official told ARA News.

“We cannot bow for any pressure and our struggle will continue until our people enjoy the freedom and rights proclaimed in the International Human Rights declaration. With some 2,000 Peshmerga forces based in remote bordering areas, the KDP-I is historically considered to be the most formidable military organization opposing the Islamic Republic in Tehran,” Swara said.

Speaking to ARA News, the head of Foreign Relations in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan’s (PDK-I), Loghman Ahmedi, said that the Peshmergas from the PDK-I also clashed with Iran.

“Our Peshmergas conducted several operations in Bokan yesterday,” he said.

The KDP-I is different from the PDK-I. At a 2006 convention, KDP-I members elected Mustafa Hijri as leader, forcing a split that created the KDP-I under the leadership of Khalid Azizi, and the PDK-I under Hijri, the local Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported in 2012.

On 6 September, the PDK-I said its forces carried out two operations against Iranian military bases near the city of Bokan.

“These operations were conducted following a number of terrorist attacks and ambushes against PDK-I’s Peshmerga Forces and the party’s officials in eastern Kurdistan by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),” the PDK-I said in a statement.

“The Iranian authorities also carried out a wave of executions of Kurdish political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, beside killing Kurdish civilians on a daily basis,” the statement added.

Clashes between Iranian Kurdish groups and Iran’s IRGC erupted on June 15 and have continued ever since. The Iranian authorities have accused Saudi Arabia of backing the Kurdish groups, but the Kurds have rejected the accusation.

A recent shelling by the Iranian forces on Kurdish areas near the borderline with Iraq has led to the injury of at least five civilians, including three children, and displaced dozens.

Ceng Sagnic, a researcher with the Tel Aviv-based Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, told ARA News that Iranian Kurds are trying to gain a new foothold.

“It [increase in clashes] is mostly because Iranian Kurdish parties are seeking for a renewed foothold in regional politics while Iran’s influence is growing rapidly,” Sagnic said.

Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga forces are now also benefiting from US-led coalition support for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq, receiving training to fight ISIS.

The Associated Press (AP) reported that the Iranian Kurdish group Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) is being trained by US-led coalition forces as part of the war against ISIS. They have played a crucial role on the Kirkuk front in repelling ISIS offensives.
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Home Front: Politix
Obama on 9/11 hails US diversity as ‘great strength’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
on Sunday urged Americans on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to embrace the nation's diversity and not to allow "terrorists" to divide the country.

Extremist organizations like al-Qaeda and ISIS "know that they will never be able to defeat a nation as great and as strong as America," Obama said at a memorial service at the Pentagon, one of the sites attacked on September 11, 2001.

"So instead they try to terrorize, in the hopes that they can stoke enough fear that we turn on each other," said Obama, who observed a moment of silence Sunday at the Oval Office in honor of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

"And that’s why it is so important today that we reaffirm our character as a nation (...) Our diversity, our patchwork heritage, is not a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths," he added.

"This is the America that was attacked that September morning. This is the America that we must remain true to."

In an indirect reference to the controversial anti-Moslem, anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Obama recalled that Americans were "a people drawn from every corner of the world, every color, every religion, every background."

Obama, who is a Democrat, has repeatedly criticized Trump’s statements, including the billionaire’s proposal in the wake of last December’s mass shooting attack in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to ban Moslems from entering the United States.

In the 15 years since the al-Qaeda suicide plane strikes on the Pentagon, New York’s World Trade Center, and in Pennsylvania, "the threat has evolved," the president said.

"With our stronger defenses, snuffies often attempt attacks on a smaller but still deadly scale," he added, recalling the Boston marathon bombings, the nightclub massacre in Orlando in June and the carnage in San Bernardino.
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#1  Everything you support is evil. You are evil.
Nothing you have done was necessary. None of it.
All you do is pull out of your ass what soros wants hence you are his butt buddy.
And HE is nothing but EVIL.
Hence, You are the first US President from satans asshole and that is your "Legacy"

I Won't see you in hell, Ahole
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  al-Qaeda and ISIS "know that they will never be able to defeat a nation as great and as strong as America,"
AYFKM?? They have a plan for that and so far it is working out just fine. Right now I am so "Islam'ed out" I am indeed ennervated - which is the long term MB plan.

Islam has become the dominant focus of political and cultural discourse these days and I for one am thoroughly sick and tired of having Islam, and excuses for Islam, daily shoved down my throat.

I reject it utterly. I do not hate it. I despise it. I scorn it.

I remember in GW1 on CNN (yeah really) they interviewed what would later be called a "troop" - I believe he was a Sergeant- he said "they want to die for Allah, well we are here to help them out with that".

Dude, if you read this blog, I for one have not forgotten you and what you declared. It is currently an unspeakable sin, although 100% true.

So, here we are 15 years later, and the only price for this atrocity has been paid by us.
//rant off
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/12/2016 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  They can never defeat us from without - but from within? That is what Obama is for.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/12/2016 0:34 Comments || Top||

#4  "Those terrorists can't divide us", Obama said "but those other terrorists, the ones that make up the basket of deplorables, they can rip our nation asunder" "We better defeat those people at all costs."
Posted by: Mike N. || 09/12/2016 0:48 Comments || Top||

#5  The Lord still retains America as the Land of GOD. They have no right to attack here no matter their whatever plight. For any reason, ever.

It is right there in their fake holy book.

Not that that means anything to any of them. And Herein lies the rub.
NOCODE

We did not see a peep on 9-11, maybe faith is there.
But there really is no excuse for Koranimals and Islam as written. It is Blasphemous and Abhorrent. This thing cannot be anymore and we do not want another 1400 years of this.

So What I want is every moslem to stand in front of me with a gun and cry allauah akbar so I can shoot him in the face and go about buying my seaweed wrapped crackers and ground beef in the market.

Anyways, business as usual.

I was not the one who opened the air-lock and let the damn klingons in. So fuck them and the gate guard who should also be shot in the face.

And that is that.
This way, I could be living in Annuah.
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 3:56 Comments || Top||

#6  As long as it not a diversity of opinion!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 5:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Diversity is strength
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Posted by: anon1 || 09/12/2016 9:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Some diversity probably is good but Baraq is attempting to turn the United States into a Third World country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2016 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  I've been hearing that diversity is strengh for something like two decades but I haven't really seen much actual evidence. In fact when liberals talk about the perfect socialist society they inevitably choose a racially homogeneous nation (China, Japan or the beloved Nordic nations) as their example.

I'm not against diversity per say but there are some of the lumps in the melting pot and they seem dedicated to weakening us.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/12/2016 16:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Why not push unity instead of diversity? After all, we are called the United States of America? It's worked fairly well for us in the past.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/12/2016 17:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Yes, John.
If anyone pays attention to race, they are the racist.

Out of many, we are one.
Brethren do not focus on appearance.
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 21:18 Comments || Top||

#12  Moslems on the other hand....
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 21:20 Comments || Top||

#13  Moslems on the other hand....

I'm way past tired of them getting a free pass when it comes to "diversity". The day that "diversity" is something the left expects them to adhere to is the day I'll revisit my opinion of both groups (the left and Muslims).

Until then, fuck them both for pretending that either of them are in position to tell the rest of us about right and wrong.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/12/2016 23:31 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan forces mount offensive around besieged Tarin Kot
Afghan forces backed by air strikes mounted a new offensive to flush out Taliban insurgents encircling the capital of southern Uruzgan province, officials said on Sunday, days after militants stormed into the city.

Taliban fighters on Thursday had attempted to overrun Tarin Kot, triggering heavy fighting around government buildings and sending panicked residents fleeing, but they were repelled hours later by Afghan forces bolstered by reinforcements.

Government troops launched a fresh offensive late on Saturday to further beat them back from the outskirts of the city, which has been besieged for months.

“Dozens of Taliban fighters have been killed since military, police and special forces mounted the offensive backed by air strikes,” Dost Mohammad Nayab, spokesman for Uruzgan's governor, told AFP.

He said 13 policemen were killed and 20 others wounded in recent days of fighting, which highlights the insurgent movement’s aggressive push to capture big cities, from Kunduz in the north to Lashkar Gah in the south.

Boosting morale for government troops, General Abdul Raziq, the powerful police chief of Kandahar province with a fierce reputation for brutality, has been leading the operation in Uruzgan.

US warplanes also offered support, with three air strikes in the vicinity of Tarin Kot on Friday, along with Afghan air support.

But many civilians who fled the Taliban onslaught on Thursday remain fearful of returning to Tarin Kot.

“We left everything behind, including our house, farm and livestock,” said Ezatullah Khpalwak who escaped to Kandahar with 25 family members when the fighting erupted.

“The government says it has driven out the Taliban from Tarin Kot, but we fear the militants will make a comeback”.

Internal foul play
In a sobering admission on Thursday, Uruzgan’s police chief Wais Samim had said many of Tarin Kot’s outer defences had fallen to the Taliban without a fight, suggesting internal foul play as he vowed action against any insurgent sympathisers.

The Taliban had drawn jobless Afghans from outlying districts to join them in attacking Tarin Kot, promising them free rein to loot once they were inside the city, multiple village residents told AFP.

“The Taliban announced in mosques: ‘the head of the enemy will be ours, the booty will be yours’,”Mohibullah, a resident of the volatile Dehrawud district, told AFP.

“That’s how they attracted dozens of jobless men to fight with them.”

Nayab said many homes inside Tarin Kot were looted after the Taliban raided the city on Thursday, with stolen possessions including vehicles of local residents.

The deteriorating security highlights the struggle of overstretched Afghan forces to secure remote provinces such as Uruzgan, a top poppy-growing region where Australian, Dutch and American troops fought for years.

Elsewhere in the country on Sunday, the prominent police chief of eastern Nangarhar province, an ISIS stronghold, was killed by a roadside bomb.

General Zorawar Zahid was leading a counter insurgency operation in the troubled Hasarak district when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, underlining the growing insecurity in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for his killing.
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The Grand Turk
Erdogan: Turkey’s ‘duty’ is ‘finish off’ ISIS
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said Ankara had a duty to defeat ISIS, describing its operation inside Syria as the first step towards this goal after Turkish air strikes killed at least 20 ISIS turbans in Syria.

"It is the binding duty in front of our nation to finish off the organization called ISIS (ISIS) in Syria and ensure it is unable to carry out actions inside our country," Erdogan said in a televised message for Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday.

"The Euphrates Shield operation is the first step towards this," he added.

Erdogan said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
was now "much stronger, determined and more dynamic" than before the July 15 coup bid, which the authorities blame on the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
. He denies the charges.

Turkey has sent dozens of tanks and hundreds of troops into Syria, in an unprecedented operation dubbed Euphrates Shield aimed at booting out both ISIS turbans and Kurdish militia from the border area.

The operation, launched on Aug. 24, came after a string of bloody suicide kabooms and rocket attacks inside Turkey blamed on ISIS.

Six Turkish soldiers have been killed so far in rocket attacks in Syria blamed on ISIS but Erdogan said that the Euphrates Shield would continue and "not one drop" of blood of Turkey’s forces would be spilt in vain.

Turkish strikes kill 20 ISIS myrmidons
Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
Turkish air strikes killed 20 ISIS turbans in northern Syria on Saturday, broadcaster CNN Turk cited the Turkish military as saying on Sunday.

The strikes targeted three buildings, one vehicle and one cycle of violence around the Syrian town of Tel el-Hawa, CNN Turk said.

Separately, the head of the military said in message to mark a public holiday that "Operation Euphrates Shield", a Turkish incursion into Syria against ISIS and Kurdish militia fighters launched two and half weeks ago, would "continue decisively," according to broadcaster NTV.

Turkey had previously been accused of not doing enough in the fight against ISIS and its Western partners have applauded the operation.

Turkey’s operation is also targeting the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, which Ankara regards as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has waged a 32-year insurrection inside Turkey.

This has created strains with Turkey’s NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
ally the United States, which works with the YPG on the ground in the fight against ISIS.
Erdogan said the "PKK has no chance of resistance against the power of our state", despite an upsurge in violence that has seen hundreds of members of the security forces killed since a ceasefire ruptured in 2015.

"The PKK’s Syrian branch -- the PYD-YPG -- awaits the same fate," he added.

Erdogan had previously indicated Turkey and the United States have discussed an operation to push ISIS bandidos bully boyz out of their de facto capital of Raqa in Syria but there have been no details on the timing or how this would work.
Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  There can be only one.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2016 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  And by ISIS, he means the Kurds.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/12/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd call it a rebranding exercise. When people stop buying brand X, just relabel the same product as brand Y.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/12/2016 19:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Doctor: Clinton has pneumonia, but ‘recovering nicely’ after 9/11 wobble
[IsraelTimes] Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ...
abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday after feeling "overheated," according to her campaign, and hours later her doctor disclosed that the Democratic presidential nominee had pneumonia.

A video showed Clinton slumping and being held up by three people as she was helped into a van after the event, and her doctor said in a statement that Clinton had become overheated and dehydrated. "I have just examined her and she is now rehydrated and recovering nicely," Dr. Lisa R. Bardack said in a statement.

The physician said Clinton has had an allergy-related cough, and that during a follow-up examination Friday, the candidate was diagnosed with pneumonia, put on antibiotics, advised to rest and modify her schedule.

Less than two months from Election Day, it was an unwanted visual for Clinton as she tries to project the strength and vigor needed for one of the world’s most demanding jobs. Republican rival Donald Trump has spent months questioning Clinton’s health, saying she doesn’t have the stamina to be president.

Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the news hounds who travel with her campaign and aides provided no information about why she left or her whereabouts for nearly two hours. Spokesman Nick Merrill eventually said Clinton had gone to her daughter’s nearby apartment, but refused to say whether the former secretary of state had required medical attention.

Clinton exited the apartment on her own shortly before noon. She waved to news hounds and said, "I’m feeling great. It’s a beautiful day in New York."

After leaving her daughter’s, Clinton was driven to her home in Chappaqua, New York, and made no public appearances. She was scheduled to fly to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Monday morning for fundraising and it was unclear whether her schedule would change.

Trump, who attended the same event marking the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, was noticeably restrained. Asked by a news hound about Clinton’s health incident, Trump said, "I don’t know anything."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bernie Sanders time? But he turned 75 four days ago.
Posted by: Punky Dark Lord of the Munchkins9523 || 09/12/2016 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  She has mild Parkinsons via her hacked e-mails.
Pray for her, as deplorable she is.It made me feel horrible showing her in a time of weakness.
This is not what they say and they just made it worse.

She is doing this to keep out of Prison and it is probably hell on her.

She cannot be President, and this has been said from before she ran.
This is over
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 3:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Dang, just finished rigging thousands of voting machines for Hillary, too!
Posted by: Jeh Johnson, DHS || 09/12/2016 4:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, Jeh, you still have fake "refugees" to fake visa into the country so you should be happy. Ahole.
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 4:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Which part of "It is her turn!" you don't understand?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 5:23 Comments || Top||

#6  She'll do the first debate, and possibly all, from the residence in Chappaqua. Yes, the leather Lazy-Boy fireside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 6:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Baghdad bob is her new Doctor??

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/12/2016 6:41 Comments || Top||

#8  LOL, BP.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/12/2016 7:30 Comments || Top||

#9  I find it significant she didn't go to hospital. Too much risk what is really wrong with her might leak out.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/12/2016 7:32 Comments || Top||

#10  This just about cinches it for Trump. No way will voters elect such a morally weak and now obviously physically weak person.
Posted by: jpal || 09/12/2016 8:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Trump has to watch his six. The feral govt is a Clinton criminal enterprise now.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/12/2016 8:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Ditto AP. I too am concerned for his safety.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#13  We will see reruns of her. Pictures everywhere.News will say better health than ever. No public speaking tours. Edicts from the white house. All the while she will be kept in a glass faced upright casket embalmed. Her mind downloaded to a computer so she will continue on indefinitely. Media babble to control public thought. First woman and first robot president a combination the left would embrace with childlike glee.
Posted by: Dale || 09/12/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#14  Hillary embraces child — despite contagious ‘pneumonia’
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 8:50 Comments || Top||

#15  How long has she been having serious coughing fits? At least a year that's a long time to have pneumonia.
Posted by: jpal || 09/12/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||

#16  Did the witch doctor say that?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/12/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#17  I'm sure she'll be back to her usual energetic self after a few days.
Posted by: gorb || 09/12/2016 11:36 Comments || Top||

#18  Pray for her, as deplorable she is.It made me feel horrible showing her in a time of weakness.

newc - I will do no such thing. This could not have happened to a 'nicer' person. To her, I am 'deplorable' and she'd just as soon jail me and you for having a different political opinion. F&ck this Alinskyite and everyone who follows her.
Posted by: Raj || 09/12/2016 12:46 Comments || Top||

#19  I don't blame you, Raj.
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||

#20  This reminds me of the politburo and dying communists. We have fallen so far...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/12/2016 13:51 Comments || Top||

#21  I was unaware cold-blooded animals could get pneumonia

Snark of the day.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/12/2016 14:03 Comments || Top||

#22  Frank G winds up from the blue line... slap shot! He shoots! He scoooores!

Ma, the meatloaf! It's all over! It's all over!
Posted by: regular joe || 09/12/2016 14:12 Comments || Top||

#23  Do I detect Bovine Flatulence?
Posted by: Democratic Senator Ricardo Lara of Bell Gardens || 09/12/2016 14:12 Comments || Top||

#24  49 Pan: what's Hillary Clinton's last words? Elizabeth Warren my coat at the cleaners.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/12/2016 14:25 Comments || Top||

#25  She has mild Parkinsons via her hacked e-mails.

She has advanced late stage Parkinson's. She's a deader. She will be lucky to make it to Election Day.
Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 || 09/12/2016 14:37 Comments || Top||

#26  I don't guess any of her handlers read "Double Star" (their heads would explode)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/12/2016 14:40 Comments || Top||

#27  Aspiration pneumonia would suggest more than mild Parkinson's
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/12/2016 15:44 Comments || Top||

#28  #11 Trump has to watch his six. The feral govt is a Clinton criminal enterprise now.


Indeed he does. Hildabeest was the establishment candidate--probably because she and Bill have shit on everyone. They won't go down easy. Hopefully, the Beest won't can't run in 8 years. Look for Chelsey to run if she doesn't go down with the Clinton Foundation. The executive branch needs a good house cleaning and serious paring down.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/12/2016 15:56 Comments || Top||

#29  Chelsea's only chance for a political career is for Hillary to pass. Americans don't like dynasties much but the sympathy might get her over that hurdle.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/12/2016 16:49 Comments || Top||

#30  Hillary's campaign staff sez they suddenly have newmonia this afternoon. Pass da popcorn.
Posted by: Breaking Knews || 09/12/2016 17:33 Comments || Top||

#31  Well Chelsea's husband robbed Greece & investors and her father-in-law did jail time for a Ponzi scheme so I guess she is off to a good start.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/12/2016 17:40 Comments || Top||

#32  They are all trailer trash no matter the positions they got placed in. That whole family is a useless leach on Civilization.
F them all
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 20:42 Comments || Top||

#33 
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/12/2016 21:28 Comments || Top||

#34  Newc, I live in a trailer and I reject your insult that the Clintons are of 'our' kind.(insert smiley icon here)
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/12/2016 22:59 Comments || Top||

#35  But you are not trash, Glen, you have not littered the earth with horrible foreign policy, spoiled brats, dead Ambassadors, random death and destruction, annihilation of power structures in the middle east,awful healthcare plans, dead burning bodies, graft, Pay to play schemes, and fake platitudes.

They are the trash at the lowest end of the park. See what I say?

I was getting a trailer myself but that does not make US trash.
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 23:16 Comments || Top||

#36  Dems be looking to replace her and maybe that the plan from the start

Hillary was unelectable from the beginning: Clinton baggage, Bill baggage, failure as SoS, selling access to State Dept for Clinton Foundation donations (CORRUPT) lying about Benghazi, lying about her emails, on cusp of indictment for her crimes, fixing the dem nom against sanders


she was always unelectable


the dems be looking to dump her

replace with Biden or Sanders, probably Biden -- but maybe promote Kaine from VP?

a fresh face = a fresh brand

a fresh surprise to snatch voters who don't like Trump but hated Hillary. they will vote for a blank slate rather than trump

so that be the game plan for the dems?

lucky Trump is LOVED by many for his GOOD POLICIES

Posted by: anon1 || 09/12/2016 23:49 Comments || Top||


Arabia
10 Yemeni soldiers die in suicide bombing in Aden
ADEN: Ten soldiers were killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing in a part of southern Yemen where extremist groups are active, a security official said.

A further 14 soldiers were wounded when the bomber drove an explosives-laden car into an army position in Abyan province, said the official.

The same source previously said the attack had killed six and wounded 18.

Radical groups including Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Daesh have carried out numerous attacks in the region.
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India-Pakistan
34 suspects arrested in search operations in Lahore, Multan
LAHORE: Police and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) carried out joint operation in different parts of Lahore on Friday and arrested at least 30 suspects.

The search operation was carried out in Iqbal Town, Misrishah and Engine Shed areas of Lahore during the law enforcement agencies checked the identity documents of the residents and arrested 30 persons who failed to produce and document.

The arrested suspects were shifted to some undisclosed location for further investigation.

On the other hand police also carried out search operation in Shah Rukan-e-Alam area of Multan and arrested four suspects. Police sources said that arms were also recovered from the arrested suspects.
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Home Front: Politix
This is America's last chance
[NationalPost] For eight straight terms, from 1981 to 2013, either a Bush or a Clinton was president, vice-president or secretary of State, and both families put up candidates for their parties' presidential nominations this year. There has never been anything remotely like such a co-regency in U.S. history, and it is not based on spectacularly good performance in office. Change must come. Trump is not an ideal personification of political change. But anyone who doesn't see what is happening, as Sen. Marco Rubio said when he was bombed in the Republican primary of his home state of Florida by Trump by nearly a million votes, has "failed to see the tsunami."
RTWT
Posted by: Eltoroverde || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Elect more democrats, it will speed your way to destruction.
Posted by: newc || 09/12/2016 0:10 Comments || Top||


Good Morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ok feminazis and libtards, almost 100 years ago we used to teach our young ladies this stuff - in freakin' Washington DC gimmeabreak. So how's yer safe spaces holding up?

Thats my kind of equality/equalization.


Can we TARDIS them forward in time?

Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/12/2016 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  coz a couple of em are kinda hawt, just sayin'
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/12/2016 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Sneered me at first sight. Looked a lot like my exes in Texas.
Posted by: Knuckles Flutch2169 || 09/12/2016 4:04 Comments || Top||

#4  .....and Sam Colt made them equal.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/12/2016 6:41 Comments || Top||

#5  My Mom won two or three multi-state rifle tournaments in her teens and early twenties. Pretty proficient with a 20-guage, too.

It was a different world then.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  In which an angry old grouch's stray bullet ricochets off various generations, eventually lodging in his own eye...

Cute Amazon marksmen in bloomers,
Your wombs bore the mom's of the boomers
Whom old doom and gloomers
Deem mindless consumers
Who humored millennial choomers.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/12/2016 16:01 Comments || Top||



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